1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 695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 Blog Culture The topic today is about the newly appearing phenomenon of (1)_. The most significant revolu
3、tions of the last twenty years have had something to do with writing: email, webpages, blogs, etc. All this reflects a trend that communication has shifted towards words on a screen. Firstly, what is a blog? Generally speaking, its an online journal comprised of links and postings in reverse chronol
4、ogical order. Blogs cover (2)_topics: commentaries, personal musings, political tracts, updated information, etc. However, a significant number of prominent bloggers have not enabled the comment feature. The most common(3)_of blogs tends to be its voice: blogs are written human passion. There are ei
5、ght prominent features of bloggers: willingness to share their thoughts and experiences with others; helping each other a lot; global, reading international sources and wanting to meet other people; using (4)_; getting so much used to providing feedback themselves; showing a need for (5)_; investing
6、 so much time in their blogs; representing the culture of speed. investing so much time in their blogs; representing the culture of speed. Finally, the (6)_of personal blogs is discussed, and the advantages as well as disadvantages to the society will be mentioned. The advantages of blogs include: s
7、haring knowledge and information with others; being a positive way of (7)_; showing talents and expertise of the writer; better informing the society and authorities concerned. The disadvantages of blogs are: most people dont have (8)_, or are unable to write in a compelling manner; real expertise l
8、aying hidden, and readers can only get (9)_information; easy to start and hard to maintain; they are used as powerful weapons to attack others, and our legal system may be (10)_. SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the
9、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 interview, what happened since Mary Ann were 100? （ A） She had a blimp ride. （
10、B） She had a horse ride. （ C） She touched the Hollywood sign. （ D） She stayed at home. 12 Where was Mary Ann born? （ A） In a small village. （ B） North of Chicago. （ C） In Washington. （ D） In Hawaii. 13 What does she want to do for her 106th? （ A） She wants to meet pop singer. （ B） She wants to meet
11、a superstar. （ C） She wants to see a movie star. （ D） She wants to see a movie. 14 According to the interview, which of the following is not true? （ A） The older she got the more comfortable she was with herself. （ B） As she got older she no longer ran sacred anymore. （ C） Now, a lot of people think
12、 that part of aging is that they dont get to do the things that they could do, they become inactive, they sit around and watch television. （ D） When they are getting older they can go out and have fun. 15 From the interview, we can know what is the most important when you are getting old? （ A） Healt
13、h. （ B） Possessions. （ C） Attitude towards aging. （ D） Daily life. 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.
14、16 Before entering the Florida Key West, Hurricane Dennis has caused damage in _. （ A） Mexico （ B） Haiti （ C） Cuba （ D） Columbia 17 According to the forecast, Hurricane Dennis will get stronger as it passes through _. （ A） Florida （ B） Cuba （ C） Louisiana （ D） the Gulf of Mexico 17 A Nice Place to V
15、isit Having heard that Toronto was becoming one of the continents noblest cities, we flew from New York to investigate. New Yorkers proud of their citys reputation and concerned about challenges to its stature have little to worry about. After three days in residence, our delegation noted an absence
16、 of shrieking police and fire sirens at 3 A.M. or any other hour, for that matter. We spoke to the city authorities about this. What kind of city was it, we asked, that expected its citizens to sleep all night and rise refreshed in the morning? Where was the incentive to awaken gummy-eyed and exhaus
17、ted, ready to scream at the first person one saw m the morning? How could Toronto possibly hope to maintain a robust urban divorce rate? Our criticism went unheeded, such is the torpor with which Toronto pursues true urbanity. The fact appears to be that Toronto has very little grasp of what is requ
18、ired of a great city. Consider the garbage picture. It seems never to have occurred to anybody in Toronto that garbage exists to be heaved into the streets. One can drive for miles without seeing so much as a banana peel in the gutter or a discarded newspaper whirling in the wind. Nor has Toronto le
19、arned about dogs. A cheek with the authorities confirmed that, yes, there are indeed dogs resident in Toronto, but one would never realize it by walking the sidewalks. Our delegation was shocked by the presumption of a town s calling itself a city, much less a great city, when it obviously knows not
20、hing of either garbage or dogs. The subway, on which Toronto prides itself, was a laughable imitation of the real thing. The subway, cars were not only spotlessly clean, but also fully illuminated, So were the stations. To New Yorkers, it was embarrassing, and we hadnt the heart to tell the subway a
21、uthorities that they were light-years away from greatness. We did, however, tell them about spray paints and how effectively a few hundred children equipped with spray-paint cans could at least give their subway the big-city look, It seems doubtful they are ready to take such hints. There is a distu
22、rbing distaste for vandalism in Toronto which will make it hard for the city to enter wholeheartedly into the vigour of the late twentieth century. A board fence surrounding a huge excavation for a new high-rise building in the downtown district offers depressing evidence of Torontos lack of big-cit
23、y impulse. Embedded in the fence at intervals of about fifty feet are loudspeakers that play recorded music for passing pedestrians. Not a single one of these loudspeakers has been mutilated. Whats worse, not a single one has been stolen. It was good to get back to the Big Apple. My coat pocket was
24、bulging, with candy wrappers from Toronto and such is the lingering power of Toronto it took me two or three hours back in New York before it seemed natural again to toss them into the street. 18 “The subway, on which Toronto prides itself, was a laughable imitation of the real thing.“ What does the
25、 author mean by “the real thing“? （ A） A subway that is extremely clean and well illuminated. （ B） A subway that has a magnificent look. （ C） A subway littered with garbage and covered with spray paints. （ D） A subway crowded with boisterous children. 19 The author seems to suggest that high divorce
26、 rate is related to _. （ A） police and fire sirens （ B） noises that keep people awake at night （ C） true urbanity （ D） sore eyes 20 The author wrote this article_. （ A） to criticise Toronto （ B） to ridicule Toronto （ C） to praise New York （ D） to satirize New York 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 M
27、IN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 21 _, located in New England, is the oldest city in the United States. （ A） Chicago （ B） Boston （ C） Los Angeles （ D） San Francisco 22 Henry Jamess most important works include the follo
28、wing EXCEPT （ A） The American. （ B） The Portrait of a Lady. （ C） The Wings of the Dove. （ D） An American Tragedy. 23 To the west of mainland America lies the_. （ A） Atlantic Ocean （ B） Pacific Ocean （ C） Indian Ocean （ D） Arctic Ocean 24 BBC is a(n) example of_as it is a word consisting of initial l
29、etters pronounced separately. （ A） initialism （ B） acronym （ C） abbreviation （ D） compounding 25 _ delivered his world-famous speech Gettysburg Address during the Civil War. （ A） Cromwell （ B） Lincoln （ C） Churchill （ D） Nixon 26 The most significant idea of the Renaissance is _. （ A） humanism （ B）
30、realism （ C） naturalism （ D） skepticism 27 Canada gained final independence from Britain in （ A） 1774. （ B） 1838. （ C） 1945 （ D） 1982 28 _can be defined as the study of how speakers use the sentences of the language to affect successful communication. （ A） Semantics （ B） Pragmatics （ C） Applied ling
31、uistics （ D） Sociolinguistics 29 Who was the first English king to bring all Ireland under English control? （ A） Henry . （ B） Henry . （ C） Henry . （ D） James . 30 Which of the following works is NOT written by William Shakespeare? （ A） A Midsummer Nights Dream. （ B） The Tragedy of Macbeth. （ C） Para
32、dise Lost. （ D） The Tempest. 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING they suffer high rates of poverty; they face prejudice founded on inaccurate stereotypes; they are excluded from the mainstream of American life on the basis of supposed group characteristics; and they are offered few meaningful roles in their soc
33、iety. In addition, the aged may face such problems as high rates of victimization by criminals, a heavy burden of chronic illness and medical expenses, and psychological problems that result from their loss of in-dependence and their sense of being unwanted. In America, childhood is romanticized, yo
34、uth is idolized, middle age does the work, wields the power and pays the bills, and old age gets little or nothing for what it has already done. For many elderly Americans old age is a tragedy, a period of quiet despair, deprivation, desolation and muted rage. The tragedy of old age is not that each
35、 of us must grow old and die but that the process of doing so has been made unnecessarily painful, humiliating and isolating through insensitivity, ignorance, and poverty. 三、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 43 The Chinese Ministry o
36、f Education has issued a decree prohibiting college students from lodging outside school. However, a lot of them do not care about that. What do you think? Write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic: Lodging Outside School In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your m
37、ain argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above
38、 instruction may result in a loss of marks. 专业英语八级模拟试卷 695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
39、 a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. 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】 Blog Culture Good morning, today Id like to discuss wit
40、h you the phenomenon of blog. Isnt it interesting that some of the most significant “revolutions“ of the last twenty years have all had to do with writing? First we had email, then webpages, then mobile phone texting, and now blogs. All this reflects a trend that the world is becoming more formal in
41、 how it communicates. Instead of body language and endless conversations, communication has shifted towards endless words on a screen. Firstly, what is a blog, anyway? Generally speaking, its an online journal comprised of links and postings in reverse chronological order, meaning the most recent po
42、sting appears at the top of the page. Blogs run the gamut of topics. One may be a running commentary on current events in a specific arena, a series of personal musings, a purely political tract, pointers to other peoples work or products, or it may be a constantly updated “whats new“ by a domain ex
43、pert. While some blogging software permits readers to post their own comments, this feature has to be turned on by the blogger, and a significant number of prominent bloggers have not enabled the comment feature. What the best individual blogs tend to have in common is voicethey are clearly written
44、by human beings with genuine human passion. Thats a good, in-depth definition. Next, let us look at the characteristics of the blog culture. I will introduce 8 prominent features of bloggers, which, I hope will help you deepen your understanding of blogging. Feature 1. Blogging shows the willingness
45、 and pleasure of the bloggers to share their thoughts and experiences with others. Feature 2. Bloggers help each other a lot. They are also capable of launching collaborative projects that would be very difficult or impossible to launch alone. Feature 3. Bloggers tend to be global, read internationa
46、l sources and want to meet other people. Feature 4. There is a “common code“: a vocabulary, a way to write posts, and behavior codes (quoting other sources when you use them, linking into them, etc). Feature 5. Bloggers get so much used to providing feedback themselves that they are very frustrated
47、when they read, listen or view MSM as they are not able to comment them. Feature 6. Bloggers want to express themselves and get credit for it, resulting in many outside observers talking about bloggers as “humans with thoughts“. Feature 7. Bloggers invest so much time in their blogs, usually taken a
48、way from MSM, leisure time and sleep time. This irresistible will to share with others is a strong common point. Feature 8. Blogging represents the culture of speed: the need to post or react instantaneously. Finally, lets take a look at the impact of personal blogs. As we all know, bloggers are peo
49、ple with attitude. They say theres a book inside everybody. Well, the Web and blogs have let the book out! There has literally been an explosion of opinions. Now, we can hear all sorts of voices on the subject, which, of course, will bring about advantages as well as disadvantages to the society. The advantages of blogs include the following: 1. Blogs can be an excellent way of sharing knowled
