1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 697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 The problems facing learners of English can be divided into three broad categories: a)【 1】 problems, some
3、 of which involve fear of the unknown, and some of which are caused by the possible homesickness of the overseas students. b)culture problems, which are bound up with the British way of life, including【 2】habits and traditions. c)【 3】 problems, for which there are a number of reasons: First, it seem
4、s to overseas students that English people speak very【 4】 . Second, they speak with a variety of【 5】 . Third, different styles of speech are used. What can a student do to overcome these difficulties? He should attend【 6】 and use a language laboratory as much as possible. He should also listen to pr
5、ogrammes in English on the radio and TV. Most important of all, he should take every opportunity to speak with【 7】 . Finally. I have some advice for students who have difficulty in speaking English fluently. Firstly, he must【 8】 what he wants to say. Secondly, he must try to【 9】 in English. This wil
6、l only begin to take place when his use of English becomes【 10】 . 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. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 a
7、re 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, a nerd camp is a summer camp for children with _. （ A） athletic talents （ B） extremely smart minds （ C） music
8、al gifts （ D） strong scientific interest 12 What do children do in a nerd camp? （ A） They spend most time playing. （ B） They spend most time studying. （ C） They try to learn how to get along with other kids. （ D） They go on tours of various universities. 13 The speakers view towards skipping grade i
9、s that _. （ A） smart kids should be allowed to skip grades for further development （ B） children should stay within the same group, however smart they may be （ C） parents complaints are important in deciding grade skipping （ D） children can skip piano class, but not reading or algebra class 14 As fa
10、r as social behavior is concerned, smart children usually _ children of similar age. （ A） act more politely than （ B） act more rudely than （ C） act just in a same way as （ D） hate to stay with 15 The speaker believes that _. （ A） intelligence can decide future success （ B） nerd campers will become e
11、xtremely successful （ C） intelligence can be very important for success （ D） intelligence makes it difficult to define success 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
12、item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 What is the main idea about this news item? （ A） The carbon tax does not exist in Europe. （ B） French government backs down on carbon tax plan. （ C） The court rejected the carbon tax plan last year. （ D） The president is revising the car
13、bon tax plan. 16 An ideal college should be a community, a place of close, natural, intimate association, not only of the young men who are its pupils and novices in various lines of study, but also of young men with older men, with veterans and professionals in the great undertaking of learning, of
14、 teachers with pupils, outside the classroom as well as inside it. No one is successfully educated within the walls of any particular classroom or laboratory or museum; and no amount of association, however close and familiar and delightful, between mere beginners can ever produce the sort of enligh
15、tenment which the young lad gets when he first begins to catch the infection of learning. The trouble with most of our colleges nowadays is that the faculty of the college live one life and the undergraduates quite a different one. They constitute two communities. The life of the undergraduates is n
16、ot touched with the personal influence of the teachers: life among the teachers is not touched by the personal impressions which should come from frequent and intimate contact with undergraduates. This separation need not exist, and, in the college of the ideal university, would not exist. It is per
17、fectly possible to organize the life of our colleges in such a way that students and teachers alike will take part in it; in such a way that a perfectly natural daily intercourse will be established between them; and it is only by such an organization that they can be given real vitality as places o
18、f serious training, be made communities in which youngsters will come fully to realize how interesting intellectual work is, how vital, how important, how closely associated with all modern achievement-only by such an organization that study can be made to seem part of life itself. Lectures often se
19、em very formal and empty things; recitations generally prove very dull and unrewarding. It is in conversation and natural intercourse with scholars chiefly that you find how lively knowledge is, how it ties into everything that is interesting and important, how intimate a part it is of everything th
20、at is “practical“ and connected with the world. Men are not always made thoughtful by books; but they are generally made thoughtful by association with men who think. The present and most pressing problem of our university authorities is to bring about this vital association for the benefit of the n
21、ovices of the university world, the undergraduates. Classroom methods are thorough enough; competent scholars already lecture and set tasks and superintend their performance; but the life of the average undergraduate outside the classroom and other stated appointments with his instructors is not ver
22、y much affected by his studies, and is entirely dissociated from intellectual interests. 17 An ideal college _. （ A） should have mature, experienced and professional men on its staff （ B） should be managed by experienced scholars （ C） should be managed by experienced scholars and energetic young men
23、 （ D） should see tight, harmonious connection between the experienced and the inexperienced 18 Successful education is the acquiring of knowledge from _. （ A） classrooms, laboratories and museums （ B） all sources available （ C） intimate association between beginners （ D） experienced scholars 19 Begi
24、nners are not likely to get the sort of enlightenment mentioned in the passage from _. （ A） themselves （ B） books （ C） scholars （ D） experience 20 The teacher and the student do not understand each other much because _. （ A） they do not live together （ B） they do not often try to exchange ideas, emo
25、tions and experiences （ C） they do not respect each others （ D） they have different standards of education 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 21 11._is the only predominately French-spea
26、king territory in North America. （ A） Quebec （ B） The Prairie Provinces （ C） The Province of British Columbia （ D） New Brunswick 22 _is remembered as the monarch who lost the French port of Calais. （ A） Edward VI （ B） Mary Tudor （ C） Elizabeth I （ D） Henry VIII 23 Elizabeth Bennet is the leading fem
27、ale character in Jane Austens masterpiece_. （ A） Emma （ B） Sense and Sensibility （ C） Pride and Prejudice （ D） Wuthering Heights 24 One of the measures taken by the Roosevelt Administration in the New Deal was to_. （ A） close down more banks （ B） further loosen the control of financial institutions
28、（ C） adopt a number of labor laws to raise the role of labor in the relations of production （ D） encourage farm production 25 The language brought to North America by the British explorers in the seventeenth century belongs to the early stage of （ A） Old English. （ B） Middle English. （ C） Modern Eng
29、lish. （ D） Contemporary English. 26 President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a well-known policy called _ to save the economic situation in the 1930s. （ A） the Open Door Policy （ B） the Big Stick （ C） Good Neighbor Policy （ D） the New Deal 27 George Orwells _ is considered as an anti-utopian novel.
30、（ A） Animal Farm （ B） Nineteen Eighty-Four （ C） Down and Out in Paris （ D） The Road to Wigan War 28 We may hear children say “what he wants?“. This is an example of _. （ A） interference （ B） transformation （ C） overgeneralization （ D） over-extension 29 The most obvious and rapid change in the develo
31、pment of a language takes place in the area of _. （ A） pronunciation （ B） vocabulary （ C） grammar （ D） speech 30 The word “Motel“ comes from “motor + hotel“. This is an example of_ in morphology. （ A） backformation （ B） conversion （ C） blending （ D） acronym 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING enjoyment of his a
32、ctivities in Britain and the passage of time are the only real help here. Looking now at the cultural problems, we can see that some of them are of a very practical nature, e. g. arranging satisfactory accommodation, getting used to British money (or the lack of it), British food and weather. Some o
33、f the cultural difficulties are less easy to define, they are bound up with the whole range of alien customs, habits and traditions -in other words, the British way of life. Such difficulties include: settling into a strange environment and a new academic routine; learning a new set of social habits
34、, ranging from the times of meals to the meanings of gestures; expressing appropriate greetings; understanding a different kind of humor; and learning how to make friends. Being open-minded and adaptable is the best approach to some of the difficulties listed here. The largest category is probably l
35、inguistic. Lets look at this in some details. Most students have learnt English at school, but they have had little everyday opportunity to practise using English. When foreign learners first come to the country, they have great difficulty in understanding! There are a number of reasons for this. Il
36、l just mention three of them. Firstly, it seems to overseas students that English people speak very fast. Secondly, they speak with a variety of accents. Thirdly, different styles of speech are used in different situations, e. g. everyday spoken English, which is colloquial and idiomatic, is differe
37、nt from the English used for academic purposes. Dont forget, by the way, that if the students have difficulty in understanding the English-speaking people, these people may also have difficulty in understanding the students! What can a student do then to overcome these difficulties? Well, obviously,
38、 he can benefit from attending English classes and, if a language laboratory is available, use it as much as possible. He should also listen to programmes in English on the radio and TV. Perhaps the most important of all, he should take every available opportunity to meet and speak with native Engli
39、sh-speaking people. He should be aware, however, that English people are, by temperament, often reserved and may be unwilling to start a conversation. Nevertheless, if he has the courage to take the initiative, however difficult it may seem to be, most English people will respond. He will need patie
40、nce and perseverance. In addition to these problems regarding listening and understanding, the student probably has difficulty in speaking English fluently. He has the ideas, he knows what to say but he doesnt know how to say it in English. The advice here will seem difficult to follow but its neces
41、sary. Firstly, he must simplify his language so that he can express himself reasonably clearly, for example, short sentences will be better than long ones. Secondly, he must try to think in English, not translate from his mother tongue. This will only begin to take place when his use of English beco
42、mes automatic; using a language laboratory and listening to as much English as possible will help. In general, he should practise speaking as much as possible. He should also notice the kind of English and its structure that educated people use, and try to imitate it. 1 【正确答案】 psychological 2 【正确答案】
43、 alien/foreign customs 3 【正确答案】 linguistic 4 【正确答案】 fast/quickly 5 【正确答案】 accents 6 【正确答案】 English classes 7 【正确答案】 the native speaker/people 8 【正确答案】 simplify/shorten 9 【正确答案】 think 10 【正确答案】 automatic SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefu
44、lly 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. 10 【听力原文】 D: Your article is about the Center for Talented Youth, a summer
45、program for gifted children-“nerd camp,“ as many participants called it-at Johns Hopkins University. What is nerd camp? B: Nerd camp is a lot like any other summer camp, only the kids spend most of their time studying instead of playing, and they have to be really, really smart to get in. There are
46、nerd camps all over the country these days-about fifteen thousand students attend them every year, and thousands more attend day programs-in part because so many schools have dismantled their gifted programs. Only about two cents of every hundred dollars spent by the federal government is earmarked
47、for the gifted, so a lot of these kids have been stranded Most of them start the regular school year already knowing nearly half of the things theyre going to be taught. So these camps are places where they can stretch their legs, intellectually-which is a pretty astonishing thing to see. Its not un
48、usual for a student at one of these camps to cover a year of algebra in two weeks. D: Do you think advancing or skipping grades a good idea? B: Most schools practice grade acceleration in a fairly clumsy way. If a kid is bored in his class, and his parents complain enough, he might be allowed to mov
49、e up a year. The problem is, if hes as bright as many of the kids at the Johns Hopkins camp, hell soon be ready to move past those older kids as well. And, of course, being the smallest, brightest kid in a class has never been a recipe for popularity. When I talked to Camilla Benbow, the dean of education and human development at Vanderbilt University, she told me that schools simply use the wrong criterion-age-to divide students up. Rather than lumping all the seven-year-
