1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 771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 Ensure Survival in the College Dorm Life in college dorm can be hard, especially for the first-yea
3、rs. Here Shah J. Chaudhry gives them great tips for successful college dorm life. College students face certain degree of (1) in their (1)_ dorms. However, students need not be (2) about problems (2)_ and frustrations. Theyd better find the bright (3) of dorm (3)_ life. The following is the advice a
4、s how to (4) to it. (4)_ Shape up Everyone has his own way of getting things done. Since students are sharing dorm with each other, it is wise for them to reexamine their (5) . (5)_ Make Friends and Socialize Friends will make things (6) for people, so the best way (6)_ of a quick adjustment is maki
5、ng friends. It is strongly believed that dorm life provides great (7) for students to make close (7)_ friends. Tolerate and Co-exist Students will (8) meet mean people in college. In such (8)_ case, they must learn to put up with each other and stay in peace. Learn to Share It is wise for students t
6、o learn to share things with others, not only the facilities in the dorm, but also some personal (9) . (9)_ Have Fun With no parents around, enough freedom, and people of similar (10) , having fun is the most important part of dorm (10)_ life, although the major task for students is to study. SECTIO
7、N 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 following five questions. Now listen to
8、 the interview. 11 When did Post office in Britain employ cats? （ A） In 1868 （ B） In 1886 （ C） In 1898 （ D） In 1889. 12 Why were female cats usually employed by the Post Office? （ A） They could work for 24 hours a day. （ B） They were worse hunters. （ C） They were more persistent hunters. （ D） They w
9、orked the whole night. 13 What happened to the cats if the number of mice in a post office didnt decline within 6 months? （ A） They were killed. （ B） They were punished by not to be given food. （ C） They had to change job. （ D） They were dismissed. 14 Why was Lucky awarded the DFC certificate? （ A）
10、Because of the great amount of rats she caught. （ B） Because of her good manner. （ C） Because of her sudden attack on the burglars. （ D） She served for 16 years. 15 Does the Post Office still employ cats? （ A） Yes, as fewer than before. （ B） Yes, but fewer than before. （ C） Yes, they are not needed
11、any more. （ D） No, their services are discontinued. 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 _ US soldier
12、s have been killed in Iraq since President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended. （ A） 1170 （ B） 1530 （ C） 1668 （ D） 1669 17 Besides US, _ suffered the greatest loss of army men in Iraq. （ A） Great Britain （ B） Bulgaria （ C） Italy （ D） Poland 17 Harry Potter: The End Is Here W
13、hat a lot of commotion over a book. Not since 19th-century New Yorkers anxiously crowded the Manhattan docks to be the first to discover the serialized fate of Dickenss Little Nell have people gotten so excited about fiction. For weeks now, the rumors have flown over the Internet: Harry lives! Harry
14、 dies! Last week the excitement reached a new pitch as the hoopla soared to unprecedented levels that not even the well-oiled publicity machinery of publishers could have ignited. Books fell into the hands of eager fans despite the closely monitored embargo of the 12 million copieswhen you have 12 m
15、illion copies of anything, sooner or later somethings going to fall off a truck. Once the novel was on the streets, photocopies were quickly posted online. Spoilers went to work revealing the fates of various charactersand got a lot wrong. Even more-diligent fans got busy retyping the entire book to
16、 put online. Most astonishing, someone posted a bogus version of the novel that ran to well over 600 pages. That it wasnt much good is beside the point. Has anyone ever done this: sat down and composed an entirely fake version of anything on the eve of the real things debut? No book, no matter how w
17、onderful, could live up to that sort of expectation. But lets say it right here: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows“ comes as close as any novel could. Its not without its flaws, and at 759 pages not without more than a little windiness. But when set against this final installments achievements,
18、its imperfections seem mighty inconsequential. Writing a decent sequel to a good novel is hard. Writing six of them is almost unheard of. Each of the “Harry Potters“ deserves to stand on the shelf with its mates, and the last one more than fulfills the promise of the first six. After a leisurely sta
19、rt, including a wedding scene at the Weasleys that goes on and on, Rowling hits the accelerator and never takes her foot off the floor for the next 500 pages. “Action packed“ is a pale description of this novels many battles between the forces of good and evil. Rowling is not especially gifted with
20、dialogue or subtle characterizations. Sometimes she explains things too much or too often. But she is refreshingly unsentimentalwell, almost always: theres no explaining what made her write that cloying, too-cute epilogue. And she has a true storytellers knack for incident and plot twists and what m
21、ay modestly be described as a genius for fleshing out her magical world with a host of details that make it seem more real than the readers own. To cite but one example: the “pensieve,“ a bowl into which one may submerge oneself to see the memories of another. Even readers too young to get the pun b
22、uilt into that word will be taught unconsciously to look more closely at words, to look for meanings beyond the obvious. More than that, though, Rowling succeeds because she refuses to condescend to her readers (most of the time: there is a moment, as the final climax approaches, when the younger st
23、udents at Hogwarts are shooed away because theyre “underage,“ but waitthis is to be the battle to see if good or evil will triumph, and were worrying about kids being underage? Or is this another wry joke from Rowling at all the overcautious parents who worry about what young readers are being expos
24、ed to? Never underestimate this cagey author). The last installment is a fitting cap to the series because it does not merely tie off loose ends but extends the scope of the story. It is darker, as shes promised, but more significantly, it goes deeper. People die, yes, including a few whom readers c
25、are about. But the series is not about whether Harry survives, but about how he faces life and death. More specifically, it is about growing upabout the pains of growing up. In the last installment, Harry faces life largely on his ownhe even comes to doubt the motives of his mentor, Albus Dumbledore
26、. Most important, he comes face to face with his own mortality, with the necessity of seeing life and death as intertwined. The sadness that many readers will experienceoh, all right, the tears they will shedwhen they close the cover on this novel has nothing to do with the fate of the characters an
27、d everything to do with maturity. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows“ is about, more than anything else, the end of childhood. The readers who have grown up with this serieswho have read it, as it were, in real time as it unfoldsare themselves at that end. Saying goodbye to Harry is like saying g
28、oodbye to a piece of themselves. Rowling has honored their patience with a work as sincere and profound as anything they could ask for, with the bonus that any time they want to relive that childhood, they only have to pick up volume one and begin again. And if thats not magic, what is? 18 Which of
29、the following expressions can be used to describe the readers reaction to the coming out of the novel “Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows“? （ A） Anxiety （ B） Excitement （ C） Indifference （ D） Disappointment 19 According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true about Rowling? （
30、 A） She is unsentimental. （ B） She is skillful in twisting plots. （ C） She is good at subtle characterizations. （ D） She is gifted with describing things unreal. 20 According to the passage, many readers will feel sad when they read the novel because （ A） the characters have a miserable fate （ B） it
31、 is the last of the series of Harry Potter （ C） they have to say good-bye to their childhood （ D） it is not as successful as the other ones in the series 21 According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true about the novel? （ A） It is warmly received. （ B） It is written by Rowl
32、ing. （ C） It is the sixth of the series “Harry Potter“. （ D） It is about how Harry Potter faces life and death. 22 The following adjectives can be used to describe the novel with the EXCEPTION of_? （ A） darker （ B） deeper （ C） magic （ D） perfect 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: The
33、re are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 23 Britains longest rivers are_. （ A） the Severn and the Clyde （ B） the Thames and the Clyde （ C） the Clyde and the Humber （ D） the Severn and the Thames 24 The two major parties governing the country by t
34、urns in Britain are_. （ A） the Labor Party and the Conservative Party （ B） the Labor party and the Liberty Party （ C） the Liberty Party and the Conservative Party （ D） the Democratic Party and the Liberty Party 25 Shakespeare was born at_in Warwickshire, England, in 156 （ A） Stoke-on-Trent （ B） Stra
35、tford-upon-Avon （ C） Berwick-upon-Tweed （ D） Bradford-on-Avon 26 The Grand Canyon carved by_is one of natures most important sights. （ A） the Columbia River （ B） the Colorado River （ C） the Rio Grande River （ D） the Missouri River 27 When was Oxford University founded? （ A） 1167 in Oxford. （ B） 1267
36、 in Oxford. （ C） 1367 in Oxford. （ D） 1467 in Oxford. 28 _is acclaimed as “the poets poet“. （ A） Shakespeare （ B） Spenser （ C） Keats （ D） Chaucer 29 Which of the following is not the principle of speech act theory? （ A） Illocutionary act. （ B） Locutionary act. （ C） Perlocutionary act. （ D） Prelocuti
37、onary act. 30 _is a non-residential university which offers degree and other courses for adult students of all ages in U. K. and other member countries of E. U （ A） The Open University （ B） The State University （ C） The Local University （ D） The Community University 31 “Art for Arts sake“ was advoca
38、ted by （ A） William Blake. （ B） Robert Bums. （ C） Oscar Wilde. （ D） Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 32 _refers to a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero in a nations history. （ A） Ballad （ B） Romance （ C） Epic （ D） Elegy 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING Italy, 25; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 17; Spain,
39、 11; Bulgaria, 10; Slovakia, three; Estonia, Thailand and the Netherlands, two each; and Denmark, El Salvador, Hungary, Kazakhstan and Latvia one death each. Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 1,530 U.S. military members have died, accordi
40、ng to APs count. That includes at least 1,170 deaths resulting from hostile action, according to the militarys numbers. 16 【正确答案】 B 17 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 阅读 18 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 第一段的第一句为主题句，讲述人们对罗琳的新书上市时的兴奋。故 B为正确答案。 【知识模块】 阅读 19 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 由第三段可知，罗琳不是很擅长细微的人物刻画，故 C错误。但是她不伤感 (A)，善于描写曲折的情节 (B)和非真实的东西
41、 (D)。故 C为正确答案。 【知识模块】 阅读 20 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 由最后一段可知，当读者读完此书的时候会感到难过，但并不是因为故事中人物的命运 (A)，而是因为这本书标志着童年时代的结束 (C)。选项 B未提及，因而不是读者感到难过的原因。由第二段可知，最后这本续集是最成功的，故选项 D不对。因此， C为正确答案。 【知识模块】 阅读 21 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 由第一段可知，此书受到读者热烈的欢迎 (A)。由第二段可知，整套书的最后这一本比前六本都要成功，故 C错误。由第三段可知，该书的作者是罗琳 (B)。由第四段可知，该书讲述的是哈利波特如何面对生与死 (D
42、)。因此， C为正确答案。 【知识模块】 阅读 22 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 由第三和第四段可知，该书描写的是一个魔幻的世界 (C)，虽然描写了一些更加晦暗的东西 (A)，但思想却更加深刻 (B)，然而，第二段告诉我们该书和其他任何书一样都有一些瑕疵，不是完美的。故 D为正确答案。 【知识模块】 阅读 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each quest
43、ion. 23 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 塞文河 (Severn River)是英国最长的河流，河长 338公里，发源于威尔士中部河道呈半圆形，流经英格兰中西部，注入布里斯托海峡。泰晤士河(ThamesRiver)是英国的第二大河，也是英国最重要的河流，全长 336公里。 【知识模块】 英国地理 24 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 英同有很多政党，但是有两个主要的政党，即 the Labor Party(工党 )和 the Conservative Party(保守党 )。从 1945年以来，两党一直轮流执政。在大选中获多数席位的政党组建政府，其领袖由君主任命为首相。获得第二多数席位的
44、政党正式成为 “反对党 ”，有自己的领袖和影子内阁。 【知识模块】 英国政治 25 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 英国国家概况 26 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 美国国家概况 27 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 人文知识 28 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 本题考查英国文学知识。埃德蒙 斯宾塞是英国文艺复兴时期最杰出的诗人，他以精 湛的诗歌艺术确立了他在英国诗歌史上的重要地位，斯宾塞的理想主义，对美的热爱和精美优雅的诗文韵律使他享有 “诗人中的诗人 ”的美誉。 29 【正确答案】 D 30 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 The Open University(开放大学 )是英国依据
45、皇家法令于 1969年 6月正式成立的一所有权授予学位的独立的自治的大学。学校采用远程教育教学手段，各种年龄的成年人均可申请入学。 31 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 “为艺术而艺术 ”是唯美主义流派的代表作家奥斯卡王尔德提出的口号，这一创 作原则对 19世纪后期的英国文坛产生了巨大影响。 32 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 epic是历史叙事诗； ballad是民歌，民谣，特别指叙述故事的歌；romance是浪漫史，传奇文学； elegy是悲歌，哀歌。 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN) Directions: Proo
46、fread the given passage. The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way: (1)For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the
47、 blank provided at the end of the line. (2)For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “ “ sign and write t 33 【正确答案】 knowledgea 【试题解析】 knowledge虽然是不可数名词，但是在固定用法 “a knowledge of sth ”中表示 “对 略知一二 ”。 【知识模块】 冠词误用 SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH Directions: Translate the following text
48、 into English. 34 【正确答案】 In several mountain resorts I have even seen some baryon trees growing on cliffs They can survive without much earth A seed falls on a cliff and good heavens， it begins to grow only depending on a little earth among rocks Its roots cannot go into hard rocks， SO they just cli
49、ng on the surface of the cliff Here the roots play the special role of reinforcing steel to absorb every little bit of nutrition on the cliff into the tree Therefore?you dont need to feel surprised when you see a twisted banyan tree growing exuberantly on cliffs 【试题解析】 此段落选自秦牧的散文榕树的美髯。划线部分多为用逗号连接的短句，是一篇典型的 “散 ”文，形散而意合。翻译时要注意断句。 1汉语多短句，第一句翻译成英语时首先需要断句，此处可以处理成 “在名山胜地的悬崖峭壁上，我甚至看过一些榕树 ”和 “(榕树 )不需要多少泥土，也能够成长 ”两个句子。 2第三句较长，由
