1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 347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 Tips on Having More Fruit to Keeping You Healthy I. A few steps you need to help have more fruit: 1) Havi
3、ng fruit around is the【 1】 . 【 1】 _ 2) Try keeping small amount out on【 2】 to remind yourself to reach for it at snack time. 【 2】 _ 3) Try putting【 3】 on the table at the same time as the rest of the meal. 【 3】 _ 4) Try using fruit in salads more often. II. Eating plenty of fruit is better than skip
4、ping the produce【 4】 【 4】 _ 1) Many of the nutrients in【 5】 to be found in fruit. 【 5】 _ 2) To get a【 6】 of these nutrients. 【 6】 _ 3) Not to completely【 7】 a lack of vegetables. 【 7】 _ III. The main factors that help people live longer: According to Dr David Demko, 4 other factors are equally impor
5、tant:【 8】 , diet,【 8】_ exercise and an alert mind. . The ways to be healthy and wealthy. 1) To give up some【 9】 hobbies and ways of life. 【 9】 _ 2) To keep on observing right【 10】 of diets, eating more fruit and veggies. 【 10】_ 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10 【 10】
6、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 the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now lis
7、ten to the interview. 11 Pauline failed to catch the flight because _. （ A） her ticket was not confirmed （ B） she booked her ticket at the wrong place （ C） she didnt have the right documents （ D） her visa had run out 12 Which of the following did NOT occur? （ A） Pauline visited one of Londons parks.
8、 （ B） Pauline went to the airport by taxi. （ C） Pauline contacted the airline by telephone. （ D） Pauline stayed the night in London. 13 In Ibiza, Pauline took a taxi because _. （ A） she had too much luggage （ B） nobody came to pick her up （ C） the plane was delayed （ D） her friends home was far away
9、 14 Pauline learned her friends address in _. （ A） Newcastle （ B） Gatwick （ C） London （ D） Luton 15 From the conversation we get the impression that _. （ A） some official agencies in London are efficient （ B） taxi drivers abroad always overcharge strangers （ C） customs formalities in Britain are fle
10、xible （ D） travel agents tend to misinform people 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 questions. 16 Around how man
11、y tons of hazardous waste does the world produce each year? （ A） 150 million. （ B） 1.50 million. （ C） 15 million. （ D） 50 million. 17 Now the U.S. economy growth rate is_. （ A） higher than 1995 to 2000 （ B） lower than 1973 to 1995 （ C） as good as 1995 to 2000 （ D） the same as 1993 to 1995 18 Dale Jo
12、rgenson points out that the 2.78 grow rate will be continued in the next_. （ A） 2 years （ B） 10 years （ C） 20 years （ D） 5 years 19 A family business can be anything but _. （ A） selling candy bars （ B） hotel chains （ C） pass down from generations （ D） run by the state 20 How do the fireflies control
13、 the blinking? （ A） By their nerve cells. （ B） They blink automatically. （ C） By seeing the mates. （ D） By the gas nitric oxide. 20 Dr Corell heads a team of some 300 scientists who have spent the past four years investigating the matter in a process known as the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (AC
14、IA). The group, drawn from the eight countries with territories inside the Arctic Circle, has just issued a report called “Impacts of a Warming Arctic“, a lengthy summary of the principal scientific findings. Scientists have long suspected that several factors lead to greater temperature swings at t
15、he poles than elsewhere on the planet. One is albedo (反照率 )-the posh scientific name for how much sunlight is reflected by a planets surface, and how much is reflected. Most of the polar regions are covered in snow and ice, which are much more reflective than soil or ocean. If that snow melts, the e
16、xposure of dark earth (which absorbs heat) acts as a feedback loop that accelerates warming. A second factor that makes the poles special is that the atmosphere is thinner there than at the equator, and so less energy is required to warm it up. A third factor is that less solar energy is lost in eva
17、poration at the frigid poles than in the steamy tropics. Arctic warming may influence the global climate in several ways. One is that huge amounts of methane, a particularly potent greenhouse gas, are stored in the permafrost of the tundra. Although a thaw would allow forests to invade the tundra, w
18、hich would tend to ameliorate any global warming that is going on (since trees capture carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas most talked about in the context of climate change), a melting of the permafrost might also lead to a lot of trapped methane being released into the atmosphere, more than offsett
19、ing the cooling effects of the new forests. Another worry is that Arctic warming will influence ocean circulation in ways that are not fully understood. One link in the chain is the salinity of sea water, which is decreasing in the north Atlantic thanks to an increase in glacial meltwaters. Because
20、fresh water and salt water have different densities, this “freshening“ of the ocean could change circulation patterns. The most celebrated risk is to the mid-Atlantic Conveyor Belt, a current which brings warm water from the tropics to north-western Europe, and which is responsible for that regions
21、unusually mild winters. Some of the ACIAs experts are fretting over evidence of reduced density and salinity in waters near the Arctic that could adversely affect this current. The biggest popular worry, though, is that melting Arctic ice could lead to a dramatic rise in sea level. Here, a few cavea
22、ts are needed. For a start, much of the ice in the Arctic is floating in the sea already. Archimedess principle shows that the melting of this ice will make no immediate difference to the seas level, although it would change its albedo. Second, if land ice, such as that covering Greenland, does melt
23、 in large quantities, the process will take centuries. And third, although the experts are indeed worried that global warming might cause the oceans to rise, the main way they believe this will happen is by thermal expansion of the water itself. Nevertheless, there is some cause for nervousness. As
24、the ACIA researchers document, there are signs that the massive Greenland ice sheet might be melting more rapidly than was thought a few years ago. Cracks in the sheet appear to be allowing melt water to trickle to its base, explains Michael Oppenheimer, a climatologist at Princeton University who w
25、as not one of the reports authors. That water may act as a lubricant, speeding up the sheets movement into the sea. If the entire sheet melted, the sea might rise by 6-7 metres. While acknowledging that disintegration this century is still an unlikely outcome, Dr Oppenheimer argues that the evidence
26、 of the past few years suggests it is more likely to happen over the next few centuries if the world does not reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. He worries that an accelerating Arctic warming trend may yet push the ice melt beyond an “irreversible on/off switch“. Not everybody wants to hear a sto
27、ry like that. But what people truly believe is happening can be seen in their actions better than in their words. One of the reports most confident predictions is that the break-up of Arctic ice will open the region to long-distance shipping and, ironically, to drilling for oil and gas. It is surely
28、 no coincidence, then, that the Danish government, which controls Greenland, has just declared its intention to claim the mineral rights under the North Pole. It, at least, clearly believes that the Arctic ocean may soon be ice-free. 21 Which of the following factors may lead to greater temperature
29、changes at the poles than elsewhere on the planet? （ A） The albedo of the poles will be larger if snow melts. （ B） the albedo of snow is larger than that of the exposed dark earth if snow melts. （ C） More energy is needed to warm up the Arctic since the atmosphere there is thinner. （ D） Less solar e
30、nergy is lost in volatilization at the poles than at the equator. 22 Which of the following statements about the mid-Atlantic Conveyor Belt is wrong? （ A） The current brings warm water from the tropics to north-western Europe. （ B） It is responsible for the mild winters in the Arctic. （ C） It is cau
31、sed by the freshening of the ocean: the water in the north Atlantic will lose saltiness because of the different densities. （ D） If the ACIAs experts worry becomes true, climate of the north-western Europe will be influenced. 23 What does the word “caveat“ in line 2, paragraph 5 most probably mean?
32、（ A） A warning. （ B） A qualification. （ C） A explanation. （ D） A formal notice filed by an interested party with a court or officer, requesting the postponement of a proceeding until the filer is heard. 24 What does the author imply in the last paragraph by the sentence “But what people truly believ
33、e is happening can be seen in their actions better than in their words“? （ A） Not everybody wants to hear a story like that. （ B） One of the reports most confident predictions is that the break-up of Arctic ice will open the region to long-distance shipping and, ironically, to drilling for oil and g
34、as. （ C） The Danish government, which controls Greenland, has just declared its intention to claim the mineral rights under the North Pole. （ D） None of the above. 25 The passage can best be found in _. （ A） an encyclopedia （ B） science fiction （ C） a magazine （ D） a dissertation 25 The romantic arc
35、hetype of the poor, isolated writer living abroad was perhaps best immortalized by Ernest Hemingway in “A Moveable Feast,“ his memoir of life in Paris as a young writer in the 1920s. Yet little remains of the kind of life he described, while electronic communications, cheap travel and modern economi
36、cs have virtually wiped out much of the expatriate writer ethos. Paradoxically, those same developments have made life more practical for the many writers who still seek distant shores to escape the conventions and restrictions of their home countries. Nevertheless, its not quite what it used to be,
37、 as a few expatriate writers attest. Just this week, Norman Spinrad, an American science fiction writer who has lived in Paris for 15 years, suddenly had to repatriate to New York after his landlord decided to sell his Latin Quarter apartment. Tm being squeezed out of France,“ said Spinrad. “Because
38、 Im a writer I dont have a regular job. So in order to get an apartment they demand a years deposit to be tied up 20 grand or so and I am not rich enough to be able to lose 20 grand and then be able to continue to pay the rent. “Even if youve got the money, theyd rather rent it to somebody with a sa
39、lary,“ added Spinrad, 63. “The paradox is that the French encourage creative artists on every other level, and Ive been treated very well.“ Spinrad first came to France to write a novel set in Paris, but ended up staying because he liked the lifestyle. He said he intends to return if he can. Jerome
40、Charyn, another American writer from New York who lives in Paris, says he loves the “softness“ of European culture. “I feel theres a kind of brutality in America,“ he said. “Its part of its virtues because as a creator you probably need that brutality. But as someone whos just sort of bouncing aroun
41、d day-to-day, you dont need it.“ Like many of todays nomadic writers, Charyn maintains a home in his native country to fuel his fiction. “I feel like Jekyll and Hyde, Im constantly split,“ he says. He teaches film at the American University of Paris and said that having a regular job helps the write
42、r abroad in more ways than fighting bureaucracy. “It sort of puts you into the system, makes it easier for you to exist within the culture,“ he said. “Youre no longer that isolated because youre seeing students, youre seeing other faculty members, you have a very different kind of context.“ Writers
43、abroad say they do not feel cut off from what is happening in the United States. “I feel I know more about whats going on in the States being here than being there,“ Spinrad said, “because the news there is just pitiful and pressured by the government, if not controlled.“ Cable television in France,
44、 he said, gives him both American news programs and international stations. Indeed, Herbert Lottman, a publishing business expert, long-time Paris resident and the author of books about Man Ray and Albert Camus, said that technology has made it almost impossible for writers to isolate themselves. “T
45、he world has changed and the medium has changed so there is no longer an expatriate hidden in a hole in a garret in Paris,“ he said. “Everything he thinks and says is e-mailed immediately to everybody he knows in the United States.“ If Paris is inadvertently discouraging impoverished writers, Irelan
46、d encourages them by exempting writers from income taxes. Anne McCaffrey, a fantasy and science fiction writer, has lived in Ireland for more than 30 years, although she said she moved there partly to get away from an increasingly violent America when her children were young. She said that Ireland w
47、as also conducive to writers because “the Irish leave you to get on with your own business“. 26 Norman Spinrad ended up repatriating to New York because _. （ A） he couldnt afford the high rent in Paris （ B） he wasnt sure if he could afford the rent if he has to put 20,000 dollars in a bank （ C） he h
48、ad been treated very well in France （ D） he liked the lifestyle in Paris 27 Charyn says “I feel like Jekyll and Hyde, Im constantly split,“ (in paragraph 4) because _, （ A） he cannot bear the brutality in the United States （ B） he has to experience two different cultures: the “softness“ of European
49、culture and the “brutality“ in America （ C） he has to work regularly in France in order to survive （ D） he finds that he is no longer isolated 28 Spinrad said “I feel I know more about whats going on in the States being here than being there,“ (in paragraph 5) because _. （ A） the news in France is just pitiful and pressured by the government, if not cont
