1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 504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 Present a Seminar Paper To involve their students more actively in the learning process, many univ
3、ersity teachers usually conduct seminars, in which one student is asked to give his ideas on a certain topic and other students discuss the ideas. There are two stages involved in presenting a paper at a seminar. One is the【 1】 _ stage which includes researching and writing up a topic. 【 1】_ The oth
4、er stage is the presentation stage when you actually present the paper to the audience. Two ways in which you can present your paper: a.【 2】 _copies 【 2】_ of your paper beforehand to all the participants so that they could read it before the seminar and know about your ideas, b. Reading it aloud to
5、the 【 3】 _ who are likely to make their own notes. Comparatively 【 3】_ speaking, the first method is the more【 4】 _ way of conducting a 【 4】_ seminar. However, you will have to introduce your paper at a seminar because the participants may have forgotten about your ideas or because they may have no
6、time to read your paper. Nine points you have to follow when introducing your paper: 1) Decide on a time【 5】 _ for your talk and stick to it. 【 5】 _ 2) Write out your spoken presentation in the way you are going to speak. 3) Stick to the major points and【 6】 _ details. 【 6】 _ 4) Do your best to make
7、 your presentation interesting, but do not tell jokes and【 7】 _ 【 7】 _ 5) Write out and【 8】 _ what you intend to say until you would 【 8】 _ not make any error. 6) Make【 9】 _ notes so that you can find your way easily from it 【 9】 _ to the full notes when you forget something. 7) Speak from the outli
8、ne notes at the seminar. 8) Make eye contact with your audience and judge their【 10】 _ 【 10】_ 9) Repeat your main points briefly and invite questions or comments in order to make a strong ending. 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10 【 10】 SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions:
9、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 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 What wa
10、s Tims first job? （ A） He worked as a salesperson in a clothing shop. （ B） He was the manager of a clothing shop. （ C） He worked in a laundry. （ D） He was a lifeguard in a swimming pool. 12 If people disliked the clothes they tried on, what did Tim do when he was new in his job? （ A） He thought that
11、 it was a personal matter and did not give any advice. （ B） He told the customers the truth. （ C） He said that the clothes all looked wonderful. （ D） He persuaded the customers to buy the clothes. 13 What was NOT the reason for Jo to take her first job? （ A） She had four months free before she went
12、to college, （ B） She needed the money. （ C） She was not qualified for anything. （ D） Her working place was near her home. 14 What is TRUE about Jos workmates? （ A） They were all above thirty years. （ B） All the workmates were tough to her. （ C） The oldest workmate was old Nellie, who was 74 years ol
13、d. （ D） She got along quite well with all the workmates. 15 What did Jo have to do in the laundry? （ A） She washed nurses aprons and surgeons caps. （ B） She folded surgeons caps into knife-edged creases. （ C） She pressed surgeons caps and nurses aprons. （ D） She steamed the clothes of the surgeons a
14、nd nurses. 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 What can we know about Rezwan Ferdaus from the news i
15、tem? （ A） He was considered as a big threat to the US. （ B） He was a target of the FBI investigation. （ C） He has been a US citizen for a few months. （ D） He was connected to a terrorist organization. 17 The remote-controlled airplanes that Rezwan use is （ A） 1.1 meters long. （ B） 10 meters long. （
16、C） 1/10 the size of the real airplane. （ D） 1/10 the size of the Pentagon. 17 A funny thing happened on the way to the communications revolution: we stopped talking to one another. I was walking in the park with a friend recently, and his cell phone rang, interrupting our conversation. There we were
17、, walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day and - poof! - I became invisible, absent from the conversation. The park was filled with people talking on their cell phones. They were passing other people without looking at them, saying hello, noticing their babies or stopping to pet their puppies. E
18、vidently, the untethered electronic voice is preferable to human contact. The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent. Recently I was in a car with three friends. The driver shushed the rest of us because he could not hear the person on the ot
19、her end of his cell phone. There we were, four friends zooming down the highway, unable to talk to one another because of a gadget designed to make communication easier. Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communications technology is a setback to
20、 the intimacy of human interaction. With e-mail and instant messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. If my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her machi
21、ne. As almost every conceivable contact between human beings gets automated, the alienation index goes up. You cant even call a person to get the phone number of another person anymore. Directory assistance is almost always fully automated. Pumping gas at the station? Why say good-morning to the att
22、endant when you can swipe your credit card at the pump and save yourself the both. Making a deposit at the bank? Why talk to a clerk who might live in the neighborhood when you can just insert your card into the ATM? Pretty soon you wont have the burden of making eye contact at the grocery store. So
23、me supermarket chains are using a self-scanner so you can check yourself out, avoiding those annoying clerks who look at you and ask how you are doing. I am no Luddite. I own a cell phone, an ATM card, a voice-mall system, an e-mail account. Giving them up isnt an option - theyre great for what they
24、re intended to do. Its their unintended consequences that make me cringe. More and more, I find myself hiding behind e-mall to do a job meant for conversation. Or being relieved that voice mail picked up because I didnt really have time to talk. The industry devoted to helping me keep in touch is ma
25、king me lonelier - or at least facilitating my antisocial instincts. So Ive put myself on technology restriction: no instant messaging with people who live near me, no cell-phoning in the presence of friends, no letting the voice mall pick up when Im home. What good is all this gee-whiz technology i
26、f theres no one in the room to hear you exclaim, “Gee whiz?“ 18 Saying “the unuttered electronic voice is preferable to human contact“, the author is _. （ A） telling the truth （ B） expressing his opinion （ C） being sarcastic （ D） describing a problem 19 What can NOT communications technology do acco
27、rding to the passage? （ A） To help people communicate without seeing each other. （ B） To help conduct the conversation without talking with each other directly. （ C） To help people get others phone numbers. （ D） To help shorten the distance between people. 20 The word “Luddite“ in paragraph 10 is cl
28、osest in meaning to _. （ A） lunatic （ B） anti-technology （ C） idealist （ D） isolated from the outside world 21 What does the author think of communications technology? （ A） Convenient but threatening. （ B） Impersonal. （ C） Marvelous and indispensable. （ D） Important but inaccessible. 22 It can be in
29、ferred from the passage that the author would NOT _. （ A） send messages to people living far from her （ B） use cell-phones on no occasion （ C） answer the phone himself when at home （ D） use the ATM card when necessary 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice q
30、uestions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 23 The Mississippi River, which is sometimes called_, has played a vital role in the history of the United States. （ A） Old Man River （ B） Moon River （ C） Old Father River （ D） Mother of the United States 24 “Studies serve for deligh
31、t, for ornament, and for ability. “ is one of the epigrams found in （ A） Bacons Of Studies. （ B） Bunyans The Pilgrims Progress. （ C） Fieldings Tom Jones. （ D） Johnsons A Dictionary of the English Language. 25 _ is not a modernist novelist of Britain. （ A） James Joyce （ B） Virginia Woolf （ C） D. H. L
32、awrence （ D） Henry James 26 _ draws on the Jewish experience and tradition and examines subtly the dismantling of the self by an intolerable modern history. （ A） Allen Ginsberg （ B） John Updike （ C） Saul Bellow （ D） . .Salinger 27 The term of “Father of Waters“ is used to refer to_. （ A） the Amazon
33、River （ B） the Mississippi River （ C） the Nile River （ D） the Hudson River 28 _is not a way of word-formation. （ A） Derivation （ B） Conversion （ C） Blending （ D） Imitation 29 Eliot, through his well-known poem The Waste Land, showed his concern over the _ of a modern civilization. （ A） spiritual bre
34、akup （ B） political corruption （ C） religious hostility （ D） cultural degeneration 30 Where do most of French Canadians live in Canada? （ A） In Toronto. （ B） In Montreal. （ C） In Quebec. （ D） In Vancouver. 31 Which of the following words does NOT contain one morpheme? （ A） Table. （ B） Often. （ C） De
35、sirable. （ D） Life. 32 _ is an American poet whose great work Leaves of Grass written in unconventional meter and rhyme, celebrates the self, death as a process of life, universal brotherhood, and the greatness of democracy. （ A） . .Cummings （ B） Walt Whitman （ C） Robert Frost （ D） Ezra Pound 二、 PAR
36、T IV PROOFREADING but most of what I am going to say also applies to the second method and indeed may be useful to remember any time you have to speak in public. You will probably be expected to introduce your paper even if it has been circulated beforehand. There are two good reasons for this. One
37、is that the participants may have read the paper but forgotten some of the main paints. The second reason is that some of the participants may not in fact have had time to read your paper, although they may have glanced through it quickly. They will therefore not be in a position to comment on it, u
38、nless they get some idea of what it is all about. When you are introducing your paper, what you must not do is simply read the whole paper aloud. This is because: Firstly, if the paper is a fairly long one, there may not be enough time for discussion. From your paint of view, the discussion is the m
39、ost important thing. It is very helpful for you if other people criticize your work: in that way you can improve it. Secondly, a lot of information can be understood when one is reading. It is not se easy to pick up detailed information when one is listening. In other words, there may be lack of com
40、prehension or understanding. Thirdly, it can be very boring listening to something being read aloud. Anyway, some of your audience may have read your paper carefully and will not thank you for having to go through all of it again. Therefore, what you must do is the following nine points: 1. Decide o
41、n a time limit for your talk. Tell your audience what it is. Stick to your time limit. This is very important. 2. Write out your spoken presentation in the way that you intend to say it. This means that you must do some of the work of writing the paper again, in a sense. You may think that this is a
42、 waste of time, but it isnt. If a speaker tries to make a summary of his paper while he is standing in front of his audience, the results are usually disastrous. 3. Concentrate only on the main points. Ignore details. Hammer home the essence of your argument. If necessary, find ways of making your b
43、asic points so that your audience will be clear about what they are. 4. Try to make your spoken presentation lively and interesting. This doesnt necessarily mean telling jokes and anecdotes. But if you can think of interesting or amusing examples to illustrate your argument, use them. 5. If you are
44、not used to speaking in public, write out everything you have to say, including examples, etc. Rehearse what you are going to say until you are word perfect. 6. When you know exactly what you are going to say, reduce it to outline notes. Rehearse your talk again, this time from the outline notes. Ma
45、ke sure you can find your way easily from the outline notes to the full notes, in case you forget something. 7. At the seminar, speak from the outline notes. But bring both sets of notes and your original paper to the meeting. Knowing that you have a full set of notes available will be good for your
46、 self-confidence. 8. Look at your audience while you are speaking. The technique to use is this. First read the appropriate parts of your notes silently (if you are using outline notes, this wont take you long). Then look up at contact with your audience if your eyes are fixed on the paper in front
47、of you. 9. Make a strong ending. One good way of doing this is to repeat your main points briefly and invite questions or comments. Perhaps I can sum up by saying this. Remember that listening is very different from reading. Something that is going to be listened has therefore got to be prepared in a different way from something that is intended to be read. 1 【正确答案】 preparation 2 【正确答案】 circulating 3 【正确答案】 group/participants/audience 4 【正确答案】 efficient 5 【正确答案】 limit 6 【正确答案】 ignore 7 【正确答案】 anecdotes 8 【正确答案】 rehears
