1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 511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 My Joy in Teaching and Learning I have been engaged in teaching Intensive Reading Course to PhD【 1】 of Sc
3、ience and Technology in Sichuan University. I started from scratch, from widereading and careful selection, to【 2】 a text book and write a guide for Doctorate Intensive Reading. Many of the texts are selected from Nobel【 3】 whose speeches give a wide scope of their fields as well as a wonderful summ
4、ary of their painstaking efforts leading to success. They are academically keen andalert. With many【 4】 of disciplined trainings, they have built up an【 5】 and synthetic mind, some still holding a very good memory. They are ambitious to【 6】 English to speak in the international science conference fo
5、r our motherland. They are eager to【 7】 their knowledge, skills, youth and wisdom to Chinas giant strides in the Twenty-first century. In my first lecture, I introduced Francis Bacon famous aphorism: “【 8】 makes a full man; conference a ready man; and【 9】 an exact man.“ I also added a line, “ Listen
6、ing makes a wise man. With a high demanding, with conscientious work, with the【 10】 Nobel Laureates speeches, with proper teaching and learning methods, they have really made dramatic progress. 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
7、 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 According
8、 to Dr. Ned, in what way is family life different now? （ A） Parents are not as good as they used to be. （ B） More people are getting remarried after divorce. （ C） There are more one parent or single parent families. （ D） More people approve of mothers going out to work. 12 Which of the following is
9、NOT mentioned as substitute parents? （ A） Group leaders. （ B） Television. （ C） Baby-sitters. （ D） Play groups. 13 According to the interview, all of the following are the roles of primary teachers EXCEPT _. （ A） helping children to acquire good habits. （ B） reinforcing what the parents are doing. （
10、C） starting children reading and writing. （ D） informing children of different messages. 14 According to Dr. Nell, what is the most noticeable effect of smaller families? （ A） There is less mixing of ages in smaller families. （ B） Children can get more affection from their parents. （ C） Children can
11、 live in a more loving environment. （ D） Children are able to enjoy better living condition. 15 According to the interview, Dr. Neils attitude toward substitute parents is that _. （ A） substitutes can take the responsibilities of parents. （ B） its acceptable to let substitutes look after children. （
12、 C） perhaps substitutes can play a better role than parents. （ D） parents should be cautious to choose substitutes. 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 w
13、ill be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 US newspapers from one end of the nation to the other reacted with _ to the bombing of Olympic Centennial Park in Atlanta. （ A） shock （ B） horror （ C） anger （ D） all of the above 17 The explosion claimed _ lives and injured _ people early morning.
14、（ A） six, more than 100 （ B） two, more than 200 （ C） two, more than 100 （ D） six, more than 200 17 The year which preceded my fathers death made great change in my life. I had been living in New Jersey, working defense plants, working and living among southerners, white and black. I knew about the s
15、outh, of course, and about how southerners treated Negroes and how they expected them to behave, but it had never entered my mind that anyone would look at me and expect me to behave that way. I learned in New Jersey that to be a Negro meant, precisely, that one was never looked at but was simply at
16、 the mercy of the reflexes of the color of ones skin caused in other people. I acted in New Jersey as I had always acted, that is as though I thought a great deal of myself - I had to act that way - with results that were, simply, unbelievable. I had scarcely arrived before I had earned the enmity,
17、which was extraordinarily ingenious, of all my superiors and nearly all my co-workers. In the beginning, to make matters worse, I simply did not know what was happening. I did not know what had done, and I shortly began to wonder what anyone could possibly do, to bring about such unanimous, active,
18、and unbearably vocal hostility. I knew about jim-crow, but I had never experienced it. I went to the same serf-service restaurant three times and stood with all the Princeton boys before the counter, waiting for a hamburger and coffee; it was always an extraordinarily long time before anything was s
19、et before me: I had simply picked something up. Negroes were not served there, I was told, and they had been waiting for me to realize that I was always the only Negro present. Once I was told this, I determined to go there all the time. But now they were ready for me and, though some dreadful scene
20、s were subsequently enacted in that restaurant, I never ate there again. It was same story all over New Jersey, in Bars, bowling alleys, diners, places to live. I was always being forced to leave, silently, or with mutual imprecations. I very shortly became notorious and children giggled behind me w
21、hen I passed and their elders whispered or shouted - they really believed that I was mad. And it did begin to work on my mind, of course; I began to be afraid to go anywhere and to compensate for this I went places to witch I really should not have gone and where, God knows, I had no desire to be. M
22、y reputation in town naturally enhanced my reputation at work and my working day became one long series of acrobatics designed to keep me out of trouble. I cannot say that these acrobatics night, with But one aim: to eject me. I was fired once, and contrived, with tile aid of a friend from New York,
23、 to get back on the payroll; was fired again, and bounced back again. It took a while to fire me for the third time, but the third time took. There were no loopholes anywhere. There was not even any way of getting back inside the gates. That year in New Jersey lives in my mind as though it were the
24、year during which, having an unsuspected predilection for it, I first contracted some dread, chronic disease, the unfailing symptom of which is kind of blind fever, a pounding in the skull and fire in the bowels. Once this disease is contracted, one can never be really carefree again, for the fever,
25、 with- out an instants warning, can recur at any moment. It can wreck more. important race relations. There is not a Negro alive who does not have this rage in his Blood - one has the choice, merey, of living with it consciously or surrendering to it. As for me, this fever has recurred in me, and do
26、es, and will until the day I die. My last night in New Jersey, a white friend from New York took me to the nearest Big town, Trenton, to go to the movies and have a few drinks. As it turned out, he also saved me from, at the very least, a violent whipping. Almost every de- tail of that night stands
27、out very clearly in my memory. I even remember the name of the movie we saw because its title impressed me as being so partly ironical. It was a movie about the German occupation of France, starring Maureen O Hara and Charles Laughton and called This Land Is Mine. I remember the name of the diner we
28、 walked into when the movie ended. It was the “American Diner“. When we walked in the counterman asked what we wanted and I remember answering with the casual sharpness which had become my habit: “We want a hamburger and a cup of coffee, what do you think we want?“ I do not know why, after a year of
29、 such rebuffs, I so completely failed to anticipate his answer, which was, of course, “We dont serve Negroes here.“ This reply failed to discompose me, at least for the moment. I made some sardonic comment about the name of the diner and we walked out into the streets. This was the time of what was
30、called the “brown-out“, when the lights in all American cities were very dim. When we reentered the streets something happened to me which had the force of an optical illusion, or a nightmare. The streets were very crowded and I was facing north. People were moving in every direction but it seemed t
31、o me, in that instant, that all of the people I could see, and many more than that, were moving toward me, against me, and that everyone was white. I re- member how their faces string connecting my head to my Body had been cut. I began to walk. I heard my friend call after me, but I ignored him. Hea
32、ven only knows what was going on in his mind, but he had the good sense not to touch me - I dont know what would have happened if he had - and to keep me in sight. I dont know what was going on in my mind, either; I certainly had no conscious plan. I wanted to do something to crush these white faces
33、, which were crushing me. I walked for perhaps a block or two until I came to an enormous, glittering, and fashionable restaurant in which I knew not even the intercession of the Virgin would cause me to be served. I pushed through the doors and look the first vacant seat I saw, at a table or two, a
34、nd waited. I do not know how long I waited and I rather wonder, until today, what I could possibly have looked like. Whatever I looked towards her. I hated her for her white face, and for her great, astounded, frightened eyes. I felt that if she found a black man so frightening I would make her frig
35、ht worthwhile. She did not ask me what wanted, but repeated, as though she had learned it somewhere, “We dont serve Negroes here. “She did not say it with the blunt, derisive hostility to which I had grown so accustomed, but, rather, with a note of apology in her voice, and fear. This made me colder
36、 and more murderous than ever. I felt I had to do something with my hands. I wanted her to come close enough for me to get her neck between my hands. So I pretended not to have understood her, hoping to draw her closer And she did step a very short step closer, with her pencil poised incongruously o
37、ver pad, and repeated the formula:“, dont serve negroes here.“ Somehow, with the repetition of that phrase, which was already ringing in my head like a thousand bells of a night- mare, I realized that she would never come any closer and that I would have to strike from a distance. There was nothing
38、on the table but an ordinary water-mug half full of water, and I picked this up and hurled it with all my strength at her. She ducked and it missed her and shattered against the mirror behind the bar. And with that sound, my frozen blood abruptly thawed. I returned from wherever I had been, I rose a
39、nd began running for the door. A round, pot-bellied man grabbed me by the nape of the neck just as I reached the doors and began to beat me about the face. I kicked him and got loose and ran into the streets. My friend whispered, “Run!“ and I ran. My friend stayed outside the restaurant long enough
40、to misdirect my pursuers and the police, who arrived, he told me, at once. I do not know what I said to him when he came to my room that night. I could not have said much, I felt, in the oddest, most awful way, that I had somehow betrayed him, I lived it over and over and over again, the way one rel
41、ives an automobile accident after it has happened and one finds oneself alone and safe. I could not get over two facts, both equally difficult for the imagination to grasp, and one was that I could have been murdered. But the other was that I had been ready to commit murder. I saw nothing clearly bu
42、t I did see this: that my life, my real life, was in danger, and not from anything other people might do but from the hatred I carried in my own heart. 18 The word reputation in “my reputation in town enhanced my reputation at work“ is used in a(n) _ sense. （ A） derogatory （ B） ironical （ C） appreci
43、ative （ D） neutral 19 “That year in New Jersey lives in my mind. “,as the author intended, means _. （ A） that was a year in which awful things happened to me （ B） that was a year that I will never even forget （ C） that was a year that only existed in my mind; but never happened to exist （ D） that wa
44、s a year when I lived in New Jersey 20 The reason why the author says in the essay that the title of the movie This Land Is Mine is ironical was that the land is _. （ A） not really that of the native born black Americans （ B） that of the Frenchmen; the land refers to France （ C） mine; yet it was occ
45、upied by Germans （ D） mine; the land is that of the Americans. 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 21 Land enclosure in Ireland and the Scottish highlands led to mass emigration, particul
46、arly to_. （ A） Africa （ B） Eastern Europe （ C） Asia （ D） America 22 The U.S. Congress is composed of_. （ A） the Senate and the House of Representatives （ B） the Senate and the House of Commons （ C） the House of Lords and the House of Representatives （ D） the House of Lords and the House of Commons 2
47、3 The so-called “Glorious Revolution“ of 1688 took place in _. （ A） France （ B） America （ C） England （ D） Japan 24 The Romans brought _ to England after they invaded the British Isles. （ A） Buddhism （ B） Islamism （ C） Christianity （ D） Catholicism 25 40.B in debate and i in delate can be said to for
48、m a(n) _. （ A） phonemic contrast （ B） complementary distribution （ C） assimilation rule （ D） sequential rule 26 “To err is human, to forgive, divine“, “A little learning is a dangerous thing“ are taken from the poems written by _. （ A） John Milton （ B） Fransis Bacon （ C） William Shakespeare （ D） Ale
49、xander Pope 27 The English Civil War is also called _. （ A） the Cromwell War （ B） the Puritan Revolution （ C） the Hundred Years War （ D） the Wars of the Roses 28 The famous short story The Fall of the House of Usher was written by _. （ A） Charles Dickens. （ B） Edgar Allan Poe. （ C） Washington Irving. （ D） Thomas More. 29 The Portrait of a Lady was written by _. （ A） Henry James （ B） James Joyce （ C） Henry Longfellow （ D） Theodore Dreiser 30 Romanticism as a literary m
