1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 448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 Using Mind Maps to Develop Writing I. A mind map: a strategy for making notes on a topic A. Mind map: str
3、uctured strategy shows the hierarchical relationship of ideas helps with writing with organised information B. Brainstorming: (1)_ (1)_ produces notes at random leads to problems with the (2)_of students texts (2)_ II. The advantages of mind maps A. Enable students to see the relationship between id
4、eas B. Encourage them to group certain ideas together as they proceed C. Aid the (3)_in group work (3)_ III. How to make mind maps with your students A. Choosing a topic 1. topics chosen by teachers: traditional method students: increase (4)_with the topic (4)_ 2. The mind map strategy is suitable f
5、or any topic, especially discursive essays and narrative work B. Note making 1. close eyes and think about the topic: 1 or 2 minutes 2. note down their ideas: 2 minutes Note: Dont use (5)_ (5)_ 3. compare and discuss their ideas in groups: chance for (6)_ (6)_ C. Feedback: (7)_but useful for weak st
6、udents (7)_ remaining language problems can be ironed out. students will learn how to express their ideas in English. D. (8)_: into a linear format (8)_ first: think about the overall structure second: focus on the precise function each paragraph will have third: provide a (9)_. (9)_ E. Writing exch
7、ange their writings: (10)_ (10)_ exchange their texts again: when they have finished F. Continuation: use this skill for further writing activities. SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questio
8、ns 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 According to the passage, which of the following is NOT likely to be provided by vocation rentals? （ A） Laundry services. （ B）
9、 Internet access. （ C） Cooking facilities. （ D） Parking lot. 12 What is the main finding of Gabes research? （ A） Sleeping in the countryside of France can be quite cheap. （ B） The more people who travel together, the cheaper accommodations they can get. （ C） Renting offers a great choice for family
10、travellers. （ D） We can find wonderful accommodations if we do enough researches beforehand. 13 Which is NOT recommended as a means to avoid problems at a vacation rental? （ A） Use a credit card to pay. （ B） See the reviews of former renters. （ C） Get a contract before you pay. （ D） Buy things on EB
11、ay. 14 According to Gabe vocation rentals are ideal for the following occasions EXCEPT_. （ A） birthday get-aways （ B） honeymoon trips （ C） romantic get-aways with your spouse （ D） bachelorette parties 15 Vocation rental is recommended for the following places EXCEPT_. （ A） Hawaii （ B） Chicago （ C） F
12、lorida （ D） Mexico 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 seconds to answer the questions. 16 Which of the following is TRUE about the expl
13、osion? （ A） 9 people were in critical condition. （ B） Some sport utility vehicles were damaged. （ C） 2 people were wounded by the blast. （ D） A small patch of sand was burnt black. 17 What is Mr. Sarkozy s purpose of visiting Westminster Abby? （ A） To address both Houses of Parliament. （ B） To enjoy
14、 a glittering state banquet. （ C） To honor the unknown soldier. （ D） To meet Prince Charles and his wife. 18 Which of the following indicates the exact sequence of the places Sarkozy will visit? （ A） Windsor CastleWestminster AbbyRoyal Gallery. （ B） Royal GalleryWestminster AbbyWindsor Castle. （ C）
15、Westminster AbbyWindsor CastleRoyal Gallery. （ D） Westminster AbbyRoyal GalleryWindsor Castle. 19 What is the main idea of the news item? （ A） Seals have been ruthlessly hunted in Canada. （ B） The EU considers measures against Canada on seal hunt. （ C） Canada encourages hunters to take pelts from se
16、als. （ D） The EU has already banned Canadian seal products. 20 What has been the major concern of the EU over a wider ban since the 1983 barring? （ A） It might affect hunters and their communities. （ B） It might destroy free trade within the EU. （ C） It might invite retaliation from Canada. （ D） It
17、might be criticized by animal activists. 20 Catholic theology says that heaven awaits the pure of heart while hell is reserved for unrepentant sinners. For the sinful but penitent middle, however, there is the option of purgatorya bit of fiery cleansing before they are admitted to eternal bliss. Nor
18、 is inflicting pain to achieve purification restricted to the afterlife. Self-flagellation is reckoned by many here on Earth to be, literally, good for the soul. Surprisingly, the idea that experiencing pain reduces feelings of guilt has never been put to a proper scientific test. To try to correct
19、that, Brock Bastian of the University of Queensland, in Australia, recruited a group of undergraduates for what he told them was a study of mental acuity. At the start of the study, 39 of the participants were asked to write, for 15 minutes, about a time when they had behaved unethically. This sort
20、of exercise is an established way of priming people with the feelings associated with the subject written about. As a control, the other 23 wrote about an everyday interaction that they had had with someone the day before. After the writing, all 62 participants completed a questionnaire on how they
21、felt at that specific moment. This measured, among other things, feelings of guilt on a scale from one (very slightly guilty or not at all) to five (extremely guilty). Participants were then told they were needed to help out with a different experiment, associated with physical acuity. The 23 who ha
22、d written about everyday interactions and 20 of the 39 who had written about behaving unethically were asked to submerge their non-dominant hand (ie, left, if they were right-handed, and vice versa) into a bucket of ice for as long as they could. The remaining 19 were asked to submerge their non-dom
23、inant hand into a bucket of warm water for 90 seconds, while moving paper clips one at a time between two boxes, to keep up the illusion of the task being related to physical capabilities. That done, participants were presented with the same series of questions again, and asked to answer them a seco
24、nd time. Then, before they left, they were asked to rate on a scale of zero (no hurt) to five (hurts worst) how much pain they experienced in the warm water and the ice. Dr. Bastian reports in Psychological Science that those who wrote about immoral behaviour exposed themselves to the ice for an ave
25、rage of 86.7 seconds whereas those who had written about everyday experiences exposed themselves for an average of only 64.4 seconds. The guilty, then, either sought pain out or were inured to it. That they sought it out is suggested by the pain ratings people reported. Those who had written about i
26、mmoral behaviour rated the ice-bucket experience at an average of 2.8 on the pain scale. The others rated it at 1.9. (Warm water was rated 0.1 by those who experienced it.) Furthermore, the pain was, indeed, cathartic. Those who had been primed to feel guilty and who were subjected to the ice bucket
27、 showed initial and follow-up guilt scores averaging 2.5 and 1.1 respectively. By contrast, the “non-guilty“ participants who had been subjected to the ice bucket showed scores averaging 1.3 and 1.2almost no difference, and almost identical to the post-catharsis scores of the “guilty“. The third gro
28、up, the guilt-primed participants who had been exposed to the warm bucket and paper clips, showed scores averaging 2.2 and 1.5. That was a drop, but not to the guilt-free level enjoyed by those who had undergone trial by ice. Guilt, then, seems to behave in the laboratory as theologians have long cl
29、aimed it should. It has a powerful effect on willingness to tolerate pain. And it can be assuaged by such pain. Atonement hurts. But it seems to workon Earth at least. (From The Economist; 631 words) 21 Who will enjoy eternal happiness according to catholic theology? （ A） Those with pure soul. （ B）
30、Those who are penitent about what theyve done. （ C） Those who have gone through purgatory. （ D） Both A and 22 Why were students asked to write about what they had done the day before? （ A） To prove that pain reduces feelings of guilt. （ B） To remind them of their past. （ C） To associate them with gu
31、ilty feelings. （ D） To compare their actions with other participants. 23 Why were the subjects asked to move paper clips during the test? （ A） To get them distracted to alleviate their pain. （ B） To see whether they can get two things done at the same time. （ C） To make them believe that the activit
32、y is related to physical limitation. （ D） None of the above. 24 Which word is closest in meaning to “cathartic“ in Para. 4? （ A） Emotional. （ B） Temporary. （ C） Transitional. （ D） Bipolar. 25 What can be learned from the passage? （ A） Guilty people are more painful. （ B） Guilt can be relieved by phy
33、sical agony. （ C） Guilty people tend to forget things more quickly. （ D） Guilt might impair physical sensitivity. 25 At 14, though not later in life, Henry Robinson Luce was a great supporter of a revolution, the Chinese revolution of 1912. He wrote to a friend who was visiting Luces missionary pare
34、nts in China, welcoming him to “a great land, peopled by a great nation, endowed with a great past, overshadowed by a greater future.“ It was, he added, “the greatest and most stupendous Reformation in all history.“ Luce achieved much in his life. By sheer effort he won the glittering prizes at Yale
35、, where he, a poor scholarship boy and undistinguished at games, made Skull and Bones, the secret society that was the nursery of the American establishment. He was helped through university by the wealthy widow of Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the combine harvester, who had been persuaded by Father
36、Luce to stump up for his China mission. With his more flashily gifted Yale chum, Brit Hadden, he founded Time magazine. After Haddens early death Luce went on to become the autocratic and fabulously wealthy boss of Time Inc, publisher of Time, Fortune, Life and Sports Illustrated. He persuaded Presi
37、dent Eisenhower that Mrs Clare Boothe Luce, his talented, neurotic wife, should be posted to Rome as the American ambassador. Luce tried, with little success, to play kingmaker in presidential politics. In 1940 Time editors winced as he turned the magazine into a campaign puff for Wendell Willkie, a
38、nd in 1948 Time was “as wrong as everyone else“ in its confidence that Thomas Dewey would beat Harry Truman, whom Luce called “a vulgar little Babbitt“. He hated Roosevelt. Where Luce was not wrong was in his famous essay, published in February 1941, that this would be “an American Century“. His poi
39、nt was not imperial, but idealistic, even chiliastic. It was Americas time, he wrote, “to be the powerhouse from which the ideals spread throughout the world and do their mysterious work of lifting the life of mankind from the level of the beasts to what the Psalmist called a little lower than the a
40、ngels.“ Luce soon forgot the few words of Mandarin he learned from his amah or nanny, but never did he forget his beloved China, the country he had seen through the eyes of a missionarys child in an impoverished province. He worshipped Chiang Kai-shek, corrupt dictator and historic loser. To an imag
41、inary China, he dedicated his life. In this superb biography Alan Brinkley, a Columbia University historian, has told the curiously depressing story of a brilliant man who got everything wrong, including so many of the things that mattered most to him. Mr Brinkley has an eye for both the telling det
42、ail and the broad sweep of Luces role as the man who saw the need for a national news magazine and foresaw the American century. Time style, with its heroic epithets and inverted sentences (memorably parodied in a New Yorker profile by Wolcott Gibbs, with its famous last line, “where it all will end
43、, knows God“) was the legacy of Luces and Haddens classical education at Yale. Luce tried to use his magazines to convert Americans to his ideas. He was largely frustrated by his editors, who ignored his political directives. Like Lord Beaverbrook (with whose granddaughter, Jeanne Campbell, Luce had
44、 the last serious love affair of his life), he liked left-wing writers, among them Archibald MacLeish, Dwight Macdonald and Daniel Bell, who despised his conservatism. Mr Brinkley pleads that Luce was less “fevered“ than other cold warriors, his attitude to domestic communism “more nuanced“. He did
45、call for “the liberation of China“ and a “rollback of the Iron Curtain with tactical atomic weapons“, and once speculated about “plastering Russia with 500 (or 1,000) A bombs“. He was a passionate believer in the superior material culture and the “national purpose“ of America. He died of a massive h
46、eart attack in 1967, just as his crusade against communism in Asia was stumbling towards its own death in Vietnam. (From The Economist; 653 words) 26 Which is NOT cited as an example of Luces achievements in life? （ A） He received scholarship from Yale. （ B） He set up Skull and Bones. （ C） He co-fou
47、nded Time magazine. （ D） He supported Chinese revolution. 27 According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true of Luce? （ A） He was poor in childhood. （ B） He believed that America would become the world leader. （ C） He was always wrong in political standpoints. （ D） He doesnt like Truman
48、 and Roosevelt. 28 We can learn from the passage that Time magazine_. （ A） was battlefield of left-wing writers （ B） mainly reported news in the country （ C） swayed the American presidential campaign （ D） was edited by Luce himself 29 We can learn from the last paragraph that_. （ A） Luce, unlike oth
49、er left-wing politicians, supported communism （ B） Luce was not very passionate in global politics （ C） Luce once died from heart attack in Vietnam （ D） Luce was affirmative of military actions against communist countries 30 The tone of the passage can most probably be described as_. （ A） factual （ B） serious （ C） jokey （ D） laudatory 30 “Some literary works are mortal; Jane Austens are immortal,“ writes Harold Bloo
