1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 710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 Going Underground Because of the【 1】 _ associations 【 1】 _ with the dark underground, living underground
3、in the future may not seem a good idea. But there are advantages to an underground living. First, the【 2】 _ would cease to be a 【 2】 _ trouble. There is no problem of keeping a 【 3】 _ temperature. So it can save much 【 3】 _ energy. We are also safe from the【 4】 _. 【 4】 _ caused by bad weather. Secon
4、d, there would be no【 5】 _ time. 【 5】 _ As the daylight is man-made, it could be【 6】 _. 【 6】 _ to meet our needs. Third, the【 7】 _ stability could be 【 7】 _ ensured. Human habitation damages the wild and【 8】 _. many species of their natural 【 8】 _ habitat. Moving underground would turn the Earths su
5、rface back to wilderness and greenery. Fourth, nature would be【 9】 _. 【 9】 _ Instead of a withdrawal from the natural world, living underground would make us easier to reach countryside than living above ground. The countryside is just a few hundred yards【 10】 _. 【 10】 _ the city. 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【
6、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 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds t
7、o answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 According to Dr. Adams, what should we have as an attainable goal of language learning? （ A） Speaking as fluently as a native speaker. （ B） Gaining proficiency in a foreign language. （ C） Learning a language well within a
8、 month. （ D） Learning words without active use of them, 12 Which of the following is Dr. Adams suggestion to tap your learning potential? （ A） Following what a role model does. （ B） Learning new words in contexts. （ C） Knowing your own ways of learning. （ D） Reciting new vocabularies loudly. 13 If y
9、ou favor reading illustrated books to learn a language, you are primarily （ A） an auditory learner. （ B） a visual learner. （ C） a tactile learner. （ D） an unusual learner. 14 When watching movies to learn English, you should NOT （ A） turn on the captions for reference. （ B） watch in the most relaxed
10、 possible way. （ C） pause when encountering new expressions. （ D） use an English-English dictionary. 15 According to the interview, which .of the following helps to better understand different accents? （ A） Following classroom instructions. （ B） Watching plenty of movies online. （ C） Breaking down C
11、ultural barriers. （ D） Backpacking around the world. 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 An armed ga
12、ng attacked buses on the border between Congo and_. （ A） Togo （ B） Cabinda （ C） Angola （ D） Zaire 17 According to the news, which of the following statements is INCORRECT? （ A） The bus driver has been killed by the armed gang. （ B） The number of the injured has remained unknown. （ C） The minister fo
13、r Cabinda said rebels carried out the attack. （ D） No organization has claimed responsibility for the incident. 17 American economists once spoofed university education as the only industry in which those who consume its product do not purchase it; those who produce it do not sell it, and those who
14、finance it do not control it. That apt description, made in the 1970s, has been undermined since then by the emergence of the first for-profit universities in the United States. Controlled by entrepreneurs, these schools which number about 700 and counting sell a practical education to career-minded
15、 students and make a good buck doing it. They are now expanding abroad, creating the first multinational corporations in a sector long suspicious of balance sheets. The companies are lured by a booming market in which capitalist competition is still scarce. The number of university students is expec
16、ted to double in the next 25 years to 170 million worldwide. Demand greatly exceeds supply, because the 1990s saw massive global investment in primary and secondary schools, but not in universities. The number of children enrolled in primary or secondary schools rose by 18 percent around the worldmo
17、re than twice the rate of increase in any previous decade. Now these kids are often graduating from high school to find no openings in national universities, which nevertheless dont welcome for-profit competition. The Brazilian university teachers union warned that foreign corporations would turn hi
18、gher education into “a diploma industry“. Critics raised the specter of declining quality and a loss of Brazils “sovereign control“ over education. For-profit universities met with similar suspicion when they first opened in the United States. By the 1980s they were regularly accused of offering sub
19、standard education and had to fight for acceptance and respect. Lately, they have flourished by catering to older students who arent looking for keg parties, just a shortcut to a better career. For-profit colleges now attract 8 percent of four-year students in the United States, up from 3 percent a
20、decade ago. By cutting out frills, including sports teams, student centers and summer vacation, these schools can operate with profit margins of 20 to 30 percent. In some countries, the American companies operate as they do at home. Apollo found an easy fit in Brazil, where few universities have dor
21、ms, students often take off time between high school and college, and theres no summer vacationjust two breaks in July and December. In other Latin countries, Sylvan has taken a different approach, buying traditional residential colleges like the Universidad del Valle de Mexico (UVM). It has boosted
22、 enrollment by adding and heavily advertising courses in career-track fields like business and engineering, and adding no-frills satellite campuses. Sensitive to the potential hostility against foreign buyers, Sylvan keeps original school names, adding its own brand, Sylvan International Universitie
23、s, to publicity materials, and keeps tuition in line with local private schools. Most of the schools that Sylvan has purchased were managed by for-profits to begin with, including the prestigious Les Roches Hotel Management School in Switzerland. But in general, Says Urdan, Sylvans targets “have not
24、 been run with world-class business practices. Theyre not distressed, but theres an opportunity for them to be better managed.“ When Sylvan paid $ 50 million for a controlling stake in UVM two years ago, the school had revenues of about $ 80 million and an enrollment of 32,000. The success of the fo
25、r-profits is nothing to be afraid of, says World Bank education expert Jamil Salmi: “I dont think they will replace traditional universities, but they can push some more traditional providers to be more innovative and more attentive to the needs of the labor market.“ Some students at Sylvan schools
26、in Latin America welcome the foreign invasion. At the Universidad de las Americas in Santiago, Daniels Villagrn says friends tease her for studying at “Yankeeland,“ but she figures Sylvan connections “will give me an edge when I go out to look for a job. “The emphasis on independent thought is what
27、separates UVM from other institutions in Mexico. And, for better or worse, more American schools are on the way. 18 It can be inferred from the first paragraph that （ A） Americans are arguing about the for-profit universities. （ B） Americans used to pay little for university education. （ C） American
28、s are in favor of the expansion of the universities. （ D） Americans call for the supervision of the for-profit universities. 19 There is a booming market for for-profit universities because （ A） there was less global investment in national universities in the past. （ B） there are fewer universities
29、than primary or secondary schools. （ C） for-profit universities can offer better education to their students. （ D） the competition for top national universities is getting fiercer and fiercer. 20 The word “specter“ in the second paragraph probably means （ A） something that people worry about. （ B） s
30、omething that people know about. （ C） something that people are aware of. （ D） something that people are afraid of. 21 Recently, for-profits universities have been favored by older people because （ A） the teaching methods are appropriate to them. （ B） they provide short-term training programs. （ C）
31、they can secure them a brighter future. （ D） they can enable them to get higher salaries. 22 According to Jamil Salmi, for-profit universities are （ A） a profit booster for national universities. （ B） a reform booster for national universities. （ C） more innovative than national universities. （ D） m
32、ore conservative than national universities. 23 The best title for the passage would be （ A） National and For profit Universities. （ B） The Expansion of Universities. （ C） University Education of the USA （ D） Dollars and Degrees. 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multi
33、ple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 24 “Lead(metal)“ and “ lead(dogs head)“ are spelt in the same way, but pronounced differently. This kind of sense relation is called _ （ A） polysemy. （ B） antonymy. （ C） homonymy. （ D） hyponymy. 25 Many historians wrote t
34、he Sacco and Vanzetti died for their political views, their_. （ A） nationalism （ B） progressivism （ C） radicalism （ D） communism 26 The following words are the examples for “blending“ EXCEPT_. （ A） brunch （ B） smog （ C） motel （ D） gym 27 The capital of New Zealand is _. （ A） Auckland （ B） Christchur
35、ch （ C） Dunedin （ D） Wellington 28 If America had a national poet in the 20th century, it is certainly_. （ A） Frost （ B） Pound （ C） Poe （ D） Whitman 30 Students are wondering how _ could lose California to the US. （ A） France （ B） Spain （ C） Mexico （ D） Portugal 31 _ does not study meaning in isolat
36、ion, but in context. （ A） Pragmatics （ B） Semantics （ C） Sense relation （ D） Concept 32 The character of _ is representative of the English bourgeoisie at the earlier stages of its development. （ A） Tom Jones （ B） Samson （ C） Robinson Crusoe （ D） Roderick Random 33 Which of the following writers did
37、nt belong to the poets in American Colonial Period? （ A） Washington Irving. （ B） Michael Wigglesworth. （ C） Anne Bradstreet. （ D） Edward Taylor. 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING more so, it is all the structures he builds to house himself and his machines, to make possible his transportation and communicatio
38、n, to offer him rest and recreation. All these things distort the wild, depriving many species of plants and animals of their natural habitat. If the works of man were removed below ground, man would still occupy the surface with his farms, his forest, his observation towers, his air terminals and s
39、o on, but the extent of that occupation would be enormously decreased. Indeed, as the underground world becomes increasingly elaborate, even food could be supplied through hydroponic growth in artificially illuminated areas underground. The Earths surface might be increasingly turned over to park an
40、d to wilderness, maintained at ecological stability. Fourth, nature would be closer. It might seem that to go underground is to withdraw from the natural world, but would that be so? Would the withdrawal be more complete than it is now? Look at what we have now: We are working in crowded buildings t
41、hat are often windowless and artificially conditioned; even where there are windows, and if one bothers to look up from his work and look out of the window, what is there to see? Mostly man made buildings spread all the way to the horizon. And to get away from the city, to reach the real countryside
42、, one must travel horizontally for miles, first across downtown city and its terrible traffic, then across suburban sprawls. In an underground culture, the countryside would be right there, a few hundred yards above the city. Underground city dweller would surely be able to see more greenery the eco
43、logically healthier greener than dwellers of surface cities do today. You see, although underground living may seem at first thought odd and repulsive, there are things to be said for it and I havent said them all. 1 【正确答案】 evil 2 【正确答案】 weather 3 【正确答案】 constant 4 【正确答案】 damage 5 【正确答案】 local 6 【正确
44、答案】 adjusted 7 【正确答案】 ecological 8 【正确答案】 deprives 9 【正确答案】 closer 10 【正确答案】 above 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 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview y
45、ou will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 10 【听力原文】 W: Good evening and welcome to tonights program. Our guest is Dr. Charles Adams, who has sparked a great deal of attention over the past several years for his research in the area of la
46、nguage learning. His new book, Learning a Language over Eggs and Toast, has been on the best seller list for the past six weeks. Welcome to our program. M: Its a pleasure to be here. W: Now, Dr. Adams. Tell us about the title of your book, Learning a Language over Eggs and Toast. M: Well, one of the
47、 most important keys to learning another language is to establish a regular study program, like planning a few minutes every morning around breakfast time. W: Now, sorry for saying this, but your ideas may sound a little simplistic to our viewers. I mean I took Spanish in high school for four years,
48、 and I didnt become a proficient speaker of the language. M: Well, I think there are many people that feel that way, and thats just it. Im not implying that we can become fluent speakers in a matter of a few minutes here and there, but rather following a regular, consistent, and focused course of st
49、udy can help us on the way to the promised land of language mastery, and remember there is a difference between native fluency and proficiency in a language, and I am proposing the latter. W: So what are some of the basic keys you are suggesting in the book? M: Well, as I just mentioned, people need to plan out their study by setting realistic and atta
