1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 3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. W
2、hen 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. 1 Coming Home: Life After Studying Abroad Many returnees who have studied abroad may suffer re-entry culture
3、shock when they go back to their home-town. Here some positive ways of dealing with the return culture shock are introduced. . The 【 1】 _ of Re-Entry Re entry is ones 【 2】 _ experience of re-adjusting to life in ones home culture after living abroad. For many study abroad returnees, it is more diffi
4、cult to adjust to their home culture than the 【 3】 _ . . Some Common Re-Adjustment Issues 1. Personal growth and change When you come back, you have changed in many ways because you have experienced more freedom and 【 4】 _ living abroad. You have to adjust your new self to your old home. 2. New Know
5、ledge and Skills When living abroad, you might develop new competencies including new knowledge, skills and 【 5】 _ . Some returnees feel frustrated if they feel these skills are of little use once they return home. 3. Relationships With Family and Friends Personal changes of returnees affect their f
6、amilies and friends who show little interest in hearing about their new experiences and attempt to make them 【 6】 _ to what they once were. . 【 7】 _ Dealing with Re-Entry Problems 1. Talk with people who understand 【 8】 _ , for example, other returnees. 2. Share your experiences with 【 9】 _ study ab
7、road students or write an article for some publications. 3. Be 【 10】 _. You may get involved in work where international experiences and perspectives are appreciated. 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10 【 10】 SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear
8、 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 following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 The interviewer used to care about a
9、ll the following things EXCEPT （ A） doing well in some sports. （ B） having good body-image looking. （ C） wearing appropriate clothes. （ D） being popular with other kids. 12 Which of the following is NOT an example of the relationships girls attach importance to? （ A） Their relationships with classma
10、tes. （ B） Their relationships with parents. （ C） Their relationships with teachers. （ D） Their relationships with boys. 13 When girls have limitations in face of pressure, they might （ A） stop trying hard. （ B） suffer from indignation. （ C） end up crying out. （ D） accept the fact calmly. 14 Parents
11、should be aware of the hidden stress of their daughters when （ A） the girls are irritable sometimes. （ B） the girls are exhausted someday. （ C） the girls say they hate school. （ D） the girls lie and play truant. 15 One way for the girls to thrive in the age of pressure is to （ A） develop intangible
12、ideas. （ B） set touchable goals. （ C） forget about their stress. （ D） talk with their parents. 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 secon
13、ds to answer the questions. 16 Frances highest court halted the final voyage of the Clemenceau because （ A） the French President Jacque Chirac has ordered the return of it. （ B） some substances on board the ship may harm peoples health. （ C） the Clemenceau should return to France at the end of the w
14、eek. （ D） the French President is ordering a test to discover what is on board. 17 The man Mr. Cheney accidentally shot and injured is （ A） a doctor. （ B） a secretary. （ C） a lawyer. （ D） a leader. 18 The Bush Administration has been accused by Harry Reid of （ A） being covert. （ B） shielding Dick. （
15、 C） being dishonest. （ D） attacking the victim. 19 Which of the following statements about the American Defense Department is TRUE? （ A） It has denied the authenticity of the pictures of abused prisoners. （ B） It has supported the decision to stop the publication of the pictures. （ C） It has conside
16、red the pictures of abused prisoners unacceptable. （ D） It has been worrying about the violence incited by the pictures. 20 If Rene Prevals supporters exceeded 50% of the total voters, he would （ A） surpass another candidate. （ B） be the president of Haiti. （ C） avoid a second round runoff. （ D） def
17、eat his rival in the first round. 21 Few modern travel writers excite more hostility and awe than Sir Wilfred Thesiger, who died in 2003. Despising the “drab uniformity of the modern world“, Sir Wilfred slogged across Africa and Asia, especially Arabia, on animals and on foot, immersing himself in t
18、ribal societies. He delighted in killing-lions in Sudan in the years before the second world war, Germans and Italians during it. He disliked “soft“ living and “intrusive“ women and revered murderous savages, to whom be gave guns. He thought educating the working classes a waste of good servants. He
19、 kicked his dog. His journeys were more notable as feats of masochistic endurance than as exploration. Yet his first two books, Arabian Sands, about his crossing of the Empty Quarter, and The Marsh Arabs, about southern Iraq, have a terse brilliance about them. As records of ancient cultures on the
20、point of oblivion, they are unrivalled. Sir Wilfreds critics invariably sing the same chorus. They accuse him of hypocrisy, noting that his part-time primitive lifestyle required a private income and good connections to obtain travel permits. They argue that he deluded himself about the motives of h
21、is adored tribal companions. In Kenya, where he lived for two decades towards the end of his life, his Samburu “sons“ are calculated to have fleeced him of at least $ 1m. Homosexuality, latent or otherwise, explains him, they conclude, pointing to the photographs he took of beautiful youths. This ma
22、y all be true, but it does not diminish his achievements. Moreover, he admits as much himself in his autobiography and elsewhere, in 1938, before his main travels, for example, Sir Wilfred wrote of his efforts to adopt foreign ways:“ I dont delude myself that I succeed but I get my interest and plea
23、sure trying.“ In this authorised biography, Alexander Maitland adds a little colour to the picture, but no important details. He describes the beatings the explorer suffered at his first boarding school. Quoting from Sir Wilfreds letters, he traces the craggy travelers devotion to his dead father, h
24、is mother and three brothers. At times, Sir Wilfred sounds more forgiving, especially of friends, and more playful than his reputation has suggested. As for his sexuality, Mr. Maitland refers coyly to occasional “furtive embraces“, presumably with men. Wearisome as this topic has become, Mr. Maitlan
25、d achieves nothing by skirting it; and his allusion to Sir Wilfreds “almost too precious“ relationship with his mother is annoyingly vague. There may be a reason why Mr. Maitland struggles for critical distance. He writes that he and Sir Wilfred were long-standing friends, but he fails to mention th
26、at he collaborated with the explorer on four of his books and later inherited his London flat. If Mr. Maitland found it so difficult to view his late friend and benefactor objectively, then perhaps he should not have tried. An earlier biography by Michael Asher, who scoured the deserts to track down
27、 Sir Wilfreds former fellow travellers, was better; Mr. Maitland seems to have interviewed almost nobody black or brown. His book is, however, a useful companion to the explorers autobiography, The Life of My Choice. Hopefully, it will also refer readers back to Sir Wilfreds two great books, and to
28、sentences as lovely as this:“ Memories of that first visit to the Marshes have never left me: firelight on a half-turned face, the crying of geese, duck flighting in to feed, a boys voice singing somewhere in the dark, canoes moving in procession down a waterway, the setting sun seen crimson through
29、 the smoke of burning reed-beds, narrow waterways that wound still deeper into the Marshes.“ 21 Which of the following is TRUE of Sir Wilfred Thesiger? （ A） He enjoyed killing lions, tigers, etc. （ B） He loved unintrusive women. （ C） He advocated educating servants. （ D） He longed for primitive life
30、. 22 Sir Wilfred Thesigers behavior has called forth some criticism partly because （ A） his behavior doesnt comfort to his words. （ B） he lived in Kenya for twenty years. （ C） he earned $ 1m in Kenya. （ D） he loved tribal friends. 23 How does Sir Wilfred respond to the critics? （ A） He simply ignore
31、s their criticism. （ B） He acknowledges the criticism is well-grounded. （ C） He doesnt defend himself. （ D） He tries to establish relationship with foreigners. 24 In Alexander Maitlands writing, Sir Wilfred Thesiger is all but （ A） a devoted son. （ B） a tolerant friend. （ C） a cunning man. （ D） a na
32、ughty man. 25 Which of tile following is mentioned in Alexander Maitlands. writing? （ A） Sir Wilfred Thesigers unhappy college life. （ B） His good relationship with Sir Wilfred. （ C） How he contacted Sir Wilfreds former fellow travelers. （ D） What he inherited from Sir Wilfred. 26 What makes for a s
33、uccessful invasion? Often, the answer is to have better weapons than the enemy. And, as it is with people, so it is with plantsat least, that is the conclusion of a paper published in Biology Letters by Naomi Cappuccino, of Carleton University, and Thor Arnason, of the University of Ottawa, both in
34、Canada. The phenomenon of alien species popping up unexpected parts of the world has grown over the past few decades as people and goods become more mobile and plant seeds and animal larvae have hitched along for the ride. Most such aliens blend into the ecosystem in which they arrive without too mu
35、ch fuss. (Indeed, many probably fail to establish themselves at allbut those failures, of course, are never noticed.) Occasionally, though, something goes bananas and starts trying to take the place over, and an invasive species is born. Dr. Cappuccino and Dr. Arnason asked themselves why. One hypot
36、hesis is that aliens leave their predators behind. Since the predators in their new homelands are not adapted to exploit them, they are able to reproduce unchecked. That is a nice idea, but it does not explain why only certain aliens become invasive. Dr. Cappuccino and Dr. Arnason suspected this mig
37、ht be because native predators are sometimes “pre-adapted“ to the aliens defences, but in other cases they are not. To test this, they had first to establish a reliable list of invaders. That is not as easy as it sounds. As they observe, “although there are many lists of invasive species published b
38、y governmental agencies, inclusion of a given species in the lists may not be entirely free of political motivation“. Instead, they polled established researchers in the field of alien species, asking each to list ten invasive species and, for comparison, ten aliens that just rubbed along quietly wi
39、th their neighbours. The result was a list of 21 species widely agreed to be invasive and, for comparison, 18 non-invasive aliens. Having established these lists, they went to the library to find out what was known about the plants chemistry. Their aim was to find the most prominent chemical weapon
40、in each plant, whether that weapon was directed against insects that might want to eat the plant, bacteria and fungi that might want to infect it, or other plants that might compete for space, water, nutrients and light. Botanists know a lot about which sorts of compounds have what roles, so classif
41、ying constituent chemicals in this way was not too hard. The researchers then compared the chemical arsenals of their aliens with those of native North American plants, to see if superior (or, at least, unusual) weaponry was the explanation for the invaders success. Their hypothesis was that highly
42、invasive species would have chemical weapons not found in native plants, and which pests, parasites and other plants would therefore not have evolved any resistance to. The more benign aliens, by contrast, were predicted to have arsenals also found in at least some native species. And so it proved.
43、More than 40% of the invasive species had a chemical unknown to native plants, just over 10% of the non-invasive aliens had such a chemical. Moreover, when they looked at past studies on alien plants that had examined how much such plants suffer from the depredations of herbivorous insects, they fou
44、nd that the extent of the damage reported was significantly correlated with the number of native species with which that alien shared its principal chemical weapon. For alien plants, then, the real secret of successalso as in human warfareis surprise. It is not that the chemicals concerned are more
45、toxic in any general sense (indeed, successful invaders are often rare in their own native habitats). Rather, it is that the locals just dont see them coming. 26 In dozens of years, there are more cases of the invasion of alien species partly because （ A） plant seeds are resistant to antibiotics. （
46、B） people tend to hitch a ride. （ C） there are more circulation of goods. （ D） animal larvae become stronger. 27 The expression “something goes bananas“ in Paragraph 2 probably means something （ A） gets bananas. （ B） important happen. （ C） becomes crazy. （ D） frightening happen. 28 The difference be
47、tween Dr. Cappuccino and Dr. Arnasons hypothesis and the previous one is that （ A） the former mentions native predators of alien species. （ B） the former may account for the invasion of certain aliens. （ C） the latter explains the adaptation of the predators. （ D） the latter may explore the pre-adap
48、tation of the predators. 29 The researchers didnt refer to the lists of invaders published by governmental agencies due to _ consideration. （ A） financial （ B） political （ C） academic （ D） economic 30 Which of the following is TRUE of chemical weapons of invasive species? （ A） It is difficult to fin
49、d the chemical weapons of invasive species. （ B） The most prominent chemical weapons of invaders explain their success. （ C） The less chemical weapons invaders have, the more benign they become. （ D） Most native plants dont have the same chemical weapons of aliens. 31 According to the text, the success of invasion lies in the fact that the native plants （ A） are unaware of the invasion of alien species. （ B） contain more poisonous chemicals. （ C） are defeated in plant warfare. （ D
