1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 235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 Dream Research shows that everyone dreams quite frequently every night. We usually remember just the last
3、 dream that we had before【 1】 When we are dreaming, our【 2】are moving. If a person is prevented from dreaming but allowed to sleep, he or she becomes very upset. So we need to dream. Why do we dream? one explanation is that When the mind doesnt have to think about everyday matters it is free to thin
4、k about the deeper concerns. It doesnt have to be【 3】and sensible. We have to represent out anxieties, fears and hopes through【 4】 . Freud believed that the conscious mind tries to control and cover up the enormous feeling, and that the unconscious feelings that we try to cover up are largely【 5】 .
5、The unconscious mind had to【 6】 its feeling to express its wishes. Jung was interested in world of religions and in【 7】 and spiritual ideas. He believed that our personalities are divided into three parts, the conscious, the unconscious, and the “【 8】 unconscious“ , and that everyone has another, in
6、side person in himself or herself, called “anima“. Womens animus is【 9】 forceful and decisive. Language of dreams. Usually the only person who can really find the meaning behind a dream is the person who had the dream. But them are several common symbols we share with others. When you dreamed of fly
7、ing, perhaps you have an【 10】 complex, or you are trying to escape from your problems 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 that follow
8、. 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 How many times is the indoor air more hazardous than the outdoor air? （ A） 10 to 12. （ B） 12. （ C） 2 to 10. （ D） 2. 1
9、2 Catherines attitude towards the insulation of homes is _. （ A） negative （ B） supportive （ C） ambiguous （ D） cautious 13 Which of the following is not hazardous to our health? （ A） School. （ B） Clean house. （ C） The Environmental Protection Agencys headquarters. （ D） None of the above. 14 Why does
10、Catherine say people themselves produce harmful vapors into the indoor air? （ A） People shed more than any other animal indoors. （ B） People do not keep their room tidy. （ C） Peoples skin flakes are small enough to float in the air and pollute the indoor air. （ D） The furniture people buy is in bad
11、quality. 15 About 80% of what you see floating in a ray of sunshine is _. （ A） dust （ B） dead human skin （ C） quill-coverts （ D） fluff SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At the end of ea
12、ch news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 The three separate and co-equal branches are （ A） the executive branch, president, and legislative branch. （ B） the president, congress, and the legislative branch. （ C） the executive, legislative and judicial department. （ D） th
13、e supreme court, judicial and executive branch. 17 Judicial department, （ A） is the strongest among the three. （ B） is the weakest among the three. （ C） makes public policies. （ D） makes Federal Laws. 18 The Supreme Court has _in the last 50 years. （ A） declared 100 federal laws unconstitutional （ B
14、） declared over 1,000 state laws and 100 federal laws unconstitutional （ C） defended civil liberties more often than property rights （ D） defended property rights more often than civil rights 19 The boat “Destiny“ is about （ A） 100 feet away from the port. （ B） a quarter of kilometers away from the
15、port. （ C） 100 feet deep in the water and a quarter of mile away from the port. （ D） a quarter of mile deep in the water and too feet away from the port. 20 How many people are believed to be killed in the storm? （ A） 8. （ B） 14. （ C） 115 （ D） 6. 20 A full moon was shining down on the jungle. Accomp
16、anied only by an Indian guide, the American explorer and archaeologist Edward Herbert Thompson - thirteen hundred years after the Mayas had left their cities and made a break for the country farther north-was riding through the New Empire that they had built for themselves, which had collapsed after
17、 the arrival of the Spaniards. He was searching for Chichen-Itza, the largest, most beautiful, mightiest, and most splendid of all Mayan cities. Horses and men had been suffering intense hardships on the trail. Thompsons head sagged on his breast from fatigue, and each time his horse stumbled he all
18、 but fell out of the saddle. Suddenly his guide shouted to him. Thompson woke up with a start. He looked ahead and saw a fairyland. Above the dark treetops rose a mound, high and steep, and on top of the mound was a temple, bathed in cool moonlight. In the hush of the night it towered over the treet
19、ops like the Parthenon of some Mayan acropsolis. It seemed to grow in size as they approached. The Indian guide dismounted, unsaddled his horse, and rolled out his blanket for the nights sleep. Thompson could not tear his fascinated gaze from the great structure. While the guide prepared his bed, be
20、 sprang from his horse and continued on foot. Steep stairs overgrown with grass and bushes, and in part fallen into ruins, led from the base of the mound up to the temple. Thompson was acquainted with this architectural form, which was obviously some kind of pyramid. He was familiar, too, with the f
21、unction of pyramids as knows in Egypt. But this Mayan version was not a tomb, like the Pyramids of Gizeh. Externally it rather brought to mind a ziggurat, but to a much greater degree than the Babylonian ziggurats it seemed to consist mostly of a stony fill providing support for the enormous stairs
22、rising higher and higher, towards the gods of the sun and moon. Thompson climbed up the steps. He looked at the ornamentation, the rich reliefs. On top, almost 96 feet above the jungle, he surveyed the scene. He counted one - two - three - a halfdozen scattered buildings, halfhidden in shadow, often
23、 revealed by nothing more than a gleam of moonlight stone. This, then, was Chichen-Itza. From its original status as advance outpost at the beginning of the great trek to the north, it had grown into a shining metropolis, the heart of the New Empire. Again and again during the next few days Thompson
24、 climbed on to the old ruins. “I stood upon the roof of this temple one morning,“ he writes, “just as the first rays of the sun reddened the distant horizon. The morning stillness was profound. The noises of the night had ceased, and those of the day were not yet begun. All the sky above and the ear
25、th below seemed to be breathlessly waiting for something. Then the great round sun came up, flaming splendidly, and instantly the whole world sang and hummed. The birds in the trees and the insects on the ground sang a grand Te Deum. Nature herself taught primal man to be a sunworshipper and man in
26、his heart of hearts still follows the ancient teaching.“ Thompson stood where he was, immobile and enchanted. The jungle melted away before his gaze. Wide spaces opened up, processions crept up to the temple site, music sounded, palaces became filled with revelling, the temples hummed with religious
27、 adjuration. He tried to recognise detail in the billowing forest. Then suddenly he was no longer bemused. The curtain of fancy dropped with a crash; the vision of the past vanished. The archaeologist had recognised his task. For out there in the jungle green he could distinguish a narrow path, bare
28、ly traced out in the weak light, a path that might lead to Chichen-Itzas most exciting mystery: the Sacred Well. 21 The territory which Thompson was exploring _. （ A） had been abandoned by the Mayas about thirteen hundred years previously （ B） had been occupied and developed by the Mayas about thirt
29、een hundred years before （ C） had been deserted by the Mayas as soon as the Spaniards arrived （ D） was conquered by the Mayas thirteen hundred years ago 22 What was Thompsons first reaction to the scene ahead? （ A） He remained in the saddle for several minutes spellbound. （ B） He immediately jumped
30、down and went forward. （ C） He waited until his bed was ready and then dismounted. （ D） He rode to the mound and stared at the structure before him. 23 Thompson believed that man is instinctively a sun-worshipper because _. （ A） the worship of the sun-god had clearly been the function of the temple
31、（ B） all living things celebrate the sunrise （ C） the sunrise is the most magnificent of all phenomena （ D） it is natural for man to worship the sun and he has always done so 24 What abruptly ended Thompsons dream of the past? （ A） The realization that this wag only a time-consuming fantasy. （ B） Th
32、e glimpse of an important clue to future discovery. （ C） A resolution derived from his fantasy that he must learn more about this great past city. （ D） The locating of the mysterious Sacred Welt. 24 As every ancient mariner knew, traveling by sail is a simple way to go. Though the winds could be fic
33、kle and the boats pokey, the energy source that moved the ship was free, plentiful and renewable. Now the same technology that conquered the oceans of Earth may conquer the ocean of space. This week a Russian and American consortium will announce plans for an April launch of the first so-called sola
34、r-sail vehicle, a multicasted spacecraft that will use sunlight to push itself along. To a public raised on smoke-and-fire rocketry, the idea of drawing energy straight from space seems fanciful. To the people behind the new ship, however, the technology is not only sensible but inevitable, the easi
35、est way to reinvent the business of cosmic travel. “This allows us to use very little fuel to fly very great distances,“ says Bud Schurmeier, a former NASA engineer and an adviser to the project. “Its an intriguing concept.“ The idea behind solar sailing is simple. Although light is made of massless
36、 particles called photons, such ephemeral things exert real pressure, especially when they flow so close a source as the sun. Attach a sail of lightweight Mylar or other material to a spacecraft, set it up in the path of that outrushing energy, and you ought to be able to move in almost any directio
37、n. NASA has a keen interest in solar sailing and had budgeted $ 5 million to investigate 17 possible missions. It may select one as early as next month. But while the space agency has been mulling plans, the people behind the new ship, dubbed Cosmos I, have been getting set to fly. The project is th
38、e brainchild of Russias Babakin Space Center, near Moscow, and the Planetary Society in Pasadena, Calif., a think tank founded in 1979 by astronomer Carl Sagan and others. The two groups had long been developing plans for a solar-sail mission but got the cash to make it happen only last year when An
39、n Druyan, Sagans widow and head of the Media Company Cosmos Studios, and Joe Firmage, the founder of US Web, threw their names and about $ 4 million behind the effort. “I had talked to people about solar sailing before,“ says Lou Friedman , former engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasaden
40、a and director of the Planetary Society,“ but between the Russians capabilities and Anns vision, I knew this one would click.“ The spacecraft is a 3-ft. metal with eight 35-ft. metallic wings. Mylar petals sprout from it - though the prototype used in the April launch will have just two petals. Moun
41、ted atop a reconfigured Russian ICBM and launched from a sub in the Barents Sea, the Cosmos I will fly to an altitude of 260 miles, where it will deploy the wings and float for a minute of so. If all goes well, the wings will then be jettisoned and the sphere aerobraked back to Earth, its bounce-dow
42、n on Russian soil cushioned by air bags. By some measures, this cosmic lob shot is not that impressive, but for solar-sail scientists, the engineering is everything. Few doubt that when sunlight strikes the wings, the spacecraft will accelerate; the key is building wings that can open and pivot, all
43、owing the ship to tack into the solar stream. If this mission works, a more ambitious orbital flight, using the eight-paneled craft, is set for the end of the year. The space-craft could circle Earth for months, surfing the sun until de signers shut it down. “There will be a grandeur to it, “says Dr
44、uyan, “a 70-ft. sail that will be visible to the whole planet.“ Grandeur aside, critics wonder if solar sails have a future. The technique is problematic in Earth orbit, since the changing position of sun relative to the space-craft makes constant tacking necessary. Sailing is best used for as the c
45、row-flies shots to neighboring planets. Even in these cases, progress can be slow, since sunlight exerts, at most, 2 lbs. of pressure per square haft-mile, requiring a year or more to rev a spacecraft to interplanetary speeds. Worse, beyond Jupiter, sunlight flickers out almost entirely; to go any f
46、arther would require energy beamen from Earth orbit, perhaps by giant laser howitzers. “None of these things has been tested, “says Mel Monte-merlo, one of NASAs solar-sailing chiefs. “We have a long way to go.“ Whether that will continue to seem such a long way may depend on the spring-time flight
47、of Cosmos I. A successful mission has a way of making impossible technologies seem possible - a big burden for a small rocket that will, for one day at least, carry the hopes of the worlds space community. 25 What is the energy source of this so-called solar-sail vehicle? （ A） Sunlight. （ B） Nuclear
48、. （ C） Wind. （ D） Electricity. 26 What does “brainchild“ in Paragrapth 4 mean? （ A） Patent. （ B） Invention. （ C） Hope. （ D） Pride. 27 Which of the following correctly describes Cosmos I? （ A） It is a 3-ft. metal pod. （ B） It has eight 35-ft. metallic wings. （ C） It can fly an altitude above 260 mile
49、s. （ D） When it flies back to Earth, it will fall into pieces. 28 What can be inferred from the passage? （ A） Most scientists are confident that the spacecraft will work well. （ B） A more ambitious orbital flight will follow this mission. （ C） The author is quite sure that this mission will make impossible technologies seem possible. （ D） The key of the engineering of Cosmos I is building wings that can open and pivot. 28 In April 1995, a young Chinese chemistry student at Beijing University lay dying in a Beijing hospit
