1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 810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 event
4、s 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 cvents:e. g. camping or hiking B.【 B5】 _【 B5】 _ travelling around on a budget visi
5、ting 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 works
6、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 interview
7、. 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 Mrs. Hammer, when is the phone interview likely to take place? （ A） Before sending out the CV. （ B） Before the in-person interview. （ C） After the f
8、ace-to-face interview. （ D） When the boss is out of town. 12 When the telephone interviews take place at an awkward moment, what should interviewees do? （ A） Taking notes of the telephone conversation to help them concentrate. （ B） Turning the call-waiting off so that they wont be interrupted any mo
9、re. （ C） Asking the interviewers if they can arrange another time to have the interview. （ D） Shutting the doors close and ask their family members to keep quiet. 13 How can family members help the interviewees to prepare for the phone interviews? （ A） Have a landline installed. （ B） Carry out mock
10、interviews. （ C） List their accomplishments. （ D） Search for the typical questions. 14 Which of the following is an improper behavior when taking the phone interview? （ A） Sipping some water to wet the mouth. （ B） Smiling and making their voice sound nice. （ C） Speaking slowly and clearly. （ D） Answ
11、ering all the questions without hesitation. 15 What is the last thing that job seekers should do after the phone interview? （ A） Waiting for further notice from the interviewer. （ B） Writing notes for the possible answers in an in-person interview. （ C） Sending a thank-you note to restate their inte
12、rest in the job. （ D） Listening to the record of the interview to make improvement. 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 answe
13、r the questions. 16 Russia put off its manned spacecraft mission because （ A） the astronauts needed to be temporarily evacuated. （ B） an unmanned ship using a similar rocket crashed last week. （ C） the supplies at the space station were not abundant. （ D） the degree of radiation had a huge rise rece
14、ntly. 17 Which of the following statements about the research is CORRECT? （ A） The research has found that caffeine levels in the Pacific Ocean have risen. （ B） The research proved that cafes and coffeehouses caused the pollution. （ C） The research is carried out by researchers from Poland, U.S. and
15、 Canada. （ D） The research starts a series of studies on Ocean water. 18 In what kind of areas do researchers find high caffeine levels? （ A） Areas near wastewater treatment plant. （ B） Areas that are densely populated. （ C） Areas where rivers enter the ocean. （ D） Areas far from large population ce
16、nter. 19 Why did the American adviser accuse? （ A） U.S. militarys concealing of the situation in Iraq. （ B） Peacemaking troops postponed withdrawal. （ C） Iraqi armys violent behavior of killing U.S. soldiers. （ D） Iraqs incompetence in maintaining Iraqs peace. 20 Iraq revived the F-16 deal because （
17、 A） they had stored enough food supplies. （ B） they made much money on oil trade. （ C） U.S. offered them an attractive discount. （ D） they passed a bill on setting up its air force. 20 At Harvard College in September, a controversy erupted over the adoption of a “freshman pledge,“ which for the firs
18、t time asked incoming students to sign a commitment to act with respect, integrity, and kindness in order to “promote understanding.“ Libertarian commentator Virginia Postrel, wrote that “treating kindness as the way to civil discourse doesnt show students how to argue with accuracy and respect. “ H
19、arry R. Lewis, a former dean of Harvard College and someone with an excellent perspective on undergraduate education, warned that it impinged on freedom of thought and that “a student would be breaking the pledge if she woke up one morning and decided it was more important to achieve intellectually
20、than to be kind.“ Has empathy become the new scapegoat in the long-standing concern about academic attainment in American schools? Books like Academically Adrift chart the decline in academic rigor on American college campuses, citing the plummeting hours that students spend on studying and critical
21、 thinking skills. But theres also been a troubling, and concurrent decrease in empathy over the past thirty years. A study of 14,000 college students published in Personality and Social Psychology Review in 2011 showed that the majority of college students today are less empathetic than their predec
22、essors of prior decades. And other research even shows that education(like medical school!)can actually wring the empathy out of students. Many people are squeamish about calls to increase empathy in young people because they wrongly assume that the ability to empathize is incompatible with traits l
23、ike logic, reason, and impartiality. Weve now entered a debate about how nice we should be or, rather, how nice we can afford to be and still stay competitive as a society, clinging to the pernicious belief that anything beneficial to young people must be painful and that we are in a rat race that i
24、s a zero-sum game. In fact, there need be no tradeoff, at Harvard or anywhere else, between intellectual rigor and kindness. This is a false dichotomy, like the belief that a sick person must choose between a competent doctor and a humane one. Indeed, empathetic behavior listening well, for example
25、actually makes a doctor better able to diagnose and treat illness, and studies show that when doctors are empathetic, their patients need less medication to relieve pain and less time to heal wounds. People often equate empathy with gentleness and passivity. But empathy is really just a cognitive wa
26、lk in another persons shoes. An empathetic person is, fundamentally, a curious and imaginative person. Empathy involves a search for understanding. And we need todays students to understand the world better in order to respond to its seemingly intractable problems. Many educators agree that the inte
27、llectual skills required for the 21st century depend on not only a mastery of facts and figures, but also on complex communication, flexibility, collaboration, adaptability, and innovation. We live in a more open society than ever, with greater mixing of people and ideas. The ability to master a new
28、 language, to translate scientific findings into policy, or to weave the concerns of one field into the terms of another(the way a Macintosh computer melds engineering and design), requires students to step outside of their own life experience and habits of mind. Steve Jobs had empathy for his custo
29、mers. Of course, we can always find examples of world-class thinkers who are oblivious to peoples feelings. But that doesnt negate the fact that the vast majority of students will need to assume the perspective of others in order to get ahead in life. We can call this empathy. Or we can call it 21st
30、 century learning. Its both. Empathy doesnt always lead to more moral behavior, but it can lead to more intelligent behavior. 21 Virginia Postrels attitude towards the adoption of a “freshman pledge“ is （ A） favorable. （ B） scrupulous. （ C） incredulous. （ D） impartial. 22 “ .education(like medical s
31、chool)can actually wring the empathy out of students“(Para. 2)probably means that （ A） college students possess less EQ than their predecessors. （ B） college students are trained to be blessed with much empathy. （ C） college students are forced to show empathy for others. （ D） college students need
32、to show more empathy for others. 23 The author believes that （ A） empathy doesnt affect college students performance. （ B） empathy contributes to the development of logic and reason. （ C） a doctor must be a person with great empathy and skills. （ D） a doctors empathy is more effective than medicatio
33、n. 24 According to the passage, an empathetic person can be all the following EXCEPT （ A） smart. （ B） ethical. （ C） creative. （ D） inquisitive. 25 The author wants to argue in the passage （ A） that being kind and being smart are not mutually exclusive. （ B） whether Harvards “freshman pledge“ should
34、be adopted or not. （ C） that empathy has become the new scapegoat of academic decline. （ D） when the debate over Harvards “freshman pledge“ will be ended. 25 The town itself is dreary: not much is there except the cotton mill, the two-room houses where the workers live, a few peach trees, a church w
35、ith two colored windows, and a miserable main street only a hundred yards long. On Saturdays the tenants from the near-by farms come in for a day of talk and trade. Otherwise the town is lonesome, sad, and like a place that is far off and estranged from all other places in the world. The nearest tra
36、in stop is Society City, and the Greyhound and White Bus Lines use the Forks Falls Road which is three miles away. The winters here are short and raw, the summers white with glare and fiery hot. If you walk along the main street on an August afternoon there is nothing whatsoever to do. The largest b
37、uilding, in the very center of the town, is boarded up completely and leans so far to the right that it seems bound to collapse at any minute. The house is very old. There is about it a curious, cracked look that is very puzzling until you suddenly realize that at one time, and long ago, the right s
38、ide of the front porch had been painted, and part of the wallbut the painting was left unfinished and one portion of the house is darker and dingier than the other. The building looks completely deserted. Nevertheless, on the second floor there is one window which is not boarded: sometimes in the la
39、te afternoon when the heat is at its worst a hand will slowly open the shutter and a face will look down on the town. It is a face like the terrible dim faces known in dreamssexless and white, with two gray crossed eyes which are turned inward so sharply that they seem to be exchanging with each oth
40、er one long and secret gaze of grief. The face lingers at the window for an hour or so, then the shutters are closed once more, and as likely as not there will not be another soul to be seen along the main street. These August afternoonswhen your shift is finished there is absolutely nothing to do:
41、you might as well walk down to the Forks Falls Road and listen to the chain gang. However, here in this very town there was once a cafe. And this old boarded-up house was unlike any other place for many miles around. There were tables with cloths and paper napkins, colored streamers from the electri
42、c fans, great gatherings on Saturday nights. The owner of the place was Miss Amelia Evans. But the person most responsible for the success and gaiety of the place was a hunchback called Cousin Lymon. One other person had a part in the story of this cafehe was the former husband of Miss Amelia, a ter
43、rible character who returned to the town after a long term in the penitentiary, caused ruin, and then went on his way again. The cafe has long since been closed, but it is still remembered. The place was not always a cafe. Miss Amelia inherited the building from her father, and it was a store that c
44、arried mostly feed, guano, and staples such as meal and snuff. Miss Amelia was rich. In addition to the store she operated a still three miles back in the swamp, and ran out the best liquor in the county. She was a dark, tall woman with bones and muscles like a man. Her hair was cut short and brushe
45、d back from the forehead, and there was about her sunburned face a tense, haggard quality. She might have been a handsome woman if, even then, she was not slightly cross-eyed. There were those who would have courted her, but Miss Amelia cared nothing for the love of men and was a solitary person. He
46、r marriage had been unlike any other marriage ever contracted in this countyit was a strange and dangerous marriage, lasting only for ten days, that left the whole town wondering and shocked. Except for this queer marriage, Miss Amelia had lived her life alone. Often she spent whole nights back in h
47、er shed in the swamp, dressed in overalls and gum boots, silently guarding the low fire of the still. 26 The town can be described with all the following words EXCEPT （ A） desolate. （ B） disgusting. （ C） insipid. （ D） melancholy. 27 Which of the following statements is INCORRECT about the town? （ A）
48、 The town seems to be in a terribly run-down state. （ B） The weather of the town is agreeable in winter. （ C） The largest building is on the brink of collapse. （ D） In summer, people can see a figure in the largest building. 28 It can be inferred from the passage that （ A） the cafe attracted a lot o
49、f people to go there. （ B） the cafe was the place where men met and talked. （ C） the cafe was the largest building in the past. （ D） Cousin Lymon was Amelia Evans ex-husband. 29 According to the passage, Miss Amelia was （ A） a woman of handsome countenance. （ B） negligent of other mens courtship. （ C） hurt badly by the marriage that failed. （ D） ambitious to become famous and rich. 30 Which of the following adjectives best depicts the characteris
