1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 28 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 Modes of Transportation There are a variety of means for transportation. Usually, the choice of transport
3、ation depends on the【 1】 _ of goods 【 1】_ and the points of distribution. There are five major means of transportation: railroads, airplanes, ships, trucks, and pipelines. Often, goods may be transported by a combination of【 2】 _ 【 2】 _ Railroads are best adapted to the transportation of 【 3】 _ prod
4、ucts that are low in value in relation to their 【 3】_ weight. Truck lines are effective for transporting high-value goods short distances. With the【 4】 _ , trucks can reach 【 4】_ almost every destination without【 5】 _ goods. Air freight 【 5】_ used to be a means to speed【 6】 _ or expensive but light
5、【 6】_ products, but this changed with the introduction of【 7】 _ 【 7】_ Transportation by waterways is characterized by low cost and low speed. A new development is the use of【 8】 _ ships. 【 8】_ Pipelines are a special form of transportation mainly used to move gasoline, crude oil and【 9】 _ , but they
6、 can also 【 9】_ move【 10】 _ like coal. 【 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 inte
7、rview. 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 Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the burglaries mentioned? （ A） They are not serious ones. （ B） They are committed by young people. （ C） Th
8、ey are the most common form of crimes in the area. （ D） The burglars generally have some record in the past. 12 Why does Brown find it difficult to deal with those recidivous criminals? （ A） Because they lack parental love. （ B） Because they are too young. （ C） Because they commit serious crimes. （
9、D） Because they are homeless. 13 In child-abuse cases, the court will _. （ A） dissolve the parental relationship （ B） put the child in a foster home （ C） punish the parents （ D） reconcile the child with his parents 14 It seems that Brown has a (n) _ attitude toward the way mental institutions work.
10、（ A） admiring （ B） respectful （ C） disapproving （ D） understanding 15 Brown impresses us as a _ judge. （ A） strict （ B） liberal （ C） traditional （ D） humane SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that fo
11、llow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 US. Embassies in East Africa were attacked with bombs in _. （ A） 1989 （ B） 1990 （ C） 1998 （ D） 1999 17 Gujrat is notorious for _in Pakistan. （ A） training terrorists （ B） human smuggling （ C） drug trade （ D）
12、 suicide bombing 18 Ghailani is a(n) _by nationality. （ A） Tanzanian （ B） Pakistani （ C） Afghan （ D） Iraqi 19 The Messenger spacecraft was originally scheduled to be launched on _. （ A） Monday （ B） Sunday （ C） Tuesday （ D） Wednesday 20 Which planet is the spacecraft expected to orbit? （ A） Mars （ B）
13、 Venus （ C） Mercury （ D） Jupiter 20 Opposition to the Vietnam War in the United States developed immediately after the beginning of the war, chiefly among traditional pacifists, such as the American Friends Service Committee and antinuclear activists. Early protests were organized around questions a
14、bout the morality of U. S. military involvement in Vietnam. Virtually every key event of the war, including the Tet Offensive and the invasion of Cambodia, contributed to a steady rise in antiwar sentiment. The revelation of the My Lai Massacre in 1969 caused a dramatic turn against the war in natio
15、nal polls. Students and professors began to organize“teach-ins“on the war in early 1965 at the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of California at Berkeley. The teach-ins were large forums for discussion of the war between students and faculty members. Eventually
16、, virtually no college or university was without an organized student movement, often spearheaded by Students for a Democratic Society(SDS). SDS organized the first major stu- dent-led demonstration against the war in April 1963. Another important organization was the Student Non-Violent Coordinatin
17、g Committee(SNCC), which denounced the war as racist as early as 1963. Students also joined“The Resis- tance“, an organization that urged its student members to refuse to register for the draft, or if drafted to refuse to serve. While law enforcement authorities usually blamed student radicals for t
18、he violence that took place on campuses, often it was police themselves who initiated bloodshed as they cleared out students occupying campus buildings during “sit-ins“or street demonstrations. As antiwar sentiment mounted in intensity from 1965 to 1970 so did violence, culmi- nating in the killings
19、 of four students at Kent State in Ohio and of two at Jackson State College in Mississippi. Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X, and other black leaders denounced the U. S. presence in Vietnam as evidence of American imperialism. Martin Luther King, Jr. , had grown increasingly concerned about the racist
20、nature of the war, toward both the Vietnamese and the large numbers of young blacks who were sent to fight for the United States in Vietnam. In 1967 King delivered a major address at New Yorks Riverside Church in which he condemned the war, calling the United States“the worlds greatest purveyor of v
21、iolence. “ On October 15, 1969, citizens across the United States participated in“The Moratorium“, the largest one-day dem- onstration against the war. Millions of people stayed home from work to mark their opposition to the war;college and high school students demonstrated on hundreds of campuses.
22、A Baltimore judge even interrupted court proceedings for a moment of reflection on the war. In Vietnam, troops wore black armbands in honor of the home-front protest. Nixon claimed there was a“great silent majority“who supported the war and he called on them to back his policies. Polls showed, howev
23、er, that at that time half of all Americans felt that the war was“morally indefensible, “while 2 percent admitted that it was a mistake. In November 1969 students from all over the country headed for Washington, D)C), for the Mobilization Against the War. Over 40, 000 participated in a March Against
24、 Death from Arlington National Cemetery to the White House, each carrying a notice with the name of a young person killed in Vietnam. Opposition existed even among conservatives and business leaders, for primarily economic reasons. The government was spending more than 2 billion per month on the war
25、 by 1971. Some U. S. corporations, ranging from beer distributors to manufacturers of jet aircraft, benefited greatly from this money initially, but the high expense of the war began to cause serious inflation and rising tax rates. Some corporate critics warned of future costs to care for the wounde
26、d. Labor unions were also becoming increasingly active in opposition to the war, as they were forced to respond to the concerns of their members that the draft was imposing an unfair burden on working-class people. Another factor that turned public opinion against the war was the publication of the
27、Pentagon Papers on June 13, 1971, by the New York Times. Compiled secretly by the U. S. Department of Defense, the papers were a complete history of the involvement of numerous government agencies in the Vietnam War. They showed a clear pattern of cheating toward the public. One of the senior analys
28、ts compiling this history, Daniel Ellsberg, secretly photocopied key documents and gave them to the New York Times. Subsequently, support for Nixons war policies plummeted, and polls showed that 2 percent of the public now considered the war“immoral, “while 70 percent demanded an immediate withdrawa
29、l from Vietnam. 21 According to the passage, what was the role of the organization“The Resistance“? （ A） It was an organization that opposed to pass the law of Vietnam War or even when passed, it appealed to its members to refuse to serve in the war. （ B） It was an organization that called on the st
30、udents to oppose the war and refuse the war. （ C） It was an organization that persuaded the students members not to register to serve in the army or even when registered not to serve in it. （ D） It was an organization which denounced the war as racist as early as 1963. 22 In the sentence“As antiwar
31、sentiment mounted in intensity from 1965 to 1970 so did violence, culminating in the killings of four students at Kent State in Ohio and of two at Jackson State College in Mississippi. “, the word“culmi-nating“probably can be ex （ A） adding （ B） increasing （ C） resulting （ D） climaxing 23 Among the
32、antiwar activities, which of the following is NOT true? （ A） The students often occupied campus buildings during“sit-ins“or street demonstrations to express their antiwar feelings but the policemen used the violence to drive them away. （ B） In 1967 King delivered a major address at New Yorks Riversi
33、de Church in which he condemned the war, calling the United States“the worlds greatest purveyor of violence. “ （ C） On October 15, 1969, citizens across the United States participated in“The Moratorium“, the largest one-month demonstration against the war. （ D） Opposition existed even among conserva
34、tives and business leaders, for the high expense of the war began to cause serious inflation and rising tax rates. 24 What was the most important reason for the U. S. government to stop the Vietnam War and withdraw the troops? （ A） The economy. （ B） The expenses. （ C） The lasting time was too long.
35、（ D） The antiwar movements both inside and outside the country. 24 When a matador is in his costume, they say hes dressed in“lights“ on account of the spangle and glitter of his suit. As you might expect in the garishly symbolic world of bullfighting, though, itmeans more than that:fame, theatrics,
36、a tendency toward Liberaceness. Perhaps no one in the realm of Spanish bullfighting is as well lighted as Francisco Rivera Ordez, the central figure in Edward Lewines bullring odyssey, “Death and the Sun. “Fran, as hes known, is the great -grandson of one famous matador, the model for the bullfighte
37、r in Hemingways“Sun Also Rises“;grandson of arguably the greatest modern Spanish matador, the subject of Hemingways“Dangerous Summer“;and son to a matador who suffered the most famous death in the history of bullfighting, after a goring in the small town of Pozoblanco when Fran was 10. Not to mentio
38、n that Frans mother was an attention-starved tabloid queen who was captured topless in a paparazzi photograph, and his wife a Spanish duchess. Fran, even before he stuffed, himself into his first bullfighting costume, was no stranger to the lights. Fran agreed to allow Lewine, whod followed the bull
39、s casually for the previous decade, to be a guest in his entou- rage for a season. “Death and the Sun“unfolds over eight pretty important months for the torero:the theory was that Frans career had reached a fork and this season would decide whether hed become one of the great matadors or fade into o
40、bscurity and wind up one of the rickety Spanish drunks who hike up their pants and show off scars from old gorings. Its the“Season on the Brink“method of literary sports journalism:hitch your wagon to a dramatic character, . stick around, take notes, write clown the narrative, collect movie option p
41、aycheck. We ride with Fran from Seville to Madrid, Pozoblanco to Valencia, Tolosa to Alicante. Its as much travelogue as sports story. “He carries it in his blood!“ one woman cries to Fran from the stands of the bullring in the town of Ronda. In Lewines Spain a place of tradition and formality, melo
42、drama and aphorisms people are always saying things like this. After one particularly beautiful performance, one of Frans cadre says that he defecates“on the dead of his bullfighting. “This, apparenfly, is a good thing. 25 Concerning the main character, Fran, which of the following statements is tru
43、e? （ A） One of his ancestors appeared in Hemingways novels. （ B） He was born in a famous family. （ C） His wife was famous in tabloid stories. （ D） His mother is of noble birth. 26 As for the bullfighting journey held by Fran, which of the following statements is NOT true? （ A） Fran was facing an imp
44、ortant period in his career as a matador. （ B） Fran was performing wonderfully in the journey. （ C） Still someone predicted that this is the dead end of his bullfighting. （ D） The novel faithfully recorded his journey. 26 The first fossil dinosaur to be found with an intact body covering has feather
45、s from head to tail. strengthening the view that modern birds evolved from dinosaurs, scientists say in an article published in London Wednesday, The 130 million-year-old Dromaeosaur found in China provided the best evidence that some dinosaurs developed primitive feathers, not for flight but to kee
46、p warm, according to a report in the scientific journal Nature. The Dromaeosaurs were small, fast-running predators closely related to the Velociraptor which starred in the film Jurassic Park. Like Velociraptor, they had a sickle-like claw on the middle toe, sharp teeth, and a bone structure similar
47、 to that of modern birds. The fossil was unearthed early last year by farmers digging in north-eastern Chinas Liaoning Province. where other feathered dinosaurs have been found. The Dromaeosanrs skeleton was found between two slabs of fine grained rock, and resembles that of a large duck with a long
48、 tail and an oversized head. indicating that it was a young specimen. Its head and tail are covered with downy fibres, while other parts of the body sprout tufts or sprays of filaments resembling primitive feathers. The backs of the arms are adorned with branched structures similar to the barbs of a modem bird feather. Dr Mark Norell, from the American Museum of Natural History, New York, head of a U. S. team examining the find with Chinese researchers, said“This fossil radically modifies our vision of these extinct animals. It shows us that ad- va
