1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 376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 for Effective Study 1. Take good notes. Suggestions: Take notes for a particular class in【 1】 ; Date
3、 each entry into your notebook; Keep the notes for different classes; Your notes should contain a complete record; Write down everything the instructor writes【 2】 ; Take your notes in some kind of outline form; Highlight important ideas or indicate vocabulary. 2. Use your textbook. Use your own init
4、iative; 【 3】 the relevant chapters before each lecture. 3. Prepare assignments. Dont leave assignments until the day before they are due; Be aware of【 4】 of the work you submit. 4. Prepare for exams. Be【 5】 ; Dont wait until the night before an exam to study; Read through【 6】 a couple of times; Prep
5、are【 7】 ; Have a good rest before an exam. 5. Some final suggestions. Receive a syllabus for each class; Never【 8】 an exam if you can help it; Never throw away a handout or a returned assignment or exam; Develop systematic【 9】 associated with your schoolwork, e. g. 1) Keep class materials together a
6、nd neat; 2) Take necessary notebooks and materials. Set aside a study area at home; Schedule【 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 o
7、f the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 According to Chitra,_characters are considered to be not well depicted. （ A） imaginary （ B） lifeless （ C） unexciting （ D） emotionless 12 Its universally agreed that good liter
8、ature （ A） contains lots of issues. （ B） arouses readers thinking. （ C） contains a central theme. （ D） arouses readers understanding. 13 When writing “Queen of Dreams“, Chitra indicates that （ A） she declined a lot of interviews. （ B） she has little idea of the protagonist. （ C） she has revised the
9、novel many times. （ D） she met the characters in real life. 14 Which of the following about students in the multicultural program is CORRECT? （ A） They come from the same culture and background. （ B） They write in their own mother languages. （ C） They bring their own cultures into their writing. （ D
10、） They have accents of their mother tongues. 15 Which of the following statements is INCORRECT? （ A） Creative writing is highly objective. （ B） People who can create unique characters are needed. （ C） Queen of Dreams is Chitras latest novel. （ D） Its not easy to be critical about our own writing. SE
11、CTION 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 Under the deal agreed with the European parliament, bonuses banker
12、s may get as low as （ A） 20 percent of bonus in cash immediately. （ B） 30 percent of bonus in shares immediately. （ C） 30 percent of bonus in hedge fund immediately. （ D） 50 percent of bonus in hedge fund immediately. 17 Where does the financial support of Electro Optic Systems laser tracking techno
13、logy come from? （ A） Australian government. （ B） Australian National University. （ C） Germany government. （ D） American institutions. 18 The laser-tracking technology is developed to （ A） blow big pieces of junk into tiny lacks. （ B） burn out any space junk it can track. （ C） warn astronauts and sat
14、ellites of potential danger. （ D） move away the junk from satellites orbits. 19 At the 18th International AIDS conference in Vienna, activists want to draw attention to the issue of （ A） male homosexual relationships. （ B） female homosexual relationships. （ C） unprotected sex between men and women.
15、（ D） pregnant women with AIDS. 20 Khan says scientific data on the effects of HIV on MSM （ A） give technical assistance to AIDS patients. （ B） take 20 years of many doctors efforts. （ C） are from his personal study. （ D） come later than they should. 20 Is there anything more boring than hearing abou
16、t someone elses dream? And is there anything more miraculous than having one of your own? The voluptuous pleasure of Haruki Murakamis enthralling fictions full of enigmatic imagery, random nonsense, and profundities that may or may not hold up in the light of day reminds me of dreaming. Like no othe
17、r author I can think of, Murakami captures the juxtapositions of the trivial and the momentous that characterize dream life, those crazy incidents that seem so vivid in the moment and so blurry and preposterous later on. His characters live ordinary lives, boiling pasta for lunch, riding the bus, an
18、d blasting Prince while working out at the gym. Then suddenly and matter-of-factly, they do something utterly nuts, like strike up a conversation with a coquettish Siamese cat. Or maybe mackerel and sardines begin to rain from the sky. In Murakamis world, these things make complete, cock-eyed sense.
19、 Like many of Murakamis heroes, Kafka Tamura in Kafka on the Shore has more rewarding relationships with literature and music than with people. (Murakamis passion for music is infections; nothing made me want to rush out and purchase a Brahms CD until I read his Sputnik Sweetheart. ) On his 15th bir
20、thday, Kafka runs away from his Tokyo home for obscure reasons related to his famous sculptor father. His choice of a destination is arbitrary. Or is it? “Shikoku, I decide. Thats where Ill go. . . The more I look at the map actually every time I study it the more I feel Shikoku tugging at me. “ On
21、the island of Shikoku, Kafka makes himself a fixture at the local library, where he settles into a comfortable sofa and starts reading The Arabian Nights: “Like the genie in the bottle they have this sort of vital, living sense of play, of freedom that common sense cant keep bottled up. “ As in a Da
22、vid Lynch movie, all the library staffers are philosophical eccentrics ready to advance the surreal narrative. Oshima, the androgynous clerk, talks to Kafka about (inevitably) Kafka and the merits of driving while listening to Schubert (“a dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your conscio
23、usness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while Im driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right there“). The tragically alluring head librarian, Miss Saeki, once wrote a hit song called “Kafka on the Shore“ and may or may not be Kafk
24、as long-lost mother. Alarmingly, she also stars in his erotic fantasies. In alternating chapters, Murakami records the even odder antics of Nakata, a simpleminded cat catcher who spends his days chatting with tabbies in a vacant Tokyo lot. One afternoon, a menacing dog leads him to the home of a sad
25、istic cat killer who goes by the name Johnnie Walker. Walker ends up dead by the end of the encounter; back in Shikoku, Kafka unaccountably finds himself drenched in blood. Soon, Nakata too begins feeling an inexplicable pull toward the island. If this plot sounds totally demented, trust me, it gets
26、 even weirder than that. Like a dream, you just have to be there. And, like a dream, what this dazzling novel means or whether it means anything at all we may never know. 21 What is “Kafka on the Shore“? （ A） It is a fiction written by a head librarian Miss Saeki. （ B） It is an autobiographical nove
27、l of Kafka Tamura. （ C） It is a movie adapted from Haruki Murakamis book. （ D） It is the name of a hit song in a novel under the same name. 22 According to the author, which of the following is NOT true about Haruki Murakamis novels? （ A） They bring the sensory pleasure to the author. （ B） They are
28、full of imagination without any profundities. （ C） They juxtapose the trivial with the momentous. （ D） They are similar in characteristics to dreams. 23 According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true about Kafka? （ A） He is familiar with literature and music. （ B） He has a good relatio
29、nship with his father. （ C） He leaves Tokyo for Shikoku at his teens. （ D） He often goes to the local library on Shikoku Island. 24 The word “demented“ in the last paragraph refers to （ A） crazy. （ B） interesting. （ C） fancy. （ D） boring. 24 It was said by Sir George Bernard Shaw that “England and A
30、merica are two countries separated by the same language. “ My first personal experience of this was when I worked as a camp counselor for two months in 2000 in Summer Camp run by the Boy Scouts of America, as part of an international leader exchange scheme. Before I went, all the participants in the
31、 scheme were given a short list of words that are in common use in the UK which Americans would either be confused by or would even offend them. I memorized the words and thought “Ill cope“. When I finally arrived in the States three months later, I realized that perhaps a lifetime of watching Ameri
32、can television was not adequate preparation for appreciating and coping with the differences between American and British speech. In the first hour of arriving at the camp I was exposed to High School American English, Black American English and American English spoken by Joe Public, all every diffe
33、rent to each other. Needless to say, I did cope in the end. The Americans I met were very welcoming and helpful, and I found they were patient with me when I made a social faux pas when I used an inappropriate word or phrase. Upon my return I began to wonder whether anyone had documented the differe
34、nces between American and British English. I found several books on the subject but often these were written in a dry and academic way. I felt that I could do better and use my sense of humor and personal experiences to help people from both sides of Atlantic to communicate more effectively when the
35、y meet. My research into the subject led me to several conclusions. Firstly, American English and British English are covering, thanks to increased transatlantic travel and the media. The movement of slang words is mostly eastwards, though a few words from the UK have been adopted by the Ivy League
36、fraternities. This convergent trend is a recent one dating from the emergence of Hollywood as the predominant film making center in the world and also from the Second World War when large numbers of American GIs were stationed in the UK. This trend was consolidated by the advent of television. Befor
37、e then, it was thought that American English and British English would diverge as the two languages evolved. In 1789, Noah Webster stated that: “Numerous local causes, such as a new country, new associations of people, new combinations of ideas in the arts and some intercourse with tribes wholly unk
38、nown in Europe will introduce new words into the American tongue. “ He was right, but his next statement has since been proved to be incorrect. “These causes will produce in the course of time a language in North America as different from the modern Dutch, Danish and Swedish are from the German or f
39、rom one another. “ Webster had underrated the amount of social intercourse between England and her former colony. Even before Webster had started to compile his dictionary, words and expressions from the America had already infiltrated the British language, for example “canoe“ and “hatchet“. Secondl
40、y, there are some generalizations that can be made about American and British English which can reveal the nature of the two nations and their peoples. British speech tends to be less general, and directed more, in nuances of meaning, attendant murmurings and pauses, carries a wealth of shared assum
41、ptions and attitudes. In other words, the British are preoccupied with their social status within society and speak and act accordingly to fit into the social class they aspire to. This is particularly evident when talking to someone from “the middle class“ when he points out that he is “upper middl
42、e class“ rather than “middle class“ or “lower middle class“. John Major (the former UK Prime Minister) may have said that we are now living in a “classless society“ but the class system still prevails. At that moment both he and the Leader of the Opposition, Tony Blair, were talking about capturing
43、the “middle England“, “middle class vote“ as the key to winning the next general election. American speech tends to be influenced by the over-heated language of much of the media, which is designed to attach an impression of exciting activity to passive, if sometimes insignificant events. Yet, curio
44、usly, really violent activity and life-changing events are hidden in blind antiseptic tones that serve to disguise the reality. Two examples come readily to mind the US Military with their “friendly fire“ and “collateral damages“ and the business world with their “downsizing“. British people tend to
45、 understatement whereas Americans towards hyperbole. A Briton might respond to a suggestion with a word such as “Terrific! “ only if he is expressing rapturous enthusiasm, whereas an American might use the word merely to signify polite assent. Thirdly, The American language has less regard than the
46、British for grammatical form, and will happily bulldoze its way across distinctions rather than steer a path between them. American English will casually use one form of a word for another, for example turning nouns into verbs or verbs and nouns into adjectives. 25 What is the writers tone in this p
47、assage? （ A） Approving. （ B） Criticizing. （ C） Ironical. （ D） Neutral. 26 The sentence “England and America are two countries separated by the same language“ in the frost paragraph implies that （ A） England and America used to be one country but were separated by the language. （ B） England and Ameri
48、ca share the same language but the language separates them （ C） England and America share the same language but show differences in the language use. （ D） British English and American English are almost the same in the two countries. 27 The author decided to write about the differences between Ameri
49、can and British English to （ A） support the statement of Bernard Shaw. （ B） describe his personal experiences. （ C） show his sense of humor. （ D） help peoples communication. 28 Which of the following does NOT contribute to the convergent trend of American English and British English? （ A） More international travel between the two countries. （ B） The emergence of Hollywood as a film making center. （ C） The advent of television. （ D） The individual evolution of the two languages: 29 The British people, as
