[外语类试卷]专业英语八级模拟试卷457及答案与解析.doc
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1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 457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 Some Premises under Which Linguists Operate When we do linguistic research, we need to know some of the p
3、remises under which linguists operate first. Premise I: a descriptive rather than a prescriptive discipline to describe (1)_of language not to pass prescriptive judgments Premise II: systematicness of language variety (2)_grounds: dialects always having regular rules Theoretical grounds: impossible
4、to acquire the language if its not systematic and (3)_ Premise III: more (4)_to speech rather than writing Written language: lack of information about the pronunciation Literacy: a (5) _ skill than speech Premise IV: (6)_to have variation in languages A. Differences in vocabulary Example: a carbonat
5、ed soft drink B. Differences in (7)_ Example: greasy C. Differences in (8)_ Morphology: the structure or forms of words Example: “un“ and “happy“ in “unhappy“ (9)_: the structure of larger units Example: auxiliaries in English yes/no questions D. Variation in language use not having been (10)_by dia
6、lect geographers coming from studies of different social groups SECTION B INTERVIEW 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
7、 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 Who makes the final decision whether a person can enter the United States? ( A) Visa processing officials. ( B) Ambassadors of the United States. ( C) Custom officials. ( D) Immigration inspectors. 12 Under the
8、Visa Waiver Program, ( A) any people of the UK can get visas issued at the airports. ( B) the UK businessmen may enter the U.S. without visas for a short stay. ( C) all people from any country can apply for e-passport easily. ( D) all short-term students dont need to get visas beforehand. 13 For mos
9、t nonimmigrant visa appliers, which of the following is NOT a must before getting a visa issued? ( A) Making an appointment. ( B) Showing up for an interview. ( C) Having fingerprints scanned. ( D) Bringing previous visa records. 14 After the visa is successfully processed, the applicant should ( A)
10、 walk into the consular office to fetch his passport. ( B) call the consular officer to arrange time to pick up his visa. ( C) wait until his passport to be delivered to his address. ( D) spare at least 90 days before beginning to arrange his trip. 15 How long should applicants be prepared to stay a
11、t the Embassy? ( A) About half an hour. ( B) Approximately an hour. ( C) A couple of hours or so. ( D) At least half a day. 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 ite
12、m, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 Regulators imposed a temporary short-selling ban in some European nations because markets in the world ( A) rise too rapidly. ( B) fall too wildly. ( C) are too unstable. ( D) stay still for too long. 17 The 911 emergency response system up
13、dates the following new functions EXCEPT ( A) receiving text messages. ( B) responding to voice calls online. ( C) having automatic location system. ( D) transmitting videos and photos. 18 FCC chairman decided to update the technology mainly because ( A) the NG911 system can help more people. ( B) t
14、alking on phone has become out of date. ( C) telecommunications technology is developing. ( D) trapped students could not text 911. 19 What is the one good thing concerning the flooding? ( A) Only the northwestern part of the country was suffering. ( B) Many humanitarian agencies were already there
15、before the flooding. ( C) The flooding made Taliban terrorists abort their action. ( D) The weather forecast says the heaviest rainfall has gone. 20 According to the spokeswoman, what makes the humanitarian agencies work difficult? ( A) The mountains make the transportation difficult. ( B) There was
16、 not enough fuel to transport the supplies. ( C) The outbreak of diseases has caused a lot of death. ( D) The ongoing rain is damaging the roads. 20 Rarely does it get much more ironic. Marc Hauser, a professor of psychology at Harvard who made his name probing the evolutionary origins of morality,
17、is suspected of having committed the closest thing academia has to a deadly sin: cheating. It is not the first time the scientific world has been rocked by scandal. But the present furore, involving as it does a prestigious university and one of its star professors, will echo through common rooms an
18、d quadrangles far and wide. The story broke when the Boston Globe revealed that Dr. Hauser had been under investigation since 2007 for alleged misconduct at Harvards Cognitive Evolution Laboratory, which he heads. This investigation has resulted in the retraction of an oft-cited study published in 2
19、002 in Cognition, the publication last month of a correction to a paper from 2007 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, and doubts about the validity of findings published in Science, also in 2007. Dr. Hauser was the only author common to all three papers. An article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed
20、ucation added further spice. It offered unsettling accounts by anonymous graduate students and research assistants depicting Dr. Hauser as brusquely dismissive of their attempts to discuss possible improprieties in data collection and interpretation. This prompted Michael Smith, the hitherto tacitur
21、n dean of Harvards Faculty of Arts and Sciences, to react. In an open letter to the faculty, he confirmed that an internal investigation had found Dr. Haus-er “solely responsible“ for eight instances of scientific misconduct, involving the three published papers and five other pieces of research. On
22、 the same day, Dr. Hauser, who is on leave and refusing to be interviewed, issued a single contrite statement apologising for having made some “significant mistakes“. These would not be his first. So far, none of this constitutes conclusive evidence of fraud. Slapdash lab work is not the same as fab
23、ricating data and Harvard has kept mum about the precise nature of the charges, citing concerns about privacy. Many researchers, however, fear that this silence itself makes things worse and not just for Dr. Hauser and Harvard. The uncertainty about which of his results (for he has been a prolific r
24、esearcher) are up to snuff means others in the field are finding it hard to decide what to rely on in their own work. And despite Dr. Hausers professed sole responsibility, a sizeable number of his present and former wards may unfairly be tainted by association. At the least, then, Dr. Hauser stands
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