1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 865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 Five Common Mistakes in Conversations and Their Solutions I. Not listening A. Problem: most people【 T1】 _ 【 T1】 _ wait eagerly for
3、 their turn to talk only care for themselves B. Solutions Avoid【 T2】 _question. 【 T2】 _ Listen to the content. II. Asking【 T3】 _【 T3】 _ A. Problems conversation sounds like【 T4】 _【 T4】 _ you dont have much to contribute B. Solutions 【 T5】 _questions with statements. 【 T5】 _ III. Poor delivery A. Pro
4、blems Speak too【 T6】 _【 T6】 _ Speak lowly and breathlessly. Speak【 T7】 _【 T7】 _ B. Solutions 【 T8】 _【 T8】 _ Speak loudly. Do not【 T9】 _. 【 T9】 _ Dont use a(n) 【 T10】 _. 【 T10】 _ Improve your【 T11】 _, e.g. laughter, posture, etc. 【 T11】 _ IV. Talking about a weird or【 T12】 _topic【 T12】 _ A. Problem B
5、. Solutions Steer clear of topics such as bad health or relationships, crappy job or boss, serial killers, technical lingo that only you and some other guy understands. Avoid talking about religion and【 T13】 _. 【 T13】 _ V. Being boring A. Problem: clinging to one topic for hours B. Solutions Lead an
6、 interesting life, and focus on【 T14】 _. 【 T14】 _ Be genuinely interested, and make the conversation feel more【 T15】 _. 【 T15】 _ 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
7、 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 will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read th
8、e 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） His reputation as a cook. （ B） His research on language learning. （ C） His fluency and proficiency in Spanish. （ D） His regular study on eggs and
9、toast. （ A） An experienced teacher. （ B） A friend of the target language. （ C） A regular learning program. （ D） An inborn talent of language. （ A） Speaking as fluently as a native speaker. （ B） Gaining proficiency in a foreign language. （ C） Learning a language well within a month. （ D） Learning wor
10、ds without active use of them. （ A） Practical. （ B） Conventional. （ C） Novel. （ D） Unrealistic. （ A） Following what a role model does. （ B） Learning new words in contexts. （ C） Knowing your own ways of learning. （ D） Reciting new vocabularies loudly. （ A） Those who see models of the patterns they ar
11、e expected to learn. （ B） Those who favor hearing instructions over reading them. （ C） Those who are inclined to learn in a team. （ D） Those who has a distinctive learning style from others. （ A） Learning through mistakes. （ B） Learning through hands-on experience. （ C） Learning through experts advi
12、ce. （ D） Learning through academic works. （ A） Reading Dr. Adamss book. （ B） Taking an online test. （ C） Looking up a good dictionary. （ D） Watching Dr. Adamss TV program. （ A） Turn on the captions for reference. （ B） Watch in the most relaxed possible way. （ C） Pause when encountering new expressio
13、ns. （ D） Use an English-English dictionary. （ A） Following classroom instructions. （ B） Watching plenty of movies online. （ C） Breaking down cultural barriers. （ D） Backpacking around the world. SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS In this section there are several passages followed by fourteen multi
14、ple-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) St. Petersburg, the very name brings to mind some of Russias greatest poets, writers and composers: Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tchaikovs
15、ky. The 19th century was a golden age for St. Petersburgs wealthy classes. It was a world of ballets and balls, of art and literature, of tea and caviar. (2) The golden age ended with the advent of World War I. Working people were growing more and more discontented. In 1917, Communism came, promisin
16、g peace and prosperity. (3) St. Petersburg had become Petrograd in 1914. People wanted a Russian name for their city. Ten years later, the citys name changed again, this time to Leningrad. Then in 1991, Leningraders voted to restore the citys original name. Some people opposed the name change altoge
17、ther. Others thought it was just too soon. Old, run-down Soviet Leningrad, they said, was not the St. Petersburg of 19th-century literature. (4) What, then, is St Petersburg? In the confusing post-Communist world, no one really knows. The quiet, if Soviet-style, dignity is gone. The Communist saying
18、s are down and gaudy advertising up. Candy bars and cigarettes are sold from boxy, tasteless kiosks. And clothing? Well, anything goes. Everyone wants to be a little different. But many people do not know the true meaning of freedom. Personal crime has gone up, up, up in the past few years. (5) Yet
19、in spite of this, you can still find some of the citys grand past. Stand at the western tip of Vasilievsky Island. To the right is the elegant Winter Palace, former home of the czars. Its light blue sides and white classical columns make it perhaps St. Petersburgs most graceful building. It houses o
20、ne of the worlds most famous art museums: the Hermitage. Inside, 20km of galleries house thousands of works of art. Look over your right shoulder. The massive golden dome of St. Isaacs Cathedral rises above the skyline. Youll see, too, why St. Petersburg is called a “floating city.“ Standing there,
21、nearly surrounded by water, you can see four of the citys 42 islands. (6) Cross the bridge and turn behind the Winter Palace. In the middle of the huge Palace Square stands the Alexander Column. It commemorates Russias victory over Napoleon. The 650-ton granite column is not attached to the base in
22、any way. Its own weight keeps it upright. Hoisted into place in 1832, it has stood there ever since. (7) Continue to Nevsky Prospekt, the heart of the old city. Let the crowds hurry by while you take your time. Admire the fine carving on bridges and columns, above doorways and windows. Cross over ca
23、nals and pass by smaller palaces and other classical structures. Let your eyes drink in the light blues, greens, yellows and pinks. (8) Take time to wander among Kazan Cathedrals semi circle of enormous brown columns. Or, if you prefer Russian-style architecture, cross the street and follow the cana
24、l a short distance. The Church of the Resurrection occupies the site where Czar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881. (9) Travel outside the city to Petrodvorets Palace for a taste of old imperial grandeur. After a visit to France in the late 17th century, Peter the Great decided to build a palace
25、for himself better than Versailles. His dream never came true in his lifetime. It took almost two centuries to complete the palace and park complex. (10) Seldom does any city have the chance to reinvent itself. That chance has now come to St. Petersburg. A few people might hope to return to the glor
26、y of the past, but most know that is impossible. They want to preserve the best of past eras and push ahead. You can bet the city wont be old St. Petersburg, but something altogether different. 26 Which of the following is NOT inside the city, according to the passage? （ A） the Winter Palace. （ B） S
27、t. Isaacs Cathedral. （ C） Kazan Cathedral. （ D） Petrodvorets Palace. 27 Which of the following details of St. Petersburg is INCORRECT? （ A） It is a city with a grand history. （ B） The personal crime rate is increasing. （ C） Few heritages are left from the past. （ D） It gets the opportunity to change
28、. 28 The authors attitude towards the future of St. Petersburg is _. （ A） optimistic （ B） wavering （ C） sceptical （ D） unclear 28 (1) I was taken by a friend one afternoon to a theatre. When the curtain was raised, the stage was perfectly empty save for tall grey curtains which enclosed it on all si
29、des, and presently through the thick folds of those curtains children came dancing in, singly, or in pairs, till a whole troop of ten or twelve were assembled. They were all girls; none, I think, more than fourteen years old, one or two certainly not more than eight. They wore but little clothing, t
30、heir legs, feet and arms being quite bare. Their hair, too, was unbound; and their faces, grave and smiling, were so utterly dear and joyful, that in looking on them one felt transported to some Garden of Hesperides, a where self was not, and the spirit floated in pure ether. Some of these children
31、were fair and rounded, others dark and elf-like; but one and all looked entirely happy, and quite unself-conscious, giving no impression of artifice, though they had evidently had the highest and most careful training. Each flight and whirling movement seemed conceived there and then out of the joy
32、of beingdancing had surely never been a labour to them, either in rehearsal or performance. There was no tiptoeing and posturing, no hopeless muscular achievement; all was rhythm, music, light, air, and above all things, happiness. Smiles and love had gone to the fashioning of their performance; and
33、 smiles and love shone from every one of their faces and from the clever white turnings of their limbs. (2) Amongst themthough all were delightfulthere were two who especially riveted my attention. The first of these two was the tallest of all the children, a dark thin girl, in whose every expressio
34、n and movement there was a kind of grave, fiery love. (3) During one of the many dances, it fell to her to be the pursuer of a fair child, whose movements had a very strange soft charm; and this chase, which was like the hovering of a dragonfly round some water lily, or the wooing of a moonbeam by t
35、he June night, had in it a most magical sweet passion. That dark, tender huntress, so full of fire and yearning, had the queerest power of symbolising all longing, and moving ones heart. In her, pursuing her white love with such wistful fervour, and ever arrested at the very moment of conquest, one
36、seemed to see the great secret force that hunts through the world, on and on, tragically unresting, immortally sweet. (4) The other child who particularly enhanced me was the smallest but one, a brown-haired fairy crowned with a half moon of white flowers, who wore a scanty little rose-petal-coloure
37、d shift that floated about her in the most delightful fashion. She danced as never child danced. Every inch of her small head and body was full of the sacred fire of motion; and in her little pas seul she seemed to be the very spirit of movement. One felt that Joy had flown down, and was inhabiting
38、there; one heard the rippling of Joys laughter. And, indeed, through all the theatre had risen a rustling and whispering; and sudden bursts of laughing rapture. (5) I looked at my friend; he was trying stealthily to remove something from his eyes with a finger. And to myself the stage seemed very mi
39、sty, and all things in the world lovable; as though that dancing fairy had touched them with tender fire, and made them golden. (6) God knows where she got that power of bringing joy to our dry hearts: God knows how long she will keep it! But that little flying Love had in her the quality that lie d
40、eep in colour, in music, in the wind, and the sun, and in certain great works of artthe power to see the heart free from every barrier, and flood it with delight. 29 From this passage, it can be inferred that _. （ A） the dancing girls are all very beautiful （ B） the girls come from all over the worl
41、d （ C） the two tallest girls are the outstanding dancers （ D） the girls performance is very successful 30 Which of the following statements contains a metaphor? （ A） , and smiles and love shone from every one of their faces. （ B） , which was like the hovering of a dragonfly round some water lily. （
42、C） That dark, tender huntress, so full of fire and yearning, had. （ D） In her, pursuing her white love with such wistful fervour. 31 The sentence “. to myself the stage seemed very misty.“ in the 5th paragraph implies that the author _. （ A） did not get a good seat （ B） was short sighted （ C） was a
43、bit sleepy （ D） was just too moved 32 Which of the following is NOT the point of the last paragraph? （ A） To describe how fantastic the dance is. （ B） To express his gratefulness to god. （ C） To show his deep feeling after seeing the dance. （ D） To share with readers his understanding of the dance.
44、32 (1) This has been quite a week for literary coups. In an almost entirely unexpected move, the Swedish Academy have this lunchtime announced their decision to award this years Nobel prize for Literature to the British playwright, author and recent poet, Harold Pinter and not, as was widely anticip
45、ated, to Turkish author Orhan Pamuk or the Syrian poet Adonis. (2) The Academy, which has handed out the prize since 1901, described Pinter, whose works include The Birthday Party, The Dumb Waiter and his breakthrough The Caretaker, as someone who restored the art form of theatre. In its citation, t
46、he Academy said Pinter was “generally seen as the foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the 20th century,“ and declared him to be an author “who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppressions closed rooms.“ (3) Until todays annou
47、ncement, Pinter was barely thought to be in the running for the prize, one of the most prestigious and lucrative in the world. After Pamuk and Adonis, the writers believed to be under consideration by the Academy included Americans Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth, and the Swedish poet Thomas Trans
48、tromer, with Margaret Atwood, Milan Kundera and the South Korean poet Ko Un as long-range possibilities. Following on from last years surprise decision to name the Austrian novelist, playwright and poet Elfriede Jelinek as laureate, however, the secretive Academy has once again confounded the bookie
49、s. (4) Pinters victory means that the prize has been given to a British writer for the second time in under five years; it was awarded to VS Naipaul in 2001. European writers have won the prize in nine out of the last 10 years so it was widely assumed that this years award would go to a writer from a different continent. (5) The son of immigrant Jewish paren
