1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 545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 Leaving Home Generally, most people have in their minds a picture of their “ideal home“, but if you are s
3、tudents or people just beginning work, the practical limitations of money and location may prevent them from finding this ideal home. Serveral ideas for you to follow: . To stay at home for a while when leaving school: 1) many advantages while staying at home; 2) depending much on how you【 1】 _ your
4、 family. 【 1】_ . To stay in your home area by renting a house or a fiat: 1) cannot inviting your【 2】 _ to visit you freely; 【 2】 _ 2) would be rather unhappy if not geting on well with your【 3】 _. 【 3】 _ . To ask【 4】 _ on campus for help in finding houses: 【 4】 _ 1) difficult in some areas because o
5、f a【 5】 _ student population; 【 5】 _ 2) many【 6】 _ not willing to rent rooms to students. 【 6】 _ . To share【 7】 _ with some other students: 【 7】_ 1) very cheap rent; 2) no old people watching over; 3) and the housework shared with room-mates; 4) causing problems if having【 8】 _ characters. 【 8】 _ .T
6、o try a bed-sitter-one room that you use as a bedroom and sitting room【 9】 _: 【 9】_ 1) not very expensive rent; 2) easy to keep clean and cheap and to heat; 3) simple to make it feel like a real home; 4) may be always【 10】 _ if cooking; 【 10】_ 5) might be hanging your wet clothes all round the room;
7、 6) can be very lonely at first. 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. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the
8、end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 Victoria has eventually decided to go on a_ （ A） fly-drive holiday （ B） car-trip （ C） two-city holiday （ D） conducted tour 12 At the Epcot Centre Victoria will_. （ A） see
9、 aquatic displays （ B） visit a large funfair （ C） visit a technological-advanced city （ D） visit a film studio 13 When she visits the Kennedy Space Centre, Victoria will be able to_. （ A） send messages to satellites （ B） learn something new about the space （ C） go aboard a spacecraft （ D） operate Mi
10、ssion Control 14 In order to go on this holiday, Victoria ultimately had to_. （ A） overdraw an account （ B） borrow from her parents （ C） work overtime （ D） spend her savings 15 From the conversation, we get the impression that Victoria is_. （ A） pragmatic （ B） extrovert （ C） wilful （ D） calculating
11、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 Who attacked police bases, volunteer defense posts and local gov
12、ernment offices? （ A） Security forces. （ B） Some officials. （ C） Militants. （ D） The farmers. 17 Where did the clash take place? （ A） In the southern provinces. （ B） In the northern cities. （ C） In the west. （ D） In the east. 18 How many militants were killed in Wednesdays attacks? （ A） 10. （ B） 20.
13、 （ C） At least 40. （ D） At least 60. 18 The World Banks Real Problem The World Bank is undeniably in crisis. But not because its president, Paul Wolfowitz, got his girlfriend a raise. It is the Wolfowitz saga that has been grabbing all the headlines, of course. The Iraq- war architect was plucked fr
14、om the Defense Department and deposited by President George W. Bush at the World Bank in 2005 (by tradition, the U.S. President picks the banks chief). At the time, Wolfowitz informed the banks ethics committee that he was seeing Shaha Riza, a communication adviser at the bank, and the in-house ethi
15、cists told him she should be moved to another agency and given a raise for her troubles. But the size of the pay hike (from $133,000 to $180,000, tax free) and other details about Rizas transfer raised hackles among bank staff and sparked an investigation. The banks board will decide any day now whe
16、ther Wolfowitz stays or goes. This dragged-out mess, though, is a distraction. The bigger issue is that the Washington-based bank and its sister organization, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), are struggling to justify their continued existence. The situation is most pressing for the smaller IM
17、F, which pays its bills with the profits it makes by lending money to middle-income countries in financial trouble. With hardly any such countries in trouble these days, the organization is projecting a $224 million deficit for this fiscal year and asking its member nations if they can start selling
18、 off some of the gold they deposited with it after World War II (the answer so far: no). The World Bank isnt that desperate, but it faces similar pressure. Both organizations were created in 1944 by the soon-to-be-victorious Allied powers. At the time, says Harvard professor and former IMF chief eco
19、nomist Kenneth Rogoff, “global financial markets barely existed, and domestic financial markets barely existed in Europe.“ The World Banks initial job was to finance reconstruction in Europe. The Marshall Plan rendered that task superfluous, so the bankin the first of several reinventions moved on t
20、o bankroll development in other countries. The idea was to lend to governments that were creditworthy but had no access to rich-country capital markets. “Now we live in a world where there are huge global capital markets, where, if anything, investors are too willing to invest in developing countrie
21、s,“ says Adam Lerrick, a former investment banker who teaches economics at Carnegie Mellon University. The World Banks net lending has plummeted over the past few years, even as it keeps shopping loans to the likes of Brazil, Turkey, Russia and China, sometimes on hugely generous terms. This is the
22、work of the biggest part of the World Bank, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Member countries make deposits (the U.S. share is $2 billion down and $30 billion pledged); the bank sells bonds backed by those deposits and pledges, then lends the money out at a small profit. Th
23、e other main arm of the World Bank, the International Development Association, gets regular infusions of cash from rich countries and lends funds on near giveaway terms to truly poor countries, mostly in Africa (the U.S. contribution is just under $1 billion a year, or 0.04% of federal spending). Le
24、rrick wants the World Bank to stop lending to middle-income countries and restructure its loans to the poorest nations as outright grants. Nancy Birdsall, a former World Banker who run a Washington think tank called the Center for Global Development, argues that the bank could have more impact on po
25、verty by making better use of its best assets: the expertise of its staff and its ability to coordinate global action. “Lending and grant making at the country level should not be the end-all and be- all,“ she says. “It should be the vehicle for advice and constant rebuilding of the banks knowledge.
26、“ Birdsall is a World Bank fan but agrees with critics like Lerrick that it must become smaller (it has a staff of 10,000) and less banklike to remain relevant. Wolfowitzs allies say he is the victim of backlash from entrenched bank staff upset that he is turning up the heat on an anticorruption cam
27、paign begun by his predecessor, James Wolfensohn. Thats probably overstating things. But the potential backlash against slashing the banks staff and getting it out of lending would surely be epic. Which may explain why no World Bank president, Wolfowitz included, has attempted it. 19 According to th
28、e author, the World Banks real problem is _. （ A） its corruption （ B） its policy on lending （ C） its continued existence （ D） Wolfowitzs romantic relationship 20 Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about the World Bank? （ A） Its anticorruption campaign is still going on. （ B） It
29、should readjust its role in combating poverty. （ C） It has satisfied its initial job to finance reconstruction in Europe. （ D） It is playing a more and more important role in lending to developing countries. 21 According to the passage, the World Bank should do the following EXCEPT _. （ A） reducing
30、staff （ B） coordinating global action （ C） increasing the profit it makes （ D） offering advice to poor countries 22 Which of the following is NOT true according to Nancy Birdsall? （ A） The World Bank should reduce its staff. （ B） The World Bank should coordinate global action. （ C） The World Bank sh
31、ould offer advice to poor countries. （ D） The World Bank should limit its work to lending and grant makin 23 We can infer from the last paragraph that the author was _ the capability of the World Bank to solve its problems. （ A） confident in （ B） indifferent to （ C） optimistic about （ D） pessimistic
32、 about 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 24 Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of （ A） Piers Plowman. （ B） Sir Gawain and the Green Knigh
33、t. （ C） Poems on London. （ D） The Canterbury Tales. 25 Today, the City of London is the business center of London where_are located. （ A） big supermarkets （ B） theatres and cinemas （ C） large financial organizations （ D） restaurants and cafes 26 American victory at_was a great turning point of the w
34、ar, leading directly to an alliance between the U.S. and France. （ A） Trenton （ B） Concord （ C） Saratoga （ D） Yorktown 27 The conflict at the Continental Convention was resolved by_, giving each state an equal vote in Senate. （ A） the “Great Compromise“ （ B） the Compromise of 1850 （ C） Federalist Pa
35、pers （ D） the Bill of Rights 28 The United States bought Louisiana from _. （ A） France （ B） Spain （ C） Britain （ D） Mexico 29 The national anthem of Australia is now the tune of _, but on regal and vice-regal occasions God Save the Queen must be played. （ A） Song of Australia （ B） The Star Spangled
36、Banner （ C） Dominion Day （ D） Advance Australia Fair 30 _ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history. （ A） Jane Eyre （ B） Emma （ C） Wuthering Heights （ D） She Walks in Beauty 31 Eliot, through his well-known poem The Waste Land, showed his concern over the _ of a modern c
37、ivilization. （ A） spiritual breakup （ B） political corruption （ C） religious hostility （ D） cultural degeneration 32 With regard to speech variety, sociolinguists are particularly interested in all the following EXCEPT （ A） regional dialects. （ B） social dialects. （ C） figures of speech. （ D） regist
38、ers. 33 Kangaroo means _in the native language of Aborigines. （ A） I know （ B） I love （ C） I dont know （ D） Run 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING but the mountains were raised to more than Alpine height, and there was interspace far larger between them of meadows and forest lawns; the hedges were rich with wh
39、ite roses; and no living creature was to be seen except that in the green churchyard there were cattle tranquilly reposing upon the graves, and particularly round about the grave of a child whom I had tenderly loved, just as I had really seen them, a little before sunrise in the same summer, when th
40、at child died. 三、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 37 Nowadays many novels are adapted into films or TV plays. What do you think of film adaptations of literature? Write a comment of about 400 words on this issue. In the first part o
41、f your writing you should present 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 follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR. 专业英语八级模拟试卷 545答案与解析
