1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 757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 Read Effectively Many students tend to read books without any purpose. They often read a book slow
3、ly and in great detail with the result that they frequently have no 【 1】 _ 【 1】 _ view of what they are reading. . To read effectively, students are suggested to do the following: 1)To decide precisely on the 【 2】 _for reading a book. 【 2】_ 2)To decide what they arc going to read: a. The 【 3】 _page
4、should be read first. 【 3】 _ b. The chapter headings are useful in indicating what should be read. c. The Index can help to 【 4】 _the pages related to some information. 【 4】 _ 3)To read the opening and final paragraphs so that they could know what a book is mainly about. 4)To ask themselves what is
5、the main part of their reading and then try to answer the question by malting notes, which can help them to concentrate on the reading and provide a(n)【 5】 _which can be re-read later. 【 5】_ 5)To increase reading speed without loss of 【 6】 _. 【 6】_ . Three main kinds of silent reading speed: 1)the s
6、lowest: study speed for a higher level of understanding; 2)the average speed for easier textbooks, novels, etc.; 3)the fastest: 【 7】 _used to get a general idea of a book or an article. 【 7】_ . The results of a survey of students reading speed conducted by Edward Fry: A good reader achieves 【 8】 _co
7、mprehension when he skims at over 800 words 【 8】 _ a minute, 70% comprehension at 250 500 words a minute, and 80% 90% comprehension at 200 300 words a minute. The average speed of a poor reader is 【 9】 _words a minute with a 【 9】 _ comprehension 【 10】 _of 70%. 【 10】 _ 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【
8、 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 answer each
9、 of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 Diane Larsen-Freeman was a _ major when she was an undergraduate student. （ A） sociology （ B） psychology （ C） philosophy （ D） anthropology 12 Diane Larsen-Freeman advises new teachers to focus on _. （ A） the students （ B） class prepar
10、ation （ C） class atmosphere （ D） class interaction 13 Diane Larsen-Freeman refrains from saying that some teachers are doing wrong because _. （ A） she wants to sound polite （ B） she thinks language teaching is not a right-or-wrong matter （ C） she thinks they are doing their best （ D） she believes no
11、 teaching is perfect 14 Diane Larsen-Freeman is fond of using low-tech things in class for all the following reasons EXCEPT that _. （ A） she wants to be interactive （ B） they are convenient （ C） they help to focus the learners attention （ D） she is afraid of technology 15 Diane Larsen-Freemans sons
12、consider _ to be a privilege. （ A） world travel （ B） education （ C） knowledge of the world （ D） service 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
13、 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 The news is mainly about_. （ A） the history of Germans in the World Cup Football Championships （ B） the performance of the teams in the World Cup Football Championship （ C） the victory of the host nation in the beginning （ D） the response of the football fans
14、16 An avid Bush supporter who already has 25 shopping malls to his name, Congel himself is not a man you would expect to entertain an eccentric clean-energy vision. The project - Destiny U.S.A., a mega-mall - first seized him in 2001, soon after 9/11 -and after the project was under way - during a v
15、isit to the D-Day beaches in Normandy. “There I was looking at those pure white graves of tens of thousands of kids that died for freedom,“ Congel reflects, sitting on the veranda of his 6,000-acre farm just outside Syracuse, where he has imported Russian wild boar and other exotic game for hunting.
16、 “Today our kids are dying in a war for oil. Petroleum addiction is destroying our country, our economy, our environment.“ Several months after returning from Normandy, Congel announced that not a drop of fossil fuel would be used in the making of Destiny. Almost overnight the mission of the project
17、 changed. It went from the mall that could save the depressed economy of Syracuse to the mall that could save America by establishing a new model for green commercial development. But will shoppers actually want to travel from far and wide to a little-known citys eco- friendly mall? And even with th
18、e green tax benefits, it is vastly more expensive to power Destiny with renewable sources than with conventional grid energy - so wheres the financial logic? Heres where Congels schemes to create “monster profits“ come in. Intel, Clear Channel, Cisco, Sony and Microsoft are among the brands that Des
19、tiny has recruited to supply its retail, entertainment, security and energy technologies. Many suppliers are planning to build local offices that will aid the Syracuse economy, and all have agreed to participate in the on-site development of new technologies that could be tested on the captive audie
20、nce of mall-goers. (Congel will be a co-owner of the patents on all inventions.) A group of companies hopes to perfect a new wireless radio frequency identification technology to enable customers to purchase items instantly without waiting in line. The Department of Homeland Security and A.D.T., a h
21、ome-security company, have discussed testing new devices that will track all visitors entering and leaving the mall. 17 Congel is a man who _. （ A） does not care about politics. （ B） is a little idealistic but a real and rich business man. （ C） indulges himself in environmental protection. （ D） has
22、been harboring the plan since he was a young man. 18 Which of the following statements is NOT true? （ A） Congel first decided to begin the plan after he returned from Normandy. （ B） The mall gets governmental help. （ C） Business giants will bring benefits to the mall. （ D） The plan of the mall was c
23、hanged after Congel return from the D-Day beaches in Normandy. 19 From the passage we can see that the mall _. （ A） is based on a utopian thought of a utopian man. （ B） will solely live on the great financial investment from the business giants. （ C） is environmentally friendly and technologically a
24、dvanced. （ D） will not get profits in the authors opinion. 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 What is the Republic of Ireland called in Irish? （ A） Irea. （ B） Aire. （ C） Eare. （ D） Ei
25、re. 21 The Peasant Uprising of 1381 did not direct against_. （ A） the rich clergy （ B） the lawyers （ C） the landowners （ D） the town traders 22 The first city ever founded in Canada is （ A） Quebec. （ B） Vancouver. （ C） Toronto. （ D） Montreal. 23 The earliest institution of higher learning set up in
26、America was （ A） California University. （ B） Yale University. （ C） Harvard College. （ D） Chicago University. 24 More specifically, _ is the study of the meaning of linguistic units, words and sentences in particular. （ A） pragmatics （ B） semantics （ C） syntax （ D） phonology 25 The following words ar
27、e examples for “blending“ EXCEPT （ A） fridge. （ B） transistor. （ C） brunch. （ D） smog. 26 The publication of_marked the beginning of Romantic Age. （ A） The Lamb （ B） Lyrical Ballads （ C） Songs of Innocence （ D） The Solitary Reaper 27 _are bound morphemes because they cannot be used as separate words
28、. （ A） Roots （ B） Stems （ C） Affixes （ D） Compounds 28 _ is widely acclaimed “Founder of the American Drama“. （ A） Scott Fitzgerald （ B） William Faulkner （ C） Theodore Dreiser （ D） Eugene ONeil 29 New Zealand is in _, halfway between the equator and the South Pole. （ A） the Southern Pacific Ocean （
29、B） the Northern Pacific Ocean （ C） the Atlantic Ocean （ D） the Indian Ocean 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING perhaps it s to understand a difficult idea or argument, and so on. Then the students should decide exactly what they re going to read: it s seldom necessary to read the whole book. A good starting po
30、int is the Contents page at the front of the book; a quick look at the chapter headings may help to indicate what should be read. The index at the back of the book is often extremely useful in helping to pinpoint the exact pages that need to be consulted for particular pieces of information. When it
31、 has been decide whats to be reada chapter of a book, for examplethen its helpful to get an overview of the contents before starting to read. This can be done by reading the introduction. Usually the opening paragraph, and the conclusion, usually the final paragraph. In addition, a glance at the hea
32、dings of sections or sub-sections will show the order in which the items are introduced. As well as doing this, some students find it useful to skim, or read very quickly, some sections in order to get the gist, or general idea of the contents. Finally, students should ask themselves a specific ques
33、tion connected with the main part of their reading. They should then endeavor to answer it by making appropriate notes as they read. This will help them to focus on the reading as well as providing a summary, which can be re-read later. This is, perhaps, the most effective element in the reading str
34、ategy. The importance of this last point can be seen from the following quotation take from Teaching and Learning in Higher Education by Ruth Beard; One reason for poor eomprehensi0n from reading may be that students fall to make notes or to ask themselves questions about the text. Evidence obtained
35、 by Camichaeil and Dearborn showed that whereas a reader normally seemed fatigued after one and a half hours, if the reading material was broken down every twenty-four pages by short tests, reminding him what he had read, he could go on without fatigue or loss of efficiency for periods of up to six
36、hours. If a student puts into practice everything thats been suggested so fax, can we say that he read efficiently? Well, we must remember that most students have a lot to read and only a limited time in which to read it. As a result, it s important that a student reads as quickly as possible. If he
37、 can increase his reading speed without loss of comprehension, then hell become a more efficient reader. Basically, there are three main kinds of silent reading speed, all for different purposes. The slowest speed is study speed, for a high level of understanding and when it s necessary to remember
38、details; next is average speed, for easier textbooks, novels, etc.; the fastest is skimming, when it is not necessary to have a high level of comprehension. Skimming is used to get a general idea of what an article or a book is about. Various surveys have been conducted into students reading speeds,
39、 which are measured by the number of words read in a minute. One, by Edward Fry, showed that a good reader achieves 50% comprehension while skimming at more than 800 words a minute; this is, of course, very fast. He has an average speed of about 250500 words a minute for 70% comprehension. This fall
40、s to about 200300 words a minute for study speed with a high-level comprehension rate of 80%-90%. On the other hand, a poor reader is unable to skim at all. The average speed of a poor reader is 150 to 180 words a minute with a comprehension rate of 70%, if 80%-90% comprehension is required, then th
41、e study speed is about 90 to 125 words a minute. A reasonable average reading speed for students to aim at is about 250 words a minute. 1 【正确答案】 overall 2 【正确答案】 reason 3 【正确答案】 Contents 4 【正确答案】 pinpoint 5 【正确答案】 summary 6 【正确答案】 comprehension 7 【正确答案】 skimming 8 【正确答案】 eighty percent/80% 9 【正确答案】
42、150 to 180 10 【正确答案】 rate 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 answer each of the followi
43、ng five questions. Now listen to the interview. 10 【听力原文】 Diane Larsen-Freeman is a well-known American professor of applied linguistics. This interview was conducted by the editor-in-chief of the Forum. M: How did your career in language education begin? F: Like many Americans getting started in EF
44、L, my first opportunity was with the Peace Corps. I finished my university education, decided I wanted to be of service and to see a bit of the world, so I applied to the Peace Corps and was accepted to be an EFL teacher in Malaysia in Sabah, Borneo. I was there from 1967 until 1969. I had been a ps
45、ychology major as an undergraduate primarily because I was interested, even then, in how people learn. When I found English language teaching and language in general, I became absolutely fascinated with the language learning process. M: What advice can you give to teachers just beginning their caree
46、rs in English teaching? F: Because Im so interested myself in learning, I would say the essence of good teaching is learning to watch your students, learning to read your students interests, their attention, their engagement, knowing when to move on and when to stay. All of that comes from watching
47、your students, monitoring what they are doing, trying as best you can to see the learning in their faces, in their behavior, and in their demeanor. M: What do you most enjoy about teaching? F: I have to repeat: watching learning take place. I suspect a lot of teachers can relate to this. There are t
48、hose moments, and they dont happen every day, when you can see the penny drop. Youve been working on teaching a particular tense or a reading passage, and all of a sudden, there is that moment of awareness. When you can actually see people go, “Ahh! I see!“ Those are the moments I live for as a teacher. Those are the things that keep me going. Its the joy of watching others learn. M: Along these lines of what goes on in the classroom and moments of awareness, what do you most often see teachers doing wrong in their language classes? F: I hesitate to label anythi
