1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 707 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 Interpreters Work? . Understanding A. About words and expressions 【 1】 _ words may be left out: 【 1】
3、 _ If not knowing a key word or expression, a)admit or clarify the question if necessary, with the delegates. b)deduce from 【 2】 _ 【 2】 _ B. About ideas/concepts 【 3】 _ of different kinds of texts that 【 3】 _ a)present logical arguments b)present a sequence of 【 4】 _ 【 4】 _ c)are descriptive, focusi
4、ng on an event, a scene or a situation identification of the main ideas analysis of ideas linked by 【 5】 _ 【 5】 _ . Memorization of a speech A. Objective to create a telegraphic version of the discourse to link its different parts through its semantic-logical connections B. Means of memorization con
5、centrating on the ideas connecting main ideas to a series of 【 6】 _ 【 6】 _ focusing on the links among the main ideas . 【 7】 _ of the content in another language 【 7】 _ A. Goal: make sure the audience understand the speech. B. Suggestions: enriching ones general vocabulary and style following the pr
6、ess in ones native language watching TV, see movies, etc. in the 【 8】 _ language 【 8】 _ . Conclusion A. Interpreting is a profession that is all about communication: “make their own speech“ 【 9】 _ the speeches they interpret 【 9】 _ be faithful to the original speech as accurate as possible B. Interp
7、reters should take advantage of all the possible 【 10】 _ available in their working languages. 【 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 ques
8、tions 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 Employees ill the US are paid for their time. This means that they are supposed to_. （ A） work hard
9、while their boss is around （ B） come to work when there is work to be done （ C） work with initiative and willingness （ D） work through their lunch break 12 One of the advantages of flexible working hours is that （ A） pressure from work can be reduced （ B） working women can have more time al, home （
10、C） traffic and commuting problems can be solved （ D） personal relationships in offices can be improved 13 On the issue of working contracts in the US, which statement is NOT correct ? （ A） Performance at work matters more than anything else. （ B） There are laws protecting employees working rights. （
11、 C） Good reasons must be provided in order to fire workers. （ D） Working contracts in the US are mostly short-term ones. 14 It can be assumed from the interview that an informal atmosphere might be found in （ A） small firms （ B） major banks （ C） big corporations （ D） law offices 15 The interview is
12、mainly about_ in the USA. （ A） office hierarchies （ B） office conditions （ C） office rules （ D） office 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 g
13、iven 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 The man Mr. Cheney accidentally shot and injured is （ A） a doctor. （ B） a secretary. （ C） a lawyer. （ D） a leader. 17 The Bush Administration has been accused by Harry Reid of （ A） being covert. （ B） shielding Dick. （ C） being dishonest. （ D） attacking the
14、 victim. 17 The year which preceded my fathers death made great change in my life. I had been living in New Jersey, working defense plants, working and living among southerners, white and black. I knew about the south, of course, and about how southerners treated Negroes and how they expected them t
15、o behave, but it had never entered my mind that anyone would look at me and expect me to behave that way. I learned in New Jersey that to be a Negro meant, precisely, that one was never looked at but was simply at the mercy of the reflexes of the color of ones skin caused in other people. I acted in
16、 New Jersey as I had always acted, that is as though I thought a great deal of myself - I had to act that way - with results that were, simply, unbelievable. I had scarcely arrived before I had earned the enmity, which was extraordinarily ingenious, of all my superiors and nearly all my co-workers.
17、In the beginning, to make matters worse, I simply did not know what was happening. I did not know what had done, and I shortly began to wonder what anyone could possibly do, to bring about such unanimous, active, and unbearably vocal hostility. I knew about jim-crow, but I had never experienced it.
18、I went to the same serf-service restaurant three times and stood with all the Princeton boys before the counter, waiting for a hamburger and coffee; it was always an extraordinarily long time before anything was set before me: I had simply picked something up. Negroes were not served there, I was to
19、ld, and they had been waiting for me to realize that I was always the only Negro present. Once I was told this, I determined to go there all the time. But now they were ready for me and, though some dreadful scenes were subsequently enacted in that restaurant, I never ate there again. It was same st
20、ory all over New Jersey, in Bars, bowling alleys, diners, places to live. I was always being forced to leave, silently, or with mutual imprecations. I very shortly became notorious and children giggled behind me when I passed and their elders whispered or shouted - they really believed that I was ma
21、d. And it did begin to work on my mind, of course; I began to be afraid to go anywhere and to compensate for this I went places to witch I really should not have gone and where, God knows, I had no desire to be. My reputation in town naturally enhanced my reputation at work and my working day became
22、 one long series of acrobatics designed to keep me out of trouble. I cannot say that these acrobatics night, with But one aim: to eject me. I was fired once, and contrived, with tile aid of a friend from New York, to get back on the payroll; was fired again, and bounced back again. It took a while t
23、o fire me for the third time, but the third time took. There were no loopholes anywhere. There was not even any way of getting back inside the gates. That year in New Jersey lives in my mind as though it were the year during which, having an unsuspected predilection for it, I first contracted some d
24、read, chronic disease, the unfailing symptom of which is kind of blind fever, a pounding in the skull and fire in the bowels. Once this disease is contracted, one can never be really carefree again, for the fever, with- out an instants warning, can recur at any moment. It can wreck more. important r
25、ace relations. There is not a Negro alive who does not have this rage in his Blood - one has the choice, merey, of living with it consciously or surrendering to it. As for me, this fever has recurred in me, and does, and will until the day I die. My last night in New Jersey, a white friend from New
26、York took me to the nearest Big town, Trenton, to go to the movies and have a few drinks. As it turned out, he also saved me from, at the very least, a violent whipping. Almost every de- tail of that night stands out very clearly in my memory. I even remember the name of the movie we saw because its
27、 title impressed me as being so partly ironical. It was a movie about the German occupation of France, starring Maureen O Hara and Charles Laughton and called This Land Is Mine. I remember the name of the diner we walked into when the movie ended. It was the “American Diner“. When we walked in the c
28、ounterman asked what we wanted and I remember answering with the casual sharpness which had become my habit: “We want a hamburger and a cup of coffee, what do you think we want?“ I do not know why, after a year of such rebuffs, I so completely failed to anticipate his answer, which was, of course, “
29、We dont serve Negroes here.“ This reply failed to discompose me, at least for the moment. I made some sardonic comment about the name of the diner and we walked out into the streets. This was the time of what was called the “brown-out“, when the lights in all American cities were very dim. When we r
30、eentered the streets something happened to me which had the force of an optical illusion, or a nightmare. The streets were very crowded and I was facing north. People were moving in every direction but it seemed to me, in that instant, that all of the people I could see, and many more than that, wer
31、e moving toward me, against me, and that everyone was white. I re- member how their faces string connecting my head to my Body had been cut. I began to walk. I heard my friend call after me, but I ignored him. Heaven only knows what was going on in his mind, but he had the good sense not to touch me
32、 - I dont know what would have happened if he had - and to keep me in sight. I dont know what was going on in my mind, either; I certainly had no conscious plan. I wanted to do something to crush these white faces, which were crushing me. I walked for perhaps a block or two until I came to an enormo
33、us, glittering, and fashionable restaurant in which I knew not even the intercession of the Virgin would cause me to be served. I pushed through the doors and look the first vacant seat I saw, at a table or two, and waited. I do not know how long I waited and I rather wonder, until today, what I cou
34、ld possibly have looked like. Whatever I looked towards her. I hated her for her white face, and for her great, astounded, frightened eyes. I felt that if she found a black man so frightening I would make her fright worthwhile. She did not ask me what wanted, but repeated, as though she had learned
35、it somewhere, “We dont serve Negroes here. “She did not say it with the blunt, derisive hostility to which I had grown so accustomed, but, rather, with a note of apology in her voice, and fear. This made me colder and more murderous than ever. I felt I had to do something with my hands. I wanted her
36、 to come close enough for me to get her neck between my hands. So I pretended not to have understood her, hoping to draw her closer And she did step a very short step closer, with her pencil poised incongruously over pad, and repeated the formula:“, dont serve negroes here.“ Somehow, with the repeti
37、tion of that phrase, which was already ringing in my head like a thousand bells of a night- mare, I realized that she would never come any closer and that I would have to strike from a distance. There was nothing on the table but an ordinary water-mug half full of water, and I picked this up and hur
38、led it with all my strength at her. She ducked and it missed her and shattered against the mirror behind the bar. And with that sound, my frozen blood abruptly thawed. I returned from wherever I had been, I rose and began running for the door. A round, pot-bellied man grabbed me by the nape of the n
39、eck just as I reached the doors and began to beat me about the face. I kicked him and got loose and ran into the streets. My friend whispered, “Run!“ and I ran. My friend stayed outside the restaurant long enough to misdirect my pursuers and the police, who arrived, he told me, at once. I do not kno
40、w what I said to him when he came to my room that night. I could not have said much, I felt, in the oddest, most awful way, that I had somehow betrayed him, I lived it over and over and over again, the way one relives an automobile accident after it has happened and one finds oneself alone and safe.
41、 I could not get over two facts, both equally difficult for the imagination to grasp, and one was that I could have been murdered. But the other was that I had been ready to commit murder. I saw nothing clearly but I did see this: that my life, my real life, was in danger, and not from anything othe
42、r people might do but from the hatred I carried in my own heart. 18 The word reputation in “my reputation in town enhanced my reputation at work“ is used in a(n) _ sense. （ A） derogatory （ B） ironical （ C） appreciative （ D） neutral 19 “That year in New Jersey lives in my mind. “,as the author intend
43、ed, means _. （ A） that was a year in which awful things happened to me （ B） that was a year that I will never even forget （ C） that was a year that only existed in my mind; but never happened to exist （ D） that was a year when I lived in New Jersey 20 The reason why the author says in the essay that
44、 the title of the movie This Land Is Mine is ironical was that the land is _. （ A） not really that of the native born black Americans （ B） that of the Frenchmen; the land refers to France （ C） mine; yet it was occupied by Germans （ D） mine; the land is that of the Americans. 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOW
45、LEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 21 The United States lies between two oceans,_to its east and_to its west. （ A） the Pacific Ocean; the Atlantic Ocean （ B） the Atlantic Ocean; the Pacific Ocean （ C） the India
46、n Ocean; the Atlantic Ocean （ D） the Pacific Ocean; the Indian Ocean 22 Oscar Wilde was a( n) （ A） poet. （ B） novelist. （ C） essayist. （ D） dramatist. 23 In 1940, _ replaced Chamberlain as the British Prime Minister and finally led Britain to victory. A. B. （ A） Attlee （ B） Macmillan （ C） Churchill
47、（ D） Heath 24 To its full sense, the British Parliament consists of （ A） the House of Lords and the House of Commons. （ B） the House and the Senate. （ C） the Queen and the House of Lords. （ D） the Sovereign, the House of Lords and the House of Commons. 25 There are _ morphemes in the word “boyish“.
48、（ A） one （ B） two （ C） three （ D） four 26 The English Civil War is also called _. （ A） the Cromwell War （ B） the Puritan Revolution （ C） the Hundred Years War （ D） the Wars of the Roses 27 Which of the following is George Bernard Shaws first play? （ A） The Quintessence of Ibsenism （ B） The Perfect W
49、agnerite. （ C） Arms and the Man. （ D） Widowers Houses. 28 Percy Bysshe Shelley was famous for _. （ A） Ode to a Nightingale （ B） Ode to Autumn （ C） The rime of Ancient Mariner （ D） Prometheus Unbound 29 Which of the following sports was NOT invented in Britain? （ A） Football. （ B） Tennis. （ C） Archery. （ D） Cricket. 30 One way to overcome regional variation and facilitate
