1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 806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 Evaluating Speaking Speaking is a complex act with many different elements interacting to produce effecti
3、ve communication, so we consider some things that speakers need to be able to do when we want to evaluate this skill accurately. Five aspects are listed as follows. I. Phonological features of speech A.【 B1】 _ consonants, vowels, diphthongs【 B1】 _ B. stressed and weak sounds in words C. stressed and
4、 weak words in speech D.【 B2】 _【 B2】 _ E.【 B3】 _ falling, rising, flat, etc.【 B3】 _ F. features of connected speech II. Following the rules of language A. choosing the right vocabulary B. using grammar structures C. using features of discourse:【 B4】 _, coherence【 B4】 _ III.【 B5】 _【 B5】 _ A. non-verb
5、al tools: gestures and【 B6】 _【 B6】 _ B. other body language: eye contact, posture, positioning, etc. C.【 B7】 _: whispering, shouting, etc.【 B7】 _ IV. Communicative functions A. functions of vocabulary and grammar B. functions of intonation and moving stress C. recognizing features such as repetition
6、s, re-phrasing, pauses, etc D. recognizing non-linguistic features such as changes in【 B8】 _【 B8】 _ V. Social meaning A.【 B9】 _languages【 B9】 _ B. connotation language C. direct and indirect language D. important social factors: social status, age, gender E.【 B10】 _: turn taking, exchanges【 B10】 _ F
7、. other rules 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 interview. At the end of th
8、e interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 What is the woman? （ A） A Newsweek Magazines reporter. （ B） A brainpower expert. （ C） A doctor. （ D） An associate professor of Tufts University. 12 According to the interview, whi
9、ch of the following is INCORRECT? （ A） Active people are likely to get Alzheimers disease. （ B） Exercise can improve peoples body function. （ C） Exercise can help grow new nerve cells. （ D） Exercise can help people fight disease. 13 According to the interview, more new nerve cells mean （ A） the brai
10、n is growing. （ B） the new nerve cells are connecting. （ C） the new nerve cells are weaved. （ D） peoples brain will function better. 14 According to the interview, which of the following is INCORRECT? （ A） Exercising in your 30s will make a difference. （ B） Starting exercising earlier will be better
11、. （ C） Exercising can also benefit children. （ D） Exercising in your 50s will not make a difference. 15 The first thing the woman who gets a diagnosis of breast cancer should do is （ A） to go out and start exercising. （ B） to see her doctor. （ C） to get a medical team. （ D） to make a research. SECTI
12、ON 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 Which of the following statements is CORRECT? （ A） 12-character passw
13、ords are far more secure than 8-character ones. （ B） Researchers suggest 12-character passwords should always be the standard. （ C） 12-character is the most convenient length for passwords. （ D） 12-character full-sentence passwords are the ideal passwords. 17 What is the moving direction of Tropical
14、 Storm Gert? （ A） Southeast to Bermuda. （ B） Southeast from Bermuda. （ C） North to Bermuda. （ D） North from Bermuda. 18 Of all the named storms of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, Gert is the （ A） 1st. （ B） 3rd. （ C） 5th. （ D） 7th. 19 Overweight people are likely to suffer from all the following
15、diseases EXCEPT （ A） heart attacks. （ B） stroke. （ C） diabetes. （ D） chest pain. 20 According to the research carried out by York University researchers, for obese people, （ A） they should lose weight before evaluating their health conditions. （ B） not gaining any weight is easier to achieve than lo
16、sing weight. （ C） they are likely to benefit a lot from losing their weight. （ D） having a healthy lifestyle is more important than losing weight. 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
17、 calculations will not be complete until late December, we can confidently predict one finding. Americas Hispanic population, which is expected 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
18、 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-American. 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
19、 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 instance, 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 n
20、ew arrivals from Mexico head directly to look for jobs in the big cities of the south-east and north-east: and second- and third-generation Hispanics, perfectly acculturated by Americas melting pot, are now to be found everywhere. This steady advance has large consequences. Most obviously, it is cha
21、nging the balance of American politics. The decennial census is the basis on which federal money is disbursed and seats in the House of Representatives, and consequently Electoral College votes, are allocated. Once the results of this years census are known, up to 18 states will see their congressio
22、nal tallies altered. The big, mostly white, states of the northeast will be the losers. The Hispanic-rich border region will gain. Americas 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 on
23、ly 26 Hispanics, about 6% of the total: there are 41 African-Americans, much closer to their share of the population. Hispanic senators have been few and far between, as have Hispanic governors. One reason is that Hispanics have at least until recently been poorly organised. But this is changing. Th
24、e 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 the 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 p
25、ower: and as long as they continue to vote solidly Democratic(as they did in 2008. by a whopping 67-31% margin), that is great news for the 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 Co
26、lorado, New Mexico and Nevada. It is not impossible to imagine that, in time, Texas huge Hispanic population could turn Americas second-largest 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
27、 too hard. Culturally conservative, strongly religious, family-oriented and with a long and distinguished tradition of service in Americas 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
28、xenophobia. George W. Bush managed to appeal pretty well to Hispanics, scoring an estimated 44% of the Hispanic vote in 2004. But from 2005 onwards, a hysterical Republican reaction to the prospect of immigration reform(which aimed, among other things, to regularise the position of the 12m or so ill
29、egal immigrants living, for the most part peacefully and industriously, within Americas borders)undid all that. As well as the census, this 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 alienatin
30、g 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 and Southern states. If Republicans could this year once again embrace the opportunity that Americas Hispanics and its proximity to Mexico represents, they could
31、do themselves a power of good. 21 What can be inferred from the first paragraph? （ A） The census is revolving around the Hispanic and black 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 popula
32、tion is increasing while the black is not. 22 The second paragraph is mainly to tell us （ A） the reason why there arc so many Mexicans 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
33、 U.S. Hispanic population and its reason. 23 The numbers in Paragraph 4 is to support the opinion that （ A） Hispanics are not so politically concerned as the blacks. （ B） there are fewer Hispanic statesmen than the Black ones. （ C） it is time for Hispanics to make a voice in political affairs. （ D）
34、the number of Hispanic statesmen is low in the USA. 24 Hispanics influence American politics by （ A） becoming more and more politically active. （ B） having turned over the powers of America Parties. （ C） waving between Democratic and Republican. （ D） turning Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada Democrati
35、c. 25 The sentence “they are rightly.xenophobia“ in the last paragraph but one means （ A） it is reasonable for them to feel inferior 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 a
36、re 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, 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
37、 Eagle creating the lunar base Tranquility(named in advance by Armstrong). It was stunning that this local kid who grew up on a farm 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
38、,“ we were incommensurably awed at the greatness of it all. Not Armstrong. “Pilots take no particular joy in walking,“ he once said 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
39、Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience. 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 wrot
40、e Armstrong in the early 1990s to request an interview about his Korean War service. He had flown 78 combat missionswas even hit 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 airc
41、raft carrier USS Essex. I got a polite postcard rejection: “No thanks, but Ill keep you in mind.“ It wasnt until several years later 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
42、 set for Sept. 19, 2001. Then I saw the horrifying collapse of the World Trade Center towers on TV. Like everyone else, I was grief-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 Armst
43、rong, no matter what, never missed a scheduled rendezvous. He was going to travel from Cincinnati to Houston to do the oral history 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
44、pages of Tom Wolfes The Right Stuff in a glorious dust cloud of triumph. But his effort was impressive. The post-9 - 11 skies were 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
45、 was a matter of honor. The interview started out well, with a question about Lindbergh. He raved about the famed pilot of the Spirit of St. Louis. He told me about his personal correspondence with Lucky Lindy(a trove that is still oil-limits to scholars). It dawned on me that perhaps the fear of th
46、e Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Syndrome had driven Armstrong underground, had turned him into a quasi-recluse. As an impermeable skeptic, he trusted neither celebrity nor crass capitalism. But the oral history was tracking. And when 1 turned to the Korean War, mentioning novelist James Micheners book T
47、he Bridges at Toko-Ri, he became surprisingly effusive. “Michener was on our ship,“ he said. “I think he went on three tours, two or 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 t
48、ell 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. “It wasnt an easy decision,“ he said. “I was flying the X-15 a
49、nd I had the understanding or belief that if I continued, I would be the chief pilot of that project.Then there was this other project down at Houston, the Apollo program. I cant tell you now just why in the end I made the decision I did, but I consider it as fortuitous that I happened to pick one that was a winning horse.“ 26 According to the passage, Neil Armstrong （ A） was awed by the author for his greatness. （ B） was the hero of the book
