1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 558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 The pyramids Some of the most interesting building in the world are the pyramids. The pyramids stand huge
3、 and silent, and in modern days, people look at them and wonder, “Who built them? Why? When? What is in- side? How did they do it?“ Thousands of years ago in Egypt, kings built the pyramids. They used to build them as【 1】 _. The kings 【 1】 _ thought the pyramids would help them find life after【 2】 _
4、, 【 2】 _ - ,and join Ra in his journeys【 3】 _ life sky. 【 3】 _ They also wanted the world to remember them as important peo- ple. Some pyramids were found by thieves who in fact found their way into the pyramids and into most of the pharaohs tombs. The tombs were still full of treasure. There are ma
5、ny pyramids along the【 4】 _ River. 【 4】 _ The【 5】 _ is the pyramid of Khufa. It is made of 2,300, 【 5】 _ 000 huge【 6】 _ ,most of them higher than a person, It is 【 6】 _ about 144 meters high. Inside the pyramid are the burial rooms for the king and queen and long passageways to these rooms. The rest
6、 of the pyramid is solid stone. Workers usually built the pyramids when the flood began in 【 7】 _ and they could not work on their farms. To build 【 7】 _ the pyramid of Khufu, 100,000 men worked for twenty years. We know there were wonderful treasures in the pyramids: Robbers went into the pyramids
7、and took many of these treas- ures. Today some of the treasures are in museums, though. How did the people of ancient days build the pyramids? How did they carry and lift the huge stones? Each stone fit so well and they didnt have our modern machines! The ancient 【 8】 _ in Egyptian tombs give us som
8、e ideas. The workers 【 8】 _ used【 9】 _, levers and rollers to move stones. Besides 【 9】 _ the Egyptian pyramids, there are also great pyramids in【 10】 【 10】 _ _ which were used for human sacrifice and different from Egyptian tombs in shape and other aspects. 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】
9、 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 end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the fo
10、llowing five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 According to Kelvin, which of the following is TRUE? （ A） Customers go to the bar to buy their drinks. （ B） Customers have to queue for drinks at the bar. （ C） Customers have to wait for someone to take their orders. （ D） A waitress normally co
11、mes to the tables to take orders or money. 12 Which of the following is TRUE of the service at a bar? （ A） A customer has to tip the waitress. （ B） A customer has to pay each time he gets drinks. （ C） A customer has to pay for all the drinks when he is leaving. （ D） A customer has to sit at the tabl
12、e to wait for their turn to be served. 13 The following are served in pubs EXCEPT _. （ A） alcoholics （ B） spirits （ C） fruit juices （ D） milk 14 According to Kelvin, cordials refer to _. （ A） carbonated water （ B） soft drinks （ C） strong and sweet drinks （ D） mineral water 15 Which of the following
13、is NOT TRUE of VAT? （ A） VAT is the acronym of Value Added Tax. （ B） VAT is a tax charged on most goods in Britain. （ C） VAT is not charged on different services in Britain. （ D） A foreigner can get VAT back when he leaves Britain under the Retail Export Scheme. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions:
14、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 Which of the following statements about President Bushs trip to Europe is TRUE? （ A） He presided over
15、 the Group of Eight summit. （ B） He talked with French President on rebuilding Iraq. （ C） He discussed with Russian leader on the issue of industrialization. （ D） He reached agreement with Italian Prime Minister to continue their effort in Iraq. 16 How men first learnt to invent words is unknown; in
16、 other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, whic
17、h could be written down. These sounds, whether spoken or written in letters, we call words. The power of words, then, lies in their associations-the things they bring up before our minds. Words become filled with meaning for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to
18、us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we read and learn, the more the number of words that mean something to us increases. Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which appeal powerfully to our minds and emotions. This charming
19、 and telling use of words is what we call literary style. Above all, the real poet is a master of words. He can convey his meaning in words which sing like music, and which by their position and association can move men to tears. We should therefore learn to choose our words carefully and use them a
20、ccurately, or they will make our speech silly and vulgar. 17 The real power of words consists in their_. （ A） properties （ B） characteristics （ C） peculiarity （ D） representative function 18 In expressing their thoughts, great writers are able to_. （ A） confound the readers （ B） move men to tears （
21、C） move our actions （ D） puzzle our feelings 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 19 What is the name of the woman poet who had her The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America? （ A） Anne Br
22、adstreet. （ B） Maria Edgeworth. （ C） Jane Austen. （ D） Emily Dickinson. 20 Theodore Dreisers Trilogy of Desire does NOT include_. （ A） An American Tragedy （ B） The Financier （ C） The Titan （ D） The Stoic 21 What are the dual structures of language? （ A） Sounds and letters. （ B） Sounds and meaning. （
23、 C） Letters and meaning. （ D） Sounds and symbols. 22 _ is regarded as the representative of Metaphysical poets. （ A） John Donne （ B） John Milton （ C） Francis Bacon （ D） Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 23 According to Chomsky, slips of the tongue of a native speaker are examples of_. （ A） performance erro
24、rs （ B） incompetence （ C） grammar mistakes （ D） supra-segmental influence 24 In America the traditional dividing line between “east“ and “west“ is （ A） Mount Rushmore. （ B） The Mississippi River. （ C） The Rocky Mount. （ D） The Grand Canyon. 25 The basic components of a sentence include _. （ A） a nou
25、n and a verb （ B） a subject and a predicate （ C） a noun and a predicate （ D） a subject and a verb 26 Sons and Lovers is an autobiographical novel of _. （ A） D.H. Lawrence （ B） Thomas Hardy （ C） Henry James （ D） Arnold Bennett 27 Which of the following is NOT of British origin? （ A） Charles Darwin （
26、B） Florence Nightingale （ C） Barbra Streizand （ D） Hitchcock 28 All the following were written by Ernest Hemingway EXCEPT （ A） The Sun Also Rises. （ B） The Old Man and the Sea. （ C） A Farewell to Arms. （ D） In a Station of the Metro. 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING but rather with the sauntering gaze with w
27、hich humble lovers of the picturesque stroll from the window of one print-shop to another; caught sometimes by the delineations of beauty, sometimes by the distortions of caricature, and sometimes by the loveliness of landscape. As it is the fashion for modem tourists to travel pencil in hand, and b
28、ring home their portfolios filled with sketches, I am disposed to get up a few for the entertainment of my friends. When, however, I look over the hints and memorandums I have taken down for the purpose, my heart almost fails me at finding how my idle humor has led me aside from tile great objects s
29、tudied by every regular traveler who would make a book. 三、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 41 It is said that people, especially younger generations are paying less and less attention to dealing with people with politeness and appro
30、priateness. Some people hold the idea that courtesy is no longer a necessity in current society. What is your idea on this? Write an essay of about 400 words. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay. In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main argument, and in th
31、e second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may resul
32、t in a loss of marks. 专业英语八级模拟试卷 558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 af
33、ter 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】 Only one of the “seven Wonders“ of the ancient world remains; the pyramids of
34、 Egypt. The most famous of the Egyptian pyramids are the pyramids of Giza. These pyramids were built more than 5,000 years ago. The biggest of them was the “Great Pyramid“ ,the pyramid of Khufu. It was 146 metres high, and each of the four sides measured 230 metres and faced exactly north, south, ea
35、st or west. It was made of about 2,300,000 blocks of stone, all exactly the same shape. The weight of each block was about tons. The inside blocks were cut out of rock near to the place of pyramid. The blocks of fine stone for the outside came from Turn on the other side of the River Nile. It would
36、be difficult to make a pyramid like the Great Pyramid at Giza even today. How did they do it 5,000 years ago? The ancient Egyptians had nothing like our machines to lift heavy things. They used sledges, levers and rollers. They were very clever with these things. The power was supplied by hundreds o
37、r thousands of men. To move a big block of stone to a position 100 metres up, they first built up a long slope from the ground to that position. Then they used levers and rollers to put the block on a sledge, and many men pulled the sledge up the slope. How do we know all this? We have learnt it fro
38、m pictures in Egyptian tombs. And we can read their writing-the hieroglyphics in which they kept their records. The pyramids were built on high ground, above the highest point that the Nile flood water ever reached. The pyramid builders first built a slope from the Nile bank to the place for the Gre
39、at Pyramid. Making this road and preparing the ground took ten years. After that, building the Great pyramid itself took twenty years more. And this was possible only because the Pharaoh of Egypt used a very large number of people for the work. Some of them were prisoners of war and other captured p
40、eople. But many of them were the Pharaohs own people-the farmers of Egypt. When the Nile flood began in September and their fields were under water, the Pharaohs servants ordered them to go to work at the pyramids. By the end of the great period of pyramid building the rich country of Egypt had beco
41、me poor. Why did the Pharaohs do it? It was a time of change in their religion. At the beginning of the period, the Pharaoh expected to live in his tomb after death. His life there, he thought, would be like his life before his death. So he needed a tomb with plenty of room for everything-his beds,
42、his chairs, his gold dishes, food, drink, all his treasure. But at the same time, the Pharaohs began to call themselves the sons of the sun god, Ra. They expected to join Ra in his journeys across the sky. So they needed a place to start from. Tile pyramid pointed to the sky and showed the east - we
43、st direction of the suns journey. It was big in order to hide and guard the Pharaohs tomb-because that was still full of treasure. (In fact thieves later found their way into all the pyramids and into most of the Pharaohs tombs.) An earlier pyramid than those at Giza was the “step pyramid“ of the Ph
44、araoh Zoser. As the name suggests, it was built in great steps. Probably they were steps up to the sky and the kingdom of Ra. The shape is rather like the shape of the great ziggurats of Mesopotamia and the teocalli of Mexico. Like the pyramids, the ziggurats and the teocalli reached up towards the
45、sky, but they were different in other ways. They did not contain a tomb. And the top was not a point; it was a temple. The biggest of the teocolli-bigger than the great pyramid-is at Cholula in central Mexico and there are many others. The inside is a huge pyramid. Of earth, the outside, and the tem
46、ple at the top, were of finely cut stone. The pyramids of Egypt were never for human sacrifice. But at a particular time in the year and at a particular point in the suns journey, the sides of the great pyramids of Mexico ran with human blood from sacrifices at the top, in the temples of the gods, T
47、ezcatlipoca, the “soul of the world“, Huitilopochtli, the god of war, or Tlaloc, the rain god. 1 【正确答案】 tombs 【试题解析】 在听力原文中有这么一个问句 “why did the Pharaohs do it?”(法老为什么要建金字塔 ?)后面提到 “the Pharaoh expected to live in his tomb after death”，虽然这里没有明确地说明金字塔就是坟墓，但是也可以证实法老建造金字塔就是为了把它做为死后生活的地方。 2 【正确答案】 death 【
48、试题解析】 这个即使通过猜测也能得出正确，而且听力材料中也明确提到“The kings thought the pyramids would help them find life after death ”因此必然选择 death。 3 【正确答案】 across 【试题解析】 原文中提到法老建造金字塔的原因与宗教有关，他们自称为太阳神的儿子，因此希望死后能利用金字塔穿越天空到天国去，因此用 across比较合适，而且原文中的原话也提供了 cross the sky这个信息。 4 【正确答案】 Nile 【试题解析】 在原文中提到 “The pyramids were built on hi
49、gh ground， above the highest point that the Nile flood water ever reached!”(金字塔建在尼罗河洪水所能达到的最高点的高地上 )，从中可以推断金字塔的确是建在尼罗河边的。 5 【正确答案】 largest 【试题解析】 听力材料中提到 “The biggest of them was the Great Pyramid”； the pyramid of Khufu，只要听到 Khufu就能得出正确 the biggest。 6 【正确答案】 stones 【试题解析】 听力材料中提到 “It was made of about 2， 300， 000 blocks of stone， all
