1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 623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 Chinese Calligraphy Calligraphy, the writing of characters, is one of the traditional four arts and has d
3、eveloped over centuries in the history of China. Today it still has a place in museums. I. Roles of calligraphy A. a means of communication B. a way of expressing the (1) of nature (1)_ II. Characteristics of calligraphy A. Calligraphy as an expressive art: to (2) the (2)_ identity of a man B. Calli
4、graphy as a practical fine art: to be used as ornaments III. Benefits of practicing calligraphy A. getting ones subconsciousness exercised B. bringing about (3) between the mind and the body (3)_ C. enabling one to enjoy healthy life and longevity IV. Five basic script types in Chinese calligraphy A
5、. the Seal Script the oldest style, making a signature-like impression generally used in (4) today (4)_ B. the Official or Clerical Script Characters appear (5) : strokes often start thin (5)_ and end thick. still common in printing because of its elegance C. the Regular Script Characters are regula
6、r, written (6) . (6)_ most widely used and the most legible D. the Running Script Strokes may run into one another. Characters are less (7) . (7)_ E. the Cursive Script a flowing style with few angular lines Strokes are altered or removed for smooth writing or purpose _(8)_ (8)_ V. Status and influe
7、nce of calligraphy A. an important (9) for imperial court to select officials (9)_ B. an art unique to Asian cultures C. a source of inspiration to (10) (10)_ SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follo
8、w. 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 According to Nick, what is the most dangerous notion in the world? （ A） Predominance. （ B） Local characteristics and
9、 customs. （ C） Individual identity. （ D） Potential dividing forces. 12 Which description is not true about Nick Ularu? （ A） He has Romanian origin. （ B） He is a teacher and a set designer in the same time. （ C） He had a cultural resonance when he first came to the USA. （ D） He couldnt understand why
10、 Americans invest so much on entertainment industry but not on art. 13 What is Nicks opinions about teaching? （ A） He thinks that teaching doesnt help the artistic side. （ B） He believes that teaching keeps him energetic. （ C） Teaching shouldnt be totally isolated from politics. （ D） Teaching frustr
11、ates him so many times. 14 What is Nicks philosophy of teaching? （ A） The students must be the followers of their teacher. （ B） He should work hard to make students believe in their own abilities. （ C） Pleasing students is the most necessary factor. （ D） Teacher should have a decisive effect on the
12、personalities of students. 15 Which one is Nicks idea about the leader? （ A） Everyone has the access to leadership. （ B） Leaders create the worst work situation. （ C） Books can help to improve people ability and make someone a leader. （ D） The real leaders are born. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directio
13、ns: 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 seconds to answer the questions. 16 Who was taken hostage in one of Brazils most dangerous jails? （ A） The prisoners relatives. （ B）
14、The prisoners friends. （ C） The officials of the jail. （ D） The guards of the jail. 17 According to the news, the incident happened mainly because of _. （ A） the maltreatment of the inmates. （ B） the poor living conditions. （ C） the transfer of a gang leader. （ D） the sentence of a murderer. 17 Whim
15、sical Nature endowed the Moncton region in Southeastern New Brunswick with an enviable bonanza of oddities. On the seashore at Hopewell Cape, strange reddish rock formations rise like giant Polynesian heads eighty feet in the air-monuments sculpted by tides and winds and frost over countless centuri
16、es to fill the aboriginal Indians with awe and inspire their legends. The high domes of some statues are thatched with balsam fir and dwarf black spruce, which always prompts children to ask how the trees got up there. At Demoiselle Creek a few milts from Hillsborough is a subterranean lake of undet
17、ermined size, low-roofed by dripping stone icicles. The white gypsum floor of the lake emerges startlingly visible through the clear water. To step into the cavern entrance on a hot summer day is like unexpectedly walking into a cold storage plant. When you first glimpse the Peticodiac River at Monc
18、ton you may wonder why it is called a river as there is only a little trickling brook to be seen while the billowy, chocolate- blancmange banks are bare of water. And then, suddenly, the missing water comes into view-a veritable tidal wave as high as five feet, fanning up the empty river bed at eigh
19、t miles an hour, like surf cresting up an endless beach. What causes this? The rapidly Swelling Fundy tide is dammed temporarily by shoals at the rivers mouth. When at last it overcomes these obstacles, the triumphant tide drives inland with inexorable momentum, sweeping everything before it. More t
20、han one oil prospector, intently examining the shale in the exposed river bed, has been trapped by the incoming tidal bore, picked up bodily, tossed head over feet a few times and then flung up on the muddy embankment like a devoured morsel. But if I had to pick a favorite natural phenomenon it woul
21、d be the Magnetic Hill. This is perhaps understandable under the circumstances, which date back to a June day in 1933 . and how three young newspapermen recognized a story but failed to recognize a fortune. Often the night staff of The Telegraph-Jourrnal in Saint John had heard pressroom superintend
22、ent, Alex Ellison tell a curious anecdote. It was about a clergyman early in this century, who was bringing children home from a picnic. He stopped his touring car at the foot of a hill during a rainstorm to put up the side flaps. To the good mans amazement, his car started to coast up the hill by i
23、tself-“the most astonishing thing I ever experienced,“ the cleric related. He had to spring after it and jump in. The unbelievable episode seemed so well vouched for that three of us decided one night to try to locate the hill. We knew, of course, this was a fools errand. Only a fool would think: ot
24、herwise. It was an ambitious project in those clays even to think of driving one hundred miles to Moncton over rutty dirt roads in a tiny open 1931 Ford Roadster . John Bruce, a former engineer, had brought his surveying instruments just in case Now began the frustrating process of trying one hill a
25、fter another, on every country road within a radius of ten miles of Moncton. We attracted quite a lot of attention. Every time John Bruce halted the car at the base of a grade and put it into neutral, nothing happened. But we could see lace curtains being pulled back in farmhouse windows, and occasi
26、onally wed glimpse a nose or a pair of raised eyebrows. It must have looked like the end of quite a party, or the start of one. Once a passing farmer herding some cows called out: “Need any help?“ “No,“ was the reply. “Were just waiting to see if the car will coast up the hill!“ The farmer kept look
27、ing back over his shoulder all the way to the next field. Three weary modern explorers were ready to give up around 11 A. m. We were down to our last hill-a former Indian trail that became a wagon read, on a two hundred yard gradual rise leading up toward Lutes Mountain. Then it happened. The car, i
28、n neutral, began coasting “uphill“-slowly at first, then faster. Elated, we all jumped out and almost let the roadster get away on us. Any thought of magnetism immediately evaporated when John Bruce noticed the water in the ditch was running “uphill“ too. It was not difficult, from this premise, to
29、realize that the whole down-sloping countryside was tilted-that the seeming phenomenon was due simply to the fact that what appeared to be an upgrade for two hundred yards was really a downgrade Magnetic Hill has become a New Brunswick institution One Torontonian comes back every year and claims the
30、 electric currents help his arthritis. A Californian insists he can sense the magnetism in his bones and has to use conscious force to focus his eyes. He knowingly asks: “Where do you keep the magnets?“ Another American contends he can feel the nails being drawn out of his shoes-so Magnetic Hill is
31、unquestionably sitting atop great unexploited iron ore deposits. Still another declares that as he walks up the hill he can feel his eyeballs being pulled. If he does, somebody walking right behind him must be pulling them, because there is no magnetism in the hill 18 The author discusses the Moncto
32、n region, located in_. （ A） New Brunswick （ B） Ontario （ C） Alberta （ D） Halifax 19 Indian legends were inspired by_. （ A） the Fundy tide （ B） the huge natural rock monuments （ C） strange noises in the mountains （ D） the hidden caverns 20 Arthritis that is relieved by a visit to Magnetic Hill illust
33、rates the fact that （ A） magnetism has healing properties （ B） people often deceive themselves （ C） arthritis is a seasonal thing （ D） the mind has an effect on the bodys health 21 The visitor who felt his eyeballs being pulled was probably _. （ A） under the influence of liquor （ B） stupid （ C） infl
34、uenced by the power of suggestion （ D） playing a joke on everyone 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 22 The Witan, the basis of the Privy Council was created by_. （ A） the Celts （ B） the
35、 Anglo-Saxons （ C） the Normans （ D） the Romans 23 According to Chomsky, the Universal Grammar is （ A） gained specifically for each language. （ B） acquired through the interaction with the environment. （ C） got through imitation and practice. （ D） pre-equipped in childrens brains. 24 In semantic stud
36、ies,_refers to the inherent meaning of the linguistic form. （ A） sense （ B） synonym （ C） homonym （ D） reference 25 The worlds largest freshwater lake is Lake （ A） Superior. （ B） Ontario. （ C） Victoria. （ D） Michigan. 26 The Sound and the Fury was written by_. （ A） Mark Twain （ B） Ernest Hemingway （
37、C） F. Scott Fitzgerald （ D） William Faulkner 27 Which of the following is relational opposites? （ A） single vs married （ B） hot vs cold （ C） alive vs dead （ D） husband vs wife 28 The native people of New Zealand are _. （ A） Maoris （ B） Indians （ C） Aborigines （ D） Celts 30 Black people were first br
38、ought to America from Africa as_. （ A） workers in factories （ B） cotton pickers （ C） migrants （ D） slaves 31 During what time did the location of the U.S. capital be chosen? （ A） Jefferson Administration. （ B） Washington Administration. （ C） Lincoln Administration. （ D） Johnson Administration. 二、 PA
39、RT IV PROOFREADING they are good citizens, good husbands, and good fathers, and of course somebody has to pay the taxes; but I do not find them exciting. I am fascinated by the men, few enough in all conscience, who take life in their own hands and seem to mould it to their own liking. It may be tha
40、t we have no such thing as free will, but at all events we have the illusion of it. At a crossroad it does seem to us that we might go either to the right or the left and, the choice once made, it is difficult to see that the whole course of the worlds history obliged us to take the turning we did.
41、三、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 35 As an English proverb goes, dont judge a book by its cover. Similarly, one should never judge a person by external appearance. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Write an essay of abo
42、ut 400 words. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay. 专业英语八级模拟试卷 623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 w
43、ill need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. 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 【听力原文】 Chinese Calligraphy Good morni
44、ng, everyone. Todays lecture is about Chinese calligraphy. In China, calligraphy is one of the four traditional Chinese arts, the other three being guqin, chess and painting. Calligraphy dates back to the earliest days in Chinese history, and is admired and displayed in museums just as paintings are
45、. 1 For the Chinese, the ancient art of the written word is not just a method of communication but also a means of expressing the dynamic forces of the natural world. By controlling the concentration of ink, the thickness and absorption of the paper, and the flexibility of the brush, the artist is f
46、ree to produce an infinite variety of styles and forms. Chinese calligraphy serves the purpose of conveying thought but also shows the “abstract“ beauty of the line. Rhythm, line, and structure are more perfectly embodied in calligraphy than in painting or sculpture. 2 Calligraphy is an expressive a
47、rt. According to an old Chinese saying, “the way characters are written is a portrait of the person who writes them“, one can “read“ the identity of the person through his or her handwriting. Expressing the abstract beauty of lines and rhythms, 2 calligraphy is a reflection of a persons emotions, mo
48、ral integrity, character, educational level, and accomplishments in self-cultivation, intellectual tastes and approach to life. Calligraphy is also a practical fine art. Calligraphic inscriptions written on paper, wooden plaques or stone tablets serve as decorations of a deep artistic value. Moreove
49、r, calligraphy is often used to decorate articles of everyday use. Even on the ordinary, everyday level of life, beautiful writing is appreciated. To become an artist or expert in calligraphy, one has to practice word by word and stroke by stroke until the spirit of the practice gets into ones mind. Calligraphy can temper a person into a state in which one can apply subconsciousness absorbed from daily prac
