1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 234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 The most important decision that a company has to make regarding advertising is where to advertise. We re
3、fer to these means of【 1】 he media“. There are three categories of media:【 2】 , broadcast, and direct. The first category consists of newspapers and megazines. Newspapers are generally【 3】 , which allows samll【 4】 businesses to advertise of magazines is that they have【 5】 groups of readers. The big
4、disadvantage of magazine ad vertisement is that it can be very expensive. The disadvantages of radio ads are that they must be short and that they are not【 6】 . Television ads are【 7】 by millions of people all over the country because most TV programs are broadcast nationally. On the other hand, ads
5、 on TV are enormously expensive. Obviously, only large companies can【 8】 to advertise on television. The most common direct medium is the mail, another direct medium is【 9】 , and the third type of direct medium is signs and【 10】 . 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10 【 1
6、0】 SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that 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
7、listen to the interview. 11 The Baltimore New Compact Schools differ from typical public schools in that _. （ A） their model permits school to cluster their resources, personnel and funds （ B） they charge lower tuition （ C） they are smaller （ D） they does a lot of fund-raising 12 In the summer progr
8、am, the students attendance rate was _. （ A） ninety percent （ B） one hundred percent （ C） ninety-five percent （ D） eighty percent 13 The New Compact project is different from the Edison Project because in it _. （ A） teachers are discovering for themselves what children and parents need （ B） there is
9、 someone telling teachers how to teach and what to learn （ C） teachers are from better background （ D） students and parents go to school together 14 The Core knowledge Curriculum teaches all of the following except _. （ A） world civilization （ B） language development （ C） physics and chemistry （ D）
10、literature 15 Why does the interviewee think that teaching institutions should be community-based? （ A） Because it costs less. （ B） Because teachers will learn quickly. （ C） Because it is required by experts. （ D） Because the cultural patterns are diverse. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In thi
11、s section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully 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 Rabin announced new security measures on television _. （ A） after an emergency session of his inner securit
12、y cabinet （ B） before the emergency meeting （ C） after two Arabs were shot dead （ D） before two Israeli policemen were killed 17 The closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip will _. （ A） stop up to 100,000 Arab day laborers from working inside Israel （ B） allow a soldier to shoot only if he was in da
13、nger （ C） authorize a soldier to open fire on anyone bearing arms （ D） revise open-fire regulations for soldiers 18 Arab-Israeli bloodshed has increased because _. （ A） more Israeli troops were sent to combat the Arab militants （ B） Israel closed both the Gaza Strip and West Bank （ C） thousands of A
14、rab Workers lost their jobs （ D） many Palestinians were driven out of their homeland 19 A two-day conference to promote trade and investment in Africa will take place in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia in _. （ A） February （ B） early March （ C） late March （ D） April 20 John Spence believes that after Latin A
15、merica and the Far East. _ will be the next region for major foreign investors. （ A） Uganda （ B） Ivory Coast （ C） Africa （ D） Botswana 20 How much sleep do we need? It is probably true to say that up to thirty years ago not only could we not answer this question, but we could see no research tools w
16、hich might eventually enable us to do so. Since then, there have been important developments which have changed the picture; in particular new forms and techniques of neurophysiological measurement have emerged, and secondly, experimental psychology has developed better methods of evaluating human p
17、erformance and behaviour. Studies, for example, of body and eye movements, of sensory thresholds, and above all, of the electrical potentials of the brain during sleep, encourage us to think that we may be able to assess with useful accuracy the depth of quality of sleep. In carefully controlled exp
18、eriments also the amount of sleep has been carried to find the effects of lack of sleep upon performance and upon physiological changes in the body, especially those which accompany the effort to maintain normal behaviour and working standards in spite of deprivation of sleep. There are some who thi
19、nk we can leave the body to regulate these matters for itself. “The answer is easy,“ says the authority. “With the right amount of sleep you should wake up fresh and alert five minutes before the alarm rings.“ If he is right, many people must be under sleeping, including myself. From animals we get
20、the impression that it is satiety rather than fatigue that promotes sleep; many of them appear to Wake mainly to satisfy their bodily needs; during the rest of the time they return to the negative state of sleep. This may be true for adult humans also, hut with the important difference that their ne
21、eds are often so complex and long-term in nature that they can never be completely satisfied. Other people feel sure that the current trend is towards too little sleep. To quote one medical opinion, “Thousands of people drift through life suffering from the effects of too little sleep; the reason is
22、 not that they cant sleep but that they just dont.“ What could be disastrous is that we should sacrifice sleep only to gain more time to jeopardize our civilization by actions and decisions made weak by fatigue and neurosis. Then to complete the picture, there are those who believe that most people
23、are persuaded to sleep too much. Dr. H. Roberts, writing in Everyman in Health, asserts: “It may safely be affirmed that, just as the majority eat too much, so the majority sleep too much.“ One can see the point of this also, it would be a pity to retard our development by holding back those people
24、who are gifted enough to work and play well with less than the average amount of sleep, if indeed it does them no harm. Of course, we are not sure. Not only are we unable to give a formula for individual sleep requirement, we cannot even give confident averages for the different age groups. This is
25、because we have no substantial scientific evidence to draw from, and opinions based on clinical evidence present a picture which is too contradictory to be a dependable guide. Indirect evidence on the amount of sleep we need comes from studies of what happens when we do without it. At first sight th
26、ese suggest that we do not need as much as we take. It has been difficult to show any effect on performance of as little as one nights loss of sleep, and even after three days awake we can expect normal efficiency in a man taking responsible decisions in a job which he finds really absorbing and exc
27、iting. Furthermore, when at last he is allowed to sleep he will probably wake after some twelve hours and show little, if any, ill-effect. These laboratory observations are borne out by examples in everyday life. It seems clear that the human body is equipped to over-ride the need for sleep in order
28、 to meet emergencies of quite long duration with faculties unimpaired. But this reversibility of the effect of loss of sleep in face of urgent and absorbing demands may be the greatest source of danger. People may think they are more efficient than they really are. 21 According to the passage, which
29、 of the following contributes little to the study of sleep? （ A） Advancement in neurophysiological measurement. （ B） Improvement in experimental psychology. （ C） Studies of the electrical potentials of the brain. （ D） Experiments of physiological changes in the body. 22 In what respect are humans an
30、d animals alike in sleep? （ A） For both of theme only fatigue can promote sleep. （ B） For both of them, overeating may promote sleep. （ C） For both of them, they wake only to satisfy their bodily needs. （ D） For both of them, they need to be completely satisfied to promote sleep. 23 The author of th
31、e passage may believe that_. （ A） insufficient sleep may become dangerous to our civilization （ B） excess of sleep may cause a loss to the community （ C） we do not need as much sleep as we take （ D） deprivation of sleep in emergencies may do no harm to our body 24 It can be inferred from the passage
32、 that_. （ A） different people may have quite different sleep requirements （ B） we can leave our bodies to regulate our sleep requirement for itself （ C） we can maintain normal behavior and working standards no matter how much we have slept （ D） we may remain efficient even if we have one nights loss
33、 of sleep 24 No matter what you write, your mother will always believe its about her. So said author Ann Beattie a few years ago at a book talk in Connecticut. You could write about a family of dogs living on Mars, Beattie went on, and your mother will be convinced that she is the mother dog. (And w
34、ho are we kidding, she probably is. ) Amy Tan is a writer who has fully embraced this concept. Her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, plumbed the gulf between American daughters and their Chinese mothers. Now, after the death of her own mother, Tan has returned to these themes with a renewed poignancy
35、and lyricism in The Bonesetters Daughter. In recent magazine interviews and the novels foreword, she makes it clear how much she has drawn from her own life. Like her heroine, Ruth, Tan experienced yearly bouts of psychosomatic laryngitis-unable to speak for days at a time. And like Ruth, Tan didnt
36、learn her mothers real name until just before she died. Ruth is a ghost write a job shes been training for since she started editing her mothers English as a girl. “Ruth had always been forced to serve as Lulings mouthpiece,“ the narrator writes. “By the time she was ten, Ruth was the English-speaki
37、ng Mrs. Luling Young on the telephone, the one who made appointments for the doctor, who wrote letters to the bank.“ As in her previous books, Tan captures the humiliated embarrassment of the assimilated child (as well as a parents terror that her American girl is rejecting her home culture, and by
38、extension, herself). “Her mother couldnt even say Ruths name right. It used to mortify Ruth when she shouted for her up and clown the block. Lootie! Lootie! Why had her mother chosen a name with sounds she couldnt pronounce?“ But the writing turns out to be more than a figure of speech. In a ritual
39、she has dreaded since she was a child, Luling has used Ruth as a medium, making her scribble in sand messages from a nursemaid, the bonesetters daughter of the title, who killed herself in China when her mother was a girl. Tan powerfully evokes the pain mothers and daughters cause one another, seemi
40、ngly effortlessly, but redemption is always lurking a chapter away. The novel begins with the pages Luling has frantically written to capture her memories before Alzheimers strips them away. Ruth, not fluent in Mandarin, gave up trying to read them years before, but once Lulings disease is diagnosed
41、, they provide a way for her to reunite with her mother. “(The doctor) said the disease had probably started years ago. Maybe there was a reason her mother had been so difficult when Ruth was growing up, why she had talked about curses and threats to kill herself.“ The Bonesetters Daughter shifts al
42、l the way into magical realism in one section, with not entirely believable results. Also, Tans generally fine writing occasionally veers into the over-wrought: “She sensed her mothers life was at stake and the answer was in her hands, had been there all along.“ Far more effective are Lulings experi
43、ences before and after the Japanese invasion of China and the sections where Ruth tries to care for her mother. Here again, Tan has drawn from experience, sharply detailing a childs fear in the face of a parents growing helplessness. For Luling and Ruth, Alzheimers .acts like a “truth serum“, allowi
44、ng a lifetime of lies to fall away. In fact, Lulings narrative to her daughter begins: “These are the things I know are true.“ Finding emotional healing in the face of disease has launched a thousand Movies of the Week, but in the hands of a writer as generous as Tan, its a Subject that still resona
45、tes as an antidote to grief. 25 The passage is taken from_. （ A） a book review （ B） a novel-adapted film review （ C） a scenario （ D） a magazine interview 26 From this passage, we can see that the “bonesetters daughter“ referred to_. （ A） Amy Tan （ B） Luling Young （ C） a nursemaid （ D） a ghostwriter
46、27 It is pointed out in the passage that the pain Ruth and Lulling cause each other results mainly from_. （ A） their generation gap （ B） their cultural clash （ C） Lulings superstitions （ D） Lulings disease 28 The comment made by the author of this passage on Tans writing tends to be_. （ A） sarcastic
47、 （ B） poignant （ C） laudatory （ D） critical 28 Had enough elevator music? Make way for elevator advertising; and, for that matter, advertising in mall food courts, offices, hotel lobbies and at grocery store checkout counters: A growing number of marketers are using digital technology to push their
48、advertising messages on high-definition video screens in venues where consumers gather. One pundit has dubbed the growing business of reaching consumers when theyre outside of the home as the “outernet“. These advertising networks typically blend commercial messages with news, sports, and weather fe
49、eds supplied by major media companies. The flurry of out-of-home advertising is spreading to convenience stores, grocery store checkout counters and elevators in office buildings. The outernet industry is pitching itself to advertisers that are frustrated with the high cost of traditional media and the never-ending search for advertising outlets that work. “Its a very chaotic advertising market right how, and that chaos tends to work for us,“ said Charlie Nooney, c
