1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 738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 How to Conquer Public Speaking Fear I. Introduction A. Public speaking a common source of stress for ever
3、yone B. The truth about it it is not (1)_ stressful (1)_ it is very likely to become invigorating (2)_ bears in mind its meaning, key points and reminders related. II. Causes of stress in a speech A. lack of right guiding principles B. lack of right (3)_ (3)_ C. lack of right plan of action III. Mea
4、ning of a (4)_ speech. (4)_ A. It doesnt mean perfection. B. Give your audience something (5)_ so that (5)_ they feel better about themselves; they feel better about jobs they have to do; they feel happy or entertained. IV. Main points for (6)_ a speech (6)_ A. Do not deliver lots of information to
5、the audience. B. Have (7)_ or an index card. (7)_ V. General reminders If you forget the (8)_ about public speaking and (8)_ feel stressful, A go back and review this lecture, B. find out what you did (9)_, (9)_ C. go back out and speak again. Remember that the (10)_ will be impressive. (10)_ 1 (1)
6、2 (2) 3 (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
7、 to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 The average life expectancy of ancient Egyptians is about _. （ A） 32 （ B） 37 （ C） 50 （ D） 60 12 Which of the following is NOT a medical problem ancient Egyptians used to have? （ A） Dental decay. （ B） Tooth erosion. （ C）
8、 Malignant tumors. （ D） Insomnia. 13 The following are very common among ancient Egyptians EXCEPT _. （ A） abscess （ B） intestinal parasites （ C） anaemia （ D） drug addiction 14 The mummy Rameses is different from other Egyptian mummies in that _. （ A） it cannot be destroyed （ B） its heart was not rem
9、oved （ C） most internal organs were removed （ D） it was made with a different technique 15 Which of the following is NOT TRUE of Rameses? （ A） It was on display in Cairo in 1871. （ B） It was taken to Paris for research. （ C） It was seriously damaged in an upheaval. （ D） It was covered in new bandage
10、s. 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 Gates suggested an increase of 10% yearly in U.S. funding for
11、 research for _. （ A） the next 5 years （ B） the next 7 years （ C） the next 11 years （ D） the next 17 years 16 On Christmas day, millions of Britons will gather around the television to watch Downton Abbey, a nostalgic soap opera set in the days of country houses and dignified butlers. Back then, gen
12、tlemen cultivated the land(and occasionally went to war); they did not run a business, a task far beneath their station. In living memory, some middle-class Britons would not allow delivery boys to come to their front door; the tradesmens entrance was at the side. This sniffy attitude towards commer
13、ce was not confined to Britain, nor did it die out with liveried footmen and debutante balls. Aristocrats across Europe were equally suspicious of the nouveaux riches. And their modern descendants, the middle-class intelligentsia who populate the continents universities and staff its public sector,
14、have a tendency to despise the businesspeople who generate the wealth needed to fund their way of living. There is great distaste at the idea that political choices should be dictated by “the markets“; investors should just hand over their money and not ask whether it will be paid back. French polit
15、icians will defend to the death the agricultural subsidies granted to their farmers. But the same politicians are withering about the idea that David Cameron, the British prime minister, might relegate Britain to the fringes of Europe in order to protect the countrys financial-services industry. One
16、 can see a similar attitude in the debate about Germanys role in creating the current euro-mess. Who are these Germans, with their work ethic, their competitive industrial sector and their success in exporting to Asia? Other Europeans may regard Germany with grudging admiration, but they see it less
17、 as an example to be copied than as a tiresome nag, forever blathering about fiscal probity. Let the Germans soil their hands with trade while the rest of us live off the prosperity it brings. Perhaps these attitudes go all the way back to the ancient Greeks and Romans. Their elites had slaves to at
18、tend to their needs. Their lives were not idle, but the path to respectability was through military service or farming, rather than trade. However, it was the merchants bringing the grain from north Africa to Rome who kept the empire fed. These attitudes persisted through the Middle Ages, when money
19、lending was a despised activity to be left to minorities like the Jews; sovereign risk in those days was the danger that the king would imprison or execute his creditors to avoid repayment. When mankind began to escape the Malthusian trap of subsistence living in the late 18th and early 19th centuri
20、es, the attitude towards the new industries was one of disgust for the “dark, Satanic mills“. Admittedly, manufacturing is now seen in a rather more positive light. A far smaller part of the economy, it is bathed in nostalgia: real men making real things. Once a job on a production line was a soul-d
21、estroying drudge; nowadays that label has fallen on service-sector jobs in call centres and fast-food restaurants. Apart from technology, the three most successful industries of the past 50 years have been finance, pharmaceuticals and energy. Look at the way those sectors are portrayed in films and
22、in TV dramas and the same attitudes prevail. Financiers are unthinking brutes, whose obsession with numbers is a form of autism. Multinational drug companies are vast conspiracies selling products with fat margins and hiding their deadly side-effects. Energy companies are despoiling the planet. All
23、these industries are, of course, legitimate subjects for criticism. But such lofty attitudes towards commerce are easy to adopt in a relatively rich society, in which few have to worry where the next meal is coming from. Europeans have had a pretty privileged existence over the past half-century or
24、so, riding on the back of Americas global dominance. But the economic power is shifting towards Asia, a region where many people are prepared to work hard to get ahead and business isnt always a dirty word. Eventually, the great estates like Downton Abbey fell into decay. The cost of maintenance soa
25、red while death duties depleted the owners capital; the servants found better-paying jobs in manufacturing. The aristocrats were forced to discover a head for business, turning their estates into safari parks and their conservatories into tea shops. As their populations age and their relative econom
26、ic weight declines, Europeans may need a similar change in attitude towards the sordid business of earning a national living. 17 It can be inferred from the first paragraph that （ A） middle-class Britons have bias against working people. （ B） British businessmen used to be low in social status. （ C）
27、 Downton Abbey has achieved an enormous success. （ D） Britons would like to see nostalgic soap operas. 18 Germans are mentioned in the passage to （ A） criticize Germanys attitude towards the euro-mess. （ B） sum up European middle-class peoples prejudice. （ C） exemplify the Europeans attitude towards
28、 merchants. （ D） help switch the subject to traditions of the Middle Ages. 19 Which of the following words is used figuratively, not literally? （ A） grain(Paragraph 5) （ B） moneylending(Paragraph 6) （ C） light(Paragraph 7) （ D） drudge(Paragraph 7) 20 As to the images of the industries of finance, ph
29、armaceuticals and energy, the authors attitude is （ A） noncommittal. （ B） affirmative. （ C） commendatory. （ D） repugnant. 21 Europeans may change their attitude towards business NOT because of （ A） tight budget. （ B） fat salary. （ C） national honor. （ D） economic climate. 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLED
30、GE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 22 Among the following poets, which is NOT a lake poet? （ A） Samuel Taylor Coleridge （ B） Robert Southey （ C） William Wordsworth （ D） William Collins 23 Among the major Hispanic
31、groups, the largest group are_. （ A） Puerto Ricans （ B） Mexican-Americans （ C） Cuban-Americans （ D） Central and South American immigrants 24 _is the most important work of Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English poetry. （ A） The Legend of Good Women （ B） The Romaunt of the Rose （ C） The Parliament o
32、f Fowles （ D） The Canterbury Tales 25 The branch of linguistics which studies the forms of words is _ MORPHOLOGY. （ A） phoneme （ B） morpheme （ C） semantics （ D） morphology 26 _ is regarded as the most English of all games. （ A） Football （ B） Rugby （ C） Basketball （ D） Cricket 28 The Battle of Waterl
33、oo was won by the Duke of Wellington over the great_. （ A） Robert E. Lee （ B） George Washington （ C） Jordan （ D） Napoleon 29 _ is a variety of language (usually a native language of a country) which serves as a medium of communication among groups of people with diverse linguistic background. （ A） L
34、ingua Franca （ B） Pidgin （ C） Creole （ D） Bilingualism 30 What is Hawaiis most important industry? （ A） Ship-building. （ B） Fishing. （ C） Mining. （ D） Tourism. 31 The word “orator“ originally meant speaker; but now it signifies the person who makes speech. This is an example of _. （ A） narrowing of
35、meaning （ B） widening of meaning （ C） meaning shift （ D） lass of meaning 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING the freedom to feel unencumbered by the past and more emotionally attached to things to come. As Albert Einstein once said, “Life for the American is always becoming, never being.“ 三、 PART VI WRITING (45
36、 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 35 Traveling is more important than reading books in order to understand the people and the world. Do you agree or disagree with the statement? Use specific reasons to support your answer. You are to write an essay of a
37、bout 400 words to express your statement on the following topic: Traveling VS. Reading In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have
38、written to a natural conclusion or a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Write your essay on ANSWER SHEET FOUR. 专业英语八级模拟试卷 738答案与解析 SECTION A MINI-LECTURE Directions: In this sectio
39、n 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. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your
40、 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】 How to Conquer Public Speaking Fear Good morning. Today Id like to give you some useful suggestions on how to conquer public speaking fear. Public speaking is a common
41、source of stress for everyone. Many of us would like to avoid this problem entirely, but this is hard to do. The truth about public speaking, however, is it does not have to be stressful! If you correctly understand the hidden causes of public speaking stress, and if you keep just a few key principl
42、es in mind, speaking in public will soon become an invigorating and satisfying experience for you. First of all, you must remember that speaking in public is not inherently stressful. Most of us believe parts of life are inherently stressful. In fact, most of us have been taught to believe that life
43、 as a whole is very stressful! To deal with any type of stress effectively, you first must understand that life itself, including public speaking, is not inherently stressful. Thousands of human beings have learned to speak in front of groups with little or no stress at all. Many of these people wer
44、e initially terrified to speak in public. Their knees would shake, their voices would tremble, their thoughts would become jumbled. you know the rest. Yet they learned to eliminate their fear of public speaking completely. You are no more or less human than they are. If they can conquer the fear of
45、public speaking, so can you! It just takes the right guiding principles, the right understanding, and the right plan of action to make this goal a reality. Believe me, its not difficult. Im a good example of someone who conquered the fear of public speaking. And while I didnt do it overnight, it was
46、nt difficult. All it took was approaching the problem in the right way. Now lets move on to the principles of eliminating stress. First of all, you should bear in mind that you dont have to be brilliant or perfect to succeed in public speaking. Many of us have observed public speakers and thought to
47、 ourselves “Wow, I could never be that smart, calm, witty, entertaining, polished. or whatever.“ Well, Ive got news for youyou dont have to be brilliant, witty, or perfect to succeed. That is not what public speaking is all about. I know it may look that way, but its not. You can be average. You can
48、 be below average. You can make mistakes, get tongue-tied, or forget whole segments of your talk. You can even tell no jokes at all and still be successful. It all depends on how you, and your audience, define “success.“ Believe me, your audience doesnt expect perfection. I used to think most audien
49、ces did, but I was wrong! Before I discovered this, I used to put incredible pressure on myself to deliver a perfect performance. I worked for days to prepare a talk. I stayed up nights worrying about making mistakes. I spent hours and hours rehearsing what I was going to say. And you know what? All this did was to make me even more anxious! The more perfect I tried to be, the worse I did! It was al
