1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 472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 Chinese Calligraphy Calligraphy, the writing of characters, is one of the traditional four arts and has d
3、eveloped over centuries in the history of China. Today it still has a place in museums. I. Roles of calligraphy A. a means of communication B. a way of expressing the (1) of nature (1)_ II. Characteristics of calligraphy A. Calligraphy as an expressive art: to (2) the (2)_ identity of a man B. Calli
4、graphy as a practical fine art: to be used as ornaments III. Benefits of practicing calligraphy A. getting ones subconsciousness exercised B. bringing about (3) between the mind and the body (3)_ C. enabling one to enjoy healthy life and longevity IV. Five basic script types in Chinese calligraphy A
5、. the Seal Script the oldest style, making a signature-like impression generally used in (4) today (4)_ B. the Official or Clerical Script Characters appear (5) : strokes often start thin (5)_ and end thick. still common in printing because of its elegance C. the Regular Script Characters are regula
6、r, written (6) . (6)_ most widely used and the most legible D. the Running Script Strokes may run into one another. Characters are less (7) . (7)_ E. the Cursive Script a flowing style with few angular lines Strokes are altered or removed for smooth writing or purpose _(8)_ (8)_ V. Status and influe
7、nce of calligraphy A. an important (9) for imperial court to select officials (9)_ B. an art unique to Asian cultures C. a source of inspiration to (10) (10)_ SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follo
8、w. 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 From the conversation we get the impression that _. （ A） Jassie and Pauline are classmates （ B） Jassie is an oversea
9、s student from America （ C） Pauline and Jassie are talking about a picture （ D） They are having American geography 12 What has Jassie already known about White House? （ A） White House is on the south side of Pennsylvania Ave. ,Washingten,D.C.,facing Lafayette Square. （ B） The east and west terraces,
10、 the executive office, the east wing, and a penthouse and a bomb shetter are added to the main building. （ C） It was designed by James Hoban on a site chosen by George Washington. （ D） It is the oldest public building in Washington. 13 Which one is oval in shape in White House? （ A） The East Room. （
11、 B） The Red Room. （ C） The Blue Room. （ D） The Green Room. 14 Who is the first President to live in White House? （ A） Theodore Roosevelt. （ B） John Adams. （ C） George Washington. （ D） Thomas Jefforson. 15 According to the conversation which statement about the name of the White House is True? （ A） I
12、t became official before President Theodore Roosevelt had it engraved upon his stationery. （ B） It derives the name from the color of the building. （ C） The building was restored after being burned in 1814,so the smoke -stained gray stone walls were painted white. （ D） Actually the cognomen “White H
13、ouse” was applied to the building some time before it was painted. 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.
14、16 According to the report, the sound sources that need to be restrained do NOT include _. （ A） underwater explosions （ B） oil and gas exploration （ C） whistling of ships （ D） sonar navigation 16 The first intimation, apparently, was when three-year-old Yves told his mother that her shoes did not go
15、 with her dress. They were at home in Oran, a dull commercial town in French-ruled Algeria, where Yvess father sold insurance and ran a chain of Cinemas, and Mrs. Mathieu-Saint-Laurent cut an elegant figure in colonial society. Oran had once enjoyed some small renown as the westernmost outpost of th
16、e Ottoman empire, and was to gain more later as the setting for Albert Camuss “The Plague“. But after 1936 it had a genius in the making. So, at any rate, the tribute-payers are saying. “Pure genius“, “the worlds greatest fashion designer“, “the most important designer of the 20th century“: such sup
17、erlatives have been lavished on Yves Saint Laurent for years, and perhaps they are not meant to be taken at face value. The fashion business is, after all, a part of the entertainment industry, where sycophancy, exaggeration and gushing insincerity are not unknown. Mr. Saint Laurent fitted perfectly
18、 into it. He was, for a start, quite literally a showman, a shy and stage-frightened one, but what shows he could put on! Dazzling girls strutted down the catwalk, wearing startling creations of gauze, or velvet, or feathers, or not much at all. He was an artist, a delicate, attenuated figure who dr
19、ew his inspiration from the pages of Marcel Proust, the paintings of Braque, Matisse, Picasso and Van Gogh, and the counsels of his assistant, Loulou de la Falalse. And he was troubled: by drink, by drugs and by physical frailty. He teetered perpetually on the brink of emotional collapse and sometim
20、es fell over it. In 1961, when Mr. Saint Laurent set up shop in Paris under his own name, most couturiers were not quite like this. But the times were propitious for something new. He had by then done a stint at the House of Dior, whose reputation he had restored with some dramatic designs and, in 1
21、958, after the famous founder had died, an iconoclastic collection of his own. The summons to do military service, a ghastly mental dgringolade and dismissal from Dior then intervened, and might have cut short a great career had he not gone into partnership with Mr. Berg. As it was, a series of inno
22、vations followed, with Mr. Saint Laurent responsible for the designs, Mr. Berg for the business, including the scents, scarves, unguents and over 100 other products marketed with a YSL label. The dress designs now started flying off Mr. Saint Laurents drawing board, though increasingly often with th
23、e aid of helpers. Many were short-lived, this being fashion and fashion being, by definition, ephemeral. But two departures were to last. One was that haute couture, hitherto available only to the very rich or vicariously through magazines and newspapers, should be sold worldwide in ready-to-wear sh
24、ops at a fraction of the posh price. The other was that women should be put into mens clothessafari outfits, smoking jackets, trench coats and, most enduringly, trouser suits. Women, for some reason, saw this as liberation. He was always imaginative, taking inspiration not just from artists like Mon
25、drian but also from Africa and Russian ballet. He was also capable of creating the absurd, producing, for example, a dress with conical bosoms more likely to impale than to support. But his clothes, however outr, were usually redeemed by wonderful colors and exquisite tailoring. Above all, they were
26、 stylish, and the best have certainly stood the test of time. That is no doubt because most were unusually wearable, even comfortable. At a reverential extravaganza in (and outside) the Pompidou Centre in Paris in 2002, soon after Mr. Saint Laurent had announced his retirement, many of the guests wo
27、re a lovingly preserved YSL garment. The “anarchist“, as Mr. Berg recently called him, had by now become more conservative, seeing the merits of “timeless classics“ and lamenting the banishment of “elegance and beauty“ in fashion. He believed, he said, in “the silence of clothing“. Yet perhaps he mu
28、st take some of the blame for the new cacophony. The trouser suit prepared the way for the off-track track suit; and lesser designers, believing they share his flair and originality, now think they have a license to make clothes that are merely idiotic. Perhaps it would have happened without him. In
29、 an industry largely devoid of any sense of the ridiculous, he was usually an exception. He believed in beauty, recognized it in women and, amid the meretricious, created his share of it. 17 According to the passage, （ A） Mr. Saint Laurent first showed his talent for fashion in 1958 when he worked f
30、or Dior. （ B） the superlatives having been lavished on Mr. Saint Laurent were meant to exaggerations. （ C） Mr. Saint Laurent was not free from physical and emotional sufferings in his life. （ D） Mr. Saint Laurent managed to build up his own brand name all by himself in 1961. 18 The word “sycophancy“
31、 in the second paragraph means （ A） slander. （ B） calumny. （ C） fame. （ D） flattery. 19 By the time Mr. Saint Laurent set up shop in Paris under his own name, he had always worked as a (n) （ A） showman. （ B） artist. （ C） painter. （ D） designer. 20 Which of the following is NOT true, according to the
32、 passage? （ A） Mr. Saint Laurents creations of fashion design were mostly intuitive. （ B） Mr. Saint Laurent was among the first to set up shop under his own name. （ C） Many of Mr. Saint Laurents dress designs did not stay popular for long. （ D） Mr. Saint Laurent valued the concept of beauty and eleg
33、ance in fashion. 21 Which of the following best describes Mr. Saint Laurent as seen by the author? （ A） A gifted couturier with outr and never-lasting designs. （ B） A renowned couturier who always worked for the House of Dior. （ C） A gifted fashion designer with exquisite but wearable designs. （ D）
34、A renowned fashion designer who had his own brand from the start. 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 22 The metropolitan police force of London is under the direct control of_. （ A） the
35、Prime Minister （ B） the Defense Minister （ C） the Home Secretary （ D） the Queen 23 The states of the United States, excluding Alaska and Hawaii, are often divided into _geographical regions. （ A） four （ B） five （ C） six （ D） seven 24 Who were the first settlers of the New England Region? （ A） Americ
36、an Yankees. （ B） English Puritans. （ C） German farmers. （ D） Fishermen from Scandinavia. 25 In 1932, in the depth of the depression, the American people chose _ as their next president who promised a “New Deal“ to get America out of depression. （ A） Theodore Roosevelt （ B） Franklin D. Roosevelt （ C）
37、 Woodrow Wilson （ D） Herbert C. Hoover 26 _deals with the extra meaning of the utterance produced on the basis of its literal meaning. （ A） Locutionary act （ B） Performative act （ C） Perlocutionary act （ D） Illocutionary act 27 New Deal was the program of social and economic reforms introduced by Pr
38、esident_. （ A） L.B.Johnson （ B） Franklin.D.Roosevelt （ C） Eisenhower （ D） Gerald R. Ford 28 Which of the following is NOT a suprasegmental feature? （ A） Stress. （ B） Intonation. （ C） Tone. （ D） Pitch. 29 Emily Dickinson was regarded mainly as a (n) _. （ A） novelist （ B） poet （ C） playwright （ D） ess
39、ayist 30 Which of the following is the representative of Realism? （ A） Washington Irving. （ B） James Fennimore Cooper. （ C） Nathaniel Hawthorne. （ D） Herman Melville. 31 It is generally agreed that_were the first Europeans to reach Australias shores. （ A） the French （ B） the Dutch （ C） the British （
40、 D） the Germans 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING and on the little islands, of which there were so many in these rivers, they stood in pointed masses, seemed to grip deep into the soil and to rest easy, as if they had been there for ever and would be there for ever more. 三、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Direction
41、s: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 35 The new era has witnessed an explosion of information. People can now easily search out the useful information that they need, and have become too lazy to think in their own ways. It is said that too much information spoils our cre
42、ativity and originality. Do you agree? Write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic: Too Much Information Spoil Creativity? 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 th
43、e 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 marks. Write your essay on ANSWER SHEET FOUR. 专业英语八级模拟试卷 472答案与
44、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. When the lecture
45、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 【听力原文】 Chinese Calligraphy Good morning, everyone. Todays lecture is about Chinese calligraphy. In China, calligraphy is on
46、e of the four traditional Chinese arts, the other three being guqin, chess and painting. Calligraphy dates back to the earliest days in Chinese history, and is admired and displayed in museums just as paintings are. 1 For the Chinese, the ancient art of the written word is not just a method of commu
47、nication but also a means of expressing the dynamic forces of the natural world. By controlling the concentration of ink, the thickness and absorption of the paper, and the flexibility of the brush, the artist is free to produce an infinite variety of styles and forms. Chinese calligraphy serves the
48、 purpose of conveying thought but also shows the “abstract“ beauty of the line. Rhythm, line, and structure are more perfectly embodied in calligraphy than in painting or sculpture. 2 Calligraphy is an expressive art. According to an old Chinese saying, “the way characters are written is a portrait
49、of the person who writes them“, one can “read“ the identity of the person through his or her handwriting. Expressing the abstract beauty of lines and rhythms, 2 calligraphy is a reflection of a persons emotions, moral integrity, character, educational level, and accomplishments in self-cultivation, intellectual tastes and approach to life. Calligraphy is also a practical fine art. Calligraphic inscriptions written on p
