1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 701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 Five Common Mistakes in Conversations and Their Solutions . Not listening A. Problem: most people dont li
3、sten wait eagerly for their turn to talk only care for themselves B. Solutions Avoid 【 1】 _ question. 【 1】 _ Listen to the content. . Asking 【 2】 _ 【 2】 _ A. Problems conversation sounds like an interrogation you dont have much to contribute B. Solutions 【 3】 _ questions with statements. 【 3】 _ . Po
4、or delivery A. Problems Speak too fast and unclear. Speak lowly and breathlessly. Speak 【 4】 _ 【 4】 _ B. Solutions Slow down. Speak loudly. Do not 【 5】 _ 【 5】 _ Dont use a monotone voice. Try to use pauses. Improve your 【 6】 _, e.g. laughter, posture, etc. 【 6】 _ . Talking about a weird or 【 7】 _ to
5、pic 【 7】 _ A. Problem B. Solutions Steer clear of topics such as bad health or relationships, crappy job or boss, serial killers, technical lingo that only you and some other guy understands. Avoid talking about religion and 【 8】 _ 【 8】 _ . Being boring A. Problem: clinging to one topic for hours B.
6、 Solutions Lead an interesting life, and focus on 【 9】 _ 【 9】 _ Be genuinely interested, and make the conversation feel more 【 10】 _ 【 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. Lis
7、ten 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 Old Fred does something stupid because _. （ A） he has some men
8、tal problems （ B） he is too old to know what he is doing （ C） he wants to have a good Christmas （ D） he has got into the habit of stealing 12 British police are not armed The average policeman _. （ A） doesnt really think about it （ B） dislike it very much （ C） worries about it greatly （ D） wants a r
9、eform 13 The interviewee feels that the English people love _. （ A） violence （ B） compromise （ C） forearms （ D） police 14 Once a man_. （ A） threatened the police （ B） took some hostages （ C） robbed a bank （ D） locked himself in a house 15 What was the most important factor in solving that man s prob
10、lem? （ A） Power. （ B） Skill. （ C） Patience. （ D） Weapons. 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. 16 Why di
11、d the team of 10 Americans had a goal of making history? （ A） Because it is the first team that topped Mt. Everest. （ B） Because all of the members of the team are blind men except Erik Weihenmeyer. （ C） Because one of its members is Erik Weihenmeyer, who hopes to become the first blind man to clear
12、 the famed Mt. Everest. （ D） Because all of the members of the team are old men who are eager to climb the famed peak. 17 When did Erik Weihenmeyer scale North Americas highest peak? （ A） 1995. （ B） 1997 （ C） 1998 （ D） 1999 18 How has Weihenmeyer climbed mountains? （ A） He has climbed mountains usin
13、g a stick. （ B） He has climbed mountains riding a horse. （ C） He has climbed mountains supported by a guider. （ D） He has climbed mountains using a system he devised himsel 18 Since the Titanic vanished beneath the frigid waters of the North Atlantic 85 years ago, nothing in the hundreds of books an
14、d films about the ship has ever hinted at a connection to Japan-until now. Director James Camerons 200 million epic Titanic premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival last Saturday. Among the audience for a glimpse of Hollywoods costliest film were descendants of the liners only Japanese sur
15、vivor. The newly rediscovered diary of Masabumi Hosono has driven Titanic enthusiasts in frenzy. The document is scrawled in 4,300 Japanese characters on a rare piece of RMS Titanic stationery. Written as the Japanese bureaucrat steamed to safety in New York aboard the ocean liner Carpathia, which r
16、escued 706 survivors, the ac count and other documents released by his grandchildren last week offer a fresh and poignant reminder of the e motional wreckage left by the tragedy. Hosono, then 42 and an official at Japans Transportation Ministry, was studying railway networks in Europe. He boarded th
17、e Titanic in Southampton, enroute home via the US. According to Hosonos account, he was awakened by a “loud knock“ on the door of his second-class deck with the steerage passengers. Hosono tried to race back upstairs, but a sailor blocked his way. The Japanese feigned ignorance and pushed past. He a
18、rrived on deck to find lifeboats being lowered into darkness, flares bursting over the ship and an eerie human silence. He wrote:“Not a single passenger would howl or scream.“ Yet Hosono was screaming inside. Women were being taken to lifeboats and men held back at gunpoint. “I tried to prepare myse
19、lf for the last moment with no agitation, making up my mind not to do anything disgraceful as a Japanese,“ he wrote. “But still I found myself looking for and waiting for any possible chance of survival.“ Then an officer shouted, “Room for two more!“ Hosono recalled:“I myself was deep in desolate th
20、ought that I would no more be able to see my beloved wife and children.“ Then he jumped into the boat. When Hosono arrived in Tokyo two months later, he was met with suspicion that he had survived at some one elses expense. The culture of shame was especially strong in prewar Japan. In the face of r
21、umors and bad press, Hosono was dismissed from his post in 1914. He worked at the office part-time until retiring in 1923. His grandchildren say he never mentioned the Titanic again before his death in 1939. Even then, shame continued to haunt the family. In newspapers, letters and even a school tex
22、tbook, Hosono was denounced as a disgrace to Japan. Readers Digest reopened the wound in 1956 with an abridged Japanese version of Walter Loads best seller. A Night to Remember, which described “Anglo-Saxons“ as acting bravely on the Titanic, while “Frenchmen, Italians, Americans, Japanese and Chine
23、se were disgraceful.“ Citing his fathers diary, one of Hosonos sons, Hideo, launched a letter-writing campaign to restore the family name. But nobody in Japan seemed to care. The diary resurfaced last summer. A representative for a US foundation that plans to hold an exhibition of Titanic artifacts
24、in Japan next August found Hosonos name on a passenger list. A search led him to Haruomi Hosono, a well-known composer, and to his cousin Yuriko, Hideos daughter. She revealed that she had her grandfathers dairy as well as a collection of his letters and postcards. “I was floored,“ says Michael Find
25、ley, cofounder of the Titanic International Society in the US. “This is a fantastic, fresh new look at the sinking and the only one written on Titanic stationery immediately after the disaster.“ The information allows enthusiasts to rearrange some historical minutes, such as which lifeboat Hosono ju
26、mped into. More chilling, the account confirms that the crew tried to keep foreigners and third-class passengers on the ships lower deck, effectively ensuring their name. The diary cannot correct injustice, but Hosonos family hopes it will help clear his name. The Titanic foundation also hopes to ca
27、pitalize on the diary and the movie to promote its upcoming exhibition. To that end, Haruomi Hosono, the composer, has been asked to give a talk at next months public premiere of Titanic! The diary cannot, of course, match Camerons fictionalized epic for drama and intrigue. But at least Masabumi Hos
28、onos tale really happened. 19 _ was among the descendants of the Liners only Japanese survivor. （ A） Masabumi Hosono （ B） Yuriko （ C） Cameron （ D） Findley 20 Why was Masabumi denounced as a disgrace to Japan? （ A） Because he killed some people on the Titanic. （ B） Because he was then an official. （
29、C） Because he was dismissed from his ministry post. （ D） Because the culture of shame was too strong. 21 What important role did the diary really play? （ A） It corrected injustice. （ B） It was as vivid as the movie “Titanic“. （ C） It proved what Masabumi said was true. （ D） It made the Japanese beli
30、eve what Masabumi had said. 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 22 _ led a Roman army and invaded Britain in 54 B.C. （ A） Emperor Claudius （ B） Julius Caesar （ C） William the Conqueror （
31、D） Pope Gregory 23 _refers to the extensive sound changes affecting vowels between 1400 and 1600. （ A） Meaning Shift （ B） Grimms Law （ C） Sound Change （ D） Great Vowel Shift 24 The meaning of an utterance is_. （ A） abstract and decontexualized （ B） concrete and decontexualized （ C） abstract and cont
32、ext-dependent （ D） concrete and context-dependent 25 Which city is also known as “City of Saints“? （ A） Vancouver. （ B） Toronto. （ C） Ottawa. （ D） Montreal. 26 The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following EXCEPT_. （ A） friendship （ B） love and marriage （ C） life and death （ D） war and peace 27
33、 The Battle of Waterloo was won by the Duke of Wellington over the great_. （ A） Robert E. Lee （ B） George Washington （ C） Jordan （ D） Napoleon 28 _control most of the wealth and the politics of the United States of America. （ A） The WASPS （ B） The Blacks （ C） The Indians （ D） The Hispanics 29 The re
34、ligious leader of the Church of England is _. （ A） Parliament （ B） King （ C） Archbishop of Canterbury （ D） Queen 30 Which of the following words does not belong to the open class? （ A） Love. （ B） Honesty. （ C） Tiger. （ D） They. 31 Tess of the dUrbervilles is a novel written by _. （ A） William S. Mau
35、gham （ B） Thomas Hardy （ C） John Galsworthy （ D） Joseph Conrad 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING they suffer nigh 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
36、 few meaningful roles in their society. In addition, the aged may face such problems as nigh rates of victimization by criminals, a heavy, burden of chronic illness and medical expenses, and psychological problems that result from their loss of independence and their sense of being unwanted. In Amer
37、ica, childhood is romanticized, youth 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 t
38、ragedy of old age is not that each 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 followin
39、g topic. 44 For years, television has been blamed for harming childrens eyes and taking away adults precious life. Is television a source of troubles or a provider of happiness? Write an essay of about 400 words to state our view. In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main ar
40、gument, 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. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay. Marks will be awarded for content, organizations, gramma
41、r and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. 专业英语八级模 拟试卷 701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 wi
42、ll not be marked, but you will need them to complete 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】 Fiv
43、e Common Mistakes in Conversations and Their Solutions Good morning. Todays lecture will focus on the 5 most common mistakes in conversations and the ways to avoid them. Can you improve your conversation skills? Certainly. It might take a while to change the conversation habits thats been ingrained
44、throughout your life, but it is very possible. Lets just skip right to some common mistakes many of us have made in conversations. And there are some solutions. First mistake, not listening. Ernest Hemingway once said: “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peo
45、ple never listen.“ Dont be like most people. Dont just wait eagerly for your turn to talk. Put your own ego on hold. Learn to really listen to what people actually are saying. When you start to really listen, youll pick up on loads of potential paths in the conversation.But avoid yes or no type of q
46、uestions as they will not give you much information. If someone mentions that they went fishing with a couple of friends last weekend you can for instance ask: “Where did you go fishing?“ or “What do you like most about fishing?“ You may also ask “What did you do there besides fishing?“ The person w
47、ill delve deeper into the subject giving you more information to work with and more paths for you choose from. If they say something like: “Oh, I dont know“ at first, dont give up. Prod a little further. Ask again. They do know; they just have to think about a bit more. And as they start to open up,
48、 the conversation becomes more interesting. The second mistake is asking too many questions. If you ask too many questions, the conversation can feel like a bit of an interrogation. Or like you dont have that much to contribute.One alternative is to mix questions with statements. And then the conver
49、sation can flow on from there. And you can discuss Frisbee golf, the advantages or disadvantages of different lures or your favourite beer. Third mistake, poor delivery. One of the most important things in a conversation is not what you say, but how you say it. A change in these habits can make a big difference since your
