1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 724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 The Press Conference The press conference has certain advantages. The first advantage lies with the【 1】 _
3、 nature of 【 1】 _ the event itself; public officials are supposed to submit to scrutiny by responding to various questions at a press conference. Secondly, statements previously made at a press conference can be used as a 【 2】 _in judging following statements or policies. 【 2】 _ Moreover, in case of
4、 important events, press confer ences are an effective way to break the news to groups of reporters. However, from the point of view of【 3】 _, the 【 3】 _ press conference possesses some disadvantages, mainly in its【 4】 _and news source. The provider 【 4】 _ virtually determines the manner in which a
5、press conference proceeds. This, sometimes, puts news reporters at a(n)【 5】 _, as can be seen on live 【 5】 _ broadcasts of news conferences. Factors in getting valuable information preparation: a need to keep up to date on journalistic subject matter; 【 6】 _ of the news source: 【 6】 _ 1)news sources
6、【 7】 _to provide information 【 7】 _ 2)news-gathering methods. Conditions under which news reporters cannot trot the information provided by a news source not knowing the required information; knowing and willing to share the information, but without【 8】 _skills; 【 8】 _ knowing the information, but u
7、nwilling to share; willing to share, but unable to recall. 【 9】 of questions asked 【 9】 _ Ways of improving the questions: no words with double meanings; no long questions; specific time, place, etc. ; 【 10】 _questions; 【 10】 _ clear alternatives, or no alternatives in answers. 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】
8、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 to a
9、nswer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 Whats Miss Patty Chings problem? （ A） To be a keen photographer is too costly. （ B） She has to develop 10 rolls of films. （ C） All her films were vanished. （ D） After the trip, she was too tired to choose a good photo servic
10、e. 12 According to Denis, if we want to get the consumers right, we should _. （ A） spend more money （ B） complain to the manager （ C） fight for them （ D） wait for a sale 13 The Consumer of the Month is _. （ A） Denis （ B） Wendy （ C） Patty （ D） Alvin 14 When the store had a sale, the belt which Mr. Al
11、vin Lok liked priced at _. （ A） $100 （ B） $150 （ C） $200 （ D） $300 15 Which of the following items is tree? （ A） Miss Patty Chings tour lasted 3 weeks. （ B） Top-class Photo services compensated Miss Ching because the judge ordered them to pay compensation. （ C） According to Wendy, the problem with s
12、ale prices is that the reductions may not be enough. （ D） Mr. Alvin Lok was surprised because at the sale the price of the belt had reduced by only fifty dollars. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions t
13、hat follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 What news event is reported? （ A） A bomb threat at a hospital. （ B） A flood at a school. （ C） A fire at an apartment building. （ D） A severe drought famine in a village. 17 How did the dog help rescue
14、the baby? （ A） It helped rescue this baby by attracting people s attention by barking. （ B） It helped rescue this baby by pulling the body to safety. （ C） It helped rescue this baby by comforting the baby until help came. （ D） It helped rescue this baby by waking up the baby by ringing the bell. 17
15、Waverly laughed in a lighthearted way. “I mean, really, June.“ And then she started in a deep television-announcer voice: “There benefits, three needs, three reasons to buy. Satisfaction guaranteed.“ She said this in such a funny way that everybody thought it was a good joke and laughed. And then, t
16、o make matters worse, I heard my mother saying to Waverly: “True, one cant teach style, June is not sophisticated like you. She must have been born this way.“ I was surprised at my self, how humiliated I felt. I had been outsmarted by Waverly once again, and now betrayed by my own mother. Five month
17、s ago, some time after the dinner, my mother gave me my “lifes importance,“ a jade pendant on a gold chain. The pendant was not a piece of jewelry I would have chosen for myself. It was almost the size of my little finger, a mottled green and white color, intricately carved. To me, the whole effect
18、looked wrong: too large, too green, too garishly ornate. I stuffed the necklace ha my lacquer box and forget about it. But these day, I think about my lifes importance. I wonder what it means, because my mother died three months ago, six days before my thirty-sixth birthday. And shes the only person
19、 I could have asked to tell me about lifes importance, to help me understand my grief. I now wear that pendant every day. I think the carvings mean something, because shapes and details, which I never seem td notice until after they are pointed out to me, always mean something to Chinese people. I k
20、now I could ask Auntie Lindo, Auntie An-mei, or other Chinese friends, but I also know they would tell me a meaning that is different from what my mother intended. What if they tell me this curving line branching into three oval shapes is a pomegranate and that my mother was wishing me fertility and
21、 posterity? What if my mother really meant the carvings were a branch of pears to give me purity and honesty? And because l think about this all the time, I always notice other people wearing these same jade pendants-not the flat rectangular medallions or the round white ones with holes in the middl
22、e but ones like mine, a two-inch oblong of bright apple green, Its as though we were all sworn to the same secret covenant, so secret we dont even know what we belong to. East weekend, for example, ! saw a bartender wearing one. As I fingered mine, I asked him. “Whered you get yours?“ “my mother gav
23、e it to me,“ He said. I asked him why, which is a nosy question that only one Chinese person can ask another; in a crowd Caucasians, two Chinese people are already like family. “She gave it to me after I got divorced, I guess my mothers telling me Im still worth something.“ And I knew by the wonder
24、in his voice that he had no idea what the pendant really meant. 18 In paragraph 1, Waverly characterizes Junes advertisement as being_. （ A） unsophisticated and heavy handed （ B） somber and convoluted （ C） clear and concise （ D） humorous and effective 19 In the context of the passage, the statement
25、“I was surprised at my self“ (paragraph 3) suggests that June_. （ A） had been unaware if the extant of her emotional vulnerability （ B） was exasperated that she allowed Waverly to embarrass her in public （ C） was amazed that she could dislike anyone so much （ D） had not realized that her mother admi
26、red her friend Waverly 20 For June, a significant aspect of what happened at the dinner party, is that_. （ A） her mother had taken great pains to make Waverly feel welcome （ B） her mother had criticized her for arguing with Waverly （ C） her mother had sided against her in front of family and friends
27、 （ D） Waverly had angered Junes mother 21 The description of Junes encounter with the bartender primarily serves to suggest that_. （ A） that relationship of mother and son is different from that of mother and daughter （ B） June is not the only one who ponders the meaning of a jade pendant （ C） a jad
28、e pendant symbolizes the mystery of life and death （ D） June finally understands the true meaning of her jade pendant 22 The passage indicates that the act of giving a jade pendant can best be described as_. （ A） a widely observed tradition （ B） a mothers plea for forgiveness （ C） an example of a mo
29、thers extravagance （ D） an unprecedented act of generosity 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 23 For nearly 400 years, Britain was under the Roman occupation, but the Romans never conque
30、red the tribes of_. （ A） Celts （ B） Scotland （ C） Saxons （ D） Britain 24 The Doomsday Book was completed in_. （ A） 1086 （ B） 1085 （ C） 1087 （ D） 1066 25 _is the founder of Transformational-Generative Grammar. （ A） Noam Chomsky （ B） Halliday （ C） Saussure （ D） Brown 26 The national anthem of Australi
31、a is now the tune of_, but on regal and vice-regal occasions God Save the Queen must be played. （ A） Song of Australia （ B） The Star Spangled Banner （ C） Dominion Day （ D） Advance Australia Fair 27 Washington. D.C.is named_. （ A） after the U. S. President George Washington （ B） after Christopher Col
32、umbus （ C） after both George Washington and Christopher Columbus （ D） after neither of them 28 The largest river in the United Kingdom, which runs 355 kilometres and empties into the Bristol Strait, is_. （ A） the Severn River （ B） the Clyde River （ C） the Thames River （ D） the Potomac River 29 _ pro
33、posed New Deal. （ A） Roosevelt （ B） Wilson （ C） Nixon （ D） Kennedy 30 _ is a word which is the reflection of more than one objects or concepts. （ A） Monosemy （ B） Polysemy （ C） Antonymy （ D） Synonymy 31 A (n) _ is a unit that is of distinctive value. It is an abstract unit, a collection of distincti
34、ve phonetic features. （ A） phone （ B） sound （ C） allophone （ D） phoneme 32 A linguistic situation in which two standard languages are used either by an individual or by a group of speakers is called _. （ A） situational dialect （ B） slang （ C） linguistic taboo （ D） bilingualism 二、 PART IV PROOFREADIN
35、G ten rolls of films, to be exact. About 360 photographs. When Patty got back home, she gave all her photos to Top-class Photo services for developing. And they vanished. She never saw them again. Of course, she was furious with the company and complained. They apologized and offered her compensatio
36、n: 10 free rolls of films. This made her angry as ever. And she rejected this completely inadequate offer and asked for 2,000 dollars. The company refused her request. So Patty wrote them a letter, telling them to pay up in ten days or she would take them to court. She received no reply. So she did
37、take them to court. But 2 days before the case was due to be heard, she received a cheque for 2,000 dollars. Top-class had obviously made their minds up on how the judge would decide. Patty s case provides a lesson to us all. If we want our rights as consumers, we ve got to fight for them. So for he
38、r determination and spirit we name Patty our Consumer of the Month. Wendy: Thank you, Denis. And now I d like to deal with the problem that many of our listeners write about. Sale prices. When we go to a sale and see a sign on something saying 50 percent off or 300 dollars reduced to 100 how do we k
39、now the prices really have been reduced? One of our listeners, Mr. Alvin Lok tells his story:“ In a department store where I sometimes shopped, I Saw a leather belt priced at 100 dollars. Too expensive to me. But I liked it and thought I might buy it next time the store had a sale. The store did hav
40、e a sale. And I went back to look for the belt. It was there all fight. But the ticket on it now read 200 dollars reduced to 150. The sale price was actually higher than the normal price. What can we, as consumers, do in a case like this? The answer to Alvin s question is that at the moment all we c
41、an do is to complain to the store s management and bring these cases to the attention of the public. Bad publicity might help to put a stop to this dishonest practice. But Consumer s choice will continue to press for the government to bring in laws similar to those in other countries to protect cons
42、umers by making it illegal to cheat them in this way. And now I d like to tell you about our new consumer hot-line which came to operation last month. So far we have received. 11 【正确答案】 C 12 【正确答案】 D 13 【正确答案】 C 14 【正确答案】 B 15 【正确答案】 A SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will he
43、ar 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. 15 【听力原文】 This is Bob Smith from BBC. I m at the scene of a miraculous rescue that occurred earlier today involving a fire, a 3 - m
44、onth - baby, and the baby s dog. Luckily, the fire broke out at the three - story building behind me. Unfortunately, we re not able to get any closer because of the possibility of an explosion. However, witnesses say that they noticed of fire coming from the building earlier this morning. It was bel
45、ieved that everyone had been evacuated to safety; however, one of the residents, Susan O Connor, when she had returned and noticed the fire, she panicked, realizing that her 3 - month - old baby was still inside. However, witnesses report seeing the dog, the family dog, pulling the baby to safety by
46、 the baby s clothes. Fortunately, everyone is reported fine. The baby was taken to tile hospital, as well as the dog, but were happy to say that at this time, it looks like everyone will be fine. 16 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 从记者的话 “The fire broke out at the threestory building behind me ”中可知这是一起三层楼房失火的事件，故正确答
47、案应为 c，而 A、 B、 D三个选项中提到的三种灾害在报道中并未提及。 17 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 对于该题目中的问题 “How did the dog helped rescue the baby?”，从报道 “witnesses report seeing the dog， the family dog， pulling the baby to safety by the babys clothes，中可以得知答案为 B，即婴儿是被那只狗拖到安全地带而被救的。 18 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 细节题。这道题比较简单，根据题干定位第一段，看懂原文中对话内容就很容易选出正确选
48、项 A。 19 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 推理题。这道题也不难，题干已经提示定位在第三段，所以，回溯到原文， “I was Surprised at my self how humiliated I felt” ，注意作者的用词，“surprised”，表示一种没有预料的情感。所以，纵观四个选项， A最合适。注意B， C， D项都只是表达了作者言语的一部分情感，以偏概全，干扰选项。吃透作者字里行间的感情，解答本题不难。 20 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 推理题。作答此题时要看第三、第四自然段，留意第三段的 “and now betrayed by my own mother.”及引起的下文。 “betrayed”一词的释 义可以很快选出 C答案。 21 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 细节题。此题要看第 6-11段，题干问的是 June遇见 bartender。调酒师的描述主要是要传达什么信息。先看看四个选项的解释， A母子不用于母女关系： B并非只有 June思量玉坠的意义； C玉坠象征着生死之谜； D项， June最终明白了她所佩戴的玉坠的真正含义。文中第六整段都是说 June一直在寻思母亲给她玉坠究竟有什么含义，在看第十段， bartender调酒师的原话， “I guess my mothers
