1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 433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 Character Analysis of Shakespearean Plays I. Character analysis character evaluation as the best way to s
3、tart the analysis of a Shakespearean play characters in a typical (1) doing particular things in (1)_ every play conflicts involved characters characters being on trial II. Three main reasons for approaching Shakespearean plays by analyzing characters A. Plays with active characters like people arou
4、nd us the appeal of the genre seeing the play as (2) itself (2)_ B. Shakespeares ability to (3) characters (3)_ individual personality with experience requiring an evaluation individual actors need to (4) upon the motivations (4)_ for their characters C. The play including (5) itself, for the reason
5、 that (5)_ characters are trying to understand their own characters III. The merits and weaknesses of the approach illustrated by (6) interpretations of 19th century (6)_ A. Values always reminding of the central concern (7) (7)_ keeping in touch with the reason why Shakespeare (8) (8)_ B. Problems
6、not enough (9) about characters: (9)_ 1) key elements full character analysis needs are (10) (10)_ 2) for the lack of evidence, the analysis often ends with trivial matters. SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the quest
7、ions 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 For Mrs. Saxby, the resume is all-important, because it （ A） covers all the relevant personal informa
8、tion. （ B） includes information about education. （ C） explains why a person quitted his/her last job. （ D） indicates whether a person takes the application seriously. 12 At the interview, Mrs. Saxby looks for in a candidate all of the following EXCEPT? （ A） passion and vigor. （ B） readiness to discu
9、ss things. （ C） good first impression. （ D） good appearance, clean and tidy. 13 According to Mrs. Saxby, new employees （ A） are trained to possess the ability of multi-tasking. （ B） have to look after customers who are on the “floor“. （ C） take an examination during the 8-week training program. （ D）
10、 are trained to fill in varied positions. 14 All the following qualities are held in high regard at the Odeon EXCEPT （ A） Customer-centeredness. （ B） Capability of working independently. （ C） Good manners. （ D） Faithfulness to the company. 15 According to the interview, which of the following proble
11、ms arises most often at the Odeon? （ A） Employees are dishonest. （ B） Employees are impolite to customers. （ C） Young employees are late and absent. （ D） Employees dont obey the disciplinary procedure SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen car
12、efully 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 is the news item mainly talking about? （ A） Child mistreatment. （ B） Child trafficking. （ C） Child labour. （ D） Anti-slavery. 17 Which of the following is INC
13、ORRECT about the explosion? （ A） It happened at a bus depot. （ B） It killed more than 70 people and injured 26. （ C） It attacked a bus for the Ugandan capital Kampala. （ D） The bag exploded during the security check. 18 Who might be responsible for the explosion? （ A） Kampala terrorists. （ B） Nairob
14、i terrorists. （ C） Somali insurgents. （ D） Not mentioned. 19 Why did the protesters make such a protest? （ A） They thought the vote didnt cover enough voters. （ B） They believed there was widespread discrimination between parties. （ C） They believed there was vote-rigging in Sundays presidential ele
15、ction. （ D） They were avenging their presidential candidate Vladimir Neklyaev. 20 The opposition protesters are asking for （ A） a fair reelection. （ B） Alexander Lukashenkos fourth term. （ C） Vladimir Neklyaevs winning. （ D） Alexander Lukashenkos impeachment or removal. 20 There has been an ecologic
16、al triumph in the provinces of Sweden where I have spent the past three weeks. The wolf and the lynx (a wild cat) have both returned to the forests. The naturalists have been rejoicing. There has been a TV documentary. Meanwhile the local farmers and hunters have disappeared into the forests with th
17、eir rifles. Jan and Lennart were particularly aggrieved that the lynx was killing their“ deer, and the urban bureaucrats who had decided to protect it only increase their rage. They vowed to track the animal down. “Did they kill it?“ I asked a local man. “They didnt say,“ he replied with a hint of w
18、ink. What does the word “rural“ mean to you? Organic, perhaps. Wholesome? Gemeinschaft (or do I mean Gesellschaft?) Conservative? Marxs “rural idiocy“ maybe. To me the countryside is about paranoia. It breeds independence and idiosyncrasy and other nice things but also the sort of people who wander
19、on to Capitol Hill in order to kill some senators or declare war on the FBI for being an essentially socialist organization. For people who live in and off the countryside, there always seems to be the idea that “they“ the bureaucrats, the government, the city folk are out to get them. What they des
20、pise almost as much as city folk themselves are the sort of things that city folk like about the countryside: footpaths, beauty spots, old buildings, rare flora and fauna, ancient sites of historical interest. To select from my experience of the past few weeks, the land that was once owned by my lat
21、e grandparents contained a meadow that was famous across Sweden for its rare plants. A Couple of weeks ago, my cousin an engineer and part-time farmer with a flock of four sheep and one ram fenced the meadow off, set the sheep loose into it and within two days it duly looked like a bit of scrub in a
22、 corner of a derelict industrial estate. Incidentally, when your correspondent went to investigate this vandalism, the said ram pursued him across the field in a way that was later said to be hilarious to onlookers. Another local man carries around a special bullet in case he should ever get on the
23、trail of a wolf. The normal bullets used for hunting deer and elk have soft tips so that they spread out on contact and cause devastating fatal wounds. But this special wolf bullet has a hard tip so that it will pass right through the animal, leaving a relatively small (though almost certainly fatal
24、) wound. The dying wolf will then probably walk tens of miles before it dies, thus preventing “them“ from identifying the slayers of this absurdly protected predator. And this is a province which has a wolf as its official symbol. There is more than what I was informed of. A neighboring lake has bec
25、ome home for an exceedingly rare kind of hawk. But the local people who have spotted it have kept its presence a closely guarded secret. If they told ornithologists about it, then the next thing that would happen is that they would probably want to come into the area and start to look at the bloody
26、thing, and once these bureaucrats and scientists get their claws into the area, who knows where it will end? Much of this is probably true of rural areas everywhere, but in Sweden it has been exacerbated by the Byzantine bureaucracy that was generated by 40 years of social democracy, a system that l
27、ed both to some of the finest public services and to the situation in which the countrys greatest living artist, Ingmar Bergman, under suspicion of a minor tax transgression, was publicly arrested and interrogated in a manner that might have been thought excessive by Beria. One of the fundamental Sw
28、edish rights is entitled allamansratt, which permits anybody to walk, pick berries or mushrooms virtually anywhere. Some local businessmen have hired Polish workers to come up to Sweden to pick mushrooms, but they have not been to our area more than once. When they emerged from this forest they foun
29、d that the tyres in their bikes and cars were mysteriously flat. It is somehow a typical Swedish paradox: you have the legal right to go where you like, but dont let that give you the idea that you can just go anywhere. 21 The experiences described by the author in the third paragraph are intended t
30、o show that （ A） local farmers hate the good things valued by the city folk because they hate city folk themselves. （ B） his cousin had a deep affection for the countryside. （ C） correspondents were unwelcome to the land. （ D） vandalism is of common occurrences in the countryside. 22 In the fourth p
31、aragraph, which adjective(s) can best describe the local mans behavior? （ A） Cruel and mean. （ B） Funny. （ C） Cunning. （ D） Resourceful and creative. 23 The author thinks that the Byzantine bureaucracy （ A） contributes little to the public welfare. （ B） deserves compliments for its achievements in p
32、reventing crimes. （ C） is too stringent in carrying out the laws. （ D） is highly democratic. 24 The purpose of the author in writing the passage is （ A） to give a contrast between countryside people and the city folk. （ B） to reflect the weak points in the rural people. （ C） to point out the inadequ
33、acy of Swedish laws. （ D） to show how the Swedish countryside people live. 25 The author gave the narration in a(n)_tone. （ A） dispassionate （ B） eulogizing （ C） ironic （ D） exaggerating 25 He was an undersized little man, with a head too big for his body a sickly little man. His nerves were bad. He
34、 had skin trouble. It was agony for him to wear anything next to his skin coarser than silk. And he had delusions of grandeur. He was a monster of conceit. Never for one minute did he look at the world or at people, except in relation to himself. He was the only most important person in the world, t
35、o himself; in his own eyes he was the only person who existed. He believed himself to be one of the greatest dramatists in the world, one of the greatest thinkers, Beethoven, and Plato, rolled into one. And you would have had no difficulty in hearing him talk. He was one of the most exhausting conve
36、rsationalists that ever lived. An evening with him was an evening spent in listening to a monologue. Sometimes he was brilliant; sometimes he was maddeningly tiresome. But whether he was being brilliant or dull, he had one sole topic of conversation: himself. What he thought and what he did. He had
37、a mania for being in the right. The slightest hint of disagreement, from anyone, on the most trivial point, was enough to set him off on a harangue that might exhausting volubility, and that in the end his hearer, stunned and deafened, would agree with, for the sake of peace. It never occurred to hi
38、m that he and his doing were not of the most intense and fascinating interest to anyone with whom he came in contact. He had theories about almost any subject under the sun, including vegetarianism, the drama, politics, and music; and in support of these theories he wrote pamphlets, letters, books.t
39、housands upon thousands of words, hundreds and hundreds of pages. He not only wrote these things, and published them usually at somebody elses expense but he would sit and read them aloud, for hours, to his friends and his family. He had the emotional stability of a six-year-old child. When he felt
40、out of sorts, he would rave and stamp, or sink into suicidal gloom and talk darkly of going to the East to end his days as a Buddhist monk. Ten minutes later, when something pleased him, he would rush out of doors and run around the garden, or jump up and down on the sofa, or stand on his head. He w
41、as almost innocent of any sense of responsibility. Not only did he seem incapable of supporting himself, but it never occurred to him that he was under any obligation to do so. He was convinced that the world owed him a living. In support of this belief, he borrowed money from everybody who was good
42、 for a loan men, women, friends, or strangers. He wrote begging letters by the score, sometimes groveling without shame, at others loftily offering his intended benefactor the privilege of contributing to his support, and being mortally offended if the recipient declined the honor. I have found no r
43、ecord of his ever paying or repaying money to anyone who did not have a legal claim upon it. The name of this monster was Richard Wagner. Everything that I have said about him you can find on record: in newspapers, in police reports, in the testimony of people who knew him, in his own letters, betwe
44、en the lines of his autobiography. And the curious thing about this record is that it doesnt matter in the least. Because this undersized, sickly, disagreeable, fascinating little man was right all the time. The joke was on us. He was one of the worlds greatest dramatists; he was a great thinker; he
45、 was one of the most stupendous musical geniuses that, up to now, the world has ever seen. The world did owe him a living. When you consider what he wrote thirteen operas and music dramas, eleven of them still holding the stage, eight of them unquestionably worth ranking among the worlds great music
46、al-dramatic masterpieces when you listen to what he wrote, the debts and heartaches that people had to endure from him dont seem much of a price. Think of the luxury with which for a time, at least, fate rewarded Napoleon, the man who mined France and looted Europe; and then perhaps you will agree t
47、hat a few thousand dollars worth of debts were not too heavy a price to pay for the Ring trilogy. Listening to his music, one does not forgive him for what he may or may not have been. It is not a matter of forgiveness. It is a matter of being dumb with wonder that poor brain and body didnt burst un
48、der the torment of the demon of creative energy that lived inside him, struggling, clawing, scratching to be released; tearing, shrieking at him to write the music that was in him. The miracle is that what he did in the little space of seventy years could not have been done at all, even by a great g
49、enius. Is there any wonder that he had no time to be a man? 26 The authors description of Richard Wagner in the second paragraph shows the mans （ A） independence. （ B） vigor. （ C） eccentricity. （ D） egoism. 27 Those who first argued against Wagner finally agreed with him because they （ A） were worn out by his long speech. （ B） were convinced by his sound argument. （ C） were forced to keep silent. （ D） loved him too much to argue with him any longer 28 According to the
