1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 2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. W
2、hen 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. 1 British Education . British Education Acts A. 1870 Act: inspired by the example of mass 【 1】 _ in Germany B
3、. 1902 Act: -established local education authorities (LEAs) -established 【 2】 _ for secondary education C. 1944 Act: established age of free and compulsory secondary education D. 1988 Act=free individual schools from LEAs . Contrasts with American Education A. State schools in Britain vs. public sch
4、ools in America B. Grammar schools: 【 3】 _ schools C. Secondary modern schools=providing vocational education . Types of Schools in Britain A. Private boarding school e. g. Eton College, Harrow School, Rugby School, and Winchester School. -attended by the wealthy and influential due to high 【 4】 _ i
5、ncluding: -preparatory schools (age of 7 to the age of 11,12 or 13) - 【 5】 _ schools (age of 11,12,or 13 to 18 or 19) B. Schools supported with public funds e.g. -state schools: owned and funded by LEAs - 【 6】 _ schools: established and funded by religious groups -self-governing or 【 7】 _ (GM) schoo
6、ls: receiving funds directly from the government -specialist schools: connected to a private 【 8】 _ C. Comprehensive schools (in Scotland) serving students of all abilities D. Schools subordinate to religious groups (in Northern Ireland) - 【 9】 _ school: maintained by the catholic or the Protestant
7、church - 【 10】 _ schools 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 interview. At the end of t
8、he interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 According to Dr. Neil, in what way is family life different now? （ A） Parents are not as good as they used to be. （ B） More people are getting remarried after divorce. （ C） There
9、 are more one-parent or single-parent families. （ D） More people approve of mothers going out to work. 12 Which of the following is NOT mentioned as substitute parents? （ A） Group leaders. （ B） Television. （ C） Baby-sitters. （ D） Play groups. 13 According to the interview, all of the following are t
10、he roles of primary teachers EXCEPT （ A） helping children to acquire good habits. （ B） reinforcing what the parents are doing, （ C） starting children reading and writing. （ D） informing children of different messages. 14 According to Dr. Neil, what is the most noticeable effect of smaller families?
11、（ A） There is less mixing of ages in smaller families. （ B） Children can get more affection from their parents, （ C） Children can live in a more loving environment. （ D） Children are able to enjoy better living condition. 15 According to the interview, Dr. Neils attitude toward substitute parents is
12、 that （ A） substitutes can take the responsibilities of parents, （ B） its acceptable to let substitutes look after children. （ C） perhaps substitutes can play a better role than parents. （ D） parents should be cautious to choose substitutes. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you w
13、ill 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 The strike has broken out in South Africa because （ A） more than one hundred miners died in a disaster. （ B） black miners
14、have been calling for a wage rise. （ C） miners wanted to mourn over colleagues death. （ D） miners wanted to better their working conditions. 17 Which of the following statements about the strike is TRUE? （ A） The strike has resulted in a great loss to the mining industry. （ B） A few reporters were a
15、llowed to approach the mine. （ C） Half the countrys black miners were on strike. （ D） A white church leader called the strike action. 18 On hearing Yamanis firing, oil traders in New York were （ A） annoyed. （ B） ecstatic. （ C） surprised. （ D） gloomy. 19 The H5N1 bird flu has been found in all the fo
16、llowing places EXCEPT （ A） Australia. （ B） Maharashtra. （ C） France. （ D） Austria. 20 The news is mainly about the UN human rights investigators calling for （ A） a better treatment of the US detainees at Guantanamo Bay. （ B） an independent judicial body to bring the detainees to trial. （ C） the imme
17、diate closure of the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay. （ D） the implementation of international human rights law at Guantanamo Bay. 21 In the evenings, they go to the mall. Once a week or more. Sometimes, they even leave the dinner dishes in the sink so they will have enough time to finish all the e
18、rrands. The father never comes he hates shopping, especially with his wife. Instead, he stays at home to read the paper and put around his study. To do things that the other dads must be doing in the evenings. To summon the sand to come rushing in and plug up his ears with its roaring silence. Meanw
19、hile, the mother arms herself with returns from the last trip. Her two young daughters forget games of flashlight tag or favorite TV shows and strap on tennis shoes and seatbelts: and theyre off. On summer nights, when its light until after the fireflies arrive, the air is heavy and moist. The daugh
20、ters unroll their windows and stick the whole of their heads out into the slate blue sky, feeling full force the sweaty, honey suckle air. In the cold mall, their rubber soles squeak on shiny linoleum squares. The younger daughter tries not to step on any cracks. The older daughter keeps a straight-
21、ahead gazer her sullen eyes count down each errand as its done. It is not until the third or, on a good night, the fourth errand that the trouble begins. The girls have wandered over to examine rainbow beach towels, perhaps, or some kind of pink ruffled bedspread. The mothers voice finds them from a
22、 few aisles away. Dinner squirms in the daughters stomachs. Now comes that what-if-I-threw-up-right-this-second? or where-is-a-rabbit-hole-for-me-to-fall-into? feeling that they get around this time of evening, at the mall. The older one shakes her ponytails at the younger one. Her blue eyes hiss th
23、e careful-dont-cry warning, but the younger ones cheeks only get redder. Toe by toe, the daughters edge towards housewares where they finger lace placemats or trace patterns in the store carpet with sneakered soles. The mothers voice still finds them, shaking with rage. Finally, heels slapping in he
24、r sandals, she strides towards them and then keeps going. They follow, catching her word-trail, “Stupid people. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I HATE stupid people.“ Its the little skips between steps the younger one takes to keep up with her mothers long, angry legs. Its the car door slamming and the seat
25、 belt buckle yanked into place. Its those things that tell the daughters how the next few hours will go. In the car, the older one sighs and grinds her back teeth. The younger one feels her face get hotter and her eyes start to swell. She stares at an ice cream stain on the back of the front seat an
26、d sees a pony, a flower, and a fairy in that splash of chocolate mint chip. The mother begins on both at once. “And when we get home, if your shoes are still in the TV room, Im throwing them out. Same for books. No more shit house. No more lazy, ungrateful kids.“ And so on and so on through the blac
27、k velvet sky and across the Hershey bar roads. On into the house with a slap or two. “Youll be happy when Im in my grave,“ wails at them as they put on their nightgowns and brush their teeth. The older one sets a stone jaw and the younger one tries not to sob as she opens wide, engulfing her small h
28、and and scrubbing each and every molar. The father is not spared. The volcanic mother saves some up just for him. “Fucking lousy husband. Do-nothing father.“ And on like that for an hour or so more. Then in the darkest part of the night, its bare feet and cool hands on a small sweaty forehead. Kisse
29、s and caresses and “Sorry Mom got a little mad.“ Promises for that pink ruffled bedspread or maybe a new stuffed animal. Long fingers rake through the younger ones curls. “Tomorrow evening, well get you some kind of treat. Right after dinner, well go to the mall.“ 21 From the first paragraph, we get
30、 the impression that （ A） the father is inert. （ B） their life is bustling. （ C） the evenings are exciting. （ D） the mother is constantly nagging. 22 According to the passage, the two daughters seem to （ A） enjoy the evenings shopping in the beginning. （ B） be reluctant to run errands with the mothe
31、r. （ C） enjoy browsing various kinds of items. （ D） be glad to help their mother with housework. 23 The word “squirms“ in the fourth paragraph probably means （ A） moves. （ B） squirts. （ C） wriggles. （ D） digests. 24 Which of the following adjectives does NOT describe the mother? （ A） Irritable. （ B）
32、 Remorseful. （ C） Amiable. （ D） Discontented. 25 Which category of writing does the text belong to? （ A） Narration. （ B） Description. （ C） Persuasion. （ D） Exposition. 26 For one brief moment, after years of fear and loathing, America seemed ready to make peace with the SAT. When the University of C
33、alifornia several years ago threatened to treat the test like a bad batch of cafeteria food and tell applicants not to buy it, the College Board junked the bewildering analogy questions (Warthogs are to pigs as politicians are to what?), created a writing section (including producing an essay), adde
34、d tougher math questions and more reading analysis and had everybody talking about the new-and-improved SAT. Then the first students to take SAT: The Sequel were seen stumbling out of the testing centers as if they had just run a marathon, and all the happy talks ended. With the three hours and 45 m
35、inutes stretching to five hours with breaks and instructions, it got worse. Nobody is sure how, but moisture in some SAT answer sheets caused pencil marks to bleed or fade, producing more than 5,000 tests with the wrong scores. Even after that was fixed, several universities reported a sharp drop in
36、 their applicants average scores, which many attributed to exhaustion, and more colleges told applicants they would no longer have to take the SAT. All of which stoked interest in the ACT, the SATs less famous and less feared rival based in Iowa City, Iowa. The shorter test is now becoming a welcome
37、 alternative for many high schoolers who no longer see a need to endure the usual SAT trauma. “I think the ACT is a true player in the college-admissions game these days, “says Robyn Lady, until recently a college counselor at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. Although most Je
38、fferson students still take the SAT, the number of ACTs there has tripled in the last two years. Its a shift that, if it continues, could change the balance of entrance-test power, since the Fairfax County, Va., magnet sends more kids to the Ivy League than almost any other U. S. school. The SAT, wi
39、th a maximum 2,400 points, and the ACT, with a maximum 36 points, are scored differently, but otherwise are no more different from each other than American football differs from the Canadian version. Students usually do equally well on each. The SATs new 25-minute essay is required, while the ACTs e
40、ssay is optional. The SAT is three hours and 45 minutes long. The comparable ACT is three hours and 25 minutes. The SAT has three sections: critical reading, math and writing. The ACT has math, science, reading and English sections, plus optional writing. The ACT with the writing test costs $43, mor
41、e than the SATs $ 41.50, hut the ACT is only $29 without the writing section. Several high-school guidance counselors say they assume the ACT, with 1.2 million test takers in the class of 2005 compared with 1.5 million for the SAT, will eventually catch up, in part because so many educators are advi
42、sing their students to try both. Wendy Andreen, counselor at Memorial Senior High School in Houston where the SAT has been supreme says she tells students every year they should take both tests to be safe, and many are beginning to listen, with ACTs up 18 percent since 2002. Deb Shaver, director of
43、admissions at Smith College, says counselors are steering students to the ACT “because there is less hysteria surrounding the ACTs, and students feel less stressed about taking the test.“ The mistakes made in the scoring of the October 2005 SAT by Pearson Educational Measurement, the College Boards
44、subcontractor, have not been forgotten, counselors say. The SAT suffered from damaging news stories as details of the errors came out bit by bit. In the end, 4,411 students had scores reported to colleges that were lower than they actually earned and had to be corrected; 17 percent of the correction
45、s were for more than 40 points. College Board president Gaston Caperton apologized, saying the mishap “brings humility, and humility makes us more aware, empathetic and respectful of others.“ But many counselors, who often complain about the New York City-based nonprofits influence over their studen
46、ts futures, say they have their doubts. “I think the College Board sees this as a purely technical problem that they can solve through purely technical means,“ says Scott White, a counselor at Montclair (N. J. ) High School. “I dont think they appreciate the damage that was done to their already sha
47、ky credibility.“ 26 The analogy of SAT to bad cafeteria food indicates that （ A） the SAT is undesirable. （ B） the SAT should be replaced. （ C） the SATs keepers are blamed. （ D） the SATs critics are praised. 27 “The happy talk“ in the second paragraph probably refers to （ A） the suggestion that the S
48、AT should be reformed. （ B） the idea that the SAT will be improved. （ C） the concept that the SAT will be substituted. （ D） the belief that the SAT has been improved. 28 Which of the following statements is NOT true about the ACT? （ A） Many students now prefer to take the ACT. （ B） The ACT could har
49、dly be the SATs adversary. （ C） The ACT has taken the lead over the SAT. （ D） Some people think highly of the ACT. 29 Many American educators now tend to （ A） be in favor of the ACT. （ B） be slightly critical of the SAT. （ C） sit on the fence in the dispute. （ D） be strongly critical of the SAT. 30 The mistake made in the scoring of the October 2005 SAT has led to （ A） an experience of humiliation. （ B） the resignation of head of the Board. （ C） more or less a cri
