[外语类试卷]专业英语八级模拟试卷351及答案与解析.doc
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1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 351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 Ben Buchanan and A Magic Book The Texas teen is devouring the 672 pages of Harry Potter and the Half-Bloo
3、d Prince written by J. K. Rowling. When Buchanan got the first Harry Potter book in 1998, he was struggling with difficulty in reading. But when his morn read the first chapter aloud to him, he was determined to conquer his first “real“ book. . The success of Rowlings books: 1) over【 1】 of Rowlings
4、books printed in U.S. 【 1】 _ 2) kids reading and【 2】 each title fervently. 【 2】 _ However, whether all of this hype of countdowns and midnight trips to bookstores translates into a lifelong reading habit remains unclear. . Our society now needed a reading renaissance: 1) A study shows: adult【 3】 hav
5、e dropped 10 percentage points. 【 3】_ A. the loss of readers possibly【 4】 to the booming world 【 4】 _ of technology; B.【 5】 offer experience that cant be gained from these 【 5】 _ other sources. 2) Thr facts reflect: fewer kids are reading for【 6】 . 【 6】 _ A. This【 7】 retreat from books not taken a t
6、oll on reading ability. 【 7】_ B. this indicates a poor future in reading ability development the very reason why many educators are hoping the Harry Potter series can work some【 8】 . 【 8】 _ . The Harry Potter series has “broken the rules“: 1) the book was as exciting as a video game; 2) 59 percent o
7、f U.K. kids think the books have【 9】 their reading skills;【 9】_ 3)【 10】 say the books are the reason they read more. 【 10】 _ Part of the allure of The Harry Potter is the thrilling story, with well-developed characters and an avalanche of magical moments. 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7
8、【 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 the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the follo
9、wing five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 According to the conversation what is Dr. Gus purpose? ( A) To have a talk with exhibitor. ( B) To purchase a lab. ( C) To discuss the possibility of negotiation with the Universal Computers Ltd. ( D) To inquire more information about the scientif
10、ic apparatus. 12 They have been concerned with the following terms EXCEPT_. ( A) millions of instructions per second ( B) discount ( C) remote connection ( D) management committee 13 From the conversation we know if we buy more products from the Universal Computers Ltd., _. ( A) we can earn more mon
11、e ( B) we can benefit more ( C) they will give us more service ( D) they will move their main building to China 14 When can exhibitor expect to get an answer? ( A) Within a month or two. ( B) By Tuesday. ( C) Very soon. ( D) Immediately. 15 From the conversation we can deduce that_. ( A) they have a
12、 good beginning of trading ( B) they are eager to know each other ( C) they want to shake hands in Beijing ( D) they hate the barriers between them SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At
13、the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 According to the United Nations, nearly _ people are homeless because of the floods in Pakistan. ( A) 4,000 ( B) 140,000 ( C) 400,000 ( D) 40,000 17 Many _ are living in school buildings or in makeshift roadside shel
14、ters. ( A) teachers and students ( B) elder people ( C) women and children ( D) homeless people 18 Which of the following statements is NOT correct according to the news? ( A) The Taleban commander was killed in a U.S.-led coalition operation. ( B) Many of journalists had interviewed the one-legged
15、Taleban commander. ( C) Dadullah was the insurgencys top military leader. ( D) He was a common member of the Talebans ruling council. 19 The campaign to name _ was started in 1999 with nearly 200 nominations. ( A) 11 new wonders ( B) a new wonder ( C) 7 new wonders ( D) 17 new wonders 20 According t
16、o the news, the original list of wonders was concentrated in the Mediterranean and _. ( A) Middle East ( B) Canada ( C) Switzerland ( D) Mexico 20 A full moon was shining down on the jungle. Accompanied only by an Indian guide, the American explorer and archaeologist Edward Herbert Thompson thirteen
17、 hundred years after the Mayas had left their cities and made a break for the country farther north was riding through the New Empire that they had built for themselves, which had collapsed after the arrival of the Spaniards. He was searching for Chichen Itza, the largest, most beautiful, mightiest,
18、 and most splendid of all Mayan cities. Horses and men had been suffering intense hardships on the trail. Thompsons head sagged on his breast from fatigue, and each time his horse stumbled him all but fell out of the saddle. Suddenly his guide shouted to him. Thompson woke up with a start. He looked
19、 ahead and saw a fairland. Above the dark treetops rose a mound, high and steep, and on top of the mound was a temple, bathed in coot moonlight. In the hush of the night it towered over the treetops like the Parthenon of some Mayan acropolis. It seemed to grow in size as they approached. The Indian
20、guide dismounted, unsaddled his horse, and roiled out his blanket for the nights sleep. Thompson could not tear his fascinated gaze from the great structure. While the guide prepared iris bed, he sprang from his horse and continued on toot. Steep stairs overgrown with grass and bushes, and in part f
21、allen into ruins, led from the base of the mound up to the temple. Thompson was acquainted with this architectural form, which was piously some kind of pyramid. He was familiar, too, with the function of pyramids as known in Egypt. But this Mayan version was not a tomb, like the pyramids of Gizeh. E
22、xternally it rather brought to mind a ziggurat, but to a much greater degree than the Babylonian ziggurats it seemed to consist mostly of a stony fill providing support or the enormous stairs rising higher and higher, towards the gods of the sun and moon. Thompson climbed up the steps. He looked at
23、the ornamentation, the rich reliefs. On too, ghnost 96 feet above the jungle, he surveyed the scene, he counted one-two-three a half dozen scattered buildings, half-hidden in shadow, often revealed by nothing more than a gleam of moonlight on stone. This, then, was Chichen Itza. From its original st
24、atus as advance outpost at the beginning of the great trek to the north, it had grown into a shining metropolis, the heart of the New Empire. Again and again during the next few days Thompson climbed on to the old ruins. “I stood upon the roof of this temple one morning“, he writes, “just as the fir
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