1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 599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 Writing Effective Survey Questions I. For quantitative data A. Making an outline of issues with(1)_ , con
3、crete thoughts(1)_ Splitting items with different concepts Making abstract items more concrete B. Deciding rating labels Using them consistently Keeping changes to(2)_(2)_ C. Turning each line of your outline into a survey item (3)_ each bullet point into a question or statement(3)_ D.(4)_ the surve
4、y(4)_ Making a series of judgment calls Dropping unnecessary items E. Looking for ways to make each item more precise Using simple sentences and(5)_(5)_ Avoiding asking vague or overly general questions Avoiding using items that could be(6)_(6)_ Presenting items neutrally II. For qualitative data Gr
5、eatest opportunity to get(7)_(7)_ A. Conducting a pilot survey: Sending out your complete survey to 10% of(8)_(8)_ Noticing some problem areas with more useful information B. Being sure the questions provoking for(9)_information(9)_ C. Making yourself as the survey respondent and giving answers D. N
6、ot(10)_it(10)_ 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 end of the interview you wil
7、l be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 What is the first thing people should remember if they want to make a good presentation? （ A） Skills. （ B） Attitude. （ C） Talent. （ D） Hope. 12 Before creating an effective speech, the speaker had b
8、etter know （ A） what result he wants to have. （ B） in which manner he wants to deliver. （ C） what purpose his boss has in mind. （ D） what will happen during the speech. 13 According to the man, a good public speaker （ A） should always remember his speech word by word. （ B） usually resorts to topic c
9、ards and pictures. （ C） might prepare some notes for his speech. （ D） often makes a backup copy of the speech. 14 Which of the following statements is INCORRECT about punctuality in delivering speeches? （ A） Always begin to deliver the speech on time. （ B） If some audiences are late, repeat the impo
10、rtant points. （ C） Only mention the key points if time is going to run out. （ D） Have a clock at hand to know the ending time clearly. 15 What is always a good way to end the speech? （ A） Leave the PPT on to help audience take notes. （ B） Keep away from the troublesome Q Transport for London, which
11、runs most of the capitals transit system, has asked locals to stockpile goods and stay at home to ease congestion. Fully 4. 2m foreign tourists came to London in the summer of 2010, as well as 3m British ones. The government has belatedly acknowledged that it would be a shame to lose them. Speaking
12、at a trade fair for the tourism industry, Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, expressed confidence that Britain could “defy the tourism dip“ other hosts have experienced. Early signs are not encouraging. A sample poll of tour operators by ETOA suggests 2012 bookings are a fifth lower than at this ti
13、me last year; for the Olympic period they are even slower, in part because some hotels are demanding money up front. That does not mean the games will be a commercial disaster; Olympic organisers have already reserved a third of Londons hotel rooms for athletes, officials, sponsors and the media. Bu
14、t hotels may not see the high demand or high prices they expect. Barcelona and Athens did not fill their 13,000-16,000 rooms. London has 125,000. Londons proximity to other destinations normally lifts its tourist trade; it is Europes most-visited city. But this may be a disadvantage when it comes to
15、 hanging on to Olympic spectators. Of the past three games, people stayed for longer in Sydney and Beijing than they did in Athens, which, like London, is a short-haul trip for many international passengers. In fact, most fans are likely to be local; British residents have bought 95% of the 3. 5m ti
16、ckets sold so far, reports the London 2012 Organising Committee. Since much of the population lives within a days commute of the capital, many ticket-holders could bypass the citys other offerings. They are likely to spend money on some things, of course. “These people still have to eat,“ points out
17、 Miles Quest of the British Hospitality Association. Sensing weakness in London, Scotlands tourist board has revved up its marketing operation. But it, too, may crash into a hurdle. In Greece, the Ionian Islands and other tourist hotspots suffered even more during the 2004 Olympic slump than did Ath
18、ens, reckons ETOA. Determined not to be judged by medal tables alone, London will stage a cultural extravaganza around the Olympics. Yet the citys routine cultural offerings are far from scant and some question whether the city really needs to sell its brand. Britain already has one of the best-deve
19、loped tourist markets in the world. Yet the long-term benefit of hosting a slick and beautiful games may become apparent in the long run. The nations boosters must be hoping that, even if they do not come next year, prospective tourists are at least watching from afar. 21 “Previous hosts held simila
20、r hopes , and were mostly disappointed“(Para. 2)probably means （ A） the result of the games fell short of the hosts expectation. （ B） the hosts of the Olympics failed to attract enough tourists. （ C） most hosts of the Olympics hoped to profit from the Games. （ D） previous hosts failed to hold a succ
21、essful Olympic Games. 22 Which of the following does NOT show the authors attitude towards the issue of tourists in London Olympics? （ A） Early signs are not encouraging.(Para. 5) （ B） But they may not come.(Para. 1) （ C） The government has belatedly acknowledged(Para. 4) （ D） The belief that a city
22、 will be expensive(Para. 3) 23 Which of the following can affect Londons tourist income? （ A） Londons adjacency to other tourist sights in Europe. （ B） High prices of commodities and facilities in London. （ C） Tourists familiarity with London and other cities. （ D） The inconvenience of Londons publi
23、c transport. 24 It can be inferred from the passage that （ A） Scotlands marketing operation works well. （ B） London doesnt want to win too many medals. （ C） some area covets to take a share of the profits. （ D） there are many weaknesses in Londons operation. 25 We know from the passage that （ A） Lon
24、don is considered to be a city of rich cultures. （ B） London is the most famous tourist city in the world. （ C） London doesnt need to propagate its culture. （ D） London is a city with a long history and diverse cultures. 25 Gorky Park is famous for many things, not many of them good. For Muscovites,
25、 their citys biggest green space used to be known as a place of regimented Soviet-era fun, full of strolling proletarian families eating cheap ice cream to the sound of military bands. To foreigners, it was the venue of Martin Cruz Smiths 1981 novel of faceless corpses and cutthroat Soviet black mar
26、keteering. And then of course there was that Scorpions song “follow the Moskva, down to Gorky Park, listening to the wind, of chaaaaange,“ etc. To me, it was mostly famous as a place to avoid. As a young reporter for The Moscow Times back in the mid-1990s, Id nearly been beaten up there by drunken p
27、aratroopers. Gorky Park was where poor Muscovites would take cheap dates a wilderness of garish carnival rides, loud pop music, and overpriced kebabs. Moscows Night Wolves biker gang, the local answer to the Hells Angels, had their lair in the parks depths. And you had to pay to go in, despite it be
28、ing one of the few large public spaces in the capital. But this summer the “wind of change“ has again come to Gorky Park. In place of cheesy funfairs, drunken soldiers, and an apocalyptic wasteland of post-Soviet broken concrete, the park is now full of free-Wi-Fi-using, bicycling, nonalcoholic-moji
29、to-sipping young things catching the late-summer rays. The health-and-safety-defying carnival rides are gone, replaced by rose gardens and fountains. The lawns are strewn with giant beanbags designed for lounging on with a laptop, and in place of the 90s-era prefab booths, the management has put up
30、wooden reproductions of the original 1930s Constructivist-style kiosks selling juices and sandwiches, but no vodka. Holy middle class! I thought when I saw all this: Russia maybe does have a shot at becoming a normal, civilized country, rather than a kind of Nigeria with snow. Let me explain my surp
31、rise. Over the last decade and a half, Moscow has been transformed beyond recognition by a tsunami of oil money. The low-rise, once rather low-key, historic downtown has been seeded with vast and garish new residential and retail developments. Tens of thousands of handsome old buildings have been de
32、molished and rebuilt, all with the blessing of Yury Luzhkov, the man who was Moscows hyperkinetic mayor from 1992 to 2010. But despite all the money pouring into City Hall, both officially and unofficially(suffice it to say that Luzhkovs wife, construction billionaire Elena Baturina, was unembarrass
33、ed by her status as Russias richest woman), pretty much none of it went into creating more and better public spaces. Indeed the city seemed to do everything to squeeze the public out of as much space as possible, kicking Soviet-era childrens libraries and music schools and pensioners clubs out of hi
34、storic buildings and selling them off. It was even getting impossible to walk down the street as drivers blithely parked on the sidewalks. Indeed there is still no system of parking tickets in the city, which also suffers from some of the worlds worst traffic jams. No in Luzhkovs Moscow, beauty, spa
35、ce, and pleasure were commodities to be bought, not given away for free. Hence my amazement at the new Gorky Park, brainchild of current Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and his appointee as the parks new director, Sergei Kapkov. Instead of turning the park into a patchwork of fenced-off, money-spinning
36、 elitny preserves, Kapkov has created a truly great public space with no other ambition but to improve the quality of life of regular Muscovites. Of course, this comes with a bit of a caveat: the only people who can afford to forbear making a fast buck are those whove made a few fast bucks already.
37、In this case, the godfather of Gorky is oil billionaire Roman Abramovich. Kapkov is a close ally. And Abramovichs girlfriend, Dasha Zhukova, plans to open a world-class contemporary-arts center in a historic exhibition hall in Gorky Park next year. Its not quite public philanthropy on the scale of,
38、say, Andrew Carnegie. But the transformation of Gorky Park is the start of something different from the take-the-money-and-run culture of the 90s and 00s. Muscovites realize that they actually have to invest in the citys public spaces, not just their own private ones. Septembers Moscow Festival of F
39、ood, held in Gorky Park, was a perfect example. Some 12,000 Muscovites, mostly well-heeled professionals rather than the super-rich, gathered to sample local beers, smoked duck breasts, and cheeses. The festival was all about quality rather than quantity, about how to make the best of simple things,
40、 about joining the food culture of the world. It was about having a great, civilized life on a normal, professional salary and that you dont have to be an oligarch to enjoy the finer things in life. After all, not even the richest oligarch has a Moscow garden as big or beautiful as Gorky Park. 26 To
41、urists could see all the following in Gorky Park in the past EXCEPT （ A） peddlers. （ B） soldiers. （ C） lovers. （ D） singers. 27 The authors attitude towards the change of Gorky Park seems to be （ A） noncommittal. （ B） affirmative. （ C） impartial. （ D） regretful. 28 Which of the following statements
42、is INCORRECT of Moscow from 1992-2010? （ A） The city seemed to suffer from fewer problems than before. （ B） Luzhkovs wife might benefit from the construction. （ C） A lot of buildings were under construction there, （ D） There were fewer public places at that time. 29 It can be inferred from the passa
43、ge that （ A） Kapkov is strong-minded enough to create a great public space. （ B） Roman Abramovich has funded the project of Gorky Park. （ C） Dasha Zhukova advised Kapkov to make a fast buck. （ D） many people would like to give money to charity. 30 The author most probably wants to tell us that Mosco
44、ws Gorky Park （ A） used to be a place for the middle-class people to avoid. （ B） is much bigger and more beautiful than other parks in Moscow. （ C） has been transformed into a magnet for the Russian bourgeoisie. （ D） has become a public space for people to have enjoyment. 30 When Phoebe awoke, which
45、 she did with the early twittering of the conjugal couple of robins in the pear-tree, she heard movements below stairs, and, hastening down, found Hepzibah already in the kitchen. She stood by a window, holding a book in close contiguity to her nose, as if with the hope of gaining an olfactory acqua
46、intance with its contents, since her imperfect vision made it not very easy to read them. If any volume could have manifested its essential wisdom in the mode suggested, it would certainly have been the one now in Hepzibahs hand; and the kitchen, in such an event, would forthwith have streamed with
47、the fragrance of venison, turkeys, capons, larded partridges, puddings, cakes, and Christmas pies, in all manner of elaborate mixture and concoction. It was a cookery book, full of innumerable old fashions of English dishes, and illustrated with engravings, which represented the arrangements of the
48、table at such banquets as it might have befitted a nobleman to give in the great hall of his castle. And, amid these rich and potent devices of the culinary art(not one of which, probably, had been tested, within the memory of any mans grandfather), poor Hepzibah was seeking for some nimble little t
49、itbit, which, with what skill she had, and such materials as were at hand, she might toss up for breakfast. Soon, with a deep sigh, she put aside the savory volume, and inquired of Phoebe whether old Speckle, as she called one of the hens, had laid an egg the preceding day. Phoebe ran to see, but returned without the expected treasure in her hand. At that instant, however, the blast of a fish-deale
