1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 656 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 On the Origin of Body Language The Origin of Body Language has a lot to do with the emotions. The emotio
3、ns are a hot topic of the 1990s. As we all know, social relationships are lubricated, glued together and【 1】 _ by the emotions. 【 1】 _ But how to express or develop emotions efficiently? Lets turn to Charles Darwins 1872 classic The Expression of the Emotions for answer. According to Darwin, emotion
4、s are expressed not【 2】 _but 【 2】 _ in body language. Darwin summed up three principles governing emotional expression. The first one refers to some emotions that are expressed in a way that i posturally appropriate for the related【 3】 _. Darwin called these 【 3】 _ expressions “serviceable associate
5、d habits,“ and they are the easiest to understand. His second principle is【 4】 _, which refers to some 【 4】 _ emotions that appear to be expressed by a【 5】 _opposite to that 【 5】 _ of the opposite emotion, this third principle, which has never found many supporters, is called the direct action of th
6、e【 6】 _system trod it 【 6】 _ is used to explain, for instance, trembling as an expression of fear. Even before Darwin, some social and political theorists of the 18th century already held the general idea that emotional expression is unique to【 7】 _. They supposed that the Creator had installed blus
7、hing 【 7】 _ in humans to【 8】 _antisocial behavior and make social life possible.【 8】 _ Darwins original intention to write the book is to demonstrate the continuity of emotional expression between humans and many other 【 9】 _. But as his project grew it took on new dimensions, and 【 9】 _ he finally
8、finished his book that was【 10】 _around his three 【 10】 _ principles of emotional expression but not the question of evolutionary continuity. 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 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. Li
9、sten 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 According to the conversation, which of the following stateme
10、nts is INCORRECT? （ A） The talk serves as a part of selecting applicants. （ B） The time limit of the talk is twenty minutes. （ C） The applicant prefers a free topic to a given one. （ D） The applicant is free to use overhead projector. 12 The following are important to a talk EXCEPT （ A） choosing a s
11、uitable topic. （ B） being passionate and interested. （ C） being familiar with the contents. （ D） writing the scripts on cards. 13 Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a matter to pay attention to during a talk? （ A） Clear expression. （ B） Frequent interaction. （ C） Appropriate pace. （ D） Good
12、intonation. 14 According to the conversation, the main benefit of the overhead projector is that （ A） it produces a visual effect and makes the talk more dynamic. （ B） it makes the talk well delivered and more attractive to the audience. （ C） it helps the audience build their confidence and get invo
13、lved in the talk. （ D） it helps the speaker get more chance of being employed. 15 According to the conversation, a good talk can be summarized as （ A） well arranged structures plus clear and enjoyable talking. （ B） a good start and a clear conclusion plus a detailed script. （ C） a long time explanat
14、ion plus indulged audiences. （ D） a speech full of various anecdotes and analogies. 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 answe
15、r the questions. 15 The American space shuttle Endeavour has lifted off for the International Space Station on its【 N1】 _. The space shuttle Endeavour【 N2】 _ into the bright morning sky as a cheer went up across the Kennedy Space Center. An estimated half a million people lined the beaches, roads an
16、d bridges across Floridas space coast to catch one final glimpse of the【 N3】 _. 16 【 N1】 17 【 N2】 18 【 N3】 18 “Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one,“ wrote Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the search firms founders, in a letter to investors ahead of its stock market flotat
17、ion in 2004. Since then, Google has burnished its reputation as one of the quirkiest companies on the planet. This year alone it has raised eyebrows by taking a stake in a wind-energy project off the east coast of America and by testing self-driving cars, which have already covered over 140,000 mile
18、s (225,000km) on the countrys roads. Google has been able to afford such flights of fancy thanks to its amazingly successful online-search business. This has produced handsome returns for the firms investors, who have seen the company transform itself in the space of a mere 12 years from a tiny star
19、t-up into a behemoth with a $180 billion market capitalization that sprawls across a vast headquarters in Silicon Valley known as the Googolplex. Google also stretches across the web like a giant spider, with a leg in everything from online search and e-mail to social networking and web-based softwa
20、re applications, or apps. Much of its growth has been organic, but Google has also splashed out on some sizeable acquisitions. In 2006 it paid $1. 7 billion for You Tube, a website that lets people post videos of their children, kittens and Lady Gaga impersonations. The following year it snapped up
21、Double-Click, an online-advertising network, for $ 3. 1 billion. More deals are likely. Google is bidding for Group on, a trendy e-commerce business, using some of the $ 33 billion sitting in its coffers. All this has turned Google into a force to be reckoned with. But now the champion of the unorth
22、odox is faced with two conventional business challenges. The first involves placating regulators, who fret that it may be abusing its considerable power. On November 30th the European Union announced a formal investigation into claims that Google has been manipulating search results to give an unfai
23、r advantage to its own servicesa charge the firm vigorously denies. In America, Google faces a similar investigation in Texas and is also battling with a bunch of online-travel companies who have been lobbying the government to veto its recent purchase of ITA Software, a company that provides data a
24、bout flights. The other challenge facing Google is how to find new sources of growth. In spite of all the experiments it has launched, the firm is still heavily dependent on search related advertising. Last year this accounted for almost all of its $ 24 billion of revenue and $ 6. 5 billion of profi
25、t. Acquisitions such as You Tube have deepened rather than reduced the firms dependence on advertising. Steve Ballmer, the boss of Googles arch-rival Microsoft, has derided the search company for being “a one trick pony“. Ironically, investors biggest worry is that Google will end up like Microsoft,
26、 which has failed to find big new sources of revenue and profit to replace those from its two ageing ponies, the Windows operating system and the Office suite of business software. That explains why Googles share price has stagnated. “The market seems to believe this could be like Microsoft version
27、two,“ says Mark Mahoney, an analyst at Citigroup. News of the formal EU antitrust enquiry will no doubt invite further comparisons with Mr. Ballmers firm, which fought a long and bruising battle with European regulators. Is such a comparison fair? Those who think it is point to several changes that
28、could damage Google. The first is the rise of new ways in which people can find information online. They include social networks such as Facebook, which saw traffic to its site in America surpass that to Googles sites earlier this year, and apps offered by Apple and other firms that help people find
29、 information without using a web browser. 19 The authors attitude towards Googles unconventionality is （ A） disapproval. （ B） approval. （ C） neutral. （ D） ambiguous. 20 The word “behemoth“ in the second paragraph probably means （ A） colossus. （ B） corporation. （ C） pioneer. （ D） leader. 21 Google di
30、d all the following EXCEPT （ A） acquiring different companies. （ B） developing software applications. （ C） actively probing into new industries. （ D） setting foot in various Internet areas. 22 The future of Google is expected to be （ A） bleak. （ B） promising. （ C） uncertain. （ D） unknown. 23 Which i
31、s the best title of the passage? （ A） The Prosperity of Giant Google （ B） The Tough Days of Giant Google （ C） How Is Google Different from Others? （ D） How Long Will Googles Magic Last? 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose
32、 the best answer to each question. 24 William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following EXCEPT （ A） normal contemporary speech patterns. （ B） humble and rustic life as subject matter. （ C） elegant wording and inflated figures of speech. （ D） intensely subjective feeling toward indi
33、vidual experience. 25 The average life expectancy of the Red Indians is_. （ A） higher than the national average （ B） lower than the national average （ C） about the same as the national average （ D） none of the above 26 _ is not the Romantic poet of Britain. （ A） William Wordsworth （ B） George Gordon
34、 Byron （ C） Percy Bysshe Shelly （ D） Alfred Tennyson 27 _, who were French-speaking, achieved the final unification of England. （ A） Normans （ B） Anglo-axons （ C） Danes （ D） Celts 28 _is a study of how speakers oif a language use sentences to effect successful communication. （ A） Pragmatics （ B） Sem
35、antics （ C） Syntax （ D） Etymology 29 The official residence of the_is at number 10 Downing Street, London. （ A） British Prime Minister （ B） British Prince （ C） British Queen （ D） British Duke 30 Rip Van Winkle is written by _. （ A） Washington Irving （ B） Henry David Thoreau （ C） Ralph Waldo Emerson
36、（ D） James Fenimore Cooper 31 _ is not one of Mark Twains works. （ A） The Adventures of Tom Sawyer （ B） The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn （ C） Life on the Mississippi （ D） The Portrait of a Lady 32 W. H. Auden was a_. （ A） playwright （ B） critic （ C） poet （ D） novelist 33 Who wrote Mrs. Warrens Pro
37、fession! （ A） John Galsworthy. （ B） William Butler Yeats. （ C） T. S. Eliot. （ D） George Bernard Shaw. 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING but it is important to realize that this ability, on its own, does not necessarily indicate any special intelligence in the creature concerning. 【 M10】 _ 34 【 M1】 35 【 M2】 36
38、 【 M3】 37 【 M4】 38 【 M5】 39 【 M6】 40 【 M7】 41 【 M8】 42 【 M9】 43 【 M10】 SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH Directions: Translate the following text into English. 44 我一直以为大学校长是高瞻远瞩、指导学术与教育大方向的决策人，而不是管馒头稀饭的保姆，但这也暂且不提。这一类型的教育者的用心，毋庸置疑，当然是善意的。问题是，我们论 “事 ”的时候，用心如何根本不重要，重要的是实际的后果，而教育的后果何其严重 !在这种过度呵 护的幼稚教育下成长的大学生
39、，遇事时，除了 “泪眼汪汪 ”之外又能做些什么呢 ? 教育者或许会说：这些学生如果进大学以前，就已经学好自治自律的话，我就不必要如此提之携之，喂之哺之；就是因为基础教育没教好，所以我办大学的人不得不教。虽然是亡羊补牢，总比不教好。 SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese. 45 The central question is whether we have allowed a culture to develop that disables people for the
40、 challenges of marriage. Social emphasis on selfishness and self-centeredness, and the achievement-oriented ethic of our business world encourage us to put family in second place. Marriage often represents the transition from such a world of selfishness to a world of giving. Family life is the norma
41、l context in which we can learn that a life tilled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions. But instead of preparing young people to learn this lesson, often we actually seem to be preparing them more for divorce than for marriag
42、e. Largely ignorant of the mysteries of giving, too many people enter marriage with high expectations of direct personal satisfaction, only to find themselves inevitably disappointed. 三、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 46 Write an e
43、ssay of about 400 words, commenting and expressing your views on the following topic: THE ONLY THING PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN TODAY IS EARNING MORE MONEY 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 ap
44、propriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FO
45、UR. 专业英语八级模拟试卷 656 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-lect
46、ure. 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 【听力原文】 On the Origin of Body Language Hello, everybody. Todays lecture will focus on “the Origin of B
47、ody Language“, which is related to the emotions of man. The emotions are a hot topic of the 1990s. They are the most conspicuous difference between the software of our brains and that of computer, creating a puzzle for artificial-intelligence theorists of what a computer would gain if it had emotion
48、s as well as a rational calculating ability. The emotional centers of the brain can be almost missing in some brain-damaged patients, creating a puzzle for neuropsychiatrists of what is wrong with these superficially normal people. And social relationships are lubricated, glued together and dissolve
49、d by the emotions, creating a puzzle for many of us of how to deploy them efficiently. What does Charles Darwins 1872 classic The Expression of the Emotions have to offer here? One answer is that emotions are expressed not verbally but in body (and particularly facial) language. You can tell someone is angry, for example, fromin Darwins words“ the body be
