1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 466 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 There are two common set images of the Australian male: a)the【 1】 and Neanderthal male - great for a bil
3、l and a laugh. b)【 2】 - a businessman who conceals the dorsal fin of a shark under a grey suit. Characters of Australians: . Not【 3】 by nature, refer to each other on【 4】 , and speak their minds. . Men tend to get together to relax -【 5】 and going to the footy. . A typical Australian party【 6】 men a
4、nd women. . Greeting. In【 7】 , men shake hands with others but women usually do not shake hands with other women. With good friends, males【 8】 each other on the shoulder, women kiss one another. . Being invited to a party: The host or the hostess introduces you to others; it is【 9】to bring gifts at
5、the first meeting. . Being modest about【 10】 your own horn and achievements. 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 everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questio
6、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 When visiting companies, Kevins objective is to _. （ A） improve staff productivity （ B） identify problem areas （ C） retrain we
7、ak management （ D） manage the company 12 Difficulties at Criterion Glass stemmed from lack of attention to （ A） competitors designs （ B） quality of merchandise （ C） consumer demand （ D） craftsmanship of product 13 Kevin blames his early business difficulties on _. （ A） inexperience with new companie
8、s （ B） lack of knowledge of the financial sector （ C） bad advice from established organizations （ D） lack of advice 14 He defends his unusual personal style by saying that _. （ A） it is important in business to make a strong impression （ B） image and ability are equally important （ C） most business
9、people are too serious and traditional （ D） his business ideas are more important than his appearance 15 His final advice to people starting in business is to _. （ A） make every effort to prevent mistakes （ B） find the best sources of information （ C） maintain a positive attitude at all times （ D） t
10、ake risks 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 The new strategic agreement calls for closer cooperati
11、on in _. （ A） trade and foreign affairs （ B） politics and economy （ C） defense and security （ D） culture and education 17 Who is the Singaporean Prime Minister scheduled to meet with on Wednesday? （ A） U.S. Secretary of State （ B） The leaders of U.S. Congress （ C） U.S. Secretary of Defence （ D） U.S.
12、 Secretary of Finance 17 When Tony Blair was elected to Britains House of Commons in 1983, he was just 30, the Labour Partys youngest M.P. Labour had just fought and lost a disastrous election campaign on a far-left platform, and Margaret Thatcher, fresh from her victory in the Falklands War, was in
13、 her pomp. The opposition to Thatcher was limited to a few ancient warhorses and a handful of bright young things. Blair, boyish Blair, quickly became one of the best of the breed. Nobody would call Blair, 54 on May 6, boyish today. His face is older and beaten up, his reputation in shreds. Very soo
14、n, he will announce the timetable for his departure from office. In a recent poll for the Observer newspaper, just 6% of Britons said they found Blair trustworthy, compared with 43% who thought the opposite. In Britain as in much of the rest of the world Blair is considered an unpopular failure. Ive
15、 been watching Blair practically since he entered politics at first close up from the House of Commons press gallery, later from thousands of miles away. In nearly a quarter-century, I have never come across a public figure who more consistently asked the important questions about the relationships
16、between individuals, communities and governments or who thought more deeply about how we should conduct ourselves in an interconnected world in which loyalties of nationality, ethnicity and religion continue to run deep. Blairs personal standing in the eyes of the British public may never recover, b
17、ut his ideas, especially in foreign policy, will long outlast him. Britons (who have and expect an intensely personal relationship with their politician) love to grumble about their lot and their leaders, especially if like Blair theyve been around for a decade. So you would never guess from a few h
18、ours down the pub how much better a place Britain is now than it was a decade ago. Its more prosperous, its healthier, its better educated, and with all the inevitable caveats about disaffected young Muslim men it is the European nation most comfortable with the multicultural future that is the fate
19、 of all of them. It would be foolish to give all the credit for the state of this blessed plot to Blair but equally foolish to deny him any of it. In todays climate, however, this counts for naught compared with the blame that Blair attracts for ensnaring Britain in the fiasco of Iraq. As the Bush A
20、dministration careered from a war in Afghanistan to one in Iraq, with Blair always in support, it became fashionable to say the Prime Minister had become the Presidents poodle. This attack both misreads history and misunderstands Blair. Long before 9/11 shook up conventional thinking in foreign affa
21、irs, Blair had come by two beliefs he still holds: First, that it is wrong for the rest of the world to sit back and expect the U.S. to solve the really tough questions. Second, that some things a state does within its borders justify intervention even if they do not directly threaten another nation
22、s interests. Blair understood that today any countrys problems could quickly spread. As he said in a speech in 2004, “Before Sept. 11,I was already reaching for a different philosophy in international relations from a traditional one that has held sway since the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 namely,
23、that a countrys internal affairs are for it and you dont interfere unless it threatens you, or breaches a treaty, or triggers an obligation of alliance.“ Blairs thinking crystallized during the Kosovo crisis in 1999. For Blair, the actions of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic were so heinous that th
24、ey demanded a response. There was nothing particularly artful about the way he put this. In an interview with Blair for a TV film on Kosovo after the war, I remember his justifying his policy as simply “the right thing to do.“ But Blair was nobodys poodle. He and Bill Clinton had a near falling-out
25、over the issue of ground troops. (Blair was prepared to contemplate a ground invasion of Kosovo, an idea that gave Clintons team the vapors.) The success of Kosovo and that of Britains intervention to restore order in Sierra Leone a year lateremboldened Blair to think that in certain carefully delin
26、eated cases the use of force for humanitarian purposes might make sense. As far back as 1999, he had Iraq on his mind. In a speech in Chicago at the height of the Kosovo crisis, Blair explicitly linked Milosevic with Saddam Hussein: “two dangerous and ruthless men.“ In office, moreover, Blair had be
27、come convinced of the dangers that weapons of mass destruction (WMD) posed. He didnt need 9/11 to think the world was a risky place. As a close colleague of Blairs said to me in 2003, just before the war in Iraq, “He is convinced that if we dont tackle weapons of mass destruction now, it is only a m
28、atter of time before they fall into the hands of rogue states or terrorists. If George Bush wasnt pressing for action on this, Blair would be pressing George Bush on it.“ To those who knew him, there was simply never any doubt that he would be with the U.S. as it responded to the attacks or that he
29、would stay with the Bush Administration if it close to tackle the possibility that Iraq had WMD. The Prime Minister, of course, turned out to be disastrously wrong. By 2003, Iraq was already a ruined nation, long incapable of sustaining a sophisticated WMD program. And the Middle East turned out to
30、be very different from the Balkans and West Africa. In a region where religious loyalties and fissures shape societies and where the armies of “the West“ summon ancient rivalries and bitter memories, it was naive to expect that an occupation would quickly change a societys nature. “When we removed t
31、he Taliban and Saddam Hussein,“ Blair told Congress in 2003, “this was not imperialism. For these oppressed people, it was their liberation.“ But we have learned the hard way that it is not for the West to say what is imperialism and what is liberation. When you invade someone elses country and turn
32、 his world upside down, good intentions are not enough. Yet that on its own is not a sufficient judgment on Tony Blair. He will forever be linked to George Bush, but in crucial ways they saw the world very differently. For Blair, armed intervention to remove the Taliban and Saddam was never the only
33、 way in which Islamic extremism had to be combated. Far more than Bush, he identified the need to settle the Israel-Palestine dispute “Here it is that the poison is incubated,“ he told Congress if radical Islam was to lose its appeal. In Britain, while maintaining a mailed fist against those suspect
34、ed of crimes, he tried to treat Islam with respect. He took the lead in ensuring that the rich nations kept their promises to aid Africa and lift millions from the poverty and despair that breed support for extremism. The questions Blair asked When should we meddle in another nations life? Why shoul
35、d everything be left to the U.S.? What are the wellsprings of mutual cultural and religious respect? How can the West show its strength without using guns? will continue to be asked for a generation. We will miss him when hes gone. 18 Which of the following leads to Blairs failure in office? （ A） Th
36、e war in Iraq. （ B） His ideas in foreign policy. （ C） His close relationship with George Bush. （ D） His good intention to help the Iraqi people. 19 According to the passage, Tony Blair and George Bush are different in_. （ A） Their positions in the world. （ B） Their perspectives on the world. （ C） Th
37、eir policies on foreign affairs. （ D） Their popularity in their own nations. 20 The main purpose of the passage is to_. （ A） criticize Tony Blairs policy on foreign affairs. （ B） exemplify that Tony Blair is a political failure. （ C） justify that Tony Blair deserves a better appraisal. （ D） compare
38、Tony Blair and George Bush on their policies on foreign affairs. 21 Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage? （ A） Tony Blair has his own thinking in foreign affairs rather than follow anyone. （ B） Tony Blair makes a disastrous mistake in following George Bush in foreig
39、n affairs. （ C） People think that Tony Blair follows George Bush in the policies on the Middle East. （ D） People are wrong when they think Tony Blair is a follower of Americans foreign policy. 22 What can be inferred from the passage about the authors opinion of Tony Blair? （ A） He deserves his fail
40、ure in office. （ B） He is unpopular in his foreign policy. （ C） He deserves better than conventional thinking. （ D） He is naive in the use offeree in foreign affairs. 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to
41、 each question. 23 The state church in England is_. （ A） the Roman Catholic Church （ B） the Baptist Church （ C） the Protestant Church （ D） the Church of England 24 The most important issue in Anglo-American diplomacy after the Pearl Harbour Incident was_. （ A） the formation of a union （ B） the formu
42、lation of a grand strategy （ C） the opening of the Second Front （ D） the attitude towards the Soviet Union 25 Which of the following poems is NOT written by Alfred Tennyson. （ A） Poems by Two Brothers （ B） The Princess （ C） Idylls of the King （ D） The Song of the Shirt 26 The word “tail“ once referr
43、ed to “the tail of a horse“ ,but now it is used to mean “the tail of any animal“. This is an example of （ A） widening of meaning. （ B） narrowing of meaning. （ C） meaning shift. （ D） loss of meaning. 27 The Catcher in the Rye is written by_. （ A） J.D.Salinger （ B） Jack London （ C） Mark Twain （ D） Sau
44、l Bellow 28 Which of the following is an affricate? （ A） g （ B） z （ C） t （ D） dr 29 The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following EXCEPT_. （ A） friendship （ B） love and marriage （ C） life and death （ D） war and peace 30 John Dryden was an English_. （ A） poet and dramatist （ B） novelist （ C） pla
45、ywright （ D） essayist 31 English Elizabethan age was most celebrated for its achievements in _. （ A） poetry （ B） novel （ C） essay （ D） drama 32 The best known of_s novels are Sons and Lovers and Women in Love. （ A） D.H. Lawrence （ B） T.S. Eliot （ C） John Galsworthy （ D） George Bernard Shaw 二、 PART I
46、V PROOFREADING yet it is usually a powerful aid. For the infant nation, victory in the war and for the republican principle came as a heartening overture. The United States was brand new, or almost so; old errors and temptations had been shunned, and the book of history lay open at a clean page. The
47、 former Puritan confidence in posterity had been retained, as we can see from Paines words; but though Puritan optimism had not been rosy enough to embrace human nature, the emphasis in these glad deistic(自然神教的 ) days now shifted from duties to rights, from innate depravity to innate virtue. 三、 PART
48、 VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 36 Neighbors are the people who live near us. In your opinion, what are the qualities of a good neighbor? Use specific details and examples, write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic: The Q
49、ualities of a Good Neighbor In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization , grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of
