[外语类试卷]专业英语八级模拟试卷254及答案与解析.doc
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1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 254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 Tennis During the first 50 years of its history, tennis was largely a pastime of【 1】 _ 【 1】 _ people. Its
3、 widespread popularity began with the growth of【 2】 _. This happened 【 2】 _ immediately after the major national championships became【 3】 _ events. 【 3】 _ They began to accept professionals as well as amateurs. Soon industrial firms began to 【 4】 _ tournaments and offer large cash 【 4】 _ prizes. The
4、 turning point came in 1968, when the British, with the final permission of the International Lawn Tennis Federation, transformed their Wimbledon championships to an open event. In the same year, they went a step further by erasing the【 5】 _ 【 5】 _ between amateurs and professionals. Women players d
5、emand for【 6】 _ prize money 【 6】 _ gained its first success in the United States Open in【 7】 _. With the introduction 【 7】 _ of【 8】 _ rackets, equipment for playing 【 8】 _ tennis needs not to be【 9】 _. Other 【 9】 _ reasons for tennis rising popularity include greater media coverage and peoples incre
6、asing interest in physical【 10】 _. 【 10】 _ 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. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an intervie
7、w. 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 According to Mr. Bacon, people keep snakes because _. ( A) they like them as pets ( B) they like them although they dont have them as pets ( C) they use them to
8、 frighten other people ( D) they are keen on snake meat 12 From the conversation, we can conclude that the RoyaI-RSPCA must be _. ( A) a zoo with various animals ( B) a market selling various animals ( C) an organization for the protection of animals ( D) an organization for the protection of childr
9、en 13 Animals are good for old peoples health in the sense that animals _. ( A) can look after them in hospital and home ( B) can be their good companions ( C) are more reliable than people ( D) can help them establish more social contacts 14 The lipstick marks on the animals heads show that people
10、_. ( A) are cruel with their animals ( B) spend more money on animals than on their children ( C) are treating their animals too well ( D) are making up their animals 15 According to Mr. Bacon, the best part of his job is _. ( A) the excitement involved with the possible danger ( B) the small amount
11、 of paper work ( C) the veterinary medicine ( D) the delivering of new animals 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 will be given 10 seconds to answer the
12、 questions. 16 According to the news item, John Garang _ ( A) is the president of the Khartoum government ( B) is the vice president of the Khartoum government ( C) is the vice president of the southern states ( D) used to be No. 2 of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army 17 Before Spain withdrew its tr
13、oops from Iraq ,_Latin American countries had had troops stationed in the country. ( A) 1 ( B) 2 ( C) 3 ( D) 4 18 How many Salvadoran soldiers have died in Iraq so far? ( A) None. ( B) 1. ( C) 2. ( D) 3. 19 On John Howards agenda ,_would be his next stop. ( A) Doha ( B) Hong Kong ( C) London ( D) Wa
14、shington 20 According John Howard, it would be more important _ in order to help the poor countries. ( A) for the rich countries to increase their overseas aids ( B) for the rich countries to raise their moral standards ( C) for the rich countries to remove tile trade barriers ( D) for the rich coun
15、tries to increase their mean subsidies to poor overseas farmers 20 It was a little after 5 a. m. in my home when Jerzy Dudek, the Polish goalkeeper of Liverpool Football Club, saved a penalty from Andriy Shevchenko, a Ukrainian playing for AC Milan. The save ended the most exciting sporting event yo
16、u will ever see, secured for Liverpool the top European soccer championship for the first time in 21 years, and allowed me to breathe. Within seconds, my wife had called from London, and the e-mails started to flood in the first from TIMEs Baghdad bureau, others from Sydney, London, Washington and N
17、ew York. In my fumbled excitement, I misdialed my brothers phone number three times. Then Steven Gerrard, Liverpools captain, lifted the trophy, and behind the Cantonese chatter of the TV commentators I could just make out 40,000 Liverpudlian voices singing their clubs anthem, Youll Never Walk Alone
18、. And thats when I started to cry. Apart from the big, obvious things love, death, children most of the really walloping emotional highs and lows of my life have involved watching Liverpool. There was the ecstasy of being in the crowd when the club won the European championship in 1978, and the horr
19、or of settling down in my office for a 1985 European championship game only to watch Juventus fans get crashed to death when some Liverpool supporters rioted. Through long experience, my family has come to know that their chances of having a vaguely pleasant husband and father on any given Sunday de
20、pend largely on how Liverpool fared the previous day. But what on earth makes this lets admit it pretty unsophisticated devotion to the fortunes of men Ive never met and dont really want to so powerful? Fandom the obsessional identification with a sports team is universal. The greatest book ever on
21、the psychology of being a fan, Nick Hornbys Fever Pitch, was written about a London soccer team but easily translated into a film about the Boston Red Sox. Particularly in the U. S., it seems possible to be a fan of a team thats based far from where you have ever lived, but I suspect the origins of
22、my obsession are more common. I didnt have much choice in the matter. Both my parents were born in tiny row houses a stones throw from Liverpools stadium. My father took me to my first game as a small child, and from the moment I saw what was behind the familiar brick walls all those people ! That w
23、all of noise ! The forbidden, dangerous smells of cigarettes and beer ! I was hooked. We fans like to describe our passion in religious terms, as if the places our heroes play are secular cathedrals. Its easy to see why. When you truly, deeply love a sports team, you give yourself up to something bi
24、gger than yourself, not just because your individuality is rendered insignificant in the mass of the crowd, but because being a fan involves faith. No matter what its current form may be, your team is worthy of blind devotion - or will soon redeem itself. Belief is all. As Brooklyn Dodgers fans said
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