1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 862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 Daydreaming I. Daydreaming can be harmful because it was considered as A. a waste of【 T1】 _ 【 T1】 _ B. a【 T2】 _ of neurotic tenden
3、cies【 T2】 _ C. evidence of【 T3】 _ or an escape from【 T3】 _ life realities and responsibilities when it occurs【 T4】 _【 T4】 _ II. However, daydreaming can be beneficial A. it is an effective technique of【 T5】 _【 T5】 _ B. it contributes to 【 T6】 _【 T6】 _ powers of concentration the ability to【 T7】 _wit
4、h others【 T7】 _ C. it improves self-control ability and enhances【 T8】 _ability【 T8】 _ D. it improves a persons ability to be better adapted to【 T9】 _【 T9】 _ 【 T10】 _【 T10】 _ be more readily with new ideas E. Historically, many successful people got their best ideas while 【 T11】 _【 T11】 _ III. How to
5、 make a positive daydreaming? A.【 T12】 _yourself as vividly as possible【 T12】 _ B. create an environment free from【 T13】 _【 T13】 _ IV. General remarks A Suggestion: Put aside a few minutes daily, taking short【 T14】 _【 T14】 _ B. Conclusion: Daydreaming, this【 T15】 _investment,【 T15】 _ highly benefit
6、youphysical and mental well-being. 1 【 T1】 2 【 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 par
7、t, five questions will be asked about what was 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
8、TWO. You have THIRTY seconds to preview the questions. （ A） Marketing trainee. （ B） Financial assistant. （ C） Management trainee. （ D） Business assistant. （ A） It integrates an assortment of courses. （ B） It includes Economics in the curriculum. （ C） Courses are taught individually. （ D） Students le
9、arn in separate booths. （ A） It can be passed more easily. （ B） It is more coherent and motivating. （ C） It is more academic-oriented. （ D） It better helps students relate to each other. （ A） The reputation of the bank. （ B） Good training opportunities. （ C） Room for long-term career growth. （ D） Im
10、mediate wages and bonuses. （ A） Having fun around a campfire in open air. （ B） Helping freshmen adapt to college life. （ C） Welcoming newcomers at the school gate. （ D） Offering optional courses free of charge. （ A） Because he himself suffered much when he entered the university. （ B） Because he has
11、 enough experience in organizing such a project. （ C） Because his parents supported him to do so. （ D） He wants to learn more experience of university study. （ A） Putting his ideas across to others. （ B） Solving thorny problems. （ C） Explaining solutions to others. （ D） Planning ahead of colleagues.
12、 （ A） It is reconcilable. （ B） It is contradictory. （ C） It has to be treated carefully. （ D） It is a difficult to handle. （ A） Hong Kong. （ B） Japan. （ C） West Asia. （ D） Europe. （ A） Two days later. （ B） Within a week. （ C） Two weeks later. （ D） It is not mentioned. SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUEST
13、IONS 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 (1) On July 7th, I was traveling in London. I was having bre
14、akfast at a hotel very near Liverpool Street Station when the first explosion was detonated. Hearing the sirens and seeing Londons emergency personnel respond to the bombings brought back vivid memories of the events of Sept. 11, 2001. (2) People have not forgotten Sept. 11, 2001. Americans can stil
15、l recall exactly where they were and what they were doing on that fateful day. But its understandable that some remember it as historical fact, lacking the painful impact and immediacy they originally felt. If we allow a dimming of purposeto eliminate terrorismthese terrorist attacks in London serve
16、 as another chilling reminder that were still at war. (3) Something constructive emerges from these tragic, horrible and unexplainable attacks. It is the message that we must remain vigilant in opposing an enemy who intentionally targets innocent civilians. (4) Since Sept. 11, 2001, the civilized na
17、tions of the world have remained mostly united in opposing these despicable, wanton acts of terror. We have had some great successes in that effort. We have arrested perpetrators and plotters, and we have foiled planned attacks. We have reduced the power and scope of those who despise freedom and de
18、mocracy. (5) The effort must continue. As we learned Thursdayand in Madrid and Balithe enemies of freedom have not lost their resolve. We must not lose ours. (6) Ultimately, the only real defense from terrorist attacks; is being able to find out about them in advance. Intelligence gathering has impr
19、oved but needs to be even stronger, including consistently improving human intelligence and patrol. Police and ordinary citizens must be alert and encouraged to convey information. (7) Once a terrorist incident does occur, theres no such thing as a perfect response. By definition, a terrorist attack
20、 means people are being hurt or killed. But by studying the response to past attacks, we can better prepare to handle those in the future. (8) London is one of the most secure cities in the world, steeped in years of dealing with terrorism. The citys preparation and resolve was evident on Thursday.
21、I am very impressed by Londons reaction to the bombings. Both the emergency personnel and the citizens seemed prepared. The first responders were rapid, well-directed, organized and professional, in accordance with obviously well-tested plans. (9) As for the citizens, at least a dozen people told me
22、 in one way or another, “We knew this was going to happen; it was just a question of when.“ (10) That is not only a realistic assessment; it also is a mindset that just might save lives. Political, business and community leaders are sometimes reluctant to talk about terrorism or stage drills to prep
23、are their response because they dont want to frighten or upset people. But thats a mistake. People react to emergencies more effectively when theyre not shocked by them. (11) Tony Blair and London Mayor Ken Livingstone have made preparedness a priority, and their efforts clearly paid off during Thur
24、sdays response to the attacks. (12) Theres another benefit to preparing for terrorism in advance. Part of the damage the terrorists hope to inflict is the emotional reaction in the wake of the destruction. The reason its called “terrorism“ is that they want fear and its debilitating effects to linge
25、r long after the smoke has cleared. (13) By preparing citizens for the possibility of a terrorist attack, leaders can help minimize the emotional response in the wake of the destruction. (14) Finally, Thursdays attacks demonstrate that we must remain committed to confronting and eliminating terroris
26、m. There are those who assert that the efforts to eliminate terror are somehow provoking the terrorists. That is wrong. The terrorists have been attacking innocent people long before Sept. 11, 2001, or the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq. (15) Seeing Prime Minister Blair speak so forcefully, with Presid
27、ent Bush, President Jacques Chirac and other world leaders right behind him, was encouraging. Lets remember the unity the world shared after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (16) Free nations can and will disagree. But let us always remember that free people must be steadfast and resilient in defendin
28、g our way of life. 26 The terrorist attack in London conveys to us the message that _. （ A） people in London did not feel painful （ B） we must be on the alert for terrorism （ C） we should stay at home to avoid terrorism （ D） the effort at anti-terrorism was in vain 27 In the authors opinion, which o
29、f the following is NOT the success weve achieved in the effort to fight against terrorist attack? （ A） We have arrested perpetrators and plotters. （ B） We have prevented planned attacks. （ C） We have combated and eliminated terrorism. （ D） We have reduced the power and scope of terrorists. 28 Accord
30、ing to the passage, which of the following is NOT the way to defend terrorist attacks? （ A） Improving human intelligence and patrol. （ B） Alerting police and citizens to terrorism. （ C） Finding out terrorists before they attack. （ D） Studying the response to past attacks. 29 The sentence “. steeped
31、in years of dealing with terrorism“ in the 8th paragraph means that _. （ A） London has been engaged in anti-terrorism for years （ B） London hasnt witnessed terrorism for years （ C） London has been targeted by terrorists for years （ D） London has been soaked in terrorist attacks for years 29 (1) Rese
32、archers who picked up and analyzed wild chimp droppings said on Thursday they had shown how the AIDS virus originated in wild apes in Cameroon and then spread in humans across Africa and eventually the world. Their study, published in the journal Science, supports other studies that suggest people s
33、omehow caught the deadly human immunodeficiency virus (HTV) from chimpanzees, perhaps by killing and eating them. (2) “It says that the chimpanzee group that gave rise to HIV. this chimp community resides in Cameroon,“ said Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama, who led the study. “But that doe
34、snt mean the epidemic originated there because it didnt,“ Hahn, who has been studying the genetic origin of HIV for years, said in a telephone interview. (3) “We actually know where the epidemic took off. The epidemic took off in Kinshasa, in Brazzaville.“ Kinshasa is in the Democratic Republic Cong
35、o, formerly Zaire, and faces Brazzaville, in Congo, across the Congo River. Studies have traced HIV to a man who gave a blood sample in 1959 in Kinshasa, then called Leopoldville. Later analysis found the AIDS virus. (4) In people, HIV leads to AIDS but chimps have a version called simian immune def
36、iciency virus (SIV) that causes them no harm. Humans are the only animals naturally susceptible to HIV. AIDS was only identified 25 years ago. The virus now infects 40 million people around the world and has killed 25 million. Spread in blood, sexual contact and from mother to child during birth or
37、breastfeeding, HIV has no cure and there is no vaccine, although drug cocktails can control it. (5) And like so many new infections, AIDS appears to have been passed to humans from animals they slaughtered. SIV has been found in captive chimps but Hahn wanted to show it could be found in the wild to
38、o. Her international team got the cooperation of the government in Cameroon and they hired skilled trackers. (6) “The chimps in that area are hunted. Its certainly impossible to see them. It is hard to track them and find these materials,“ she said. But the trackers managed to collect 599 samples of
39、 droppings. Hahns lab found DNA, identified each individual chimp and then found evidence of the virus. (7) “We went to 10 field sites and we found evidence of infection in five. We were able to identify a total of 16 infected chimps and we were able to get viral sequences from all of them,“ Hahn sa
40、id. Up to 35 percent of the apes in some communities were infected. Not only that, they could find different varieties, called clades, of the virus. (8) “We found some of the clades were really, really very closely related to the human virus and others were not,“ she said. Chimps separated by a rive
41、r were infected with different clades, Hahn said. And a river may have carried the virus into the human population. “So how do you get from southern Cameroon to the Democratic Republic of Congo?“ Hahn asked. “Some human must have done so. There is a river that goes from that southeastern corner of C
42、ameroon down to the Congo River.“ (9) Ivory and hardwood traders used the Sangha River in the 1930s, when the original human-to-human transmission is believed to have happened. Hahns study suggests the virus passed from chimpanzees to people more than once. “We dont really know how these transmissio
43、ns occurred,“ Hahn said. (10) “We know that you dont get it petting a chimp, or from a toilet seat, just like you cant get HIV from a toilet seat. It requires exposure to infected blood and infected body fluids. So if you get bitten by an angry chimp while you are hunting it, which could do it.“ (11
44、) Hahns study only applies the HIV group M, which is the main strain of the virus responsible for the AIDS pandemic. “Its quite possible that still other (chimpanzee SIV) lineages exist that could pose risks for human infection and prove problematic for HIV diagnostic and vaccines,“ her team wrote.
45、30 From the description in the passage, we learn that _. （ A） monkeys are also susceptible to HIV （ B） AIDS has killed 25 million people in the last 25 years （ C） vaccine has been developed to prevent AIDS （ D） AIDS can be cured by drug cocktails 31 According to the passage, HIV is spread through al
46、l the following EXCEPT _. （ A） blood （ B） sexual contact （ C） breastfeeding （ D） a toilet seat 32 It can be inferred from the passage that the virus is transmitted from chimps in Cameroon to humans most probably through _. （ A） some clades of the virus related to the human virus （ B） aborigines resi
47、ding in the virgin forest of Cameroon （ C） Ivory and hardwood traders who were bitten by the chimps （ D） chimp droppings floating in a river from Southern Cameroon to Congo 32 (1) After thirty years of married happiness, he could still remind himself that Victoria was endowed with every charm except
48、 the thrilling touch of human frailty. Though her perfection discouraged pleasures, especially the pleasures 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 his y
49、outh the world was suffused with the after-glow of the long Victorian age, and a graceful feminine style had softened 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 Bro
