1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 646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 Going Underground Because of the【 1】 _ associations 【 1】 _ with the dark underground, living underground
3、in the future may not seem a good idea. But there are advantages to an underground living. First, the【 2】 _ would cease to be a 【 2】 _ trouble. There is no problem of keeping a 【 3】 _ temperature. So it can save much 【 3】 _ energy. We are also safe from the【 4】 _. 【 4】 _ caused by bad weather. Secon
4、d, there would be no【 5】 _ time. 【 5】 _ As the daylight is man-made, it could be【 6】 _. 【 6】 _ to meet our needs. Third, the【 7】 _ stability could be 【 7】 _ ensured. Human habitation damages the wild and【 8】 _. many species of their natural 【 8】 _ habitat. Moving underground would turn the Earths su
5、rface back to wilderness and greenery. Fourth, nature would be【 9】 _. 【 9】 _ Instead of a withdrawal from the natural world, living underground would make us easier to reach countryside than living above ground. The countryside is just a few hundred yards【 10】 _. 【 10】 _ the city. 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【
6、3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10 【 10】 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 t
7、o answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 Who are the speakers? （ A） Salesmen. （ B） Editors. （ C） Cooks. （ D） Advertising agents. 12 What product are they talking about? （ A） Kitchen. （ B） Deep-freezer. （ C） Mobility units. （ D） Cake mixer 13 What is the relation
8、ship between the two speakers? （ A） Employer and employee （ B） Salesman and customer （ C） Advertiser and customer （ D） Colleagues 14 How is the kitchen different from all other kitchens on the market? （ A） It is easier to clean and repair （ B） It is non-fixed and flexible （ C） All its units are of t
9、he same height （ D） Its chopping board is nearer to the sink 15 What can you infer from the conversation? （ A） Terry knows less about kitchen than Joyce （ B） Joyce knows more about kitchen than Joyce （ C） Terry knows as much about the kitchen as Joyce （ D） Terry knows as much about the kitchen as Jo
10、yce 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 each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 According to the news, what makes this credit card different
11、 from conventional ones is （ A） that it can hear the owners voice. （ B） that it can remember a password. （ C） that it can identify the owners voice. （ D） that it can remember the owners PIN. 17 The newly developed credit card is said to have all the following EXCEPT （ A） switch. （ B） battery. （ C） s
12、peaker. （ D） built-in chip. 17 Eight times within the past million years, something in the Earths climatic equation has changed, allowing snow in the mountains and the northern latitudes to accumulate from one season to the next instead of melting away each time. The enormous ice sheets resulting fr
13、om this continual buildup lasted tens of thousands of years until the end of each particular glacial cycle brought a warmer climate. Scientists speculated that these glacial cycles were ultimately driven by astronomical factors: slow cyclic changes in the eccentricity of the Earths orbit and in the
14、tilt and orientation of its spin axis. But up until around 30 years ago, the lack of an independent record of ice age timing made the hypothesis untestable. Then in the early 1950s Emiliani produced the first complete record of the waxings and wanings of past glaciations. It came from a seemingly od
15、d place. The seafloor single-cell marine organisms called “foraminifera“ house themselves in shells made from calcium carbonate. When the foraminifera die, sink to the bottom, and become part of seafloor sediments, the carbonate of their shells preserves certain characteristics of the seawater they
16、inhabited. In particular, the ratio of a heavy isotope of oxygen (oxygen-18) to ordinary oxygen (oxygen-16) in the carbonate preserves the ratio of the two oxygens in water molecules. It is now understood that the ratio of oxygen isotopes in seawater closely reflects the proportion of the worlds wat
17、er locked up in glaciers and ice sheets. A kind of meteorological distillation accounts for the link. Water molecules containing the heavier isotope tend to condense and fall as precipitation slightly sooner than molecules containing the lighter isotope. Hence, as water vapor evaporated from warm oc
18、eans moves away from its source, its oxygen-18 returns more quickly to the oceans than does its oxygen-16. What falls as snow on distant ice sheets and mountain glaciers is relatively depleted of oxygen-18. As the oxygen-18-poor ice builds up the oceans become relatively enriched in the isotope. The
19、 larger the ice sheets grow, the higher the proportion of oxygen-I 8 becomes in seawaterand hence in the sediments. Analyzing cores drilled from seafloor sediments, Emiliani found that the isotopic ratio rose and fell in rough accord with the Earths astronomical cycles. Since that pioneering observa
20、tion, oxygen-isotope measurements have been made on hundreds of cores. A chronology for the combined record enables scientists to show that the record contains the very same periodicities as the orbital processes. Over the past 800,000 years, the global ice volume has peaked every 100,000 years, mat
21、ching the period of the orbital eccentricity variation. In addition, “wrinkles“ superposed on each cycle-small-decrease or surge in ice volume have come at intervals of roughly 23,000 and 41, 000 years, in keeping with the precession and tilt frequencies of the Earths spin axis. 18 Which of the foll
22、owing best expresses the main idea of the passage? （ A） Marine sediments have allowed scientists to amass evidence tending to confirm that astronomical cycles drive the Earths glacial cycles. （ B） The ratio between two different isotopes of oxygen in seawater correlates closely with the size of the
23、Earths ice sheets. （ C） Surprisingly, single-cell marine organisms provide a record of the Earths ice ages. （ D） The Earths astronomical cycles have recently been revealed to have an unexpectedly large impact on the Earths climate. 19 The passage asserts that one reason that oceans become enriched i
24、n oxygen-18 as ice sheets grow is because_. （ A） water molecules containing oxygen-18 condense and fall as precipitation slightly sooner than those containing oxygen-16 （ B） the ratio of oxygen-18 to oxygen-16 in water vapor evaporated from oceans if different from that of these isotopes in seawater
25、 （ C） growing ice sheets tend to lose their oxygen-18 as the temperature of the oceans near them gradually decreases （ D） less water vapor evaporates from oceans during glacial periods and therefore less oxygen-18 is removed from the seawater 20 Which of the following did the scientists do who first
26、 constructed a coherent, continuous picture of past variations in marine-sediment isotope ratios according to the passage? （ A） Relied primarily on the data obtained from the analysis of Emilianis core samples. （ B） Combined data derived from the analysis of many different core samples. （ C） Matched
27、 the data obtained by geologists with that provided by astronomers. （ D） Evaluated the isotope-ratio data obtained in several areas in order to eliminate all but the most reliable data. 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose
28、 the best answer to each question. 21 Irish, often called Erse, is a form of_. （ A） French （ B） Gaelic （ C） Germanic （ D） Welsh 22 The true Roman occupation began in_. （ A） 43 AD （ B） 55 BC （ C） 410 AD （ D） 54 BC 23 In 1893, New Zealand became the first country in the world_. （ A） to recognize Maori
29、 rights of self-determination （ B） to give women the vote （ C） to introduce procedures for handling industrial disputes （ D） to adopt the 40-hour working week 24 The capital of Northern Ireland is_. （ A） Edinburgh （ B） Cardiff （ C） Belfast （ D） Birmingham 25 In 1689, the Bill of Rights, which ensure
30、d that the King would never be able to ignore Parliament, was passed under the reign of （ A） Charles . （ B） William of Orange. （ C） James . （ D） Oliver Cromwell. 26 The largest lake in Britain is _. （ A） The Lough Neagh （ B） Windermere Water （ C） Coniston Water （ D） the Lake District 27 What is anot
31、her name for New York? （ A） Big Ben. （ B） Big Port. （ C） Big Apple. （ D） Big Bear. 28 The Franklin Roosevelt came into power in the period of_. （ A） Depression （ B） WW （ C） WW （ D） Civil War 29 The excerpt from Chapter 10 of Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence ends with the conflict between Paul and hi
32、s mother. The cause of the conflict was probably Paul and his mothers opposing views towards_. （ A） life. （ B） art. （ C） culture. （ D） politics. 30 Big Ben is in _. （ A） London （ B） New York （ C） Washington （ D） Liverpool 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING more so, it is all the structures he builds to house h
33、imself and his machines, to make possible his transportation and communication, to offer him rest and recreation. All these things distort the wild, depriving many species of plants and animals of their natural habitat. If the works of man were removed below ground, man would still occupy the surfac
34、e with his farms, his forest, his observation towers, his air terminals and so on, but the extent of that occupation would be enormously decreased. Indeed, as the underground world becomes increasingly elaborate, even food could be supplied through hydroponic growth in artificially illuminated areas
35、 underground. The Earths surface might be increasingly turned over to park and to wilderness, maintained at ecological stability. Fourth, nature would be closer. It might seem that to go underground is to withdraw from the natural world, but would that be so? Would the withdrawal be more complete th
36、an it is now? Look at what we have now: We are working in crowded buildings that are often windowless and artificially conditioned; even where there are windows, and if one bothers to look up from his work and look out of the window, what is there to see? Mostly man made buildings spread all the way
37、 to the horizon. And to get away from the city, to reach the real countryside, one must travel horizontally for miles, first across downtown city and its terrible traffic, then across suburban sprawls. In an underground culture, the countryside would be right there, a few hundred yards above the cit
38、y. Underground city dweller would surely be able to see more greenery the ecologically healthier greener than dwellers of surface cities do today. You see, although underground living may seem at first thought odd and repulsive, there are things to be said for it and I havent said them all. 1 【正确答案】
39、 evil 2 【正确答案】 weather 3 【正确答案】 constant 4 【正确答案】 damage 5 【正确答案】 local 6 【正确答案】 adjusted 7 【正确答案】 ecological 8 【正确答案】 deprives 9 【正确答案】 closer 10 【正确答案】 above SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that foll
40、ow. 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 【听力原文】 Terry: Well what have we got this morning? The first thing I think is to complete the voice-over for that cu
41、tlery commercial. Joyce: No. Im afraid you are mistaken. Instead of completing that. erm. Weve got to come up with a selling idea for those kitchens. Remember? The boss will be wanting to see us after lunch. and hell be expecting it all to be more or less tied up. parcel-like. Terry: Wouldnt it be b
42、etter to finish one job before beginning another? The boss will understand surely. Joyce: Forgive me Terry if I keep correcting you. but remember there are deadlines. And when theres a deadline the boss is as immovable as a barnacle. Terry: So well have to come up with the parcel. Any ideas? Joyce:
43、Absolutely none. And nay usually grasshopper brain is not at its come-up-with-the-ideas best this morning. Let s have a look at the details. Terry: Well. whatever its like weve got to make it a dream. Gleaming perfection. slick. everything fitted-fitted is a key word isnt it-Everything to avoid the
44、impression of the inevitable mess that kitchens actually get in. Joyce: How clear it is, Mr. Hancock, that you are new to the admans business. Im afraid you are on the wrong track. There you are making decisions already. Gatsbying about the office. thinking already that the key works to this ad are
45、going to be. what. “timeless, sophisticated beauty“ .“ the haute couture of haute cuisine“ . and youve forgotten the admans first rule. Terry: Which is? Joyce: Hard deskwork, getting to know the facts. Youve got to knead the dough before you can ice the cake. Mm. Now draw up a pew, will you? And wel
46、l look at the ingredients. Terry: What makes this kitchen different from any other? Joyce: Now thats a leading question. Mm. Here are some photos. What do you notice? Terry: Theyre all different. the photos I mean. In fact its different from all the other kitchens on the market-that theyre all fixed
47、 arent they? And this is all. well. non-fixed. Joyce: All the various units can be moved about. Now thats sensible. Because there are times. Terry: . there are times arent there when for example you need the chopping-board near the sink. and other times when you need it near the cooker. and. Joyce:
48、So you do know something about kitchens. Terry: Not kitchens exactly. But. cooking. yes. I do some cooking occasionally. Joyce: I Good for you. The nearest I get to it is jig-sawing tins open and tossing the odd frozen meal into the oven. Perhaps thats what most women now want a kitchen for. simple,
49、 function, made to accommodate the haute cuisine of the deep-freezer. Terry: No. Im sure you are wrong. Most practical women of the house want a kitchen to be. er. flexible. er. like kitchen used to be. Joyce: Well, theres one flexible thing at least about this kitchen. What shall we call it? Mobility of units? Anyway the i
