1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 811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 Character Analysis of Shakespearean Plays I. Character analysis character evaluation as the best way to s
3、tart the analysis of a Shakespearean play characters in a typical 【 B1】 _ doing particular things in 【 B1】 _ every play conflicts involved characters characters being on trial II. Three main reasons for approaching Shakespearean plays by analyzing characters A. Plays with active characters like peop
4、le around us the appeal of the genre seeing the play as 【 B2】 _ itself 【 B2】 _ B. Shakespeares ability to 【 B3】 _ characters 【 B3】 _ individual personality with experience requiring an evaluation individual actors need to 【 B4】 _ upon the motivations 【 B4】 _ for their characters C. The play includin
5、g 【 B5】 _ itself, for the reason that 【 B5】 _ characters are trying to understand their own characters III. The merits and weaknesses of the approach illustrated by 【 B6】 _ interpretations of 19th century 【 B6】 _ A. Values always reminding of the central concern 【 B7】 _ 【 B7】 _ keeping in touch with
6、 the reason why Shakespeare 【 B8】 _ 【 B8】 _ B. Problems not enough 【 B9】 _ about characters: 【 B9】 _ 1) key elements full character analysis needs are 【 B10】 _ 【 B10】 _ 2) for the lack of evidence, the analysis often ends with trivial matters. 1 【 B1】 2 【 B2】 3 【 B3】 4 【 B4】 5 【 B5】 6 【 B6】 7 【 B7】
7、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 the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the followi
8、ng five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 The woman goes to the man with the aim to （ A） know what to write for the term paper. （ B） know how to narrow down her topic for the paper. （ C） ask if she can hand in the paper later than scheduled. （ D） ask for a sick leave because of her ear. 12
9、According to the man, to postpone an exam, a student should do all the following EXCEPT （ A） filling in a special form. （ B） giving valid reasons. （ C） talking with the dean of the faculty. （ D） getting the doctors signature on the completed form. 13 The woman has given up the idea of writing about
10、the formation of Death Valley because （ A） the topic covers too much. （ B） she has not done much research on that. （ C） it is rather a hard topic. （ D） she can not find enough references. 14 Which of the following statements about the lab job is NOT true? （ A） The lab assistant is to make preparatio
11、ns for the experiments. （ B） The lab assistant works during the busy hours of the lab. （ C） The lab assistant will work ten hours per week. （ D） The lab assistant sometimes have to work in the morning. 15 From the conversation we can see that the man is_to (with) the woman. （ A） indifferent （ B） ins
12、tructive （ C） helpful （ D） strict 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 the questions. 16 Whats the purpose of the car b
13、ombing? （ A） To revenge against Taliban who attacked the airport. （ B） To revenge for a Koran-burning incident at a U.S. air base. （ C） To show their hope for being calm and peaceful. （ D） To condemn the treatment of the Korans. 17 Which of the following was NOT a place where the suicide bombers ble
14、w themselves up? （ A） At the shrines entrance. （ B） Within the compound. （ C） In the basement of the building. （ D） Near Data Darbar. 18 It seemed that June had been_for Pakistan. （ A） the most peaceful month in two years （ B） the first month to have suicide bombing （ C） the month to have the least
15、suicide bombings （ D） the month when security chiefs do annual congratulations 19 The United Nations General Assembly will set up a new agency to （ A） deal with gender equality. （ B） promote women employment. （ C） unify existing UN bodies. （ D） accelerate world peace. 20 Which of the following is IN
16、CORRECT? （ A） The new agency will start work at the beginning of next year. （ B） Four existing UN bodies will be unified. （ C） There are strong disputes over this decision. （ D） The new agency will mainly aim at western and some developing countries. 20 Most men live in harness. Richard was one of t
17、hem. Typically he had no awareness of how his male harness was choking him until his personal and professional life and his body had nearly fallen apart. He had to get sick in his harness and nearly be destroyed by role-playing masculinity before he could allow himself to be a person with his own fe
18、elings, rather than just a hollow male image. Had it not been for a bleeding ulcer he might have postponed looking at himself for many years more. Like many men, Richard had been a zombie, a daytime sleep-walker. Worse still, he had been a highly “successful“ zombie, which made it so difficult for h
19、im to risk change. Our culture is saturated with successful male zombies, businessmen zombies, golf zombies, sports car zombies, playboy zombies, etc. They have lost touch with, or are running away from, their feelings and awareness of themselves as people. They have confused their social masks for
20、their essence and they are destroying the selves while fulfilling the traditional definitions of masculine-appropriate behavior. They are the heroes, the providers, the warriors, the empire builders, the fearless ones. Their reality is always approached through these veils of gender expectations. Me
21、n evaluate each other and are evaluated by many women largely by the degree to which they approximate the ideal masculine model. Women have rightfully lashed out against being placed into a mold. Many women have described their roles in marriage as a form of socially approved prostitution. They asse
22、rt that they are selling themselves out for an unfulfilling portion of supposed security. For psychologically defensive reasons the male has not yet come to see himself as a prostitute, day in and day out, both in and out of the marriage relationship. The males inherent survival instincts have been
23、stunted by the seemingly more powerful drive to maintain his masculine image. He would, for example, rather die in the battle than risk living in a different way and being called a “coward“ or “not a man“. As a recently published study concluded, “A surprising number of men approaching senior citize
24、nship say they would rather die than be buried in retirement.“ The male in our culture is at a growth impasse. He wont move not because he is protecting his cherished central place in the sun, but because he cant move. He is a cardboard Goliath precariously balanced and on the verge of toppling over
25、 if he is pushed ever so slightly out of his well-worn path. He lacks the fluidity of the female who can readily move between the traditional definitions of male or female behavior and roles. She can be wife and mother or a business executive. She can dress in typically feminine fashion or adopt the
26、 male styles. She will be loved for having “feminine“ interests such as needlework or cooking, or she will be admired for sharing with the male in his “masculine“ interests. She can be sexually assertive or sexually passive. Meanwhile, the male is rigidly caught in his masculine pose and, in many su
27、btle and indirect ways, he is severely punished when he steps out of it. Unlike some of the problems of women, the problems of men are not readily changed through legislation. The male has no apparent and clearly defined targets against which he can vent his rage. Yet he is oppressed by the cultural
28、 pressures that have denied him his feelings, by the mythology of the woman and the distorted and self-destructive way he sees and relates to her, and by the urgency for him to “act like a man“ which blocks his ability to respond to his inner promptings both emotionally and physiologically, and by a
29、 generalized self-hate that causes him to feel comfortable only when he is functioning well in harness. Precisely because the tenor and mood of the male liberation efforts so far have been one of self-accusation, self-hate, and a repetition of feminist assertions, I believe it is doomed to failure i
30、n its present form. It is buying the myth that the male is culturally favored a notion that is clung to despite the fact that every critical statistic in the areas of longevity, disease, suicide, crime, accidents, childhood emotional disorders, alcoholism, and drug addiction shows a disproportionate
31、ly higher male rate. The most remarkable and significant aspect of the feminist movement to date has been womans daring willingness to own up to her resistances and resentment toward her time-honored, sanctified roles of wife and even mother. The male, however, has yet to fully realize, acknowledge,
32、 and rebel against the distress and stifling aspects of many of the roles he plays from good husband, to good daddy, to good provider, to good lover, etc. Because of the inner pressure to constantly affirm his dominance and masculinity, he continues to act as if he can stand up under, fulfill, and e
33、ven enjoy all the expectations placed on him no matter how contradictory and devitalizing they are. Its time to remove the disguises of privilege and reveal the male condition for what it really is. 21 It can be inferred from the first paragraph that （ A） up to now, Richard doesnt know he has caught
34、 certain disease. （ B） there was something wrong with both Richards mental and physical health. （ C） but for his illness, Richard would not have stopped working. （ D） Richards illness offered him a chance to think about his life. 22 The word “zombie“ in the second paragraph probably refers to （ A） a
35、 person who is busy all the time. （ B） a person who always acts as a leader. （ C） a person who behaves like a robot. （ D） a person who is successful in some area. 23 According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true? （ A） To be a man counts for a great deal for the male. （ B） Some women h
36、ate being labeled as feminine. （ C） Quite a few women air negative view of marriage. （ D） Compared with men, women are more willing to retire from work. 24 Men are under greater pressure than women in that （ A） they dont have much freedom to make a choice. （ B） they are not allowed to make mistakes.
37、 （ C） they solely shoulder responsibilities for feeding their families. （ D） they are self-motivated to achieve great success. 25 The authors attitude towards the present male liberation movement is （ A） ambiguous. （ B） pessimistic. （ C） optimistic. （ D） indignant. 26 The best title for the passage
38、would be （ A） In Harness : the Male Condition. （ B） Different Roles of Men and Women. （ C） How to Solve Mens Problems. （ D） Survival Instincts vs. Male Images. 26 The decline of civility and good manners may be worrying people more than crime, according to Gentility Recalled, edited by Digby Anderso
39、n, which laments the breakdown of traditional codes that once regulated social conduct. It criticizes the fact that “manners“ are scorned as repressive and outdated. The result, according to Mr. Anderson - director of the Social Affairs Unit, an independent think-tank is a society characterized by r
40、udeness: loutish behavior on the streets, jostling in crowds, impolite shop assistants and bad-tempered drivers. Mr. Anderson says the cumulative effect of these apparently trivial, but often offensive is to make everyday life uneasy, unpredictable and unpleasant. As they are encountered far more of
41、ten than crime, they can cause more anxiety than crime. When people lament the disintegration of law and order, he argues, what they generally mean is order, as manifested by courteous forms of social contact. Meanwhile, attempts to re-establish restraint and self-control through “politically correc
42、t“ rules are artificial. The book has contributions from 12 academics in disciplines ranging from medicine to sociology and charts what it calls the “coarsening“ of Britain. Old-fashioned terms such as “gentleman“ and “lady“ have lost all meaningful resonance and need to be re-evaluated, it says. Ra
43、chel Trickett, honorary fellow and former principal of St Hughs College, Oxford, says that the notion of a “lady“ protects women rather than demeaning them. Feminism and demands for equality have blurred the distinctions between the sexes, creating situations where men are able to dominate women bec
44、ause of their more aggressive and forceful natures, she says. “Women, without some code of deference or respect, become increasingly victims.“ Caroline Moore, the first woman fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, points out that “gentleman“ is now used only with irony or derision. “The popular view of a
45、gentleman is poised somewhere between the imbecile parasite and the villainous one: between Woosteresque chinless wonders, and those heartless capitalist toffs who are .the stock-in-trade of television.“ She argues that the concept is neither class-bound nor rigid; conventions of gentlemanly behavio
46、r enable a man to act naturally as an individual within shared assumptions while taking his place in society. “Politeness is no constraint, precisely because the manners.are no code but a language, rich, flexible, restrained and infinitely subtle.“ For Anthony OHear, professor of philosophy at the U
47、niversity of Bradford, manners are closely associated with the different forms of behavior appropriate to age and status. They curb both the impetuosity of youth and the bitterness of old age. Egalitarianism, he says, has led to people failing to act their age.“We have vice-chancellors with earrings
48、, aristocrats as hippies.the trendy vicar on his motorbike.“ Dr. Athena Leoussi, sociology lecturer at Reading University, bemoans the deliberate neglect by people of their sartorial appearance. Dress, she says, is the outward expression of attitudes and aspirations. The ubiquitousness of jeans “dis
49、plays a utilitarian attitude“ that has“led to the cultural impoverishment of everyday life“. Dr. Leoussi says that while clothes used to be seen as a means of concealing taboo forces of sexuality and violence, certain fashions such as leather jackets have the opposite effect. Dr. Bruce Charlton, a lecturer in public health medicine in Newcastle upon Tyne, takes issue with the excessive informality of relatio
