1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 273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 Culture There are so many things about our lives that belong to the content of culture that it is impossi
3、ble to cover them all. In this lecture three aspects of culture are discussed. Language: is what people and animals use to【 1】 their thoughts, ideas and feelings. Just like animals, people use different languages. Each culture has its own words and symbols. People within the culture that use more th
4、an one language are said to be either【 2】 or multilingual. Moreover, languages have different【 3】 , which are variations of a language.【 4】 is most commonly used by deaf people. Folklore: is a body of stories that show a cultures beliefs, traditions and【 5】 . The characters in folktales are often【 6
5、】 people, whose character is admired. Today, folklore finds its way into poetry, song lyrics, and【 7】 . Holiday: is a day made special by a cultures customs or laws. Holidays help a culture remember and【 8】 its history. People may attend parades, sing songs, go to【 9】 or give gifts to each other on
6、certain holidays. The English world holiday came from two words, holy and day. The best-known【 10】 holiday is Christmas. 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 th
7、en 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 Opel is developing a new car which _. （ A） is too short to include great changes （
8、 B） is completely different from the old models （ C） will try hard to keep its characteristic style （ D） is not greatly different from the old models 12 Which of the following is not one of Opels major considerations in developing a new car? （ A） Petrol consumption. （ B） Speed. （ C） Safety. （ D） Com
9、fortability. 13 New cars are becoming faster and faster because _. （ A） the efficiency of the engines has improved a lot （ B） the engines are more powerful （ C） people like driving fast （ D） highways provide enough chances for fast driving 14 On the development of the electro-car, the main problem i
10、s _. （ A） nothing technical （ B） electricity is too expensive （ C） the speed of the car is not fast enough （ D） the weight of the battery 15 It seems that Opels chief engineer is _ the development of alternative energies. （ A） optimistic about （ B） pessimistic about （ C） not enthusiastic about （ D）
11、devoted to 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 questions. 16 Which of the following is NOT included in the agreeme
12、nt to be signed between Russia and Iran? （ A） Russia will deliver nuclear fuel to Iran. （ B） Iran will ship waste nuclear rods back to Russia. （ C） The two countries will build a road for the shipment of nuclear fuel. （ D） Russia will be responsible for the storage of the waste nuclear rods. 17 The
13、United States is concerned about _. （ A） the possibility that the nuclear material might be used to produce weapons （ B） the safety of nuclear power stations （ C） the pollution of the nuclear waste （ D） Irans ability to process the nuclear waste 18 Which of the following country/countries drafted th
14、e proposal for changes to a draft UN resolution on Iraq? （ A） Russia, France, Germany and China. （ B） China. （ C） The U.S. and Britain. （ D） Iraq. 19 According to the proposal, the multinational force will leave Iraq _. （ A） when full sovereignty is restored to Iraq （ B） when the interim government
15、takes power （ C） when the interim government asks them to leave （ D） as soon as possible 20 Which of the following statements about President Bushs trip to Europe is TRUE? （ A） He presided over the Group of Eight summit. （ B） He talked with French President on rebuilding Iraq. （ C） He discussed with
16、 Russian leader on the issue of industrialization. （ D） He reached agreement with Italian Prime Minister to continue their effort in Iraq. 20 Back in 1985, Viktor Cherkashin was a senior KGB officer at the Soviet Embassy in Washington. In the shadowy world of espionage, he had a good professional re
17、putationa spys spy. So when Robert Hanssen decided to switch sides, he sent a letter to Cherkashin offering to work for the Russians. “I would not have contacted you,“ Hanssen wrote, “if it were not reported that you were held in esteem within your organization.“ Today, Cherkashin, 69, is a prospero
18、us Moscow businessman. He owns a big house in the suburbs and drives a light blue 1986 Chevrolet, a trophy car in the streets of Moscow. “Ive been on my pension now for 10 years,“ he said when NEWSWEEK contacted him by phone last week. “Im in the private-security business.“ Cherkashin didnt want to
19、discuss the Hanssen case. “I dont like to talk about other peoples affairs,“ said the former spymaster. He wasnt alone; no one in the Kremlin wanted to talk publicly about the exposure of Hanssen either. But that doesnt mean the Russians are bashful about spying on America. President Vladimir Putin,
20、 himself a former colonel in the now defunct KGB, has revived the fortunes of Russian intelligence agencies. Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer who defected to Britain in 1985, estimates that the number of Russian spies now in the United States has reached “a record figuremore than 300“. In Putin-style
21、espionage, ideology is out, and so are most acts of subversion aimed at the United States. What Russia needs now is information: military, technological and economic. Putin wants quick growth for Russias defense industry, sensing lucrative markets overseas. But he has written that it would take as m
22、any as 15 years for Russia to catch up with even the poorest countries in the West. “Scientific institutes wont be able to do it; it costs a lot of money,“ says Jolanta Darczewska, a Polish expert on Russias intelligence establishment. “Its better to stealcheaper and faster.“ Like ninny other Russia
23、n agents in the United States, Hanssen apparently was mothballed by the Kremlin after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. His masters feared he might be exposed by a security breach in Moscow, and they were getting information of more immediate value from their mole in the CIA, Aldrich Ames, a
24、nyway. The intelligence agencies began a comeback under Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, another former spymaster. Then, a few weeks after Putin became Boris Yeltsins prime minister in 1999, Hanssen was “reactivated“. With espionage picking up again, his counterintelligence know-how may have given M
25、oscow a map of Americas defenses against spies. Putin purports not to care about Washingtons reaction to Russian spying. “During the Yeltsin years, they had instructions to avoid any scandals that would spoil relations with the West,“ says Gordievsky. “What Putin told his foreign-intelligence agency
26、 was, Dont worry. Im not afraid of scandals.“ What Putin may be worried about, however, is moles in his own security service. Some of the information revealed in the FBI affidavit last week has touched off a wave of concern in Moscow. The Russians fear it could only have been obtained from a source
27、within Russian intelligence, and that has led officials to suspect U.S. infiltration into the SVR. “If you look at the affidavit, they have documents from the archive of the SVR,“ said Oleg Kalugin, the former KGB general who says he brought Cherkashin to Washington. “Some of the references are from
28、 1999.“ There were no Russian defectors from that time who could have provided the Americans with the information, officials say. So are Washington and Moscow back to a spy-vs.-spy standoff? Gordievsky, among others, thinks Russian intelligence may have misread the new Bush administration, predictin
29、g it would be more “pragmatic“ and easier to work with than the Clinton White House. But so far, Washington has been no pushover. Bush advisers like Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insist that the United States will go ahead with a national missile defense system, despite Russias opposition. Last
30、week Moscow had to back down a bit, stressing its willingness to talk about a missile shield. As Robert Hanssen has learned, intelligence is hardly a sure thing. 21 In Putin-style espionage, _. （ A） ideology is out, and most acts of subversion are aimed at the United States （ B） the aim of its ideol
31、ogy is to subvert the United States （ C） ideology and most acts of subversion aimed at the United States are out-dated （ D） ideology and most acts of subversion aimed at the United States are in the open air 22 Hanssen apparently was mothballed by the Kremlin after the collapse of the Soviet Union i
32、n 1991 in part because_. （ A） his masters feared he might be exposed by a security breach in the United States （ B） they were getting information of more immediate value from their mole in the CIA, Aldrich Ames through Various means （ C） they can at least use Aldrich Ames, whose information is of mo
33、re immediate value （ D） both A and B 23 Hanssen was reactivated because _. （ A） espionage was reactivated （ B） his knowledge of counterintelligence might help Moscow understand how America defends against spies （ C） Aldrich Ames had been exposed and arrested by FBI （ D） he knew the names of many US
34、spies in Russia 24 In the last paragraph, Gordievsky thinks that _. （ A） Washington and Moscow are back to a spy-vs.-spy standoff （ B） Russian intelligence, predicting the new Bush administration would be more “pragmatic“ and easier to work with than the Clinton White House, may have misread the new
35、 Bush administration （ C） Russian intelligence may have misread the new Bush administration, because he predicts it would be more “pragmatic“ and easier to work with than the Clinton White House （ D） Washington has been no pushover 25 What does the sentence imply: “As Robert Hanssen has learned, int
36、elligence is hardly a sure thing.“? （ A） He shouldnt have counted on the chances of not being exposed. （ B） It is hard to predict whether the Bush Administration would be more “pragmatic“ and easier to work with or not. （ C） Moscow had to back down a bit, stressing its willingness to talk about a mi
37、ssile shield. （ D） Both A and B 25 Author Emma Heathcote-James has spent nine years looking into real-life ghost stories, collecting tales from hundreds of people who claim to have seen evidence of an afterlife. The 27-year-old started her research at university and her thesis was turned into a BBC
38、documentary that she re-wrote as her debut bestseller Seeing Angels, The book prompted so many people to write to her with their ghostly experiences that she used them for a second book After Death Communication, which has just been released in paperback. Her new book They Walk Among Us describes se
39、ances with mediums who can summon solid ghosts out of thin air. While working on the book she invited a medium to her home in the Cotswolds to demonstrate a form of ghostly communication where spirits take over the body. She explained: “This medium came to my house, sat in my front room, and went in
40、to a trance. An old mans body just appeared over the top of the mediumhe turned into an old man right in front of me. I was absolutely terrified at firsthis hands became all arthritic and rheumatoid and his voice was old and staggered. The lights in my old cottage were going mad, going up and down b
41、y themselves but they had never done it before or since.“ Emma added: “The old man spoke to my boyfriend Paul and asked him to take the mediums pulse. Paul, an army doctor, felt his wrist and said I think hes deadbut he wasnt, he had let the spirit take him over.“ They Walk Among Us tells stories of
42、 people like Nick McGlynn, who was reunited with his wife Marie during a seance. She spoke to him through a medium hours after dying in hospital from multiple organ failure. Nick recalls the moment, halfway through the seance, when he heard his wife for the first time: “A fairly weak voice said, Nic
43、k, Nick I m home, I m home, in the special way I used to announce my arrival to her when I came home.“ He says he told her he was happy for her, and that she thanked him for staying with her in hospital and told him: “I want you to have a ball. Go out and have a good time.“ Emma says these paranorma
44、l experiences are “as natural as the sun and the rain“ and since the book s release last month she s had hundreds more letters from readers. She adds: “Its such a huge subject, I feel like I am on the tip of a massive iceberg. “After the first book there were so many letters that the second one wrot
45、e itself.“ One miraculous tale retold in After Death Communication is that of Dave Barber, who believes his dead grandmother saved him from drowning. Dave describes the day he almost died swimming with his son:“ As neither my wife or I can swim we sat at the side of the pool, watching my son splash
46、about, I decided to climb into the shallows and join in the fun. Almost immediately, I slipped, and fell.“ As he lay at the bottom of the pool Dave saw a “white mist“ at the end, which got closer until he saw his dead grandmother emerge from it. “Her arms were outstretched towards me and she was dre
47、ssed in a white silken gown,“ he says. “Suddenly, I was aware that my nine-year-old son had dived in to save me. He was banging my head on the floor of the pool in an effort to lift me. My grandmother, Amelia, was now very close and I knew that if I turned to her, I would die. I looked at my son and
48、 knew he needed me. Immediately, the pain returned, I felt myself rising through the water and I blacked-out.“ 26 Author Emma Heathcate-James has at least written _ books telling real-life ghost stories. （ A） one （ B） two （ C） three （ D） four 27 The author believes the medium had let the spirit take
49、 him over because _. （ A） he used his hands to gesticulate （ B） the authors boyfriend thinks so （ C） many people in the cottage were going mad （ D） his pulse stopped beating for sometime 28 In the story told by Nick McGlynn, _. （ A） his dead wife spoke to him in a tone he used to announce his arrival to her （ B） his wife spoke to him who died a few hours ago, in a tone he used to announce his arrival （ C） his dead wife spoke to him in a tone she used to announce
