1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 287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 I. Causes of Breakdowns in (1)【 1】 _ 1. On students part insufficient command over the (2)of English 【 2】
3、 _ poor pronunciation 2. On teachers part uncertainty of whether his student has asked a question the students (3)to employ the correct question form 【 3】 _ the teacher interprets the question as a comment difficulties arising even when the student employs an/a (4)【 4】 _ question form the teacher ma
4、y not know about the (5)of the student 【 5】 _ difficulty . Specific Questions 1. Begin questions with an/a (6). 【 6】 _ 2. Be careful to (7)the exact point. 【 7】 _ III. Another Reason for the Correct Use of (8)Politeness 【 8】 _ 1. The students uses the imperative (9)the question form 【 9】 _ when he i
5、s nervous or struggling with new subject matter. 2. The teacher may interpret it as (10)and feel angry. 【 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
6、 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 According to the officer, a student from other countries have to _before he can use the Nat
7、ional Health Service in Britain. （ A） register with a university （ B） pay the full cost in advance （ C） study in Britain at least 6 months （ D） be registered on at least 6 courses 12 If one is entitled to treatment from the National Health Service, he is advised to _ first of all? （ A） register a co
8、urse of half a year. （ B） register at any hospital. （ C） register with a doctor. （ D） register with the local city council: 13 Which of the following is true of the patient who has registered for the National Health Service according to the officer? （ A） He will have to pay the cost of medicines. （
9、B） He will have to pay for the consultations with doctors. （ C） He will have to pay the full cost of all their treatments. （ D） He will have to consult with a doctors receptionist before treatment. 14 The following is free EXCEPT _. （ A） dental treatment （ B） casualty treatment （ C） emergency treatm
10、ent （ D） all the treatment at a public hospital 15 If one wants to see a doctor in UK, he has to do the following EXCEPT _. （ A） calling out a doctor to see him （ B） finding out a doctors consulting hours （ C） finding out whether he needs to make an appointment with the doctor （ D） contacting a doct
11、or to find out whether he would accept him 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 What do you know abou
12、t the attack? （ A） It killed 60 Iraqi Shias. （ B） It happened 14 miles from the capital. （ C） No one claimed the responsibility. （ D） Even Iraqis felt terrible. 17 Three British soldiers were killed in_. （ A） the tanker attack （ B） a fighting happened in a Shia city （ C） a blast happened in al-Amara
13、h （ D） the battle with Shia gunmern 18 Charles Simonyi made his fortune working as a_at software giant Microsoft. （ A） worker （ B） designer （ C） engineer （ D） manager 19 Simonyi helped design both Microsoft Word and Excel programs before leaving to form his own company in_. （ A） 1960 （ B） 1981 （ C）
14、1993 （ D） 2002 20 According to United Nations records, people all over the world are getting older because of_. （ A） good health care and other services （ B） fewer and fewer challenges and pressures （ C） more international discussions between countries （ D） better medicine and more food 20 Manners n
15、owadays in metropolitan cities like London are practically non-existent. It is nothing for a big, strong schoolboy to elbow an elderly woman aside in the dash for the last remaining seat on the tube or bus, much less stand up and offer his seat to her, as he ought to. In fact, it is saddening to not
16、e that if a man does offer his seat to an older woman, it is nearly a Continental man or one from the older generation. This question of giving up seats in public transport is much argued about by young men, who say that, since women have claimed equality, they no longer deserve to be treated with c
17、ourtesy and that those who go out to work should take their turn in the rat race like anyone else. Women have never claimed to be physically as strong as men. Even if it is not agreed, however, that young men should stand up for younger women, the fact remains that courtesy should be shown to the ol
18、d, the sick and the burdened. Are we really so lost to all ideals of unselfishness that we can sit there indifferently reading the paper or a book, saying to ourselves “First come, first served,“ while a gray-haired woman, a mother with a young child or a cripple stands? Yet this is all too often se
19、en. Conditions in travel are really very hard on everyone, we know, but hardship is surely no excuse. Sometimes one wonders what would have been the behavior of these stout young men in a packed refugee train on its way to a prison- camp during the War. Would they have considered it only right and t
20、heir proper due to keep the best places for themselves then? Older people, tired and irritable from a days work, are not angle, either far from it. Many a brisk argument or an insulting quarrel breaks out as the weary queues push and shove each other to get on buses and tubes. One cannot commend thi
21、s, of course, but one does feel there is just a little more excuse. If cities are to remain pleasant places to live in, however, it seems imperative, not only that communications in transport should be improved, but also that communication between human beings should be kept smooth and polite. All o
22、ver cities, it seems that people are too tired and too rushed to be polite. Shop assistant wont bother to assist, taxi-drivers growl at each other as they dash dangerously round corners, bus conductors pull the bell before their desperate passengers have had time to get on or off the bus, and so on
23、and so on. It seems to us that it is up to the young and strong to do their small part to stop such deterioration. 21 From what you have read, would you expect manners to improve among people_? （ A） who are physically weak or crippled （ B） who once lived in a prison-camp during the War （ C） who live
24、 in big modern cities （ D） who live only in metropolitan cities 22 What is the writers opinion concerning courteous manners towards women? （ A） Now that women have claimed equality, they no longer need to be treated differently from men. （ B） It is generally considered old-fashioned for young men to
25、 give up their seats to young women. （ C） Ladies first should be universally practiced. （ D） Special consideration ought to be shown to them. 23 What does the author try to convey by giving the example of stout young men in a packed refugee train during the War? （ A） Young men do not need to conside
26、r their behaviour during War time. （ B） Young men need to care more about themselves during War time. （ C） Conditions in travel are really very hard during War time. （ D） Young men should not use hardship as an excuse for their bad behaviour. 24 According to the author, communication between human b
27、eings would be smoother if_. （ A） people were more considerate towards each other （ B） people were not so tired and irritable （ C） women were treated with more courtesy （ D） public transport could be improved 25 What is the possible meaning of the word“ deterioration“ in the last paragraph? （ A） wor
28、sening of general situation （ B） lowering of moral standards （ C） declining of physical constitution （ D） spreading of evil conduct 25 It was eleven oclock that night when Mr. Pontellier returned from Kleins hotel. He was in an excellent humor, in high spirits, and very talkative. His entrance awoke
29、 his wife, who was in bed and fast asleep when he came in. He talked to her while he undressed, telling her anecdotes and bits of news and gossip that he had gathered during the day. From his trousers pockets he took a fistful of crumpled bank notes and a good deal of silver coin, which he piled on
30、the bureau indiscriminately with keys, knife, handkerchief, and whatever else happened to be in his pockets, she was overcome with sleep, and answered him with little half utterances. He thought it very discouraging that his wife, who was the sole object of his existence, evinced so little interest
31、in things which concerned him, and valued so little his conversation. Mr. Pontellier had forgotten the bonbons and peanuts for the boys. Notwithstanding he loved them very much, and went into the adjoining room where they were resting comfortably. The result of his investigation was far from satisfa
32、ctory. He turned and shifted the youngsters about in bed. One of them began to kick and talk about a basket full of crabs. Mr. Pontellier returned to his wife with the information that Raoul had a high fever and needed looking after. Then he lit a cigar and went and sat near the open door to smoke i
33、t. Mrs. Pontellier was quite sure Raoul had no fever. He had gone to bed perfectly well, she said, and nothing had ailed him all day. Mr. Pontellier was too will acquainted with fever symptoms to be mistaken. He assured her the child was consuming at that moment in the next room. He reproached his w
34、ife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children. If it was not a mothers place to look after children, whose on earth was it? He himself had his hands full with his brokerage business. He could not be in two places at once; making a living for his family on the street, and staying at
35、home to see that no harm befell them. He talked in a monotonous, insistent way. Mrs. Pontellier sprang out of bed and went into the next room. She soon came back and sat on the edge of the bed, leaning her head down on the pillow. She said nothing, and refused to answer her husband when he questione
36、d her. When his cigar was smoked out he went to bed, and in half a minute he was fast asleep. Mrs. Pontellier was by that time thoroughly awake. She began to cry a little, and wiped her eyes on the sleeve of her peignoir. Blowing out the candle, which her husband had left burning, she slipped her ba
37、re feet into a pair of satin mules at the foot of the bed and went out on the porch, where she sat down in the wicker chair and began to rock gently to and fro. It was then past midnight. The cottages were all dark. A single faint light gleamed out from the hallway of the house. There was no sound a
38、broad except the hooting of an old owl in the top of a water-oak, and the everlasting voice of the sea, that was not uplifted at that soft hour. It broke like a mournful lullaby upon the night. The tears came so fast to Mrs. Pontellier s eyes that the damp sleeve of her peignoir no longer served to
39、dry them. She was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm. Turning, she thrust her face, steaming and wet, into the bend of her arm, and she went on crying there, not caring any longer to dry her face, her eyes, her arms. S
40、he could not have told why she was crying. Such experiences as the foregoing were not uncommon in her married life. They seemed never before to have to have weighed much against the abundance of her husbands kindness and a uniform devotion which had come to be tacit and self-understood. An indescrib
41、able oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her souls summer day. It was strange and unfamiliar; it was a mood. She did not sit there inwardly upbraiding her husb
42、and, lamenting at Fate, which had directed her footsteps to the path which they had taken. She was just having a good cry all to herself. The mosquitoes made merry over her, biting her firm, round arms and nipping at her bare insteps. The little stinging, buzzing imps succeeded in dispelling a mood
43、which might have held her there in the darkness half a night longer. 26 Mr. Pontellier came back in a/an _state of mind. （ A） excited （ B） exasperated （ C） depressed （ D） dejected 27 Mr. Pontetlier felt extremely frustrated because_. （ A） his wife overslept （ B） his wife greeted late （ C） his wife w
44、as indifferent to his talk （ D） his wife showed too much interest in his talk 28 Mr. Pontellier scolded his wife for _. （ A） she neglected their children （ B） she abused their children （ C） she seldom played with them （ D） she failed to clean the room their children slept in 29 Mrs. Pontellier cried
45、 _after she was reproached by her husband. （ A） little （ B） a lot （ C） moderately （ D） controllably 30 Mrs. Pontellier was seized by a sense of _after she awoke at midnight. （ A） joy （ B） hostility （ C） depression （ D） tolerance 30 Teachers and other specialists in early childhood education recogniz
46、e that children develop at different rates. Given anything that resembles a well-rounded life with adults and other children to listen to, talk to, do things with their minds will acquire naturally all the skills required for further learning. Take for example, reading. The two strongest predictors
47、of whether children will learn to read easily and well at school are whether they have learned the names and the sounds of letters of the alphabet before they start school. That may seem to imply that letter names and sounds should be deliberately taught to young children, because these skills will
48、not happen naturally. But in all the research programs where they have done just that instructed children, rehearsed the names and sounds over and over the results are disappointing. The widely accepted explanation is that knowledge of the alphabet for it to work in helping one to read, has to be de
49、eply embedded in the childs mind. That comes from years of exposure and familiarity with letters, from being read to, from playing with magnetic letters, drawing and fiddling with computers. So parents can do some things to help, although many do these things spontaneously. Instead of reading a story straight through, the reader should pause every so often and ask questions but not questions which can be answered by a yes o
