1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 529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 Marriage in Ancient Egypt The ancient Egyptians held marriage as a sacred bond. Each person in a family p
3、layed his or her own role. Marriage and a close family played an 【 1】 _ role in ancient Egypt. The ancient Egyptians were encouraged to marry young because the 【 2】 _ at this time was relatively short. One of the most 【 3】 _ tides you could call your love was “brother“ or “sister“, though marriage b
4、etween siblings was not a common phenomenon. Wedding Day: The bride merely moved her belongings into the home of her husband. Though there was no official ceremony, there were bound to be 【 4】 _ in-honor of the uniting couple. Before the 26th dynasty when a girl was going to enter into a marriage, h
5、er father had the 【 5】 _ Marriage Contract: Marriage settlements were drawn up between a womans father and her future husband. Its sole purpose was to establish the rights of both parties to 【 6】_ and possessions during the marriage and after divorce. The finished contract was given to a third party
6、 for 【 7】 _. Due to the contract system that provided such far-reaching safeguards for the 【 8】 _ rights of wives and children that most men could only afford one wife at a time. During the early periods of ancient Egypt, the further husband made a payment to the brides father. Later this practice a
7、bandoned and later it was 【 9】 _ Divorce: A woman could divorce her husband for mental or physical cruelty or adultery. With the 【 10】 _ of marriage and divorce and the financial protection, she generally received divorce. 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10 【 10】 SECTI
8、ON 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 the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen t
9、o the interview. 11 According to the interview, which of the following statements is TRUE about Sam? （ A） He has rushed out to get the crib. （ B） He is going to have a baby soon. （ C） He is not good at family budget. （ D） He doesnt plan properly for his life. 12 When it, comes to nursing articles, S
10、am suggests that parents should （ A） go to a Costco. （ B） buy in large quantity. （ C） ask for others favor. （ D） buy second-hand items. 13 Sometimes parents buy the best thing in all the labels because it is about （ A） price. （ B） quality. （ C） status. （ D） safety. 14 If parents want to know how the
11、y spend the money, they should （ A） figure out where the money goes. （ B） take a piece of paper with them. （ C） budget for a baby every day. （ D） note down every expense. 15 According to the interviewee, parents can do all of the following to save money EXCEPT （ A） swaping clothes with other parents
12、. （ B） buying clothes in discount stores. （ C） buying fancy newborn equipment. （ D） going on eBay to buy nursing articles. 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
13、, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 Based on the study, if a smoker wants to quit smoking, hed better _. （ A） reduce his cigarette smoking gradually. （ B） seek nicotine replacement therapy. （ C） do exercises and take nicotine gum. （ D） take tests measuring respiratory health.
14、16 In May 1995, Andrew Lloyd Webber, creator of a string of international hit musicals and a very wealthy man, spent U.S. 29.2 million on Picassos “Portrait of Angel Fernanders de Soto“. It was the highest price paid at auction for a painting since the art market crashed in 1990. Lloyd Webber has a
15、theory that Picassos Blue Period paintings were influenced by Burne-Jones, the British Pre-Raphaelite master whose international reputation stood high at the turn of the century. The theory is not shared by many art historians, but that doesnt matter to the composer. He had been looking for a Blue P
16、eriod Picasso for some time. It is now extremely hard to come by Blue Period Picassos- figurative works that are drenched in melancholy, expressed by a dominant use of blue. Blue Period subjects par excellence are mothers and children or harlequins; Lloyd Webbers purchase is not the most attractive
17、of them. He paid roughly double what the picture was worth. He seems to have got carried away when the bidding started to climb. The Picasso was one of the two highest prices of the 1994-1995 auction season, and help illustrate what has been happening in this curious market. The very rich have got t
18、heir confidence back, which has meant that buyers can be found for works of really outstanding quality and, very occasionally, bidding battles have driven prices back to their 1989-1990 levels. The 1980s boom collapsed in 1990. After several false dawns there are now signs that serious recovery has
19、begun. More than an expansion of the market, however, it reflects the relative weakness of the American dollar, the currency in which most art deals are transacted. Collectors from countries with stronger currencies have been finding dollar prices cheap. The middle market is still fairly weak. It is
20、 not unusual for up to half the lots on offer at a Christies or Sothebys sale to be left unsold. Dealers, as opposed to auctioneers, are still finding it hard to make a living and seldom buy for stock. The auctioneers have tried to replace them by encouraging private people to buy directly at auctio
21、n and more of them are doing this. But private buying is unpredictable and cannot underpin the market in the way dealer buying used to. Private individuals buy what they want; they dont bid on everything that is going cheap. Overall, the nature of the market is changing. In the 1980s art was bought
22、as a speculation: buy in April, sell for double the price in September. This mentality vanished with the 1990 collapse, but the very rich and their financial advisors still take the view that it is sensible to keep a percentage of your investment portfolio in art. It is this kind of money that creat
23、es the fancy prices at the top end of the market. Geographically, the present recovery has been led by North America. Normally a major recession, such as was experienced in the United States, results in a shift of taste. But the Americans liked Impressionist and classic modern pictures best before t
24、he market collapse and that is what they have been coming back to. It is currently the strongest sector of the picture market. Contemporary and Old Master markets are still struggling and there are few buyers for Victorian pictures, apart from Lloyd Webber. Besides Europe and America, however, there
25、 is now a growing market in the East. Indeed, the East has become the great hope of hard-pressed dealers over the last three years they have been aiming to find new buyers in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. There are more rich connoisseurs in Japan than anywhere else but they h
26、ave not been in a buying mood. Japanese speculators lost huge amounts of money in the 1990s crash and there are few collectors who dare to buy any works of art today. The market in Chinese ceramics, works of art, jade jewelry and old and modern brush paintings is now dominated worldwide by wealthy c
27、ollectors from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. The huge volume of excavated art that is smuggled out of China has dramatically weakened the archaeological end of this market but rarities, especially the late imperial porcelains, are selling well. There have even been two or three successful auction
28、s inside China since 1994. The local millionaires are beginning to put their money into art. 17 Which of the following does NOT account for the current boom in the art market? （ A） The American dollar has become weaker against some major currencies. （ B） The very rich wish to put part of their inves
29、tment in art. （ C） The very rich have regained their confidence. （ D） Dealers buying is growing strong. 18 What does the author say about the North American market? （ A） The American buyers of pictures have not changed their taste. （ B） The middle market remains strong. （ C） The Americans buy art as
30、 a speculation. （ D） It is experiencing a major recession. 19 Collectors from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore would most likely buy _. （ A） impressionistic paintings （ B） Ming Dynasty imperial tea sets （ C） excavated works of art （ D） Blue Period Picassos 20 _ has the most potential art buyers. （ A）
31、 America （ B） Hong Kong （ C） Japan （ D） India 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 The five Great Lakes lie between the boundary of Canada and the U.S Among them, _is the only one lying
32、 entirely within the U.S. （ A） Lake Superior （ B） Lake Michigan （ C） Lake Huron （ D） Lake Ontario 22 Which of the following are collocational synonyms? （ A） lorry and “truck“ （ B） start and “commence“ （ C） rotten and “addled“ （ D） amaze and “astound“ 23 Moby-Dick, a novel written by Herman Melville,
33、 tells a story of_. （ A） a captain who was crippled by a whale （ B） a woman who committed adultery （ C） a wounded soldier coming back from the front （ D） a love story 24 The term isolation describes_. （ A） American foreign policy during the 1970s and 1980s （ B） a military theory best paraphrased as
34、“divide and conquer“ （ C） an idea of economical balance between nations （ D） a policy of nonintervention in other countries affairs 25 What kind of sentence is “The green breeze sleeps ferociously“ ? （ A） A meaningless sentence. （ B） A well-formed sentence. （ C） A nongrammatical sentence. （ D） All o
35、f the above. 26 The worlds largest freshwater lake is Lake （ A） Superior （ B） Ontario （ C） Huron （ D） Michigan 27 Thoreaus _is full of eco-wisdom. （ A） Nature （ B） Self-Reliance （ C） Walden （ D） Moby Dick 28 Which of the following matches of chief city and the state it belongs to is NOT correct? （ A
36、） Chicago-Illinois （ B） Philadelphia-Pennsylvania （ C） San Francisco-Utah （ D） Houston-Texas 29 Which of the following is Nathaniel Hawthornes most noteworthy novel in the world? （ A） Gone with the Wind. （ B） For Whom the Bell Tolls. （ C） American Tragedy. （ D） The Scarlet Letter. 30 The present Sov
37、ereign of U. K. is_. （ A） Queen Elizabeth H （ B） Tony Blake （ C） George W. Bush （ D） john Howard 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING where the gloominess of the place, and the use which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind wit
38、h a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing el
39、se of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another; the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances, that are common to all mankind I could not but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon
40、the departed persons; who had left no other memorial of them, but that they were born and that they died. 三、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 43 With the closure of World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, many people are still arguing the impac
41、t of hosting World Expo on the blending of cultures in the city, economic prosperity in the city, innovation of science and technology in the city and remodeling of communities in the city. Choose ONE aspect of our society or economy where you think the impact will be most strongly felt, and Write a
42、n essay of about 400 words entitled The Impact of the World Expo on . In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural co
43、nclusion or make a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. 专业英语八级模拟试卷 529答案与解析 SECTION A MINI-LECTURE Directions: In this section you sill hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lec
44、ture 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. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-f
45、illing task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking. 0 【听力原文】 Marriage in Ancient Egypt Good afternoon, everybody. In ancient times Egypt was a flourishing kingdom and one of the earliest known civilizations, producing magnificent structures and delicate works of art. Today we will
46、discuss one aspect of its social life. That is the marriage in ancient Egypt. The ancient Egyptians held marriage as a sacred bond. The family was broken down into roles that each would play in order for things to run smoothly. The father was the one who would work all day. In smaller households the
47、 mother was in charge of all things pertaining to the house. Cooking, cleaning and watching the children were all her responsibilities. Egyptians seem to have taken mates in what most often appears to be lifelong monogamous relationships. Marriage and a close family played an integral role in ancien
48、t Egypt. A bride would be young, about 14 or 15 years old. Her husband could be anywhere from 17 to 20 - or older if he was divorced or a widower. The ancient Egyptians were encouraged to marry young, considering that the life span at this time was relatively short. Interestingly, one of the most af
49、fectionate titles you could call your love was “brother“ or “sister“ in ancient Egypt. This had nothing to do with sibling relations, but led many archaeologists and scholars to wrongly assume that most ancient Egyptians married their siblings. Actually, this usually occurred only among royalty - and was not a common occurrence. First lets talk about the wedding day. The day of the marriage was really quite simple. The bride merely moved her belongings into t
