1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 330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 Online Shopping Increasingly popular with adults and young people, online shopping gives you 【 1】 _to var
3、ious products and services. It can save your time, money and help 【 1】 _ you research product details and【 2】 _prices and features directly online. But 【 2】 _ shoppers often encounter some common problems of shopping online: 1. Careful search: it is hard to choose a supplier from so many websites an
4、d 【 3】 _, you have to search carefully using brand names or the names of types of 【 3】 _ products. Listen to others advice and recommendations about good sites. Remember to check proper【 4】 _such as postal address and phone number in order to get in 【 4】 _ touch if you have questions about the servi
5、ce. 2.【 5】 _issue; vital to consumers. If you take some simple 【 5】 _ 【 6】 _you can enjoy shopping online with a high degree of security. For instance, 【 6】 _ do not send your credit card details in an【 7】 _, which can be copied easily to 【 7】 _ others. 3. Due consideration: be cautions if the onlin
6、e advertisement or junk email offer sounds【 8】 _. Remember the hidden extra, which can push up the price of your 【 8】 _ online purchase. Postage and packing costs, and Customs charges for goods from overseas can add greatly to the【 9】 _. 【 9】 _ If you do have problems with an online purchase, contac
7、t your local Trading Standards office or involve the【 10】 _too when a fraud has taken place. 【 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 questi
8、ons 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 Which of the following statements is INCORRECT about Miss Chan? （ A） She is older than most undergradu
9、ate students. （ B） She majors in French and minors in Marketing. （ C） She has work experience before entering the university. （ D） She succeeds in shortening the academic years. 12 Which of the following is TRUE about Miss Chans language skills? （ A） She develops virtually native level of Mandarin,
10、（ B） Her French is obviously better than English. （ C） She speak French on many occasions. （ D） Her languages are useless at critical moments. 13 According to Miss. Chan, a Marketing Officer Trainee should do all the following EXCEPT （ A） be supervised by a Marketing Office at first. （ B） assume man
11、y duties shortly after employed. （ C） keep records and carry out plans. （ D） show more initiative as time goes by. 14 As implied by the interviewer, the remarks by Miss Charts referee possibly mean that （ A） Miss Chart was once dismissed by the employer. （ B） Miss Chart was not on good terms with he
12、r co-workers. （ C） Miss Chan once quitted after giving a specific reason. （ D） Miss Chan had a fierce quarrel with one of her employers. 15 Which of the following is NOT the prospect for the position? （ A） Receiving a competitive paycheck. （ B） Chance to develop a specialism. （ C） Privilege to skip
13、the probationary period. （ D） Six months further training after probation. 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 que
14、stions. 16 Which of the following is not the reason for the English couples divorce? （ A） Mrs. Turner moved the furniture for 38 years. （ B） Mr. Turner could not bear her. （ C） Mr. Turner had committed adultery since January. （ D） Mrs. Turner refused to stop the moving of furniture. 17 Why did the c
15、ouple moved from the matrimonial home into a caravan with some of the furniture fixed to the floor? （ A） They hoped it could cure Mrs. Turner s illness. （ B） They were tired of old environment. （ C） They hoped the obsession would stop. （ D） They wanted to lead a new life. 18 Haier Group bid for Mayt
16、ag is_. （ A） $1.75 billion （ B） $18.5 billion （ C） $16.4 billion （ D） $1.3 billion 19 Which statement is not true according to the news? （ A） This is the biggest takeover battle for China. （ B） Chinas bid will probably trigger a costly biding competition over the company Unacal. （ C） The US is plann
17、ing forbidding Chinese company s bids for US company. （ D） Unocal has agreed to be sold to another American oil company. 20 Why has the rate of new phone purchases slowed in Europe? （ A） Because of the warning about sales. （ B） Because the customers are reluctant to trade up to new handsets. （ C） Be
18、cause of cutting into demand for handsets. （ D） Because of the US slowdown. 20 Margaret Spellings, the secretary of education, announced a pilot reform to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), George Bushs education law, which was passed in 2002 Up to ten states, she said, would be allowed to target
19、their resources at the most severely struggling schools, rather than at the vast number needing improvement. The change drew a predictable mix of praise and censure. Above all, though, it was a reminder of utter inaction elsewhere. Congress, which was supposed to re-authorize the law last year, has
20、made little progress. On the campaign trail, concerns over Iraq and the economy have made education a minor issue. Contrary to appearances, the laws main tenets are unlikely to be abandoned completely. But for the Democratic candidates in particular, a proper debate on NCLB is to be avoided like pol
21、itical quicksand. Most politicians agree that the law has the right goalsto raise educational standards and hold schools accountable for meeting them. NCLB requires states to test pupils on math and reading from third to eighth grade (that is, from the ages of eight to 13), and once in high school.
22、Some science testing is being added. Schools that do not make “adequate yearly progress“ towards meeting state standards face sanctions. Pupils in failing schools can supposedly transfer to a better one or get tutoring. Most also agree that NCLB has big flaws that must be fixed. Few pupils in bad sc
23、hools actually transferless than 1% of those eligible did so in the 200304 school year. Teachers unions say the tests are focused too narrowly on math and reading, fail to measure progress over time and encourage “teaching to the test“. They also complain that the law lacks proper funding. The Thoma
24、s B. Fordham Foundation, a conservative policy group, has exposed wide gaps in state standards. Test-data reflect this. In Mississippi 90% of fourth-graders were labeled “proficient“ or better in the state reading test in 2006-07. Only 19% reached that level in a national test. John McCain, the Repu
25、blican presidential nominee, offers NCLB tepid support but fails to elaborate. At Democratic rallies, NCLB is little more than a whipping-boy. Hillary Clinton proclaims that she will “end the unfunded mandate known as No Child Left Behind“. But though she and Barack Obama deride NCLB publicly, each
26、endorses the idea of accountability. They favor using more sophisticated “assessments“ in place of tests, want to value a broader range of skills, punish schools less and support them more. How these ideas would be implemented remains unclear. Not surprisingly, more controversial proposals can be fo
27、und among those not running for president. Chester Finn of Fordham thinks the federal government needs greater power to set standards, while states should have more leeway in meeting them. A bipartisan commission on NCLB has issued a slew of proposals. Particularly contentious is a plan to use pupil
28、s test scores to help identify ineffective teachers as in need of retraining. Of course, standards alone do not improve education. Both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama propose a host of new programs for schools, described on their websites if rarely on campaign. But accountability is likely to remain a b
29、ig part of school reform. Last April a group of philanthropists announced a $60m effort to make education the top domestic issue of 2008. So far, it looks like money spent. 21 According to the passage, NCLB mainly aimed to （ A） provide tests for pupils on maths and reading from third to eighth grade
30、. （ B） add some science testing in schools for pupils aged from 8 to 13. （ C） enhance teaching standards which schools should be responsible for meeting. （ D） transfer pupils in falling schools to a better one or get them some tutoring. 22 The word “sanctions“ in the third paragraph means （ A） appro
31、val. （ B） punishment. （ C） support. （ D） decree. 23 Which of the following is NOT a weakness of NCLB? （ A） The law has been properly funded. （ B） Only a few pupils in bed schools transfer. （ C） The tests are focused on nothing but maths and reading. （ D） The tests actually encourage “teaching to the
32、 test“. 24 From the descripton in the passage, we learn that （ A） controversial proposals can be found only among the presidential nominees. （ B） using pupils test scores to identify ineffective teachers has been widely accepted. （ C） both Democratic presidential nominees support the idea of account
33、ability. （ D） neither the Republican nor the Democratic presidential nominees favor NCLB 24 When catastrophic floods hit Bangladesh, TNTs emergency-response team was ready. The logistics giant, with headquarters in Amsterdam, has 50 people on standby to intervene anywhere in the world at 48 hours no
34、tice. This is part of a five-year-old partnership with the World Food Program (WFP), the UNs agency that fights hunger. The team has attended to some two dozen emergencies, including the Asian tsunami in 2004. “Were just faster,“ says Ludo Oelrich, the director of TNTs “Moving the World“ program. Em
35、ergency help is not TNTs only offering. Volunteers do stints around the world on sec-ondment to WFP and staff are encouraged to raise money for the program (they generated enro2.5m last year). There is knowledge transfer, too: TNT recently improved the school-food supply chain in Liberia, increasing
36、 WFPs efficiency by 15-20%, and plans to do the same in Congo. Why does TNT do these things? “People feel this is a company that does more than take care of the bottom line,“ says Mr. Oelrich. “Its providing a soul to TNT.“ In a 2006 staff survey, 68% said the pro-bono activities made them prouder t
37、o work at the company. It also helps with recruitment: three out of four graduates who apply for jobs mention the WFP connection. Last year the company came top in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. TNTs experience illustrates several trends in corporate philanthropy. First, collaboration is in, es
38、pecially with NC, Os. Companies try to pick partners with some relevance to their business. For.TNT, the food program is a good fit because hunger is in part a logistical problem. Standard Chartered, a bank, is working with the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee on microfinance and with other NG
39、Os on a campaign to help 10m blind people. Coca-Cola has identified water conservation as critical to its future as the worlds largest drinks company. Last June it announced an ambitious collaboration with WWF, a global environmental organization, to conserve seven major freshwater fiver basins. It
40、is also working with Greenpeace to eliminate carbon emissions from coolers and vending machines. The co-operation is strictly non-financial, but marks a change in outlook. “Ten years ago you couldnt get CocaCola and Greenpeace in the same room,“ says Neville Isdell, its CEO. Second, what used to be
41、local community work is increasingly becoming global community work. In the mid-1990s nearly all IBMs philanthropic spending was in America; now 60% is outside. Part of this involves a corporate version of the peace corps: young staff get one-month assignments in the developing world to work on wort
42、hy projects. The idea is not only to make a difference on the ground, but also to develop managers who understand how the wider world works. Third, once a formal program is in place, it becomes hard to stop. Indeed, it tends to grow, not least because employees are keen. In 1996 KPMG allowed its sta
43、ff in Britain to spend two hours a month of their paid-for time on work for the community. Crucially for an accountancy firm, the work was given a time code. After a while it came to be seen as a business benefit. The program has expanded to half a day a month and now adds up to 40,000 donated hours
44、 a year. And increasingly it is not only inputs that are being measured but outputs as well. S, a software firm, tries to measure the impact of its volunteer programs, which involved 85% of its employees last year. All this has meant that straightforward cash donations have become less important. At
45、 IBM, in 1993 cash accounted for as much as 95% of total philanthropic giving; now it makes up only about 35%. But cash still matters. When Hank Paulson, now Americas treasury secretary, was boss of Goldman Sachs, he was persuaded to raise the amount that the firm chipped in to boost employees chari
46、table donations. Now it is starting a philanthropy fund aiming for $1 billion to which the partners will be encouraged to contribute a share of their pay. No doubt that is good for the banks soul. 25 According to the passage, TNT offers all of the following EXCEPT （ A） emergency help in the floods i
47、n Bangladesh. （ B） emergency help in the Asian tsunami in 2004. （ C） volunteer work for World Food Program. （ D） conservation of seven major freshwater river basins. 26 From the third paragraph, we get the impression that TNTs pro-bono activities （ A） take care of the bottom line. （ B） help improve
48、corporate image. （ C） are mentioned by all job applicants. （ D） are the main concern of the company. 27 Which of the following is NOT an NGO)? （ A） The Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee. （ B） WWF. （ C） Goldman Sachs. （ D） Greenpeace. 28 An the followings describe the trends in corporate philant
49、hropy EXCEPT （ A） collaborations with NGOs. （ B） globalized community work. （ C） growth trend of formal programs. （ D） increase of both input and output 29 This passage is mainly about （ A） corporate culture. （ B） corporate philanthropy. （ C） corporate financing. （ D） corporate image. 29 Vibrations in the ground are a poorly understood but probably widespread means of communication between animals. It seems unlikely that the
