1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 762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 Study English in Your Dream: the Theory I. Introduction A. Connections among English study, imagin
3、ation and dream B. Two related fields: foreign language acquisition 【 B1】 _ psychology【 B1】 _ II. English Study A. Human Beings: to get all kinds of information by five senses B. Seeing: to【 B2】 _83.3% of all information【 B2】 _ vision has vital importance the more visualized and【 B3】 _, the better m
4、emorized【 B3】 _ C. Daydreams: to serve better than visualized lessons because you can live your past experience repeatedly you can apply to all senses【 B4】 _ or not【 B4】 _ D. Other techniques: to magnify, minify,【 B5】 _, etc.【 B5】 _ closely related to development of imagination very professional top
5、ics III. Dream: a(n)【 B6】 _ of living experience and imagination【 B6】 _ A. Imagination is part of dream B. Living experience is the collection of memories 【 B7】 _of ones own experience begins as a person【 B7】 _could remember things C. Imagination can greatly improve English study IV. Review A. Engli
6、sh study: to be enhanced by【 B8】 _ through five senses【 B8】 _ B. Living experience: collection of memories C. Dream: composed of imagination and living experience D. Dream goes with sub-consciousness imagination can【 B9】 _【 B9】 _ and fantasy matches with consciousness V. Conclusion You can have a dr
7、eam in English language with: A. A good preparation of living experience B. A【 B10】 _ into vivid imagination in your mind【 B10】 _ 1 【 B1】 2 【 B2】 3 【 B3】 4 【 B4】 5 【 B5】 6 【 B6】 7 【 B7】 8 【 B8】 9 【 B9】 10 【 B10】 SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. List
8、en 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 Charles shop docs not sell _. （ A） cigarettes （ B） exercise boo
9、ks （ C） photocopiers （ D） chocolates 12 He bought a photocopier _. （ A） by accident （ B） because he couldnt find a place to make a photocopy （ C） because there was no place nearby to provide the photocopy service （ D） because all sorts of people need it 13 According to Charles, people send messages
10、via facsimile because _. （ A） it is cheaper and faster than ordinary mail （ B） it can send things that could not be expressed by telex （ C） it is faster and not much more expensive than mail （ D） the Royal Mail could not reach places abroad 14 Charles does not like customers who _. （ A） are very rud
11、e （ B） keep talking to him when he is busy （ C） only buy small things （ D） bargain with him too much 15 Charles thinks that nowadays running a small shop becomes increasingly difficult _. （ A） so his shop will surely go bankrupt （ B） but his shop will surely make good money （ C） and the only way to
12、save his shop is to change the government （ D） because its hard to keep up with the rising cost 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 seco
13、nds to answer the questions. 16 Why has the US made a 20-million-dollar plan to increase the security force of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas? （ A） To force Israel to agree to open the Rafah Crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip at planned periods over the next month. （ B） To support Mr. Ab
14、bas and his Fatah party in its effort to gain power over the militant group Hamas. （ C） To postpone the meeting with top officials from both sides. （ D） To gain agreement from Israel to lift some restrictions on the Palestinians. 16 A couple of years ago a group of management scholars from Yale and
15、the University of Pittsburgh tried to discover if there was a link between a companys success and the personality of its boss. To work out what that personality was, they asked senior managers to score their bosses for such traits as an ability to communicate an exciting vision of the future or to s
16、tand as a good model for others to follow. When the data were analyzed, the researchers found no evidence of a connection between how well a firm was doing and what its boss was like. As far as they could tell, a company could not be judged by its chief executive any better than a book could be judg
17、ed by its cover. A few years before this, however, a team of psychologists from Tufts University, led by Nalini Ambady, discovered that when people watched two-second-long film-clips of professors lecturing, they were pretty good at determining how able a teacher each professor actually was. At the
18、end of the study, the perceptions generated by those who had watched only the clips were found to match those of students taught by those self-same professors for a full semester. Now, Dr Ambady and her colleague, Nicholas Rule, have taken things a step further. They have shown that even a still pho
19、tograph can convey a lot of information about competenceand that it can do so in a way which suggests the assessments of all those senior managers were poppycock. Dr Ambady and Mr. Rule showed 100 undergraduates the faces of the chief executives of the top 25 and the bottom 25 companies in the Fortu
20、ne 1,000 list. Half the students were asked how good they thought the person they were looking at would be at leading a company and half were asked to rate five personality traits on the basis of the photograph. These traits were competence, dominance, likeability, facial maturity (in other words, d
21、id the individual have an adult-looking face or a baby-face) and trustworthiness. By a useful (though hardly unexpected) coincidence, all the businessmen were male and all were white, so there were no confounding variables of race or sex. The study even controlled for age, the emotional expression i
22、n the photos and the physical attractiveness of the individuals by obtaining separate ratings of these from other students-and using statistical techniques to remove their effects. This may sound like voodoo. Psychologists spent much of the 20th century denigrating the work of 19th-century physiogno
23、mists and phrenologists who thought the shapes of faces and skulls carry information about personality. However, recent work has shown that such traits can, indeed, be assessed from photographs of faces with a reasonable accuracy. And Dr Ambady and Mr. Rule were surprised by just how accurate the st
24、udents observations were. The results of their study, which are about to be published in Psychological Science, show that both the students assessments of the leadership potential of the bosses and their ratings for the traits of competence, dominance and facial maturity were significantly related t
25、o a companys profits. Moreover, the researchers discovered that these two connections were independent of each other. When they controlled for the “power“ traits, they still found the link between perceived leadership and profit, and when they controlled for leadership they still found the link betw
26、een profit and power. These findings suggest that instant judgments by the ignorant (nobody even recognized Warren BuffeR) are more accurate than assessments made by well-informed professionals. It looks as if knowing a chief executive disrupts the ability to judge his performance. Sadly, the charac
27、teristics of likeability and trustworthiness appear to have no link to company profits, suggesting that when it comes to business success, being warm and fuzzy does not matter much (though these milts are not harmful). But this result also suggests yet another thing that stock market analysts might
28、care to take into account when preparing their reports: the physiognomy of the chief executive. 17 According to the research of Yale and the University of Pittsburgh, （ A） there was a link between a companys success and the personality of its boss. （ B） There was no connection between a firms succes
29、s and its bosss personality. （ C） people could judge a professors ability by watching short film-clips of lecturing. （ D） people could judge a professors ability only after attending lectures for a full semester. 18 Dr Ambady and Nicholas Rule （ A） prove senior managers like talking nonsense. （ B） d
30、emonstrate the development of the research. （ C） generally agree with the scholars in Yale University. （ D） denigrate the work of the former researchers. 19 Which of the following personality waits does NOT contribute to the success of a company accroding to Dr Ambady and Nicholas Rules study? （ A）
31、competence. （ B） dominance. （ C） trustworthiness. （ D） facial maturity. 20 The author will most probably agree on the idea that （ A） there is no connection between physiognomy and personality. （ B） people can assess the personality traits on the basis of photograph. （ C） workers personality traits a
32、re related to the companys profit. （ D） a baby-face looking is good to the companys success. 21 The last two paragraphes imply that （ A） well-informed people judge a person less accurately than strangers do. （ B） people cannot judge a company from the appearance of the boss. （ C） a companys performa
33、nce depends on the physiogomy of the boss. （ D） the physiognomy of the boss is crucial to the stock market report. 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 22 The English Renaissance period wa
34、s an age of （ A） poetry and drama. （ B） drama and novel. （ C） novel and poetry. （ D） romance and poetry. 23 The 18 th century witnessed a new literary formthe_modern English novel , which is contrary to the medieval romance, gives a presentation of life of the common people. （ A） romantic （ B） reali
35、stic （ C） prophetic （ D） idealistic 24 The phrase “Trick or Treat“ is often used when celebrating （ A） Veterans Day. （ B） Saint Patricks Day. （ C） Halloween. （ D） Thanksgiving Day. 25 A child at the age of 4 is probably going to a_school in Britain. （ A） nursery （ B） infant （ C） junior （ D） primary
36、26 The dialect which is influenced by social status is （ A） regional dialect （ B） idiolect. （ C） sociolect. （ D） ethnic dialect. 27 Speakers Comer located in _, where speaker can deliver their eloquent speech. （ A） British Museum （ B） Westminster （ C） Hyde Park （ D） Greater London 28 _describes a si
37、tuation in which two very different varieties of language co-exist in a speech community. （ A） Diglossia （ B） Bilingualism （ C） Ethnic dialect （ D） Social dialect 29 If the distribution of a construction is functionally equivalent to that of one or more of its constituents, the construction is calle
38、d _. （ A） exocentric construction （ B） endocentric construction （ C） immediate construction （ D） contributive construction 30 _ is the author of Scarlet Letter. （ A） Hawthorne （ B） Mark Twain （ C） Melville （ D） Cooper 31 William Faulkner was the foremost American _ writer of the 20th century. （ A） N
39、ew England （ B） western （ C） southern （ D） black 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING or that we are smoking too much or drinking too much; or that there is too much emotional congestion in our lives; or that we are being worn down by having to cope daily with overcrowded streets and highways, the pounding noise
40、 of garbage grinders, or the cosmic distance between the entrance to the airport and the departure gate. We get the message of pain all wrong. Instead of addressing ourselves to the cause, we become pushovers for pills, driving the pain underground and inviting it to return with increased authority.
41、 三 、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 44 The typical routine for most students at colleges is waking up, going to class, doing homework, and then going to sleep, periodically eating throughout the day. But not all students like to fo
42、llow this routine and opt to get their education by their own means, skipping class. What do you think of skipping class? Write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic: Should College Students Be Allowed to Skip Classes? In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main a
43、rgument, 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, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above inst
44、ructions may result in a loss of marks. Write your essay on ANSWER SHEET FOUR. 专业英语八级模拟试卷 762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,
45、 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-taking. 0 【听力原文】 How to Study English
46、 in Your Dream: the Theory Good afternoon. Today we are going to discuss how to study English in your dream. Firstly, let me give a brief introduction focusing on connections among English study, imagination, and dream. As this is an ongoing research concerning at least two professional fields, resp
47、ectively, Foreign Language Acquisition and Cognitive Psychology, which are not that easy to be perceived without a certain amount of basic knowledge. Thus, I will try my best to explain how dreams affect language learning. Human Beings receive all kinds of information by five sensesseeing, hearing,
48、smelling, touching, and tasting. According to reliable census, of all information, 83.3% is taken by seeing, 11% by hearing, 3.5% by smelling, 1.5% by touching, and only 1% by tasting, from which we can see that vision has vital importance in receipt of data. Therefore, the more visualized and vivid
49、 the content is, the more impression it would leave you, the more solidly you would lock it up in your memory. That best explains why most people prefer multimedia rather than text book along in English learning. Although seeing and hearing together absorb 94.3% of all information, and this can be simply achieved by visualized lessons given by the modern technology, su
