1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 470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 How Deer Survive Winter Like most of the wild animals, deer survive the cold winter by using energy store
3、d in the summer and fall, usually in the form of【 1】 _.They also 【 1】 _ spend【 2】 _ energy in winter than in 【 2】 _ summer. Deer always give birth to their fawns in May or June. This is good【 3】 _, because it 【 3】 _ coincides with the time when plenty of new plants are available. The mother deer mus
4、t have enough food both to meet the needs of their own bodies and to produce【 4】 _ for their fawns. As 【 4】 _ the fawns grow, they become less and less 【 5】 _on their mothers. As winter comes, 【 5】 _ deers hair becomes darker and【 6】 _. 【 6】 _ Besides, nature provides another【 7】 _to 【 7】 _ help the
5、m survive the cold weather. They become somewhat slow and drowsy. Their heart rate 【 8】 ._.This is an internal physiological 【 8】 _ response which is to【 9】 _their cost of 【 9】 _ energy. All these practices and responses that increase deers chances of survival in winter are the result of thousands o
6、f years of【 10】 _. 【 10】 _ 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. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of
7、 the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 According to Deirdre Imus, why is it important to raise green kids? （ A） Because the air, the soil and our water are seriously polluted. （ B） Because most of the products in fo
8、od chain contain harmful ingredients. （ C） Because our children will definitely use almost everything at home. （ D） Because children can hardly contact toxicity when staying with adults. 12 According to the interview, which of the following statements is CORRECT? （ A） Children and adults are all hyp
9、ersensitive to harsh smells. （ B） Children may inhale the harsh smells without noticing them. （ C） Children are immune to the harsh smells. （ D） Harsh smells are hardly able to be breathed by kids. 13 Which of the following is (are) mentioned as the biggest threat to little babies? （ A） Bleach. （ B）
10、 Plastic bottles. （ C） All the synthetic chemicals. （ D） Pesticides. 14 Deirdre Imus indicates that （ A） no pesticides could be found in organic food. （ B） conventional baby food costs more than the organic one. （ C） organic food is beneficial to childrens intelligence. （ D） conventional baby food c
11、aused a panic in public. 15 Which of the following is NOT mentioned resulting from eating food containing pesticides? （ A） Cancer. （ B） Asthma. （ C） Allergies. （ D） Influenza. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer th
12、e questions that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 What is the aim of the meeting held by EU foreign ministers in Brussels? （ A） To urge Serbia continue its European course. （ B） To discuss the upcoming elections in Serbia. （ C） To discuss
13、 the issue of Kosovo. （ D） To determine the border between Serbia and Kosovo. 16 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 Thatc
14、her, fresh from her victory in the Falklands War, was in 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
15、 older and beaten up, his reputation in shreds. Very soon, 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 Britainas in much of the rest of
16、the world Blair is considered an unpopular failure. Ive been watching Blair practically since he entered politicsat 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
17、asked the important questions about the relationships 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
18、in the eyes of the British public may never recover, but 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 iflike Blairtheyve been around
19、 for a decade. So you would never guess from a few hours 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, andwith all the inevitable caveats about disaffected young Muslim menit is the European nation most comforta
20、ble with the multicultural future that is the fate 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 ensn
21、aring Britain in the fiasco of Iraq. As the Bush Administration 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
22、/11 shook up conventional thinking in foreign affairs, 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 ev
23、en if they do not directly threaten another nations 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 sw
24、ay since the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648namely, 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
25、leader Slobodan Milosevic were so heinous that they 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 po
26、odle. He and Bill Clinton had a near falling-out 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 Kosovoand that of Britains intervention to restore order in Sierra Leone a year lateremboldene
27、d Blair to think that in certain carefully delineated 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
28、ruthless men.“ In office, moreover, Blair had become 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
29、 weapons of mass destruction now, it is only a matter 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
30、 U.S. as it responded to the attacks or that he 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
31、 WMD program. And the Middle East turned out to 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 quic
32、kly change a societys nature. “When we removed the 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
33、. When you invade someone elses country and turn 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
34、remove the Taliban and Saddam was never the only 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 Congressif radical Islam was to lose its appeal. In Britain, while m
35、aintaining a mailed fist against those suspected 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 askedWhen should
36、 we meddle in another nations life? Why should 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. 17 Which of the followin
37、g leads to Blairs failure in office? （ A） The 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. 18 According to the passage, Tony Blair and George Bush are different in_. （ A） Their positions in the world. （
38、 B） Their perspectives on the world. （ C） Their policies on foreign affairs. （ D） Their popularity in their own nations. 19 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 Blai
39、r deserves a better appraisal. （ D） compare Tony Blair and George Bush on their policies on foreign affairs. 20 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 disastrou
40、s mistake in following George Bush in foreign 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. 21 What can be inferred from the passage about the authors opin
41、ion of Tony Blair? （ A） He deserves his failure 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 question
42、s in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 22 An empire “on which the sun never sets“ is a nickname of the Britain during the reign of （ A） Queen Elizabeth I （ B） Queen Victoria （ C） Queen Mary I （ D） Henry VIII 23 _became the poet laureate in 16 （ A） John Milton （ B） John Dryden （
43、C） Benjamin Jonson （ D） Benjamin Franklin 24 Which of the following statements is TRUE for the Queen Elizabeth I? （ A） Elizabeth Is father, Henry VIII, had only one wife. （ B） Elizabeth I married soon after she became queen. （ C） Elizabeth I believed in Protestantism. （ D） Elizabeth I killed her sis
44、ter Mary I to become Queen. 25 If the maxims of cooperative principle is violated, _might occur. （ A） misleading （ B） locutionary act （ C） conversational implicature （ D） slip of tongue 26 Hamlets melancholy derives from his _. （ A） inability to avenge his father s death timely （ B） fear of being ki
45、lled in the action of revenge （ C） fear of the consequences if he should fail in the revenge （ D） painful thoughts of being deserted and betrayed by his close relatives and friends 27 North America borders both the North _ and the North _. （ A） Arctic Ocean, Indian Ocean （ B） Atlantic Ocean, Pacific
46、 Ocean （ C） Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean （ D） Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean 28 British English is spoken in _. （ A） Great Britain （ B） Australia （ C） New Zealand （ D） A, B, and C 29 In Britain, the Changing of the Guard takes place in _. （ A） Buckingham Palace. （ B） Downing Street. （ C） Victoria and A
47、lbert Museum. （ D） The Tower of London. 30 On January 1, 1901, the Commonwealth of Australia was born out of _ early colonies. （ A） 6 （ B） 8 （ C） 13 （ D） 15 31 At the beginning of the 16th century the outstanding humanist _wrote his Utopia in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the peop
48、les suffering and put forward his ideal of a future happy society. （ A） Thomas More （ B） Thomas Marlowe （ C） Francis Bacon （ D） William Shakespeare 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING glass bottles are the gold standard for baby bottles. I highly recommend glass. For whatever reason, if someone doesnt want glass and there are healthier plastic bottles, but still theyre plastic. Theyve taken out the major chemicals in them but they are still toxic. M: So, in order to raise a green child we need to put much effort in it! W: Yeah, thats true. M: Well, thank you very much for coming
