1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 608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 Self-discipline: the Foundation of Productive Living I. Issues to be noticed at the thought of self-disci
3、pline A Troubles for some people to become more productive B. The reason: lacking of (1)_ to start with (1)_ C. Multiple meanings of self-discipline in different fields: the ability and (2)_ in terms of productivity (2)_ the ability to change habits in personal development the ability to get up and
4、practice by (3)_ (3)_ the power to act on ideas by speaker II. The steps to become productive A. Start small, work (4)_ (4)_ the importance of implementation the comparison between it and the use of muscle a) more failure, less motivation, difficult to solve problems b) start developing it by (5)_ s
5、mall problems (5)_ c) the strength of it increases gradually d) similar process to (6)_ a habit rather than overcoming (6)_ B. Meanwhile, the importance of accountability and its remedial therapy rebuilding the (7)_ of muscle without assistance (7)_ differently, people need outside help to gain it a
6、gain others keep you (8)_ for each action and give you help (8)_ a) they are to be present in your daily life and work b) for instance: partner, family, (9)_, etc (9)_ III. Conclusion A. A lot of talks about the (10)_ to get things done (10)_ and implement systems they have memorized B. But self-dis
7、cipline remains to be the foundation of living productively. 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
8、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 For most people who have sleeping troubles, which of the following is the most usual cause? （ A） Their room is not cozy. （ B） They are busy and occupied
9、. （ C） They have chronic disease. （ D） They take a nap after lunch. 12 What is the advice Dr. Getsy gives those who struggle with insomnia due to the health condition? （ A） Lying in bed as long as possible. （ B） Taking some sleeping pills to relax. （ C） Staying awake as long as they can. （ D） Schedu
10、ling when to be away or asleep. 13 People should stay away from caffeine after lunch because （ A） its effect may linger for almost 10 hours. （ B） it disturbs the way people feel in daytime. （ C） it accelerates heartbeat and respiration. （ D） they may want to take a catnap. 14 Which of the following
11、is TRUE about taking a nap? （ A） Napping for 2 hours is better than for 40 minutes. （ B） It does not revive you if the nap lasts too long. （ C） You should never take a nap after lunch. （ D） The longer you sleep, the better you will feel. 15 Which of the following is NOT one of Dr. Getsys tips on fig
12、hting sleeping troubles? （ A） Create a comfortable sleeping environment. （ B） Prioritize sleep if you are haunted by sleeplessness. （ C） Climb into bed early and lie awake to relax. （ D） Show perseverance and prepare for a long battle. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will he
13、ar 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 made it hard for the rescue teams to approach the earthquake zone? （ A） The quakes destruction to roads. （ B） The collapse
14、of the buildings. （ C） The torrential rain at night. （ D） The loss of electrical power. 17 How many people recognized the man in the pictures within 2 days? （ A） 24 . （ B） 3. （ C） 640 （ D） 48 18 Which one is NOT included in the clue that helped the police identify the man? （ A） His picture. （ B） His
15、 apartment number. （ C） His pseudonym. （ D） His vita. 19 What is the main idea of the news item? （ A） The Citigroup has been worst hit by the international credit crisis. （ B） The Citigroup has already started to reduce the size of its business. （ C） The Citigroup has encountered great losses in the
16、 credit crisis. （ D） The Citigroup has decided to take measures to deal with great losses. 20 The police locked their suspicion on Vlado Taneski when they found that （ A） his reports covered the confidential information. （ B） the three murder cases all involved elderly women. （ C） all the victims ha
17、d some similarities with his late mother. （ D） he was responsible for the disappearance of a women. 20 If you want to see what it takes to set up an entirely new financial center (and what is best avoided), head for Dubai. This tiny, sun-baked patch of sand in the midst of a war-torn and isolated re
18、gion started with few advantages other than a long tradition as a hub for Middle Eastern trade routes. But over the past few years Dubai has built a new financial center from nothing. Dozens of the worlds leading financial institutions have opened offices in its new financial district, hoping to gra
19、b .a portion of the $2 trillion-plus investment from the Gulf. Some say there is more hype than business, but few big firms are willing to risk missing out. Dealmaking in Dubai centers around The Gate, a cube-shaped structure at the heart of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). A brainch
20、ild of the ruling Al-Maktoum family, the DIFC is a tax-free zone for wholesale financial services. Firms licensed for it are not approved to serve the local financial market. The DIFC aims to become the leading wholesale financial centre in the Gulf, offering one-stop shopping for everything from st
21、ocks to sukuk (Islamic) bonds, investment banking and insurance. In August the Dubai bourse made a bid for a big stake in OMX, a Scandinavian exchange operator that also sells trading technology to many of the worlds exchanges. Dubai may have generated the biggest splash thus far, but much of the Gu
22、lf region has seen a surge of activity in recent years. Record flows of petrodollars have enabled governments in the area to spend billions on infrastructure projects and development. Personal wealth too is growing rapidly. According to Capgemini and Merrill Lynch, the number of people in the Middle
23、 East with more than $lm in financial assets rose by nearly 12% last year, to 300,000. Qatar, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi also have big aspirations for their financial hubs, though they keep a lower profile than Dubai. They, too, are trying to learn from more established financial centers what they must d
24、o to achieve the magic mix of transparent regulation, good infrastructure and low or no taxes. Some of the fiercest competition among them is for talent. Most English-speaking professionals have to be imported. Each of the Gulf hubs, though, has its own distinct characteristics. Abu Dhabi is trying
25、to present itself as a more cultured, less congested alternative to neighboring Dubai, and is building a huge Guggenheim museum. Energy-rich Qatar is an important hub for infrastructure finance, with ambitions to develop further business in wealth management, private equity, retail banking and insur
26、ance. Bahrain is well established in Islamic banking, but it is facing new competition from London, Kuala Lumpur and other hubs that have caught on to Islamic finance. “If youve got one string to your bow and suddenly someone takes it away, youre in trouble,“ says Stuart Pearce of the Qatar Financia
27、l Centre about Bahrain. Saudi Arabia, by far the biggest economy in the Gulf, is creating a cluster of its own economic zones, including King Abdullah City, which is aimed at foreign investors seeking a presence in the country. Trying to cut down on the number of “suitcase bankers“ who fly in from n
28、earby centers rather than live in the country, the Saudis now require firms working with them to have local business licenses. Yet the bulk of the regions money is still flowing to established financial centers in Europe, America and other parts of Asia. The financial hubs there offer lessons for as
29、piring centers in other parts of the developing world. Building the confidence of financial markets takes more than new skyscrapers, tax breaks and incentives. The DIFC, for instance, initially suffered from suspicions of government meddling and from a high turnover among senior executives. Trading
30、on its stock market remains thin, and the government seems unwilling to float its most successful companies there. Making the desert bloom was never easy. 21 According to the passage, Dubai has built a new financial center （ A） because of its innate advantages over other countries. （ B） thanks to th
31、e $2 trillion-plus investment from the Gulf. （ C） from its past tradition as a trade center in the Gulf. （ D） for its a war-torn and isolated region in the world. 22 According to the passage, which of the following about Dubai is INCORRECT? （ A） It enjoys record flows of petrodollars. （ B） Personal
32、wealth too is growing rapidly. （ C） It is the biggest economy in the Gulf. （ D） Billions are spent on infrastructure. 23 The fiercest competition among the countries aspiring for their financial hubs is （ A） regulation. （ B） infrastructure. （ C） tax. （ D） talent. 24 Which of the following is NOT tru
33、e about Saudi Arabia? （ A） It is building a cluster of its own economic zones. （ B） It is trying to decrease the number of “suitcase bankers“. （ C） It is very strict about granting local business licenses. （ D） It cant attract the bulk of the regions money to flow in. 25 By saying “making the desert
34、 bloom was never easy“ in the last paragraph, the author means （ A） new skyscrapers need to be built to guarantee the confidence of financial markets. （ B） cutting on taxes and giving more incentives brings the confidence of financial markets. （ C） the government is trying to bring the confidence of
35、 financial markets down. （ D） it takes great efforts to build the confidence and prosperity of financial markets. 25 Most people have experienced the feeling, after a taxing mental work-out, that they cannot be bothered to make any more decisions. If they are forced to, they may do so intuitively, r
36、ather than by reasoning. Such apathy is often put down to tiredness, but a study published recently in Psychological Science suggests there may be more to it than that. Whether reason or intuition is used may depend simply on the decision-makers blood-sugar level which is, itself, affected by the pr
37、ocess of reasoning. E.J. Masicampo and Roy Baumeister of Florida State University discovered this by doing some experiments on that most popular of laboratory animals, the impoverished undergraduate. They asked 121 psychology students who had volunteered for the experiment to watch a silent video of
38、 a woman being interviewed that had random words appearing in bold black letters every ten seconds along the perimeter of the video. This was the part of the experiment intended to be mentally taxing. Half of the students were told to focus on the woman, to try to understand what she was saying, and
39、 to ignore the words along the perimeter. The other half were given no instructions. Those that had to focus were exerting considerable self-control not to look at the random words. When the video was over, half of each group was given a glass of lemonade with sugar in it and half was given a glass
40、of lemonade with sugar substitute. Twelve minutes later, when the glucose from the lemonade with sugar in it had had time to enter the students blood, the researchers administered a decision-making task that was designed to determine if the participant was using intuition or reason to make up his mi
41、nd. The students were asked to think about where they wanted to live in the coming year and given three accommodation options that varied both in size and distance from the university campus. Two of the options were good, but in different ways: one was far from the campus, but very large; the other
42、was close to campus, but smaller. The third option was a decoy, similar to one of the good options, but obviously not quite as good. If it was close to campus and small, it was not quite as close as the good close option and slightly smaller. If it was far from campus and large, it was slightly smal
43、ler than the good large option and slightly farther away. Psychologists have known for a long time that having a decoy option in a decision-making task draws people to choose a reasonable option that is similar to the decoy. Dr. Masicampo and Dr. Baumeister suspected that students who had been asked
44、 to work hard during the video and then been given a drink without any sugar in it would be more likely to rely on intuition when making this decision than those from the other three groups. And that is what happened; 64% of them were swayed by the decoy. Those who had either not had to exert mental
45、 energy during the showing of the video or had been given glucose in their lemonade, used reason in their decision-making task and were less likely to be swayed by the decoy. It is not clear why intuition is independent of glucose. It could be that humans inherited a default nervous system from othe
46、r mammals that was similar to intuition, and that could make snap decisions about whether to fight or flee regardless of how much glucose was in the body. Whatever the reason, the upshot seems to be that thinking is, indeed, hard work. And important decisions should not be made on an empty stomach.
47、26 The word “taxing“ in the first paragraph means （ A） tiring. （ B） imposing taxation. （ C） paying taxation. （ D） relaxing. 27 In E. J. Masicampo and Roy Baumeisters study, about _ students who received no instructions in the video watching were given a glass of lemonade with sugar in it. （ A） 121 （
48、 B） 60 （ C） 30 （ D） 15 28 Which group of students tended to be swayed by the decoy, according to the study? （ A） The no-watching-instructions group that had been given glucose in their lemonade. （ B） The no-watching-instructions group having been given sugar substitute in their lemonade. （ C） The me
49、ntal-energy-exerting group that had been given glucose in their lemonade. （ D） The mental-energy-exerting group that had been given sugar substitute in their lemonade. 29 Which of the following is NOT true, according to the study? （ A） Peoples blood-sugar level is affected by the process of reasoning. （ B） Whether people resort to reasoning or intuition may depend on their blood-sugar level. （ C） Both reasoning and intuition are certainly affected by peopl
