1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 777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 Inflation Inflation, as an economic phenomenon, is a sufficient condition for an increase in price, but n
3、ot a necessary one. The lecturer intends to shed some light on inflation from the following perspectives: I. Significant Periods of Inflation over the Last 400 years A. in the 16th century cause: introduction of 【 B1】 【 B1】 _ B. after major wars Napoleonic Wars and World Wars I and II C. from 【 B2】
4、to 1970s 【 B2】 _ creeping inflation occurred in America and Western Europe. II. Countries Suffered from Inflation besides the U.S. A. Israel prices of necessities 【 B3】 doubled every year. 【 B3】 _ B. Argentina prices quadrupled in 1975, and kept increasing. C. 【 B4】 【 B4】 _ money as worthless as pap
5、er D. Hungary no better than Germany of 1923 after World War II III. Effects of Inflation A. on money management Borrowing gets more appealing than saving. those who suffer: salary man, lenders, 【 B5】 savings 【 B5】 _ and loan associations those who profit: borrowers B. on investment Money goes to 【
6、B6】 goods and properties. 【 B6】 _ purpose: to keep value C. on lifestyle People tend to overdraw 【 B7】 in the society for immediate 【 B7】 _ happiness IV. Causes of Inflation A. excessive money printed by governments 1. purpose: to offset 【 B8】 expenditure and peacetime 【 B8】 _ spending 2. result: co
7、nsumption is stimulated prices are raised B. special interest groups encouragement 1 .manner to encourage government through 【 B9】 power 【 B9】 _ 2. result inflationary policies are implemented. C. 【 B10】 of common people 【 B10】 _ 1 【 B1】 2 【 B2】 3 【 B3】 4 【 B4】 5 【 B5】 6 【 B6】 7 【 B7】 8 【 B8】 9 【 B9
8、】 10 【 B10】 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 following five questi
9、ons. Now listen to the interview. 11 The woman goes to the man with the aim to （ A） know what to write for the term paper. （ B） know how to narrow down her topic for the paper. （ C） ask if she can hand in the paper later than scheduled. （ D） ask for a sick leave because of her ear. 12 According to t
10、he man, to postpone an exam, a student should do all the following EXCEPT （ A） filling in a special form. （ B） giving valid reasons. （ C） talking with the dean of the faculty. （ D） getting the doctors signature on the completed form. 13 The woman has given up the idea of writing about the formation
11、of Death Valley because （ A） the topic covers too much. （ B） she has not done much research on that. （ C） it is rather a hard topic. （ D） she can not find enough references. 14 Which of the following statements about the lab job is NOT true? （ A） The lab assistant is to make preparations for the exp
12、eriments. （ B） The lab assistant works during the busy hours of the lab. （ C） The lab assistant will work ten hours per week. （ D） The lab assistant sometimes have to work in the morning. 15 From the conversation we can see that the man is_to (with) the woman. （ A） indifferent （ B） instructive （ C）
13、helpful （ D） strict 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 The opposition supporters rallied in the cen
14、ter of the capital to （ A） support their party leader. （ B） ask for a re-election. （ C） accuse the prime minister of his sins. （ D） express their anger with the government. 17 Which of the statement about the investment firm is INCORRECT? （ A） It manages group pension funds for more than a hundred f
15、irms （ B） It may have covered up losses for years according to the reports. （ C） It will take every possible step to prevent further loss of funds. （ D） Japan watchdog halts its operations on fears over lost asset. 18 Which of the following is the analysts and industry watchers attitude toward these
16、 losses? （ A） Angry. （ B） Indifferent. （ C） Object. （ D） Surprise. 19 Which of the following is NOT true according to the news? （ A） Born This Way Foundation is founded to create a kinder and braver world. （ B） People from Health and Human Services and Harvard will attend the launching. （ C） Whitney
17、s The Bodyguard held the record with 21 weeks at Number One. （ D） The past week became the biggest sales week of Adeles 21 album. 20 Which of the following statements of the Billboard is INCORRECT? （ A） Adele now has been in the top spot for more weeks than other female artists. （ B） Adeles 21 album
18、 has sold more than 7.3-million copies all over the world. （ C） Part of Me takes Katy Perry to NO.l on the Billboard Hot 100 the first time. （ D） The first week of Katy Perrys new single became her best career sales week. 20 There has been an ecological triumph in the provinces of Sweden where I hav
19、e spent the past three weeks. The wolf and the lynx (a wild cat) have both returned to the forests. The naturalists have been rejoicing. There has been a TV documentary. Meanwhile the local farmers and hunters have disappeared into the forests with their rifles. Jan and Lennart were particularly agg
20、rieved that the lynx was killing their“ deer, and the urban bureaucrats who had decided to protect it only increase their rage. They vowed to track the animal down. “Did they kill it?“ I asked a local man. “They didnt say,“ he replied with a hint of wink. What does the word “rural“ mean to you? Orga
21、nic, perhaps. Wholesome? Gemeinschaft (or do I mean Gesellschaft?) Conservative? Marxs “rural idiocy“ maybe. To me the countryside is about paranoia. It breeds independence and idiosyncrasy and other nice things but also the sort of people who wander on to Capitol Hill in order to kill some senators
22、 or declare war on the FBI for being an essentially socialist organization. For people who live in and off the countryside, there always seems to be the idea that “they“ the bureaucrats, the government, the city folk are out to get them. What they despise almost as much as city folk themselves are t
23、he sort of things that city folk like about the countryside: footpaths, beauty spots, old buildings, rare flora and fauna, ancient sites of historical interest. To select from my experience of the past few weeks, the land that was once owned by my late grandparents contained a meadow that was famous
24、 across Sweden for its rare plants. A Couple of weeks ago, my cousin an engineer and part-time farmer with a flock of four sheep and one ram fenced the meadow off, set the sheep loose into it and within two days it duly looked like a bit of scrub in a corner of a derelict industrial estate. Incident
25、ally, when your correspondent went to investigate this vandalism, the said ram pursued him across the field in a way that was later said to be hilarious to onlookers. Another local man carries around a special bullet in case he should ever get on the trail of a wolf. The normal bullets used for hunt
26、ing deer and elk have soft tips so that they spread out on contact and cause devastating fatal wounds. But this special wolf bullet has a hard tip so that it will pass right through the animal, leaving a relatively small (though almost certainly fatal) wound. The dying wolf will then probably walk t
27、ens of miles before it dies, thus preventing “them“ from identifying the slayers of this absurdly protected predator. And this is a province which has a wolf as its official symbol. There is more than what I was informed of. A neighboring lake has become home for an exceedingly rare kind of hawk. Bu
28、t the local people who have spotted it have kept its presence a closely guarded secret. If they told ornithologists about it, then the next thing that would happen is that they would probably want to come into the area and start to look at the bloody thing, and once these bureaucrats and scientists
29、get their claws into the area, who knows where it will end? Much of this is probably true of rural areas everywhere, but in Sweden it has been exacerbated by the Byzantine bureaucracy that was generated by 40 years of social democracy, a system that led both to some of the finest public services and
30、 to the situation in which the countrys greatest living artist, Ingmar Bergman, under suspicion of a minor tax transgression, was publicly arrested and interrogated in a manner that might have been thought excessive by Beria. One of the fundamental Swedish rights is entitled allamansratt, which perm
31、its anybody to walk, pick berries or mushrooms virtually anywhere. Some local businessmen have hired Polish workers to come up to Sweden to pick mushrooms, but they have not been to our area more than once. When they emerged from this forest they found that the tyres in their bikes and cars were mys
32、teriously flat. It is somehow a typical Swedish paradox: you have the legal right to go where you like, but dont let that give you the idea that you can just go anywhere. 21 The experiences described by the author in the third paragraph are intended to show that （ A） local farmers hate the good thin
33、gs valued by the city folk because they hate city folk themselves. （ B） his cousin had a deep affection for the countryside. （ C） correspondents were unwelcome to the land. （ D） vandalism is of common occurrences in the countryside. 22 In the fourth paragraph, which adjective(s) can best describe th
34、e local mans behavior? （ A） Cruel and mean. （ B） Funny. （ C） Cunning. （ D） Resourceful and creative. 23 The author thinks that the Byzantine bureaucracy （ A） contributes little to the public welfare. （ B） deserves compliments for its achievements in preventing crimes. （ C） is too stringent in carryi
35、ng out the laws. （ D） is highly democratic. 24 The purpose of the author in writing the passage is （ A） to give a contrast between countryside people and the city folk. （ B） to reflect the weak points in the rural people. （ C） to point out the inadequacy of Swedish laws. （ D） to show how the Swedish
36、 countryside people live. 25 The author gave the narration in a(n)_tone. （ A） dispassionate （ B） eulogizing （ C） ironic （ D） exaggerating 25 He was an undersized little man, with a head too big for his body a sickly little man. His nerves were bad. He had skin trouble. It was agony for him to wear a
37、nything next to his skin coarser than silk. And he had delusions of grandeur. He was a monster of conceit. Never for one minute did he look at the world or at people, except in relation to himself. He was the only most important person in the world, to himself; in his own eyes he was the only person
38、 who existed. He believed himself to be one of the greatest dramatists in the world, one of the greatest thinkers, Beethoven, and Plato, rolled into one. And you would have had no difficulty in hearing him talk. He was one of the most exhausting conversationalists that ever lived. An evening with hi
39、m was an evening spent in listening to a monologue. Sometimes he was brilliant; sometimes he was maddeningly tiresome. But whether he was being brilliant or dull, he had one sole topic of conversation: himself. What he thought and what he did. He had a mania for being in the right. The slightest hin
40、t of disagreement, from anyone, on the most trivial point, was enough to set him off on a harangue that might exhausting volubility, and that in the end his hearer, stunned and deafened, would agree with, for the sake of peace. It never occurred to him that he and his doing were not of the most inte
41、nse and fascinating interest to anyone with whom he came in contact. He had theories about almost any subject under the sun, including vegetarianism, the drama, politics, and music; and in support of these theories he wrote pamphlets, letters, books.thousands upon thousands of words, hundreds and hu
42、ndreds of pages. He not only wrote these things, and published them usually at somebody elses expense but he would sit and read them aloud, for hours, to his friends and his family. He had the emotional stability of a six-year-old child. When he felt out of sorts, he would rave and stamp, or sink in
43、to suicidal gloom and talk darkly of going to the East to end his days as a Buddhist monk. Ten minutes later, when something pleased him, he would rush out of doors and run around the garden, or jump up and down on the sofa, or stand on his head. He was almost innocent of any sense of responsibility
44、. Not only did he seem incapable of supporting himself, but it never occurred to him that he was under any obligation to do so. He was convinced that the world owed him a living. In support of this belief, he borrowed money from everybody who was good for a loan men, women, friends, or strangers. He
45、 wrote begging letters by the score, sometimes groveling without shame, at others loftily offering his intended benefactor the privilege of contributing to his support, and being mortally offended if the recipient declined the honor. I have found no record of his ever paying or repaying money to any
46、one who did not have a legal claim upon it. The name of this monster was Richard Wagner. Everything that I have said about him you can find on record: in newspapers, in police reports, in the testimony of people who knew him, in his own letters, between the lines of his autobiography. And the curiou
47、s thing about this record is that it doesnt matter in the least. Because this undersized, sickly, disagreeable, fascinating little man was right all the time. The joke was on us. He was one of the worlds greatest dramatists; he was a great thinker; he was one of the most stupendous musical geniuses
48、that, up to now, the world has ever seen. The world did owe him a living. When you consider what he wrote thirteen operas and music dramas, eleven of them still holding the stage, eight of them unquestionably worth ranking among the worlds great musical-dramatic masterpieces when you listen to what
49、he wrote, the debts and heartaches that people had to endure from him dont seem much of a price. Think of the luxury with which for a time, at least, fate rewarded Napoleon, the man who mined France and looted Europe; and then perhaps you will agree that a few thousand dollars worth of debts were not too heavy a price to pay for the Ring trilogy. Listening to his music, one does not forgive him for what he may or may not have been. It is not a matt
