1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 487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 Leaving Home Generally, most people have in their minds a picture of their “ideal home“, but if you are s
3、tudents or people just beginning work, the practical limitations of money and location may prevent them from finding this ideal home. Serveral ideas for you to follow: . To stay at home for a while when leaving school: 1) many advantages while staying at home; 2) depending much on how you【 1】 _ your
4、 family. 【 1】 _ . To stay in your home area by renting a house or a fiat: 1) cannot inviting your【 2】 _ to visit you freely; 【 2】 _ 2) would be rather unhappy if not geting on well with your【 3】 _. 【 3】_ . To ask【 4】 _ on campus for help in finding houses: 【 4】 _ 1) difficult in some areas because o
5、f a【 5】 _ student population; 【 5】_ 2) many【 6】 _ not willing to rent rooms to students. 【 6】 _ . To share【 7】 _ with some other students: 【 7】 _ 1) very cheap rent; 2) no old people watching over; 3) and the housework shared with room-mates; 4) causing problems if having【 8】 _ characters. 【 8】 _ .T
6、o try a bed-sitter-one room that you use as a bedroom and sitting room【 9】 _: 【 9】 _ 1) not very expensive rent; 2) easy to keep clean and cheap and to heat; 3) simple to make it feel like a real home; 4) may be always【 10】 _ if cooking; 【 10】 _ 5) might be hanging your wet clothes all round the roo
7、m; 6) can be very lonely at first. 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 th
8、e end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 Considering that the robbers _,this is quite a daring bank robbery. （ A） stole a Ford just outside the bank （ B） didnt cover the registration plate of the car （ C） park
9、ed the car just outside the bank and robbed the bank in broad daylight （ D） abandoned the car after the robbery 12 The registration number of the car the robbers drove is _. （ A） BWA59CA or BWH59CH （ B） BWV593A or BWV593H （ C） BWA593 or BWH593 （ D） BWA59C or BWH59C 13 Which of the following is TRUE?
10、 （ A） The robber fired a shot to make the customers lie on the floor. （ B） The robber fired the gun after he loaded it. （ C） The robber didnt fire the gun because it wasnt loaded. （ D） The robber didnt fire the gun although it may be loaded. 14 Which of the following is NOT TRUE? （ A） The police cam
11、e after the manager pressed the alarm bell. （ B） The police came after one customer called for help. （ C） The police came and grabbed the scarf of the robber before he made his escape. （ D） The police came after the robbers made their escape. 15 Which of the following details does not match the desc
12、ription of the robber? （ A） Long hair. （ B） Tattered jeans. （ C） Broad shoulder. （ D） A sticking plaster on the face. 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
13、 will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 John Edwards believes that it is of utmost importance _. （ A） for him to condemn Bush administration for its bad policy （ B） for him to develop a right guideline for （ C） for him to help his wife recover from illness （ D） for him to be prepared f
14、or running for president in 2008 17 Dean is _. （ A） the chairman of Democratic National Committee （ B） the chairman of Republican National Committee （ C） the spokesman of Democratic National Committee （ D） the spokesman of Republican National Committee 18 “I wouldnt want to have someone take my daug
15、hter to a hospital for an abortion or something and not tell me. I would kill him if they do that.“ So much for Arnold Schwarzeneggers typically expressive support for Proposition 73, a constitutional amendment requiring doctors to give parents 48 hours notice before carrying out an abortion on a gi
16、rl under 18. Will the voters agree with the governor? His own status erstwhile hedonist turned responsible father of two teenage girls and two pre-teen boys-reflects his states mixed feelings about sexual politics. California is one of the most sexually liberated states in the nation. It also boasts
17、 the fifth-worst rate for teenage abortions and the seventh for teenage pregnancies. In 2000, some 116,000 teenagers in California became pregnant, and almost 44,000 of them chose to have an abortion-including 1,620 under the age of 15. A recent Field Poll showed 45% of respondents in favour of the
18、amendment, 45% against and 10% undecided. The propositions advocates are careful to argue that supporting parental notification is not the same as opposing abortion full stop. Mr. Schwarzenegger is a “pro-choice Republican“ and the proposition would al-tow a minor to petition a court to allow her an
19、 abortion without notifying a parent. The real point, they say, is that a 17-year-old girl “cant get an aspirin from the school nurse, get a flu shot, or have a tooth pulled without a parent knowing“, but a 13-year-old can have a surgical or chemical abortion without her parents knowledge. And since
20、 a majority of the prospective fathers are over 21, the current system in effect condones statutory rape. Opponents, including the California Nurses Association and Planned Parenthood, are unconvinced. As an editorial in the Los Angeles Times argued: “Its nice to think that all girls feel comfortabl
21、e talking to their parents about sex, birth control and abortion. Nice, but absurd. “Equally absurd, add other opponents, is the notion that a pregnant teenager from an abusive family will have the gumption to go to court-rather than to some backstreet operator-to seek her abortion. And they suspect
22、 the proposition is the start of an effort to ban all abortions: instead of speaking of a fetus, the proposition defines abortion as causing the “death of the unborn child“. Just how parental notification would affect the rate of teen pregnancies and abortions is an open question. Some 34 states req
23、uire some parental involvement in a minors decision to end a pregnancy, but there is no hard-and-fast correlation with the number of abortions. For example, New Mexico and New Hampshire require no parental notification, but according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which studies reproductive healt
24、h, they ranked 18th and 25th in the rate of teen abortions in 2000. By contrast, Wyoming and Florida, which do have notification laws, ranked 14th and 7th. And even if notification laws deter abortions, they do not seem to deter teen pregnancies: Texas, for example, is ranked 26th in abortions for g
25、irls aged 15-19 but fifth in pregnancies for that age group. This last statistic matters for California, where the main problem is teens getting pregnant in the first place. Roughly a quarter of Californias 14-year-olds and three-fifths of its 17-year-olds have had sex. True, according to the Public
26、 Policy Institute of California, birth rates fell from 73 for every 1,000 15 19-year-olds in 1991 to just 44 in 2001. But Californias teenage girls become mothers at between 4 and 12 times the rate of their peers in France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan; the figures for blacks and Latinas
27、in the state are particularly appalling. Whatever your views on abortion, these statistics add up to an awful lot of heartache. 18 Which of the following statements about Arnold Schwarzenegger is TRUE? （ A） He has been elected governor of California 10 years ago. （ B） He used to attach much importan
28、ce to personal enjoyment. （ C） He has been thinking of solving sexual problems for long. （ D） He has troubles with his two daughters and two sons. 19 Some people are in favor of the proposition because they think （ A） it may reduce the number of teenage pregnancies. （ B） it might protect girls from
29、being raped. （ C） the current law is not fair to all girls. （ D） the current law is attacked by many parents. 20 Those who are against the proposition suspect that it may lead to （ A） a protest of teenage girls. （ B） full stop of abortion. （ C） more eases of child abuse. （ D） serious social problems
30、. 21 The best title for the passage would probably be （ A） Hard Decisions to Make. （ B） A Constituitonal Amendment. （ C） Teenage Pregnancies. （ D） The State of California. 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answ
31、er to each question. 22 The British Parliament has a maximum duration of （ A） 4 years. （ B） 5 years. （ C） 6 years. （ D） 7 years. 23 In some languages like_, pitch variations are meaning distinctive. Therefore they are called tone languages. （ A） Chinese （ B） English （ C） French （ D） German 24 Which
32、of the following sports was NOT invented in Britain first? （ A） Football （ B） Tennis （ C） Archery （ D） Cricket 25 _ is often used to refer to the US Department of Defense. （ A） The Capitol Hill （ B） The White House （ C） The Empire State Building （ D） The Pentagon 26 The kind of “three faiths“ model
33、of the United States include the following EXCEPT （ A） Protestant. （ B） Catholic. （ C） Jewish. （ D） Islamic religion. 27 The _ introduced old-age pensions in New Zealand in 189 （ A） Labor Party （ B） Democratic Party （ C） Liberal Party （ D） Conservative Party 28 Virginia Woolf was an important female
34、 _ in the early twentieth century England. （ A） poet （ B） novelist （ C） playwright （ D） essayist 29 The sub-field of linguistics that studies the relation between language and society is called （ A） sociolinguistics （ B） neurolinguistics （ C） macrolinguistics （ D） microlinguistics 30 The epoch of Re
35、naissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. It was _who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama. （ A） Christopher Marlowe （ B） Thomas Lodge （ C） Edmund Spenser （ D） Thomas More 31 The majority of back-formed words are （ A） nouns. （ B） adjectives. （ C） verbs.
36、（ D） adverbs. 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING but in general, and particularly for students or for people just beginning work, there are practical limitations of money and location which may prevent them from finding this ideal home. Not having enough moneys in fact, often means that the only way of getting
37、 along when you leave school is to stay at home for a while until things improve financially. There are many advantages to staying at home your clothes are usually washed for you, your meals are cooked and you already have your circle of friends around you. Parents are often very generous in asking
38、for only a little help with paying the rent, and you do not usually have to pay the bills for electricity, etc. On the other hand, a lot depends on how you get on with your family. Do your parents like your friends? Are you prepared to be patient when your parents ask you where you are going in the
39、evening and what time you expect to be back? Do they mind if you throw a party at home? If you decide that you would rather leave home and that you finally have enough money for a place of your own, how can you find somewhere else to live? If you plan to stay in your home area, you probably know the
40、 possibilities already. Friends and the local newspapers are always a good source of information. If you are going to work in a new area, again there are the newspapers; and there are also accommodation agencies. There are offices which have a list of houses and flats which you can rent one to talk
41、to, and your room will often be very comfortable. However, you may find that digs have the same disadvantages of living at home: you cannot invite your friends to visit you freely and if you do not get on with your landlady your life can be rather unhappy. However, this can be an expensive way of fi
42、nding a flat because you usually have to pay the agency the same mount as a week s rent for the flat they show you. For students, many colleges and universities have accommodation officers, whose job is to help you find some- where to live. Of course you can often live on campus but many students wo
43、uld rather find their own accommodation in the town. However, in some areas this is difficult because there is a large student population and many house-owners are not happy about renting rooms to students. But what sort of accommodation is available? If you like the idea of living with a family the
44、n digs might be the answer. Living in digs means having one room in someone s house. Your landlord or usually your land-lady cooks your meals and may wash your clothes if you are lucky. You always have some one to talk to, and your room will often be very comfortable. However, you may find that digs
45、 have the same disadvantages as living at home: you can not invite your friends to visit you freely, and if you do not get on with your landlady your life can be rather unhappy. Sharing a flat with some other students may seem a better answer. This can be very cheap there are no old people watching
46、over you and telling you what to do, and the housework cane in theory be shared with your flatmates. However there may be problems if your characters are different. One person may spend hours on the telephone or taking hot, deep baths, while another never telephones anyone and likes cold showers. Th
47、en who pays the bills in this case? One of your flatmates may like playing music very loudly perhaps while you are trying to study. And can you ask the other to go out if you want to see a friend alone? If you think that having other people around all the time will not be pleasant-perhaps you should
48、 try a bedsitter (one room which you use as a bedroom and sitting room combined). A bedsitter is nots very expensive; it is easy to keep clean and cheap, to heat since it is only one room; and, by putting up pictures on the walls and perhaps buying some furniture of your owns you can make it feel like a real home. The disadvantages are that you have to cook in the rooms so it may be always full of food smells; you may have to have your wet clothes hanging all round the room to dry; and it can be very lonely at first if you have moved to a new area. If all this makes you think that it would
