1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 496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 Australian There are two common set images of the Australian male: a)the【 1】 and Neanderthal male - great
3、 for a bill and a laugh. b)【 2】 - a businessman who conceal the dorsal fin of a shark under a grey suit. Characters of Australians: . Not【 3】 by nature, refer to each other on【 4】 , and speak their minds. . Men tend to get together to relax -【 5】 and going to footy. . A typical Australian party【 6】
4、men and women. . Greeting. In【 7】 , men shake hands with others but women usually do not shake hands with other women. With good friends, males【 8】 each other on the shoulder, women kiss one another. . Being invited to a party: The host or the hostess introduces you to others; it is【 9】to bring gift
5、s at the first meeting. . Being modest about【 10】 your own horn and achievements. 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. Qu
6、estions 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 Mr Fischer believes that _ （ A） those gloomy forecasts is about to become true （ B） EU enlargement and its Constitution m
7、ust be carded out at the same time （ C） EU people will accept the Constitution calmly （ D） Constitution must be ratified by 15 EU country 12 Fischer doesnt agree with the critics, because he believe the constitution brings benefit for EU except that _ （ A） the decisions can be taken more easily. （ B
8、） EUs relationship to the member states is clearly regulated （ C） the voting procedures in the European Council have become more elaborate （ D） the role of the Commission President has been defined. 13 According to Fischer, what is the most important thing about the EU Constitution? （ A） The Tax Art
9、icles in the Basic Law （ B） The procedures are becoming clear （ C） The threat of terrorism （ D） The fundamental rights have been defined clearly. 14 Fischer pointed out that _ （ A） EU people are hostile to Constitution （ B） EU has dual nature which would be preserved for a long time （ C） the Greens
10、just did the right thing in attracting citizen （ D） the EU Parliament should elect the Commission President from its own ranks 15 Which statement is not true? （ A） In Fischers opinion, EU Constitution will resolve many problems remained unresolved for ten years （ B） EU Constitution will make the EU
11、more effective （ C） Core Europe can be used to describe the present EU （ D） Fischer now is a Foreign Minister 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
12、 given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 The new resolution approved by the UN Security Council is valid for （ A） a year. （ B） two months （ C） dozen days. （ D） a month. 17 The new resolution by the United Nations Security Council allows （ A） foreign military forces to kill pirates in Somalia. （
13、 B） foreign military forces to chase pirates on land in Somalia. （ C） foreign military forces to enter Somalias waters to capture pirates. （ D） only the United States to enter Somalia to capture pirates. 17 The first intimation, apparently, was when three-year-old Yves told his mother that her shoes
14、 did not go 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 ou
15、tpost of the 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
16、“: such superlatives 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 fitte
17、d perfectly 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 fi
18、gure who drew 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
19、and sometimes 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 design
20、s and, in 1958, 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 ser
21、ies of innovations 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 of
22、ten with the 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
23、-to-wear shops at a fraction of the posh price. The other was that women should be put into mens clothes safari 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 arti
24、sts like Mondrian 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 al
25、l, they were 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 t
26、he guests wore 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 p
27、erhaps he must 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 wit
28、hout him. In 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. 18 According to the passage, （ A） Mr. Saint Laurent first showed his talent for fashion in 1958 when
29、 he worked for 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. 19 The word
30、“sycophancy“ in the second paragraph means （ A） slander. （ B） calumny. （ C） fame. （ D） flattery. 20 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. 21 Which of the following is NOT true, acco
31、rding to the 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 bea
32、uty and elegance in fashion. 22 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 de
33、signs. （ D） 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. 23 Which of the-following is NOT the major party of Australia? （ A） Labor
34、 Party. （ B） Liberal Party of Australia. （ C） National Party of Australia. （ D） Communist Party. 24 The rabbit series were written by （ A） John Updike. （ B） Jerome David Salinger. （ C） Mark Twain. （ D） Ezra Pound. 25 Which is the masterpiece by Jonathan Swift? （ A） Robinson Crusoe （ B） Gullivers Tra
35、vels （ C） The School for Scandal （ D） A Journal of the Plague Year 26 Which of the following is NOT the organ of speech? （ A） The pharyngeal cavity. （ B） The oral cavity. （ C） The nasal cavity. （ D） The vocal cavity. 27 Which of the following is NOT a U.S. news and cable network? （ A） ABC （ B） CNN.
36、（ C） CBS. （ D） BBC 28 As a philosophical and literary moment, _flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War. （ A） modernism （ B） rationalism （ C） sentimentalism （ D） transcendentalism 29 In all his novels, Theodore Dreiser set himself to project the _ American values. For example, in Si
37、ster Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically. （ A） puritan （ B） materialistic （ C） psychological （ D） religious 30 “big“ and “small“ are a pair of_opposites. （ A） complementary （ B） gradable （ C） complete （ D） converse 32 Son and Lovers was written by _. （ A） G
38、eorge Bernard Shaw （ B） D.H. Lawrence （ C） Virginia Woolf （ D） James Joyce 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING they are the touchstones for the possibilities to which human thought and imagination may aspire; they carry the most profound messages that can be sent from one human to another. 三、 PART VI WRITING (4
39、5 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 44 “Nowadays people spend too much of their spare time indoors.“ How far do you agree with this statement? Write a composition of about 400 words to state your view. In the first part of your writing you should present
40、 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 foll
41、ow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Write your response on ANSWER SHEET FOUR. 专业英语八级模拟试卷 496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
42、 will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. 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 【听力原文】
43、Australian Good morning, everybody. Today my topic is about the Australians. There are two common set images of the Australian male. The first is the naive and Neanderthal male - great for a beer and a laugh. The other is the tough adventurer - a businessman who conceals the dorsal fin of a shark un
44、der a grey suit. This entrepreneur-type figure is a firm sports enthusiast and takes well to putting Australia on the global map. Good examples are media giant Rupert Murdoch, and Alan Bond, who brought the America Cup to Australia. In general, Australians are not pretentious by nature. They have a
45、casual, drop-in approach when socializing and working. It is perfectly normal for Australians to refer to each other on first-name basis. And if you cant remember someones first name, “mate“ is usually appropriate, even if talking to a woman. A typical Australian speaks his mind, and is known to tel
46、l you straight if there is something he/she dislikes. When taking a taxi in Australia, dont be surprised - it is usual for the passenger to sit in the front seat and have a chat with the driver. As in most cultures, men tend to get together to relax. This means drinking in pubs, going to the footy (
47、Australian rugby), and hanging loose away from the prying eyes of their wives and children. While it is not the rule. one who spends enough time in Australia will get a peek of these characteristics. The typical Australian party is said to separate men to one side of the room around the beer keg, an
48、d women to the other. Like the men, the women tend to be hugely self-reliant and tough. The modem Australian woman may lag behind her male counterparts in terms of average pay and status, but she has managed to enter traditionally male-dominated fields, like law, business, and polities. It is usual
49、business etiquette for men to shake hands with men and women upon meeting and departing, but women usually do not shake hands with other women. A firm handshake and eye contact is important especially during the first meeting. With very god friends, males pat each other on the shoulder, women kiss one another, and sometimes good male and female friends kiss in greeting. A kiss or a hug is highly inappropriate during the first meeting. From a distance, greet a friend or acquaintance wi
