1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 650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 How to Write a Book Review . The definition of a book review A. a descriptive and critical or evaluative
3、account of a book B. a summary of content and an analysis of structure . Two approaches to book reviewing A. the descriptive review giving the essential 【 1】 _ about a book 【 1】 _ B. the critical review describing and evaluating the book . Basic requirements and minimum essentials A. Knowledge of th
4、e book 【 2】 _ 【 2】 _ B. Mastery of the genre in the work C. Description, not a summary of the book D. Something about, not a biography of, the author E. 【 3】 _ appraisal 【 3】 _ . Five preliminary mechanical steps A Reading the book 【 4】 _ 【 4】 _ B. Noting effective passages for quoting C. Noting you
5、r impressions as you read D. 【 5】 _ what you have read 【 5】 _ E. Aiming at achieving a single impression . Starting the outline A. Getting an over-all grasp of the organization B. Determining the central point to be made C. Eliminating 【 6】 _ or irrelevancies 【 6】 _ D. Filling in gaps or omissions .
6、 Making the draft A. The opening paragraph in a position of emphasis, and setting the 【 7】 _ of the paper 【 7】 _ B. The main body being 【 8】 _ organized by the outline 【 8】 _ logical development of the central point C. The concluding paragraph summing up or 【 9】 _ 【 9】 _ making the final judgment in
7、troducing no new ideas . 【 10】 _ the draft 【 10】 _ A. Correcting all mistakes in grammar and punctuation B. Looking for unity, organization and logical development C. Verifying quotations for accuracy and checking the references 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10 【 10】
8、 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 questions. Now li
9、sten to the interview. 11 What does the example of Czech speakers show? （ A） Its natural for language learners to make errors. （ B） Differences between languages cause difficulty. （ C） Difficulty stems from either difference or similarity. （ D） There exist differences between English and Czech. SECT
10、ION 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. 12 Whats the effect of the US slowdown? （ A） Cutting into demand for No
11、kias handsets. （ B） Promote other economies. （ C） Many firms break down. （ D） Many handsets dont sell. 13 So far, how many percent of sales growth this quarter? （ A） 20%. （ B） 10%. （ C） 40%. （ D） 80%. 14 Why has the rate of new phone purchases slowed in Europe? （ A） Because of the warning about sale
12、s （ B） Because the customers are reluctant to trade up to new handsets （ C） Because of cutting into demand for handsets （ D） Because of the U.S slowdown 14 The first school I went to was a red-brick building on the edge of the town, in the district of Georgetown. We had a splendid teacher and he tau
13、ght us, about sixty small boys, for the four years I was in the school, between the ages of seven and eleven. He was not only fond of words himself, but he could use them to tell jokes, to sing aloud, to explain things so vividly to us that we could see, almost, what he described. And he educated ou
14、r senses, too, he made us look at everything so firmly, to know the textures of things with our skins, to hear the particular noises that exist in the world all around us. So real were our experiences that we began to look for the words necessary to recreate those experiences. That is how I began to
15、 write poetry. I cant say that poetry was my greatest enthusiasm at that time. I loved football most of all, and after that boxing. I would travel miles just to kick a football. I knew all the great boxers of our town. When I was about ten years old I saw the fight I wrote about in The Ballad of Bil
16、ly Rose. And years later, in Bristol, I saw the same man, old now, and very frail. His name, however, was really Tommy Rose, and in the first version of my poem I called him that. When I finished it, I read it aloud, and I knew that something was wrong. I was forced to change it to Billy, so that th
17、e balance was right, so that there was a satisfying correspondence between the word “ballad“ and the word “Billy“. Much the same thing happened when I wrote about his last great fight. I wanted my readers to hear for themselves the sounds of the fight, and how the words which end in “s“ are really t
18、he shoes of the boxers as they slither on the resin. What Im saying is that in my poems I try not so much to describe things as actually to make them, with words. My friend Ted Walker, a very fine poet himself, and I, used to set each other weekly poetry writing challenges, he choosing a title one w
19、eek and I the next. In this way I came to write Gardening Gloves. The poem is an example of how necessary it is for the poet to observe well, so that an old pair of gloves can reveal all that there is to know about them, and for imagination to begin to build a little world around them. Poetry is a c
20、raft as well as an art. We owe very great responsibility to the poems if we do not write well enough the poem fails. Like any other craft, although some people are more naturally gifted than others, we can all learn the skills. I learned by reading the work of other poets. I read everything, good po
21、ems, bad poems, learning as I read. I was very fond of funny poems, and that was valuable for me since, to be successful, funny poems have to be extremely well made. But as I grew more experienced and severe, as my taste developed, I needed better examples. I found them in the work of Edward Thomas,
22、 a poet who was killed in the First World War. From him l learned how to write quietly and simply, without, I hope, losing any strength or true complexity of thought I might possess. A Glass Window is in part my tribute to this man, dead years before I was born, who, among many others, taught me wha
23、t poetry can be, how to listen to it. How to write it. 15 One of the strengths of the authors teacher was that he taught his pupils to _. （ A） observe the world in detail （ B） express their feelings in poetry （ C） explain things vividly （ D） create imaginary worlds 16 What is implied about the poem
24、Gardening Gloves? （ A） Gloves is an unusual subject for a poem. （ B） It is less interesting than his other works. （ C） It overstretched his imagination. （ D） It was particularly difficult to write. 17 From the passage we can gather that the authors approach to poetry _. （ A） has changed to reflect t
25、he times in which he has lived （ B） has benefited from the reactions of others to his work （ C） is still in tune with what he was taught at school （ D） is heavily influenced by the landscape where he grew up 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions i
26、n this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 18 The Eisteddfod is a(n)_festival of poetry, music and other arts. （ A） English （ B） Scottish （ C） Welsh （ D） Irish 19 The three elements of the federal government include the following except_. （ A） Executive (the President) （ B） Legislature
27、 (the Congress) （ C） Judicial (the Supreme Court) （ D） State government 20 Which of the following item does NOT belong to the allomorphs of the morpheme -ed? （ A） /-t/. （ B） /-d/. （ C） /-rd/. （ D） /-rt/. 21 _is considered as the forerunner of using the “stream of consciousness“ and his writing techn
28、iques include symbolism. （ A） Bernard Shaw （ B） William Butler Yeats （ C） James Joyce （ D） David Herbert Lawrence 22 “Daddy“ and “Father“ are_synonyms. （ A） dialectal （ B） stylistic （ C） emotive （ D） semantically different 23 Which of the following works is NOT written by Arthur Miller? （ A） Howl. （
29、 B） All My Sons. （ C） Death of a Salesman. （ D） The Crucible. 24 Buckingham Palace is _ s present London home. （ A） parliament （ B） churchmen （ C） monarch （ D） the prime minister 25 Which of the following exposed the evils of the meatpacking industry? （ A） The Jungle （ B） The Octopus （ C） The Histor
30、y of the Standard Oil Company （ D） The Shame of the Cities. 26 There are some_universities in the United Kingdom, including the Open University. （ A） 75 （ B） 80 （ C） 85 （ D） 95 27 The United States bought Louisiana from_ （ A） France （ B） Spain （ C） Britain （ D） Mexico 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING and her
31、e the rules that operate for primates【 M3】 _ also hold for all other species too. The higher primates are special because .【 M4】_ they have a propensity to be social rather than solitary. Differences in environmental conditions therefore tend to determine the way in which they are social rather than
32、 whether they are social. The reason the higher primates tend to be social animals is that group life offers the opportunity【 M5】 _ for prolonged learning during childhood and learning is a pastime to which【 M6】_ primates engage far more .than any animal. Learning is a pastime with a【 M7】 _ purpose,
33、 however, namely to equip individuals with more effective knowledge of the environment in which it must survive. Greater 【 M8】 _ knowledge implies a greater chance of survival, which is that evolution is【 M9】 _ all about. A period of childhood education implies dependency on an adult, and this turns
34、 out to meaning that, without exception, the basis of all primate【 M10】 _ social groups is the bond between mother and infant. 28 【 M1】 29 【 M2】 30 【 M3】 31 【 M4】 32 【 M5】 33 【 M6】 34 【 M7】 35 【 M8】 36 【 M9】 37 【 M10】 SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH Directions: Translate the following text into English
35、. 38 长江三角洲位于我国东海之滨，万里长江尾闾。她西起南京、镇江，东临大海，北至通扬运河，南到杭州湾，面积 35,267平方公里，是世界著名的大河三角洲之一。 她具有以下几个特点：地理位置优越，是沟通内陆腹地的交通中心，并处于世界环球航线附近，与世界各大港口通航方便。自然条件优越，雨量充沛，温和湿润，适宜农耕和各种经济作物的种植以及多种经营的发展。水土资源条件优越。长江三角洲经历了复杂的海路沧桑之变。年长日久，一个个出露水面的沙岛继而合并而成。长江三角洲不仅有源源不断的长 江水，而且镶嵌着一颗熠熠闪光的陆上明珠 太湖。太湖面积三万六千顷，是我国五大淡水湖之一。 以太湖为中心，还有大小湖泊五
36、十多个 ”，这些星罗棋布的湖泊，就像一把珍珠洒落在绿色的沃野上，使整个三角洲水土丰美，得天独厚，成为世界上不可多得的精粹之地。 SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese. 39 I used to find notes left in the collection basket, beautiful notes about my homilies and about the writers thoughts on the daily scriptural readings
37、. The person who penned the notes would add reflections to my thoughts and would always include some quotes from poets and mystics he or she had read and remembered and loved. The notes fascinated me. Here was someone immersed in a search for truth and beauty. Words had been treasured, words that we
38、re beautiful. And I felt as if the words somehow delighted in being discovered, for they were obviously very generous to the as yet anonymous writer of the notes. And now this person was in turn learning the secret of sharing them. Beauty so shines when given away. The only truth that exists is, in
39、that sense, free. 三、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 40 In recent years, more and more college students have been working in their spare time. Some people think it affects students study; also many argue that it can improve their co
40、mpetence. Whats your opinion? Write an essay of about 400 words on the topic. You should 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 p
41、art 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 650答案与解析 SECT
42、ION 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
43、, 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 to Write a Book Review Good morning, todays lecture is about how to write a book review. First of all, let me explain t
44、o you what a book review is. A book review is a descriptive and critical or evaluative account of a book. Like the book report, it provides a summary of content and an analysis of structure, yet you will also assess the value of a book and recommend the book to other readers. There are two approache
45、s to book reviewing: the descriptive and the critical.A descriptive review is one in which the writer, without over-enthusiasm or exaggeration, gives the essential information about a book. This is done by description and exposition, by stating the perceived aims and purposes of the author, and by q
46、uoting striking passages from the text. A critical review is one in which the writer describes and evaluates the book, in terms of accepted literary and historical standards, and supports this evaluation with evidence from the text. The following pointers are meant to be suggestions for writing a cr
47、itical review. Firstly, basic requirements. Simply stated, the reviewer must know two things in order to write a critical review:the work being reviewed and the requirements of the genre to which the work belongs, such as novel, short story, biography, poetry, etc. Knowledge of the work demands not
48、only an attempt to understand what the authors purpose is and how the component parts of the work contribute to that purpose, but also some knowledge of the author. And knowledge of the genre means understanding the art form and how it functions. Then, after that we come to what are the minimum esse
49、ntials of a book review. First is the description of the book, not a summary. Sufficient description should be given so that the reader, as he reads the review, will have some understanding of the authors thoughts. This account of the contents of a book can often be woven into the critical remarks. Second, something about the
