1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 573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 On Reviewing and Improving Written Work Teachers feel very frustrated when they find small mistakes in st
3、udents writing that should be so easily picked up before submission. Another frustration is that words used are too (1)_. One explanation for this is students have a deep vocabulary but do not use it enough. Another reason might be that students spend (2)_time on the assignment, which leads to the u
4、nsatisfactory results. Here, some practical tips are offered for the improvement of students written work. 1.(3)_. Most students only use the surface vocabulary (about 20%) they have mastered, which is far from enough. The way out is to dive under the surface for better words and expressions. 2.Unde
5、rstand your problems and weaknesses. You can find them and keep them in mind through (4)_: understand the habitual mistakes you make or check your corrected work by a teacher for such information. Make a list of these things, and refer to it when checking your writing. 3.Listen to your writing. As y
6、ou write and re-read your work, your eye and brain get used to seeing the words, so you (5)_small mistakes. One way to check is to have someone else read your work or listen to your writing. Reading it aloud to yourself will be helpful too, but you have to (6)_. When you do this, you can catch some
7、mistakes and correct them. 4.Finding a friend or (7)_will do you benefits. However, compared with peers, the help from (8)_is not recommended, because they tend to do too much work than is good for you. Even a teacher cannot give you (9)_as a peer, for they have too many papers to check. Admittedly
8、the basic tips offered above add time to your writing activity. But taking time at the re-finish will definitely (10)_you: it makes a teacher, who gives you a grade, more pleased when reading your writing. SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen car
9、efully 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 Employees in the US are paid for their time. This means that they are
10、 supposed to （ A） work hard while their boss is around. （ B） come to work when there is work to be done. （ C） work with initiative and willingness. （ D） work through their lunch break. 12 One of the advantages of flexible working hours is that （ A） pressure from work can be reduced. （ B） working wom
11、en can have more time at home. （ C） traffic and commuting problems can be solved. （ D） personal relationships in offices can be improved. 13 On the issue of working contracts in the US, which statement is NOT correct? （ A） Performance at work matters more than anything else. （ B） There are laws prot
12、ecting employees working rights. （ C） Good reasons must be provided in order to fire workers. （ D） Working contracts in the US are mostly short-term ones. 14 It can be assumed from the interview that an informal atmosphere might be found in （ A） small firms. （ B） major banks. （ C） big corporations.
13、（ D） law offices. 15 The interview is mainly about _ in the USA. （ A） office hierarchies （ B） office conditions （ C） office rules （ D） office life SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At t
14、he end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 According to ETS, several things will be changed in the GRE General Test except _. （ A） reading passages （ B） the verbal part （ C） the quantitative part （ D） written skills 16 William “Bendigo“ Thompson, heavyweight c
15、hampion of England in the old bare-knuckle days was one of the dirtiest and most treacherous fighters ever to step into a prize ring. Yet he was se popular that a town, a racehorse and a liqueur were named Bendigo in his honor during his lifetime. Bendigo Thompson was one of triplets born in Notting
16、ham, England, on October 11, 1811. His mother was a coarse and violent woman. However, she was apparently acquainted with the Book of Daniel, for she nicknamed her three sons Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. As a child, the latters name was corrupted to Bendigo. He was raised in the slums. His mother
17、 was the terror of the neighborhood. She cursed like a fishwife and fought like an outraged army. When she lost her temper-a circumstance that occurred two or three times a day-she boat up, impartially, her children, her husband and any indignant neighbor who thrust his head in the door to protest t
18、he noise. But in her own savage way she loved her fighting son and he loved her. She taught Bendigo never to lead with his right and to fight from a crouch-a boxing style which he pioneered in the ring. When he was 21 years old he had attained his full height and weight: just over 59“ and 164 pounds
19、. (Though no heavyweight by modern standards, in those days they didnt bother about division classifications.) His complexion was clear and fresh, his gray eyes bright and sparkling, his manner eccentric but confident. In October of 1832 he embarked upon his professional career. When he fought one N
20、ed Smith the following March for a purse of five pounds, he cut Smith to pieces for six rounds, and knocked him out in the seventh. Ringside sports writers described him as quick, agile and muscular, with tremendous hitting power. By the time Bendigo began to make a name for himself, the sport of bo
21、xing, once the “pride and boast of England,“ had come into disrepute. Brutality in the ring had caused an increasing number of deaths among fighters; critics complained the fighters accepted bribes to throw matches. The sport was attracting a great following of hoodlums and cutthroats. As might be e
22、xpected, this was precisely the kind of atmosphere in which Bendigo could-and did-thrive. During the next two years, he fought eight opponents without a loss. Bendigos 13th fight took him out of what today would be called the “preliminary boy“- classification. It was in July of 1835. His opponent wa
23、s Ben Caunt. They hated each other on sight. C. aunt was them 22, stood 63“and weighted 210 pounds. Bendigo looked like a pygmy compared with Caunt. As one baffled sports writer of the period wrote. “Bendigo is the favorite at six to four, a state of odds which seems unaccountable when the disparity
24、 of size is considered.“ But the odds proved correct. Bendigo enraged his gigantic opponent by his peculiar bending, weaving and crouching techniques; and the spectators roared disapproval when he “accidentally“ slipped or fell (thus ending a round) whenever Count was getting the better of him. Caun
25、t finally lost his head, rushed across the ring and struck Bendigo while he was seated in his corner between rounds. This foul cost Caunt the fight. Bendigo continued his unbeaten career, whipping men almost twice his size, through skill and skullduggery. Bendigos fame spread. A racehorse was christ
26、ened for him. The gold mining town of Sandhurst, in Australia, proudly changed its name to Bendigo. A distiller put on the market a liqueur called Bendigo. Caunt, unable to tolerate the idea that Bendigo held the title, hurled challenge after challenge at him. Bendigo fought others, but ignored him.
27、 Then, in the early 1840s Bendigo severely injured his knee while turning somersaults for the amusement of his friends. At this point, he announced his retirement from the ring and devoted himself to whisky, reminiscences and the management of a London public house, The Coach and Horses, which he ha
28、d bought with his winnings. With Bendigo retired, the championship went by default and eventually was won by Caunt. His repeated taunts finally brought Bendigo out of retirement in September of 1845. The fight created extraordinary excitement and the crowd that gathered for it was estimated at over
29、10,000. Because the police were determined to prevent the fight, the ring was moved three separate times. It proved one of the most scandalous brawls in boxing history. Both men committed every known foul and invented a good many others. Frequently one or the other was tossed out of the ring onto th
30、e ringsiders. In the 93rd round, after two hours and ten minutes, the referee declared that Caunt went down without a blow, thus forfeiting the fight to Bondigo. The scandal of it all kept London clubmen in a state of excitement for months. Nevertheless, it is generally agreed that this disgraceful
31、match had much to do with the reforms in the 50s and 60s that sent boxing on the read to respectability and made it once more a favorite sport of the aristocracy. Bendigo permanently retired from the ring after defeating Tom Paddock in 1850. He returned to Nottingham where his acrobatic feats, even
32、in his old age, were remarkable and delighted children, with whom he was kind and gentle. He spent his sober moments gardening and fishing. An egocentric braggart, Bendigo oddly refused to discuss feats about which he could have boasted with reason, such as the three separate occasions when he saved
33、 persons from drowning-at the risk of his own life. When the townsfolk proposed to reward him for his courage, he indignantly refused to accept even a farthing. Bondigo died on August 23, 1880, after falling down a flight of steps and fracturing three ribs. A bony splinter perforated one of his lung
34、s. It is said that his last words were: “I dont mind dying. Ill soon join my mother in heaven.“ 17 Bendigo was taught to fight by _. （ A） his mother （ B） his father （ C） a friend （ D） street gangs 18 In Bendigos time, the length of a fight was _. （ A） 5 rounds （ B） 10 rounds （ C） 50 rounds （ D） unli
35、mited 19 In Bendigos time, boxing was associated with _. （ A） the aristocracy （ B） corruption （ C） local sports clubs （ D） strict training procedures 20 Bendigo was notable for his _. （ A） skill （ B） great size （ C） good sportsmanship （ D） all of the above 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Dire
36、ctions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 21 By the year of 2050, American population is expected to climb to_. （ A） 256 million （ B） 275 million （ C） 300 million （ D） 383 million 22 _ refers to the sound which is capable of distinguish
37、ing one word or one shape of word from another in a given language. （ A） Phone （ B） Allophone （ C） Phoneme （ D） Morpheme 23 Most of the measures F. D.Roosevelt took in the first hundred days he was in the White House were to_. （ A） stop bank failures （ B） prevent radical actions in the United States
38、 （ C） prevent the further worsening of the economic situation and lessen the personal sufferings of the people （ D） prevent further worsening of the unstable political situation 24 Classical Greek and Arabic have a third number; _, something like the English “both“. （ A） single （ B） plural （ C） dual
39、 （ D） trial 25 _is a masterwork written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. （ A） The Great Gatsby （ B） Tales of the Jazz Age （ C） Tender Is the Night （ D） The Last Tycoon 26 The Road Not Taken is a poem written by （ A） Robert Frost. （ B） Longfellow. （ C） Ezra Pound. （ D） Carl Sandburg. 27 The relationship betwe
40、en “flower“ and “rose“ is_. （ A） antonymy （ B） synonymy （ C） hyponymy （ D） polysemy 28 An Englishman uses “I“ to refer to himself, while a German uses “ich“, a Spaniard “yo“. This is an example of language _. （ A） duality （ B） displacement （ C） transmission （ D） arbitrariness 29 linguists give prior
41、ity to the spoken language not the written language because _. （ A） vocal sounds are derived from writing systems （ B） speech precedes writing everywhere in the world （ C） we have recording devices to study speech （ D） spoken language precedes written language only in Indo- European languages 30 Whi
42、ch American president was at the same time period with Martin Luther King Jr.? （ A） John Kennedy （ B） Abraham Lincoln （ C） George Washington （ D） Ronald Reagan 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING or 5._ even an engine of the revolution? This is what is being discussed privately in the big clapboard houses of fa
43、culty members around the Harvard Yard. The issue was defined by Waiter Lippmann, a distinctive Harvard 6._ graduate, several years ago. “If the universities are to do their work,“ he said, “they must be independent and they must be uninterested. They 7._ are places to which men can turn for judgment
44、s which are unbiased by partisanship and special interest. Obviously, the moment the universities fall under political control, or under the control of private interests, or the moment they themselves give a hand in politics and the leadership of 8._ government, their value as independent sources of
45、 judgment is impaired.“ Harvards men of today seem less troubled about personal, political 9._ and academic purpose than they did at the beginning. They are not even clear about how they should debate and resolve their problems, but they are struggling with them privately, and how they come out is b
46、ounded 10._ to influence American university and political life in the 1990s. SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH Directions: Translate the following text into English. 41 姚明今天已是一名优秀的球星，可当初他的追求目标却不是拿冠军、去NBA、当球星。他那玩命的训练，奋勇的拼搏，只是为了有一双合脚的鞋子，让全家人不再为他穿鞋而发愁。也许姚明如此简单的目标让人感到不可思议，但正是这看似简单的目标成就了他今天的辉煌。他认真实际地确定着自己人生每
47、一阶段的追求目标。并不断地去实现它，超越它。回首人生旅途中那许许多多被人们抛弃的未竟事业和目标，我们再一次反思姚明：要想走路，先得拥有一双合脚的鞋子，还得一步步地走。 SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese. 42 If people mean anything at all by the expression “untimely death“, they must believe that some deaths run on a better schedule th
48、an others. Death in old age is rarely called untimely - a long life is thought to be a full one. But with the passing of a young person, one assumes that the best years lay ahead and the measures of that life was still to be taken. History denies this, of course. Among prominent summer deaths, one r
49、ecalls those of Marilyn Monroe and James Deans, whose lives seemed equally brief and complete. Writers cannot bear the fact that poet John Keats died at 26, and only half playfully judge their own lives as failures when they pass that year. The idea that the life cut short is unfulfilled is illogical because lives are measured by the impressions they leave on the world and by their intensity and virtu
