1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 729 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 Franklin D. Roosevelt Roosevelt was elected President in 1932, when the United States was in【 1】 . Then
3、the new president began to adopt a complex of【 2】 known as the New Deal. The New Deal brought to the individual citizen a sharp【 3】 of interest in government. Then a policy of【 4】 currency inflation was adopted in order to start an upward movement in commodity prices. In agriculture, far-reaching re
4、forms were【 5】 . By 1940, nearly six million farmers were receiving【 6】 subsidies under this program. In the 1936 election, Roosevelt won an even more【 7】 victory over his republican opponent. The 1940 presidential election【 8】 another majority for Roosevelt. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
5、in 1941, Roosevelt directed organization of the Nations【 9】 and resources for global war. He was devoted much to the planning of a United Nations, where, he hoped, international difficulties could be【 10】 . 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10 【 10】 SECTION B INTERVIEW D
6、irections: 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 answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview.
7、 11 According to the interviewer, which of the following best indicates the relationship between choice and mobility? （ A） Better educationgreater mobilitymore choices. （ B） Better educationmore choicesgreater mobility. （ C） Greater mobilitybetter educationmore choices. （ D） Greater mobilitymore cho
8、icesbetter education. 12 According to the interview, which of the following details about the first poll is INCORRECT? （ A） Shorter work hours was least chosen for being most important. （ B） Chances for advancement might have been favoured by young people. （ C） High income failed to come on top for
9、being most important. （ D） Job security came second according to the poll results. 13 According to the interviewee, which is the main difference between the first and the second poll? （ A） The type of respondents who were invited. （ B） The way in which the questions were designed. （ C） The content a
10、rea of the questions. （ D） The number of poll questions. 14 What can we learn from the respondents answers to items 2, 4 and 7 in the second poll? （ A） Recognition from colleagues should be given less importance. （ B） Workers are always willing and ready to learn more new skills. （ C） Psychological
11、reward is more important than material one. （ D） Work will have to be made interesting to raise efficiency. 15 According to the interviewee, which of the following can offer both psychological and monetary benefits? （ A） Contact with many people. （ B） Chances for advancement. （ C） Appreciation from
12、coworkers. （ D） Chances to learn new skills. 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 follow
13、ing statements is CORRECT? U.S. lawmakers_. （ A） challenged the accord for freezing Pyongyangs nuclear program （ B） required the inspection of Pyongyangs nuclear site for at least five years （ C） were worried that North Korea may take advantage of the concessions （ D） blamed the U. S. negotiator for
14、 making no compromises with North Korea 16 Pundits who want to sound judicious are fond of warning against generalizing. Each country is different, they say, and no one story fits all of Asia. This is, of course, silly., all of these economies plunged into economic crisis within a few months of each
15、 other, so they must have had something in common. In fact, the logic of catastrophe was pretty much the same in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and South Korea. (Japan is a very different story. ) In each case investor mainly, but not entirely, foreign banks who had made short-term loansall tried to
16、pull their money out at the same time. The result was a combined banking and currency crisis, a banking crisis because no bank can convert all its assets into cash on short notice; a currency crisis because panicked investors were trying not only to convert long-term assets into cash, but to convert
17、 baht or rupiah into dollars. In the face of the stampede, governments had no good options. If they let their currencies plunge inflation would soar and companies that had borrowed in dollars would go bankrupts if they tried to support their currencies by pushing up interest rates, the same firms wo
18、uld probably go bust from the combination of debt burden and recession. In practice, countries split the differenceand paid a heavy price regardless. Was the crisis a punishment for bad economic management? Like most cliches, the catchphrase “crony capitalism“ has prospered because it gets at someth
19、ing real: excessively cozy relationships between government and business really did lead to a lot of bad investments. The still primitive financial structure of Asian business also made the economies peculiarly vulnerable to a loss of confidence. But the punishment was surely disproportionate to the
20、 crime, and many investments that look foolish in retrospect seemed sensible at the time. Given that there were no good policy options, was the policy response mainly on the right track? There was frantic blame-shifting when everything in Asia seemed to be going wrong: now there is a race to claim c
21、redit when some things have started to go right. The international Monetary Fund points to Koreas recoveryand more generally to the fact that the sky didnt fall after allas proof that its policy recommendations were right. Never mind that other IMF clients have done far worse, and that the economy o
22、f Malaysiawhich refused IMF help, and horrified respectable opinion by imposing capital controlsalso seems to be on the mend. MalaYsias prime Minister, by contrast, claims full credit for any good newseven though neighbouring economies also seem to have bottomed out. The truth is that an observer wi
23、thout any ax to grind would probably conclude that none of the policies adopted either on or in defiance of the IMFs advice made much difference either way. Budget policies, interest rate policies, banking reformwhatever countries tried, just about ali the capital that could flee, did. And when ther
24、e was no mere money to run, the natural recuperative powers of the economies finally began to prevail. At best, the money doctors who purported to offer cures provided a helpful bedside manner; at worst, they were like medieval physicians who prescribed bleeding as a remedy for all ills. Will the pa
25、tients stage a full recovery? It depends on exactly what you mean by “full“. South Koreas industrial production is already above its pre-crisis level; but in the spring of 1997 anyone who had predicted zero growth in Koreas industry over the next two years would have been regarded as a reckless doom
26、sayer. So if by recovery you mean not just a return to growth, but one that brings the regions performance back to something like what people used to regard as the Asian norm, they have a long way to go. 17 According to the passage, which of the following is NOT the writers opinion? （ A） Countries p
27、aid a heavy price for whichever measure taken. （ B） Countries all found themselves in an economic dilemma. （ C） Withdrawal of foreign capital resulted in the crisis. （ D） Most governments chose one of the two options. 18 The writer thinks that those Asian countries_. （ A） well deserved the punishmen
28、t （ B） invested in a senseless way at the time （ C） were unduly punished in the crisis （ D） had bad relationships between government and business 19 It can be inferred from the passage that IMF policy recommendations_. （ A） were far from a panacea in all cases （ B） were feasible in their recipient c
29、ountries （ C） failed to work in their recipient countries （ D） were rejected unanimously by Asian countries 20 At the end of the passage, the writer seems to think that a full recovery of the Asian economy is_. （ A） due （ B） remote （ C） imaginative （ D） unpredictable 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (1
30、0 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 21 When is Labor Day in U.S.A.? （ A） The first Monday of May. （ B） The first Monday of September. （ C） The last Monday of May. （ D） The last Monday of September. 22 _is jointly writte
31、n by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Its publication marked the beginning of the Romantic revival in England. （ A） Poetical Sketches （ B） Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect （ C） Biographia Literaria （ D） Lyrical Ballads 23 _studies the meaning of language. （ A） Morphology （ B） Se
32、mantics （ C） Syntax （ D） Etymology 24 The brain stem maintains the essential functions EXCEPT （ A） respiration. （ B） muscle coordination. （ C） memory. （ D） heart rate. 25 _was Edmund Spensers masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the greatest poems in the English language. （ A） Amoretti （ B）
33、 The Shepheardes Calendar （ C） The Faerie Queene （ D） Four Hymns 26 Which of the following is a poem by Emily Dickinson? （ A） Song of Myself. （ B） The Raven. （ C） A Red, Red Rose. （ D） Because I Could Not Stop for Death. 27 The capital of New Zealand is_. （ A） Auckland （ B） Christchurch （ C） Dunedin
34、 （ D） Wellington 28 The official name of the United Kingdom is_. （ A） the United Kingdom of Great Britain （ B） the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland （ C） the United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland （ D） the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 29 The largest and smal
35、lest states of the United States are （ A） Alaska and Rhode Island. （ B） Texas and Maine. （ C） Texas and Rhode Island. （ D） Alaska and Maine. 30 The famous line “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?“ is from _s poem “Ode to the West Wind“. （ A） George Gordon, Lord Byron （ B） Percy .Shelley （ C）
36、 Samuel T.Coleridge （ D） John Keats 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING you know where services are located and how to use them; you understand some of the customs that accompany ordinary life, and it is relatively easy for you to adjust to them. A greater enjoyment of the new experience is now possible, and yo
37、u may regain some of the initial positive regard you had in the honeymoon stage. If you stay long enough un a visit from a big city to a small town, or, the other way round, you may2 become so well adapted to the new environment that when you return to your original home, you will again experience c
38、ulture shock. For some people, it may take several days to readjust, depending on the length of time they were away. Usual y, however, since you are in your home culture, your shock wears off faster than the shock that you experienced in the new culture. 三、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write
39、 a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 43 In recent years, in order to help children from countryside to fulfill their college dreams, several rounds of “Project of Realizing a Dream“ are launched across China. Quite many disadvantaged kids from countryside are blessed by this pro
40、ject and admitted to college. However, in the process of selecting college candidates, some universities go an “extra mile“ to make the requirement more stringent. For example, rural students whose families have no college graduates in the past THREE generations are prioritized in the list. What do
41、you think of this “extra“ requirement? Is it fair or reasonable? Write an essay of about 400 words. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay. 专业英语八级模拟试卷 729 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
42、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. 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
43、SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking. 0 【听力原文】 Franklin D. Roosevelt was thirty-second president in America history. Franklin Roosevelt was born in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York. He attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. In 1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt. Franklin Roosevelt
44、 entered public service through politics, but as a Democrat. He won election to the New York Senate in 1910. President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and he was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1920. In the summer of 1921, when he was 39, he was stricken with polio
45、myelitis. Demonstrating indomitable courage, he fought to regain the use of his legs, particularly through swimming. Roosevelt was elected President in November, 1932. When he took the presidential oath, the banking and credit system of the nation was in a state of paralysis. By March there were 13,
46、000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. At the depth of the Great Depression, The new President brought an air of cheerful confidence that quickly rallied the people to his banner. Before long, the complex of reforms known as the New Deal was well on its way. He brought hope as he prom
47、ised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.“ During the entire New Deal period, despite its speed in decision and execution, public criticism was never interrupted or suspended; in fact, the New Deal brought to the individual c
48、itizen a sharp revival of interest in government and brought recovery to business and agriculture and relief to the unemployed. With astonishing rapidity the banks were reopened, and a policy of moderate currency inflation was adopted in order to start an upward movement in commodity prices and to a
49、fford some relief to debtors. New governmental agencies brought generous credit facilities to industry and agriculture. Savingsbank deposits up to 5,000 were insured, and severe regulations were imposed upon the sale of securities and the stock exchanges. In agriculture, far-reaching reforms were instituted. Congress passed a more effective farm-relief act, providing that the government make money payment to farmers who would devote part of their land to soil-conserving crops or o
