1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 302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 Leaving Home Generally, most people have in their minds a picture of their “ideal home“, but if you are s
3、tudents or people just beginning work, the practical limitations of money and location may prevent them from finding this ideal home. Serveral ideas for you to follow: I. To stay at home for a while when leaving school: 1)many advantages while staying at home; 2)depending much on how you 【 1】 _your
4、family. 【 1】 _ II. To stay in your home area by renting a house or a flat: 1)cannot inviting your 【 2】 _to visit you freely; 【 2】 _ 2)would be rather unhappy ifnotgeting on well with your【 3】 _ 【 3】 _ III. To ask 【 4】 _on campus for help in finding houses: 【 4】 _ 1)difficult in some areas because of
5、 a 【 5】 _ student population;【 5】 _ 2)many 【 6】 _not willing to rent rooms to students. 【 6】 _ IV. To share 【 7】 _with some other students: 【 7】 _ 1)very cheap rent; 2)no old people watching over; 3)and the housework shared with room-mates; 4)causing problems if having 【 8】 _ characters. 【 8】 _ V .T
6、o try a bed-sitterone mom that you use as a bedroom and sitting room 【 9】 _: 【 9】 _ 1)not very expensive rent; 2)easy to keep clean and cheap and to heat; 3)simple to make it feel like a real home; 4)may be always 【 10】 _if cooking; 【 10】 _ 5)might be hanging your wet clothes all round the room; 6)c
7、an be very lonely at first. 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 o
8、f the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 There is a great employment demand for graduates of all the following majors EXCEPT （ A） engineering. （ B） finance. （ C） management. （ D） accounting. 12 Which of the following
9、 is TRUE of the job market? （ A） Employees are in face of fierce competition. （ B） Salaries of engineering grads are lower than the average. （ C） Starting salaries have been increased this year. （ D） There might be another hiring surge next year. 13 The expert suggests that graduates should not rely
10、 on the Internet because （ A） it is not a good job searching strategy. （ B） not all job vacancies are available On it. （ C） grads cannot have a direct contact with employers. （ D） many grads dont have access to the Internet. 14 According to the interview, which is NOT an advantage of an informationa
11、l interview? （ A） It enables grads to get a job more easily. （ B） It enables grads to get a better-paid job. （ C） It allows grads to get a few contacts. （ D） It allows grads to know more about the industry. 15 What can parents do to help their children get a job? （ A） To encourage them to be confide
12、nt. （ B） To support them financially. （ C） To urge them to be dependent. （ D） To keep an eye on their emotions. 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
13、be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 What presents a barrier to Turkeys joining the EU? （ A） The fact that Turkey is predominately a Muslim country. （ B） The fact that Turkey has a big population. （ C） The fact that Turkey refused to recognize Cyprus. （ D） The fact that Cyprus prevent Tur
14、key from joining the EU. 17 According to the news, which of the following is TRUE? （ A） As an EU member, Turkey enjoys privileges. （ B） Cyprus is not an EU member. （ C） Turkey will be admitted into EU with half membership. （ D） There are 25 EU members. 18 Which of the following statements is TRUE? （
15、 A） America has won the championship five times so far. （ B） Canada won the second prize at this contest. （ C） The questions asked at the contest are all about geography. （ D） The three winners have different ideas about their future careers. 19 According to Dr. Shear, complicated grief （ A） results
16、 from the death of a beloved one. （ B） is an intense feeling lasting six months or longer. （ C） is an intense feeling lasting three months or longer. （ D） is hard to cure. 20 The new therapy （ A） is quite effective as compared with the traditional therapy. （ B） combines medical treatment and psychot
17、herapy. （ C） focuses on personal development. （ D） doesnt allow the patients to talk about the death of the loved one. 20 Perhaps its the weather, which sometimes seals London with a gray ceiling for weeks on end. Or maybe it is Britons penchant for understatement, their romantic association with th
18、e countryside or their love of gardens. Whatever the reason, while other cities grew upward as they developed, London spread outward, keeping its vast parks, its rows of townhouses and its horizon lines intact. But as the citys population and its prominence as a global business capital continue to g
19、row, it sometimes seems ready to burst at the seams. In response, developers are turning to a type of building that used to be deeply unfashionable here, even as it flourished in other capitals of commerce: the skyscraper. In recent years, a cluster of sizable office towers have sprouted on the peri
20、phery of London, in its redeveloped Docklands at Canary Wharf. But skyscrapers now are pushing into the heart of the City, Londons central financial district, and surrounding areas along the Thames. The mayor, Ken Livingstone, champions tall buildings as part of his controversial plans to remake cen
21、tral London as a denser, more urban sort of place, with greater reliance on public transport. First he angered some drivers by charging them a toll to enter the city center on workdays, now he finds himself opposed by preservation groups, including English Heritage, that want to keep Londons charact
22、er as a low-rise city. For now, the mayor seems to be getting his way. One prominent tower, a 40-story building designed by Norman Foster for the Swiss Re insurance company was completed this year. A handful of others have received planning permission and at least a dozen mere have been proposed. By
23、 far the most prominent of these buildingsand one that finally looks like it will go ahead after a drawn-out approval processis the London Bridge Tower, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano. The developer Irvine Sellar won government approval for the building late last year and says he is c
24、ompleting the financing and hopes to start work by early 2005. The 306-meter, or 1,016-foot, tower would be by far the tallest building in Britain, in all of Europe, in fact, surpassing the 264-meter Triumph Palace in Moscow, a residential building that was finished late last year. To be sure, even
25、the London Bridge Tower would be modest by the standards of American or Asian skyscrapers, or some of the behemoths on the drawing hoards for places like Dubai and Shanghai. The tallest building in the world at the moment is the 509-meter Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan, according to the Council on Tall
26、Buildings and Urban Habitat. But it will surely be surpassed soon amid a boom in construction that persists. In a city that has been reluctant to reach for the sky, perhaps it is appropriate that Piano is the architect for what probably will be Londons tallest building. He is ambivalent about skyscr
27、apers, too, and has designed only a handful alongside such projects as the Pompidou Center in Paris, with Richard Rogers, and parts of the reconstructed Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. English Heritage has been far less enthusiastic, arguing that the building would obstruct views of a high-rise from a mu
28、ch earlier era, Christopher Wrens St. Pauls Cathedral. To overcome opposition, the building was designed with a mixed-use function. Much of the bottom half of the building will house offices, but above that there will be a “public piazza“ with restaurants, exhibition spaces and other entertainment a
29、reas. Further above, the loftier, narrower floors will be taken up by a hotel and apartments. On the 65th floor there will be a viewing gallery. The upper 60 meters, exposed to the elements, will house an energy-saving cooling system in which pipes will be used to pump excess heat up from the office
30、s below and dissipate it into the winds. “We knew we had no chance of getting it approved unless we had a high-quality design from a top international name,“ Sellar said. The emphasis on quality is a reflection not only of an aversion to skyscrapers, but also of a desire not to repeat mistakes. Lond
31、on had one previous fling with tallor semi-tall buildings, in the 1960s and 70s, but their blocky, concrete shapes did little to impress. 21 Developers are turning to the skyscraper in London because （ A） the weather there covers the city with a gray ceiling, （ B） British are inclined to understatem
32、ent. （ C） British love the countryside and gardens. （ D） the citys population and its prominence grow increasingly. 22 Which of the following is NOT cited as an example of the mayors support for tall buildings? （ A） Drivers were charged a toll to enter the city on weekdays. （ B） A 40-story tower was
33、 completed this year. （ C） A handful other tall buildings have received the planning permission. （ D） A dozen more tall buildings have been proposed. 23 According to the passage, London Bridge Tower （ A） is 264 meters tall. （ B） is designed by Norman Foster. （ C） would be by far the tallest building
34、 in Europe. （ D） would surpass American or Asian skyscrapers. 24 In the public square of London Bridge Tower you can NOT （ A） have dinners. （ B） have a birds eye view of London. （ C） visit art galleries. （ D） watch movies. 25 According to Sellar, London Bridge Tower won government approval mainly be
35、cause of （ A） Britons increasing enthusiasm for tall buildings. （ B） the developers close association with the government. （ C） its high-quality design from a top world name. （ D） a desire not to repeat mistakes as before. 26 The last paragraph implies that （ A） peoples preference for skyscrapers is
36、 increasing rapidly. （ B） people made mistakes in constructing tall buildings in the past. （ C） tall buildings in the 1960s and 1970s were welcomed by Londoners. （ D） tall buildings in the 1960s and 1970s left people deep impression. 26 Stupendous prices were paid in a historic sale of 19th- and 20t
37、h-century avant-garde paintings collected over a lifetime by John Hay Whitney and his wife, Betsy Cushing Whitney, Picassos “Garcon la Pipe“ (Boy With a Pipe), painted in 1905, shot up to $104.1 million at Sothebys during a protracted bidding match over the telephone. That is nearly twice the previo
38、us record for the artist: the $55 million paid for “La Femme aux Bras Croiss“ at Christies New York in November 2000. The huge figure reflects the double iconic value that the portrait derived from its mastery and from the aura of its owners, the very patrician Whitneys. The portrait is perhaps the
39、artists ultimate achievement. Constantly hailed as the giant of modem art, Picasso was probably at his greatest when working under the spell of Old Masters. The rigorous composition, the color balance and the profound psychological probe of the young sitter place the likeness in a category that begi
40、ns with Italian Renaissance portraitists and continues tight through the 19th century with Corot and Degas. Bought by Whitney in 1950, the painting was seen at distant intervals in major exhibitions dealing with the artist, from the 1967 Grand Palais retrospective in Paris to the 1996 portrait show
41、at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The portrait was thus both famous in art history and forgotten. This maximized its impact. Not least, “Garcon la Pipe“ epitomized the taste of connoisseurs of the old school who bought on the strength of their convictions, not on advice. They collected for th
42、e sake of the art, neither for investmentthey were already richnor to achieve social status, which they had by birth. In short, the Whitney sale marked the end of an era when the old cultivated elite of the Western world dominated the art market. Buyers sensed the unique character of the occasion. T
43、hey responded to pictures that played each other up, linked by affinities that went beyond style or school. Edouard Manets “Les Courses au Bois de Boulogne“ (Races in the Bois de Boulogne) is as important regarding the Impressionists painting as “Garcon“ is within Picassos oeuvre. The complex compos
44、ition worthy of 17th-century masters is combined with a sketchiness in much of the detail that already heralds the march toward Abstractionism. The forward thrust of the horses in the foreground and the tense postures of their riders give the picture a vigor and an authority it shares with the Picas
45、so. And like Picassos portrait, it owes a soothing harmony to its color balance. The Manet brought $26.3 milliona figure deemed disappointing by some only because market prices are at an all-time high. The same combination of boldness in composition and harmony in the color scheme can again be detec
46、ted in Claude Monets “Bateaux Sur le Galet“ (Boats on the Strand), painted in 1004. Here too the work is unusual. The thrust of the Brush strokes that define the boats and the close-up view of hulls that seem to burst out of the space in which they are lodged create an Expressionist effect. At $4.46
47、 million, the rare masterpiece was worth every peony of it. With remarkable consistency, Whitney sought and found similar characteristics in the work of artists that seemed least likely to display them. Odilon Redons admirable still life of flowers in a vase seems compressed in a space too small to
48、contain it. Painted in oil rather than drawn in pastel, the still life has a brilliance in its color harmony that is quite unusual. Curiously, “Fleurs Dans un Vase Vert“ cost a comparatively moderate $1.68 million. It was not obvious enough in the context of that evenings sale. The collectors versat
49、ility where style, school and period were concerned was exceptional. He apparently bought with equal relish some paintings as extraordinarily advanced for their time as others seem rooted in timeless classicism. “Nature Morte au Purro II“ was painted by Matisse around 1904-1905 in the contrasted colors of the Fanves, quickly applied in juxtaposed touches. These
