1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 824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 Strategies for Public Speaking Whats great about public speaking is that its a learnable skill. As such,
3、we can use the following strategies to become a better speaker and presenter. I. Plan appropriately -tools: the Rhetorical Triangle etc. -principle:【 B1】 _the audience【 B1】 _ -examples: an interesting statistic, headline, or fact storytelling II.【 B2】 _【 B2】 _ seek opportunities examples: cross-trai
4、ning volunteering at team meetings use relevant【 B3】 _【 B3】 _ adjust words to express smoothly do a trial run in front of a small audience III. Engage with your audience present【 B4】 _questions【 B4】 _ remember to use some words less: e.g. “just“, “I think“ pay attention to the way of speech avoid re
5、ading【 B5】 _from your notes【 B5】 _ IV. Pay attention to your【 B6】 _【 B6】 _ conveying inner emotion to the audience making your voice more active and【 B7】 _【 B7】 _ V. Think positively advantage: strengthen your【 B8】 _【 B8】 _ ways:【 B9】 _and visualization【 B9】 _ VI. Cope with nerves focus on your audi
6、ence instead of your own use deep【 B10】 _exercises【 B10】 _ image making a speech to one individual not to crowds 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
7、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 questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 According to Mrs. Hammer, when is the phone interview likely to take place? （ A）
8、 Before sending out the CV. （ B） Before the in-person interview. （ C） After the face-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 conce
9、ntrate. （ B） Turning the call-waiting off so that they wont be interrupted any more. （ 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 prepa
10、re for the phone interviews? （ A） Have a landline installed. （ B） Carry out mock 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） Smili
11、ng and making their voice sound nice. （ C） Speaking slowly and clearly. （ D） Answering 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 answe
12、rs in an in-person interview. （ C） Sending a thank-you note to restate their interest 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
13、 that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a factor to make retail sales rise? （ A） More money spent on clothing. （ B） More automobile sales. （ C） Stationery promotions. （ D） Lower luxury taxes. 17 B
14、illy Ray White has applied for parole for （ A） 6 times. （ B） 10 times. （ C） 20 times. （ D） 24 times. 18 The parole board denied Whites parole because （ A） he wrote threatening letters while he was in jail. （ B） he was sentenced two life sentences for his crimes. （ C） the Hall family held a campaign
15、to keep him in prison. （ D） they believe that his release will be a threat to the society. 19 Mr. Netanyahu said his plan would greatly benefit the following group EXCEPT （ A） young couples. （ B） students. （ C） retired soldiers. （ D） officers on duty. 20 What is the ongoing demonstration against? （
16、A） Bureaucracy. （ B） Public transportation. （ C） High housing prices. （ D） Unemployment. 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 calculations will not be complete until late December, we
17、 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 the last, only 2.9 percent. In 2000, the last time this c
18、ount 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 over the past decade as either its white or black populat
19、ion: 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 new arrivals from Mexico head directly to look for jobs in
20、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 changing the balance of American politics. The decennial cens
21、us 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 congressional tallies altered. The big, mostly white, states of the
22、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 only 26 Hispanics, about 6% of the total: there are 41 Afric
23、an-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. The Hispanic voter-turnout rate increases at every election.
24、 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 power: and as long as they continue to vote solidly Democra
25、tic(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 Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada. It is not impossible to ima
26、gine 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 too hard. Culturally conservative, strongly religious, fa
27、mily-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 xenophobia. George W. Bush managed to appeal pretty well t
28、o 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 illegal immigrants living, for the most part peacefully and i
29、ndustriously, 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 alienating a vital group of voters all over again. But there is gre
30、at 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 do themselves a power of good. 21 What can be inferred fro
31、m 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 population is increasing while the black is not. 22 The second p
32、aragraph 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 U.S. Hispanic population and its reason. 23 The numbers i
33、n 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） the number of Hispanic statesmen is low in the USA. 24 His
34、panics 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 Democratic. 25 The sentence “they are rightly.xenophobia“ in the la
35、st 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 are fighting for equal rights. 25 I was only 8 years old on
36、 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 Eagle creating the lunar base Tranquility(named in advanc
37、e 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,“ we were incommensurably awed at the greatness of it all
38、. 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 Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA a
39、stronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience. Did Armstrong agree? What did it feel like emotionally, spiritually to stand on the surface of the moon? Could I get him to open up about the experience? I originally wrote Armstrong in the early 1990s to request an interview a
40、bout his Korean War service. He had flown 78 combat missions was even hit with antiaircraft fire over enemy territory and I wanted to write a book about it, A Band of Brothers about the flyboys of “the Forgotten War“ who were assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Essex. I got a polite postcard reject
41、ion: “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 him and thrilled when the date was set for Sept. 19, 2001. Then I saw the horrifying co
42、llapse 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 Armstrong, no matter what, never missed a scheduled rendez
43、vous. 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 pages of Tom Wolfes The Right Stuff in a glorious dus
44、t 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 was a matter of honor. The interview started out wel
45、l, 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 the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Syndrome had driven Armst
46、rong 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 The Bridges at Toko-Ri, he became surprisingly effusiv
47、e. “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 tell the actual stories.“ What I was most curious abou
48、t 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 and I had the understanding or belief that if I contin
49、ued, 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 entitled “A Band of Brot
