1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 604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 How to Conquer Public Speaking Fear I. Introduction A. Public speaking a common source of stress for ever
3、yone B. The truth about it it is not (1)_ stressful (1)_ it is very likely to become invigorating (2)_ bears in mind its meaning, key points and reminders related. II. Causes of stress in a speech A. lack of right guiding principles B. lack of right (3)_ (3)_ C. lack of right plan of action III. Mea
4、ning of a (4)_ speech. (4)_ A. It doesnt mean perfection. B. Give your audience something (5)_ so that (5)_ they feel better about themselves; they feel better about jobs they have to do; they feel happy or entertained. IV. Main points for (6)_ a speech (6)_ A. Do not deliver lots of information to
5、the audience. B. Have (7)_ or an index card. (7)_ V. General reminders If you forget the (8)_ about public speaking and (8)_ feel stressful, A go back and review this lecture, B. find out what you did (9)_, (9)_ C. go back out and speak again. Remember that the (10)_ will be impressive. (10)_ 1 (1)
6、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 will be given 10 seconds
7、 to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 Which of the following is CORRECT about the accident? （ A） The young lady was thrown through the windscreen. （ B） The young lady didnt wear a seatbelt despite Simpsons advice. （ C） The two passengers were driven to hosp
8、ital by Mr. Simpson. （ D） Simpsons wife got more serious injuries than the young lady. 12 Mr. Simpson stopped at the pedestrian crossing because （ A） the lighting was very good along the stretch. （ B） he was riding with two ladies at the moment. （ C） he wanted to ensure the safety of two passers-by.
9、 （ D） he was a new driver who tends to be cautious. 13 What leads the policeman to believe that Mr. Simpson didnt drink alcohol before driving? （ A） A breathalyzer test. （ B） A blood test. （ C） The certainty of his claim. （ D） No smell of wine in his breath. 14 What is the most probable cause of the
10、 accident? （ A） Mr. Simpsons speeding. （ B） The two pedestrians at the junction. （ C） The other drivers drunk driving. （ D） Mr. Simpsons drunk driving. 15 What will Mr. Simpson probably do after being asked all the questions by the policeman? （ A） Meet his wife in the hospital. （ B） Take his wife to
11、 hospital by taxi. （ C） Write a written statement to the police. （ D） Have his damaged car repaired. 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
12、 seconds to answer the questions. 16 What is the main idea of the news item? （ A） Airlines plan to develop new operating procedures. （ B） The hardware installed in aircraft has been approved. （ C） UK Airlines will step up the training Of cabin crew. （ D） The use of mobiles will soon be allowed on ai
13、rcraft. 17 Which of the following is TRUE of NICES latest advice on pregnant womens drinking? （ A） Its in contradiction to government advice. （ B） Its sufficiently supported by evidence. （ C） Its stricter than previous guidance. （ D） It advocates small daily amount of alcohol. 18 According to the ne
14、ws, peer support schemes are aimed at （ A） encouraging new parents to breastfeed their babies. （ B） limiting alcohol consumption by pregnant women. （ C） imposing fines on expectant mothers who drink. （ D） providing solace to mothers addicted to alcohol. 19 What might happen in the accident on Monday
15、? （ A） An Egyptian was probably killed by the warning shots. （ B） Three boats all received two sets of warning shots. （ C） All the small boats stopped immediately at the warning. （ D） No one died on one of the Egyptian small boats. 20 The Egyptian boat continued to approach the American ship probabl
16、y because （ A） the Egyptians thought it was OK to approach military vessels. （ B） the ship was a civilian vessel and caused misunderstanding. （ C） the Egyptians did not understand the words of warning. （ D） no warning flare was fired by the U.S. navy on the ship. 20 Is there anything more boring tha
17、n hearing about someone elses dream? And is there anything more miraculous than having one of your own? The voluptuous pleasure of Haruki Murakamis enthralling fictions full of enigmatic imagery, random nonsense, and profundities that may or may not hold up in the light of day reminds me of dreaming
18、. Like no other author I can think of, Murakami captures the juxtapositions of the trivial and the momentous that characterize dream life, those crazy incidents that seem so vivid in the moment and so blurry and preposterous later on. His characters live ordinary lives, boiling pasta for lunch, ridi
19、ng the bus, and blasting Prince while working out at the gym. Then suddenly and mat-ter-of-factly, they do something utterly nuts, like strike up a conversation with a coquettish Siamese cat. Or maybe mackerel and sardines begin to rain from the sky. In Murakamis world, these things make complete, c
20、ock-eyed sense. Like many of Murakamis heroes, Kafka Tamura in Kafka on the Shore has more rewarding relationships with literature and music than with people. (Murakamis passion for music is infectious; nothing made me want to rush out and purchase a Brahms CD until I read his Sputnik Sweetheart.) O
21、n his 15th birthday, Kafka runs away from his Tokyo home for obscure reasons related to his famous sculptor father. His choice of a destination is arbitrary. Or is it? “Shikoku, I decide. Thats where Ill go. The more I look at the map actually every time I study it the more I feel Shikoku tugging at
22、 me.“ On the island of Shikoku, Kafka makes himself a fixture at the local library, where he settles into a comfortable sofa and starts reading The Arabian Nights: “Like the genie in the bottle they have this sort of vital, living sense of play, of freedom that common sense cant keep bottled up.“ As
23、 in a David Lynch movie, all the library staffers are philosophical eccentrics ready to advance the surreal narrative. Oshima, the androgynous clerk, talks to Kafka about (inevitably) Kafka and the merits of driving while listening to Schubert (“a dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your
24、 consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while Im driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right there“). The tragically alluring head librarian, Miss Saeki, once wrote a hit song called “Kafka on the Shore“ and may or may not
25、 be Kafkas long-lost mother. Alarmingly, she also stars in his erotic fantasies. In alternating chapters, Murakami records the even odder antics of Nakata, a simpleminded cat catcher who spends his days chatting with tabbies in a vacant Tokyo lot. One afternoon, a menacing dog leads him to the home
26、of a sadistic cat killer who goes by the name Johnnie Walker. Walker ends up dead by the end of the encounter; back in Shikoku, Kafka unaccountably finds himself drenched in blood. Soon, Nakata too begins feeling an inexplicable pull toward the island. If this plot sounds totally demented, trust me,
27、 it gets even weirder than that. Like a dream, you just have to be there. And, like a dream, what this dazzling novel means or whether it means anything at all we may never know. 21 What is “Kafka on the Shore“? （ A） It is a fiction written by a head librarian Miss Saeki. （ B） It is an autobiographi
28、cal novel of Kafka Tamura. （ C） It is a movie adapted from Haruki Murakamis book. （ D） It is the name of a hit song in a novel under the same name. 22 According to the author, which of the following is NOT true about Haruki Murakamis novels? （ A） They bring the sensory pleasure to the author. （ B） T
29、hey are full of imagination without any profundities. （ C） They juxtapose the trivial with the momentous. （ D） They are similar in characteristics to dreams. 23 According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true about Kafka? （ A） He is familiar with literature and music. （ B） He has a good
30、 relationship with his father. （ C） He leaves Tokyo for Shikoku at his teens. （ D） He often goes to the local library on Shikoku Island. 24 The word “demented“ in the last paragraph refers to （ A） crazy. （ B） interesting. （ C） fancy. （ D） boring. 25 What is the writers tone in this passage? （ A） App
31、roving. （ B） Criticizing. （ C） Ironical. （ D） Neutral. 25 It was said by Sir George Bernard Shaw that “England and America are two countries separated by the same language.“ My first personal experience of this was when I worked as a camp counselor for two months in 2000 in Summer Camp run by the Bo
32、y Scouts of America, as part of an international leader exchange scheme. Before I went, all the participants in the scheme were given a short list of words that are in common use in the UK which Americans would either be confused by or would even offend them. I memorized the words and thought“Ill co
33、pe“. When I finally arrived in the States three months later, I realized that perhaps a lifetime of watching American television was not adequate preparation for appreciating and coping with the differences between American and British speech. In the first hour of arriving at the camp I was exposed
34、to High School American English, Black American English and American English spoken by Joe Public, all every different to each other. Needless to say, I did cope in the end. The Americans I met were very welcoming and helpful, and I found they were patient with me when I made a social faux pas when
35、I used an inappropriate word or phrase. Upon my return I began to wonder whether anyone had documented the differences between American and British English. I found several books on the subject but often these were written in a dry and academic way. I felt that I could do better and use my sense of
36、humor and personal experiences to help people from both sides of Atlantic to communicate more effectively when they meet. My research into the subject led me to several conclusions. Firstly, American English and British English are covering, thanks to increased transatlantic travel and the media The
37、 movement of slang words is mostly eastwards, though a few words from the UK have been adopted by the Ivy League fraternities. This convergent trend is a recent one dating from the emergence of Hollywood as the predominant film making center in the world and also from the Second World War when large
38、 numbers of American GIs were stationed in the UK. This trend was consolidated by the advent of television. Before then, it was thought that American English and British English would diverge as the two languages evolved. In 1789, Noah Webster stated that: “Numerous local causes, such as a new count
39、ry, new associations of people, new combinations of ideas in the arts and some intercourse with tribes wholly unknown in Europe will introduce new words into the American tongue.“ He was right, but his next statement has since been proved to be incorrect. “These causes will produce in the course of
40、time a language in North America as different from the modern Dutch, Danish and Swedish are from the German or from one another.“ Webster had underrated the amount of social intercourse between England and her former colony. Even before Webster had started to compile his dictionary, words and expres
41、sions from the America had already infiltrated the British language, for example “canoe“ and “hatchet“. Secondly, there are some generalizations that can be made about American and British English which can reveal the nature of the two nations and their peoples. British speech tends to be less gener
42、al, and directed more, in nuances of meaning, attendant murmurings and pauses, carries a wealth of shared assumptions and attitudes. In other words, the British are preoccupied with their social status within society and speak and act accordingly to fit into the social class they aspire to. This is
43、particularly evident when talking to someone from “the middle class“ when he points out that he is “upper middle class“ rather than “middle class“ or “lower middle class“. John Major (the former UK Prime Minister) may have said that we are now living in a “classless society“ but the class system sti
44、ll prevails. At that moment both he and the Leader of the Opposition, Tony Blair, were talking about capturing the “middle England“, “middle class vote“ as the key to winning the next general election. American speech tends to be influenced by the over-heated language of much of the media, which is
45、designed to attach an impression of exciting activity to passive, if sometimes insignificant events. Yet, curiously, really violent activity and life-changing events are hidden in blind antiseptic tones that serve to disguise the reality. Two examples come readily to mind the US Military with their
46、“friendly fire“ and “collateral damages“ and the business world with their “downsizing“. British people tend to understatement whereas Americans towards hyperbole. A Briton might respond to a suggestion with a word such as “Terrific! “ only if he is expressing rapturous enthusiasm, whereas an Americ
47、an might use the word merely to signify polite assent. Thirdly, The American language has less regard than the British for grammatical form, and will happily bulldoze its way across distinctions rather than steer a path between them. American English will casually use one form of a word for another,
48、 for example turning nouns into verbs or verbs and nouns into adjectives. 26 The sentence “England and America are two countries separated by the same language“ in the first paragraph implies that （ A） England and America used to be one country but were separated by the language. （ B） England and Am
49、erica share the same language but the language separates them. （ C） England and America share the same language but show differences in the language use. （ D） British English and American English are almost the same in the two countries. 27 The author decided to write about the differences between American and British English to （ A） support the statement of Bernard Shaw. （ B） describe his personal experiences. （ C） show his sense of humor. （ D）
