1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 648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 To see how big carriers could control the online world, you must understand its structures. Earthlink giv
3、es Jennifer access to the Internet, much in the way than an onramp puts a driver on the national highway system. Earthlink is a local internet service provider, and it will send the【 1】 to an Internet “【 2】 provider“, to route it along its way. These Internet players typically own and lease long-hau
4、l fiber-optic cables spanning a large region. They also own the communications gear that directs【 3】 over the Internet. They connect to each other to exchange data between their customers, like the highway system over which most of the freight of the Internet travels to reach its【 4】 . Now, instead
5、of the National Science Foundation, there are many of them that-link together to provide the global【 5】 , that is the Internet. The problem was, as the Internet grew, the public points became overburdened and traffic showed at these bottlenecks. So they started making arrangements with each other. A
6、nd they arent changing peers now,but there is a lot of discussion about whether they should. And the industry has not figured out how to【 6】 who owes what to whom if fees should be changed. Since the Internet was【 7】 , it has grown by leaps and bounds into a remarkably successful communications medi
7、um without government【 8】 -and most want to stay that way. But the Internet has matured to a point that more uniform rules are needed to【 9】 competition. Those who can afford to pay the price can become peers. Peering would be determined by the【 10】 rather than by a private company with its own comp
8、etitive interests. 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 to answer each of the following five
9、 questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 What subject is Mr. Pitt good at? （ A） Art. （ B） French. （ C） German. （ D） Chemistry. 12 What does Mr. Pitt NOT do in his spare time? （ A） Doing a bit of acting and photography. （ B） Going to concerts frequently. （ C） Playing traditional jazz and folk musi
10、c （ D） Traveling in Europe by hitch-hiking. 13 When asked what a manager s role is, Mr. Pitt sounds _. （ A） confident （ B） hesitant （ C） resolute （ D） doubtful 14 What does Mr. Pitt say he would like to be? （ A） An export salesman working overseas. （ B） An accountant working in the company. （ C） A p
11、roduction manager in a branch. （ D） A policy maker in the company. 15 Which of the following statements about the management trainee scheme is TRUE? （ A） Trainees axe required to sign contracts initially. （ B） Trainees performance is evaluated when necessary. （ C） Trainees starting salary is 870 pou
12、nds. （ D） Trainees cannot quit the management scheme. 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 Which of t
13、he following is mentioned as the governments measure to control inflation? （ A） Foreign investment. （ B） Donor support. （ C） Price control. （ D） Bank prediction. 17 According to Kingdom Bank, what is the current inflation rate in Zimbabwe? （ A） 20 million percent. （ B） 2. 2 million percent. （ C） 11.
14、2 million percent. （ D） Over 11.2 million percent. 17 The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photographs fidelity to appearances and dependence on a machine allowed it to be a fine art as distinct from merely a practical art. Throughout the
15、nineteenth century, the defence of photography was identical with the struggle to establish it as a fine art. Against the charge that photography was a soulless, mechanical copying of reality, photographers asserted that it was instead a privileged way of seeing, a revolt against commonplace vision,
16、 and no less worthy an art than painting. Ironically, now that photography is securely established as a fine art, many photographers find it pretentious or irrelevant to label it as such. Serious photographers variously claim to be finding, recording, impartially observing, witnessing events, explor
17、ing themselves - anything but making works of art. They are no longer willing to debate whether photography is or is not a fine art, except to proclaim that their own work is not involved with art. It shows the extent to which they simply take for granted the concept of art imposed by the triumph of
18、 Modernism: the better the art, the more subversive it is of the traditional aims of art. Photographers disclaimers of any interest in making art tell us more about the harried status of the contemporary notion of art than about whether photography is or is not art. For example, those photographers
19、who suppose that, by taking pictures, they are getting away from the pretensions of art as exemplified by painting remind us of those Abstract Expressionist painters who imagined they were getting away from the intellectual austerity of classical Modernist painting by concentrating on the physical a
20、ct of painting. Much of photographys prestige today derives from the convergence of its aims with those of recent art, particularly with the dismissal of abstract art implicit in the phenomenon of Pop painting during the 1960s. Appreciating photographs is a relief to sensibilities tired of the menta
21、l exertions demanded by abstract art. Classical Modernist painting - that is, abstract art as developed in different ways by Picasso, Kandinsky, and Matisse - pre- supposes highly developed skills of locking and a familiarity with other paintings and the history of art. Photography, like Pop paintin
22、g, reassures viewers that art is not hard; photography seems to be more about its subjects than abut art. Photography, however, has developed all the anxieties and self-consciousness of a classic Medernist art. Many professionals privately have begun to worry that the promotion of photography as an
23、activity subversive of the traditional pretensions of art has gone so far that the public will forget that photography is a distinctive and exalted activity - in short, an art. 18 The author is concerned with _. （ A） defining the Modernist attitude toward art （ B） explaining how photography emerged
24、as a fine art （ C） explaining the attitude of serious contemporary photographers toward photography as art and placing those attitudes in their historical context （ D） defining the various approaches that serious contemporary photographers take toward their art and assessing the value of each of tho
25、se approaches 19 Which of the following adjectives best describes “the concept of art imposed by the triumph of Modernism“ as the author represents it in paragraph 2? （ A） Objective. （ B） Mechanical. （ C） Superficial. （ D） Paradoxical. 20 Why does the author introduce Abstract Expressionist painter?
26、 （ A） He wants to provide an example of artists who, like serious contemporary photographers, disavowed traditionally accepted aims of modem art. （ B） He wants to set forth an analogy between the Abstract Expressionist painters and classical Modernist painters. （ C） He wants to provide a contrast to
27、 Pop artist and others. （ D） He wants to provide an explanation of why serious photography, like other contemporary visual forms, is not and should not pretend to be an art. 21 How did the nineteenth-century defenders of photography stress the photography? （ A） They stressed photography was a means
28、of making people happy. （ B） It was art for recording the world. （ C） It was a device for observing the world impartially. （ D） It was an art comparable to painting. 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to
29、each question. 22 Grand Canyon, one of the great natural wonders of the world, is located in_. （ A） Wisconsin （ B） Tennessee （ C） Arizona （ D） Colorado 23 _is regarded by American as “the Father of the Country“. （ A） Jefferson （ B） Franklin （ C） Adams （ D） Washington 24 Starting from the pre-linguis
30、tic cooing and babbling stage, children move through the _stages, gradually acquiring all the elements and skills of language. （ A） one-word, two-word and three-word （ B） one-word, two-word and multiword （ C） one-word, multiword and sentence （ D） one-word, two-word, three-word and multiword 25 From
31、the first novel Sister-Carrie on, _ set himself to project the American values for what he had found them to be materialistic to the core. （ A） Theodore Dreiser （ B） Ernest Hemingway （ C） John Steinbeck （ D） James Baldwin 26 It is taken as a great contribution made by _ that languages in the world a
32、re classified into different language families according to their genetic relations. （ A） modern linguists （ B） traditional grammarians （ C） sociolinguists （ D） historical linguists 27 Which of the following exposed the evils of the meatpacking industry? （ A） The Jungle （ B） The Octopus （ C） The His
33、tory of the Standard Oil Company （ D） The Shame of the Cities. 28 _is regarded as the most English of all games. （ A） football （ B） rugby （ C） basketball （ D） cricket 30 _are bound morphemes because they cannot be used as separate words. （ A） Roots （ B） Stems （ C） Affixes （ D） Compounds 31 linguists
34、 give priority to the spoken language not the written language because _. （ A） vocal sounds are derived from writing systems （ B） speech precedes writing everywhere in the world （ C） we have recording devices to study speech （ D） spoken language precedes written language only in Indo - European lang
35、uages 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING the right half works on pictures, patterns and forms. We need both halves working together. The better the connections, the more harmonious the two halves work. And, 【 M7】 _ according to research findings, women have the better connections. In the schools throughout the
36、 world girls tend to be better than boys 【 M8】 _ in “language subjects“ and boys better at math and physics. We 【 M9】 _ shall t know for a while, partly because we don t know of any precise relationship between abilities in school subjects and the functioning of the two halves of the brain, and we c
37、annot understand how the two halves interact via the corpus callosum. But this striking difference must have some effect and, because the difference is in the parts of the brain involving in intellect, 【 M10】 _ We should be looking for differences in intellectual processing. 32 【 M1】 33 【 M2】 34 【 M
38、3】 35 【 M4】 36 【 M5】 37 【 M6】 38 【 M7】 39 【 M8】 40 【 M9】 41 【 M10】 SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH Directions: Translate the following text into English. 42 第一个人说：活得 太累了。没完没了的解释，无休无止的小心，成年累月为别人活着。为人子、为人夫、为人父、为人同事、为人哥儿们、为人 “喽喽 ”、为人“头头 ”。看别人的脸色，讨别人的喜欢，避别人的忌讳，给别人以好感。 “摇旗呐喊，插科打诨， ”不想笑要笑，哭不出来要哭 累了，太累了。第二个人说
39、：活腻味了。爱过了，恨过了，哭过了，乐过了，苦过了。金银财宝，身外之物。功名利禄，过眼云烟，。第三个人说：怎么能这样对待生活 !同志们，振兴中华，匹夫有责，开放改革，重担就落在你、我、他身上。 SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese. 43 The writers conference is a peculiarly American institution, combining an ethic of self-reliance and self-improvemen
40、t with the sunny conviction that all things worth having can be bought or taught. Writers conferences, like the M. F.A. programs and other writing courses that have spread in American universities since the middle of the 20th century there are now upwards of two hundred and fifty of them are predica
41、ted on the principle that the ability to write does not depend solely upon God-given talent but can be acquired. The price of a Bread Loaf education is eighteen hundred dollars for tuition and room and board, though about a third of the students receive scholarships. The most celebrated writers prog
42、ram in the country, the Iowa Writers Workshop, established the industrys ruling metaphor, which is that writing is something like wood-working: you put on your apron, roll up your sleeves, and practice your craft. Iowa has also helped popularize an unfortunate neologism, “workshop“ as a transitive v
43、erb, the use of which is endemic to a place like Bread Loaf (for example, the sentence “My writers group workshopped the hell out of this poem, but I still have to resolve some enjambment issues“.) 三、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic.
44、 44 Nowadays, there is a new trend among college students. Many of them have moved out to live outside the campus, some for love, and some for the convenience of life or study. They want to live alone and always declare that they need their own room. Should the students live in the dormitory or live
45、 alone? Whats your opinion about th_is? Write an article of about 400 words on this and supply a title for your article. In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details, in the last pa
46、rt you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or 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. Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR. 专业英语八级模拟试卷 648答案与解析 SECTI
47、ON 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. When the lecture is over,
48、 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】 How The Internet Works To see how big carriers could control the online world, you must understand its structure. When Jenni
49、fer, who lives in Pasadena, Calif. , wants to send an E - mail message from her home computer to her mother in Washington, D. C. , she uses a local Internet service provider (ISP) such as Earthlink Network Inc. (EINK). Earthlink gives Jennifer access to the Internet, much in the way that an onramp puts a driver on the national highway system. After Jennifers computer makes a local telephone call to Earthlink local bank of modems, Jennifer types in her E-mail message and
