1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 618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 To see how big carriers could control the online world, you must understand its structures. Earthlink giv
3、es Jennifer access to the Internet, much in the way than an onramp puts a driver on the national highway system. Earthlink is a local internet service provider, and it will send the【 1】 to an Internet “【 2】 provider“, to route it along its way. These Internet players typically own and lease long-hau
4、l fiber-optic cables spanning a large region. They also own the communications gear that directs【 3】 over the Internet. They connect to each other to exchange data between their customers, like the highway system over which most of the freight of the Internet travels to reach its【 4】 . Now, instead
5、of the National Science Foundation, there are many of them that-link together to provide the global【 5】 , that is the Internet. The problem was, as the Internet grew, the public points became overburdened and traffic showed at these bottlenecks. So they started making arrangements with each other. A
6、nd they arent changing peers now,but there is a lot of discussion about whether they should. And the industry has not figured out how to【 6】 who owes what to whom if fees should be changed. Since the Internet was【 7】 , it has grown by leaps and bounds into a remarkably successful communications medi
7、um without government【 8】 -and most want to stay that way. But the Internet has matured to a point that more uniform rules are needed to【 9】 competition. Those who can afford to pay the price can become peers. Peering would be determined by the【 10】 rather than by a private company with its own comp
8、etitive interests. 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 to answer each of the following five
9、 questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 In 1900, the worlds use of paper was about _ for each person in a year. （ A） 50 kilograms （ B） I kilogram （ C） 5 kilograms （ D） 15 kilograms 12 Chinese paper was made from （ A） the hair-like parts of certain plants. （ B） the wood of trees. （ C） the skin of
10、 certain young animals. （ D） the stem Of tall plants. 13 Who found out that paper could be made from trees? （ A） An Englishman. （ B） A Canadian man. （ C） A Swedish man. （ D） A German. 14 Now _ makes the best paper in the world. （ A） Norway （ B） USA （ C） Canada （ D） Finland 15 Some people in Finland
11、wear paper boots in the snow in winter because （ A） they are waterproof. （ B） nothing could be warmer. （ C） they are convenient. （ D） they are durable. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
12、 At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 What is the main idea of the news item? （ A） India will market its low-cost computers abroad. （ B） India has developed a type of computer that sells at a very low price. （ C） The devices in the computer were engi
13、neered by Taiwan. （ D） India decides to have its computers manufactured in Taiwan. 16 Most men live in harness. Richard was one of them. Typically he had no awareness of how his male harness was choking him until his personal and professional life and his body had nearly fallen apart. He had to get
14、sick in his harness and nearly be destroyed by role-playing masculinity before he could allow himself to be a person with his own feelings, rather than just a hollow male image. Had it not been for a bleeding ulcer he might have postponed looking at himself for many years more. Like many men, Richar
15、d had been a zombie, a daytime sleep-walker. Worse still, he had been a highly “successful“ zombie, which made it so difficult for him to risk change. Our culture is saturated with successful male zombies, businessmen zombies, golf zombies, sports car zombies, playboy zombies, etc. They have lost to
16、uch with, or are running away from, their feelings and awareness of themselves as people. They have confused their social masks for their essence and they are destroying the selves while fulfilling the traditional definitions of masculine-appropriate behavior. They are the heroes, the providers, the
17、 warriors, the empire builders, the fearless ones. Their reality is always approached through these veils of gender expectations. Men evaluate each other and are evaluated by many women largely by the degree to which they approximate the ideal masculine model. Women have rightfully lashed out agains
18、t being placed into a mold. Many women have described their roles in marriage as a form of socially approved prostitution. They assert that they are selling themselves out for an unfulfilling portion of supposed security. For psychologically defensive reasons the male has not yet come to see himself
19、 as a prostitute, day in and day out, both in and out of the marriage relationship. The males inherent survival instincts have been stunted by the seemingly more powerful drive to maintain his masculine image. He would, for example, rather die in the battle than risk living in a different way and be
20、ing called a “coward“ or “not a man“. As a recently published study concluded, “A surprising number of men approaching senior citizenship say they would rather die than be buried in retirement.“ The male in our culture is at a growth impasse. He wont move not because he is protecting his cherished c
21、entral place in the sun, but because he cant move. He is a cardboard Goliath precariously balanced and on the verge of toppling over if he is pushed ever so slightly out of his well-worn path. He lacks the fluidity of the female who can readily move between the traditional definitions of male or fem
22、ale behavior and roles. She can be wife and mother or a business executive. She can dress in typically feminine fashion or adopt the male styles. She will be loved for having “feminine“ interests such as needlework or cooking, or she will be admired for sharing with the male in his “masculine“ inter
23、ests. She can be sexually assertive or sexually passive. Meanwhile, the male is rigidly caught in his masculine pose and, in many subtle and indirect ways, he is severely punished when he steps out of it. Unlike some of the problems of women, the problems of men are not readily changed through legis
24、lation. The male has no apparent and clearly defined targets against which he can vent his rage. Yet he is oppressed by the cultural pressures that have denied him his feelings, by the mythology of the woman and the distorted and self-destructive way he sees and relates to her, and by the urgency fo
25、r him to “act like a man“ which blocks his ability to respond to his inner promptings both emotionally and physiologically, and by a generalized self-hate that causes him to feel comfortable only when he is functioning well in harness. Precisely because the tenor and mood of the male liberation effo
26、rts so far have been one of self-accusation, self-hate, and a repetition of feminist assertions, I believe it is doomed to failure in its present form. It is buying the myth that the male is culturally favored a notion that is clung to despite the fact that every critical statistic in the areas of l
27、ongevity, disease, suicide, crime, accidents, childhood emotional disorders, alcoholism, and drug addiction shows a disproportionately higher male rate. The most remarkable and significant aspect of the feminist movement to date has been womans daring willingness to own up to her resistances and res
28、entment toward her time-honored, sanctified roles of wife and even mother. The male, however, has yet to fully realize, acknowledge, and rebel against the distress and stifling aspects of many of the roles he plays from good husband, to good daddy, to good provider, to good lover, etc. Because of th
29、e inner pressure to constantly affirm his dominance and masculinity, he continues to act as if he can stand up under, fulfill, and even enjoy all the expectations placed on him no matter how contradictory and devitalizing they are. Its time to remove the disguises of privilege and reveal the male co
30、ndition for what it really is. 17 It can be inferred from the first paragraph that （ A） up to now, Richard doesnt know he has caught certain disease. （ B） there was something wrong with both Richards mental and physical health. （ C） but for his illness, Richard would not have stopped working. （ D） R
31、ichards illness offered him a chance to think about his life. 18 The word “zombie“ in the second paragraph probably refers to （ A） a person who is busy all the time. （ B） a person who always acts as a leader. （ C） a person who behaves like a robot. （ D） a person who is successful in some area. 19 Ac
32、cording to the passage, which of the following is NOT true? （ A） To be a man counts for a great deal for the male. （ B） Some women hate being labeled as feminine. （ C） Quite a few women air negative view of marriage. （ D） Compared with men, women are more willing to retire from work. 20 Men are unde
33、r greater pressure than women in that （ A） they dont have much freedom to make a choice. （ B） they are not allowed to make mistakes. （ C） they solely shoulder responsibilities for feeding their families. （ D） they are self-motivated to achieve great success. 21 The authors attitude towards the prese
34、nt male liberation movement is （ A） ambiguous. （ B） pessimistic. （ C） optimistic. （ D） indignant. 22 The best title for the passage would be （ A） In Harness : the Male Condition. （ B） Different Roles of Men and Women. （ C） How to Solve Mens Problems. （ D） Survival Instincts vs. Male Images. 一、 PART
35、III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 23 The Geographical names of the U.K. are_. （ A） the British Isles, Great Britain, England （ B） the British Isles, Great Britain, the United Kingdom （ C） the B
36、ritish Isles, Great Britain, the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland （ D） Britain, England, the United Kingdom 24 In American history, the Pilgrim fathers to those who came to Plymouth on board of_. （ A） a French ship （ B） a British ship （ C） Mayflower （ D） an Italian ship 25 The language brought to No
37、rth America by the British explorers in the seventeenth century belongs to the early stage of （ A） Old English. （ B） Middle English. （ C） Modern English. （ D） Contemporary English. 26 The Gift of the Magi was written by （ A） Theodore Dreiser. （ B） O Henry. （ C） William Faulkner. （ D） Mark Twain. 27
38、Linguistically, compared with the writings of Mark Twain, Henry Jamess fiction is noted for his _. （ A） frontier vernacular （ B） rich colloquialism （ C） vulgarly descriptive words （ D） refined elegant language 28 The Tories were the forerunners of_, which still bears the nickname today. （ A） the Lab
39、or Party （ B） the Liberal Party （ C） the Social Democratic Party （ D） the Conservative Party 29 The Capital of New Zealand is _. （ A） Melbourne （ B） Perth （ C） Wellington （ D） Liverpool 30 Emily Dickinson, Americas greatest _, wrote more than a thousand verses and her works were infused with emotion
40、al depth and subtlety. （ A） essayist （ B） short story writer （ C） lyric poetess （ D） novelist 31 Which of the following about language is NOT correct? （ A） Language is arbitrary. （ B） Language is a system which consist of two levels: sounds and meaning. （ C） Language is vocal. （ D） Language is a fix
41、ed system and is not productive. 32 Which of the following writings can be regarded as typically belonging to the school of Romantic literature? （ A） Don Juan. （ B） Ulysses. （ C） Jane Eyre. （ D） Sons and Lovers. 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING he found seven men, women, and children packed away in a few tin
42、y stinking moms. All of these people, included little children of five and 【 M2】 _ six who were trained as pick-pookets, were wanted for crime. Conditions like these bred more criminals. One of the typical eases was that Jack Shepard, 【 M3】 _ whose execution in 1724 was watched by two hundred thousa
43、nd people. Shepard, the son of honest working people, was an apprentice in a respectful trade, he ran away from it because 【 M4】 _ he fancied that he had been ill-treated, and soon found it was easy to make more 【 M5】 _ money by thieving as his father had done 【 M6】 _ by a lifetime of honest work. I
44、n Shepard s day highwaymen committed robberies at broad daylight, in sight 【 M7】 _ of a crowd, and rode solemnly and triumphantly through the town with danger of molestation. 【 M8】 _ ff they were chased, twenty or thirty armed men were ready to come to their assistance. Murder was a everyday affair,
45、 【 M9】 _ and there were many people who made heroes from the murderers. 【 M10】 _ 33 【 M1】 34 【 M2】 35 【 M3】 36 【 M4】 37 【 M5】 38 【 M6】 39 【 M7】 40 【 M8】 41 【 M9】 42 【 M10】 SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH Directions: Translate the following text into English. 43 秦淮河的水是碧阴阴的；看起来厚而不腻，或者是六朝金粉所凝么 ?我们初上船的时候，天
46、色还未断黑，那漾漾的柔波是这样的恬静，委婉，使我们一面有水阔天空之想，一面又憧憬着纸醉金迷之境了。等到灯火明时，阴阴的变为沉沉了：黯淡的水光，像梦一般，那偶然闪烁着的光芒，就是梦的眼睛了。我们坐在舱前，因了那隆起的顶棚，仿佛总 是昂着首向前走着似的；于是飘飘然如御风而行的我们，看着那些自在的湾泊着的船，船里走马灯般的人物，便象是下界一般，迢迢的远了，又像在雾里看花，尽朦朦胧胧的。 SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese. 44 I was walking through
47、 the village Saturday night. Part of my stroll took me across the newly completed bridge that binds together the two halves of Winnetka. It was early in the evening and the weather was almost British. Fog clung to the wet surface of the streets as drizzle gathered out of the cool night air. I was al
48、one on the sidewalk. The only noise was the tread of an occasional car as it made a sound that resembled the tearing of paper. My view was directed south by the axis of track leading toward the city of Chicago. At the distance of a short city block stood the train station perched in darkness on the
49、edge of the ravine, while below the tracks were illuminated in the amber glow of vapor lamps. On the weekends the train schedule is much reduced so the station stood there just as empty and quiet as the tracks below. 三、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 45 In recent years, more and more college students have been doing part-time jobs. Some people think i
