1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 488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 Television Since its invention in【 1】 _, 【 1】 _ television has played an increasingly important role in o
3、ur life. It affects peoples life in a good way as well as in a bad way. On the good side. Firstly, television has transformed the way【 2】 _is 【 2】 _ transmitted. It can show news in pictures. So in a way, it brings【 3】 _ to the public. 【 3】 _ Secondly, television has transformed【 4】 _. 【 4】 _ It hel
4、ps people to be better【 5】 _ 【 5】 _ on political issues and thus enhance democracy. On the bad side. First of all, television increases the【 6】 _ between people. 【 6】 _ People have little chance to【 7】 _ with 【 7】 _ each other due to the distraction of television. Some social problems and peoples me
5、ntal problems are partly caused by this. Secondly, television is widely thought to be very harmful to young people. Young people tend to believe and【 8】 _ whatever they 【 8】 _ see on TV. As a result of this, the young generation is more【 9】 _ than the old 【 9】 _ generations. Television also makes yo
6、ung people become less【 10】 _. They have 【 10】 _ no interest in reading and their writing ability is very poor. 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
7、 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 Which of the following statements is INCORRECT about Armstrongs STAR? （ A） A stands for act
8、ions. （ B） T stands for titles. （ C） S stands for situations. （ D） R stands for results. 12 Armstrong suggests all the following preparations EXCEPT （ A） looking at the mirror. （ B） practising simulated interviews. （ C） practising answering questions. （ D） finding some of your strong points. 13 What
9、 shall an interviewee do after the interview according to Armstrong? （ A） Wait for the recruiters notice. （ B） Revisit the recruiter for the result. （ C） Send a letter of thanks. （ D） Give the interviewer a call to confirm their resolution. 14 Interviewers nowadays are asking questions that are goin
10、g to （ A） get at more specific things. （ B） get at more general things. （ C） get at more personal things. （ D） get at more public things. 15 When asking you to give a specific example of a time when a co-worker criticized your work, the interviewers （ A） want to know about your temper. （ B） focus on
11、 your assertiveness. （ C） care about your teamwork skills. （ D） doubt about your honesty. 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
12、 answer the questions. 16 According to Goerge W. Bush, what will be the future action of US concerning the Kyoto Accord? （ A） To call on more effort to reduce human beings contribution to global climate change. （ B） To include more developing countries into the Accord （ C） To continue to oppose to t
13、he Accord （ D） To sign the treaty to cut emissions of carbon dioxide. 16 Nice people do racism too. Liberal commitment to a multi-ethnic Britain is wilting. Some very nice folk have apparently decided that the nations real problem is too many immigrants of too many kinds. Faced with a daily onslaugh
14、t against migrants it may be understandable to give in to populist bigotry; but it is not forgivable. Take this, for example: “National citizenship is inherently exclusionary.“ So no foreigners need ever apply for naturalisation, then. And“ . public anxiety about migration . is usually based on a ra
15、tional understanding of the value of British citizenship and its incompatibility with over-porous borders“. Straight from the lexicon of the far right. And best of all: “You can have a welfare state provided that you are a homogenous society with intensely shared values.“ These are extracts from an
16、article in the Observer, penned by the liberal intellectual Goodhart, who is just one of several liberal thinkers now vigorously making what they consider a progressive argument against immigration. It goes like this: the more diverse a society, the less likely its citizens are to share common value
17、s; the fewer common values, the weaker the support for vital institutions of social solidarity, such as the welfare state and the National Health Service. There are perfectly good reasons to worry about how we respond to immigration, not least the downward pressure on workers wages; the growth of ra
18、cial inequality; and the exploitation of illegals. But the answer to these problems is not genteel xenophobia, but trade union rights, backed by equality and employment law. The xenophobes should come clean. Their argument is not about immigration at all. They are liberal Powellites; what really bot
19、hers them is race and culture. If todays immigrants were white people from the old Commonwealth, Goodhart and his friends would say that they pose no threat because they share Anglo-Saxon values. Unfortunately for liberal Powellites, the real history of the NHS shatters their fundamental case agains
20、t diversity. The NHS is a world-beating example of the way that ethnic diversity can create social solidarity. Launched by a Welshman, built by Irish: labourers, founded on the skills of Caribbean nurses and Indian doctors, it is now being rescued by an emergency injection of Filipino nurses, refuge
21、e ancillaries and antipodean medics. And it remains 100% British. Virtually all of our public services have depended heavily on immigrants. Powell was forced to admit as much when, as minister for health he advertised for staff in the Caribbean. His new admirers will discover that a rapidly depopula
22、ting Europe will have no choice but to embrace diversity. For the moment, however, the liberal Powellites are gaining support in high places. Their ideas are inspired by the work of the American sociologist Putnam, a Downing Street favourite. He purports to show that dynamic, diverse communities are
23、 more fragmented than stable, monoethnic ones. But the policy wonks have forgotten that Putnams research was conducted in a society so marked by segregation that even black millionaires still live in gated ghettoes. The prime minister still seems uneasy on the issue. Last week, he wavered uncertainl
24、y between backing his pro-immigration home secretary, and a defensive response to Howards goading that the government was in a mess on the topic. Oddly enough, this is a place in the arena of world politics where the PM does not stand shoulder to shoulder with Bush. The Spanish-speaking former gover
25、nor of Texas recently announced that he would “regularise“ the status of millions of illegal Mexican immigrants who had slipped across the border to work. Its the kind of massive amnesty that would send the Daily Express into conniptions. Even more peculiar, the prime minister appears to be ignoring
26、 not only Blunkett but also his new best friend, the Labour mayor of London, Livingstone, and Scotlands first minister, McConnell. London wants more immigrants to keep pace with its booming economy, Scotland wants them to boost its ageing work forceYet the liberal Powellites still seem prepared to c
27、onfront a Bush-Blunkett-Livingstone-McConnell axis, because they are scared witless by the far right. They hope that by appeasing racism, theyll make it go away. But this is a beast with an insatiable appetite. The French discovered that too late; the thuggish National Front is now Frances second la
28、rgest party, with one in five likely to vote for them in upcoming local elections. Liberal secularists who joined in the assault on the rights of French Muslims now have to find a convincing explanation for their cowardice, which has also betrayed the freedom of expression of French Jews and Christi
29、ans. In Holland, this spinelessness has ended up as straight leftwing racism. The previously liberal Dutch establishment is now pushing an asylum policy so extreme even the Sun was moved to criticise it. The line up that favours managed migration and diversity-Blunkett, McConnell, Livingstone, Bush
30、and the Sun-share one quality that the PM should envy m6re than any other at present: they are all popular with the public. Maybe the government ought to pay, more heed to this focus group than the ones that see scary foreigners on every street corner. Perhaps we should also be creating an even more
31、 progressive immigration policy, for example offering easier admission to those who will bring their skills to the depopulated regions of the north. The Americans will next year offer more work permits to IT whizzkids from India than ever before; and before the middle of the century, the worlds stro
32、ngest economy will become its most ethnically diverse. Our own population is still over 92% white; we shouldnt be duped by anxious faint-hearts into becoming an all-white backwater. 17 At the beginning of the passage the writer sounds critical of_. （ A） genteel xenophobia （ B） liberal commitment （ C
33、） Britains multi-ethnicity （ D） populist bigotry 18 According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true? （ A） Those who dislike immigrants should admit their mistakes. （ B） The UK and the US do not agree on the immigration issue. （ C） The Daily Express supports Texass regularizin
34、g illegal immigrants. （ D） Racism will not automatically come to an end if people give in to it. 19 The writer seems to side with_. （ A） the far right （ B） the liberal Powellites （ C） the liberal Dutch establishment （ D） the Bush-Blunkett-Livingstone-McConnell axis 20 It can be inferred from the pas
35、sage that_. （ A） it is beneficial for Britain to be a homogeneous society （ B） it is beneficial for Britain to be ethnically more diverse （ C） the French National Front is coward （ D） the Sun enjoys the greatest popularity 21 This passage is most probably part of_. （ A） an ethnic study （ B） a newspa
36、per article （ C） a government report （ D） a research report 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 Which of the following is a British news and cable network? （ A） ABC （ B） CNN. （ C） CBS.
37、 （ D） BBC 23 _is the smallest unit of sound in a language that serves to distinguish two words. （ A） Word （ B） Phoneme （ C） Morpheme （ D） Syllable 24 How many states are there in the United States? （ A） Thirteen. （ B） Fifty. （ C） Fifty one. （ D） Sixty. 25 _is a voiced bilabial stop. （ A） m （ B） p （
38、C） b （ D） v 26 Literary _ and the novel became the dominant theme and form of literature in Victorian Period. （ A） idealism （ B） romanticism （ C） realism （ D） heroism 27 Scotland occupies the _ third of the island of Great Britain in the British Isles. （ A） southern （ B） northern （ C） eastern （ D） w
39、estern 28 Which of the following is not part of Britian? （ A） Wales. （ B） England. （ C） Scotland. （ D） Greenland. 29 Which river is the longest river in the U. K. that rises in the mountains of Wales? （ A） The Thames. （ B） The Severn. （ C） The Clyde. （ D） The Mersey. 30 As a philosophical and litera
40、ry movement, _flourished ill New England from the 1830s to CMl War. （ A） modernism （ B） rationalism （ C） sentimentalism （ D） transcendentalism 31 _ is the act performed in saying something; it is an expression of the speakers intention. （ A） Illocutionary act （ B） Loeutionary act （ C） Perlocutionary
41、 act （ D） Speech act 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING that commercials lie in order to sell products that are sometimes had or useless. They do believe they will make more friends if they drink a certain beer. They do believe that the violence they see is normal and acceptable. According to some statistics,
42、by the time the young people leave high school, most of them have watched abut 18,000 killings or other acts of violence. How could they be shocked to see the same in real life? All educators and psychologists agree that the “television generations“ are more violent than their parents and grandparen
43、ts. The other effect on young people, according to these experts, is that television has made the young less patient. They are used to TV shows; they are used to those quick and entertaining programs. As a result, they do not have the patience to read a book that requires thinking; nor do they have
44、the patience to listen to a teacher who doesnt do funny things like the people on TV. They expect all problems to be solved happily in ten, fifteen, or thirty minutes. They do not have the patience to find out that there is more entertainment in a good book than in a farcical TV show. Educators repo
45、rt that the generation growing up with television can barely write an English sentence, even at the college level. Writing, as we all know, is often learned from reading. All right, now. A few last remarks about our topic on television. There is no doubt that television has deeply transformed our li
46、fe and our society. There is no doubt that, along with its benefits, it has brought problems. The important thing for us is how to utilize the benefits to the full and, in the mean time, how to reduce the problems to the minimum. There is no point arguing whether or not television should be thrown o
47、ut of the household, for whether we like it or not, television is here to stay. 1 【正确答案】 1939 2 【正确答案】 information 3 【正确答案】 reality 4 【正确答案】 politics 5 【正确答案】 informed 6 【正确答案】 gap 7 【正确答案】 communicate 8 【正确答案】 imitate 9 【正确答案】 violent 10 【正确答案】 patient SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this sectio
48、n 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. 10 【听力原文】 M: Im Avi Ardi
49、tti and this week on Wordmaster: surviving a job interview! Heres the first bit of advice from human resources consultant Sharon Armstrong: Its not just words you have to think about, but also how yon express them. Avoid, she says, a flat monotone voice that people sometimes get when they are nervous. W: It
