1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 849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 Sitcoms as a Tool for ELT English teachers have been using videos in the classroom for decades and now sitcoms emerge in classroom
3、s for the following reasons: 1. Suitable_【 T1】 _ effect: keeping students focused 2. Repetitive characters with their_【 T2】 _ effect: making students more_【 T3】 _ 3. Authentic English “Sit“ often refers to_that are real to students.【 T4】 _ In contrast, traditional English teaching videos often invol
4、ve _in implausible situations.【 T5】 _ 4._element【 T6】 _ focus: _communication【 T7】 _ effect: improving understanding of the words spoken and underlying_【 T8】 _ 5. Fun effect: creating a_and impressive learning experience【 T9】 _ 6._references【 T10】 _ focus: regional differences, class systems, _【 T11
5、】 _ effect: bringing in brand-new experience with the country and the culture 7. Varieties of English effect: there is_version of the language.【 T12】 _ 8. Comparisons between British culture and students_culture【 T13】 _ focus: _【 T14】 _ effect: English is not a language_any more.【 T15】 _ 1 【 T1】 2 【
6、 T2】 3 【 T3】 4 【 T4】 5 【 T5】 6 【 T6】 7 【 T7】 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
7、 said. Both the interview and the questions 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 qu
8、estions. （ A） Engineers stay away from customers. （ B） Engineers understand customers needs. （ C） Engineers are willing to face customers. （ D） Engineers want to touch customers with their products. （ A） Itll be engineer-oriented. （ B） Itll be customer-oriented. （ C） Itll be technology-oriented. （ D
9、） Itll be service-oriented. （ A） Everyone will have access to a computer connected to the Internet. （ B） Everyone will have access to information including that of others. （ C） Everyone will have access to advanced technologies related to their daily life. （ D） Everyone will have access to the virtu
10、al world full of information. （ A） Its annoying. （ B） Its something that everyone needs. （ C） Its useful. （ D） Its expensive. （ A） There will be more regulations on this issue in the future. （ B） Individual right of privacy should be respected. （ C） Governments should not enjoy the right of privacy.
11、 （ D） People will adapt their attitudes towards the issue of privacy. （ A） Theyll be nostalgic. （ B） Theyll be sad. （ C） Theyll be regretful. （ D） Theyll be resentful. （ A） Because he thinks that it will help protect peoples privacy. （ B） Because he thinks it is a legitimate right belonging to matur
12、e citizens. （ C） Because he thinks people will regret what they previously revealed online. （ D） Because he thinks it signals the maturity of an individual. （ A） The huge progress of technology. （ B） The demand of consumers. （ C） The progress of civilization. （ D） The demand of social development. （
13、 A） It means that engineers can spend one day a week working on the new interesting ideas. （ B） It means that engineers can spend 20 percent of their lifetime finding an interesting subject for further research. （ C） It means that engineers can spend 20 hours a month working on things that they find
14、 interesting. （ D） It means that engineers can spend 20 percent of their work time doing their own things. （ A） Relentless pursuit of innovation. （ B） An extreme focus on customers experience. （ C） Respect to technological experts. （ D） A friendly environment at Google. SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUE
15、STIONS In this section 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 “ This is the happiest day of my life! “ So says Maci Book
16、out, according to a recent cover of OK! magazine, where the 19-year-old Teen Mom star and rumored bride-to-be flashes a beauty-queen smile. Sharing cover space with Bookout and sporting a bikini, plus a baby on each hip is Leah Messer, 19, whose dream wedding was featured in last springs season fina
17、le of Teen Mom 2. Elsewhere in the celebrity mediasphere, one might find Teen Moms Farrah Abraham, 20, staging a photo op for paparazzi on a Florida beach, or Abrahams castmate Amber Portwood, 21, posing for photographers outside her latest court hearing: she was recently sentenced to probation afte
18、r pleading guilty to felony domestic battery against the father of her child. A spin-off of MTVs popular reality series 16 and Pregnant, Teen Mom recently entered its third season. With more than 3 million viewers each week, its the networks top-rated show after Jersey Shore, and its subjects provid
19、e endless fodder for the tabloids. But MTVs teen-pregnancy franchise is a more discomfiting venture than most artifacts of the reality-TV age. Not quite famous for being famous, as the denizens of The Hills and Jersey Shore are, these young mothers became famous for making unplanned detours into par
20、enthood and inviting cameras along for the ride. Though MTV recruited them to be the subjects of cautionary tales, the network has turned them into success stories: television stars and cover girls, gainfully employed just for being themselves. Its an uneasy mix of messages from programs intended to
21、 document and deter teen pregnancy, not exalt it. Lauren Dolgen, senior vice president of series development at MTV and the creator of 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom, got the idea for the shows after reading that each year, 750,000 15-to-19-year-olds become pregnant in the U.S. “This is an epidemic th
22、at is happening to our audience, and its a preventable epidemic,“ Dolgen says. “We thought it was so important to shed light on this issue and to show girls how hard teen parenting is.“ Each episode of 26 and Pregnant tracks one teen from the latter stages of pregnancy to the first months of her chi
23、lds life. The series does not sugarcoat the challenges its subjects face: the slights and scorn of peers, friction with disappointed(grand)parents, colic, drudgery, arguments, sleep deprivation and with dismayingly few exceptions the burden of a feckless, absent or outright abusive boyfriend. The ap
24、proach works. An October 2010 focus-group study commissioned by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy found that four in 10 teenagers who watch an episode of 16 and Pregnant talk about the show with a parent afterward and that more than 90% of them think teen pregnancy is har
25、der than they imagined before watching the series. The teen pregnancy rate in the U.S. has consistently declined over the past 20 years, except for a small spike from 2005 to 2007. Approximately 7% of girls 15 to 19 years old became pregnant in 2006 a significant number but perhaps not an epidemic.
26、Nor does the casting of the shows reflect the actual racial breakdown of teen pregnancy. While Teen Mom focuses heavily on white girls, unplanned pregnancies affect African-American and Hispanic teens at nearly three times the rate of whites. 26 “Op“ in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to_.
27、 （ A） opposition （ B） operation （ C） opportunity （ D） opacity 27 At the end of the first paragraph, “domestic battery against the father of her child“ simply means_. （ A） she beat her husband violently at home （ B） she mistreated her husband in the house （ C） the domestic maltreatment was carried ou
28、t between an unmarried couple with a child （ D） her childs father mistreated her violently 28 The sentence “. these young mothers became famous for making unplanned detours into parenthood and inviting cameras along for the ride“ in the second paragraph means that_. （ A） the teenage moms became popu
29、lar television stars because their pregnancy had made them the subjects of cautionary tales on TV （ B） the teenage moms had been lost and couldnt find their way, so they asked for help during the ride （ C） the teenage moms had made themselves famous for being infamous, so many cameras were shooting
30、their pictures （ D） the teenage moms had made an unplanned trip to their parents and had cameras record the route 28 In the latter part of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who not long before our story opens had made experien
31、ce of a spiritual affinity more attractive than any chemical one. He had left his laboratory to the care of an assistant, cleared his fine countenance from the furnace smoke, washed the stain of acids from his fingers, and persuaded a beautiful woman to become his wife. In those days when the compar
32、atively recent discovery of electricity and other kindred mysteries of Nature seemed to open paths into the region of miracle, it was not unusual for the love of science to rival the love of woman in its depth and absorbing energy. The higher intellect, the imagination, the spirit, and even the hear
33、t might all find their congenial aliment in pursuits which, as some of their ardent votaries believed, would ascend from one step of powerful intelligence to another, until the philosopher should lay his hand on the secret of creative force and perhaps make new worlds for himself. We know not whethe
34、r Aylmer possessed this degree of faith in mans ultimate control over Nature. He had devoted himself, however, too unreservedly to scientific studies ever to be weaned from them by any second passion. His love for his young wife might prove the stronger of the two: but it could only be by intertwini
35、ng itself with his love of science, and uniting the strength of the latter to his own. Such a union accordingly took place, and was attended with truly remarkable consequences and a deeply impressive moral. One day, very soon after their marriage, Aylmer sat gazing at his wife with a trouble in his
36、countenance that grew stronger until he spoke. “Georgiana,“ said he, “has it never occurred to you that the mark upon your cheek might be removed?“ “No, indeed,“ said she, smiling: but perceiving the seriousness of his manner, she blushed deeply. “To tell you the truth, it has been so often called a
37、 charm that I was simple enough to imagine it might be so.“ “ Ah, upon another face perhaps it might,“ replied her husband: “ but never on yours. No, dearest Georgiana, you came so nearly perfect from the hand of Nature that this slightest possible defect, which we hesitate whether to term a defect
38、or a beauty, shocks me, as being the visible mark of earthly imperfection.“ “Shocks you, my husband!“ cried Georgiana, deeply hurt: at first reddening with momentary anger, but then bursting into tears. “Then why did you take me from my mothers side? You cannot love what shocks you!“ To explain this
39、 conversation it must be mentioned that in the centre of Georgianas left cheek there was a singular mark, deeply interwoven, as it were, with the texture and substance of her face. In the usual state of her complexion a healthy though delicate bloom the mark wore a tint of deeper crimson, which impe
40、rfectly defined its shape amid the surrounding rosiness. When she blushed it gradually became more indistinct, and finally vanished amid the triumphant rush of blood that bathed the whole cheek with its brilliant glow. But if any shifting motion caused her to turn pale there was the mark again, a cr
41、imson stain upon the snow, in what Aylmer sometimes deemed an almost fearful distinctness. Its shape bore not a little similarity to the human hand, though of the smallest pygmy size. Georgianas lovers were wont to say that some fairy at her birth hour had laid her tiny hand upon the infants cheek,
42、and left this impress there in token of the magic endowments that were to give her such sway over all hearts. Many a desperate swain would have risked life for the privilege of pressing his lips to the mysterious hand. It must not be concealed, however, that the impression wrought by this fairy sign
43、 manual varied exceedingly, according to the difference of temperament in the beholders. Some fastidious persons but they were exclusively of her own sex affirmed that the bloody hand, as they chose to call it, quite destroyed the effect of Georgianas beauty, and rendered her countenance even hideou
44、s. But it would be as reasonable to say mat one of those small blue stains which sometimes occur in the purest statuary marble would convert the Eve of Powers to a monster. Masculine observers, if the birthmark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the wo
45、rld might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness without the semblance of a flaw. After his marriage, for he thought little or nothing of the matter before, Aylmer discovered that this was the case with himself. 29 Which of the following statements best depicts the situation in the latter p
46、art of the last century? （ A） The pursuit of scientific truth prevailed over the pursuit of carnal love. （ B） Natural philosophy had obtained absolute dominance. （ C） Scientific discoveries opened paths into the region of miracle. （ D） People were more obsessed with the passion for a soulmate. 30 Ac
47、cording to the passage, which of the following statements is true? （ A） Aylmer loved his work more than anything else. （ B） Aylmer loved his young wife most of all. （ C） Aylmers love was instinctive and unconditional. （ D） Aylmers love remained undecided. 31 Which of the following words is used lite
48、rally, NOT metaphorically? （ A） Bathe(paragraph seven). （ B） Aliment(paragraph one). （ C） Specimen(paragraph seven). （ D） Snow(paragraph seven). 32 Which of the following is NOT true about the mark on Georgianas cheek? （ A） It was in the centre of her left cheek. （ B） Georgianas emotion radically af
49、fected the contrast between the mark and her complexion. （ C） It demonstrated a fearful distinctness. （ D） It approximated to a little human hand. 32 In 1897, over thirty years after the end of the American Civil War, a very special monument to that war was erected opposite the Statehouse in Boston. Designed by the Irish-born sculptor A
