1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 559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 Dealing with Life Abroad I. Culture shock of life abroad 1) More and more people tend to go abroad Go abr
3、oad to work,study or travel. Find out what life is like in another part of the world. Make new friends. Learn about the (1)_in another country. 2) Culture shock (2)_: homesickness, stress, fear, confusion. II. lips to help you deal with new situations. 1) Take time to (3)_ 2) Do have an open mind Do
4、 not form an opinion too soon. Do not think of the (4)_as better or worse. It is just different and you will be more willing to try new things. 3) Get involved Try things for yourself. Do not worry about making a mistake. If you are unsure of what to do in a formal setting, follow others lead. Activ
5、e (5)_in conversation is important. 4) Practise your language skills Try to find a native speak to have conversation. Take every (6)_to talk with the native. Become more confident. Try to engage others in a bit of casual, polite conversation. 5) Try to find a foreign language TV station and watch of
6、ten At first try to recognize a few words or phrases. Later pay attention to the patterns of pronunciation, and the way that the voice rises and falls. Childrens shows are great for learning and reviewing basic (7)_. Learn by watching ads and games shows. 6) Seek help and keep contact Do not forget
7、the (8)_information about the organizations and people that are to help you. Be honest. Call back or email to your friends and family occasionally. 7) Holiday advice Be a respectful observer if you do not share the religious belief of the holiday. Religious ceremonies can give you (9)_into a culture
8、,and your questions can lead to interesting conversations with your family and friends. (10)_is a part of holiday traditions. 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
9、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 Who go to classes at the adult education center? （ A） Those who have more leisure time. （ B） Those who want to get diplomas. （ C） Those who want to g
10、et “A“ levels. （ D） Those who have already left school. 12 Whats the reason for the third type of people to attend classes? （ A） For personal pleasure and a qualification. （ B） For their interest in the course. （ C） In order to make new friends. （ D） In order to study English Literature. 13 What cou
11、rses require previous qualifications? （ A） The academic courses. （ B） The vocational courses. （ C） A level or diploma courses. （ D） The majority of courses. 14 How long do the courses usually last? （ A） 5 or 6 months. （ B） 9 or 10 months. （ C） One year. （ D） One year and a half. 15 Which of the foll
12、owing is NOT true according to the interviewer? （ A） Homework is compulsory for diploma courses. （ B） It usually cost between 10 and 25 to take a course. （ C） The pensioners usually spend less money than others. （ D） Students can be recommended for jobs after training. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Direc
13、tions: 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 learn from the passage? （ A） The decision was made in a world summit on fighting a
14、gainst terrorism. （ B） Africa will benefit a lot from this decision. （ C） The decision was made by common consent of its member countries from the beginning. （ D） Blair announced that aid to Africa would rise from 25 million US dollars annually to 50 million by 2010. 16 Lets Not Hide Health Costs We
15、 are awash in health-care proposals. President Bush has one. So does California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden has a plan, as does a coalition led by Families USA (a liberal advocacy group) and Americas Health Insurance Plans (a trade group). To some extent, all these plans an
16、d others aim to provide insurance to the estimated 47 million Americans who lack ita situation widely deplored as a national disgrace. But the real significance of all these proposals, I submit, lies elsewhere. For decades, Americans have treated health care as if it exists in a separate economic an
17、d political world: when people need care, they should get it; costs should remain out of sight. About 60 percent of Americans receive insurance through their employers; to most workers, the full costs are unknown. The 65-and-older population and many poor people receive government insurance. Except
18、for modest Medicare premiums and payroll taxes, costs are largely buried in federal and state budgets. It is this segregation of health care from everything else that is now crumblingand the various health proposals are just one sign. We see others all the time. For example, even with employer-provi
19、ded insurance, workers monthly premiums (which cover only part of the costs) have skyrocketed. From 1999 to 2006, they doubled from $129 to $248. Look at Massachusetts. Last year the then Gov. Mitt Romney made headlines by signing legislation to cover all the states uninsured. The law required that
20、everyone with incomes three times the federal poverty line buy “affordable“ insurance (people with incomes below that threshold would be subsidized on a sliding scale). Romney suggested annual premiums for a single worker might total $2,400. But when insurance companies recently provided real estima
21、tes, the cost was much higher: $4,560. Is it a sensible policy to force workers with a $30,000 incomeabout triple the poverty line to spend nearly a sixth of their budget on health insurance, as opposed to food, rent or transportation? Good question. The hard questions wont sit still, because health
22、 care (now a sixth of the economy, up from an 11th in 1980) is too big to be hidden. Myths abound. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the doubling of premiums for employer-provided coverage doesnt mean companies shifted a greater share of costs to workers. In both 1999 and 2006, premiums covered 27 pe
23、rcent of costs, says Paul Fronstin of the Employee Benefit Research Institute. Its simply the rapid rise in total health spending thats depressed workers take-home pay. One myth about the uninsured is that, because theyre heavy users of emergency-room services, providing them with insurance (and reg
24、ular care) would actually lower their costs. This may be true for somebut not most. The trouble is that the uninsured dont really use emergency rooms heavily. A study on the journal Health Affairs finds that their use is similar to that of people with private insuranceand half that of people with Me
25、dicaid. The upshot is that extending insurance to all the uninsured would be costly, because they would get more and (presumably) better care. John Sheils of the Lewin Group estimates the annual cost of their care would rise 75 percent to $145 billion. Our health-care system will inevitably combine
26、government regulation and private enterprise. But what should the mix be? Which patients, providers and technologies should be subsidized and why? How important is health care compared with other public and private goals? Will an expanding health-care sector spur the economyor, through high taxes an
27、d insurance premiums, retard it? We have refused to have this debate for obvious reasons. A friend of mine recently had a near-death experience; he survived only because he had superb medical care. Debating health care makes us queasy, because it pits moral imperatives (including the right to live)
28、against coldhearted economics. I dont intend to examineat least nowall the new proposals. Some would do better at some goals (say, protecting the poor) than at others (say, controlling costs). But the Bush proposal does have one huge virtue: it exposes health-care costs to the broad public. By not t
29、axing employer-paid insurance, the government now provides a huge invisible subsidy to workers. Bush wouldnt end the subsidy, but by modifying it with specific deductions for insurance ($15,000 for families, $7,500 for singles), he would force most workers to see the costs. By contrast, some other p
30、roposals disguise their costs. Schwarzeneggers plan shifts costs to the federal government, doctors and hospitals. Its clever, but it perpetuates the illusion that health care is cheapor even free. However our health system evolveswith more government control or more market influenceAmericans need t
31、o come to a more realistic understanding of its limits. Underestimating its costs and exaggerating its benefits guarantees disappointment. If the present outpouring of proposals signals a start of our needed debate, then it is long overdue. 17 According to the author, the real significance of health
32、 proposals is _. （ A） to solve health problems （ B） to show that health care is cheap （ C） to provide insurance to the uninsured （ D） to treat health care in a realistic way 18 Which of the following is NOT a sign that shows the present situation of Americans health care? （ A） The various health pro
33、posals. （ B） The various benefits it provides. （ C） The Massachusetts law by Mitt Romney. （ D） The increase of workers monthly premiums. 19 The word “upshot“ in paragraph six means _. （ A） myth （ B） effect （ C） outcome （ D） misunderstanding 20 According to the passage, a big difference between the B
34、ush proposal and the Schwarzenegger proposal is that _. （ A） the latter hides the health-care costs （ B） the former hides the health-care costs （ C） the latter does better at controlling costs （ D） the former does better at controlling costs 21 What can be inferred from the passage about health care
35、 in America? （ A） American health care is cheap. （ B） The government can afford to pay health cost. （ C） Health care has become a problem to be heeded. （ D） Health care is not so serious as to affect the economy. 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questi
36、ons in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 22 Which of the following is NOT the “primary“ industries of national economies in England? （ A） Agriculture. （ B） Fishing. （ C） Mining. （ D） Banking. 23 Many hundreds of rebels were put to death by_as he passed triumphantly with an army
37、of 40,000 men through Kent and Essex. （ A） King Henry II （ B） King Richard （ C） King John （ D） King Edward 24 The capital of New Zealand is （ A） Christchurch. （ B） Auckland. （ C） Wellington. （ D） Hamilton. 25 _is the study of the characteristics of language varieties, the characteristics of their fu
38、nctions and the characteristics of their speakers as these three constantly interact and change within a speech community. （ A） Psycholinguistics （ B） Sociolinguistics （ C） Anthropological linguistics （ D） Computational linguistics 26 Instead of saying “The lion beat the unicorn all round the town.“
39、 they say “All around the town the lion beat the unicorn.“ The change in linear order changes our perspective about the concerns of the clause. This is an example of _ function of language. （ A） metalingual （ B） bilingual （ C） multilingual （ D） trilingual 27 The “s“ in the word “sounds“ is a(n) （ A）
40、 inflectional affix. （ B） derivational affix. （ C） free morpheme. （ D） root. 28 Semantic triangle is most closely related to_. （ A） the naming theory （ B） the conceptualist view （ C） conceptualism （ D） behaviorisms 29 Buckingham Palace is _s present London home. （ A） parliament （ B） churchmen （ C） m
41、onarch （ D） the prime minister 30 According to statistics, _ employer in Australia is the manufacturing industry. （ A） the fourth largest （ B） the third largest （ C） the second largest （ D） the largest 31 The Grand Canyon, carved by the Colorado river, in northwestern _ is one of natures most impres
42、sive sights. （ A） Utah （ B） Arizona （ C） Nevada （ D） Oregon 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burdens of a long twilight struggle, year in, and year out, “rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation“ - a struggle against the common enemies
43、 of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself. Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort? In the long history of the world, only a few generation have
44、 been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor
45、 will light our country and ail who serve it- and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. 三、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 44 According to statistics, women on the job market make, on average, 75 cents for every dollar
46、men make for the equivalent jobs. The wage gap between men and women has been existed for long and will continue to exist. What is your opinion of the phenomenon? Write an essay of about 400 words entitled: Sexism at Job Market In the first part of your essay you should state your main argument, and
47、 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 conclusion or make a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may
48、 result in a loss of marks. Write your essay on ANSWER SHEET FOUR. 专业英语八级模拟试卷 559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 wil
49、l 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-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking. 0 【听力原文】 Dealing with Life Abroad Todays lecture is about how you should deal with the life abroad, that is, some tips for you to deal with cross-cultur
