1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 632 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 Modern Examinations In the schools of ancient times, the most important examinations were spoken. Usuall
3、y the students were supposed to say poetry aloud or give 【 1】 _ 【 1】 _or discuss questions. Although the concrete forms of exami nations were various, they were alike in their essence, that is, they were spoken, which partly remains till today. However, modern examinations take a different form a wr
4、itten form, which was developed in the19th century due to the increase in 【 2】 【 2】_ _and the development of modern industry. But in the process of examination, teachers and students are supposed to act like 【 3】 _ 【 3】_ but not human. Commonly there are two types of tests used in modern schools, th
5、ey are called “objective“ test and “subjective“ test respectively. With the former one concentrated on the 【 4】 _of facts while the latter one 【 4】 _ on personal 【 5】 _, the two are different in many ways. Of course 【 5】 _ they both have advantages and disadvantages. So far as the “objective“ test i
6、s concerned, it is fair, above all, and then it is very efficient because its form of answer is simple and objective, and it is easy to be 【 6】 _ 【 6】 _ But as this way of testing sometimes depends too much on “【 7】 _ 【 7】_ , it is ultimately not very satisfactory. As for the “subjective“ test, it u
7、 sually refers to “【 8】 _ “tests, which, comparatively speaking, 【 8】 _ contains less element of luck and thus can better reflect the students abili ty of putting facts together into a meaningful whole. However, because this form of testing requires students to write long answers, the students abili
8、ty of 【 9】 _becomes a disturbing factor. Besides, the examiners 【 9】 _ feelings are different, that is to say, they are subjective when scoring students answers. Therefore, the “subjective“ test is not so fair as the “objective“ one. From the above, we know that whatever kinds of tests .we take, it
9、would be 【 10】 _, and problems would arise. However, if we 【 10】_ combine these two types together, we would get a clearer picture of students ability through testing. 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 hea
10、r 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 questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 Victoria has eventually decided to
11、go on a_ （ A） fly-drive holiday （ B） car-trip （ C） two-city holiday （ D） conducted tour 12 At the Epcot Centre Victoria will_. （ A） see aquatic displays （ B） visit a large funfair （ C） visit a technological-advanced city （ D） visit a film studio 13 When she visits the Kennedy Space Centre, Victoria
12、will be able to_. （ A） send messages to satellites （ B） learn something new about the space （ C） go aboard a spacecraft （ D） operate Mission Control 14 In order to go on this holiday, Victoria ultimately had to_. （ A） overdraw an account （ B） borrow from her parents （ C） work overtime （ D） spend her
13、 savings 15 From the conversation, we get the impression that Victoria is_. （ A） pragmatic （ B） extrovert （ C） wilful （ D） calculating 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 ea
14、ch news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 According to Robert Bindschadler, the map will enable scientists to_. （ A） continue to watch changes unfold （ B） continue taking images of Antarctica （ C） record a temperature rise of Antarctica （ D） compile new images of the mov
15、ement of glaciers 17 Which of the following about the Antarctica is CORRECT? （ A） It has experienced a temperature rise of about 5 times the global average. （ B） It has experienced a temperature rise of about 3 in the last 50 years. （ C） More than 60 percent of glaciers on it are now in a state of r
16、etreat. （ D） Its ice shelves are melting at a faster rate. 17 James Michener In his long writing life, James Michener aimed to donate at least 90 percent of what he earned from his 43 novels. He seems to have more than made his goal; at his death, in October 1997, his assets were estimated at less t
17、han US $ 10 million. He had given away US $ 117 million. Michener makes a good example for other philanthropists, not just in how much he gave, but in his style of giving. The writer worked hard at doing good, following up his donations to see how the money was used. He gave to things for which he h
18、ad a passion, and he had a lot of fun in doing so. Michener was 90, when he died. He was on Fortune magazines list of Americas top 25 philanthropists-the only writer in a crowd of tycoons. Asked, shortly before his death, whether he ever wished he had his millions back, he said sure, so that he shou
19、ld have the pleasure of giving them away again. Too often, says Nelson Aldrich, editor of The American Benefactor, a magazine about philanthropists, the rich give without much imagination. “They give to the college they went to, and the hospital where they 11 die,” Aldrich says. “And most of the ric
20、h are stingy; few give even as much as 10 percent, the traditional title. They hold on to the myth of not dipoing into capital.” Michener did, in fact, give to his college - US $ 7.2 million to Swarthmore, in Pennsylvania. He called it a repayment for the US $ 2,000 basketball scholarship they gave
21、him in 1925. As he wrote to the college president in 1969,”Coming as I did from a family with no income at all, and with no prospects whatever, college was the harrow door that led from darkness into light.” His will leaves almost everything to Swarthmore, including future royalties from his books.
22、Michener al- ways described himself as a founding, born in New York City and raised by Mabel Michener, a Quaker widow, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. She lived, he said, by taking in other peoples children and other peoples laundry. For his last 15 years, Michener lived modestly in Austin, Texas, wher
23、e he has moved to write the 1,000 -page saga Texas. Each of his big best sellers, including Texas, Hawaii and Covenant made about US $ 5 million. And there were 20 of them. Whats more, he still collected royalties from the musical and movie South Pacific, which was inspired by his first book, Tales
24、of the South Pacific, written when he was 40. Frail from kidney disease in his last years, Michener was pretty much confined to a reclining chair in a small study, simply decorated. There were few personal possessions besides some photos of himself and his last wife, and as unframed faded poster of
25、Tahiti. A source of pleasure and company in those years was the Texas Centre for Writers. His largest gift, to- tailing US $ 64.2 million, went to the University of Texas, with US $ 18 million going to found and support the writers centre. He got a lot back, he said-” You meet bright people, you can
26、 consult with anybody there, and there are 23 libraries on campus.” Every year Michener would meet with the 10 incoming students ,one by one, and he went out with them every fall to the salt Lick barbecue restaurant. He often ate at the college cafeteria, centre director James Magnuson recalls. He e
27、njoyed their barbecue chicken special. His gift to the Texas Centre included hundreds of modem American paintings worth a total of US $ 31 million. His US $ 25 million collection of Japanese prints had already been donated to Honolulus city art gallery. His next largest gift was $ 11.5 million to tw
28、o museums and the library in his hometown of Doylestown. Micheners smaller gifts also reveal a lot about where his affections lay. And they reveal that it was a very good thing to have James Michener working in your vicinity. While researching Alaska, for example, he lived in a log cabin near the ti
29、ny Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka. He used the campus library and sat and talked to students in the cafeteria. After he left, he gave the college US $ 750,000 for scholarships. After living in Houston on write Space, he endowed a college scholarship fund for the children of Nasa employees pursuing
30、 careers in science or engineering. Since 1982,73 scholarships have been given out. After writing Centennial, on the settling of the West, Michener donated US $ 50,000 to help pay for the Nebraska National Trails Museum. The University of Miami, where Michener did his research for Caribbean, got US
31、$ 1 million for a writing programme for graduate students, especially those from the islands. Similarly, after finishing Poland, Michener established a US $ 400,000 fund to support Polish writers. Michener considered himself a professional writer, not an author; “author” struck him as a pretentious
32、term. Like his writing, his philanthropy was intended to educate; thus this support of colleges, libraries and museums. Michener was generous to writers whose books were very different from him. For exapmle, he endowed a US $ 30,000 as year fellowship at the University of Houston named for Donald Ba
33、rthelme, a notably surreal and sophisticated fiction writer. Michener endowed eight fellowships a year for graduates of the Univeristy of Iowa Writers Workshop, where the books produced tend to be slimmer, subtler and moodier than the typical Michener. The money was to support the young poets and no
34、velists for a year while they struggled to get published. Frank Conroy, work- shop director, remembers, “It wasnt just a case of, heres some money, go and do good. He was a man who knew it was not easy to do good. You have to think, and think hard, to do good.” 18 Which of the following is true acco
35、rding to the text? （ A） James Michener is an industrious and successful writer, and also an industrious and successful philanthropist. （ B） Shortly before his death, James Michener wished he had his millions back. （ C） James Michener graduated from the University of Texas. （ D） Michener gave generou
36、sly to the writers whose styles were very similar to his. 19 When was James Michener born? （ A） 1990. （ B） 1907. （ C） 1908. （ D） 1905. 20 Which title is more appropriate to express the primary idea? （ A） A Generous Writer. （ B） A Joyful Philanthropist. （ C） A Imaginative Philanthropist. （ D） An Unfo
37、rgetable Benefactor. 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 21 Land enclosure in Ireland and the Scottish highlands led to mass emigration, particularly to_. （ A） Africa （ B） Eastern Europe
38、（ C） Asia （ D） America 22 _ is the chief Christian holiday, which celebrated the Resurrection of Christ. （ A） Christmas Day （ B） Easter （ C） Halloween （ D） Whit Sunday 23 Which of the following parties represents the most interests of Quebec? （ A） The Bloc Quebecois. （ B） The Progressive Party. （ C）
39、 The Liberal Party. （ D） The Reform Party. 24 _ is the most famous novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald? （ A） Tender Is the Night. （ B） This Side of Paradise. （ C） The Beautiful and Dammed. （ D） The Great Gatsby. 25 _is the study of language in relation to the mind. （ A） Psycholinguistics （ B） Sociolin
40、guistics （ C） Linguistics （ D） Semantics 26 Which of the following ways of word-formation doesnt change the grammatical class of the stems? （ A） compound （ B） inflection （ C） derivation （ D） coinage 27 _ is Britains established Church. （ A） Roman Catholic Church （ B） Protestant Church （ C） Orthodox
41、Eastern Church （ D） The Church of England 28 Robert Brownings My Last Duchess is composed in the form of a(n) （ A） dramatic monologue. （ B） extended metaphor. （ C） syllogistic argument. （ D） dialogue. 29 The 18th century witnessed a new literary form-the modern English novel, which is contrary to th
42、e medieval romance, gives a _, presentation of life of the common people. （ A） romantic （ B） realistic （ C） prophetic （ D） idealistic 30 A linguistic study is _ if it aims to lay down rules for “correct and standard“ behavior in using language, that is, to tell people what they should say and what t
43、hey should not say. （ A） descriptive （ B） prescriptive （ C） constructive （ D） denotative 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING teachers dislike giving them and scoring students answers. Whether an objective test or an essay test is used, problems arise. When some objective questions are used a long with some essa
44、y questions, however, a fairly clear picture of the students knowledge can usually be obtained. 1 【正确答案】 speeches 2 【正确答案】 population 3 【正确答案】 machines 4 【正确答案】 memory 5 【正确答案】 opinions 6 【正确答案】 scored 7 【正确答案】 luck 8 【正确答案】 essay 9 【正确答案】 expressing 10 【正确答案】 unsatisfactory SECTION B INTERVIEW Dire
45、ctions: 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 questions. Now listen to the interview. 11
46、 【听力原文】 Jenny: Im longing to hear about this tour, Victoria. You must be terribly excited. Victoria: Oh, I am. I.Ive never been to America before, so Im really looking forward to it. I thought of going fly-drive. Jenny: Fly-drive? Victoria: Yes. You know, you.you can arrange for a car to be waiting
47、for you at the airport when you arrive. You book everything this end including the plane tickets. Jenny: Sounds simple enough. Are you going to, then? Victoria: Well, Im a bit worried about driving on the other side of the road and having to, so I decided it would be better to go on a more organized
48、 holiday. Jenny: What do you mean by “organized“? Victoria: Well, everything is arranged by a tour operator, a more organized trip. You know, you are taken around and shown where to go and what to do. I would probably miss half of the sight otherwise. Jenny: Mm, where are you going anyway? Victoria: Orlando. Its in central Florida. Jenny: Sounds OK. Are you going on your own? Victoria: Yes, I dont mind that. There will be other people on the tour. Im sure to make friends. You know, I like meeting new people. Here, let me show you the brochure. Jenny: It looks pretty packe
