1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 69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 Australian There are two common set images of the Australian male: a) the 【 1】 _ and Neanderthal male - gr
3、eat for a bill and a laugh. b) 【 2】 _ a businessman who conceal the dorsal fin of a shark under a grey suit. Characters of Australians: . Not【 3】 _ by nature, refer to each other on 【 4】 _ and speak their minds. . Men tend to get together to relax - 【 5】 _ and going to footy. . A typical Australian
4、party 【 6】 _ men and women. . Greeting. In 【 7】 _ , men shake hands with others but women usually do not shake hands with other women. With good friends, males 【 8】 _ each other on the shoulder, women kiss one another. . Being invited to a party: The host or the hostess introduces you to others; it
5、is 【 9】 _ to bring gifts at the first meeting. . Being modest about 【 10】 _ your own horn and achievements. 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
6、 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 When is the conversation going on? （ A） Twenty days before Christmas Day. （ B） Twenty-three day
7、s before Christmas Day. （ C） A month before Christmas Day. （ D） Two months before Christmas Day. 12 Which of the following are the names of the man and womans children? （ A） Anne and Dick. （ B） Amine and Jim. （ C） Jim and Tom. （ D） Mary and David. 13 What gift will the womans father be given? （ A） S
8、ome discs. （ B） A bedside reading lamp. （ C） A pair of gloves. （ D） A box of cigars. 14 How old is the mans nephew, Tom? （ A） Ten. （ B） Eleven. （ C） Twelve. （ D） Thirteen. 15 Which of the following is true according to the conversation? （ A） The husband of the mans aunt, Mautha, was dead. （ B） The m
9、an has twin nieces. （ C） The womans sister, Mary is very short of money, so the woman suggests giving her some money. （ D） The two speakers have made out a list of all the Christmas presents they are certain to buy. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE O
10、NLY. 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 The Clinton Administration announced Friday that _. （ A） US aid programs in 21 countries over the next three years will be halted （ B） US aid missio
11、ns in 21 countries over the next three years will be extended （ C） the United States government will establish an aid assistant organization （ D） the United States is willing to invest more on many developing countries such as Zaire 17 MD Administrator Bryan Ratwood says the countries affected most
12、will be concentrating in such areas as _. （ A） North America （ B） South America （ C） Europe （ D） Africa, Asia, and Latin America 18 AID will now concentrate on sustainable development programs in some fifty nations focusing on key areas not including_. （ A） environment （ B） population （ C） culture （
13、 D） economic growth 19 In a visit to Germany, Pope John Paul said _ is responsible for the 16th century schism led by Martin Luther. （ A） both the Catholics and Protestants （ B） the Catholics （ C） the Protestants （ D） neither of the two 20 So far the Pontiff _ to the demand. （ A） has decided to give
14、 in （ B） is not going to give in （ C） has shown no sign of giving in （ D） is ready to counterattack 20 It looks as if it came straight from the set of Star Wars. It has four-wheel drive and rises above rocky surfaces. It lowers and raises its nose when going up and down hills. And when it comes to a
15、 river, it turns amphibious; two hydro jets power it along by blasting water under its body. There is room for two passengers and a driver, who sit inside a glass bubble operating electronic, aircraft-type controls. A vehicle so daring on land and water needs windscreen wipers - but it doesnt have a
16、ny. Water molecules are disintegrated on the screens surface by ultrasonic sensors. This unusual vehicle is the Racoon. It is an invention not of Hollywood but of Renault, a rather conservative French state-owned carmaker, better known for its family hatchbacks. Renault built the Racoon to explore n
17、ew freedoms for designers and engineers created by advances in materials and manufacturing processes. Renault is thinking about startlingly different cars; other producers have radical new ideas for trains, boats and aeroplanes. The first of the new freedoms is in design. Powerful computer-aided des
18、ign (CAD) systems can replace with a click of a computer mouse hours of laborious work done on thousands of drawing boards. So new products, no matter how complicated, can be developed much faster. For the first time, Boeing will not have to build a giant replica of its new airliner, the 777, to mak
19、e sure all the bits fit together. Its CAD system will take care of that. But Renault is taking CAD further. It claims the Racoon is the worlds first vehicle to be designed within the digitised world of virtual reality. Complex programs were used to simulate the vehicle and the terrain that it was ex
20、pected to cross. This allowed a team led by Patrick Le Quement, Renaults industrial-design director, to “drive“ it long before a prototype existed. Renault is not alone in thinking that virtual reality will transform automotive design. In Detroit, Ford is also investigating its potential. Jack Telna
21、c, the firms head of design, would like designers in different parts of the world to work more closely together, linked by computers. They would do more than style cars. Virtual reality will allow engineers to peer in side the working parts of a vehicle. Designers will watch bearings move. oil flow,
22、 gears mesh and hydraulics pump. As these techniques catch on, even stranger vehicles are likely to come along. Transforming these creations from virtual reality to actual reality will also become easier, especially with advances in materials. Firms that once bashed everything out of steel now find
23、that new alloys or composite materials ( which can be made from mixtures of plastic, resin, ceramics and metals, reinforced with fibers such as glass or carbon) are changing the rules of manufacturing. At the same time, old materials keep getting better, as their producers try to secure their place
24、in the factory of the future. This competition is increasing the pace of development of all materials. One company in this field sealed composites. It was started in 1982 by Burt Rutan, an aviator who has devised many unusual aircraft. His company develops and tests prototypes that have ranged from
25、business aircraft to air racers. It has also worked on composite sails for the Americas Cup yacht race and on General Motors Ultralite, a 100-miles-per-gallon experimental family car built from carbon fiber. Again, the Racoon reflects this race between the old and the new. It uses conventional steel
26、 and what Renault de scribes as a new “high-limit elastic steel“ in its chassis. This steel is 30% lighter than the usual kind. The Racoon also has parts made from composites. Renault plans to replace the petrol engine with a small gas turbine, which could be made from heat-resisting ceramics, and u
27、se it to run a generator that would provide power for electric motors at each wheel. With composites it is possible to build many different parts into a single component. Fiat, Italys biggest car maker has worked out that it could reduce the number of components needed in one of its car bodies from
28、150 to 16 by using a composite shell rather than one made of steel. Aircraft and ears may increasingly be assembled as if they were plastic kits. Advances in engine technology also make cars lighter. The Ultralite, which Scaled composites helped to design for General Motors, uses a two- stroke engin
29、e in a “power pod“ at the rear of the vehicle. The engine has been developed from an East German design and weighs 40% less than a conventional engine but produces as much power. IT is expected to run cleanly enough to qualify as an ultra-low emissions vehicle under Californias tough new rules. 21 H
30、ow does that Racoon cross water? （ A） It swims. （ B） It raises its nose. （ C） It uses hydrojets. （ D） It uses its four-wheel drived. 22 What is Renault most famous for? （ A） Startlingly different cars. （ B） Family cars. （ C） Advances in design. （ D） Boat and train design. 23 Why will Boeing not need
31、 a replica of the 777? （ A） It can use computers to check the design. （ B） It already has enough experience with plans. （ C） It will only need to upgrade the replica of the previous model. （ D） It can make sure all the bits fit together. 24 How did Renault test drive the Racoon? （ A） Over rocky terr
32、ain. （ B） In actual reality. （ C） Over French country roads. （ D） In virtual reality. 24 Tomorrow evening about 20 million Americans will be shown, on their television screens, how easy it is to steal plutonium (钚 ) and produce “the most terrifying blackmail weapon ever devised“ - a homemade atomic
33、bomb. They will be told that no commercial nuclear plant in the United States - and probably in the world - is adequately protected against a well planned armed attack by terrorists, and that there is enough information on public record to guide a nuclear thief not only to the underground rooms of n
34、uclear plants where plutonium is stored, but also to tell him how the doors of those underground rooms are designed. The hour-long television programme, “The Plutonium Connection“, makes its point by showing how a 20-year,old student of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in five weeks designe
35、d an atomic bomb composed of plutonium and parts from a hardware atom. The young man, whose identity is Being kept secret for fear he may be kidnapped by terrorists, is quoted as saying: “I was pretty surprised about how easy it is to design a bomb. When I Was working on my design, I kept thinking t
36、hems got to be mom to it than this, but actually there isnt. Its simple.“ The student worked alone, using information he obtained from science libraries open to the public. The television programme, produced for non-commercial stations across the country by a Boston educational station, shows how qu
37、antities of other “secret“ information are available to anyone. The Atomic Energy Commissions public reading room in Washington is described by the narrator as “the first place a bomb-designer would visit when he was planning his plutonium theft. On file there and freely available are the plans of e
38、rery civilian nuclear installation in the country.“ The programme seems certain to create enormous controversy - not only over the lack of nuclear safeguards, but also over the morality of appointing the student to design a bomb and the wisdom of drawing attention to the ways that a nuclear thief ca
39、n work. Even an official of Public Broadcasting System, which is distributing the TV programme, confessed to uneasiness: “Its a terribly important subject, and people should know about the dangers, but I cant help wondering if the programme wont give someone ideas.“ “The Plutonium Connection“ explai
40、ns, for example, that the security systems of nuclear plants were all designed to prevent sabotage by perhaps one or agents of some foreign power. But now this appears less of a hazard than the possibility of an attack by an armed band of terrorists with dedicated disregard for their own lives. The
41、programme discusses two major plutonium reprocessing plants in the US - one already operating in Oklahoma, one being completed in South Carolina - neither of which has more than a handful of armed guards to supplement the alarms, fences and gun-detectors that Government security requires. Both are i
42、n such remote areas that it would take at least 45 minutes for a sizeable force to be assembled, if there were an attack. An official of the South Carolina plant - a joint operation of Allied Chemical, Gulf Oil and Royal Dutch Shen - admits to television viewers that the “system we ye designed would
43、 probably not prevent“ a band of about 12 armed terrorists from entering. Stealing plutonium is even easier, the programme suggests. Despite constant survey of all materials on the list, there are inevitably particles of plutonium unaccounted for - about I lb a month at the Oklahoma plant, owned by
44、the KerrMcGee oil company, which in a year adds up to enough to make an atomic bomb. It is suggested that stealing would be even easier if instrument technicians were unscrupulous enough to alter their measuring devices. The television film also shows radioactive fuel being transported to nuclear pr
45、ocessing plants in commercial armoured cars. As safety measure, US drivers of such cars are ordered to contact headquarters by radio telephone every two hours. But the equipment is “cumbersome and unreliable“, and in difficult terrain there are radio black out areas. The programmer ends with a warni
46、ng from Dr. Theodore Taylor, a former Atomic Energy Commission officer who has long contended that any person of modest technical ability could make an atomic bomb: “ff we dont get this problem under international control within the next five or six years, there is a good chance that it will be perm
47、anently out of control.“ 25 Why would a terrorist go to the Atomic Energy commissions public reading room? （ A） To find out how to design a bomb. （ B） To find out where to steal plutonium. （ C） To look at files of secret information. （ D） To find out where to steal an atomic bomb. 26 The main danger
48、 discussed in the passage is from _. （ A） students making their own atomic bombs. （ B） foreign spies stealing secrets （ C） terrorists stealing plutonium and making their own bombs （ D） technicians stealing plutonium 27 What does “this“ refer to in the expression “this appears less of a hazard“? （ A）
49、 Some foreign power. （ B） The design of the security systems. （ C） A terrorist attack. （ D） Sabotage by people working for an enemy country. 28 What is the main theme of the passage? （ A） The fact that a student was able to make an atomic bomb: （ B） The dangers of transporting plutonium. （ C） The fact that secret information is available in public libraries. （ D） The ease with which atomic bombs could become a terrorist weapon. 28 In contrast
