1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 293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 Job stress has become a common and costly problem in the American workplace, leaving few workers untouche
3、d. . General introduction to job stress 1)definition: harmful physical and 【 1】 _ responses that occur when the requirements of the job do not match the capabilities, resources or needs of the worker. 2)difference between challenge and job stress -Challenge 【 2】 _ us psychologically and physically a
4、nd when a challenge is met, we feel relaxed and satisfied. - In the case of job stress, the stage is set for illness, injury and job failure. 3)prevention strategies for job stress: individual and 【 3】 _ factors - 【 4】 _ between work and family or personal life - a support network of friends and cow
5、orkers - a relaxed and positive outlook . Influences of job stress 1)early signs - mood and sleep disturbances - upset stomach and headache - 【 5】 _ with family and friends 2)【 6】 _ diseases - cardiovascular disease - musculoskeletal disorders - psychological disorders 3)inadequate job performance l
6、ike absenteeism which has 【 7】 _ on the bottom line . Measures to reduce job stress 1)stress management training, such as employee assistance programs to provide 【 8】_. _ for employees with work and personal problems - inexpensive - easy to implement - reducing rapidly stress symptoms like anxiety a
7、nd sleep disturbances -beneficial effects on stress symptoms are 【 9】 _, because of focus on worker rather than environment 2)organizational change, that is, to bring in a consultant to improve 【 10】 _ - identification of stressful aspects of work - design of strategies to reduce or eliminate the id
8、entified stressors 3)the most useful approach: a combination of organizational change and stress management 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
9、 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 Nicole s project _ . （ A） had students write about American history （ B） encouraged students to
10、 write stories about local history （ C） taught students how to use scanners and other multimedia devices （ D） had students build a database of pictures of their grandparents 12 Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the interview? （ A） She believes strongly in the value of reading. （
11、 B） Her children all read a lot because she herself is a teacher of English. （ C） The story writing component of the project was originally not her idea. （ D） All the students at her school have local history in their curriculum. 13 Which of the following is NOT mentioned when Irene talked about the
12、 writing part in the project? （ A） They had some historians come and talk to English students about local history. （ B） Students could choose to write in pairs. （ C） They had a third-grade teacher to add notes to tough terminology. （ D） Stories were sent to a historian to make sure that everything w
13、as historically accurate. 14 In the process of purling the stories on the Internet, _ . （ A） each student was responsible for one story （ B） computer students first had to decide whether a story was good or not （ C） webpages were created by Dreamweaver. （ D） Irene had elementary students pick the we
14、bpages that they liked best 15 Before she began to teach computer, Irene _ . （ A） hated computers （ B） only had some basic knowledge of computers （ C） was a computer geek （ D） was teaching maths and writing SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. List
15、en 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 Who will not attend the summit organized by the ASEAN? （ A） Heads of state. （ B） Heads of government. （ C） Representatives of international organizations. （
16、D） Peace lovers. 17 Which is the most possible reason for such a disaster? （ A） The doors were locked. （ B） A flare fired into the clubs ceiling. （ C） There was a rock concert. （ D） People are too crowded. 18 Philippines President Gloria Arroyo （ A） has been found guilty of wrongdoing. （ B） was forc
17、ed to step down after 10 of 24 cabinet members resigned from the government. （ C） will continue to run the government according to the constitution. （ D） had a tension with the new cabinet. 19 Which word can be used to describe the state of government after the event? （ A） Functional. （ B） Rebelliou
18、s. （ C） Collapsed. （ D） Uncontrolled. 20 Before Luxembourg goes to the polls, which country has already expressed their unwillingness to accept the treaty? （ A） Germany. （ B） Switzerland. （ C） Spain. （ D） France. 20 He is waiting for the airline ticket counter when he first notices the young woman.
19、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 the woman - he t
20、hinks 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 the leather
21、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 traveling, but even
22、 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 read during
23、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. She move
24、s 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 and identi
25、fication cards; his stomach churns 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 envelope,
26、 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 des
27、k 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 t
28、ime 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 emp
29、ty, and the man occupies it. “Ive been looking for you,“ he says. She glances at him with no sort of recognition. “I 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
30、am?“ “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
31、 hand you 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,“ be says. “This isnt mine.“ The girl runs, he bolts after her until he hears a womans voice beh
32、ind him: “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
33、 his. The 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 bi
34、llfold.“ 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 mall. It is i
35、ntact, no money 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. 21 What can be inferred from the beginning of the story? （ A） The man was single. （ B） The man was a
36、ttracted by the girl. （ C） The girl paid no attention to the man. （ D） The man knew the girl. 22 The word “brunette“ in the third paragraph refers to _. （ A） the girl in leather coat （ B） the girl in cloth coat （ C） the pretty woman in gray fur （ D） the pretty woman in fashion magazine clothes 23 Be
37、fore the man lost his wallet, he had seen the black-haired girl _. （ A） only once （ B） twice （ C） three times （ D） four times 24 The man sat beside the black-haired girl to _. （ A） accost her （ B） arrest her （ C） threaten her （ D） ask for his wallet back 25 It can be inferred that _. （ A） the man wa
38、s put into prison （ B） the man was sued for stealing （ C） the man convinced the policeman of the truth at the airport （ D） the girl was arrested at last 25 Anniversaries are the opium of museums, publishers, theaters and opera houses. Fixing their eyes on some round-number birth or death date of a m
39、ajor 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 appropriately with an exhibition based arou
40、nd 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 lifetime. But do such anniversaries a
41、nd 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 popular culture? As it happens, the
42、 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 in 1769, five years after the anniv
43、ersary, but presumably time was more flexible in those days). Until then, perhaps surprisingly, Shakespeare was not doing too well. The popularity of many of his plays did not survive the l8-year-long closure of Londons theaters during the Civil War and Cromwells rule. Then, after theaters reopened
44、in 1660 with the Restoration of the monarchy, several of his major works - “Richard “ 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 days without including at least one of his stage
45、 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 the year. A more interesting reflect
46、ion 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 because he excelled in every kind of mus
47、ic (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 Oscar-winning movie by Milos Forman i
48、n 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 trotted out for the anniversary. N
49、o 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, whenever 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 tha
