1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 819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 Chinese Calligraphy Calligraphy, the writing of characters, is one of the traditional four arts and has d
3、eveloped over centuries in the history of China. Today it still has a place in museums. I. Roles of calligraphy A. a means of communication B. a way of expressing the 【 B1】 _ of nature 【 B1】 _ II. Characteristics of calligraphy A. Calligraphy as an expressive art: to 【 B2】 _ the 【 B2】 _ identity of
4、a man B. Calligraphy as a practical fine art: to be used as ornaments III. Benefits of practicing calligraphy A. getting ones subconsciousness exercised B. bringing about 【 B3】 _ between the mind and the body 【 B3】 _ C. enabling one to enjoy healthy life and longevity IV. Five basic script types in
5、Chinese calligraphy A. the Seal Script the oldest style, making a signature-like impression generally used in 【 B4】 _ today 【 B4】 _ B. the Official or Clerical Script Characters appear 【 B5】 _ : strokes often start thin 【 B5】 _ and end thick. still common in printing because of its elegance C. the R
6、egular Script Characters are regular, written 【 B6】 _ . 【 B6】 _ most widely used and the most legible D. the Running Script Strokes may run into one another. Characters are less 【 B7】 _ . 【 B7】 _ E. the Cursive Script a flowing style with few angular lines Strokes are altered or removed for smooth w
7、riting or purpose _【 B8】 _ 【 B8】 _ V. Status and influence of calligraphy A. an important 【 B9】 _ for imperial court to select officials 【 B9】 _ B. an art unique to Asian cultures C. a source of inspiration to 【 B10】 _ 【 B10】 _ 1 【 B1】 2 【 B2】 3 【 B3】 4 【 B4】 5 【 B5】 6 【 B6】 7 【 B7】 8 【 B8】 9 【 B9】
8、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 question
9、s. Now listen to the interview. 11 According to the man, the reasons we need to talk about regret are all of the following EXCEPT （ A） its common to people. （ B） its an opportunity to grow. （ C） its important to people. （ D） its annoying people. 12 Which of the following is INCORRECT about regret? （
10、 A） Its completely an opportunity if we acknowledge it. （ B） Its a kind of emotion about the past. （ C） Its a yearning about the future. （ D） It promotes us to act. 13 The difference between regret and guilt lies in （ A） past and present focuses. （ B） effect on action. （ C） degree in emotion. （ D） p
11、eoples attitude. 14 According the the man, people who are living with regrets for years should do all the following EXCEPT （ A） to identify regrets. （ B） to grieve regrets. （ C） to consider doing something. （ D） to consult experts. 15 The interview mainly focuses on （ A） what regret really is. （ B）
12、how to deal with regret. （ C） the difference between regret and guilt. （ D） suggestions to people long living with regrets. 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 ite
13、m, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 The opposition supporters rallied in the center of the capital to （ A） support their party leader. （ B） ask for a re-election. （ C） accuse the prime minister of his sins. （ D） express their anger with the government. 17 Which of the stateme
14、nt about the investment firm is INCORRECT? （ A） It manages group pension funds for more than a hundred firms （ B） It may have covered up losses for years according to the reports. （ C） It will take every possible step to prevent further loss of funds. （ D） Japan watchdog halts its operations on fear
15、s over lost asset. 18 Which of the following is the analysts and industry watchers attitude toward these losses? （ A） Angry. （ B） Indifferent. （ C） Object. （ D） Surprise. 19 Which of the following is NOT true according to the news? （ A） Born This Way Foundation is founded to create a kinder and brav
16、er world. （ B） People from Health and Human Services and Harvard will attend the launching. （ C） Whitneys The Bodyguard held the record with 21 weeks at Number One. （ D） The past week became the biggest sales week of Adeles 21 album. 20 Which of the following statements of the Billboard is INCORRECT
17、? （ A） Adele now has been in the top spot for more weeks than other female artists. （ B） Adeles 21 album has sold more than 7.3-million copies all over the world. （ C） Part of Me takes Katy Perry to NO.l on the Billboard Hot 100 the first time. （ D） The first week of Katy Perrys new single became he
18、r best career sales week. 20 Florence Nightingale entered the hospital and was appalled and horrified by what she saw. Wounded soldiers lay on straw mats that lined the room like coffins waiting for burial. The floor was covered with dirt and blood. There were no hospital gowns: the men still wore t
19、heir uniforms. As Nightingale passed them, each soldier tried to act stern and tough, but their boyish faces betrayed unmistakable pain. Those who were able to conquer their convulsions lay still, as if dead. These were the hospital conditions in Scutari, Turkey during the Crimean War. Florence and
20、a group of nurses were sent to this hospital to help make the hospital a more efficient place. The first change Florence made was scrubbing all the injured mens clothes. Then, she spent her own money buying bandages, operating tables and other basic necessities for the hospital. Her nurses cleaned t
21、he whole hospital so there were no more germs and this helped to stop contamination and spread of disease. She is a hero because she changed the hospital and saved lives with her determination and hard work. Florence Nightingale also changed the profession of nursing forever. Nursing was once an occ
22、upation with little respect: people didnt think you needed any special training or skills to do it, and most nurses were poor and uneducated. It was very unusual for Florence, who came from the upper class, to work in a hospital. The hospital conditions were more sanitary after she reorganized every
23、thing. Funds and donations flooded into hospitals and the patients received better care. Hospitals around the world were changed forever and caring for the sick became an honorable profession. Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy on May 12, 1820. Although Italian born, she grew up in London, Engl
24、and where she received her education included the study of Greek, Latin, German, French and Italian. Her father taught her history and philosophy, while her governess schooled her in music and drawing. As part of an upper class family, Nightingale and her sister were expected to grow up as proper la
25、dies who would devote themselves to their family, husband, society, entertainment and cultural pursuits. She was driven by a different dream. She believed that her attraction to nursing was Gods will, or “a calling“, and because of that she made many personal sacrifices to pursue her professional li
26、fe with intensity. Her family disapproved of her decision to take up the nursing profession, which was seen in her day as a vocation for lower classes, one carried out under harsh conditions in dirty hospital environments. The familys disappointment did not deter her from her goal, and at the age of
27、 33, having studied nursing for nine years, Florence began caring for the sick. In 1853, she was asked to work at the Harley Street Nursing Home. There she made improvements that included better organization and training for the staff, and she implemented a system that piped hot water to every floor
28、. She also created a lift to bring patients their meals. The Crimean War began and the British army was unprepared to accommodate British battle injuries and casualties in Crimea. This led to disasters such as cholera, lack of supplies, and inadequate sanitation. British Secretary of War Sidney Herb
29、ert asked Nightingale to take nurses and help the hospital in Scutari, Turkey. On October 21, 1854 she set out for the hospital with the 38 nurses she had trained. The state of the hospital in Turkey was horrendous, but even more challenging was the hostile attitude the nurses received from the doct
30、ors. Many did not even allow nurses inside the wards. It wasnt until the Battle of Inkerman, during which the British suffered many casualties and the hospitals became overcrowded, that the doctors were forced to ask for help. Nightingale used her own money to make the hospital a cleaner, healthier
31、and more efficient place for patients. She brought in basics including bandages, extra clothes, 200 scrub brushes and better food. She also took all the dirty clothing outside the hospital to be washed. She sent reports back to London about ways to improve conditions, and assumed care of the patient
32、s at night, moving about each floor comforting patients with a lamp in hand. This intimate relationship with her patients earned her the affectionate title of “Lady with the Lamp“. Though the male hospital team often resented her power to affect change, the troops were so grateful to her that they r
33、aised a special fund to allow her to continue her work. Through selfless devotion and sheer determination, Florence Nightingale transformed the profession of nursing forever. She gave dignity and honor to what continues to be a female-dominated profession, and revolutionized hospital conditions, mak
34、ing them more organized and above all, sanitary. Largely because of her efforts, funds and donations flood into hospitals, allowing patients around the world to receive better care. 21 Which of the following is NOT true about nursing before Nightingale came in this field? （ A） Most nurses were not p
35、rofessionally trained. （ B） People only had respect for the nurses from the upper classes. （ C） Nurses did not pay enough attention to sanitation. （ D） There were little donations flowing into the hospitals. 22 Nightingale can best be described as a_person. （ A） knowledgeable and creative （ B） pious
36、 and kind （ C） versatile and determined （ D） rebellious and brave 23 What was the most difficult part for Nightingales work at the hospital? （ A） There were disasters of cholera. （ B） There were too many injured soldiers. （ C） The financial condition was very bad in the hospital. （ D） There were pre
37、judices and pressure from the hospital. 24 Which of the following statements about Nightingale is true? （ A） As the only child of an upper class family, her parents disapproved of her decision to be a nurse. （ B） Nightingale began to learn nursing when she was 24. （ C） Nightingales efforts to reorga
38、nize the hospitals were welcomed by both the doctors and the injured soldiers. （ D） Nightingale received all her education from her father. 25 Which of the following can be the best title of this passage? （ A） Florence Nightingale at Hospital （ B） Changes to Hospital Made by Nightingale. （ C） Nighti
39、ngales Contribution to Nursing （ D） Lifesaver Hero Florence Nightingale 25 After thirty years of married happiness, he could still remind himself that Victoria was endowed with every charm except the thrilling touch of human frailty. Though her perfection discouraged pleasures, especially the pleasu
40、res of love, he had learned in time to feel the pride of a husband in her natural frigidity. For he still clung, amid the decay of moral platitudes, to the discredited ideal of chivalry. In youth the world was suffused with the after-glow of the long Victorian age, and graceful feminine style had so
41、ftened the manners, if not the natures, of men. At the end of that interesting epoch, when womanhood was exalted from a biological fact into a miraculous power, Virginius Littlepage, the younger son of an old and affluent family, had married Victoria Brooke, the granddaughter of a tobacco planter, w
42、ho had made a satisfactory fortune by forsaking his plantation and converting tobacco into cigarettes. While Virginius had been trained by stern tradition to respect every woman who had not stooped to folly, the virtue peculiar to her sex was among the least of his reasons for admiring Victoria. She
43、 was not only modest, which was usual in the nineties, but she was beautiful, which is unusual in any decade. In the beginning of their acquaintance he had gone even further and ascribed intellect to her; but a few months of marriage had shown this to be merely one of the many delusions created by p
44、erfect features and noble expression. Everything about her had been smooth and definite, even the tones of her voice and the way her light brown hair, which she wore a Pompadour, was rolled stiffly back from her forehead and coiled in a burnished rope on the top of her head. A serious young man, amb
45、itious to attain a place in the world more brilliant than the secluded seat of his ancestors, he had been impressed at their first meeting by the compactness and precision of Victorias orderly mind. For in that earnest period the minds, as well as the emotions, of lovers were orderly. It was an age
46、when eager young men flocked to church on Sunday morning, and eloquent divines discoursed upon the Victorian poets in the middle of the week. He could afford to smile now when he recalled the solemn Browning class in which he had first lost his heart. How passionately he had admired Victorias virgin
47、al features! How fervently he had envied her competent but caressing way with the poet! Incredible as it seemed to him now, he had fallen in love with her while she recited from the more ponderous passages in The Ring and the Book. He had fallen in love with her then, though he had never really enjo
48、yed Browning, and it had been a relief to him when the Unseen, in company with its illustrious poet, had at last gone out to fashion. Yet, since he was disposed to admire all the qualities he did not possess, he had never ceased to respect the firmness with which Victoria continued to deal in other
49、forms with the Absolute. As the placid years passed, and she came to rely less upon her virginal features, it seemed to him that the ripe opinions of her youth began to shrink and flatten as fruit does that has hung too long on the tree. She had never changed, he realized, since he had first known her; she had become merely riper, softer, and sweeter in nature. Her advantage rested where advantage never fails to rest, in mo
