1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 364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 How to Conquer Public Speaking Fear . Public speaking is a common【 1】 of stress for everyone. . some of t
3、he causes: 1. public speaking is inherently stressful 2. trying to cover【 2】 points 3. having the【 3】 in mind 4. Failing to be【 4】 etc. Ways to deal with Speaking stress: Principle 1 Speaking in Public is NOT Inherently【 5】 Principle 2 You Dont have to be【 6】 to Succeed Principle 3 All You Need is【
4、7】 Main Points Principle 4 the right Purpose needed is【 8】 Principle 5【 9】 and Humor Can Go a Long Way The best way to practice is【 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
5、 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 undergraduate students. （ B） She majors in Fren
6、ch 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. （ B） Her French is obviously better t
7、han 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 many duties shortly after employed. （ C）
8、 keep records and carry out plans. （ D） show more initiative as time goes by. 14 As implied by the interviewer, the remarks by Miss Chans referee possibly mean that （ A） Miss Chan was once dismissed by the employer. （ B） Miss Chan was not on good terms with her co-workers. （ C） Miss Chan once quitte
9、d 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 the probationary period, （ D） Six months
10、 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 questions. 16 The executive director of Tra
11、nsparency International Kenyan was dismissed because he_. （ A） was unable to enforce some regulations （ B） tried to gain some financial profits in the name of Transparency International （ C） failed to earn financial profits for Transparency International （ D） was unable to sign contracts with a comp
12、any 17 The accusation of Mwalimu Mati seemed to be_. （ A） ungrounded （ B） ironical （ C） awarding （ D） in expectation 18 According to Georgia and Moldova, the main reason why Russia put a ban on alcoholic drinks imported from their Countries is that_. （ A） Georgia and Moldova belong to the former Sov
13、iet Union （ B） these alcoholic drinks contain potentially fatal substances （ C） Russia has an economic motivation （ D） Georgia is in support of the Western 19 The new prison is using all of the following security methods EXCEPT_. （ A） recording the conversations between guards and prisoners （ B） hol
14、ding prisoners in separate cells （ C） storing enough guns and explosives （ D） videotaping the actions of the prisoners 20 Which of the following statements is TRUE? （ A） The new high security prison was put into use before the violence in Sao Paulo broke out. （ B） The violence in Sao Paulo was under
15、 the command of one of the gang leaders who had been released recently. （ C） The gang leaders were satisfied with the conditions in the new prisons. （ D） Guards in prisons often help the prisoners to escap 20 History buffs still wax poetic about the brutal patent battles a century ago between the Wr
16、ight brothers and Glenn Curtis, another aviation pioneer. The current smart-phone patent war does not quite have the same romance, but it could be as important. Hardly a week passes without a new case. Motorola sued Apple this month, having itself been sued by Microsoft a few days earlier. Since 200
17、6 the number of mobile-phone-related patent complaints has increased by 20% annually, according to Lex Machina, a firm that keeps a database of intellectual-property spats in America. Most suits were filed by patent owners who hail from another industry, such as Kodak (a firm from a bygone era that
18、now makes printers), or by patent trolls (firms that buy patents not in order to make products, but to sue others for allegedly infringing them). But in recent months the makers of handsets and related software themselves have become much more litigious, reports Joshua Walker, the boss of Lex Machin
19、a. This orgy for lawyers is partly a result of the explosion of the market for smart-phones. IDC, a market-research firm, expects that 270m smart phones will be sold this year: 55% more than in 2009. “It has become worthwhile to defend ones intellectual property,“ says Richard Windsor of Nomura, an
20、investment bank. Yet there is more than this going on. Smart phones are not just another type of handset, but fully-fledged computers, which come loaded with software and double as digital cameras and portable entertainment centers. They combine technologies from different industries, most of them p
21、atented. Given such complexity, sorting out who owns what requires time and a phalanx of lawyers. The convergence of different industries has also led to a culture clash. When it comes to intellectual property, mobile-phone firms have mostly operated like a club. They jointly develop new technical s
22、tandards: for example, for a new generation of wireless networks. They then license or swap the patents “essential“ to this standard under “fair and reasonable“ conditions. Not being used to such a collectivist set-up, Apple refused to pay up, which triggered the first big legal skirmish over smart-
23、phones. A year ago Nokia lobbed a lawsuit at Apple, alleging that its American rivals phone infringes on a number of its “essential patents“. A couple of months later, Apple returned the favour, alleging that Nokia had copied some phone features. Since then both sides have upped the ante by filing a
24、dditional complaints. Lending ferocity to this legal firefight is the fact that competition in the smart phone market is not merely about individual products, but entire platforms and operating systems. These are the infrastructures that allow other firms to develop applications, or “apps“, for thes
25、e devices. Should any one firm gain an important lead, it might dominate the industry for decadesjust as Microsoft has dominated the market for personal-computer (PC) software. Yet there is a difference between the smart-phone war and the earlier one over PCs. There is a new type of player: firms wi
26、th opera-source platforms. Google, for instance, which makes its money from advertisements, does not charge for Android (its operating system for smart-phones) and lets others modify the software. This makes life hard for vendors of proprietary platforms, such as Apple and Microsoft. Some expect App
27、le and Microsoft t0 sue Google. Yet this is unlikely, because the online giant will be hard to pin down. Google does not earn any money with Android, which makes it difficult to calculate any potential damage awards and patent royalties. The frenzy of smart-phone litigation could last for years. Lit
28、igation may also make smart-phones dearer. Mr. White of Bristol York estimates that device makers already have to pay royalties for 200300 patents for a typical smart-phone. Patent costs are 15,20-of its selling price, or about half of what the hardware components cost. “If 50 people each want 2% of
29、 a devices value, we have a problem,“ says Josh Lerner, a professor at Harvard Business School. Finally, there is a danger that the current intensity of litigation will become normal. Pessimists predict an everlasting patent war, much as the wider information-technology industry seems permanently em
30、broiled in antitrust action. The Wright brothers legal skirmishes were put to rest only by the outbreak of the first World war. With luck, thee smart-phone patent: battles will end more quietly. 21 The word “spats“ in the second paragraph probably means （ A） patents. （ B） disputes. （ C） licenses. （
31、D） arbitration. 22 We can infer from the passage that smart-phones （ A） will prove to be outdated and short-lived. （ B） used to be unpopular with mobile phone users. （ C） seem to have a huge market with great potential. （ D） need to be updated with more advanced technology. 23 Which of the following
32、 statements about the scrap between Apple and Nokia is TRUE? （ A） A third party will reconcile it. （ B） Apple will make a compromise. （ C） It seems to be here to stay. （ D） There will be a legal decision. 24 Microsoft may harbor a grudge against Google because （ A） the latters free platform impairs
33、the benefit of the former. （ B） the two companies compete for similar operating systems. （ C） the latter is ambitious and eager to develop new applications. （ D） the latter poses a threat to the monopoly of Windows system. 25 Which is the best title of the passage? （ A） Nasty Legal Disputes （ B） The
34、 Great Patent Battle （ C） Rub between Tech Giants （ D） Smart-phone Lawsuits 25 Bill Gates seems to relish being the skunk at the garden party. The former boss of Microsoft, now a global-health philanthropist, was invited to address a big “m-health“ conference in Washington, D. C. Some 2,400 proponen
35、ts of delivering health services over wireless telecoms, from the private and public sectors, gathered to celebrate the dozens of pilot projects under way around the world. Mr. Gates, however, warned the participants not to celebrate too soon. Just because an m-health pilot scheme appears to work in
36、 some remote locale, he insisted, dont “fool yourself“ into thinking it really works unless it can be replicated at scale. Rafael Anta of the Inter-American Development Bank was even more cautious: “We know little about impact and nothing about business models. “ Happily, evidence of m-healths usefu
37、lness is at last starting to trickle in. A study in the Lancet, a medical journal, shows that something as simple as sending text messages to remind Kenyan patients to take their HIV drugs properly improved adherence to the therapy by 12%. Weldon, an American firm, found in a recent trial that an m-
38、health scheme that relies on behavioral psychology to give diabetics advice on managing their ailment has more effect than putting them on the leading diabetes drug. Another reason to think that m-health has a promising future is the flurry of business interest in it. One push comes from the rise of
39、 cloud computing (providing data storage and processing over the internet), which Peter Newport of Microsoft argues will be “transformative“ for wireless health. UltraLinq, an American start-up, uses the cloud to offer medical imaging on the software-as-a-service model. AT a mobile phone captures an
40、d interprets the data, which can then be used for paid telemedicine consultations. Procter they held in their gloved hands thin umbrellas and hastily folded evening papers that resembled stiff, dirty rags of greenish, pinkish, or whitish color. Alvan Harvey stepped out with the rest, a smoldering ci
41、gar between his teeth. A disregarded little woman in rusty black, with both arms full of parcels, ran along in distress, bolted suddenly into a third-class compartment and the train went on. The slamming of carriage doors burst out sharp and spiteful like a fusillade; an icy draught mingled with acr
42、id fumes swept the whole length of the platform and made a tottering old man, wrapped up to his ears in a woolen comforter, stop short in the moving throng to cough violently over his stick. No one spared him a glance. Alvan Hervey passed through the ticket gate. Between the bare walls of a sordid s
43、taircase men clambered rapidly; their backs appeared alikealmost as if they had been wearing a uniform; their indifferent faces were varied but somehow suggested kinship, like the faces of a band of brothers who through prudence, dignity, disgust, or foresight would resolutely ignore each other; and
44、 their eyes, quick or slow; their eyes gazing up the dusty steps; their eyes brown, black, gray, blue, had all the same stare, concentrated and empty, satisfied and unthinking. Outside the big doorway of the street they scattered in all directions, walking away fast from one another with the hurried
45、 air of men fleeing from something compromising; from familiarity or confidences; from something suspected and concealedlike truth or pestilence. Alvin Harvey hesitated, standing alone in the doorway for a moment; then decided to walk home. He strode firmly. A misty rain settled like silvery dust on
46、 clothes, on moustaches; wetted the faces, varnished the flagstones, darkened the walls, dripped from umbrellas. And he moved on in the rain with careless serenity, with the tranquil ease of someone successful and disdainful, very sure of himselfa man with lots of money and friends. He was tall, wel
47、l set-up, good-looking and healthy; and his clear pale face had under its commonplace refinement that slight tinge of overbearing brutality which is given by the possession of only partly difficult accomplishments; by excelling in games, or in the art of making money; by the easy mastery over animal
48、s and over needy men. He was going home much earlier than usual, straight from the City and without calling at his club. He considered himself well connected, well educated and intelligent. Who doesnt? But his connections, education and intelligence were strictly on a par with those of the men with
49、whom he did business or amused himself. He had married five years ago. At the time all his acquaintances had said he was very much in love; and he had said so himself, frankly, because it is very well understood that every man falls in love once in his lifeunless his wife dies, when it may be quite praiseworthy to fall in love again. The girl was healthy, tall, fair, and in his opinion was well connected, well educated and intelligent. She was also intensely bored with her home where, as if packed in a tight box, her individual
