1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 717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 Types of Language Testing I. Placement sort new students into【 B1】 _【 B1】 _ test the students【 B2】 _ rath
3、er than specific points of learning【 B2】 _ Interview as a good form of placement tests: -【 B3】 _both positive and negative factors that【 B3】 _ are not revealed by written tests - assess both oral production and fluency II. Diagnostic also called【 B4】 _ or progress tests【 B4】 _ check students progres
4、s after learning a particular point the results【 B5】 _ those learning well, meanwhile,【 B5】 _ give feedback to those not III.【 B6】 _【 B6】 _ also called attainment tests examine a longer period of learning than diagnostic tests determine which level a student lies with【 B7】 _ standard【 B7】 _ IV. Prof
5、iciency assess the students ability in【 B8】 _【 B8】 _ test students ability to repair【 B9】 _ in communication【 B9】 _ An example of proficiency test: TOEFL - Listening Comprehension: to measure the ability to understand English as it is spoken in US - Structure and Written Expression: to examine the k
6、nowledge of structural and【 B10】 _ points in standard written English【 B10】 _ - Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension: to test the ability to understand a variety of reading materials 1 【 B1】 2 【 B2】 3 【 B3】 4 【 B4】 5 【 B5】 6 【 B6】 7 【 B7】 8 【 B8】 9 【 B9】 10 【 B10】 SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In
7、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 to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 Which of t
8、he following features of a creative personality is NOT mentioned in the interview? （ A） Unconventional. （ B） Original. （ C） Resolute. （ D） Critical. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At
9、 the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 12 The reasons why the church wanted to burn Harry Potter books didnt include that _. （ A） it believed that the books were an abhorrence to God （ B） it believed that the books would weaken the communication with God （
10、C） it believed that the existence of God had been confused by the book （ D） it believed that the books would ruin the lifves of many young people 13 Which statement is not true? （ A） The stories of Harry Potter are criticized in some other cities in U.S except New Mexicon （ B） Young people are fasci
11、nated with Harry Potter （ C） Christian churches hate Harry Potter （ D） Pastor Jack Brock planned to burn the Harry Potter books on Sunday 13 A period of climate change about 130,000 years ago would have made water travel easier by lowering sea levels and creating navigable lakes and rivers in the Ar
12、abian Peninsula, the study says. Such a shift would have offered early modern humanswhich arose in Africa about 200,000 years agoa new route through the formerly scorching northern deserts into the Middle East. The new paper was spurred by the discovery of several 120,000-year-old tools at a desert
13、archaeological site in the United Arab Emirates. The presence of the toolswhose design is uniquely African, experts sayso early in the region suggests early humans marched out of Africa into the Arabian Peninsula directly from the Horn of Africa, roughly present-day Somalia Previously, scientists ha
14、d thought humans first left via the Nile Valley or the Far East. “Up till now we thought of cultural developments leading to the opportunity of people to move out of Africa,“ said study co-author Hans-Peter Uerpmann, a retired archaeobiologist at the University of Tubingen in Germany. “Now we see, I
15、 think, that it was the environment that was the key to this,“ Uerpmann said during a press briefing Wednesday. The discovery “leaves a lot of possibilities for human migrations, and keeping this in mind, might change our view completely.“ During the past few years, a series of tools were discovered
16、 at the Jebel Faya site in the U.AE., some of whichsuch as hand axeshad a two-sided appearance previously seen only in early Africa. Scientists used luminescence dating to determine the age of sand grains buried with the stone tools. This technique measures naturally occurring radiation stored in th
17、e sand. For the climatic data, scientists studied the climate records of ancient lakes and rivers in cave stalagmites, as well as changes in the level of the Red Sea. This warmer period 130,000 years or so ago caused more rainfall on the Arabian Peninsula, turning it into a series of lush rivers tha
18、t humans might have boated or rafted. During this period the southern Red Seas levels dropped, offering a “brief window of time“ for humans to easily cross the seawhich was then as little as 2.5 miles wide, according to Adrian Parker, a physical geographer from Oxford Brookes University in the Unite
19、d Kingdom. Once humans entered the peninsula, they dispersed and likely reached the Jebel Faya site by about 125,000 years ago, according to the study, published in the journal Science. Geneticist Spencer Wells called the discovery a “very interesting find,“ especially because the Arabian Peninsula
20、is becoming a hot spot for archaeological findsparticularly underwater, since the Persian Gulf was a fertile river delta during early human migrations. But he noted that the study doesnt “rewrite the book on what we know about human migratory history.“ Thats because tools dating to the same period h
21、ave already been found in Israel, so its “consistent with what we suspected“ about an earlier wave of migration into the Middle East, said Wells, director of the National Geographic Societys Genographic Project. Wells also noted theres no evidence yet that the migrants in the new paper were our ance
22、storsthe group, and their genes, may have died out long ago. Bence Viola, of the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, agreed the finding was interesting but not that surprising, also citing the evidence of humans in Israel about 120,000 years ago. Viola, who wasnt
23、involved in the study, added that the migration route proposed in the paper makes sense on another levelthe Arabian Peninsula would have been something early humans were used to. “If you look even today, the environment in the Horn of Africa, in Somalia or northern Ethiopia, is similar to what you s
24、ee in Oman or Yemennot like the big desert,“ Viola noted. “Its not like they needed to adapt to a completely different environmentits an environment that they knew.“ Why they made the trek is another question, since they wouldnt have been hurting for food or resources in their African homeland, Viol
25、a noted. “Curiosity,“ he said, “is a pretty human desire.“ 14 The word “scorching“ in the first paragraph means （ A） aboriginal. （ B） primitive. （ C） luxuriant. （ D） baking-hot. 15 According to Hans-Peter, Which of the following statements is CORRECT? （ A） The cultural improvement caused the relocat
26、ion. （ B） Cultural development is crucial to human society. （ C） The essence of the migration is the environment. （ D） The discovery has changed our view completely. 16 The scientists resorted to the following data sources in the research EXCEPT （ A） radiation of the ancient lake water. （ B） radiati
27、on detected in the sand. （ C） the fluctuation of ocean levels. （ D） appearance of the stone tools. 17 The phrase “offering a brief window of time for humans to easily cross the sea“(5th paragraph) is closest in meaning to （ A） providing a panoramic view of the sea and an easier way to cross it. （ B）
28、 Only a small window zone of the sea as little as 2.5 miles wide could be crossed. （ C） The descending supplied a temporary opportunity to cross the sea easily. （ D） The sea was as narrow as a window so that people could cross it without effort. 18 The scientists attitude towards the study published
29、 in the journal science is （ A） skeptical. （ B） enthusiastic. （ C） astonished. （ D） indifferent. 19 Which of the following is TRUE about the ancient Africans mentioned in the research? （ A） They moved to other areas to seek for food and resources. （ B） The environment in Arabian Peninsula is better
30、for them. （ C） They are the ancestors of the present Arabian Peninsula inhabitants. （ D） The reason of their migration still remains inconclusive. 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 20 T
31、he Murder in the Cathedral is about the martyrdom of_. （ A） Thomas Becket （ B） T.S. Eliot （ C） Geoffrey Chaucer （ D） Henry II 21 _ is the center of British financing system. （ A） The Bank of England （ B） The Bank of Britain （ C） The Bank of the World （ D） Fiscal Bank 22 _ is the study of how sentenc
32、es are structured. （ A） Semantics （ B） Syntax （ C） Phonetics （ D） Pragmatics 23 When did English novelist William Golding receive his Nobel Prize in Literature? （ A） 1981. （ B） 1982. （ C） 1983. （ D） 1984. 24 The Australian Federal Parliament is modeled on _. （ A） the Westminster system （ B） the Whit
33、e House system （ C） the United Nations system （ D） the Aboriginal system 25 Son and Lovers was written by _. （ A） George Bernard Shaw （ B） D. H. Lawrence （ C） Virginia Woolf （ D） James Joyce 26 The following are the founding fathers of the American Republic except _. （ A） George Washington （ B） Thom
34、as Jefferson （ C） Willian Penn （ D） Benjamin Franklin 27 The novel Gullivers Travels is written by （ A） Daniel Defoe. （ B） Jonathan Swift. （ C） Francis Bacon. （ D） James Joyce. 28 In 1812, the United States fought the first war with （ A） France. （ B） Britain. （ C） Spain. （ D） Mexico. 29 _ is the fir
35、st American black woman writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. （ A） Toni Morrison （ B） Saul Bellow （ C） Emily Dickenson （ D） Pearl S. Buck 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING he will be conscious that there is something in it too deep and too unmanageable to imitate. 三、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directio
36、ns: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 42 With the mobile phones entrance into the common families, the phone calls in the classes have become a hot issue. Some people consider it as a natural development with the economic progress of our country. Others believe that the
37、phones are luxuries that will distract the students and do harm to them. Whats your opinion? Write an article of about 400 words on this topic. 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 su
38、pport the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or 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. Wri
39、te your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR. 专业英语八级模拟试卷 717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
40、 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】 Types of Language Testing Good morning, everyone. Today,
41、well talk about the language tests. As we know, the testing history in the world can be traced back to nearly two thousand years ago. And in todays lecture, Id like to mainly discuss the different types of language testing. The first one is a placement test, which is designed to sort new students in
42、to teaching groups, so that they can start a course at approximately the same level as the other students in the class. It is concerned with the students present standing, and so relates to general ability rather than specific points of learning. As a rule, the results are needed quickly so that tea
43、ching may begin. A variety of tests is necessary because a range of different activities is more likely to give an accurate overall picture of a students level than a single assessment. Sometimes one member of staff sees each student individually before the final class allocation is made. This proce
44、dure has several advantages. It helps to complete the assessment for each individual student by disclosing factors which are not revealed by the written tests, either positive ones such as a friendly, outgoing character or a higher level of production than a writing test suggests, or negative ones s
45、uch as a slight stammer or more than average shyness. Perhaps the greatest advantage of the interview is that there is now the opportunity to assess both oral production(the ability to make English sounds)and fluency(the ability to sound English in a social situation)at one and the same time. Second
46、ly, let us look at diagnostic tests. This test, sometimes called a formative or progress test, checks on students progress in learning particular elements of the course. It is used, for example, at the end of a unit in the course book or after a lesson designed to teach one particular point. These t
47、ests can take the form of an extension of the lesson from a practice phase into an assessment phase. They can provide information about progress which may be used systematically for remedial work. The diagnostic test tries to answer the question “How well have the students learned this particular ma
48、terial?“ If his learning has been successful, the results will give a considerable lift to the students morale and he is likely to approach the next learning tasks with fresh enthusiasm. If he finds he has not mastered the point at issue, the test should give him clear indication of how he falls sho
49、rt, so that he can do some useful revision. Next, achievement test. An achievement test, also called an attainment test, looks back over a longer period of learning than the diagnostic test, for example a years work, or a whole course, or even a variety of different courses. It is intended to show the standard which the students have now reached in relatio
