1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 248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 With the explosion of excitement about the Internet, there seems to be another type of addiction that has
3、 invaded the human psyche. I. Internet addiction or computer addiction: what to name the phenomenon? 1)Internet Addiction Disorder Some people seem to be too excited about the Internet. 2)Computer Addiction Many people are attached only to their computers and dont care about the Internet. 3)Cyberspa
4、ce Addiction an addiction to【 1】 _ of experience created through computer engineering many subtypes with【 2】 _ some are game and competition oriented some fulfill more【 3】 _ some are an extension of workaholicism . Normal enthusiasm and abnormal preoccupation: where to draw the line? 1)Addictions ca
5、n be healthy, unhealthy or【 4】 _. healthy: an outlet for learning, creativity and self-expression unhealthy: serious disturbances in ones ability to function in【 5】 _ 2)With no official psychological or psychiatric diagnosis of an Internet or Computer Addiction, there are only definitions of the con
6、stellation of【 6】 _ that constitute such addictions in different ways. . Problematic addiction and healthy Internet use: the speakers premise 1)problematic addiction: when they have【 7】 _ their cyber life from face-to-face life 2)healthy Internet use:【 8】 _ the face-to-face and cyberspace worlds 3)“
7、bringing in the real world“ an important principle for helping people who are addictively【 9】 _ in cyberspace a powerful tool for intervening with people who are addicted to【 10】 _ in cyberspace 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10 【 10】 SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: I
8、n 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 listen to the interview. 11 In the c
9、ase that occurred in France in 1981, how many people witnessed it? （ A） One. （ B） Two. （ C） Three. （ D） Five. 12 The scientist from the French space agency did all the following things except _. （ A） taking further photos （ B） taking soil samples （ C） planting vegetation in the soil （ D） taking samp
10、les of vegetation 13 Peter Sturrock thinks that the field of UFO study is in a state of _. （ A） popularization （ B） pause （ C） development （ D） ignorance and confusion 14 In which countries are there programs of persuing UFO? （ A） China and USA （ B） Chile and France. （ C） France and Canada. （ D） Egy
11、pt and Greece. 15 There have been UFO reports for _. （ A） 15 years （ B） 50 years （ C） six decades （ D） four decades 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 each news item, you w
12、ill be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 According to the news item, which of the following has NOT been mentioned as a reason to cast doubt on the suicide theory. （ A） The bombers bought return tickets from Luton to London. （ B） The bombers were masterminded by al Qaeda Islamist militant
13、s. （ C） The explosives were not fastened to the bombers. （ D） Two of the bombers were father-to-be. 17 The reconstruction of the war-wrecked, bridge was considered to be symbol of all of the following EXCEPT （ A） coexistence （ B） environmental protection （ C） international cooperation （ D） reconcili
14、ation 18 So far 821 protected sites scatter across _ countries. （ A） 21 （ B） 24 （ C） 137 （ D） 160 19 European Union parliamentarians have a/an _toward the coming parliamentary election in Afghanistan. （ A） indifferent （ B） optimistic （ C） pessimistic （ D） uncertain 20 According In Elmer Brok, a parl
15、iamentarian from Germany, _is of, utmost importance to Afghanistans development. （ A） a free and air parliamentary election （ B） national stability and security （ C） tile fight against drag trade （ D） tile fight against terrorism 20 He is waiting for the airline ticket counter when he first notices
16、the young woman. She has glossy black hair pulled tightly into a knot at the back of her head and carries over the shoulder of her leather coat a heavy black purse. She wears black boots of soft leather and her beauty quickens his heart beat. The airline clerk interrupts. The man gives up looking at
17、 the woman he thinks she may be about twenty-five and buys a round-trip, coach class ticket to an eastern city. His flight leaves in an hour. To kill time, the man steps into one of the airport cocktail bars and orders a scotch and water. While he sips it he catches sight of the black-haired girl in
18、 the leather coat. She is standing near a Travelers Aid counter, deep in conversation with a second girl, a blond in a cloth coat trimmed with gray fur. He wants somehow to attract the brunettes attention, to invite her to have a drink with him before her own flight leaves for wherever she is travel
19、ing, but even though he believes for a moment she is looking his way he cannot catch her eye from out of the shadows of the bar. In another instant the two women separate; neither of their direction is toward him. He orders a second Scotch and water. When next he sees her, he is buying a magazine to
20、 read during the flight and becomes aware that someone is jostling him. At first he is startled that anyone would be so close as to touch him, but when he sees who it is he musters a smile. “Busy place,“ he says. She looks up at him is she blushing? and an odd grimace crosses her mouth and vanishes.
21、 She moves away from him and joins the crowds in the terminal. The man is at the counter with his magazine, but when he reaches into his back pocket for his wallet the pocket is empty. Where could I have lost it? He thinks. His mind begins enumerating the credit cards, the currency, the membership a
22、nd identification cards; his stomach chums with something very like fear. The girl who was so near to me, he thinks and all at once he understands that she has picked his pocket. What is he to do? He still has his ticket, safely tucked inside his suitcoat he reaches into the jacket to feel the envel
23、ope, to make sure. He can take the flight, call someone to pick him up at his destination since he cannot even afford bus fare conduct his business and fly home. But in the meantime he will have to do something about the lost credit cards call home, have his wife get the numbers out of the top desk
24、drawer, phone the card companies so difficult a process, the whole thing suffocating. What shall he do? First, find a policeman, tell what has happened, describe the young woman, damn her. He grits his teeth. He will probably never see his wallet again. He is trying to decide if he should save time
25、for talking to a guard near the X-ray machines when he is appalled and elated to see the black-haired girl. She is seated against a front window of the terminal, taxis and private cars moving sluggishly beyond her in the gathering darkness: she seems engrossed in a book. A seat beside her is empty,
26、and the man occupies it. “Ive been looking for you,“ he says. She glances at him with no sort of recognition. “1 dont know you,“ she says. “Sure you do.“ She sighs and puts the book aside. “Is this all you characters think about picking up girls like we were stray animals? What do you think I am?“ “
27、You lifted my wallet,“ he says. He is pleased to have said “lifted“, thinking it sounds wordier than stole or took or even ripped off. “I beg your pardon?“ the girl says. “I know you did at the magazine counter. If youll just give it back, we can forget the whole thing. If you dont, then Ill hand yo
28、u over to the police.“ She studies him, her face serious. “All right,“ she says. She pulls the black bag onto her lap, reaches into it and draws out a wallet. He takes it from her. “Wait a minute,“ he says. “This isnt mine.“ The girl runs, he bolts after her until he hears a womans voice behind him:
29、 “Stop, thief! Stop that man!“ Ahead of him the brunette disappears around a comer and in the same moment a young man in a marine uniform puts out a foot to trip him up. He falls hard, banging knee and elbow on the tile floor of the terminal, but manages to hang on to the wallet which is not his. Th
30、e wallet is a womans, fat with money and credit cards, and it belongs to the blonde in the fur- trimmed coat the blonde he has earlier seen in conversation with the criminal brunette. She, too, is breathless, as is the police man with her. “Thats him,“ the blonde girl says. “He lifted my billfold.“
31、It occurs to the man that he cannot even prove his own identity to the policeman. Two weeks later - the embarrassment and rage have diminished, the family lawyer has been paid, the confusion in his household has receded the wallet turns up without explanation in one mornings mail. It is intact, no m
32、oney is missing, all the cards are in place. Though he is relieved, the man thinks that for the rest of his life he will feel guilty around policemen, and ashamed in the presence of women. 25 Anniversaries are the opium of museums, publishers, theaters and opera houses. Fixing their eyes on some rou
33、nd-number birth or death date of a major creator, they start planning to cash in years before. For 2006, birthdays are the winning numbers: Rembrandts 400th; Mozarts 250th; and the 100th for Samuel Beckett and Dmitri Shostakovich. The Dutch have organized a score of Rembrandt shows, starting appropr
34、iately with an exhibition based around his mother in the town of his birth, Leiden. Mozarts music will be heard more than usual in churches, concert hails and opera houses around the world, with his birthplace, Salzburg, once again trying to compensate for the indifference it showed him during his l
35、ifetime. But do such anniversaries and accompanying celebrations serve much purpose? Are they just marketing devices to sell tickets to museums and performances? Or do they help draw the attention of younger generations to the giants of Western culture who at times seem crowded out by the pygmies of
36、 popular culture? As it happens, the practice is not new. The birth of Bardolatry, or Shakespeare worship, is generally traced to the Shakespeare Jubilee, which was organized by the actor-manager David Garrick to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the playwrights birth (the jubilee was actually held
37、 in 1769, five years after the anniversary, but presumably time was more flexible in those days). Until then, perhaps surprisingly, Shakespeare was not doing too well. The populatity of many of his plays did not survive the 18-year-long closure of Londons theaters during the Civil War and Cromwells
38、role. Then, after theaters reopened in 1660 with the Restoration of the monarchy, several of his major works “Richard III“ and “King Lear“ among them were drastically revised by other playwrights. Today, Mozart, for one, is hardly in need of revival. No opera house plans a season these clays without
39、 including at least one of his stage masterpieces: “Le Nozze di Figaro“, “Don Giovanni“, “Cosi fan tutte“ and “Die Zauberflote“. His “Requiem“, “Coronation Mass“ and other sacred works are regularly performed. His instrumental works he wrote hundreds - keep Soloists and orchestras busy throughout th
40、e year. A more interesting reflection for Jan. 27, the 250th anniversary of his birth, is: how would Western culture have fared without Mozart? True, the same question might be asked of myriad great artists who have bequeathed beauty, emotion and understanding. Yet Mozart was unique, not only becaus
41、e he excelled in every kind of music (while, say, Verdi and Wagner were great composers only of opera), but also because, more even than Bach, he turned listening into a deeply personal experience. There is that perennial: who killed Mozart? In Peter Schaffers 1979 play, “Amadeus“, adapted as an Osc
42、ar-winning movie by Milos Forman in 1984, the finger of guilt was pointed at Mozarts contemporary, Antonio Salieri. But even that charge was old hat: Pushkin first raised it in his 1830 play, “Mozart and Salieri“, which Rimsky-Korsakov adapted as an opera in 1897. Still, the question is again being
43、trotted out for the anniversary. No such mystery surrounds Rembrandts life or death. But if his greatness was only fully recognized in the 19th century, he certainly is in need of no anniversary “special offers“ to be admired today. His more than 600 oils are in collections around the world and, whe
44、never selected for exhibitions, they draw huge crowds. The organizers of Rembrandt 400, as the anniversary has been tagged, evidently again have crowds in mind, hoping that some 250,000 people will travel to the Netherlands for the occasion. Will Rembrandts fans cross paths with those of Mozart? If
45、they did, they might find that their idols have something in common. In his 75 or so self- portraits, recording his passage from youth to old age, Rembrandt seems to offer a window into his soul. Cannot Mozarts compositions also be considered as self-portraits? Certainly, it is by displaying their i
46、ntimacy that they share their genius with us. But of course only time will define their place in the pantheon. As happened to Rembrandt and many others, great artists are often forgotten before they are enshrined by posterity. After that, thankfully, anniversaries make little difference. 29 Since an
47、cient times it has been known that your word is a cause set in motion. In fact, the universe itself is claimed to have emanated from a single primordial sound. In the science of yoga, it is believed that certain Sanskrit words, known as mantras, can bring about magical results, thus you can secure a
48、bundance with a certain mantra, peace with another, and so on. On a more practical level, your word still remains highly potent. With your words, you can wound someone, sending them into spirals of defeat, and with your words you can heal someone, raising them up from a dismal place to soaring hope
49、and motivation. In fact, the entire field of self-improvement is the transmission of words that will assist others to get a firm perspective and move forward with their lives, fulfilling their dreams and desires. On a personal level, too, your words affect you. What you say to yourself about anyone or anything affects you, too. If you speak well of someone or something, you bring more of that harmony into your life. And i
