1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 439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 Are We Ready to Open? Email has the potential as a cost-efficient and effective marketing stream. To use
3、it and use it right, (1) is essential to your email (1)_ campaigns. Here are the general (2) to be kept in mind. (2)_ Where to Begin Email campaigns are very efficient because recipients usually give (3) within 2 or 3 days. They can be used for many purposes (3)_ such as increasing sales, building b
4、randing awareness, etc. So email is considered one of the most powerful (4) tools. (4)_ Determine the Goals of Your Campaign Decide just how much you want in your campaign. This goal must be solid and (5) . Such goals will make it easier for you (5)_ to see if the campaign is successful. Whether the
5、 goals, in some cases, is surpassed or the other way round, they (6) new goals (6)_ for the future. They may also tell you something about how to do better next. Determine Your (7) Market (7)_ Who exactly are you trying to reach? This can be one of the most important aspects of your campaign. Determ
6、ine Your Call(s) to Action You should decide (8) what you want your email (8)_ recipients to do, such as buying a product, or visiting certain webpage. This will help you judge your success. Develop Your Privacy Policy Inform briefly your privacy policy and provide a way so that the recipients can d
7、ecide if they want future mailings. Thus, you are becoming a (9) email marketer. (9)_ Should You Start (Re)Considering Your Marketing Channels? Email is a (10) marketing channel and it is easy to be (10)_ included in your marketing plan. I am sure it will fulfill your business goals. SECTION B INTER
8、VIEW 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 of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the inte
9、rview. 11 Working out is beneficial to human in all the following ways EXCEPT （ A） it does good to your body. （ B） it can improve your intelligence. （ C） it can enlarge your circle of acquaintance. （ D） it can fight diseases. 12 Which of the following statements is INCORRECT? （ A） Exercise could red
10、uce the risk of getting Alzheimer. （ B） Exercise could improve cognitive function. （ C） Interconnection of nerve cells primarily benefits memory function. （ D） The brain functions better with interconnection of nerve cells. 13 According to the woman, in which way does exercise help people in their 4
11、0s and 50s? （ A） It can reduce the risk of getting Alzheimer. （ B） It can reduce the risk of getting cognitive impairment. （ C） It can reduce the risk of getting cancer. （ D） It can make them spiritually healthy. 14 The California Teacher Study found the greatest reduction in breast cancer of about_
12、percent among the women that were exercising the most. （ A） 26 （ B） 40 （ C） 31 （ D） 14 15 The first thing for a woman who gets a diagnosis of breast cancer to do is （ A） to start exercising. （ B） to go the doctor. （ C） to get a good medical team. （ D） to keep a healthy mood. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
13、 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 Which of the following statements is NOT true about the rocket? （ A） It crashed into the
14、 Pacific Ocean. （ B） It carried three Russian satellites, weighing 4.2 tons. （ C） Its task was to supplement the Glonass global positioning system. （ D） The Glonass global positioning system is similar to the US-run GPS network. 17 Which of the following aspects is NOT mentioned in the secret tape r
15、ecordings? （ A） Personal scandal. （ B） Donation. （ C） Politics. （ D） Business operation. 18 Which of the following statement is INCORRECT? （ A） Liliane Bettencourt is the focus of the scandal. （ B） There was once friction between the mother and the daughter. （ C） The photographer took advantage of L
16、iliane Bettencourts mental fragility to get benefit. （ D） The scandal dominated the front pages in France for weeks. 19 The Russian airliner （ A） suffered a severe system failure at 13,000 feet. （ B） was for the Russian Republic of Dagestan. （ C） carried 150 people. （ D） managed to land down safely.
17、 20 The airliner took off from_airport and made an emergency landing in_airport. （ A） Vnukovo, Domodedovo （ B） Vnukovo, Dagestan （ C） Domodedovo, Vnukovo （ D） Domodedovo, Dagestan 20 Most men live in harness. Richard was one of them. Typically he had no awareness of how his male harness was choking
18、him until his personal and professional life and his body had nearly fallen apart. He had to get sick in his harness and nearly be destroyed by role-playing masculinity before he could allow himself to be a person with his own feelings, rather than just a hollow male image. Had it not been for a ble
19、eding ulcer he might have postponed looking at himself for many years more. Like many men, Richard had been a zombie, a daytime sleep-walker. Worse still, he had been a highly “successful“ zombie, which made it so difficult for him to risk change. Our culture is saturated with successful male zombie
20、s, businessmen zombies, golf zombies, sports car zombies, playboy zombies, etc. They have lost touch with, or are running away from, their feelings and awareness of themselves as people. They have confused their social masks for their essence and they are destroying the selves while fulfilling the t
21、raditional definitions of masculine-appropriate behavior. They are the heroes, the providers, the warriors, the empire builders, the fearless ones. Their reality is always approached through these veils of gender expectations. Men evaluate each other and are evaluated by many women largely by the de
22、gree to which they approximate the ideal masculine model. Women have rightfully lashed out against being placed into a mold. Many women have described their roles in marriage as a form of socially approved prostitution. They assert that they are selling themselves out for an unfulfilling portion of
23、supposed security. For psychologically defensive reasons the male has not yet come to see himself as a prostitute, day in and day out, both in and out of the marriage relationship. The males inherent survival instincts have been stunted by the seemingly more powerful drive to maintain his masculine
24、image. He would, for example, rather die in the battle than risk living in a different way and being called a “coward“ or “not a man“. As a recently published study concluded, “A surprising number of men approaching senior citizenship say they would rather die than be buried in retirement.“ The male
25、 in our culture is at a growth impasse. He wont move not because he is protecting his cherished central place in the sun, but because he cant move. He is a cardboard Goliath precariously balanced and on the verge of toppling over if he is pushed ever so slightly out of his well-worn path. He lacks t
26、he fluidity of the female who can readily move between the traditional definitions of male or female behavior and roles. She can be wife and mother or a business executive. She can dress in typically feminine fashion or adopt the male styles. She will be loved for having “feminine“ interests such as
27、 needlework or cooking, or she will be admired for sharing with the male in his “masculine“ interests. She can be sexually assertive or sexually passive. Meanwhile, the male is rigidly caught in his masculine pose and, in many subtle and indirect ways, he is severely punished when he steps out of it
28、. Unlike some of the problems of women, the problems of men are not readily changed through legislation. The male has no apparent and clearly defined targets against which he can vent his rage. Yet he is oppressed by the cultural pressures that have denied him his feelings, by the mythology of the w
29、oman and the distorted and self-destructive way he sees and relates to her, and by the urgency for him to “act like a man“ which blocks his ability to respond to his inner promptings both emotionally and physiologically, and by a generalized self-hate that causes him to feel comfortable only when he
30、 is functioning well in harness. Precisely because the tenor and mood of the male liberation efforts so far have been one of self-accusation, self-hate, and a repetition of feminist assertions, I believe it is doomed to failure in its present form. It is buying the myth that the male is culturally f
31、avored a notion that is clung to despite the fact that every critical statistic in the areas of longevity, disease, suicide, crime, accidents, childhood emotional disorders, alcoholism, and drug addiction shows a disproportionately higher male rate. The most remarkable and significant aspect of the
32、feminist movement to date has been womans daring willingness to own up to her resistances and resentment toward her time-honored, sanctified roles of wife and even mother. The male, however, has yet to fully realize, acknowledge, and rebel against the distress and stifling aspects of many of the rol
33、es he plays from good husband, to good daddy, to good provider, to good lover, etc. Because of the inner pressure to constantly affirm his dominance and masculinity, he continues to act as if he can stand up under, fulfill, and even enjoy all the expectations placed on him no matter how contradictor
34、y and devitalizing they are. Its time to remove the disguises of privilege and reveal the male condition for what it really is. 21 It can be inferred from the first paragraph that （ A） up to now, Richard doesnt know he has caught certain disease. （ B） there was something wrong with both Richards men
35、tal and physical health. （ C） but for his illness, Richard would not have stopped working. （ D） Richards illness offered him a chance to think about his life. 22 The word “zombie“ in the second paragraph probably refers to （ A） a person who is busy all the time. （ B） a person who always acts as a le
36、ader. （ C） a person who behaves like a robot. （ D） a person who is successful in some area. 23 According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true? （ A） To be a man counts for a great deal for the male. （ B） Some women hate being labeled as feminine. （ C） Quite a few women air negative view
37、 of marriage. （ D） Compared with men, women are more willing to retire from work. 24 Men are under greater pressure than women in that （ A） they dont have much freedom to make a choice. （ B） they are not allowed to make mistakes. （ C） they solely shoulder responsibilities for feeding their families.
38、 （ D） they are self-motivated to achieve great success. 25 The authors attitude towards the present male liberation movement is （ A） ambiguous. （ B） pessimistic. （ C） optimistic. （ D） indignant. 26 The best title for the passage would be （ A） In Harness : the Male Condition. （ B） Different Roles of
39、Men and Women. （ C） How to Solve Mens Problems. （ D） Survival Instincts vs. Male Images. 26 The decline of civility and good manners may be worrying people more than crime, according to Gentility Recalled, edited by Digby Anderson, which laments the breakdown of traditional codes that once regulated
40、 social conduct. It criticizes the fact that “manners“ are scorned as repressive and outdated. The result, according to Mr. Anderson - director of the Social Affairs Unit, an independent think-tank is a society characterized by rudeness: loutish behavior on the streets, jostling in crowds, impolite
41、shop assistants and bad-tempered drivers. Mr. Anderson says the cumulative effect of these apparently trivial, but often offensive is to make everyday life uneasy, unpredictable and unpleasant. As they are encountered far more often than crime, they can cause more anxiety than crime. When people lam
42、ent the disintegration of law and order, he argues, what they generally mean is order, as manifested by courteous forms of social contact. Meanwhile, attempts to re-establish restraint and self-control through “politically correct“ rules are artificial. The book has contributions from 12 academics i
43、n disciplines ranging from medicine to sociology and charts what it calls the “coarsening“ of Britain. Old-fashioned terms such as “gentleman“ and “lady“ have lost all meaningful resonance and need to be re-evaluated, it says. Rachel Trickett, honorary fellow and former principal of St Hughs College
44、, Oxford, says that the notion of a “lady“ protects women rather than demeaning them. Feminism and demands for equality have blurred the distinctions between the sexes, creating situations where men are able to dominate women because of their more aggressive and forceful natures, she says. “Women, w
45、ithout some code of deference or respect, become increasingly victims.“ Caroline Moore, the first woman fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, points out that “gentleman“ is now used only with irony or derision. “The popular view of a gentleman is poised somewhere between the imbecile parasite and the vil
46、lainous one: between Woosteresque chinless wonders, and those heartless capitalist toffs who are .the stock-in-trade of television.“ She argues that the concept is neither class-bound nor rigid; conventions of gentlemanly behavior enable a man to act naturally as an individual within shared assumpti
47、ons while taking his place in society. “Politeness is no constraint, precisely because the manners.are no code but a language, rich, flexible, restrained and infinitely subtle.“ For Anthony OHear, professor of philosophy at the University of Bradford, manners are closely associated with the differen
48、t forms of behavior appropriate to age and status. They curb both the impetuosity of youth and the bitterness of old age. Egalitarianism, he says, has led to people failing to act their age.“We have vice-chancellors with earrings, aristocrats as hippies.the trendy vicar on his motorbike.“ Dr. Athena
49、 Leoussi, sociology lecturer at Reading University, bemoans the deliberate neglect by people of their sartorial appearance. Dress, she says, is the outward expression of attitudes and aspirations. The ubiquitousness of jeans “displays a utilitarian attitude“ that has“led to the cultural impoverishment of everyday life“. Dr. Leoussi says that while clothes used to be seen as a means of concealing taboo forces of sexuality and violence, certain fashions such as leather jackets have
