1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 705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 How to Become a More Effective Learner The best ways to become an effective learner: 1. Memory Improvemen
3、t Basics a) Basic tips : improving focus, avoiding cram sessions etc. b) More lessons from【 1】 2. Keep Learning and Practicing New Things a) One surefire way: to simply keep learning b) One way to keep new information: keep practicing and【 2】 it 3. Learn in Multiple Ways a) Find a way to exercise th
4、e information both【 3】 b) Effect: to further cement the knowledge in your mind 4. Teach What Youve Learned to Another Person a) To teach is one of the best ways to learn something b) Start by【 4】 the information into your own words 5.【 5】 Previous Learning to Promote New Learning relational learning
5、: relating new information to things you know. 6. Gain Practical Experience Best ways to improve learning: put new knowledge and skills into 【 6】 7. Look Up Answers Rather Than Struggle to Remember a) When you forget something, the best way is to find【 7】 b)Reason: trying to recall information resul
6、ts in learning the “error state“ 8. Understand How You Learn Best a) Recognize your learning habits and【 8】 b) Look at materials 1o decide your suitable learning strategies. 9. Use Testing to Boost Learning a)【 9】 actually helps you better remember what youve learned b) Students who take tests have
7、better long-term recall 10. Stop Multitasking a) Multitasking can actually make learning【 10】 b) Ways to avoid multitasking: focusing your attention on the task at hand continuing working for a predetermined amount of time. SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONC
8、E ONLY. Listen 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 Pauline failed to catch the flight because_. （ A） h
9、er ticket was not confirmed （ B） she booked her ticket at the wrong place （ C） she didnt have the right documents （ D） her visa had run out 12 Which of the following did NOT occur? （ A） Pauline visited one of Londons parks. （ B） Pauline went to the airport by taxi. （ C） Pauline contacted the airline
10、 by telephone. （ D） Pauline stayed the night in London. 13 In Ibiza, Pauline took a taxi because_. （ A） she had too much luggage （ B） nobody came to pick her up （ C） the plane was delayed （ D） her friends home was far away 14 Pauline learned her friends address in_. （ A） Newcastle （ B） Gatwick （ C）
11、London （ D） Luton 15 From the conversation we get the impression that_. （ A） some official agencies in London are efficient （ B） taxi drivers abroad always overcharge strangers （ C） customs formalities in Britain are flexible （ D） travel agents tend to misinform people SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Direc
12、tions: 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 Who won the All England Championship? （ A） Pulleta Gopichand （ B） Peter Gade. （ C） Chen Hong.
13、（ D） Prakash Padukone. 17 Who won the second place in mens single? （ A） Peter Gade. （ B） Ji Xin peng. （ C） Xia Xuanze. （ D） Chen Hong. 17 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
14、 of study, but also of young men with older men, with veterans and professionals in the great undertaking of learning, of 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 amo
15、unt of association, however close and familiar and delightful, between mere beginners can ever produce the sort of enlightenment 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 on
16、e life and the undergraduates quite a different one. They constitute two communities. The life of the undergraduates is not 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 wit
17、h undergraduates. This separation need not exist, and, in the college of the ideal university, would not exist. It is perfectly 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
18、will be established between them; and it is only by such an organization that they can be given real vitality as places of 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
19、all modern achievement-only by such an organization that study can be made to seem part of life itself. Lectures often seem 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 livel
20、y knowledge is, how it ties into everything that is interesting and important, how intimate a part it is of everything that 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
21、and most pressing problem of our university authorities is to bring about this vital association for the benefit of the novices of the university world, the undergraduates. Classroom methods are thorough enough; competent scholars already lecture and set tasks and superintend their performance; but
22、the life of the average undergraduate outside the classroom and other stated appointments with his instructors is not very much affected by his studies, and is entirely dissociated from intellectual interests. 18 An ideal college _. （ A） should have mature, experienced and professional men on its st
23、aff （ B） should be managed by experienced scholars （ C） should be managed by experienced scholars and energetic young men （ D） should see tight, harmonious connection between the experienced and the inexperienced 19 Successful education is the acquiring of knowledge from _. （ A） classrooms, laborato
24、ries and museums （ B） all sources available （ C） intimate association between beginners （ D） experienced scholars 20 Beginners are not likely to get the sort of enlightenment mentioned in the passage from _. （ A） themselves （ B） books （ C） scholars （ D） experience 21 The teacher and the student do n
25、ot understand each other much because _. （ A） they do not live together （ B） they do not often try to exchange ideas, emotions 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 multipl
26、e-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 22 The immigrants coming to Britain are mainly from_. （ A） Europe （ B） The United States （ C） Africa （ D） the West Indies, India and Pakistan 23 The Lost Generation refers to the young people_. （ A） in the post-WWII era （ B
27、） in the post-WWI era （ C） in the post-Cold-war era （ D） in the post-Vietnam-war era 24 George Gordon Byron was most famous for （ A） Don Juan. （ B） Ode to the West Wind. （ C） Kubla Khan. （ D） Ode to a Nightingale. 25 The pair of words “lend“ and “borrow“ are （ A） gradable antonyms. （ B） complementar
28、y antonyms. （ C） converse antonyms. （ D） synonyms. 26 _is jointly written by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Its publication marked the beginning of the Romantic revival in England. （ A） Poetical Sketches （ B） Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect （ C） Biographia Literaria （ D） Lyri
29、cal Ballads 27 _ of the Great Lakes is the only one entirely in the United States. （ A） Lake Superior （ B） Lake Huron （ C） Lake Ontario （ D） Lake Michigan 29 “Words are names or labels for things.“ This view is called _in semantic sense. （ A） mentalism （ B） conceptual theory （ C） naming theory （ D）
30、contextual theory 30 Which of the following does not belong to the three levels of Syntax put forward by Frantisek Danes? （ A） Level of the grammatical structure of sentence. （ B） Level of the organization of utterance. （ C） Level of the semantic structure of sentence. （ D） Level of the lexical elem
31、ents of sentence. 31 The colonists first settled in in Australia. （ A） South Australia （ B） Queensland （ C） Tasmania （ D） Victoria 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN) Directions: Proofread the given passage. The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of O
32、NE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way: (1)For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line. (2)For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word
33、with a “ “ sign and write t 32 In a recent survey, it was found that only 24.5 percent Japanese students were fully satisfied with school life, compared with 67.2 percent in the United States. SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH Directions: Translate the following text into English. 33 那时河里热闹极了：船大半泊着，小半在水上
34、穿梭似的来往。停泊着的都在近市的那一边，我们的船自然也夹在其中。因为这边略略的挤，便觉得那边十分的疏了。在每一只船从那边过去时，我们能画出它的轻轻的影和曲曲的波，在我们的心上；这显示着是空，且显着是静了。那时处处都是歌声和凄厉的胡琴声，圆润的歌喉，确乎是很少的。但那生涩的，尖脆的 调子能使人有少年的，粗率不拘的感觉，也正可快我们的意。况且多少隔开些儿听着，因为想象与渴慕的作美，总觉得更有滋味；而竞发的喧嚣，抑扬的不齐，远近的杂沓，和乐器的嘈嘈切切，合成另一意味的谐音，也使我们无所适从，如随着大风而走。这实在因为我们的心枯涩已久了，变为脆弱：故偶然润泽一下，便疯狂似的不能自主了。 SECTION
35、 B ENGLISH TO CHINESE Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese. 34 Non-British, and even some British, must be having difficulty understanding the present differences that have cropped up in London between Queen Elizabeth II and her prime minister, Margaret Thatcher. The important thing
36、 to know is that Mrs. Thatcher is prime minister in the government of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but has no rank and no authority in a lot of places that are associated with Queen Elizabeth. Thatcher is solely and exclusively British. The Queen is a good many other things besides a British
37、Queen. The Queen must act on Mrs. Thatchers advice in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but she has to act on the advice of other people in other places. And now we have a case where the advice she is getting from some of her ministers in some of those other places is at variance with the wishes o
38、f Thatcher. It puts her in a difficult position. Not even all the islands covered by the phrase “British Isles“ are under the British Parliament or are even British. For example, the Isle of Man lies in the middle of the Irish Sea and is equidistant, from England. Scotland. Wales, and Ireland. But i
39、ts political antecedents are Scandinavian. Its citizens call themselves Manxmen. They have their own local legislature. They recognize the Queen as the Lord of the Isle of Man, not as at British Queen. 三、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following to
40、pic. 35 Fast food is popular in China. The worldwide famous foreign companies like KFC and McDonald are Spreading to almost every city in China. Some people like fast food, but some dont. You are asked to write a composition to explain the popularity of fast food. At the same time, analyses the unsa
41、tisfactory factors of it. You should supply a title for your article. 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 appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natu
42、ral conclu- sion with a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Write your essay on the ANSWER SHEET. 专业英语八级模拟试卷 705答案与解析 SECTION A MINI-LECTURE Directions: In this section you sill
43、 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. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, an
44、d 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】 How to Become a More Effective Learner Good morning everyone, today well discuss the best ways to become a more effective earner. Im always interested in finding new ways to lear
45、n better and faster. As a graduate student who is also a full-time science writer, the amount of time I have to spend learning new things is limited. Its important to get the most educational value out of my time as possible. However, retention, recall and transfer are also critical. I need to be ab
46、le to accurately remember the information I learn, recall it at a later time and utilize it effectively in a wide variety of situations. 1. Memory Improvement Basics Ive written before about some of the best ways to improve memory. (1) Basic tips such as improving focus, avoiding cram sessions and s
47、tructuring your study time are a good place to start, but there are even more lessons from psychology that can dramatically improve your learning efficiency. 2. Keep Learning and Practicing New Things One surefire way to become a more effective learner is to simply keep learning. A 2004 Nature artic
48、le reported that people who lamed how to juggle increased the amount of gray matter in their occipital lobes, the area of the brain that is associated with visual memory. When these individuals stopped practicing their new skill, this gray matter vanished. (2) So if youre learning a new language, it
49、 is important to keep practicing the language in order to maintain the gains you have achieved The “use-it-or-lose-it“ phenomenon involves a brain process known as “pruning. “Certain gains you have achieved. This “use-it-lose-it: phenomenon involves a brain process known as “pruning“ Certain pathways in the brain are maintained, while others are eliminated. If you want the new information you just learned to stay put, keep practicing and rehearsing it. 3. Learn in Multiple Ways Foc
