1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 790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 Interview Tips for College Students Most of the students are busy looking for a job now, hence, knowing s
3、ome interview tips is very useful. I. Interview tips A. Planning in advance making sure to have【 B1】 _for interview if having a class【 B1】 _ enough travel time ensured in case of【 B2】 _ obstacles【 B2】 _ having your interviewers【 B3】 _information on hand【 B3】 _ B. Dressing【 B4】 _【 B4】 _ ordinary day:
4、 in pajamas interview day: making youself look【 B5】 _【 B5】 _ C. Bringing a print-out of your resume and cover letter a move for the interviewers to ask【 B6】 _questions【 B6】 _ bringing your transcript II. Some basic things dont walk in with your earphones in and iPod playing dont bring food to the in
5、terview dont bring friends be polite, professional, and【 B7】 _during the interview【 B7】 _ III. Other things you also need to do having an idea of your【 B8】 _【 B8】 _ be clear about when it is feasible for you to work and state it【 B9】 _to your【 B9】 _ employer thanking interviewers and contacting in p
6、erson, sending them a thank-you e-mail a way to show good etiquette, and a【 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 questi
7、ons 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 the interview. 11 What measure is taken to promote the farmers market? （ A） More location. （ B） Cheap food. （ C） Food co
8、upons. （ D） Money rebate. 12 Which of the following is mentioned as measures to make people buy healthier food? （ A） Asking supermarkets to change positions of the healthy food. （ B） Attaching special labels to make the healthier food easy to find. （ C） Giving cooking and nutrition tips in local com
9、munities. （ D） Finding the difference between urban and suburb eating habits. 13 According the interviewee, which is an obstacle of the research? （ A） People with different backgrounds have different understanding of healthy food. （ B） Supermarkets are afraid that healthy food may bring them less pr
10、ofit. （ C） It is hard to trace peoples food choice in small community stores. （ D） People find it harder to preserve the healthier food at home. 14 According to the interview, which of the following food is considered as healthier food? （ A） Soda water. （ B） Chips. （ C） Fresh Spinach. （ D） Ice-cream
11、. 15 Under which condition can the access to healthy food really lead to less obesity? （ A） People have more choices of healthy food. （ B） People really eat healthy food instead of unhealthy food. （ C） There is improvement of overall health. （ D） There are systematic strategies on the matter. SECTIO
12、N 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 What is the news item mainly about? （ A） Norway governments security c
13、oncern about Maps app. （ B） The advantage of having satellite imagery in Maps app. （ C） The license required for making Maps app in Norway. （ D） Comparison of Apples Mas app with Nokias Maps app. 17 What have the leaders of European Union agreed to do? （ A） To permit the local government to supervis
14、e the banks. （ B） To make the bankruptcy of the national banks legal. （ C） To allow European Central Bank give money to banks directly. （ D） To require the local government to bail out the suffering banks. 18 According to the leaders of European Union, Greece government （ A） is qualified to carry ou
15、t the mechanism first. （ B） has done well on meeting budget cuts. （ C） is in conflict with Greek people. （ D） needs to present an effective reform plan. 19 What makes the murder of six people at the temple catch peoples attention? （ A） The suspect is a member of skinhead music band. （ B） The case re
16、flects the race conflict in the American Midwest. （ C） The kids response to the violent case is alarming. （ D） It was related to another case which occurred 15 years ago. 20 Which of the following is TRUE about skinhead music? （ A） It became popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s. （ B） Both the f
17、ans and the musicians are usually skinhead. （ C） It often carries some kind of racist information. （ D） It originates from the Midwestern part of the U.S. 20 In a windowless room on the University of California, Berkeley, campus, two undergrads are playing a Monopoly game that one of them has no cha
18、nce of winning. A team of psychologists has rigged it so that skill, brains, savvy, and luck- those ingredients that ineffably combine to create success in games as in life- have been made immaterial. Here, the only thing that matters is money. One of the players, a brown-haired guy in a striped T-s
19、hirt, has been made “rich. “ He got $ 2,000 from the Monopoly bank at the start of the game and receives $ 200 each time he passes Go. The second player, a chubby young man in glasses, is comparatively impoverished. He was given $ 1,000 at the start and collects $ 100 for passing Go. T-Shirt can rol
20、l two dice, but Glasses can only roll one, limiting how fast he can advance. The students play for fifteen minutes under the watchful eye of two video cameras, while down the hall in another windowless room, the researchers huddle around a computer screen, later recording in a giant spreadsheet the
21、subjects every facial twitch and hand gesture. T-Shirt isnt just winning; hes crushing Glasses. Initially, he reacted to the inequality between him and his opponent with a series of smirks, an acknowledgment, perhaps, of the inherent awkwardness of the situation. “Hey,“ his expression seemed to say,
22、 “this is weird and unfair, but whatever.“ Soon, though, as he whizzes around the board, purchasing properties and collecting rent, whatever discomfort he feels seems to dissipate. Hes a skinny kid, but he balloons in size, spreading his limbs toward the far ends of the table. He smacks his playing
23、piece(in the experiment, the wealthy player gets the Rolls-Royce)as he makes the circuit- smack, smack, smack ending his turns with a board-shuddering bang! Four minutes in, he picks up Glassess piece, the little elf shoe, and moves it for him. As the game nears its finish, T-Shirt moves his Rolls f
24、aster. The taunting is over now: Hes all efficiency. He refuses to meet Glassess gaze. His expression is stone cold as he takes the losers cash. For a long time, primatologists have known that chimpanzees will act out social dominance with a special ferociousness, slapping hands, stamping feet, or “
25、charging back and forth and dragging huge branches,“ as Jane Goodall once wrote. And sociologists and anthropologists have explored the effects of hierarchy in tribes and groups. But psychology has only recently begun seriously investigating how having money, that major marker of status in the moder
26、n world, affects psychosocial behavior in the species Homo sapiens. By making real people temporarily very affluent, without regard to their actual economic circumstances and within the controlled environment of a psych lab, the Berkeley researchers aim to demonstrate the potency of that one variabl
27、e. “Putting someone in a role where theyre more privileged and have more power in a game makes them behave like people who actually do have more power, more money, and more status,“ says Paul Piff, the psychologist who designed the experiment. The Monopoly results, based on a year of watching inequi
28、table games between pairs like Glasses and T-Shirt, have not yet been released. But Piff believes that they will support and amplify his previous provocative research. Earlier this year, Piff, who is 30, published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that made him semi-famo
29、us. Titled “Higher Social Class Predicts Increased Unethical Behavior,“ it showed through quizzes, online games, questionnaires, in-lab manipulations, and field studies that living high on the socioeconomic ladder can, colloquially speaking, dehumanize people. It can make them less ethical, more sel
30、fish, more insular, and less compassionate than other people. It can make them more likely, as Piff demonstrated in one of his experiments, to take candy from a bowl of sweets designated for children. “While having money doesnt necessarily make anybody anything,“ Piff says, “the rich are way more li
31、kely to prioritize their own self-interests above the interests of other people. It makes them more likely to exhibit characteristics that we would stereotypically associate with, say, assholes.“ These findings, in combination with a researcher eager to promote them, reverberated online. On message
32、boards, detractors accused Piff of using his lab to promote a leftist agenda; that his home base was Berkeley only fueled those suspicions. Piffs e-mail box is filled with messages calling him a “liberal idiot“ and his work “junk science.“ “I would wager,“ says Wharton business-school psychologist P
33、hilip Tetlock, “that a congressional committee chair who favors redistribution of wealth would be far more likely to call these experts in as witnesses than would a committee chair who opposes redistribution.“ It is easy to see Piffs research as ideologically motivated. The point is to “shed light o
34、n some of the consequences of social class,“ he says. But whatever his goal is, the “results are apolitical,“ he says, and the data point in a clear direction. “Would I be less excited if we found that higher-status people were more generous?“ he asks. “Id probably be less excited, but thats not wha
35、t we found.“ 21 According to the article, a Monopoly game （ A） is designed by psychologists who are the only people to win the game. （ B） is played by undergraduates with skills, brains, savvy and luck. （ C） makes the winner rich and loser impoverished in their lives. （ D） determines who will win th
36、e game at the very beginning. 22 Which word can best describe the behavior of “T-shirt“ when playing the game? （ A） Arrogant. （ B） Indifferent. （ C） Efficient. （ D） Inhumane. 23 The italicized sentence in Paragraph Three is an example of （ A） euphemism. （ B） exaggeration. （ C） metaphor. （ D） analogy
37、. 24 What can we imply from the words of psychologist Philip Tetlock? （ A） People of different standpoint have disagreed opinions on the Berkley research. （ B） These experts of Berkley research are witnesses of redistribution of social wealth. （ C） The Berkley research elicits a fierce debate among
38、the congressional committee. （ D） The committee chair who opposes redistribution will never call the experts. 25 According to the article, which of the following is CORRECT about Berkeley researchers? （ A） They publicized the results of the Monopoly game and received much criticism. （ B） They found
39、people who participated the game behaved less ethical. （ C） They were excited to find people in higher socioeconomic hierarchy less generous. （ D） Their purpose of the research is to clarify the hierarchy in social classes. 25 The arrest of a man for allegedly posting a picture of a burning poppy(Pe
40、ople wear poppy to memorize those who died in the two world wars)online on Remembrance Sunday has been condemned by civil liberties activists, amid growing concern about threats to freedom of speech. The 19-year-old from Canterbury, named locally as Linford House, was questioned by Kent Police yeste
41、rday on suspicion of an offence under the Malicious Communications Act. Freedom-of-speech campaigners accused the police of using the law to arrest a man for merely causing offence. Leading human rights lawyer John Cooper QC offered to represent the teenager free of charge should the matter come to
42、court. Tim Minchin was among the comedians to speak out in favour of the arrested mans right to cause offence yesterday. He said: “Youvem a right to burn a(fake!)poppy. Whether I agree with the action is utterly irrelevant. Kent Police are out of line.“ Mr. Houses arrest was dubbed “poppycock“ by ma
43、ny discussing the issue online. Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch , said the arrest was “utterly ridiculous“. He said: “Kent Police need to release this man and drop an utterly ridiculous investigation into something that has harmed no one.“ “It is not illegal to offend people and, however
44、 idiotic or insensitive the picture may have been, it is certainly not worthy of arrest. “The case highlights the urgent need to reform a law that poses a serious risk to freedom of speech after several ludicrous prosecutions in recent months. “ The teenager is alleged to have posted the image of a
45、poppy being burned with a cigarette lighter on Facebook, along with a caption which read: “How about that you squadey c (insulting words).“ Mr. Cooper QC told The Independent: “Freedom of speech is not just the freedom to say nice things, it is the freedom to say obnoxious and distasteful things as
46、well. What we have here, is a stupid and foolish young man making an obnoxious gesture. But to potentially criminalise him and to arrest him is disproportionate and dangerous to the very fundamental freedom of speech. There seems to be a growing intolerance and a particular intolerance to comments m
47、ade on social media. It is almost as if certain sections of society- the police are trying to send out unwarranted heavy-handed signals which are an affront to the very rights that we hold dear. In March last year, Emdadur Choudhury, a member of Muslims Against Crusades(MAC), was fined 50 after burn
48、ing replica poppies on the anniversary of Armistice Day. Choudhury had denied a charge under Section 5 of the Public Order Act of burning the poppies in a way that was likely to cause “harassment, harm or distress“ to those who witnessed it. “But he was guilty of a calculated and deliberate insult t
49、o the dead and those who mourn them when he burned two large plastic poppies during a two-minute silence on 11 November,“ a district judge sitting at Belmarsh magistrates court said. A spokeswoman for the Royal British Legion declined to comment on the investigation in Kent. Kent Police said in a statement: “Officers were contacted at around 4 p. m.(on Sunday)and alerted to the picture, which was reportedly accompanied by
