1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 800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 Approach Discursive Writing? How to improve the effectiveness of students writing? There are six s
3、tages which should be paid attention to in the process of discursive writing. I. Brainstorming features: think fast and with no【 B1】 _【 B1】 _ teachers role: supporters evaluating ideas: intimidating and having a【 B2】 _effect【 B2】 _ II. Assessing ideas assess the【 B3】 _and usefulness【 B3】 _ organize
4、graphics establish a structure III. Focusing on coherence and cohesion 1. coherence 【 B4】 _of ideas【 B4】 _ emphasizing the topic and function examing the order 2. cohesion grammatical and lexical connections classification of the grammatical links 【 B5】 _: pronouns and demonstratives【 B5】 _ ellipsis
5、 conjunction example: results of misusing pronouns: confusion and【 B6】 _【 B6】 _ IV. Organizing ideas organize a linear format emphasize the【 B7】 _of each paragraph【 B7】 _ discuss the integral structure work in groups to avoid the【 B8】 _atmosphere【 B8】 _ V. Writing co-operative writing between writer
6、 and reader advantages: make the task more realistic and【 B9】 _【 B9】 _ VI.【 B10】 _and reading【 B10】 _ reformulate the first draft: code-correction or underlining errors exchange compositions after writing the final draft 1 【 B1】 2 【 B2】 3 【 B3】 4 【 B4】 5 【 B5】 6 【 B6】 7 【 B7】 8 【 B8】 9 【 B9】 10 【 B1
7、0】 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 questions. Now
8、listen to the interview. 11 What can we know about the interviewee from the interview? （ A） He used to be a biologist. （ B） He studies comedy at school. （ C） He is a column writer. （ D） He made mistakes in labs. 12 Which of the following statements about the similarity between science and comedy is
9、CORRECT? （ A） They both have a long history. （ B） They both have influence on the society. （ C） They both are subjects of study. （ D） They both are serious matters. 13 According to the interviewee, what is likely to be the consequence of being funny in the lab? （ A） It will reduce the pressure of th
10、e experiment. （ B） It will distract people from their research. （ C） It will give people the excuse for mistakes. （ D） It will add inspiration and creativity to the lab. 14 Which of the following best describes the interviewees feeling towards being a scientist? （ A） It takes too many years to finis
11、h the training. （ B） Theres a certain pattern on how to become a scientist. （ C） Everyday lab work is routine and boring. （ D） It is harder to make a living. 15 What can we learn about Experimental Error from the interview? （ A） About 24 topics have been dealt with by the interviewee. （ B） Scientist
12、s can understand the humor better by it. （ C） Math puns are often employed in the column. （ D） Its opening was due to the interviewees suggestion. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At t
13、he 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 concern about Maps app. （ B） The advantage of having satellite imagery in Maps app. （ C） The license required for making Maps app in Norway. （ D） Co
14、mparison 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 supervise 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 req
15、uire the local government to bail out the suffering banks. 18 According to the leaders of European Union, Greece government （ A） is qualified to carry out 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
16、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 reflects 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
17、 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 fans and the musicians are usually skinhead. （ C） It often carries some kind of racist information. （ D） It originates from the Midwestern part of t
18、he U.S. 20 This is census year in America, and although we hesitate to pre-empt the results of a mighty exercise that will involve over a million staff and whose calculations will not be complete until late December, we can confidently predict one finding. Americas Hispanic population, which is expe
19、cted to come in at almost 16% of the total, will have overtaken its black population, likely to be put at around 2. 5 percentage points less, with Asians listing the last, only 2. 9 percent. In 2000, the last time this count was performed, 12. 5% of the population was Hispanic, and 12.9% African-Ame
20、rican. Thanks to rapid immigration, legal and illegal, and a large stock of young people with a high birth-rate, Americas Latino population has grown twice as fast over the past decade as either its white or black population: and the gap is going to keep on widening. Half the babies in Texas, for in
21、stance, are born to Latina mothers, even though Latinos make up under 40% of that states population. And this is not only a phenomenon of the border states. Many new arrivals from Mexico head directly to look for jobs in the big cities of the southeast and northeast: and second- and third-generation
22、 Hispanics, perfectly acculturated by Americas melting pot, are now to be found everywhere. This steady advance has large consequences. Most obviously, it is changing the balance of American politics. The decennial census is the basis on which federal money is disbursed and seats in the House of Rep
23、resentatives, and consequently Electoral College votes, are allocated. Once the results of this years census are known, up to 18 states will see their congressional tallies altered. The big, mostly white, states of the northeast will be the losers. The Hispanic-rich border region will gain. Americas
24、 Hispanics, unlike its blacks, have traditionally failed to punch at their true weight. In the current House of Representatives in Washington D. C. , there are only 26 Hispanics, about 6% of the total: there are 41 African-Americans, much closer to their share of the population. Hispanic senators ha
25、ve been few and far between, as have Hispanic governors. One reason is that Hispanics have at least until recently been poorly organized. But this is changing. The Hispanic voter-turnout rate increases at every election. It hit 50% in 2008, up from 47% in 2004, though that is still a lot less than t
26、he 66% recorded by non-Hispanic whites or the 65% by blacks. In a fair number of keenly contested states, the Hispanic population in effect holds the balance of power: and as long as they continue to vote solidly Democratic(as they did in 2008, by a whopping 6731% margin), that is great news for the
27、 blue party. The big Hispanic vote for Barack Obama in Florida turned that vital state from Republican to Democratic: the Hispanic vote also proved crucial in Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada. It is not impossible to imagine that, in time, Texas huge Hispanic population could turn Americas second-lar
28、gest state Democratic. If the Republicans want to avoid that fearful fate, they need to reconnect with Hispanic voters, and fast. In principle it ought not to be too hard. Culturally conservative, strongly religious, family-oriented and with a long and distinguished tradition of service in Americas
29、armed forces, Hispanics are natural Republicans. But they are also, on the average, poorer than whites, and they are rightly incensed at anything that smacks of xenophobia. George W. Bush managed to appeal pretty well to Hispanics, scoring an estimated 44% of the Hispanic vote in 2004. But from 2005
30、 onwards, a hysterical Republican reaction to the prospect of immigration reform(which aimed, among other things, to regularize the position of the 12 m or so illegal immigrants living, for the most part peacefully and industriously, within Americas borders)undid all that. As well as the census, thi
31、s year will see another attempt to tackle the immigration dossier. It would be overcynical to see this as a Democratic ploy to lure the Republicans into alienating a vital group of voters all over again. But there is great peril for a party that is in the process of confining itself to white voters
32、and Southern states. If Republicans could this year once again embrace the opportunity that Americas Hispanics and its proximity to Mexico represents, they could do themselves a power of good. 21 What can be inferred from the first paragraph? （ A） The census is revolving around the Hispanic and blac
33、k population. （ B） The black make up 13. 5 percent of Americas population. （ C） Since last census, Hispanic population has risen by 12. 5% . （ D） The Hispanic population is increasing while the black is not. 22 The second paragraph is mainly to tell us_. （ A） the reason why there are so many Mexican
34、s in America （ B） where large numbers of Hispanic population can be found （ C） why the Latino population can be found all over America （ D） the current situation of U. S. Hispanic population and its reason 23 The numbers in Paragraph Four are used to support the opinion that_. （ A） Hispanics are not
35、 so politically concerned as the black （ B） there are fewer Hispanic statesmen than the Black ones （ C） it is time for Hispanics to make a voice in political affairs （ D） the number of Hispanic statesmen is small in the U. S. 24 Hispanics influence American politics by_. （ A） becoming more and more
36、politically active （ B） having turned over the powers of America Parties （ C） waving between Democratic and Republican （ D） turning Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada Democratic 25 The sentence “they are rightly.xenophobia“ in the last but one paragraph means . （ A） it is reasonable for them to feel in
37、ferior to the white （ B） they are taking rightful measures to become richer （ C） they are sensitive to and angry about the natives hostility （ D） though being poor, they are fighting for equal rights 25 I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of Apollo 11,
38、 descended the cramped lunar module Eagles ladder to become the first human on the moon. I didnt miss a moment of the long, nerve-wracking chain of events that led to the Eagle creating the lunar base Tranquility(named in advance by Armstrong). It was stunning that this local kid who grew up on a fa
39、rm with no electricity was leading America into the brave new world of lunar exploration. When Armstrong said, “ Thats one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind,“ we were incommensurably awed at the greatness of it all. Not Armstrong. “Pilots take no particular joy in walking,“ he once sa
40、id in full buzzkill mode. “Pilots like flying. “ For years I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience
41、. Did Armstrong agree? What did it feel likeemotionally, spirituallyto stand on the surface of the moon? Could I get him to open up about the experience? I originally wrote Armstrong in the early 1990s to request an interview about his Korean War service. He had flown 78 combat missionswas even hit
42、with antiaircraft fire over enemy territoryand I wanted to write a book about it, A Band of Brothers about the flyboys of “the Forgotten War“ who were assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Essex. I got a polite postcard rejection: “No thanks, but Ill keep you in mind. “ It wasnt until several years l
43、ater that NASA asked me to conduct its official oral history of the “First Man. “ I was surprised and honored to get a chance to interview himand thrilled when the date was set for Sept. 19, 2001. Then I saw the horrifying collapse of the World Trade Center towers on TV. Like everyone else, I was gr
44、ief-stricken. And I was also sure my Armstrong interview would get nixed. But it didnt play out that way. To my utter astonishment, a NASA director telephoned me that Armstrong, no matter what, never missed a scheduled rendezvous. He was going to travel from Cincinnati to Houston to do the oral hist
45、ory in spite of the post-terrorist-attack airport madness. Armstrong journeying to Texas days after 9. 11 certainly wasnt the phoenix-like Chuck Yeager, emerging from the pages of Tom Wolfes The Right Stuf in a glorious dust cloud of triumph. But his effort was impressive. The post-9. 11 skies were
46、largely shut to commercial aircraft, but Armstrong, whose own boyhood hero was aviator Charles Lindbergh, stubbornly refused to cancel an appointment that he dreaded. It was a matter of honor. The interview started out well, with a question about Lindbergh. He raved about the famed pilot of the Spir
47、it of St. Louis. He told me about his personal correspondence with Lucky Lindy(a trove that is still off-limits to scholars). It dawned on me that perhaps the fear of the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Syndrome had driven Armstrong underground, had turned him into a quasi-recluse. As an impermeable skept
48、ic, he trusted neither celebrity nor crass capitalism. But the oral history was tracking. And when I turned to the Korean War, mentioning novelist James Micheners book The Bridges at Toko-Ri, he became surprisingly effusive. “Michener was on our ship,“ he said. “I think he went on three tours, two o
49、r three tours, you know, at four or five weeks at a crack, and would just sit around the wardroom in the evening or in the ready room in the daytime and listen to guys tell the actual stories. “ What I was most curious about was why Armstrong, a top U. S. Navy test pilot, flying the most advanced aircraft in the world, would want to join the astronaut corps in 1962, which included chimpanzees and monkeys.
