1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 394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 William Faulkner was born in Oxford, Miss. He had【 1】 education, then he joined the British Royal Air For
3、ce in Canada because he was too short. After the war he stayed at the University of Mississippi and began to publish poems or essays. In New Orleans, he met Sherwood Anderson, who helped him a lot. With the publication of Sartor is (1929), he found Yoknapatawpha【 2】 , a regional myth of 200 - year -
4、 long history, which was written in a【 3】 but often baroque style and considered as a【 4】 Among all novels, The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I lay Dyig (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom (1936), received much critical【 5】 . Apart from the creation of long novels, Fau
5、lkner often used short stories to fill【 6】 in the historical development of Yoknapatawpha County. During the 1930s he was off and on in Hollywood as a script writer, but his works for film are not accounted as being of much【 7】 . For his literary accomplishments he was【 8】 a Nobel Prize in 1950 and
6、he made a brief but important statement about his belief in the Nobel【 9】 Speech: “I believe that man will not merely endure: he will【 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 t
7、o 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 listen to the interview. 11 According to the hostess, what is the reason for increased competition in clothing industry? （ A） The increased cost of raw material
8、s. （ B） The booming market for fast fashion. （ C） Consumers needs for luxury fashion. （ D） The increased cost of human resources. 12 According to James, the Ethical Consumer Research Association aims to_. （ A） provide information that might reveal the company ethics （ B） study the ethical aspect of
9、consumers while shopping （ C） do research on ethical consumers behavior and values （ D） give consumers useful information on quality of products 13 According to James, which of the following does NOT make an ethical shopper? （ A） He/she is concerned about the human labor involved in the product. （ B
10、） He/she wonders whether the company in involved in armaments. （ C） He/she wonders whether the company manages to make ends meet. （ D） He/she wants to know which party the company financially supports. 14 According to James, how can one become an ethical shopper? （ A） One should be wealthy enough. （
11、 B） One should buy cheap things. （ C） One should buy everything second-hand. （ D） One should buy less. 15 According to James, what is his attitude toward the future development of ethical shopping? （ A） Positive. （ B） Negative. （ C） Neutral. （ D） Ambiguous. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In th
12、is 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 What news event is reported? （ A） A bomb threat at a hospital. （ B） A flood at a school. （ C） A fire at an
13、 apartment building. （ D） A severe drought famine in a villag 17 How did the dog help rescue the baby? （ A） It helped rescue this baby by attracting peoples attention by barking. （ B） It helped rescue this baby by pulling the body to safety. （ C） It helped rescue this baby by comforting the baby unt
14、il help came. （ D） It helped rescue this baby by waking up the baby by ringing the bell. 18 What made this eclipse so unique? （ A） Its location for viewing in the world. （ B） Its timing on the calendar. （ C） Its movement across the sky. （ D） Its beautiful scen 19 Which statement was NOT mentioned ab
15、out viewing an eclipse? （ A） Sunglasses block out only a limited amount of the suns ultraviolet rays that can damage the eye. （ B） Sunglasses can only filter harmful rays during total solar eclipses at their greatest magnitude. （ C） Sunglasses tend to cause the center of the eye to enlarge allowing
16、in more intense light. （ D） Sunglasses should be used when any part of the sun is visibl 20 What is one fact we do not learn from the final commentary of the video? （ A） People who can record the next eclipse. （ B） The date of an upcoming solar eclipse. （ C） How to record an eclipse for your posteri
17、ty. （ D） Where the next Christmas eclipse will occur. 20 Cheating in sport is as old as sport itself. The athletes of ancient Greece used potions to fortify themselves before a contest, and their modern counterparts have everything from anabolic steroids and growth hormones to doses of extra red blo
18、od cells with which to invigorate their bodies. These days, however, such stimulants are frowned on, and those athletes must therefore run the gauntlet of organizations such as the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which would rather that athletes competed without resorting to them. The agencies have
19、 had remarkable success. Testing for anabolic steroids (in other words, artificial testosterone) was introduced in the 1970s, and the incidence of cheating seems to have fallen dramatically as a result. The tests, however, are not foolproof. And a study just published in the Journal of Clinical Endo
20、crinology lets fix it now without a committee meeting.“ Monique Huston actually has her dream joband many tell her its theirs, too. Shes general manager of a pub in Omaha, the Dundee Dell, which boasts 650 single-malt scotches on its menu. She visits bars, country clubs, peoples homes and Scotland f
21、or whiskey tasting. “I stumbled on my passion in life,“ she says. Still, some night she doesnt feel like drinkingor smiling. “Your face hurts,“ she complains. And when you have your dream job you. wonder what in the world youll do next. One of the big appeals of a dream job is dreaming about it. Las
22、t year, George Reinhart saw an ad for a managing director of the privately owned island of Mustique in the West Indies. He was lured by the salary ($1 million) and a climate that beat the one enjoyed by his Boston suburb. A documentary he saw about Mustique chronicled the posh playground for the lik
23、es of Mick Jagger and Princess Margaret. He reread Herman Works “Dont Stop the Carnival,“ about a publicity agent who leaves his New York job and buys an island hotel. In April of last year, he applied for the job. He heard nothing. So last May, he wrote another letter: “I wanted to thank you for pr
24、oviding the impetus for so much thought and fun.“ He didnt get the job but, he says, he takes comfort that the job hasnt been filled. “So, I can still dream,“ he adds. I told him the job had been filled by someonebut only after he said, “I need to know, because then I can begin to dream of his failu
25、re.“ 26 According to the passage, （ A） many people dont ask for much about their dream job. （ B） most Americans are not satisfied with their jobs. （ C） Lori Miller is totally satisfied with her current job. （ D） Lori Miller is not satisfied with her current job at all. 27 What is the role of the 4th
26、 paragraph in the development of the passage? （ A） To show that people dont ask for much about their dream job. （ B） To show that most people in America are satisfied with their jobs. （ C） To offer supporting evidence to the preceding paragraph. （ D） To provide a contrast to the preceding paragraphs
27、. 28 The phrase “a level playing field“ in Paragraph 6 means （ A） a field for playing level games. （ B） a level for playing field games. （ C） a phenomenon of inequality. （ D） a platform of fair competition. 29 All the following are mentioned as features of a dream job EXCEPT （ A） demonstrating duty
28、and achievement. （ B） being free of politics. （ C） making people dream about it. （ D） involving alcohol drinking. 30 The passage is mainly about （ A） how people should choose their jobs. （ B） how to survive workplace politics. （ C） what peoples dream jobs are like. （ D） what to do to have a dream jo
29、b. 30 Israel is a “powerhouse of agricultural technology“, says Abraham Goren of Elbit Imaging (EI), an Israeli multinational. The countrys cows can produce as much as 37 liters of milk a day. In India, by contrast, cows yield just seven liters. Spotting an opportunity, EI is going into the Indian d
30、airy business. It will import 10,000 cows and supply fortified and flavored milk to supermarkets and other buyers. So will EI lap up Indias milk market? Not necessarily. As the Times of India points out, its cows will ruminate less than 100 miles from the headquarters of a formidable local producert
31、he Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation, otherwise known as Amul. This Farmers Co-operative spans 2.6m members, collects 6.5m liters of milk a day, and boasts one of the longest-running and best-loved advertising campaigns In India. It has already shown “immense resilience“ in the face of
32、multinational competition, says Arindam Bhattacharya of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Its ice-cream business survived the arrival of Unilever; its chocolate milk has thrived despite Nestl. Indeed, Amul is one of 50 firmsfrom China, India, Brazil, Russia and six other emerging economies that BCG
33、 has anointed as “local dynamos“. They are prospering in their home market, are fending off multinational rivals, and are not focused on expanding abroad. BCG discovered many of these firms while drawing up its “global challengers“ list of multinationals from the developing world. The companies that
34、 were venturing abroad most eagerly, it discovered, were not necessarily the most successful at home. Emerging economies are still prey to what Harvards Dani Rodrik has called “export fetishism“. International success remains a firms proudest boast, and with good reason: economists have shown that e
35、xporters are typically bigger, more efficient and pay better than their more parochial rivals. “Exporters are better“ was the crisp verdict of a recent review of the data. Countries like India and Brazil were, after all, once secluded backwaters fenced off by high tariffs. Prominent firms idled alon
36、g on government favors and captive markets. In that era, exporting was a truer test of a companys worth. But as such countries have opened up, their home markets have become more trying places. Withstanding the onslaught of foreign firms on home soil may be as impressive a feat as beating them in gl
37、obal markets. BCG describes some of the ways that feat has been accomplished. Of its 50 dynamos, 41 are in consumer businesses, where they can exploit a more intimate understanding of their compatriots tastes. It gives the example of Gol, a Brazilian budget airline, which bet that its cash-strapped
38、customers would sacrifice convenience and speed for price. Many Gol planes therefore depart at odd hours and make several hops to out-of-the-way locations, rather than flying directly. Similarly astute was Indias Titan Industries, which has increased its share of Indias wristwatch market despite the
39、 entry of foreign brands such as Timex and Swatch. It understood that Indians, who expect a good price even for old newspapers, do not throw their watches away lightly, and has over 700 after-sales centers that will replace straps and batteries. Exporters tend to be more capital-intensive than their
40、 home-bound peers; they also rely more on skilled labor. Many local dynamos, conversely, take full advantage of the cheap workforce at their disposal. Focus Media, Chinas biggest “out of home“ advertising company, gets messages out on flat-panel displays in 85,000 locations around the country. Those
41、 displays could be linked and reprogrammed electronically, but that might fall foul of broadcast regulations. So instead the firms fleet of workers on bicycles replaces the displays discs and flash-cards by hand. The list of multinationals resisted or repelled by these dynamos includes some of the w
42、orlds biggest names: eBay and Google in China; Wal-Mart in Mexico; SAP in Brazil. But Mr. Goren of EI is not too worried about Amul. The market is big enough for everybody, he insists. Nothing, then, is for either company to cry about. 31 According to the passage, after EI enters the Indian dairy bu
43、siness, （ A） Indias milk market will not necessarily be greatly influenced. （ B） Indias milk market will be completely lapped up. （ C） Amul will lose In the competition with EI. （ D） Unilever and Nestl will leave the Indian market. 32 According to the passage, “local dynamos“ are firms that （ A） are
44、 venturing abroad most eagerly. （ B） tend to be more capital-intensive. （ C） are prey to “export fetishism“. （ D） mostly focus on home market. 33 According to the passage, “export fetishism“ （ A） has lost its appeal for emerging economies. （ B） values international success for a firm. （ C） encourage
45、s firms to become “local dynamos“. （ D） has been endorsed by a recent review. 34 All of the following are ways to accomplish the feat of withstanding the onslaught of foreign firms on home soil EXCEPT （ A） relying more on skilled labor. （ B） specializing in consumer businesses. （ C） taking advantage
46、 of the cheap workforce. （ D） better understanding home consumers tastes. 35 Which of the following would the author most probably agree? （ A） Not all of the developing worlds most successful companies are globalizing. （ B） Companies venturing abroad most eagerly are the most successful at home. （ C
47、） Local dynamos are the most successful firms all over the world. （ D） Globalizing is not good for companies in emerging economies. 35 It is hard for modern people to imagine the life one hundred years ago. No television, no plastic, no ATMs, no DVDs. Illnesses like tuberculosis, diphtheria, pneumon
48、ia meant only death. Of course, cloning appeared only in science fiction. Not to mention, computer and Internet. Today, our workplace are equipped with assembly lines, fax machines, computers. Our daily life is cushioned by air conditioners, cell phones. Antibiotics helped created a long list of mir
49、acle drugs. The bypass operation saved millions. The discovery of DNA has revolutionized the way scientists think about new therapies. Man finally stepped on the magical and mysterious Moon. With the rapid changes we have been experiencing, the anticipation for the future is higher than ever. A revolutionary manufacturing process made it possible for anyone to own a car. Henry Ford is the man who put the world on wheels. When it comes to singling out those who have made a difference in all our lives, you cannot overlook Henry Ford. A historia
