1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 827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 What is the woman? （ A） A Newsweek Magazines reporter. （ B） A brainpower expert. （ C） A doctor. （ D） An associate professor of Tufts University. 12 According to the interview, which of the following is INCORRECT? （ A） Active people are likely to get Alzhei
9、mers disease. （ B） Exercise can improve peoples body function. （ C） Exercise can help grow new nerve cells. （ D） Exercise can help people fight disease. 13 According to the interview, more new nerve cells mean （ A） the brain is growing. （ B） the new nerve cells are connecting. （ C） the new nerve cel
10、ls are weaved. （ D） peoples brain will function better. 14 According to the interview, which of the following is INCORRECT? （ A） Exercising in your 30s will make a difference. （ B） Starting exercising earlier will be better. （ C） Exercising can also benefit children. （ D） Exercising in your 50s will
11、 not make a difference. 15 The first thing the woman who gets a diagnosis of breast cancer should do is （ A） to go out and start exercising. （ B） to see her doctor. （ C） to get a medical team. （ D） to make a research. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE
12、 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 Which of the following statements is CORRECT? （ A） 12-character passwords are far more secure than 8-character ones. （ B） Researchers suggest 12-c
13、haracter passwords should always be the standard. （ C） 12-character is the most convenient length for passwords. （ D） 12-character full-sentence passwords are the ideal passwords. 17 What is the moving direction of Tropical Storm Gert? （ A） Southeast to Bermuda. （ B） Southeast from Bermuda. （ C） Nor
14、th to Bermuda. （ D） North from Bermuda. 18 Of all the named storms of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, Gert is the （ A） 1st. （ B） 3rd. （ C） 5th. （ D） 7th. 19 Overweight people are likely to suffer from all the following diseases EXCEPT （ A） heart attacks. （ B） stroke. （ C） diabetes. （ D） chest pa
15、in. 20 According to the research carried out by York University researchers, for obese people, （ A） they should lose weight before evaluating their health conditions. （ B） not gaining any weight is easier to achieve than losing weight. （ C） they are likely to benefit a lot from losing their weight.
16、（ D） having a healthy lifestyle is more important than losing weight. 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 o
17、nto taxpayers. But cast your mind back 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 th
18、eir cash out, causing a run that threatened 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 peop
19、le redesigning the rules of finance must 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
20、margin for error. But that still leaves 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
21、time is empty. Instead, a way needs to 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
22、a decent start, but may be too indiscriminate. 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
23、 a risk of being put in resolution which, 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
24、over a smaller part of banks balance-sheets, 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 mechan
25、isms and the opposite pitfall of a laborious 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 whic
26、h a premium is received and there is a 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 t
27、he dumping ground for Wall Streets risk 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
28、 have a means to impose losses on the private 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 follow
29、ed. （ D） organizations tried to take money 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
30、 authors point of view. （ A） of no help （ 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） go
31、ing through no troublesome legal process. （ 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 secre
32、t. Inside was a thick sheaf of letters 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 Ston
33、e had used the pseudonym to slip money 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 chai
34、n of clothing stores, he was fairly well 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
35、$84 in todays money. “I read all the letters 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, an
36、d I had to give them room to collect themselves. 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
37、,“ Gup says. “But there were others for 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
38、was no net to catch people when they were 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,“
39、 driven by desperation to steal to put 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 certif
40、icate was phony, and hed invented his biography. 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
41、explain his motives: He understood despair, 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 vie
42、ws the legacy of the Depression as “a real 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
43、, an awareness I fear was being lost in 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 n
44、ot just of good times but also of bad times. 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
45、 difference in all our lives.“ 26 According 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
46、） memory of miserable days. （ B） gratitude 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）
47、 He was born in a rich family of the upper 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
48、is to claim that （ A） everybody has his 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 anyth
49、ing 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 province at all and which would keep him on the aerodrome for the afternoon, then finding and freeing the hidden dog and watching it vanish up the Amiens road at its clumsy hard gallop. But something happened. All 1 could learn at the time was. that one afternoo
