1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 764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 By some estimates, there are as many as 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States, toiling in fa
3、rm fields, restaurant kitchens and construction sites. Theyre in the country illegally, but the employers who hire them are also breaking the law. But the presence of illegal workers on a home renovation crew, and the contractors insistence on payment in cash dont dissuade【 1】 _ clients. 【 1】 _ Plen
4、ty of employers even pay taxes and【 2】 _ on illegal workers. 【 2】_ Many workers carry fake Social Security and green cards, and when theyre hired, employers【 3】 _ those fake numbers with the federal government. 【 3】_ There is a way the employer can tell if those numbers are fake. As Chris Bentley of
5、 the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services explains, all it takes is a toll free phone call, which “allows them to. in a matter of seconds, take the information and【 4】 _ it against 450 million social security administration files, 【 4】 _ and an additional 65 million Department of Homeland Secur
6、ity files.“ But few employers make the call. The program is【 5】 _ 【 5】 _ Companies cant be held responsible for failing to spot【 6】 _ documents. 【 6】_ And although federal law【 7】 _ employing illegal workers, 【 7】 _ it is rarely enforced. Some agents oversee a huge district that includes most of Sou
7、thern California and parts of Nevada. They deal with port security, airport security, money laundering, narcotics, financial fraud, and organized crime, as well as trade in counterfeit goods, state secrets, and human beings.【 8】 _ out illegal workers is just not a major concern, 【 8】 _ unless youre
8、talking about a work site with national security implications, like Los Angeles International Airport or a nuclear plant. That situation【 9】 _ those 【 9】 _ who feel that American citizens are losing out to a black market system that lowers wages and cuts into the【 10】 _ base. 【 10】_ 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3
9、【 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
10、 to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 What is the womans book about? （ A） It is about how to protect the environment. （ B） It is about how to educate children. （ C） It is about how to raise children in a healthy way. （ D） It tells people to live in an envir
11、onmentally friendly way. 12 Why is it even important to raise a child as the book states? （ A） Because kids are in need of nutrition. （ B） Because there are so much toxically substance in our daily food. （ C） Because everything needs cleaning. （ D） Because our environment has been polluted. 13 Which
12、 of the following statements is INCORRECT? （ A） Cleaning products should look like water. （ B） Many products have chemicals and false colorings. （ C） Food with synthetic chemicals is harmful. （ D） The low-lying chemical isnt detrimental to children. 14 Which of the following is NOT the reason for ea
13、ting organic food? （ A） Organic food does not have pesticides. （ B） Organic food is much cheaper. （ C） Pesticides are linked to many diseases of children. （ D） Organic food is more beneficial to health. 15 How to cut down the cost of regular baby food? （ A） To control the quantity of the food intake
14、 of the kids. （ B） To purchase the less expensive food for the kids. （ C） To go to certain stores to buy them in bulk or DIY. （ D） To make childrens food yourself. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions
15、that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 How many people were wounded in the violence erupted in Yabna refugee camp after Raed al-Attar was condemned to death? （ A） 17. （ B） 6. （ C） 20. （ D） 25. 17 Which of the following statements is TRUE a
16、ccording to the news? （ A） Jabali told a press conference that Israeli army were responsible for the death of the two teenagers. （ B） An Israeli army spokesman told reporters that the two teenagers were sentenced to death by the Palestinian Authority. （ C） Jabali told reporters that the two teenager
17、s were killed by Israeli soldiers when they were protesting at a death sentence handed down by the Israeli government against a local man for slaying an Israeli policeman. （ D） An Israeli police chief Jabali denied his men were responsible for the death of the two teenagers and instead blamed the Pa
18、lestinian army. 18 Mohammed Abu Shamallah was sentenced to life in prison for_. （ A） his involvement in the protesting at a death sentence handed down against Attar （ B） his slaying a Palestinian policeman and being a double agent （ C） his opening fire on rioters protesting at a death sentence hande
19、d down against Attar （ D） his involvement in the shooting of a Palestinian policeman 18 1 Its been 40 years since the surgeon general issued the first report warning that cigarettes cause cancer. Since then, the public has grown acutely aware that smoking is lethal. But though the public education c
20、ampaign has been a great success in providing information, its been a failure in one conspicuous way: 46 million American adults still smoke. 2 How come? Because its so hard to quit. Nicotine is so powerfully addictive that lots of people find it impossible to give up-even with lung cancer, emphysem
21、a and heart disease staring them in the face. Despite an array of products and strategies designed to help people conquer the habit, cigarettes remain a major killer in this country. 3 If we want to know how to reduce the death toll from tobacco use, we might want to look at Sweden, where smoking am
22、ong men has dropped sharply in recent years. How come? Brad Rodu, a professor of pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, says one big reason is that a lot of Swedish smokers have switched to smokeless tobacco. 4 That may sound like a pointless exercise, substituting one deadly addictio
23、n for another. In fact, snuff and other unsmoked forms of tobacco are not nearly as risky as the kind you ignite and inhale. 5 A 2002 report by Britains Royal College of Physicians noted that “the consumption of non-combustible tobacco is of the order of 10 to 1,000 times less hazardous than smoking
24、.“ Smokeless tobacco is known to cause oral cancer. But Rodu estimates that if everyone now smoking made the change, the annual number of tobacco related deaths in the United States would plunge from 440,000 to 6,000. 6 U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, who says he would like to ban all tobacco
25、products, insists that “there is no scientific evidence that smokeless tobacco products are both safe and effective aids to quitting smoking.“ Anti-smoking groups portray smokeless tobacco as an intolerable danger. But a growing pile of evidence suggests snuff could be a valuable tool to help smoker
26、s help themselves. 7 Its true that theyd do well to swear off the weed in any form. But when virtue fails, as it often does, we have to look for ways to make vice less dangerous. Thats the rationale for giving teens access to condoms and other types of birth control, even if we strongly prefer that
27、they abstain from sex. Its also the idea behind needle-exchange programs, which recognize that one thing worse than injecting heroin is injecting it with an AIDS-infected syringe. 8 Smokeless tobacco offers hope to hard-core smokers because it lets them fill their nicotine needs without sucking toxi
28、c fumes into their lungs. Addicts would be better off getting their daily dose without lighting up. 9 The rest of us would gain as well, since this indulgence lacks a notable byproduct of cigarettes: secondhand smoke. (With some forms, the user doesnt even have to spit. ) And nobody ever burned down
29、 his house by falling asleep while dipping snuff. 10 You may wonder why any smoker wouldnt use nicotine gum or patches instead. Answer: because theyre more expensive and less potent, relieving smokers of their cash but not their cravings. While nicotine maintenance works for some people, it doesnt w
30、ork for others, and they shouldnt be deprived of additional options. 11 Critics dismiss Rodu as a hired gun for the smokeless tobacco industry, which in recent years has donated money to support his research and would like to market its product as a safer alternative to smoking. But he says his stud
31、ies between 1993 and 1999 were done without any industry financing. The funds the industry has given since then have been unrestricted grants to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and it has no control over the research. 12 Attacking his funding seems to be easier than refuting his evidence. I
32、f the tobacco industry donates money to scientists who say the sky is blue, that doesnt make it green. Instead of rejecting the scientific data that has been produced on the subject, the surgeon general should be demanding government funding for additional research. 13 Based on the evidence so far,
33、though, smokeless tobacco is far less dangerous than cigarettes, and the industry should be free to publicize that fact. The ideal solution, of course, is for everyone who smokes to quit tobacco once and for all. But when people cant or wont do whats best for them, we shouldnt discourage them from d
34、oing whats second best. 19 Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage? （ A） Quite a big percentage of Americans are cigarette smokers. （ B） Americans are well informed of the danger from smoking. （ C） Smokers of cigarettes may die of cancer. （ D） The campaign against smok
35、ing succeeds in preventing Americans from smoking. 20 The author seems to consider it to be _ for those Swedish smokers to switch to smokeless tobacco. （ A） valuable （ B） pointless （ C） useless （ D） irrational 21 Which of the following seems to be NOT true of smokeless tobacco? （ A） lethal （ B） addi
36、ctive （ C） safe （ D） non-combustible 22 The following advantages of smokeless tobacco are listed EXCEPT that _. （ A） it is an effective substitute for ordinary smoking （ B） it has no side effects （ C） it avoids second-hand smoke （ D） it can prevent a fire from bursting out 23 It can be inferred from
37、 the passage that the author _ Brad Rodu. （ A） is dissatisfied with （ B） is suspicious of （ C） is sympathetic with （ D） is supportive of 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 24 Most of the
38、 measures F.D.Roosevelt took in the first hundred days he was in the White House were to_. （ A） stop bank failures （ B） prevent radical actions in the United States （ C） prevent the further worsening of the economic situation and lessen the personal sufferings of the people （ D） prevent further wors
39、ening of the unstable political situation 25 The word “brunch“ is created by （ A） clipping. （ B） conversion. （ C） blending. （ D） compounding. 26 The peace agreement on Northern Ireland was approved by voters across all of Ireland in a referendum held in_. （ A） April 1997 （ B） May 1997 （ C） 35886 （ D
40、） 35916 27 _is the masterpiece by Percy Bysshe Shelley. （ A） The Cenci （ B） Prometheus Unbound （ C） Song to the Men of England （ D） Queen Mab 28 _, which began publishing in 1785, is the United Kingdoms oldest daily newspaper. （ A） The Times （ B） The Observer （ C） The Guardian （ D） The News of the W
41、orld 29 In the following dialogue, the maxim of_is not observed. F: What time is it? M: Its terribly cold in here. （ A） quality （ B） quantity （ C） relevance （ D） manner 31 The native people of New Zealand are _. （ A） Maoris （ B） Indians （ C） Aborigines （ D） Celts 33 Canada gained final independence
42、from Britain in （ A） 1774. （ B） 1838. （ C） 1945 （ D） 1982 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING glass bottles are the gold standard for baby bottles. I highly recommend glass. For whatever reason, if someone doesnt want glass and there is healthier plastic bottle, but still its plastic. Theyve taken out the major
43、 chemicals in them but they are still toxic. M: Well link you if you are interested in this topic to her book and everything else you need to know in acnes, com. This was just wonderful. Again, theres one of the reasons, one of the reasons that I have a crush on you! 11 【正确答案】 C 12 【正确答案】 B 13 【正确答案
44、】 D 14 【正确答案 】 C 15 【正确答案】 C 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. 15 【听力原文】 Two teenagers were killed in
45、 the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Reports allege the two died when Palestinian police opened fire on rioters protesting at a death sentence handed down against a local man for slaying a policeman. But Palestinian police chief General Ghazi Jabali denied his men were responsible for the killings and in-
46、stead blamed the Israeli army, which in turn rejected his accusations outright. Relatives identified the dead youths as Ala al-Hams, and Khamis Mahmud Salama, both 17. Another six people, including a 10-year-old boy, were wounded in the violence which erupted in Yabna refugee camp after a Gaza City
47、security court condemned Raed al-Attar to death for the February killing of a policeman. “They were killed and their comrades wounded when Israeli soldiers on a lookout post near the Egyptian border opened fire on the crowd,“ Jahali told a press conference. The Israelis were responding to shots fire
48、d by unknown assailants driving in a car near Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, he said. “During that time, the Palestinian police did not intervene,“ Jabali said. “We categorically reject all these accusations about a supposed Israeli army role in these incidents,“ an Israeli army spokesman told reporters. “No Israeli soldier in the Gaza Strip was involved in any of the shots which caused casualties. Attar, 25, a Palestinian security force member, was accused of acting as a double agent for the Islamic Resistance Movement o
