1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 783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 【 B1】 in their 【 B1】 _ dorms. However, students need not be 【 B2】 about problems 【 B2】 _ and frustrations. Theyd better find the bright 【 B3】 of dorm 【 B3】 _ life. The following
4、is the advice as how to 【 B4】 to it. 【 B4】 _ 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 【 B5】 . 【 B5】 _ Make Friends and Socialize Friends will make things 【 B6】 for people, so the best way 【 B6】 _
5、 of a quick adjustment is making friends. It is strongly believed that dorm life provides great 【 B7】 for students to make close 【 B7】 _ friends. Tolerate and Co-exist Students will 【 B8】 meet mean people in college. In such 【 B8】 _ case, they must learn to put up with each other and stay in peace.
6、Learn to Share It is wise for students to learn to share things with others, not only the facilities in the dorm, but also some personal 【 B9】 . 【 B9】 _ Have Fun With no parents around, enough freedom, and people of similar 【 B10】 , having fun is the most important part of dorm 【 B10】 _ life, althou
7、gh the major task for students is to study. 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. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on
8、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 Why are there so many corporate abuses today? （ A） Because there always appears the bubble market. （ B） Because there is a healthy stock market. （ C）
9、 Because there is an emphasis on higher stock price and earnings. （ D） Because the economy is developping too fast. 12 How does the man feel about current business world? （ A） It is a total mass. （ B） There are really just a few bad apples in the cart. （ C） Outright fraud and crime represent the ent
10、ire business world. （ D） Most business people are dishonest and indecent. 13 Whats the wide-spread problem of this short-term profit push? （ A） It is about crime and fraud. （ B） It is about distorting the accounting rules within legal limits. （ C） It is about managing earnings. （ D） Its about the ne
11、w legislation. 14 In the mans opinion, Jack Welch of GE partly made his name by （ A） creating the new concept of managed earning. （ B） committing fraud. （ C） managing large body of staff. （ D） firing 125,000 workers. 15 What does the man imply about the new legislation? （ A） It would cause the stock
12、 price down. （ B） The conference committee on Capitol Hill will not make such a rule. （ C） The president would not agree with it, at least recently. （ D） That is the reason why the stock market is surging. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Liste
13、n 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 political dissident is on a hunger strike to （ A） express his different political view. （ B） call attention of the Cuban state media. （ C） demand the rele
14、ase of ill dissidents. （ D） demand the release of all the jailed dissidents. 17 Brazils commerce with Africa has big investment in all of the following EXCEPT （ A） mining. （ B） agriculture. （ C） manufacturing. （ D） infrastructure development. 18 Which of the following statements is INCORRECT? （ A） B
15、razil will have more cooperation with Africa. （ B） Brazils commerce with Africa has grown fourfold. （ C） Millions of Brazilians are descendants of Africans. （ D） Brazils influence on Africa is larger and larger. 19 The immediate purpose of the government loan guarantees to the two solar energy compa
16、nies is （ A） boosting domestic economy. （ B） creating employment opportunities. （ C） developing new energies. （ D） reducing the nations dependency on fossil fuels. 20 Which of the following statements is INCORRECT? （ A） Green technology is key to Americas economy. （ B） The two companies will create
17、more than 5,000 new jobs. （ C） The biggest solar power generating plant in Arizona could store the energy it generates. （ D） The generating plant in Arizona could cut carbon dioxide emissions more than the amount generated by 90,000 cars a year. 20 By the year 2100, global temperatures are anticipat
18、ed to rise by between 0.8 and 3.5 degree Celsius. That may not seem like much, but, such an increase in temperature would cause a rise in sea levels large enough to put the lives of up to 100 million people at risk. (This number will rise as the global population increases.) Widespread flooding, as
19、well as droughts in other areas, could cause migrations as areas become uninhabitable. Tropical diseases would almost certainly spread northwards, causing “wide-ranging and mostly adverse impacts on human health, with significant loss of life“. For the first time in the scientific community, there i
20、s total agreement that the activity of humans is at least partly responsible for the problem especially the emission of greenhouse gasses like Carbon dioxide, which is released by the burning of wood, coal and petroleum products. Reducing harmful emissions is just one area in which the United Nation
21、s Intergovernmental Panel is decidedly optimistic. For one thing, in the short term it might not prove that difficult. Efficiency improvements alone could cut energy needs by as much as 30 percent at virtually no extra cost and, in developed countries, emission reduction of up to 60 percent “are tec
22、hnically feasible“. In the longer term, harmful emissions will be reduced as the world changes over to cheaper, less environmentally damaging energy resources. So, if it is economically and technically feasible to reduce harmful emissions, why is almost nothing being done? There are two main reasons
23、. The first stems from the uncertainty about how hot the planet is going to get. The current estimate is extremely broad between 0.8 and 3.5 degree Celsius. If the former prediction is accurate, it may be that we can adapt to it without difficulty. If, on the other hand, the latter is closer to real
24、ity, a complete rethink of the worlds energy supplies is already long overdue. This leads directly to the second problem the time scale involved. It is hard to get people to act when predictions may take between 50 and 100 years to materialize. For politicians, who face elections every half decade o
25、r so, preventative action against a future threat the magnitude of which is still very uncertain carries heavy political risks. Even if politicians in the developed world were to be forced into action, what of the developing world, which is economically dependent on fossil fuels? Should it reduce em
26、ission, and suffer the consequence, because of mistakes made by the developed world? One suggestion is that developing countries be given allowances above the current emission standard. This would enable them to meet their industrialized needs and ultimately help them to finance environmentally soun
27、d technologies. This would seem the only realistic way of getting agreement from developing countries a vital requirement because, if preventive action is going to work, “you really have to have everyone on board“. 21 The worldwide temperature rise will NOT cause （ A） long period of dry weather. （ B
28、） human health deterioration. （ C） damage to resources. （ D） loss of life. 22 In the longer span of the future, what is the most important in reducing harmful emissions? （ A） Efficiency improvement. （ B） New energy resources. （ C） New technologies. （ D） Burning less fossil fuel. 23 What will be the
29、result of harmful emission reductions for the developing countries? （ A） Developing countries will be able to shun the mistakes made by developed countries in harmful emission. （ B） Economy of developing countries will be affected. （ C） Developing countries will meet the present emission standard fo
30、r their industrialized needs. （ D） Developing countries will get money that can help them deduce waste emission. 24 What is peoples attitude towards worldwide temperature rise? （ A） They are uncertain and therefore take a wait-and-see attitude. （ B） They are very anxious and have begun to reduce har
31、mful emissions. （ C） They do not think the earth will be too hot to live on, hence adopting a passive attitude. （ D） They are very optimistic and therefore have not done anything about it. 25 Which of the following best describes the authors development of argument? （ A） Putting forward a problemsug
32、gesting solutionsmaking a conclusion. （ B） Introductionputting forward a problemanalyzing itmaking a conclusion. （ C） Introductionputting forward a problemsuggesting solutionsmaking a conclusion. （ D） Putting forward a problemanalyzing itsuggesting solutions. 25 During the next few weeks publishers
33、will release a crush of books, pile them onto delivery lorries and fight to get them on the display tables at the front of bookshops in the run-up to Christmas. It is an impressive display of competitive commercial activity. It is also increasingly pointless. More quickly than almost anyone predicte
34、d, e-books are emerging as a serious alternative to the paper kind. Amazon, comfortably the biggest e-book retailer, has lowered the price of its Kindle e-readers to the point where people do not fear to take them to the beach. In America, the most advanced market, about one-fifth of the largest pub
35、lishers sales are of e-books. Newly released blockbusters may sell as many digital copies as paper ones. The proportion is growing quickly, especially when many bookshops are closing. For readers, this is splendid. Just as Amazon collapsed distance by bringing a huge range of books to out-of-the-way
36、 places, it is now collapsing time, by enabling readers to download books instantly. Moreover, anybody can now publish a book, through Amazon and a number of other services. Huge choice and low prices are helping books hold their own on digital devices, even against “Angry Birds“. For publishers, th
37、ough, it is a dangerous time. Book publishing resembles the newspaper business in the late 1990s, or music in the early 2000s. Although revenues are fairly stable, and the traditional route is still the only way to launch a blockbuster, the climate is changing. Some of the publishers functions packa
38、ging books and promoting them to shops are becoming obsolete. Algorithms and online recommendations threaten to replace them as arbiters of quality. The tide of self-published books threatens to swamp their products. As bookshops close, they lose a crucial showcase. And they face, as the record comp
39、anies did, a near-monopoly controlling digital distribution: Amazons grip over the e-book market is much like Apples control of music downloads. Yet there are still two important jobs for publishers. They act as the venture capitalists of the words business, advancing money to authors of worthwhile
40、books that might not be written otherwise. And they are editors, picking good books and improving them. So it would be good, not just for their shareholders but also for intellectual life, if they survived. They are doing some things right. Having watched the record companies impotence after Apple w
41、rested control of music-pricing from them, the publishers have managed to retain their ability to set prices. But they are missing some tricks. The music and film industries have started to bundle electronic with physical versions of their products by, for instance, providing those who buy a DVD of
42、a movie with a code to download it from the Internet. Publishers, similarly, should bundle e-books with paper books. They also need to become more efficient. Digital books can be distributed globally, but publishers persist in dividing the world into territories with separate editorial staffs. In th
43、e digital age it is daft to take months or even years to get a book to market. And if they are to distinguish their wares from self-published dross, they must get better at choosing books, honing ideas and polishing copy. If publishers are to hold readers attention they must tell a better story and
44、edit out all the spelling mistakes as well. 26 According to the passage, readers welcome e-books because （ A） the e-reader is globally available. （ B） many traditional bookstores are out of business. （ C） they can make a quick response. （ D） the e-book service is free from physical constraints. 27 W
45、hy do some publishers no longer promote their books? （ A） Because the paper books are not profitable enough to sustain promotion. （ B） Because Amazons near monopoly over the industry makes promotion unnecessary. （ C） Because the public have easy access to the books sales and reviews. （ D） Because al
46、l the writers are promoting the books on their own. 28 What are publishers supposed to do in order to survive? （ A） They should sponsor the writers in poverty. （ B） They should supervise the book quality. （ C） They should get ready for the competition. （ D） They should participate in intellectual li
47、fe. 29 From the last paragraph, we know that （ A） e-books are now sold together with the paper versions. （ B） a digital publication usually takes months or years to get to market. （ C） the official publications are actually superior to the self-published ones in quality. （ D） publishers have hired d
48、ifferent editors in different areas. 30 Which of the following statements is the best title of the passage? （ A） The Challenges of the Traditional Publishers. （ B） The Transformation of the Book Industry. （ C） The Keys to the Success of the E-books. （ D） The Destined Disappearance of the Paper Books
49、. 30 In the first episode of Six Feet Under, a popular American television show aired earlier this decade, a large corporation tries to buy a family-owned funeral home (even making overtures at the patriarchs own burial). The owners of Salem Funerals its biggest rival, Stewart Enterprises, is just over $7, down from $28 at its peak in 1998. The trouble was a wave of consolidation during the 1980s and 1990s. Funeral-home companies thought they could grow by acquisition and cut c
