1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 809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 st
3、ages which should be paid attention to in the process of discursive writing. I. Brainstorming features: think fast and no【 B1】 _【 B1】 _ teachers role: supporters evaluating ideas: limitation of【 B2】 _【 B2】 _ II. Assessing ideas -assess the【 B3】 _and usefulness【 B3】 _ - organize graphics -establish a
4、 structure III. Focusing on coherence and cohesion 1. coherence -【 B4】 _of ideas【 B4】 _ -emphasizing on the topic and function -examing the order 2. cohesion grammatical and lexical connections classification of the grammatical links -【 B5】 _: pronouns and demonstratives【 B5】 _ -ellipsis -conjunctio
5、n 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【 B8】 _【 B8】 _ V. Writing co-operative writing between writer and reader advantages: make the t
6、ask more realistic and【 B9】 _【 B9】 _ VI.【 B10】 _and reading【 B10】 _ reformulate the first draft: code-correction or underlining errors write the final draft: exchange compositions give a communicative purpose develop a writing awareness 1 【 B1】 2 【 B2】 3 【 B3】 4 【 B4】 5 【 B5】 6 【 B6】 7 【 B7】 8 【 B8】
7、 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 the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five
8、 questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 According to Alans cover story, what is the different trait between a boss and most people? （ A） Various temptations. （ B） Huge fortune. （ C） Heavy work. （ D） Psychological risk factors. 12 Which of the following statements about the little quiz is CORRECT
9、? （ A） The place of the quiz need to be fixed. （ B） The purpose is to find out if your boss is a madman. （ C） The only question is if a boss is a superficially charming person. （ D） One of the question is if a boss has a lot of real and helpful friends. 13 Which of the following statements about men
10、tal bosses is INCORRECT? （ A） They lack sympathy for their employees. （ B） They lack close contact with their employees. （ C） They are good at cheating their employees. （ D） They are especially selfish and indifferent. 14 According to the interview, what have been seen in the corporate cases? （ A） M
11、ental bosses are not responsible. （ B） Mental bosses arc often scared. （ C） Mental bosses are always worried. （ D） Mental bosses are all criminals. 15 Which of the following is NOT the interviewees suggestions for dealing with mental bosses? （ A） questioning authority. （ B） avoiding suspicious activ
12、ities. （ C） evaluating the damage to your life. （ D） partaking useful activities. 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 will be given 10 seconds to answer
13、the questions. 16 According to the news item, people can get the following help from the HIV/AIDS camps EXCEPT （ A） having HIV tests. （ B） learning health knowledge. （ C） setting up personal future plans. （ D） preparing for future work. 17 The bomb that exploded outside the police station （ A） kille
14、d only two men. （ B） was a 200-pound one. （ C） exploded in rush hours. （ D） was placed under a car. 18 We can learn from the news item that the taxi driver （ A） was forced to drive to the police station. （ B） informed the police about the explosion. （ C） was badly wounded because of the explosion. （
15、 D） tried to get the object out of the car but failed. 19 Which of the following statements is INCORRECT? （ A） The Reno collision caused six deaths and 20 people injured. （ B） The tractor-trailer driver was responsible for the accident. （ C） Collisions on and around railroad tracks were not rare. （
16、D） Since the Reno crash, there have been six such collisions in the US. 20 Operation Lifesavers Inc. is an organization that （ A） was first founded by railroad companies. （ B） has designed an online course for drivers. （ C） has helped 15,000 drivers to get their licenses. （ D） collects membership fe
17、es from professional truckers. 20 Talk is cheap when it comes to solving the problem of too-big-to-fail banks. From the luxury of even todays stuttering economic recovery it is easy to vow that next time lenders losses will be pushed onto their creditors, not onto taxpayers. But cast your mind back
18、to late 2008. Then, the share prices of the worlds biggest banks could halve in minutes. Reasonable people thought that many firms were hiding severe losses. Anyone exposed to them, from speculators to churchgoing custodians of widows pensions, tried to yank their cash out, causing a run that threat
19、ened another Great Depression. Now, imagine being sat not in the observers armchair but in the regulators hot seat and faced with such a crisis again. Can anyone honestly say that they would let a big bank go down? And yet, somehow, that choice is what the people redesigning the rules of finance mus
20、t try to make possible. The final rules are due in November and will probably call for banks in normal times to carry core capital of at least 10% of risk-adjusted assets. This would be enough to absorb the losses most banks made during 2007-2009 with a decent margin for error. But that still leaves
21、 the outlier banks that in the last crisis, as in most others, lost two to three times more than the average firm. Worse, the crisis has shown that if they are not rescued they can topple the entire system. That is why swaggering talk of letting them burn next time is empty. Instead, a way needs to
22、be found to impose losses on their creditors without causing a wider panic the financial equivalent of squaring a circle. America has created a resolution authority that will take over failing banks and force losses on unsecured creditors if necessary. That is a decent start, but may be too indiscri
23、minate. The biggest banks each have hundreds of billions of dollars of such debt, including overnight loans from other banks, short-term paper sold to money-market funds and bonds held by pension funds. Such counterparties are likely to run from any bank facing a risk of being put in resolution whic
24、h, as the recent crisis showed, could mean most banks. Indeed, the unsecured Adebt market is so important that far from destabilising it, regulators might feel obliged to underwrite it, as in 2008. A better alternative is to give regulators draconian power but over a smaller part of banks balance-sh
25、eets, so that the panic is contained. The idea is practical since it means amending banks debt structures, not reinventing them, although banks would need roughly to double the amount of this debt that they hold. It also avoids too-clever-by-half trigger mechanisms and the opposite pitfall of a labo
26、rious legal process. Indeed, it is conceivable that a bank could be recapitalised over a weekend. The banks worry there are no natural buyers for such securities, making them expensive to issue. In fact they resemble a bog-standard insurance arrangement in which a premium is received and there is a
27、small chance of perhaps one in 50 each year of severe losses. Regulators would, though, have to ensure that banks didnt buy each others securities and that they didnt all end up in the hands of one investor. Last time round American International Group became the dumping ground for Wall Streets risk
28、 and had to be bailed out too. Would it work? The one thing certain about the next crisis is that it will feature the same crushing panic, pleas from banks and huge political pressure to stabilise the system, whatever the cost. The hope is that regulators might have a means to impose losses on the p
29、rivate sector in a controlled way, and not just face a binary choice between bail-out or oblivion. 21 In 2008, the following occurrences happened EXCEPT （ A） banks capital shrank dramatically. （ B） firms pretended to profit. （ C） another Great Depression followed. （ D） organizations tried to take mo
30、ney back. 22 The government cant take bank crisis for granted mainly because （ A） it may lead to the incredible damage. （ B） it may cause a wider panic. （ C） banks lose more than average firms. （ D） it often happen during depression. 23 The resolution is_in the authors point of view. （ A） of no help
31、 （ B） bound to fail （ C） without careful selection （ D） sort of socialism 24 The solution suggested in Paragraph 6 is better in the following ways EXCEPT （ A） making less effort on banks debt structures. （ B） not having to face stupid trigger mechanism. （ C） going through no troublesome legal proces
32、s. （ D） helping the banks collect enough capital. 25 The author is showing his_in writing this passage. （ A） reason （ B） rage （ C） worry （ D） objection 25 Not long ago, Ted Gup opened a battered old suitcase from his mother s attic and discovered a family secret. Inside was a thick sheaf of letters
33、addressed to “B. Virdot,“ all dated December 1933, all asking for help. Also inside: 150 canceled checks signed by the mysterious Virdot. Gup, a journalism professor at Bostons Emerson College, quickly got to the bottom of the story: His grandfather Samuel Stone had used the pseudonym to slip money
34、to impoverished people. “At the time, he caused quite a stir,“ says Gup, who chronicles the story in A Secret Gift: How One Mans Kindness And A Trove of Letters Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression. Stone wasnt a mogul, but as the owner of a chain of clothing stores, he was fairly wel
35、l off. Just before Christmas, 1933, he placed an ad. in his local Canton, Ohio, newspaper, offering money to 75 people who wrote to “B. Virdot“ explaining their need. The letters poured in and were so heartrending that he ended up giving 150 people $5 close to $84 in todays money. “I read all the le
36、tters multiple times,“ says Gup, who was astonished by the raw anguish of the Depression. Then he tracked down the recipients descendants. “Most people I contacted wept when they learned about the letters,“ Gup says. “When they read the letters, they sobbed, and I had to give them room to collect th
37、emselves. It brought home what their parents and grandparents had endured“ no money for food, shoes, rent, let alone anything to give their kids for Christmas. “There were instances in which the calamity of the Depression was so great that $5 barely made a dent,“ Gup says. “But there were others for
38、 whom it really did make a difference. It provided Christmas dinner, a few presents under the tree.and at least as important, it signaled that somebody cared. In 1933, the New Deal was a glint in FDRs(Franklin Delano Roosevelt)eye: it was just beginning. There was no net to catch people when they we
39、re free-falling.“ Some whom Gup contacted finally understood why their parents had been able to serve a fancy meal for just that one holiday: others learned harsh truths. “The children of several letter writers were unaware that their parents had gone to jail,“ driven by desperation to steal to put
40、food on the table. “That did not diminish their respect or love for their parents,“ he says, “but it enhanced their understanding.“ Gup found out that his grandfather had his own dark past. Hed been born in Romania, notas hed claimedPittsburgh: his birth certificate was phony, and hed invented his b
41、iography. Gup speculates that, having escaped a childhood of poverty, hunger, and religious persecution(he was Jewish), his grandfather lied to escape bias against immigrants. That Stone wasnt a saint, that hed done whatever it took to escape adversity, helped explain his motives: He understood desp
42、air, Gup says, and that “nothing was more precious than a second chance.“ On November 5, the descendants of the people Stone helped are scheduled to gather at the Canton Palace Theatre in Canton to share stories and read the original letters. As for Gup, he views the legacy of the Depression as “a r
43、eal appreciation of family, of collaboration and sacrifice, of respect what we tend to think of as American virtues. The hard times were brutal, but they did create an awareness that saw us through the Second World War and helped usher in a period of prosperity, an awareness I fear was being lost in
44、 materialism and self absorption prior to the recent great recession. “No one in his right mind would welcome such times,“ Gup says. “My family and neighbors have felt the sting of this recession. But our identity as individuals and as a nation is the product not just of good times but also of bad t
45、imes. They give us our spine, our strength, our gumption, our grit, all those things we take such pride in.“I think B. Virdots gift is a reminder that we should all be emboldened to make an effort, no matter how modest, to extend ourselves. Thats what makes the difference in all our lives.“ 26 Accor
46、ding to the passage. Ted Gup （ A） is a journalist working for a college. （ B） read a story entitled A Secret Gift. （ C） found out some of the letter writers. （ D） is a descendant of Jewish. 27 Reading the letters, the help-receivers descendants cried out of （ A） memory of miserable days. （ B） gratit
47、ude for Mr. Virdot. （ C） the secret they didnt know. （ D） missing their parents. 28 Which statement is INCORRECT about Samuel Stone? （ A） He helped poor people in the name of B. Virdot. （ B） He concealed his true identity as a Jewish by making up his past. （ C） He was born in a rich family of the up
48、per class. （ D） He earned a lot of money by selling clothes. 29 The figure of speech of “They give us our spine.“ in the last paragraph is （ A） overstatement. （ B） simile. （ C） metapher. （ D） personification. 30 The authors main purpose of writing this article is to claim that （ A） everybody has his
49、 dark side. （ B） being helpful is a valuable virtue. （ C） economical crisis is terrible. （ D） adversity teaches people a lot. 30 I didnt know at the time what happened next. Sartoris didnt tell me until later, afterward. Perhaps up to that time he had not anything more than instinct and circumstantial evidence to tell him that he was being betrayed: evidence such as being given by Spoomer some duty not in his pro
