1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 486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 to Build Your Vocabulary Effectively Vocabulary is the (1) _ of learning a language, with the help of
3、 it, all the skills could be learned well. Here are some methods to build your vocabulary effectively: I. Be aware of the words guess a words meaning from its (2) _ look up the word (3) _ write down words of interest to you n. Gain vocabulary through reading A. Why read: (4) _what to learn check on
4、what you have learned B. What to read; what attracts you what are (5) _for you HI. Use dictionary as a/an (6) _ keep it at hand use a good dictionary in your workplace check up the various meanings of one word get a/an (7) _of the way the word has developed from the words history IV. Review the word
5、s regularly set aside a specific amount of (8) _ look up new words and review old words set a goal for the (9)_of words and by what date keep the information on a word in one place V. Others The vital factor of vocabulary-building: the internal factor the (10) _ SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In th
6、is 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 The main ide
7、a of this interview is that_. （ A） people tend to be sick and lonely when they are old （ B） people usually have some wrong concepts about old people （ C） old people are mentally healthy though physically ill （ D） old age starts at 65 not 55 12 Which of the following statement is correct? （ A） People
8、 among the 60 to 70 age group are more lonely and more sick than among the 50 to 60 age group. （ B） There are more mental illnesses among 60 to 70 age group than among the 50 to 60 age group. （ C） The 60 to 70 age group and the 50 to 60 age group are in nearly the same mental and physical state. （ D
9、） Both groups are lonely and sick. 13 What does the speaker say about one of the influences of computer age on industry? （ A） People can work as long as they like. （ B） People may retire earlier. （ C） People may have more diseases. （ D） People may not be as healthy as before. 14 According to their c
10、onversation, which of the following statement is correct? （ A） Those people who reach the age of 65 or 70 are not the strong among us. （ B） Physical illness usually develop among the 60s and 79s. （ C） People who are healthy in middle age tend to be healthy in old age. （ D） The weak die in childhood.
11、 15 Those in the language (English) group are different from those studying maths in that_. （ A） those in language group are very interested in their studies and dont find it difficult （ B） those in language group find it too difficult to continue （ C） only the language group attend evening classes
12、（ D） the maths group improve their ability steadily 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 We know for
13、sure that _. （ A） 50 people died in the terrorist bombing （ B） there were four explosive devices involved in the terrorist bombing （ C） the attacks were not carried out by suicide bombers （ D） The Secret Organization of A1-Qaida will not be speculated on by London Police 16 Lets Not Hide Health Cost
14、s We are awash in health-care proposals. President Bush has one. So does California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden has a plan, as does a coalition led by Families USA (a liberal advocacy group) and Americas Health Insurance Plans (a trade group). To some extent, all these plan
15、s and others aim to provide insurance to the estimated 47 million Americans who lack it a situation widely deplored as a national disgrace. But the real significance of all these proposals, I submit, lies elsewhere. For decades, Americans have treated health care as if it exists in a separate econom
16、ic and political world: when people need care, they should get it; costs should remain out of sight. About 60 percent of Americans receive insurance through their employers; to most workers, the full costs are unknown. The 65-and-older population and many poor people receive government insurance. Ex
17、cept for modest Medicare premiums and payroll taxes, costs are largely buried in federal and state budgets. It is this segregation of health care from everything else that is now crumbling and the various health proposals are just one sign. We see others all the time. For example, even with employer
18、-provided insurance, workers monthly premiums (which cover only part of the costs) have skyrocketed. From 1999 to 2006, they doubled from $129 to $248. Look at Massachusetts. Last year the then Gov. Mitt Romney made headlines by signing legislation to cover all the states uninsured. The law required
19、 that everyone with incomes three times the federal poverty line buy “affordable“ insurance (people with incomes below that threshold would be subsidized on a sliding scale). Romney suggested annual premiums for a single worker might total $2,400. But when insurance companies recently provided real
20、estimates, the cost was much higher: $4,560. Is it a sensible policy to force workers with a $30,000 income about triple the poverty line to spend nearly a sixth of their budget on health insurance, as opposed to food, rent or transportation? Good question. The hard questions wont sit still, because
21、 health care (now a sixth of the economy, up from an 11th in 1980) is too big to be hidden. Myths abound. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the doubling of premiums for employer-provided coverage doesnt mean companies shifted a greater share of costs to workers. In both 1999 and 2006, premiums covere
22、d 27 percent of costs, says Paul Fronstin of the Employee Benefit Research Institute. Its simply the rapid rise in total health spending thats depressed workers take-home pay. One myth about the uninsured is that, because theyre heavy users of emergency-room services, providing them with insurance (
23、and regular care) would actually lower their costs. This may be true for some but not most. The trouble is that the uninsured dont really use emergency rooms heavily. A study on the journal Health Affairs finds that their use is similar to that of people with private insurance and half that of peopl
24、e with Medicaid. The upshot is that extending insurance to all the uninsured would be costly, because they would get more and (presumably) better care. John Sheils of the Lewin Group estimates the annual cost of their care would rise 75 percent to $145 billion. Our health-care system will inevitably
25、 combine government regulation and private enterprise. But what should the mix be? Which patients, providers and technologies should be subsidized and why? How important is health care compared with other public and private goals? Will an expanding healthcare sector spur the economy or, through high
26、 taxes and insurance premiums, retard it? We have refused to have this debate for obvious reasons. A friend of mine recently had a near-death experience; he survived only because he had superb medical care. Debating health care makes us queasy, because it pits moral imperatives (including the right
27、to live) against coldhearted economics. I dont intend to examine at least now all the new proposals. Some would do better at some goals (say, protecting the poor) than at others (say, controlling costs). But the Bush proposal does have one huge virtue: it exposes health-care costs to the broad publi
28、c. By not taxing employer-paid insurance, the government now provides a huge invisible subsidy to workers. Bush wouldnt end the subsidy, but by modifying it with specific deductions for insurance ($15,000 for families, $7,500 for singles), he would force most workers to see the costs. By contrast, s
29、ome other proposals disguise their costs. Schwarzeneggers plan shifts costs to the federal government, doctors and hospitals. Its clever, but it perpetuates the illusion that health care is cheap or even free. However our health system evolves with more government control or more market influence Am
30、ericans need to come to a more realistic understanding of its limits. Underestimating its costs and exaggerating its benefits guarantees disappointment. If the present outpouring of proposals signals a start of our needed debate, then it is long overdue. 17 According to the author, the real signific
31、ance of health proposals is_. （ A） to solve health problems （ B） to show that health care is cheap （ C） to provide insurance to the uninsured （ D） to treat health care in a realistic way 18 Which of the following is NOT a sign that shows the present situation of Americans health care? （ A） The vario
32、us health proposals. （ B） The various benefits it provides. （ C） The Massachusetts law by Mitt Romney. （ D） The increase of workers monthly premiums. 19 The word “upshot“ in paragraph six means_. （ A） myth （ B） effect （ C） outcome （ D） misunderstanding 20 According to the passage, a big difference b
33、etween the Bush proposal and the Schwarzenegger proposal is that_. （ A） the latter hides the health-care costs （ B） the former hides the health-care costs （ C） the latter does better at controlling costs （ D） the former does better at controlling costs 21 What can be inferred from the passage about
34、health care in America? （ A） American health care is cheap. （ B） The government can afford to pay health cost. （ C） Health care has become a problem to be heeded. （ D） Health care is not so serious as to affect the economy. 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-ch
35、oice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 22 Which of the following statements is NOT true? （ A） Canute was chosen by the Witan as King of England. （ B） Canute was a warrior king and fought many battles against the Normans. （ C） Canute divided power between Danes and S
36、axons. （ D） Canute forced Malcolm II, King of the Scots, to recognize him as overlord. 23 The last battle of the Wars of the Roses was at_in 148 （ A） Hastings （ B） Bosworth Field （ C） Naseby （ D） Oxford 24 The St. Lawrence and River Columbia are shared by （ A） America and Mexico. （ B） America and Ca
37、nada. （ C） America and Cuba. （ D） America and Brazil. 25 The morpheme “vision“ in the common word “television“ is a (n) （ A） bound morpheme. （ B） bound form. （ C） inflectional morpheme. （ D） free morpheme. 26 The quotation “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chew
38、ed and digested“ must come from the work by_. （ A） Bacon （ B） Lamb （ C） Pope （ D） Emerson 27 The nickname(s) of the U.S.A.is_. （ A） Uncle Sam （ B） Brother Jonathan （ C） Yankee （ D） All of the above 28 The First Continental Congress was held in _. （ A） 1773 （ B） 1774 （ C） 1775 （ D） 1776 29 _is the sm
39、allest state in all the states of America. （ A） Rhode Island （ B） Hawaii （ C） Alaska （ D） Washington State 30 The Tories were the forerunners of_, which still bears this nickname today. （ A） the Labour Party （ B） the Conservative Party （ C） the Liberal Democrats （ D） the Democratic Party 31 Chomsky
40、defines _ as the ideal users knowledge of the rules of his language. （ A） performance （ B） langue （ C） parole （ D） competence 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING against it we match our present self. Its primary function is to validate and re-create the self in all its individuality and distinctness. In doing s
41、o, it cements a sense of relationship between the serf and the otherness of the book, and allows us a notion of ourselves as sociable. Its shared knowledge is vicarious experience; by this means we enlarge our understandings of what it means to be human, of the corporate 【 B2】 _ and independent natu
42、re of human society. The act of reading the book marks 【 B3】 _ both our difference in and our place in the human fabric. The more we read, 【 B4】 _ the more we are. In the act of reading silently we are alone from the book, 【 B5】 _ separate from ones own immediate surroundings. Yet in the act of read
43、ing 【 B6】 _ we enter other minds and other places, enlarge our dialogue with the world. 【 B7】 _ Thus paradoxically, while disengaging from the immediate we are increasing its scope. In silence, reading activates a deeply creative function of consciousness. We are deeply committed to the narrative wh
44、ich we coexist while 【 B8】 _ engaged in reading. All kinds of present physical discomfort ness may be 【 B9】 _ unnoticed while we are reading, and actual time is replaced by narrative time. To imaginatively enter a fictional world by reading it is then both a liberation 【 B10】 _ from self and an expa
45、nsion of self. 32 【 B1】 33 【 B2】 34 【 B3】 35 【 B4】 36 【 B5】 37 【 B6】 38 【 B7】 39 【 B8】 40 【 B9】 41 【 B10】 SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH Directions: Translate the following text into English. 42 当前，世界多极化和经济全球化深入发展，科学技术突飞猛进，给亚洲的发展带来新的机遇，也带来新的挑战。亚洲有 49个国家和地区，大部分是发展中经济体。经济全球化，有利于它们更多地获得资金，尤其是跨国企业的投资，加快经济
46、发展和结构调整；有利于它们更好地利用自身优势，开拓国际市场，发展对外经济贸易；有利于它们更快地得到先进技术、管理经验，发挥后发优势，实现技术跨越。 同时也必须看到，经济全球化是一把双刃剑。由于不合理、不公正的 国际政治经济秩序没有得到根本改变，经济全球化加剧了各国各地区发展的不平衡性，尤其是使南北的发展差距、贫富差距进一步扩大。 SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese. 43 In the spirit of frankness which I hope will ch
47、aracterize our talks this week, let us recognize at the out set these points: We have at times in the past been enemies. We have great differences today, what brings us together is that we have common interests which transcend those differences. As we discuss our differences, either of us will compr
48、omise our principles. But while we can not close the gulf between us, we can try to bridge it so that we may be able to talk across it. So, let us, in these next five days, start a long march together, not in lockstep, but on different roads leading to the same goal, the goal of building a world structure of peace and justice in which all may stand together with equal dignity and in which each nation, large or small, has a right to determine its own form of government, free of outside interference or domination. The world watches. The world listens. The world waits to see what we will do
