1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 468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 To see how big carriers could control the online world, you must understand its structures. Earthlink giv
3、es Jennifer access to the Internet, much in the way than an onramp puts a driver on the national highway system. Earthlink is a local internet service provider, and it will send the【 1】 to an Internet “【 2】 provider“, to route it along its way. These Internet players typically own and lease long-hau
4、l fiber-optic cables spanning a large region. They also own the communications gear that directs【 3】 over the Internet. They connect to each other to exchange data between their customers, like the highway system over which most of the freight of the Internet travels to reach its【 4】 . Now, instead
5、of the National Science Foundation, there are many of them that-link together to provide the global【 5】 , that is the Internet. The problem was, as the Internet grew, the public points became overburdened and traffic showed at these bottlenecks. So they started making arrangements with each other. A
6、nd they arent changing peers now,but there is a lot of discussion about whether they should. And the industry has not figured out how to【 6】 who owes what to whom if fees should be changed. Since the Internet was【 7】 , it has grown by leaps and bounds into a remarkably successful communications medi
7、um without government【 8】 -and most want to stay that way. But the Internet has matured to a point that more uniform rules are needed to【 9】 competition. Those who can afford to pay the price can become peers. Peering would be determined by the【 10】 rather than by a private company with its own comp
8、etitive interests. 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 seconds to answer each of the following five
9、 questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 The conversation between the Host and Chief Kufa is mainly about _. （ A） how the work of the women of Chiefs village is appreciated （ B） how the researchers at the university work for their programms （ C） how Chief Kufa comments on the women of his village
10、 （ D） how the farmers grow most of the food in Kufas village 12 Mrs. Mirla used to work for the government. Why did Mrs. Mirla come back to work in the field? （ A） Her husband asked her to give up that job as the job was not satisfactory. （ B） She lost her job at the office and had to move to anothe
11、r part of the country. （ C） Her husband got a very good job which could afford her stay at home. （ D） She wanted to find a more challenging job and her husband supported her. 13 How did Mrs. Kamanga get very high yields of grain? （ A） There was not much insect damage in her stores. （ B） She grew mor
12、e grain than the other farmers. （ C） She adopted high technology of producing grain. （ D） She used a lot of manure in her field. 14 According to the interview, we can infer that _. （ A） women dont deserve respect due to them in the village （ B） women have received enough respect in the village （ C）
13、women didnt make contributions for the development of the village （ D） womens concerns are always taken into full consideration 15 What is Chief Kufas attitude towards the work of the women farmers? （ A） Neutral. （ B） Indifferent. （ C） Negative. （ D） Positive. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In
14、 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 blast brought about heavy casualty_. （ A） because some houses are near the gas station （ B） because
15、 the gas station is located in a provincial capital （ C） because the gas station is near a mosque （ D） because the gas station runs small businesses 16 “I want to criticize the social system, and to show it at work, at its most intense.“ Virginia Woolfs provocative statement about her intentions in
16、writing Mrs. Dalloway has regularly been ignored by the critics, since it highlights an aspect of her literary interests very different from the traditional picture of the “poetic“ novelist concerned with examining states of dream and vision and with following the intricate pathways of individual co
17、nsciousness. But Virginia Woolf was a realistic as well as a poetic novelist, a satirist and social critic as well as a visionary: literary critics casual dismissal of Woolf s social vision will not withstand thorough examination. In her novels, Woolf is deeply engaged by the questions of how indivi
18、duals are shaped (or deformed) by their social environments, how historical forces impinge on peoples lives, how class, wealth, and gender help to determine peoples fates. Most of her novels are rooted in a realistically represented social setting and in a precise historical time. Woolfs focus on so
19、ciety has not been generally recognized because of her intense antipathy to propaganda in art. The pictures of reformers in her novels are usually satiric or sharply critical. Even when Woolf is fundamentally sympathetic to their causes, she portrays people anxious to reform their society and posses
20、sed of a message or program as arrogant or dishonest, unaware of how their political ideas serve their own psychological needs. (Her Writers Diary notes: “the only honest people are the artists“ whereas “these social reformers and philanthropists“ harbor discreditable desires under the disguise of l
21、oving their kind.) Woolf had an abhorrence of what she called “preaching“ in fiction, too, and criticized novelist D. H. Lawrence (among others) for working by this method. Woolfs own social criticism is expressed in the language of observation rather than in direct commentary, since for her, fictio
22、n is a contemplative, not an active art. She describes phenomena and provides materials for a judgment about society and social issues: it is the readers work to put the observations together and understand the coherent point of view behind them. As a moralist, Woolf, works by indirection, subtly un
23、dermining officially accepted mores, mocking, suggesting, calling into question, rather than asserting, advocating, bearing witness: hers is the satirists art. Woolf s literary models were acute social observers like Chekhov and Chaucer. As she put it in The Common Reader, “It is safe to say that no
24、t a single law has been framed or no stone set upon another because of anything Chaucer said or wrote; and yet, as we read him, we are absorbing morality at every pore.“ Like Chaucer, Woolf chose to understand as well as to judge, to know her society root and branch a decision crucial in order to pr
25、oduce art rather than polemic. 17 Which is the best title for the passage? （ A） Poetry and Satire as Influences on the Novels of Virginia Woolf （ B） Virginia Woolf: Critic and Commentator on the Twentieth-Century Novel （ C） Trends in Contemporary Reform Movements as a key to Understanding Virginia W
26、oolf s Novels （ D） Virginia Woolf s Novels: Critical Reflections on the Individual and on Society 18 In the first paragraph of the passage, the authors attitude toward the literary critics can best be described as_. （ A） scornful （ B） ironic （ C） humorous （ D） skeptical but resigned 19 Woolf chose C
27、haucer as a literary model because she believed that_. （ A） Chaucer was the first English author to focus on society as a whole （ B） Chaucer was an honest and forthright author, whereas novelists like D.H. Lawrence did not （ C） Chaucer was more concerned with understanding his society （ D） Chaucers
28、writing was effective in influencing the moral attitudes of his readers 20 The most probable reason Woolf realistically described the social setting in the majority of her novels was that she_. （ A） was aware that contemporary literary critics considered the novel to be the most realistic of literar
29、y genres （ B） was interested in the effect of a persons social milieu on his or her character and actions （ C） needed to be as attentive to detail as possible in her novels in order to support the arguments （ D） wanted to show that a painstaking fidelity in the representation of reality did not hamp
30、er the artist 21 The author implies that a major element of the satirists art is the satirists_. （ A） consistent adherence to a position of lofty disdain when viewing the weaknesses of humanity （ B） insistence on the helplessness of individuals against the social forces that seek to determine an ind
31、ividuals fate （ C） cynical disbelief that visionaries can either enlighten or improve their societies （ D） refusal to indulge in debates when presenting social ethics to readers for their examination 22 The passage supplies information for answering which of the following questions? （ A） Have litera
32、ry critics ignored the social criticism inherent in the works of Chekhov and Chaucer? （ B） Does the author beiieve that Woolf is solely an introspective and visionary novelist? （ C） What are the social causes with which Woolf shows herself to be sympathetic in her writings? （ D） Was D.H. Lawrence as
33、 concerned as Woolf was with creating realistic settings for his novels? 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 23 England has an area of more than 130 000 square kilometers which takes up n
34、early _of the whole island. （ A） 70% （ B） 60% （ C） 40% （ D） 75% 24 Charles Dickens describes the Chartist Movement in his novel named_. （ A） A Tale of Two Cities （ B） Oliver Twist （ C） Great Expectations （ D） Hard Times 25 _proposed the New Deal. （ A） Roosevelt （ B） Wilson （ C） Nixon （ D） Kennedy 26
35、 Which of the following does NOT fall into dialectal varieties? （ A） Regional dialects. （ B） Sociolects. （ C） Registers. （ D） Idiolects. 27 Field, mode and tenor analysis belong to the field of_. （ A） interference （ B） idiolect （ C） dialect （ D） register 28 Sister Carrie. was written by _. （ A） Will
36、iam Faulkner （ B） Henry. James （ C） Theodore Dreiser （ D） Herman Melville 29 Walt Whitman helped to promote the development of _. （ A） sonnet （ B） couplet （ C） blank verse （ D） free verse 30 The novel _ by Samuel Richardson is considered the first English psycho-analytical novel. （ A） Pamela （ B） Ro
37、binson Crusoe （ C） Jonathan Wild （ D） Amelia 31 John Miltons Paradise Lest was based on _. （ A） a Roman myth （ B） the Bible （ C） a Greek myth （ D） one of Shakespeares plays 32 _is the scientific study of the internal structure of words and of the rules by which words are formed. （ A） Semantics （ B）
38、Syntax （ C） Pragmatics （ D） Morphology 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING to ensure the safety of“保卫，保护。 10 【正确答案】 market 【试题解析】 这一句中关键要理解好 peer的含义。 “peer“为 “one who has equal standing with another.“同等竞争力的对手，同事 SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully
39、 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 interview. 10 【听力原文】 Host: Welcome to todays show, “The women of my village.“ In this pro
40、gram the respected Village Headman, Chief Kufa, will be with us. Here is Chief Kufa now. Chief Kufa: Greetings to you all. I want to start todays program by telling you something that has been bothering me. I feel that here in my village we do not value and appreciate the work of women farmers. In f
41、act their work is often ignored. Host: Who are the women of your village? Chief Kufa: The women of my village are farmers. They grow most of our food. They grow nutritious garden vegetables. They take it upon themselves to sell extra produce at the market so they can buy clothes and books for our ch
42、ildren. In my village it is the women who take care of the livestock- they cut feed for animals and take cattle to graze They make medicines from wild plants. They have special ways to store seeds. They preserve fish, meat, vegetables and fruits by smoking or drying them. Need I say more? Im sure yo
43、u understand that they are very hardworking. Many times I have thought about how to calculate the value of womens work. It is difficult to measure, but if we could measure their work in local money- well, it would be a lot of money. Host: Dear listeners, do you agree with Chief Kufa? The Chief is pr
44、oud of the women. Can you under stand why? Chief Kufa: Welcome back. Ive invited two women farmers from my village to talk with us today. Ive asked them here because they both operate successful farms. You will be interested to know the reasons for their success. It is my pleasure to introduce Mrs.
45、Mirla and Mrs. Kamanga. A respectful good-day to you Both. Mrs. Mirla and Mrs. Kamanga: Good-day Chief Kufa. Chief Kufa: Lets start our discussion right away. Mrs. Kamanga, may I start with you? In our village you are known as a farmer who gets very high yields of grain. Is it possible for you to ex
46、plain your high yields of maize and sorghum? Kamanga: I have a secret to tell you. I dont really grow more grain than the other farmers. But I store the grain very carefully so the insects dont get it! Let me tell you how I do it. First, like many other farmers, I store my grain. Then, I mix the gra
47、in with different things to protect it from pests. I am always trying new methods. I have tried wood ash, powder from soap nuts, nochi leaves, neem leaves and eucalyptus leaves. When one of these methods works-I use it. So, Chief Kufa, I always have a lot of grain to sell and the reason, as I have s
48、aid, is that there is not much insect damage in my stores. Host： Women are experts at food storage. They have special ways of storing grains and other foods. They experiment with different ways of storing foods just like researchers at the university. They do their research in their homes, and their
49、 fields and gardens. Chief Kufa: Hello again to our listeners. Were back with Mrs. Mirla and Mrs. Kamanga discussing their successful farm businesses. Mrs. Mirla, I remember that you used to have a job with the government. But lately I see you working in the field every day. Why did you come back to farming? Mirla: Chief Kufa, I lost my job with the government five years ago because the office moved to another part of the country. My husband was also unemployed. He has
