1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 221及答案与解析 SECTION A MINI-LECTURE Directions: In this section you sill hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture.
2、 When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking. 0 Note-taking in Lecturesb For listeners, note-taking is an essential way to achieve better understanding o
3、f a lecture. It involves many separate skills, four of which will be analyzed here. . Understand what【 1】 says. 【 1】 _. 1. severe strain: 2 reasons - word【 2】 in speech 【 2】 _. - new words 2. solution: concentrate on what are most important . Sort out the main points. 1. focus on the title: write do
4、wn the title【 3】 and completely.【 3】 _. 2. be aware of signals of what is important or unimportant. signals indicating importance: -【 4】 【 4】 _. - speak slowly or loudly - use a greater range of intonation - employ a combination of the devices signals【 5】 . 【 5】 _. - deliver sentences quickly, softl
5、y - use a narrow range of intonation - use【 6】 pa uses 【 6】 _. . Write down【 7】 quickly and clearly. 【 7】 _. 1. use abbreviation 2. select words that give【 8】 (nouns, verbs, adjectives)【 8】 _. 3. write one point on each line 4. find time to write【 9】 【 9】 _. . Show the connections between the variou
6、s points the listeners has noted. 1. use spacing, underlining,【 10】 【 10】 _. 2. number points 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10 【 10】 SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions tha
7、t follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 All of the following are the direct effects of taking care of your health EXCEPT _. （ A） your salary will go
8、up at a faster rate. （ B） you need not spend a lot on medicine. （ C） the premium of your life insurance is low. （ D） your savings are building up rapidly. 12 Which of the following is NOT an example of things on which you spend money? （ A） Electricity. （ B） Rent. （ C） Mortgage. （ D） Car payments. 13
9、 According to the interviewee, in order to bring your cost down, you should _. （ A） buy new cars. （ B） buy used cars. （ C） lease new cars. （ D） sell used cars. 14 What is the biggest leap by far towards the million dollars? （ A） Get homes and cars on eBay. （ B） Maximize your 401K at work. （ C） Swap
10、used clothes and furniture. （ D） Lower your mortgage rate. 15 Ideally, how much does a hypothetical couples 401k amount to over 10 years? （ A） $15,000. （ B） $ 500,000. （ C） $ 397,000. （ D） $ 31,000. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen caref
11、ully and then answer the questions that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 Who was taken hostage in one of Brazils most dangerous jails? （ A） The prisoners relatives. （ B） The prisoners friends. （ C） The officials of the jail. （ D） The guar
12、ds of the jail. 17 According to the news, the incident happened mainly because of _. （ A） the maltreatment of the inmates. （ B） the poor living conditions. （ C） the transfer of a gang leader. （ D） the sentence of a murderer. 18 The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons carried out an explosion in Istanbul becau
13、se they were _. （ A） willing to resume its armed campaign against the Turkish government. （ B） anxious to prevent a rebel leader from being sentenced to death. （ C） dissatisfied with detention conditions of a Kurdish rebel leader. （ D） eager to declare a unilateral fire and attack Turkish civilians.
14、 19 As to counter-terrorism on Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, US Secretary of Defense _. （ A） showed his worry. （ B） showed his concern. （ C） expressed his doubt. （ D） expressed his satisfaction. 20 The Awami League returned to parliament aiming to _. （ A） prevent against electoral scandals. （ B） pus
15、h through electoral reform proposals. （ C） defeat the ruling party and come into power. （ D） participate in parliamentaly debates. 20 “We are observing more and more that other languages are taking over the Internet,“ said Victor Montviloff, who is responsible for information policy in the communica
16、tion and information sector at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. “Languages like German, Russian and Spanish are spreading at rapid speed on the Web,“ Mr. Montviloff said. “French has lagged relatively behind, because France until now has seemed more preoccupied w
17、ith protecting its language against foreign invasion than promoting it. But now, the number of French-language sites also is fast multiplying. “ Because the Internet makes it possible, other languages are also starting to challenge the hegemony of English in distance education. The Internet is helpi
18、ng to revive minority languages and cultures by bringing together widely scattered linguistic communities. An estimated 320 million people speak English as a mother tongue-fewer than those who speak Spanish or Mandarin-and demographic trends indicate that native English speakers will decline as a pr
19、oportion of. the worlds population. Probably more than 1 billion people speak English with varying degrees of proficiency as a second language. David Graddol, a language researcher and lecturer at the Open University in Britain, said that, on the one hand, English is becoming a language of everyday
20、usage in some countries in Northern Europe. “Something like 70 percent of the Dutch population claim now that they can hold a conversation in English quite comfortable,“ Mr. Graddol said. “For them, it is not a textbook-based foreign exercise. They are already exposed to English in the environment.
21、People have learned a little bit of it before they even get to school, and they can see immediately that it has some use in their lives. In courtiers like the Netherlands, Sweden or Denmark you need English to complete your education.“ “In other countries; however, English is more truly a foreign la
22、nguage,“ said Mr. Graddol, whose consulting firm, The English Company, produced a worldwide report titled “The Future of English“ for the British Council a few years ago, “In some countries, there is not very much English in the environment and people may be learning it from teachers who may not spe
23、ak English very well themselves.“ In some countries, like India and Nigeria where English has been used a long time, distinct local varieties of the language are emerging, complete with their own dictionaries, textbooks and literature. “English is so important in these countries that people use it i
24、n part to create their own social and even national identity,“ Mr. Graddol said. “When that happens, the language starts going its own way. The variety of English that proficient speakers in such countries are learning may not be terribly useful in an international context.“ Bertrand Menciassi, of t
25、he European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages in Europe, said the use of a world language both helps and hinders linguistic diversity. People can use English for their outside contacts, while cultivating their own tongue or dialect for use at home. On the other hand, he added, English is tending to p
26、ush European national languages like Dutch or Danish into a corner. Maintaining linguistic diversity is an important aim of the European Commission, which is concerned that the increasing acceptance of English as the European lingua franca should not detract from the vitality of other languages. The
27、 commission argues that the ability to speak two or three tongues will give the Europeans economic and technical advantages over their monolingual American rivals in the world of diversity, and is about to kick off “The European Year of Languages“. 21 Mr. Montviloff may believe that over the Interne
28、t _ . （ A） English wont be as popular as before （ B） English will be replaced by other languages sooner or later （ C） French is the most promising Internet language （ D） many languages are competing for prime Internet language 22 We may draw a conclusion from the report “The Future of English“ that
29、_ . （ A） Dutch people may not need to study English at school （ B） English teachers in some countries are not qualified （ C） Indian English may not be understood in international communication （ D） None of the above 23 The purpose of “The European Year of Languages“ is most probably to _ . （ A） adve
30、rtise for European language （ B） decide on a common official European language （ C） challenge American English （ D） promote multilingualism 23 The test of a great book is whether we want to read it only once or more than once, and every additional time that we read it we find new meanings and new be
31、auties in it. A book that a person of education and good taste does not care to read more than once is quite possibly not worth much. Some time ago there was a discussion going on regarding the art of the great French novelist, Zola; some people claimed that he possessed absolute genius; others clai
32、med that he had only talent of a very remarkable kind. The argument brought out some strange extravagances of opinion. But suddenly a very great critic simply posed this question: “How many of you have read, or would care to read, one of Zolas books a second time?“ There was no answer; probably no o
33、ne would read a book by Zola more than once. The fact was settled. “ Shallow or false any book must be, that, although bought by a hundred thousand readers, is never read more than Once. But we cannot consider the judgment of a single individual infallible. The opinion that makes a book great must b
34、e the opinion of many. For even the greatest critics are apt to have certain dullness, certain inappreciations. Carlyle, for example, could not endure Browning; Byron could not endure some of the greatest of English poets. A man must be many-sided to utter a trustworthy estimate of many books. We ma
35、y doubt the judgment of the single critic at times, but there is no doubt possible in regard to the judgment of generations. Even if we cannot at once perceive anything good in a book which has been admired and praised for hundreds of years, we may be sure that by trying, by studying it carefully, w
36、e shall at last be able to understand the reason of this admiration and praise. The best libraries for a poor man would be a library composed entirely of such great works. This, then, should be the most important guide for us in our reading choice. We Should read only the books that we want to read
37、more than once, nor should we buy any others, unless we have some special reasons for so investing money. The second fact is the general character of the value that lies hidden within all such great books: they never become old; their youth is immortal. A great book is not apt to be comprehended by
38、a young person at the first reading except in a superficial way. Only the surface, the narrative, is absorbed and enjoyed. No young man can possibly see at first reading the qualities of a great book. Remember that it has taken humanity, in many cases, hundreds of years to discover all that there is
39、 in such a book. But according to a mans experience of life, the text will unfold new meanings to him. The book that delighted us at eighteen, if it be a good book, will delight us much more at twenty-five, and it will prove like a new book to us at thirty years of age. At forty we shall reread it,
40、wondering why we never saw how beautiful it was before. At fifty or sixty years of age the same facts will repeat themselves. A great book grows exactly in proportion to the growth of the readers mind. It was the discovery of this extraordinary fact by generations of people long dead that made the g
41、reatness of such works as those of Shakespeare, of Dante, or of Goethe. Perhaps Goethe can give us at this moment the best illustration. He wrote a number of little stories in prose, which children like, because to children they have all the charm of fairy-tales. But he never intended them for fairy
42、-tales; he wrote them for experienced minds. A young man finds very serious reading in them; a middle-aged man discovers an extraordinary depth in their least utterances and an old man will find in them all the worlds philosophy, all the wisdom of life. 24 What may the author think of the art of the
43、 great French novelist, Zola? （ A） There is no great genius in his works. （ B） It has been settled that Zolas works are indisputable. （ C） He possesses absolute genius. （ D） There has been an exaggeration about his works. 25 According to the author, whats the best of all libraries for a poor man? （
44、A） A library with books that have passed the test of time. （ B） A library with books that have been praised by critics. （ C） A library with books that many people have commented on. （ D） A library with books that have been studied carefully. 26 It can be inferred from the passage that _ . （ A） we ca
45、n never trust the comments made by critics （ B） it is unnecessary for us to buy the books that we dont want to read a second time （ C） a young man should not read a great book until he is mature and sophisticated enough （ D） we shall read a book repeatedly in our life so as to testify whether it is
46、a great book 27 Who may best appreciate Goethes little stories in prose? （ A） Children. （ B） Young men. （ C） Middle-aged men. （ D） Old men. 27 Ever thought you were really clever but just didnt have the exam results to back it up? Anyone who has ever felt academically thick can let out a sigh of rel
47、ief, because IQ does not, and cannot, predict success in life, says a new book by Steven Stein and Howard Book called The EQ Edge-Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Your Success. So what is em6tional intelligence? Occupational psychologist and management consultant Chris Watkins describes it as “the ca
48、pacity to recognise your own feelings and those of other people, to be able to motivate yourself, and to manage emotions in yourself and in your relationships“. Psychologist and author Anne Dickson also talks of it at length in Trusting the Tides: Self-Empowerment Through Emotions. “Emotional intell
49、igence is about using emotions to learn and understand. To Use them the way we use thought. Feelings are too often dismissed as messy, irrational and childish and most of the time we try and suppress them because they embarrass us and because we fear that they are uncontrollable. Often we end up swallowing them down or else they just
