1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 354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 Three Main Literary Forms . Poetry Essential features: form and music evoking【 1】 【 1】 _ creating a(n)【 2
3、】 【 2】 _ imagination leading to new【 3】 , new feelings and experience【 3】 _ . Fiction A. Short story definition: a relatively brief【 4】 【 4】 _ subject matter: single incidents in daily life essential features:【 5】 , unity and 【 5】 _ 【 6】 【 6】 _ B. Novel One important technique:【 7】 【 7】 _ Three meth
4、ods: explicit presentation through【 8】 【 8】 _ presentation of character in【 9】 【 9】 _ presentation from within a character . Drama Origin: ancient Greek festival activities Structures of a play exposition rising action 【 10】 【 10】 _ falling action ending New styles and forms 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【
5、 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 the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answ
6、er each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 According to Nick, what is the most dangerous notion in the world? （ A） Predominance. （ B） Local characteristics and customs. （ C） Individual identity. （ D） Potential dividing forces. 12 Which description is not true about Nick
7、 Ularu? （ A） He has Romanian origin. （ B） He is a teacher and a set designer in the same time. （ C） He had a cultural resonance when he first came to the USA. （ D） He couldnt understand why Americans invest so much on entertainment industry but not on art. 13 What is Nicks opinions about teaching? （
8、 A） He thinks that teaching doesnt help the artistic side. （ B） He believes that teaching keeps him energetic. （ C） Teaching shouldnt be totally isolated from politics. （ D） Teaching frustrates him so many times. 14 What is Nicks philosophy of teaching? （ A） The students must be the followers of the
9、ir teacher. （ B） He should work hard to make students believe in their own abilities. （ C） Pleasing students is the most necessary factor. （ D） Teacher should have a decisive effect on the personalities of students. 15 Which one is Nicks idea about the leader? （ A） Everyone has the access to leaders
10、hip. （ B） Leaders create the worst work situation. （ C） Books can help to improve people ability and make someone a leader. （ D） The real leaders are born. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that fol
11、low. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 How much is Guangdong Province going to invest to enlarge its drug abuse treatment center? （ A） 13 million US dollars. （ B） 12 million US dollars. （ C） 11 million US dollars. （ D） 10 million US dollars. 17 Wh
12、o became Sir Edward? （ A） Edward Heath. （ B） John Thatcher. （ C） Edward Johnson. （ D） John Smith. 18 How were an Italian soldier killed and two others injured? （ A） The injuries took place when their military jeep crashed Thursday near Nasiriyah. （ B） The injuries took place when their military jeep
13、 exploded Thursday near Nasiriyah. （ C） The injuries took place when their military jeep was attacked Thursday near Nasiriyah. （ D） The injuries took place when their military jeep turned upside down Thursday near Nasiriyah. 19 Which institute has brought its first charges against Saddam Hussein? （
14、A） The Iraqi government. （ B） The Iraqi state council. （ C） The Iraqi Special Tribunal. （ D） The U.S. military court. 20 In which year was Saddams convoy attacked when he travelled through the town of Dujayl? （ A） 1980. （ B） 1983. （ C） 1984. （ D） 1982. 20 Think all of Kansas is flat? Think again. Th
15、e Flint Hills, in the eastern part of the state, fan out over 183 miles from north to south, stretching 30 to 40 miles wide in parts, the land folding into itself, then popping up in gentle bumps, with mounds looming far off on the horizon. Seemingly endless, the landscape offers up isolated images-
16、a wind-whipped cottonwood tree, a rusted cattle pen, a spindly windmill, an abandoned limestone schoolhouse, the metal-gated entrance to a hilltop cemetery. Proud of the regions beauty, Kansas has seen to it that 48 miles of its Highway 177, leading through the heart of the hills, are designed the F
17、lint Hills National Scenic Byway. This stretch starts about 50 miles northeast of Wichita and leads north to the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, one of the few place left in the United States where a visitor can see the grasses that once covered so much of the American heartland. While up to a
18、million head of cattle graze each summer in the Flint Hills rolling pastures, theyre long gone from Wichita, a metropolitan area of half a million people, at the confluence of two narrow curving rivers. But when a strong dusty wind blows through, its a reminder of the citys roots as a wild cow town.
19、 The Flint Hills Scenic Byway winds through almost treeless rolling land where bison once roamed; they have been replaced by prairie chicken, great blue herons, coyote, deer, collared lizards, bobcats and, of course, cattle. The route starts in the tiny ranch town of Cassoday (population 130), where
20、 the dirt Main Street has a few weathered 19th-century wooden buildings housing an antiques store and a car popular with cowboys, truck drivers and bikers. It then goes through a handful of small towns and past the tallgrass prairie preserve to Council Grove, a former staging area on the Santa Fe Tr
21、ain. But what this ribbon of a highway offers most is wide-open space. For dramatic effect, visit at sunset when the sky is awash in reds, purples and blues. Of late, tourist amenities have been beefed up in Flint Hills, especially in Chase County, made famous by William Least Heat-Moons 1991 book “
22、PrairyEarth.“ In Cottonwood Falls, with about 1,000 residents, the two-block shopping district is dominated by the grand Chase County Courthouse, the oldest country courthouse (1873) still in use in Kansas. Made of native honey-hued limestone with a red mansard roof, it resembles a small chateau. In
23、 small shops along Broadway Street, a bumpy road paved in red brick, you can find Western gear at Jim Bell that remark has long ago lost its bloom. The town of Tours, however, has something sweet and bright, which suggests that it is surrounded by a land of fruits. It is a very agreeable little city
24、; few towns of its size are more ripe, more complete, or, I should suppose, in better humor with themselves and less disposed to envy the responsibilities of bigger places. It is truly the capital of its smiling province; a region of easy abundance, of good living, of genial, comfortable, optimistic
25、, rather indolent opinions. Balzac says in one of his tales that the real Tourangeau will not make an effort, or displace himself even, to go in search of a pleasure; and it is not difficult to understand the sources of this amiable cynicism. He must have a vague conviction that he can only lose by
26、almost any change. Fortune has been kind to him: he lives in a temperate, reasonable, sociable climate, on the banks, of a river which, it is true, sometimes floods the country around it, but of which the ravages appear to be so easily repaired that its aggressions may perhaps be regarded (in a regi
27、on where so many good things are certain) merely as an occasion for healthy suspense. He is surrounded by fine old traditions, religious, social, architectural, culinary; and he may have the satisfaction of feeling that he is French to the core. No part of his admirable country is more characteristi
28、cally national. Normandy is Normandy, Burgundy is Burgundy, Provence is Provence; but Touraine is essentially France. It is the land of Rabelais, of Descartes, of Balzac, of good books and good company, as well as good dinners and good houses. George Sand has somewhere a charming passage about the m
29、ildness, the convenient quality, of the physical conditions of central France, “son climat souple et chaud, ses pluies abondantes et courtes.“ In the autumn of 1882 the rains perhaps were less short than abundant; but when the days were fine it was impossible that anything in the way of weather coul
30、d be more channing. The vineyards and orchards looked rich in the fresh, gay light; cultivation was everywhere, but everywhere it seemed to be easy. There was no visible poverty; thrift and success presented themselves as matters of good taste. The white caps of the women glittered in the sunshire,
31、and their well-made sabots clicked cheerfully on the hard, clean roads. Touraine is a land of old chateaux, a gallery of architectural specimens and of large hereditary properties. The peasantry have less of the luxury of ownership than in most other parts of France; though they have enough of it to
32、 give them quite their share of that shrewdly conservative look which, in the little, chaffering, place of the market-town, the stranger observes so often in the wrinkled brown masks that surmount the agricultural blouse. This is, moreover, the heart of the old French monarchy; and as that monarchy
33、was splendid and picturesque, a reflection of the splendor still glitters in the current of the Loire. Some of the most striking events of French history have occurred on the banks of that river, and the soil it waters bloomed for a while with the flowering of the Renaissance. The Loire gives a grea
34、t “style“ to a landscape of which the features are not, as the phrase is, prominent, and carries the eye to distances even more poetic than the green horizons of Touraine. It is a very fitful stream, and is sometimes observed to run thin and expose all the crudities of its channel, a great defect ce
35、rtainly in a river which is so much depended upon to give an air to the places it waters. But I speak of it as I saw it last full, tranquil, powerful, bending in large slow curves, and sending back half the light of the sky. Nothing can be finer than the view of its course which you get from the bat
36、tlements and terraces of Amboise. As I looked down on it from that elevation one lovely Sunday morning, through a mild glitter of autumn sunshine, it seemed the very model of a generous, beneficent stream. The most channing part of Tours is naturally the shaded quay that overlooks it, and looks acro
37、ss too at the friendly faubourg of Saint Symphorien and at the terraced heights which rise above this. Indeed, throughout Touraine, it is half the charm of the Loire that you can travel beside it. The great dike which protects it, or, protects the country from it, from Blois to Angers, is an admirab
38、le road; and on the other side, as well, the highway constantly keeps it company. A wide river, as you follow a wide road, is excellent company; it heightens and shortens the way. 26 From this essay, we can see all of the following EXCEPT that _. （ A） Touraine is an area frequently devastated by flo
39、ods （ B） Touraine is surrounded by a land of fruits （ C） the peasantry here are worse off than in most other parts of France （ D） the peasantry here are more conservative 27 Touraine features all of the following except _. （ A） the shaded quay （ B） the Loire （ C） the great dike （ D） French history.
40、28 As the author sees it, _. （ A） the Loire is a wide river which follows a wide road （ B） that you can travel beside the Loire reduces the charm of it （ C） people here hate to see the Loire exposing all the crudities of its channel （ D） the Loire is always full, tranquil, and powerful 29 Which of t
41、he following word is not proper for Touraine? （ A） Prominent. （ B） Green. （ C） Amiable. （ D） Taste. 30 “In the autumn of 1882 the rains perhaps were less short than abundant; but when the days were fine it was impossible that anything in the way of weather could be more charming.“ This tells us that
42、 _. （ A） the rainfall of that autumn was scarce （ B） weather during that period was utterly terrible （ C） although the rains were a little more than enough, weather sometimes was the finest （ D） the abundant rains flooded the region with terrible weather accompanying 30 This spring, disaster loomed
43、in the global food market. Precipitous increases in the prices of staples like rice (up more than a hundred and fifty percent in a few months) and maize provoked food riots, toppled governments, and threatened the lives of tens of millions. But the bursting of the commodity bubble eased those pressu
44、res, and food prices, while still high, have come well off the astronomical levels they hit in April. For American, the drop in commodity prices has put a few more bucks in peoples pockets; in much of the developing world, it may have saved many from actually starving. So did the global financial cr
45、isis solve the global food crisis? Temporarily, perhaps. But the recent price drop doesnt provide any long-term respite from the threat food shortages or future price spikes. Nor has it reassured anyone about the health of the global agricultural system, which the crisis revealed as dangerously unst
46、able. Four decades after the Green Revolution, and after waves of market reforms intended to transform agricultural production, were still having a hard time insuring that people simply get enough to eat, and we seen to be vulnerable to supply shocks than ever. It wasnt supposed to be this way. Over
47、 the past two decades, countries around the world have moved away from their focus on “food security“ and handed market forces a greater rote in shaping agricultural policy. Before the nineteen-eighties, developing countries had so-called “agricultural marketing boards“, which would buy commodities
48、from farmers at fixed prices (prices high enough to keep farmers farming), and then store them in strategic reserves that could be used in the event of bad harvests or soaring import prices. But in the eighties and nineties, often as part of structural-adjustment programs imposed by the I.M.F. or th
49、e World Blank, many marketing boards were eliminated or cut back, and grain reserves, deemed inefficient and unnecessary, were sold off. In the same way, structural-adjustment programs often did away with government investment in and subsidies to agriculture-more notably, subsidies for things like fertilizers and high-yield seeds The logic behind these reforms was simple: the market would allocate resources mo
