1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 726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 With the explosion of excitement about the Internet, there seems to be another type of addiction that has
3、 invaded the human psyche. I. Internet addiction or computer addiction: what to name the phenomenon? 1)Internet Addiction Disorder Some people seem to be too excited about the Internet. 2)Computer Addiction Many people are attached only to their computers and dont care about the Internet. 3)Cyberspa
4、ce Addiction an addiction to【 1】 _ of experience created through computer engineering many subtypes with【 2】 _ some are game and competition oriented some fulfill more【 3】 _ some are an extension of workaholicism . Normal enthusiasm and abnormal preoccupation: where to draw the line? 1)Addictions ca
5、n be healthy, unhealthy or【 4】 _. healthy: an outlet for learning, creativity and self-expression unhealthy: serious disturbances in ones ability to function in【 5】 _ 2)With no official psychological or psychiatric diagnosis of an Internet or Computer Addiction, there are only definitions of the con
6、stellation of【 6】 _ that constitute such addictions in different ways. . Problematic addiction and healthy Internet use: the speakers premise 1)problematic addiction: when they have【 7】 _ their cyber life from face-to-face life 2)healthy Internet use:【 8】 _ the face-to-face and cyberspace worlds 3)“
7、bringing in the real world“ an important principle for helping people who are addictively【 9】 _ in cyberspace a powerful tool for intervening with people who are addicted to【 10】 _ in cyberspace 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10 【 10】 SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: I
8、n 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 What sub
9、ject is Mr. Pitt good at? （ A） Art. （ B） French. （ C） German. （ D） Chemistry. 12 What does Mr. Pitt NOT do in his spare time? （ A） Doing a bit of acting and photography. （ B） Going to concerts frequently. （ C） Playing traditional jazz and folk music. （ D） Travelling in Europe by hitch-hiking. 13 Whe
10、n asked what a managers role is, Mr. Pitt sounds _. （ A） confident （ B） hesitant （ C） resolute （ D） doubtful 14 What does Mr. Pitt say he would like to be? （ A） An export salesman working overseas. （ B） An accountant working in the company. （ C） A production manager in a branch. （ D） A policy maker
11、in the company. 15 Which of the following statements about the management trainee scheme is TRUE? （ A） Trainees are required to sign contracts initially. （ B） Trainees performance is evaluate.d when necessary. （ C） Trainees starting salary is 870 pounds. （ D） Trainees cannot quit the management sche
12、me. 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 Which of the following is NOT the reason why Sarkozy decided
13、 not to stand by Tony Blair? （ A） Tony Blair supported the Iraq War. （ B） Blair did not lead Britain into the Eurozone. （ C） Tony Blair could not excite the media. （ D） Britain is not in the passport-free area. 16 Sony: Management by Whim In the late 1980s, Akio Morita, the co-founder of Sony Corp,
14、embarked on the most costly shopping expedition of his long career. A visionary who believed that Sonys future lay in the convergence of hardware and “content“ such as music and film, Morita eventually set his sights on Columbia Pictures Entertainment, with its two studios and a vast library of movi
15、e titles and television series. In September, 1989, after months of on-again, off-again negotiations, Sony agreed to pay the inflated asking price of $3. 2 billion and assume $ 1.6 billion in debt. What was the reason for such a decision? According to John Nathans Sony: The Private Life, it was moti
16、vated only by senior executives desire to please the company patriarch. Even Morita, then Sonys chairman and CEO, believed that Columbias price tag, originally $ 35 per share, was too high. In a closed-door meeting in August, 1989, details of which have never been fully revealed, he told his seven t
17、op aides, who made up the decision-making executive committee, that he was abandoning the idea of the acquisition. That would have been the end of it had Morita not voiced regret over dinner that evening with the committee members. “Its too bad,“ he grieved, “Ive always dreamed of owning a Hollywood
18、 studio.“ The next day, the group met again and promptly decided that Sony would purchase Columbia after all. In the weeks that followed, Sony upped its bid from an initial $15 to $27 a share and, by late September, made a deal that was ridiculed by industry experts. In 1994, mismanagement forced So
19、ny to write off $ 2.7 billion and assume a loss of $ 510 million for its Hollywood experiment. Sony: The Private Life is filled with such insiders tales, making it the most vivid and detailed account in English of the personalities who built the $ 50 billion-plus consumer-electronics giant. Nathan,
20、a professor of Japanese cultural studies at the University of California, got access to dozens of executives who had contributed to or witnessed Sonys development since its 1946 founding in war-devastated Tokyo. Nathan offers, however, only limited analysis of Sony, the corporation. And he tends to
21、go over well-walked ground, how Sony established itself in the U.S. and how it developed famous products or devices. Much of this has appeared before in articles and, to a lesser extent, in books. This is not to say that Nathans book has no point of view. The companys underlying problem, as illustra
22、ted in the Columbia case, is that the environment in which the Sony Corporation has historically conducted its affairs is less public than personal, less rational than sentimental. In conclusion, Nathan says that, under the current leadership of President Nobuyuki Idei, Sony is emerging as a rationa
23、l company. Moreover, Idei and his practical-minded managers are intent on reinventing Sony as an Internet company. From now on, says Nathan, “personal relationships are not likely again to figure decisively. “ But how will this Sony fare? Nathan admits that a dazzling future is far from guaranteed.
24、17 Which of the following is true of Sonys acquisition of Columbia Pictures? （ A） It was motivated by Moritas desire to project an image of success. （ B） Sonys top executives were quite convinced of its benefits for the company. （ C） Entertainment industry insiders believed it was the failure of Hol
25、lywood. （ D） It was the expensive expansion from electronics into entertainment. 18 The word “patriarch“ (Line 5, Para. 2) most probably means _. （ A） founder （ B） monarch （ C） elder （ D） forerunner 19 Nathans attitude towards Morita seems to be of_. （ A） strong distaste （ B） implicit criticism （ C）
26、 enthusiastic support （ D） reserved consent 20 It can be inferred from the last two paragraphs that_. （ A） Sony: The Private Life is the biography of Akio Morita （ B） Sonys Japanese leaders have been too practical-minded （ C） the management problem of Sony cannot be rectified overnight （ D） Nathan d
27、id not write about how Sony established itself as the electronics giant 21 The best title for the passage may be_. （ A） Sonys Shopping Expedition （ B） Sony: the Private Life （ C） Who Drove Sony to Ground （ D） Sony: Management by Impulse 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are te
28、n multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 22 Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over （ A） Ezra Pound. （ B） Ralph Waldo Emerson. （ C） Robert Frost. （ D） Emily Dickinson. 23 Pip is the character of Charles Dickens novel （ A） Oliver Tw
29、ist. （ B） David Copperfield. （ C） A Tale of Two Cities. （ D） Great Expectations. 24 In his inaugural speech,_said that “the only tiling we have to fear is fear itself.“ （ A） Abraham Lincoln （ B） Theodore Roosevelt （ C） Woodrow Wilson （ D） Franklin Roosevelt 25 The word “performance“ is an example of
30、_in word formation. （ A） acronym （ B） blending （ C） derivation （ D） back formation 26 Which of the following is a minimal pair? （ A） pet, kid （ B） put, pest （ C） cave, shave （ D） must, taste 27 New England is in the _ of the United States. （ A） northwest （ B） southeast （ C） southwest （ D） northeast
31、29 After the g01d rush, the city of_became the financial and economic centre in Australia. （ A） Canberra （ B） Sydney （ C） Melbourne （ D） Perth 30 Which term of the following is used for oppositeness of meaning? （ A） Homonymy. （ B） Polysemy. （ C） Antonymy. （ D） Synonymy. 31 Who were the ancestors of
32、the English and the founders of England? （ A） the Anglo-Saxon （ B） the Normans （ C） the Vikings （ D） the Romans 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING Dolly died prematurely in 2003 after developing cancer and arthritis. 三、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the followin
33、g topic. 35 The government should control the amount of violence in films and on television in order to decrease the violent crimes in society. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this issue? Write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic: The Significance of Control over Film Vio
34、lence In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary Marks will be awarded for content, or
35、ganization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. 专业英语八级模拟 试卷 726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 poi
36、nts. 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, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-ta
37、king. 0 【听力原文】 Library Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to our library. I believe Mr. Howard have shown you the different reading rooms on the first and second floors. This room in which you are now standing is the lending and catalogue room. Behind the counter is the open stacks. The door at the
38、far end of the open stacks leads to the closed stacks. Now Id like to introduce to you how to make use of the references and books here for your study and research. There are also certain rules on borrowing books that I need to explain to you. College libraries are designed primarily for research an
39、d study. To illustrate its use, let us choose a research topic and follow the step-by-step procedure of looking up the material for the paper. Lets suppose your assignment is to write a paper on a novel called “The Sun Also Rises“ by American writer Ernest Hemingway. The initial step is to go to the
40、 main catalog over there. You may notice that the many small drawers on those large wooden cabinets are lined up in alphabetical order. Each of the drawers contains hundreds of alphabetically sequenced cards. These cards are printed references to all materials available in the library. Each publicat
41、ion is indexed in 3 ways: by subject, by author (family name comes first), and by title. Title cards are cataloged by the first word of the book title, omitting the articles like “a“, “an“, and “the“. Then, you look up “Hemingway, Ernest“ in the subject index. Following this head, you will be able t
42、o see cards of all the books by him, including the book “The Sun Also Rises“. You can also see another set of Hemingway material with cards that list books about him, including biographies and literary criticism of his works. But if you want to do some research on a writer who is not as famous as He
43、mingway, you probably could not find the heading by his name in the subject index. In that case, you just look him up in the author index, which is stored in the cabinet on the right. And if you only know the name of the book, you can use the title index on the left. Remember that for the book “The
44、Sun Also Rises“, the first word on the card is “sun“, so you should look for the drawers for the letter “s“. And then you get the cards for the books you need. On the upper left corner of each card is the call number. This is the numerical code that indicates where the book is located in the library
45、. Like most libraries, our library has open and closed stacks. If your book is on the open stacks, you can go to the open-stack room, and according to the call number find it by yourself. Its very easy, because all the books are arranged and shelved by call number. But you know we have only about 30
46、,000 books on open stacks, while most of the 800,000 books in our library are kept in closed stacks. More often than not, the books you need could only be found in the closed stacks which are accessible only to teachers and graduate students. For undergraduates like you, borrowing books from the clo
47、sed stacks has to be done with the help of our library staff. In that case, you must fill out a call slip for the book, indicating the call number, author and title. You can obtain call slips on tables near the catalog cabinets. You present your call slip together with your library card to a librari
48、an at the circulation desk. He or she will help you cheek the book out from the closed stacks. The librarian will charge the book to your card through an electronic device. The device can read the bar codes on your card and on the book and transfer the information to a computer for storage. It is ea
49、sy and fast, saving the time and trouble of filling forms and stampings. But it is also very strict and impersonal. The borrowing period for each book is one month, If you have not finished your book by the due date, you may request a renewal. You will have to take the book back with you. If no one else has requested the book, the book will be charged to your card again for another loan period. If you failed to
