1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 640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 American Black English I. Overall Current Condition; difficult to say the number of Black English speaker
3、s. Related numbers; at least 170 ethnic groups living in the USA about (1)_of the American population made up by black Americans. about 80% of black Americans speak Black English. II. Two main aspects as to the study of Black English A. Controversies on the Origin of American Black English 1) On its
4、 history and genetic affiliation i. learnt by West Africans on plantations from (2)_. ii. referring to all varieties of English spoken by Black people in and outside the USA, as in the Caribbean and (3)_. 2) On the Emergence of Creole language i. Slavery trade made Creole languages appear in the glo
5、be. ii. No necessary conditions for the (4)_ of a fully-fledged Creole language; inheriting distinctive features from older varieties of English Conclusion; both are partially right B. On Assimilation of American Black English 1) Promoting factor; the (5)_theory i. Significance for the past generati
6、ons of immigrants: becoming successful by working to shed their historic identities and adopt the ways of their new country. ii. View by President Woodrow Wilson; All children were sent to public schools to be infused with (6)_and become Americans. 2) Specific ways of assimilation: i. learning to sp
7、eak a form of English that sounded more like the Standard English; ii. being sent to school in England to learn (7) “_“; iii. losing their Black accents and “talk White“ Reason: i. for advancing them socially and economically ii. for not embarrassing their families iii. for good jobs and (8) _increa
8、se Result; i. losing their original cultural identity and abandon their (9)_ ii. the difference between Black English and Standard English becoming smaller and smaller iii. Black English becoming deeply rooted in Americas (10)_and culture SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear
9、 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 Which of the following about BBC in
10、NOT correct? （ A） The initials BBC stand for British Broadcasting Corporation. （ B） Its a public corporation. （ C） The government cant control it. （ D） There are some adverts on it. 12 ITV gets its money from _. （ A） investments （ B） the TV licenses （ C） advertisements （ D） the government 13 Accordi
11、ng to the conversation, what does the Open University refer to? （ A） The university broadcasts on both BBC and ITV. （ B） The university for people whove never been to university. （ C） The university for people who have got a chance to go to university. （ D） The university run in the open fields. 14
12、Which of the following is not a reason for the mans not going to the cinema? （ A） It costs money. （ B） He watches only news programmes. （ C） Its a lot more trouble going out than staying at home. （ D） He only likes old films. 15 According to the man if you watch football on TV rather than go to the
13、match, （ A） you feel the importance of the occasion （ B） you dont lose any of the atmosphere （ C） you get a better view of the game （ D） you feel as good as in real life SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the ques
14、tions that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 According to the news, the detained would face the following charges EXCEPT （ A） extortion. （ B） burglary. （ C） drug transaction. （ D） murder. 16 Riccis “Operation Columbus“ Ricci, 45, is now st
15、riking out on perhaps his boldest venture yet. He plans to market an English - language edition of his elegant monthly art magazine, FMR, in the United States. Once again the skeptics are murmuring that the successful Ricci has headed for a big fall. And once again Ricci intends to prove them wrong.
16、 Ricci is so confident that he has christened his quest “Operation Columbus“ and has set his sights on discovering an American readership of 300,000. That goal may not be too far -fetched. The Italian edition of FMR - the initials, of course, stand for Franco Maria Ricci - is only 18 months old. But
17、 it is already the second largest art magazine in the world, with a circulation of 65,000 and a profit margin of US 500, 000. The American edition will be patterned after the Italian version, with each 160 -page issue carrying only 40 pages of ads and no more than five articles. But the contents wil
18、l often differ. The English - language edition will include more American works, Ricci says, to help Americans get over “an inferiority complex about their art.“ He also hopes that the magazine will become a vehicle for a two - way cultural ex- change - what he likes to think of as a marriage of bra
19、ins, culture and taste from both sides of the Atlantic. To realize this vision, Ricci is mounting one of the most lavish, enterprising - and expensive promotional campaigns in magazine -publishing history. Between November and January, eight jumbo jets will fly 8 million copies of a sample 16 -page
20、edition of FMR across the Atlantic. From a warehouse in Michigan, 6. 5 million copies will be mailed to American subscribers of various cultural, art and business magazines. Some of the remaining copies will circulate as a special Sunday supplement in the New York Times. The cost of launching Operat
21、ion Columbus is a staggering US 5 million i but Ricci is hoping that 60% of the price tag will be financed by Italian corporations. “To land in America Columbus had to use Spanish sponsors,“ reads one sentence in his promotional pamphlet. “We would like Italians.“ Like Columbus, Ricci cannot know wh
22、at his reception will be on foreign shores. In Italy he gambled and won - on a simple concept: it is more important to show art than to write about it. Hence, one issue of FMR might feature 32 full - color pages of 17th - century tapestries, followed by 14 pages of outrageous eyeglasses. He is gambl
23、ing that the concept is exportable. “I dont expect that more than 30% of my readers . will actually read FMR,“ he says. “The magazine is such a visual delight that they dont have to.“ Still, he is lining up an impressive stable of writers and professors for the American edition, including Noam Choms
24、ky, Anthony Burgess, Eric Jong and Norman Mailer. In addition, he seems to be pursuing his own eclectic vision without giving a moments thought to such established competitors as Connoisseur and Horizon. “The Americans can do almost everything better than we can,“ says Ricci, “But we (the Italians)
25、have a 2,000 year edge on them in art.“ 17 Ricci intends his American edition of FMR to carry more American art works in order to _. （ A） boost Americans confidence in their art. （ B） follow the pattern set by his Italian edition. （ C） help Italians understand American art better. （ D） expand the re
26、adership of his magazine. 18 Ricci is compared to Columbus in the passage mainly because _. （ A） they both benefited from Italian sponsors. （ B） they were explorers in their own ways. （ C） they obtained overseas sponsorship. （ D） they got a warm reception in America. 19 In the sentence “The cost of
27、launching Operation Columbus is a staggering US 5 million “( paragraph 3), the word “staggering“ has the meaning of _. （ A） surprising （ B） surprised （ C） shocked （ D） appearing 20 We get the impression that the American edition of FMR will probably _. （ A） carry many academic articles of high stand
28、ard. （ B） follow the style of some famous existing magazines. （ C） be read by one third of American magazine readers. （ D） pursue a distinctive editorial style of its own. 21 In the sentence “reads one sentence in his promotional pamphlet“ ( paragraph 4 ), the phrase “promotional pamphlet“ has its C
29、hinese equivalent of _. （ A）宣传册 （ B）晋升表 （ C）促进措施 （ D）提拔机会 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 Blitz radically changed the face of London for the first time since_nearly 3 centuries
30、 earlier. （ A） the Black Death （ B） the Great Fire （ C） the Civil War （ D） the Great Plague 23 President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862, because_. （ A） he himself was an abolitionist （ B） he had no other alternatives （ C） he realized that he could win support for the
31、Union at home and abroad only by making the war a just war against slavery （ D） he wanted to punish the state owners in those states which broke away from the Union 24 The structural approach to the analysis of language was started by the Swiss linguist _ in the beginning of the twentieth century. （
32、 A） Chomsky （ B） Halliday （ C） Saussure （ D） Fillmore 25 In 1954, Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his novel _. （ A） The Sun Also Rises （ B） A Farewell to Arms （ C） The Old Man and the Sea （ D） For Whom the Bell Tolls 26 Syntactic movement is dictated by rules traditio
33、nally called _. （ A） transformational rules. （ B） generative rules. （ C） phrase structure rules. （ D） X-bar theory. 27 Old English has a vocabulary of about _ words. （ A） 30,000 to 40,000 （ B） 50,000to 60,000 （ C） 70,000to 80,000 （ D） 80,000 to 90,000 28 The United States of America is the _ country
34、 in the world. （ A） largest （ B） second-largest （ C） third-largest （ D） fourth largest 29 Quebec province in Canada has a strong _ culture. （ A） British （ B） German （ C） French （ D） Italian 30 New Zealand is an island country in the_, southeast of Australia. （ A） southern Pacific Ocean （ B） north Pa
35、cific Ocean （ C） south Indian Ocean （ D） north Indian Ocean 31 “Nationas a free root can function alone in a sentence while “dict“ is a _ which can not function alone grammatically and has to combine with other morphemes to create new words. （ A） active root （ B） fixed root （ C） non-free root （ D） b
36、ound root 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING to enable the proper functioning of religious rituals involving the family. Such reasons may seem thin in the modern, secularized society but they have been and are powerful indeed in other places. In addition, one class of family reasons shares a border with the fo
37、llowing category, namely, having children in order to maintain or improve a marriage: to hold the husband or occupy the wife; to repair or rejuvenate the marriage; to increase the number of children on the assumption that family happiness lies that way. The point is underlined by its converse: in so
38、me societies the failure to bear children (or males) is a threat to the marriage and a ready cause for divorce. Beyond all that is the profound significance of children to the very_ institution of the family itself. To many peoplc, husband and wife alone do not seem a proper family they need childre
39、n to enrich the circle, to validate its family character, to gather the redemptive influence of offspring. Children need the family, but thc family seems also to need children, as the social institution uniquely available, at least in principle, for security, comfort, assurance, and direction in a c
40、hanging, often hostile, world. To most people, such a home base, in the literal sense, needs more than one person for sustenance and in generational extension. 三、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 35 In many countries it is now possib
41、le to turn on the television and view government at work. Watching these proceedings can help people to understand the issues that affect their lives. Do you believe the following statement: “The more kinds of government proceedings - trials, debates, meetings, etc. - that are televised, the more so
42、ciety will benefit“. Write an essay of about 400 words. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay. In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should br
43、ing what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. 专业英语八级模拟试卷 640答案与解析 SECTION A MINI-LECTURE Directions: In this section you sill h
44、ear 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. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and
45、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】 American Black English Good morning, boys and girls. There is an indispensable part of American English, which is American Black English. So in our todays lecture, we may focus on
46、some issues about it. It is extremely difficult to say how many people speak Black English because it is not clear what exactly this would mean. As we know, except for Native Americans, no one is from America. It is estimated that at least 170 ethnic groups live in the United States. (1) American bl
47、ack people make up about 12% of the American population, and about 80% of American black people speak Black English. Because of its lack of formal recognition, American Black English is often treated just as a local slang and linguistic deviation. It is only recently that it has become an area of gr
48、eat interest to linguists, who are keen on learning about universal tendencies in this language and studying language status, attitudes, and the importance of language. But there are still many controversies about how to describe it and how to explain its origin and development. So we will talk abou
49、t it in two aspects. Firstly, lets go to the origin of Black English. As we know in the 16th century, a lot of African black slaves were traded from Africa to Virginia in America. But the history of Black English and its genetic affiliation, by which we mean what language varieties it is related to, are also a matter of controversy. Some scholars contend that Black English developed out of the contact betwee
