1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 842及答案与解析 SECTION A MINI-LECTURE In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the mini-lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the mini-lecture, please complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure the word(s) you
2、 fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for note-taking. You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task. 0 Intercultural Learning Many teachers may wonder “What am I actually doing?“ sometimes. It doesnt seem enough to teach grammar, voc
3、abulary, pronunciation and【 T1】 _with unreal and【 T1】 _ meaningless content. I . Introduction gap between language teaching in class and in the real world 【 T2】 _of intercultural awareness: 【 T2】 _ crucial to comprehend and communicate in the global village II. Definition of intercultural learning A
4、. The【 T3】 _of culture【 T3】 _ including lifestyles,【 T4】 _, beliefs, history or experiences, etc.【 T4】 _ existing in one place or many places existing in a religion with followers from different【 T5】 _【 T5】 _ B. Interpretation of intercultural learning a process of getting better understanding of cu
5、ltures around the world objective: to increase mutual【 T6】 _and understanding【 T6】 _ forms: not only a part of EFL, but applied in all fields of education III. Intercultural awareness the【 T7】 _of language teaching rather than a “fifth skill“ : to understand【 T7】_ the relation between a second langu
6、age/culture with the first one a(n)【 T8】 _made up of a collection of skills and attitudes: 【 T8】 _ 1)observing, identifying and recognizing 2)comparing and contrasting 3)【 T9】 _【 T9】 _ 4)dealing with or tolerating ambiguity 5)effectively interpreting messages 6)limiting the possibility of【 T10】 _【 T
7、10】 _ 7)defending ones own point of view while acknowledging the legitimacy of others 8)accepting difference methods of developing intercultural awareness skills: realizing the【 T11】 _of these skills【 T11】 _ using【 T12】 _themes as materials in teaching【 T12】 _ IV. Teachers role -【 T13】 _: 【 T13】 _ t
8、o influence students in some way to raise more awareness of the world to help students to interact better with the world mediator of cultural relativity with various【 T14】 _【 T14】 _ V. When should it be introduced? accessible to【 T15】 _【 T15】 _ 1 【 T1】 2 【 T2】 3 【 T3】 4 【 T4】 5 【 T5】 6 【 T6】 7 【 T7】
9、 8 【 T8】 9 【 T9】 10 【 T10】 11 【 T11】 12 【 T12】 13 【 T13】 14 【 T14】 15 【 T15】 SECTION B INTERVIEW In this section you will hear ONE interview. The interview will be divided into TWO parts. At the end of each part, five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the interview and the questions
10、will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the four choices of A , B , C and D , and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO. You have THIRTY seconds to preview the questions. （ A） How to fight disease. （ B） How
11、 to do aerobic exercise. （ C） The benefit of doing exercise. （ D） The benefit of growing new nerve cells. （ A） A reporter. （ B） A brainpower expert. （ C） A doctor. （ D） An associate professor. （ A） Active people are likely to get Alzheimers disease. （ B） Exercise can improve peoples body function. （
12、 C） Exercise can help new nerve cells grow. （ D） Exercise can help people fight disease. （ A） The participants attend a course of aerobic exercise. （ B） The participants are required to do exercise every day. （ C） The final result cannot be observed directly through peoples eyes. （ D） The research f
13、inding proves the effect of aerobic exercise. （ A） The brain is growing. （ B） They are less connecting. （ C） They are less weaved. （ D） Peoples brain will function better. （ A） Exercising in your 30s will make a difference. （ B） Starting exercising earlier will be better. （ C） Exercising can also be
14、nefit children. （ D） Exercising in your 50s will not make a difference. （ A） Only hard effort on exercise can help prevent breast cancer. （ B） There is no connection between exercise and preventing breast cancer. （ C） Doing exercise can only help those who already have breast cancer. （ D） Doing rigo
15、rous exercise can effectively reduce the chance of getting breast cancer. （ A） 26%. （ B） 31%. （ C） 35%. （ D） 40%. （ A） Exercise can bring better chance of decreasing breast cancer. （ B） The California Teacher Study proves the effect of exercise on estrogen negative cancer. （ C） Current studies show
16、that exercise may work for all types of breast cancer. （ D） According to California Teacher Study, the findings of the studies in the past were wrong. （ A） Go out and start exercising. （ B） See her doctor. （ C） Get a medical team. （ D） Make a research. SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS In this sec
17、tion there are several passages followed by fourteen multiple-choice questions. For each multiple-choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A , B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. 25 Judging by the wildly cheering audience at the orgy of consumerism that was
18、Oprah Winfreys Ultimate Favourite Things show, American women have lost none of their enthusiasm for the finest stuff money can buy.(The handful of men in the audience seemed to share the feeling.)The show, screened in two parts just before Thanksgiving, the traditional start of the holiday shopping
19、 season, ended with each audience member going home with products ranging from a set of Oprah-branded Le Creuset pots to an iPad, some sparkling Ugg boots and a new car. Retailers must hope that the public will be as enthusiastic about such products when they have to pay for them as the audience was
20、 when getting them free. They are certainly competing harder than ever to lure shoppers into their stores. Many are opening before sunrise on Black Friday, as the day after Thanksgiving is known(supposedly because it is the point in the financial year when retailers edge into the black). Wal-Mart wa
21、s due to open most of its stores at the stroke of midnight. Sears decided to open on Thanksgiving Day itself for the first time, though still holding back its best bargains for Black Friday. In the hope that this will be a merrier festive season than last year, retailers have been hiring lots of tem
22、porary staff: in October those in areas other than the car trade added around 20, 000 posts. David Resler of Nomura, a stockbroker, says Octobers hiring figures are usually a good predictor of how sales in the holiday season will turn out. In recent months sales have been picking up. Consumer spendi
23、ng rose in each of the five months to October, with even discretionary items like sports goods showing improved sales. However, sales of durable goods(washing machines and so forth)were unexpectedly weak in October, a sign of residual caution among households. Retailers are making more use of social
24、-networking sites such as Facebook to promote deals and build communities of like-minded shoppers. Sears, for example, has been getting customers to share their shopping tales through a “Be the Santa you want to be“ competition. This has been the breakthrough year for Groupon, which uses social netw
25、orking to let consumers earn discounts by recruiting their friends(the more people who sign up for an offer, the bigger the discount). But the Internet is not always a retailers best friend. A plethora of new shopping-information websites, such as leakedblackfridaydeals. com, is forcing prices down
26、and making it harder for store chains to differentiate their offerings. Wal-Mart, the biggest retailer, is adding to the pressures on its rivals by offering to match any Black Friday deal they offer. Shares in Sears are still trading well below where they were last November. Overall, retailers share
27、s have been unusually volatile in the past year or so as consumer confidence has fluctuated, refusing to form any sort of trend. How this holiday season turns out will certainly move the marketas well as determine whether shareholders approve the $3 billion sale announced on November 23rd of J. Crew
28、, a clothing chain, to a group of private-equity firms. The vote will take place on January 15th: until then, J. Crew will continue to seek other buyers. Private-equity firms have become keen on retailers with strong brands because the recession has forced weaker ones out of business, leaving more s
29、pace for the survivors. Productivity in retailing has also improved, in part through the better use of technology. So there is the prospect of strong profit growth and when the recovery gets into full swing. Stores that cater to well-off women have perhaps the best prospects this season. Such shoppe
30、rs are “ready to declare the recession over“ , says Michael Silverstein, the author of “Women Want More“ , a book charting their growing spending-power. “ They have worn through their unused inventory of apparel, fashion accessories and jewellery and are actively expanding their purchases,“ he says,
31、 predicting that retailers who serve them could enjoy a sales boost of as much as 10% compared with last years holiday season. Things may be very different for the bottom 40% of households, still committed to recession inspired prudence. Mr. Silverstein says that in many such families the woman has
32、hung on to her job but is now the sole breadwinner. Such households “ are going to hunt for bargains, recognise the holiday, but continue their frugal ways,“ he predicts. Retailers will be hoping that Oprah and all her glitzy goodies will tempt them to change their minds. But for a large proportion
33、of Americans, window-shopping may be the nearest they get to such desirable items. 26 According to the passage, Ultimate Favourite Things show_. （ A） is a program for women （ B） reflects the economic crisis （ C） sends out gifts to the audience （ D） is to celebrate Thanksgiving 27 What can we learn f
34、rom the second and the third paragraphs? （ A） Retailers are hiring about 20,000 staff in all this October. （ B） Sears offers the greatest deals only on Thanksgiving Day. （ C） Thanksgiving is a crucial chance to make money. （ D） Retailers open longer to meet customers needs. 28 Michael Silverstein im
35、plies the following facts EXCEPT that_. （ A） rich women will buy more despite the economic recession （ B） retailers will suffer from the same poor sales as last year （ C） a woman in difficulty will still celebrate holidays by buying （ D） most Americans prefer to look rather than actually buy 29 What
36、 is the main idea of this passage? （ A） Economic recession and American economy. （ B） Retailers tricks to encourage purchasing. （ C） Luxurious products favored by rich women. （ D） Holiday: retailers busy, not all shoppers happy. 29 Bianca Sforza attracted few stares when introduced to the art world
37、on January 30, 1998. She was just a pretty face in a frame to the crowd at a Christies auction in New York City. Nobody knew her name at the time, or the name of the artist who had made the portrait. The catalog listed the worka colored chalk-and-ink drawing on vellumas early 19th century and German
38、, with borrowed Renaissance styling. A New York dealer, Kate Ganz, purchased the picture for $21, 850. The price hadnt budged almost ten years later when a Canadian collector, Peter Silverman, saw Biancas profile in Ganzs gallery and promptly bought it. The drawing might actually date from the Renai
39、ssance, he thought. Ganz herself had mentioned Leonardo da Vinci, that magical name, as an influence on the artist. Silverman came to wonder, “ What if this is the work of the great Leonardo himself?“ That someone could walk into a gallery and buy a drawing that turns out to be a previously unknown
40、Leonardo masterpiece, worth perhaps $100 million, seems pure urban myth. Discovery of a Leonardo is truly rare. At the time of Silvermans purchase, it had been more than 75 years since the last authentication of one of the masters paintings. There was no record that the creator of the “Mona Lisa“ ev
41、er made a major work on vellum, no known copies, no preparatory drawings. If this image was an authentic Leonardo, where had it been hiding for 500 years? Silverman emailed a digital image of Bianca to Martin Kemp. Emeritus professor of art history at Oxford University and a renowned Leonardo schola
42、r, Kemp regularly receives images, sometimes two a week, from people he calls “Leonardo loonies“ convinced they had discovered a New York. “My reflex is to say, No!“ Kemp told me. But the “uncanny vitality“ in the young womans face made him want a closer look. He flew to Zurich, where Silverman kept
43、 the drawing in a vault. “ When I saw it,“ Kemp said, “ I experienced a kind of frisson, a feeling that this is not normal. “ That initial shiver of excitement compelled Kemp to embark on his own investigation. He was aided by high-resolution multispectral scans by Pascal Cotte of Lumiere Technology
44、 in Paris, allowing Kemp to study the drawings layers, from first strokes to later restorations. The more Kemp looked with his connoisseurs eye, the more he saw what he considered evidence of Leonardos handhow the hair bunched beneath the strings holding it in place, the beautiful modulation of colo
45、rs, the precise lines. The expression conveyed Leonardos maxim that a portrait should reveal “motion of the mind. “ Kemp also needed proof that the portrait had been made during Leonardos lifetime(14521519)and that its historical particulars fit the artists biography. The vellum, probably calfskin,
46、had been carbon-dated, its origin placed somewhere between 1440 and 1650. Costume research revealed that the sitter belonged specifically to the Milanese court of the 1490s, with its fashion for elaborately bound hair. Leonardo lived in Milan during this time, accepting commissions for court portrai
47、ts. Kemps detective work led him to a name, Bianca Sforza. An illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Milan, she was married in 1496 to Galeazzo Sanseverino, commander of the Milanese troops and a patron of Leonardos. Bianca was 13 or 14 at the time of the portrait. Tragically, she died a few months la
48、ter, likely from an ectopic pregnancy. Kemp named the drawing “La Bella Principessa“ the beautiful princess. In 2010 Kemp and Cotte published their findings in a book. Several prominent Leonardo scholars agreed, others were skeptical. Carmen Bambach was quoted as saying that the portrait simply “doe
49、s not look like a Leonardo. “ Doubt seemed to collect around the portraits sudden, almost miraculous appearance. Where had it come from? Kemp didnt know. Then, almost like divine intervention, a message came from D. R. Edward Wright, emeritus professor of art history at the University of South Florida. Having followed the very public dispute, Wright su
