1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 787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 Practice Esperanto? There are at least 1,000,000 Esperanto speakers worldwide from over 100 countr
3、ies and they come from all walks of life. I . A brief introduction to Esperanto features: easy, vibrant, expressive and【 B1】 _【 B1】 _ learning reasons: the idealism of its creator for: peace and equality against:【 B2】 _and prejudices【 B2】 _ II . Four ways of practicing Esperanto A. international eve
4、nts the World Esperanto【 B3】 _:the largest one【 B3】 _ Esperanto associations:smaller congresses the International Youth Congress of Esperanto: for the young programs:【 B4】 _, local cultural acts and so on【 B4】 _ smaller events:e.g. camping or hiking B.【 B5】 _【 B5】 _ travelling around on a budget vis
5、iting Esperantists stay over in the homes of hosts listed in【 B6】 _【 B6】 _ hitch-hike C.【 B7】 _【 B7】 _ the best way: online chat the biggest【 B8】 _for learning Esperanto: Lernu !【 B8】 _ free courses live chat and private messaging D. Esperanto culture books:【 B9】 _of great works【 B9】 _ original work
6、s music films and【 B10】 _【 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. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an intervi
7、ew. 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 According to the interviewee, what is the problem of the present science education? （ A） Scientific facts and principles are too dull to attract students. （ B）
8、 There is little connection between science and daily life. （ C） The content of the science teaching is too old. （ D） Teachers do not provide enough help in students learning. 12 According to the interview, which of the following details about SciJourn is CORRECT? （ A） The project was launched about
9、 five years ago. （ B） It is a professional scientific journal for students. （ C） The students can work as editors and journalists. （ D） It aims to increase peoples interest in science. 13 What benefit can students get from problem-based learning? （ A） Students can generate appreciation for science.
10、（ B） Students can develop leadership skills. （ C） Students can finally get clear answers. （ D） Students can learn how to find information. 14 What does the interviewee say about the games like Fold It or Galaxy Zoo? （ A） Children are fascinated about these scientific games. （ B） They help people lea
11、rn about the scientific process. （ C） They make science classes in schools really fun. （ D） These scientific games require large spaces. 15 What should scientists do to improve science education according to the interviewee? （ A） To understand their influence on young kids. （ B） To make general prin
12、ciples more specific. （ C） To exchange ideas with common citizens. （ D） To tell frankly what science actually is. 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 wil
13、l be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a consequence of the drought? （ A） Lower crop production. （ B） Loss of livestock. （ C） Higher food price. （ D） More fuel costs. 17 Why does Standard and Poors lower Frances credit rating? （ A） Because France
14、 doesnt carry out any effective reforms. （ B） Because the unemployment rate in France is too high. （ C） Because France failed to boost its gloomy economy. （ D） Because the government has borrowed too much money. 18 In which way will France suffer from the lowering of credit rating? （ A） The GDP will
15、 not meet the goal. （ B） It will be harder to implement more reforms. （ C） Government will pay more interest on debt. （ D） Investors will take back their investment. 19 With reference to the news, the African aviation market will be boosted by （ A） private-aircraft manufacturers. （ B） large commerci
16、al airlines. （ C） wealthy entrepreneurs. （ D） numerous private airlines. 20 According to the founder of AfBAA. Africa is NOT a continent of （ A） abundant resources. （ B） flourishing economy. （ C） great business potential. （ D） well-developed aviation industry. 20 Scientists already knew that bilingu
17、al young adults and children perform better on tasks dictated by the brains executive control system. Located at the front of the brain, this system is “the basis for your ability to think in complex ways, control attention, and do everything we think of as uniquely human thought,“ said Ellen Bialys
18、tok, a psychologist at York University in Toronto, Canada. Now studies are revealing that advantages of bilingualism persist into old age, even as the brains sharpness naturally declines, Bialystok said Friday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.
19、C. Bialystok and colleagues examined 102 longtime bilingual and 109 monolingual Alzheimers patients who had the same level of mental acuity. About 24 million people have dementia worldwide, with the majority of them suffering from Alzheimers, according to Swedens Karolinska Institutet medical univer
20、sity. The bilingual patients had been diagnosed with the Alzheimers about four years later than the monolingual patients, on average, according to Bialystoks most recent study, published in November in the journal Neurology. This suggests bilingualism is “protecting older adults, even as Alzheimers
21、is beginning to affect cognitive function,“ Bialystok said. Bialystok is also studying physical differences between bilingual and monolingual brains. In a new experiment, she used CT scans to examine brains of monolinguals and bilinguals with dementia. All the subjects were the same age and function
22、ed at the same cognitive level. “The physical effects of the disease in the brain were found to be more advanced in the bilinguals brains, even though their mental ability was roughly the same,“ Bialystok told National Geographic News. Apparently, the bilinguals brains are somehow compensating, she
23、said. “Even though the machine is more broken, they can function at the same level as a monolingual with less disease,“ she said. “Benefits of bilingualism can begin in uterus,“ Janet Werker, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia, Canada, told the news briefing. For instance, Werker a
24、nd colleagues recent studies show that babies exposed to two languages in uterus do not confuse their languages from birth. The mental workout required to keep the languages separate may create an “enhanced perceptual vigilance that has lifelong benefits,“ Werker said. “What Id like to suggest is th
25、e kind of advantages youve heard about in aging can be established from those first days of life, in babies having to keep the two languages apart.“ Granted, people born into bilingualism have it a bit easier. “One of the things babies have is the luxury of time they get the opportunity to really fo
26、cus on task at hand,“ Werker said. “If we want to learn a second language, we need to set time aside to allow that to happen“ and evidence suggests the payoff is worth it. Even if you dont learn a second language until after middle age, it can still help stave off dementia, Yorks Bialystok said. Bei
27、ng “bilingual is one way to keep your brain active its part of the cognitive-reserve approach to brain fitness,“ Bialystok said. And when it comes to exercising the brain by learning another language, she added, “the more the better and every little bit helps. “ 21 According to the passage, which st
28、atement is NOT true about dementia? （ A） 24 million people have dementia around the globe. （ B） Alzheimers is one of the types of dementia. （ C） Bilingual people might delay suffering from dementia. （ D） Dementia patients dont have executive control system. 22 Bilingualism helps older adults to （ A）
29、 stay away from Alzheimers. （ B） retain cognitive abilities. （ C） delay aging process. （ D） improve mental acuity. 23 What did Bialystok find out about bilingual and monolingual brains? （ A） Bilingual brains are usually more broken than monolingual brains. （ B） Bilingual brains are more physically a
30、dvanced than monolingual brains. （ C） Bilingual brains function better perpetually than monolingual brains. （ D） Bilingual brains get less mental diseases than monolingual brains. 24 Babies born into bilingualism can have lifelong benefits because （ A） they have sufficient time to learn languages. （
31、 B） they have the opportunity to learn in uterus. （ C） they have enhanced cognitive capabilities. （ D） they are more concentrated on the learning task. 25 What is the best title for the passage? （ A） Benefits of Bilingualism. （ B） Theory of Bilingualism. （ C） Bilingualism and Monolingualism. （ D） Bi
32、lingualism in Babies and the Old. 25 A week of heavy reading had passed since the evening he first met Ruth Morse, and still he dared not call. Time and again he nerved himself up to call, but under the doubts that assailed him his determination died away. He did not know the proper time to call, no
33、r was there any one to tell him, and he was afraid of committing himself to an irretrievable blunder. Having shaken himself free from his old companions and old ways of life, and having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read, and the long hours he devoted to it would have ruined a d
34、ozen pairs of ordinary eyes. But his eyes were strong, and they were backed by a body superbly strong. Furthermore, his mind was fallow. It had lain fallow all his life so far as the abstract thought of the books was concerned, and it was ripe for the sowing. It had never been jaded by study, and it
35、 bit hold of the knowledge in the books with sharp teeth that would not let go. It seemed to him, by the end of the week, that he had lived centuries, so far behind were the old life and outlook. But he was baffled by lack of preparation. He attempted to read books that required years of preliminary
36、 specialization. One day he would read a book of antiquated philosophy, and the next day one that was ultra-modern, so that his head would be whirling with the conflict and contradiction of ideas. It was the same with the economists. On the one shelf at the library he found Karl Marx, Ricardo, Adam
37、Smith, and Mill, and the abstruse formulas of the one gave no clew that the ideas of another were obsolete. He was bewildered, and yet he wanted to know. He had become interested, in a day, in economics, industry, and politics. Passing through the City Hall Park, he had noticed a group of men, in th
38、e centre of which were half a dozen, with flushed faces and raised voices, earnestly carrying on a discussion. He joined the listeners, and heard a new, alien tongue in the mouths of the philosophers of the people. One was a tramp, another was a labor agitator, a third was a law-school student, and
39、the remainder was composed of wordy workingmen. For the first time he heard of socialism, anarchism, and single tax, and learned that there were warring social philosophies. He heard hundreds of technical words that were new to him, belonging to fields of thought that his meagre reading had never to
40、uched upon. Because of this he could not follow the arguments closely, and he could only guess at and surmise the ideas wrapped up in such strange expressions. Then there was a black-eyed restaurant waiter who was a theosophist, a union baker who was an agnostic, an old man who baffled all of them w
41、ith the strange philosophy that what is is right, and another old man who discoursed interminably about the cosmos and the father-atom and the mother-atom. Martin Edens head was in a state of addlement when he went away after several hours, and he hurried to the library to look up the definitions of
42、 a dozen unusual words. And when he left the library, he carried under his arm four volumes: Madam Blavatskys “Secret Doctrine,“ “Progress and Poverty,“ “The Quintessence of Socialism,“ and, “Warfare of Religion and Science. “ Unfortunately, he began on the “Secret Doctrine. “ Every line bristled wi
43、th many-syllabled words he did not understand. He sat up in bed, and the dictionary was in front of him more often than the book. He looked up so many new words that when they recurred, he had forgotten their meaning and had to look them up again. He devised the plan of writing the definitions in a
44、note-book, and filled page after page with them. And still he could not understand. He read until three in the morning, and his brain was in a turmoil, but not one essential thought in the text had he grasped. He looked up, and it seemed that the room was lifting, heeling, and plunging like a ship u
45、pon the sea. Then he hurled the “Secret Doctrine“ and many curses across the room, turned off the gas, and composed himself to sleep. Nor did he have much better luck with the other three books. It was not that his brain was weak or incapable; it could think these thoughts were it not for lack of tr
46、aining in thinking and lack of the thought-tools with which to think. He guessed this, and for a while entertained the idea of reading nothing but the dictionary until he had mastered every word in it. 26 For Martin Eden, “an irretrievable blunder“ refers to （ A） reading books for a week. （ B） assai
47、ling other people. （ C） losing determination. （ D） calling Ruth Morse. 27 What rhetoric device was used in the sentence “It had lain fallow. for the sowing.“? （ A） Allusion. （ B） Personification. （ C） Metaphor （ D） Simile. 28 Why did Martin Eden begin to read heavily? （ A） Because he needed to learn
48、 how to sow on the fallow land. （ B） Because he meant to test if his eyes were very strong. （ C） Because he was concerned about some abstract thoughts. （ D） Because he had strong desire to learn some knowledge. 29 The second paragraph is meant to show that （ A） Martin Eden enjoyed reading books of d
49、ifferent themes. （ B） Martin Eden began to encounter different new ideas. （ C） Martin Eden didnt have very efficient learning method. （ D） Martin Eden was a hardworking and modest person. 30 Martin Eden could not understand the books for the following reasons EXCEPT （ A） he didnt know a lot of new words. （ B） he didnt have trainings in thinking. （ C） he didnt have an intelligent brain. （ D） he didnt have useful
