1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 645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 Recycling The concept of green consumerism has gained momentum over the last decade, and the public has b
3、een influenced and become more aware of recycling. However, three essential keys are needed to power this movement. . The first step: raise public awareness about A. recycling process a creative act to【 1】 _the life and usefulness of the used B. kinds of materials that can be recycled plastic contai
4、ners, glass bottles, and newspapers C. ways on how to properly【 2】 _rubbish sort reusable materials from those that cant be recycled very easily establish a【 3】 _of collecting the sorted materials D.【 4】 _of the traditional waste disposal method expanding the rubbish dumps into agricultural land or
5、green belt land the【 5】 _in consumer waste burying rubbish in a vast deep pit lined with plastic chemicals used to speed breakdown of the rubbish returning the site【 6】 _rubbish in the ground to agricultural use . The second step: the development of technologyA. providesupport for companies involved
6、 in recycling【 7】 _ 1. tax incentives 2. low-cost【 8】 _ 3. grants to upgrade equipment and further researchB. a breakthroughthe new technology to help remove ink from paper, more energy efficient and environmentally safeC.【 9】 _of paper-recycling 1. the difficulty in removing print from paper 2. the
7、 amount of energy 3. caustic waste . The third step: expand the【 10】 _for recycled materials 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 i
8、nterview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 The interviewees first job was with _. （ A） a newspaper （ B） the government （ C） a construction firm （ D） a private company 12 The interviewee is not self-employed mainly because _.
9、（ A） his wife likes him to work for a firm （ B） he prefers working for the government （ C） self-employed work is very demanding （ D） self-employed work is sometimes insecure 13 To study architecture in a university one must _. （ A） be interested in arts （ B） study pure science first （ C） get good ex
10、am results （ D） be good at drawing 14 On the subject of drawing the interviewee says that _. （ A） technically speaking artists draw very well （ B） an artists drawing differs little from an architects （ C） precision is a vital skill for the architect （ D） architects must be natural artists 15 The int
11、erviewee says that the job of an architect is _. （ A） more theoretical than practical （ B） to produce sturdy, well-designed buildings （ C） more practical than theoretical （ D） to produce attractive, interesting buildings SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything O
12、NCE 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 According to Louis Seck, the Israeli project_. （ A） can rapidly improve the daily lives of the Senegalese people （ B） is a big part of developi
13、ng renewable energy in Senegal （ C） will inspire the Senegalese people to use solar power （ D） will meet growing demands for electricity 17 What is the main idea of the new item? （ A） How to use solar energy. （ B） An introduction to a renovation. （ C） How to live in balance with environment. （ D） Co
14、operation between two countries to solve energy crisis. 17 The year which preceded my fathers death made great change in my life. I had been living in New Jersey, working in defense plants, working and living among southerners, white and black. I knew about the south, of course, and about how southe
15、rners treated Negroes and how they expected them to behave, but it had never entered my mind that anyone would look at me and expect me to behave that way. I learned in New Jersey that to be a Negro meant, precisely, that one was never looked at but was simply at the mercy of the reflexes the color
16、of ones skin caused in other people. I acted in New Jersey as I had always acted, that isas though I thought a great deal of myselfI had to act that waywith results that were, simply, unbelievable. I had scarcely arrived before I had earned the enmity, which was extraordinarily ingenious, of all my
17、superiors and nearly all my co-workers. In the beginning, to make matters worse, I simply did not know what was happening. I did not know what had done, and I shortly began to wonder what anyone could possibly do, to bring about such unanimous, active, and unbearably vocal hostility. I knew about Ji
18、m-crow but I had never experienced it. I went to the same self-service restaurant three times and stood with all the Princeton boys before the counter, waiting for a hamburger and coffee. It was always an extraordinarily long time before anything was set before me: I had simply picked something up.
19、Negroes were not served there, I was told, and they had been waiting for me to realize that I was always the only Negro present. Once I was told this, I determined to go there all the time. But now they were ready for me and, thought some dreadful scenes were subsequently enacted in that restaurant,
20、 I never ate there again. It was same story all over New Jersey, in bars, bowling alleys, diners, and places to live. I was always being forced to leave, silently, or with mutual imprecations. I very shortly became notorious and children giggled behind me when I passed and their elders whispered or
21、shoutedthey really believed that I was mad. And it did begin to work on my mind, of course. I began to be afraid to go anywhere and to compensate for this I went places to which I really should not have gone and where, God knows, I had no desire to be. My reputation in town naturally enhanced my rep
22、utation at work and my working day became one long series of acrobatics designed to keep me out of trouble. I cannot say that these acrobatics night, with but one aim: to eject me. I was fired once, and contrived, with the aid of a friend from New York, to get back on the payroll; was fired again, a
23、nd bounced back again. It took a while to fire me for the third time, but the third time took me. There were no loopholes anywhere. There was not even any way of getting back inside the gates. That year in New Jersey lives in my mind as though it were the year dining which, having an unsuspected pre
24、dilection for it, I first contracted some dread, chronic disease, the unfailing symptom of which is a kind of blind fever, a pounding in the skull and fire in the bowels. Once this disease is contracted, one can never be really carefree again, for the fever, without an instants warning, can recur at
25、 any moment. It can wreck more important race relations. There is not a Negro alive who does not have this rage in his bloodone has the choice, merely, of living with it consciously or surrendering to it. As for me, this fever has recurred in me, and does, and will until the day I die. My last night
26、 in New Jersey, a white friend from New York took me to the nearest big town, Trenton, to go to the movies and have a few drinks. As it turned out, he also saved me from, at the very least, a violent whipping. Almost every detail of that night stands out very clearly in my memory. I even remember th
27、e name of the movie we saw because its title impressed me as being so pertly ironical. R was a movie about the German occupation of France, starting Maureen O Hara and Charles Laughton and called This Land Is Mine. I remember the name of the diner we walked into when the movie ended: it was the“ Ame
28、rican Diner.“ When we walked in the counterman asked what we wanted and I remembered answering with the casual sharpness which had become my habit: “We want a hamburger and a cup of coffee, what do you think we want?“ I do not know why, after a year of such rebuffs, I so completely failed to anticip
29、ate his answer, which was, of course,“ We dont serve Negroes here.“ This reply falied to discompose me, at least for the moment. I made some sardonic comment about the name of the diner and we walked out into the streets. This was the time of what was called the“ brown-out“, when the lights in all A
30、merican cities were very dim. When we re-entered the streets something happened to me which had the force of an optical illusion, or a nightmare. The streets were very crowded and I was facing north. People were moving in every direction but it seemed to me, in that instant, that all of the people I
31、 could see, and many more than that, were moving toward me, against me, and that everyone was white. I remember how their faces string connecting my head to my body had been cut. I began to walk. I heard my friend call after me, but I ignored him. Heaven only knows what was going on in his mind, but
32、 he had the good sense not to touch medont know what would have happened if he hadand to keep me in sight. I dont know what was going on in my mind, either; I certainly had no conscious plan. I wanted to do something to crush these white faces, which were crushing me. I walked for perhaps a block or
33、 two until I came to an enormous, glittering, and fashionable restaurant in which I knew not even the intercession of the Virgin would cause me to be served. I pushed through the doors and took the first vacant seat. I saw, at a table or two, and waited. I do not know how long I rather wonder, until
34、 today, what I could possibly have looked like. Whatever I looked towards her. I hated her for her white face, and for her great, astounded, frightened eyes. I felt that if she found a black man so frightening I would make her fright worthwhile. She did not ask me what I wanted, but repeated, as tho
35、ugh she had learned it somewhere, “We dont serve Negroes here.“ She did not say it with the blunt, derisive hostility to which I had grown so accustomed, but, rather, with a note of apology in her voice, and fear. This made me colder and more murderous than ever. I felt I had to do something with my
36、 hands. I wanted her to come close enough for me to get her neck between my hands. So I pretended not to have understood her, hoping to draw her closer. And she did step a very short step closer, with her pencil poised incongruously over pad, and repeated the formula:“. dont serve Negroes here.“ Som
37、ehow, with the repetition of that phrase, which was already ringing in my head like a thousand bells of a nightmare, I realized that she would never come any closer and that I would have to strike from a distance. There was nothing on the table but an ordinary water-mug half full of water, and I pic
38、ked this up and hurled it with all my strength at her. She ducked and it missed her and shattered against the mirror behind the bar. And with that sound, my frozen blood abruptly thawed. I returned from wherever I had been, I rose and began running for the door. A round, pot-bellied man grabbed me b
39、y the nape of the neck just as I reached the doors and began to beat me about the face. I kicked him and got loose and ran into the streets. My friend whispered, “Run!“ and I ran. My friend stayed outside the restaurant long enough to misdirect my pursuers and the police, who arrive, he told me, at
40、once. I do not know what I said to him when he came to my room that night. I could not have said much, I felt, in the oddest, most awful way, that I had somehow betrayed him, I lived it over and over and over again, the way one relives an automobile accident after it has happened and one finds onese
41、lf alone and safe. I could not get over two facts, both equally difficult for the imagination to grasp, and one was that I could have been murdered. But the other was that I had been ready to commit murder. I saw nothing clearly but I did see this: that my life, my real life, was in danger, and not
42、from anything other people might do but from the hatred I carried in my own heart. 18 The word reputation in “my reputation in town enhanced my reputation at work“ is used in a(n) _ sense. （ A） derogatory （ B） ironical （ C） appreciative （ D） neutral 19 “That year in New Jersey lives in my mind.“, as
43、 the author intended, means _. （ A） that was a year in which awful things happened to me （ B） that was a year that I will never forget （ C） that was a year that only existed in my mind; but never happened to exist （ D） that was a year when I lived in New Jersey 20 The mason why the author says in th
44、e essay that the title of the move This Land Is Mine is ironical was that the land is _. （ A） not really that of the native born black Americans （ B） that of the Frenchmen; the land refers to France （ C） mine; yet it was occupied by Germans （ D） mine; the land is that of the Americans 一、 PART III GE
45、NERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 21 _ is the highest mountain in Britain. （ A） Snowdon （ B） Scafell （ C） Ben Nevis （ D） The Pennines 22 Land Enclosure was a disaster for the_evicted from their land
46、by the enclosures. （ A） landlords （ B） tenants （ C） farmers （ D） wage laborers 23 Britains leading customers and suppliers are France, Germany and_. （ A） Japan （ B） Belgium （ C） the Netherlands （ D） the United States 24 The word “holiday“ originally meant a holy day; but now the word signifies any d
47、ay when we dont have to work. This is an example of_. （ A） meaning shift （ B） widening of meaning （ C） narrowing of meaning （ D） loss of meaning 25 Which of the following works is NOT written by William Shakespeare? （ A） A Midsummer Nights Dream. （ B） The Tragedy of Macbeth. （ C） Paradise Lost. （ D）
48、 The Tempest. 26 Swift invented famous _ in his world famous Gullivers Travels. （ A） Lilliput （ B） Brobdingag （ C） Celestial city （ D） Morality Pool 27 Australia is located between_and the Indian Ocean. （ A） The South Pacific Ocean （ B） The Atlantic Ocean （ C） The North Sea （ D） The Arctic 28 Which
49、of the following is not a work of Nathaniel Hawthornes? （ A） The House of the Seven Gables. （ B） The Blithedale Romance. （ C） The Marble Falun. （ D） White Jacket. 29 A linguist regards the changes in language and language use as _. （ A） unnatural （ B） something to be feared （ C） natural （ D） abnormal 30 The University of Dublin was not founded until （ A） the 19th century. （ B） the 18th century. （ C） the 17th c
