1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 471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 Why People work We may fully realize the role of work in providing us the 【 1】 _things of life. But we ma
3、y ignore its role in 【 1】 _ contributing to our【 2】 _well-being. For most people,【 2】 _ work is not only a necessity, but also the【 3】 _of 【 3】 _ their lives. Many doctors have observed its【 4】 _ 【 4】 _ effect. For many people, the absence of job is【 5】 _to【 5】 _ their health. Why people need work?
4、Firstly, people get their 【 6】 _rewards from work. Everybody wants to do 【 6】 _ something that can serve as a【 7】 _to our ability. 【 7】 _ Secondly, people need to be【 8】 _recognized. A good 【 8】 _ job can provide people with both status and【 9】 _ 【 9】 _ We are often misled by peoples complaints abou
5、t difficult work. In fact, most of them regard their own capacity to do the tough job as the mark of their unique personality. For us human beings, it is energy【 10】 _that is satisfying. 【 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: I
6、n 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 questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 What doe
7、s this interview mainly about? （ A） The need to control population both in those underdeveloped countries and in developed countries. （ B） How to control population in Europe. （ C） Scarcity of food and other resources in the world. （ D） Population and environment. 12 According to the interviewee Mrs
8、. Sutter, the reason for limiting population is that _. （ A） the world has less space for people to live in （ B） the underdeveloped countries have great problems in increasing their productivity to produce more materials （ C） population is directly related to consuming food and other resources, whic
9、h are being run out （ D） people are always destroying their living environment 13 According to the interviewee, why is it necessary to limit the population even in Europe and America? （ A） European people and American people shouldnt shirk the responsibility of the whole globe. （ B） The people in Eu
10、rope and Americas consume a far greater proportion of the worlds resources and the worlds food. （ C） The number of the people in Europe and Americas is no less than that of in underdeveloped world. （ D） They can save more to meet tile needs of the underdeveloped world. 14 According to the interviewe
11、e, under what circumstance is it possible to increase population? （ A） We raise productivity and produce more food. （ B） We are willing to eat less food and use less material. （ C） We find another planet to live on. （ D） The developed world is willing to help the underdeveloped world. 15 According t
12、o the interviewee, which section of population should free birth control techniques be NOT compulsory? （ A） Upper-middle class people. （ B） High IQ intelligentsia. （ C） Those who have less than three children. （ D） Those who have more than three children. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this
13、 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 What is the main idea of the news item? （ A） Airlines plan to develop new operating procedures. （ B） The har
14、dware installed in aircraft has been approved. （ C） UK Airlines will step up the training of cabin crew. （ D） The use of mobiles will soon be allowed on aircraft. 16 The Death of a Spouse For much of the world, the death of Richard Nixon was the end of a complex public life. But researchers who stud
15、y bereavement wondered if it didnt also signify the end of a private grief. Had the former president merely run his allotted fourscore and one, or had he fallen victim to a pattern that seems to afflict long- time married couples: one spouse quickly following the other to the grave? Pat, Nixons wife
16、 of 53 years, died last June after *a long illness. No one knows for sure whether her death contributed to his. After all, he was elderly and had a history of serious heart disease. Researchers have long observed that the death of a spouse particularly a wife is sometimes followed by the untimely de
17、ath of the grieving survivor. Historian Will Durant died 13 days after his wife and collaborator, Ariel; Buckminster Fuller and his wife died just 36 hours apart. Is this more than coincidence? “Part of the story, I suspect, is that we men are so used to ladies feeding us and taking care of us,“ say
18、s Knud Helsing, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Public health, “that when we lose a wife we go to pieces. We dont know how to take care of ourselves.“ In one of several studies Helsing has conducted on bereavement, he found that widowed men had higher mortality rates than married me
19、n in every age group. But, he found that widowers who remarried enjoyed the same lower mortality rate as men whod never been widowed. Womens health and resilience may also suffer after the loss of a spouse. In a 1987 study of widows, researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, and UC
20、, San Diego, found that they had a dramatic decline in levels of important immune - system cells that fight off disease. Earlier studies showed reduced immunity in widowers. For both men and women, the stress of losing a spouse can have a profound effect. “All sorts of potentially harmful medical pr
21、oblems can be worsened, “says Gerald Davison, professor of psychology at the University of Southern California. People with high blood pressure, for example, may see it rise. In Nixons case, Davison speculates, “the stroke, although not caused directly by the stress, was probably hastened by it.“ De
22、pression can affect the surviving spouses will to live; suicide are elevated in the bereaved, along with accidents not involving cars. Involvement in life helps prolong it. Mortality, says Duke University psychiatrist Daniel Blazer, is higher in older people without a good social - support - system,
23、 who dont feel theyre part of a group or a family, that they “fit in“ somewhere. And thats a more common problem for men, who tend not to have as many close friendships as women. The sudden absence of routines can also be a health hazard, says Blazer. “A person who loses a spouse shows deterioration
24、 in normal habits like sleeping and eating.“ he says. “They dont have that other person to orient them, like when do you go to bed, when do you wake up, when do you eat, when do you take your medication, when do you go out to take a walk? Your pattern is no longer locked into someone elses pattern,
25、so it deteriorates.“ While earlier studies suggested that the first six months to a year - or even the first week - were times of higher mortality for the bereaved, some newer studies find no special vulnerability in this initial period. Most men and women, of course do not die as a result of the lo
26、ss of a spouse. And there are ways to improve the odds. A strong sense of separate identity and lack of over - dependency during the marriage are helpful. Adult sons and daughters, siblings and friends need to pay special attention to a newly widowed parent. They can make sure that he or she is soci
27、alizing, getting proper nutrition and medical care, expressing emotion and, above all, feeling needed and appreciated. 17 According to researchers, Richard Nixons death was _. （ A） caused by his heart problems. （ B） indirectly linked to his wifes death. （ C） the inevitable result of old age. （ D） an
28、 unexplainable accident. 18 The research reviewed in the passage suggest that _. （ A） remarried men live healthier lives. （ B） unmarried men have the longest life spans. （ C） widowers have the shortest life spans. （ D） widows are unaffected by their matesdeath. 19 One of the results of grief mention
29、ed in the passage is _. （ A） loss of friendships. （ B） diminished socializing. （ C） vulnerability to disease. （ D） loss of appetite. 20 The passage states that while married couples can prepare for grieving by （ A） being serf-reliant. （ B） evading intimacy. （ C） developing habits. （ D） avoiding inde
30、pendence. 21 Helsing speculates that husbands suffer from the death of a spouse because they are _. （ A） unprepared for independence. （ B） incapable of cooking. （ C） unwilling to talk. （ D） dissatisfied with themselves. 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice
31、 questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 22 Which of the following statements are NOT true about George Gordon Byrons Childe Harold s Pilgrimage? （ A） It is a long poem. （ B） Byron used his own experiences as the material. （ C） The first canto describes the heros journey
32、in Portugal and Spain. （ D） The fourth canto describes the heros journey in Albania and Greece. 23 What is the capital of Britain? （ A） London （ B） Liverpool （ C） Manchester （ D） Birmingham 24 Edinburgh is the capital of （ A） England. （ B） Scotland. （ C） Wales. （ D） Northern Ireland. 25 Which descri
33、ption of the meaning components of the word “father“ is right? （ A） + human, + adult, male （ B） + human, adult, + male （ C） human, + adult, male （ D） + human, + adult, + male 26 “dictatorship“ has _ morphemems. （ A） 2 （ B） 3 （ C） 4 （ D） 5 27 In terms of literature, the period before the American Civ
34、il War is commonly referred to as _. （ A） the Romantic Period （ B） the Realistic Period （ C） the Naturalist Period （ D） the Modem Period 28 Which of the following statements is not true about Jefferson? （ A） He is said to have brought the American government closer to common people. （ B） He believed
35、 in the idea of self - government and pledged to support “the state government in all their - rights“. （ C） He promised to establish a “wise and frugal“ government which word “not take from the mouth of labour the bread it has earned“. （ D） He approve the pooposal of establishing the Frist Bank of t
36、he United States. 29 Who were the first known inhabitants of Britain? （ A） The Iberians. （ B） The Beaker Folk （ C） The Celts. （ D） The Romans. 30 _ made his name as a great poet with the publication of An Essay on Criticism in 1711. （ A） Alexander Pope （ B） John Bunyan （ C） Daniel Defoe （ D） Jonatha
37、n Swift 31 _is defined as the study of the relationship between language and mind. （ A） Cognitive linguistics （ B） Semantics （ C） Pragmatics （ D） Sociolinguistics 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING good does not need evil, we owe no debt to demons, and the attack did not make us better. It was an occasion to d
38、iscover what we already were. “Maybe the purpose of all this,“ New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said at a funeral for a friend, “is to find out if America today is as strong as when we fought for our independence or when we fought for ourselves as a Union to end slavery or as strong as our fathers
39、and grandfathers who fought to rid the world of Nazism“. The terrorists, he argues, were counting on our cowardice. Theyve learned a lot about us since then. And so have we. For leading that lesson, for having more faith in us than we had in ourselves, for being brave when required and rude where ap
40、propriate and tender without being trite, for not sleeping and not quitting and not shrinking from the pain all around him, Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of the World, is TIMEs 2001 Person of the Year. 三、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 44 W
41、rite an essay about 400 words entitled “Background music“. In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR. 专业英语八级模拟试卷 471答案与解析
