1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 866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 How to Conquer Public Speaking Fear I. Introduction A. Public speaking a common source of stress for everyone B. The truth about i
3、t it is not【 T1】 _ stressful【 T1】 _ it is very likely to become【 T2】 _【 T2】 _ experience if the speaker correctly understands the【 T3】 _【 T3】 _ bears in mind its meaning, key points and reminders related. II. Causes of stress in a speech A. lack of right【 T4】 _【 T4】 _ B. lack of right【 T5】 _【 T5】 _
4、C. lack of right plan of action III. Meaning of a【 T6】 _speech. 【 T6】 _ A. It doesnt mean perfection. B. Give your audience something【 T7】 _so that【 T7】 _ they feel better about themselves; they feel better about jobs they have to do; they feel【 T8】 _【 T8】 _ IV. Main points for【 T9】 _a speech【 T9】 _
5、 A. Do not deliver【 T10】 _to the audience. 【 T10】 _ B. Have【 T11】 _or an index card. 【 T11】 _ V. General reminders If you forget the【 T12】 _about public speaking and【 T12】 _ feel【 T13】 _,【 T13】 _ A. go back and review this lecture, B. find out what you did【 T14】 _,【 T14】 _ C. go back out and speak a
6、gain. Remember that the【 T15】 _will be impressive. 【 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 will hear ONE interview. The interview will be divided into TWO part
7、s. 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 the four choices of A , B , C and D , and mark the best answer to each
8、question on ANSWER SHEET TWO. You have THIRTY seconds to preview the questions. （ A） He can fall asleep in the day time. （ B） He is too busy to get sleep. （ C） He has to take a nap at noon. （ D） He wakes up from time to time at night. （ A） Their room is not cozy. （ B） They are busy and occupied. （ C
9、） They have chronic disease. （ D） They take a nap after lunch. （ A） Around 24% of people understand the importance of sleep. （ B） Around 15% of people are able to fall asleep easily. （ C） Around one tenth of people have chronic insomnia. （ D） Around two third of people have consulted sleep specialis
10、ts. （ A） Give them a blood test. （ B） Give them a medical checkup. （ C） Keep them awake as long as possible. （ D） Find out their reason for insomnia. （ A） Lie in bed as long as possible. （ B） Take some sleeping pills to relax. （ C） Stay awake as long as they can. （ D） Schedule when to be awake or as
11、leep. （ A） Both of them need specialists advice. （ B） Both of them cost a lot of money. （ C） Neither of them can be achieved in short time. （ D） Neither of them is curable before. （ A） Medicine people with insomnia can take. （ B） Tips people can use to improve their sleep. （ C） Psychological therapy
12、 used to cure sleeplessness. （ D） Interference that disturbs peoples sleep. （ A） A luxurious one. （ B） A spacious one. （ C） A multi-functional one. （ D） A comfortable one. （ A） Because its effect may linger for almost 10 hours. （ B） Because it disturbs the way people feel in daytime. （ C） Because it
13、 accelerates heartbeat and respiration. （ D） Because they may want to take a nap. （ A） Napping for 2 hours is better than for 40 minutes. （ B） It does not revive you if the nap lasts too long. （ C） You should never take a nap after lunch. （ D） The longer you sleep, the better you will feel. SECTION
14、A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS 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) If you want to see what it takes
15、to set up an entirely new financial center (and what is best avoided), head for Dubai. This tiny, sun-baked patch of sand in the midst of a war-torn and isolated region started with few advantages other than a long tradition as a hub for Middle Eastern trade routes. (2) But over the past few years D
16、ubai has built a new financial center from nothing. Dozens of the worlds leading financial institutions have opened offices in its new financial district, hoping to grab a portion of the $2 trillion-plus investment from the Gulf. Some say there is more hype than business, but few big firms are willi
17、ng to risk missing out. (3) Dealmaking in Dubai centers around The Gate, a cube-shaped structure at the heart of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). A brainchild of the ruling Al-Maktoum family, the DIFC is a tax-free zone for wholesale financial services. Firms licensed for it are not
18、approved to serve the local financial market. The DIFC aims to become the leading wholesale financial centre in the Gulf, offering one-stop shopping for everything from stocks to sukuk (Islamic) bonds, investment banking and insurance. In August the Dubai bourse made a bid for a big stake in OMX, a
19、Scandinavian exchange operator that also sells trading technology to many of the worlds exchanges. (4) Dubai may have generated the biggest splash thus far, but much of the Gulf region has seen a surge of activity in recent years. Record flows of petrodollars have enabled governments in the area to
20、spend billions on infrastructure projects and development. Personal wealth too is growing rapidly. According to Capgemini and Merrill Lynch, the number of people in the Middle East with more than $lm in financial assets rose by nearly 12% last year, to 300,000. (5) Qatar, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi also
21、have big aspirations for their financial hubs, though they keep a lower profile than Dubai. They, too, are trying to learn from more established financial centers what they must do to achieve the magic mix of transparent regulation, good infrastructure and low or no taxes. Some of the fiercest compe
22、tition among them is for talent. Most English-speaking professionals have to be imported. (6) Each of the Gulf hubs, though, has its own distinct characteristics. Abu Dhabi is trying to present itself as a more cultured, less congested alternative to neighboring Dubai, and is building a huge Guggenh
23、eim museum. Energy-rich Qatar is an important hub for infrastructure finance, with ambitions to develop further business in wealth management, private equity, retail banking and insurance. Bahrain is well established in Islamic banking, but it is facing new competition from London, Kuala Lumpur and
24、other hubs that have caught on to Islamic finance. “If youve got one string to your bow and suddenly someone takes it away, youre in trouble,“ says Stuart Pearce of the Qatar Financial Centre about Bahrain. (7) Saudi Arabia, by far the biggest economy in the Gulf, is creating a cluster of its own ec
25、onomic zones, including King Abdullah City, which is aimed at foreign investors seeking a presence in the country. Trying to cut down on the number of “suitcase bankers“ who fly in from nearby centers rather than live in the country, the Saudis now require firms working with them to have local busin
26、ess licenses. Yet the bulk of the regions money is still flowing to established financial centers in Europe, America and other parts of Asia. (8) The financial hubs there offer lessons for aspiring centers in other parts of the developing world. Building the confidence of financial markets takes mor
27、e than new skyscrapers, tax breaks and incentives. The DIFC, for instance, initially suffered from suspicions of government meddling and from a high turnover among senior executives. Trading on its stock market remains thin, and the government seems unwilling to float its most successful companies t
28、here. Making the desert bloom was never easy. 26 According to the passage, Dubai has built a new financial center _. （ A） because of its innate advantages over other countries （ B） thanks to the $2 trillion-plus investment from the Gulf （ C） from its past tradition as a trade center in the Gulf （ D）
29、 for its a war-torn and isolated region in the world 27 According to the passage, which of the following about Dubai is INCORRECT? （ A） It enjoys record flows of petrodollars. （ B） Personal wealth too is growing rapidly. （ C） It has the same scale of financial hubs with Qutar and Bahrain. （ D） Billi
30、ons are spent on infrastructure. 28 Which of the following is NOT true about Saudi Arabia? （ A） It is building a cluster of its own economic zones. （ B） It is trying to decrease the number of “suitcase bankers“. （ C） It is very strict about granting local business licenses. （ D） It cant attract the
31、bulk of the regions money to flow in. 29 By saying “making the desert bloom was never easy“ in Para. 8, the author means _. （ A） new skyscrapers need to be built to guarantee the confidence of financial markets （ B） cutting on taxes and giving more incentives brings the confidence of financial marke
32、ts （ C） the government is trying to bring the confidence of financial markets down （ D） it takes great efforts to build the confidence and prosperity of financial markets 29 (1) Most people have experienced the feeling, after a taxing mental work-out, that they cannot be bothered to make any more de
33、cisions. If they are forced to, they may do so intuitively, rather than by reasoning. Such apathy is often put down to tiredness, but a study published recently in Psychological Science suggests there may be more to it than that. Whether reason or intuition is used may depend simply on the decision-
34、makers blood-sugar levelwhich is, itself, affected by the process of reasoning. (2) E.J. Masicampo and Roy Baumeister of Florida State University discovered this by doing some experiments on that most popular of laboratory animals, the impoverished undergraduate. They asked 121 psychology students w
35、ho had volunteered for the experiment to watch a silent video of a woman being interviewed that had random words appearing in bold black letters every ten seconds along the perimeter of the video. This was the part of the experiment intended to be mentally taxing. Half of the students were told to f
36、ocus on the woman, to try to understand what she was saying, and to ignore the words along the perimeter. The other half were given no instructions. Those that had to focus were exerting considerable self-control not to look at the random words. (3) When the video was over, half of each group was gi
37、ven a glass of lemonade with sugar in it and half was given a glass of lemonade with sugar substitute. Twelve minutes later, when the glucose from the lemonade with sugar in it had had time to enter the students blood, the researchers administered a decision-making task that was designed to determin
38、e if the participant was using intuition or reason to make up his mind. (4) The students were asked to think about where they wanted to live in the coming year and given three accommodation options that varied both in size and distance from the university campus. Two of the options were good, but in
39、 different ways: one was far from the campus, but very large; the other was close to campus, but smaller. The third option was a decoy, similar to one of the good options, but obviously not quite as good. If it was close to campus and small it was not quite as close as the good close option and slig
40、htly smaller. If it was far from campus and large, it was slightly smaller than the good large option and slightly farther away. (5) Psychologists have known for a long time that having a decoy option in a decision-making task draws people to choose a reasonable option that is similar to the decoy.
41、Dr. Masicampo and Dr. Baumeister suspected that students who had been asked to work hard during the video and then been given a drink without any sugar in it would be more likely to rely on intuition when making this decision than those from the other three groups. And that is what happened; 64% of
42、them were swayed by the decoy. Those who had either not had to exert mental energy during the showing of the video or had been given glucose in their lemonade, used reason in their decision-making task and were less likely to be swayed by the decoy. (6) It is not clear why intuition is independent o
43、f glucose. It could be that humans inherited a default nervous system from other mammals that was similar to intuition, and that could make snap decisions about whether to fight or flee regardless of how much glucose was in the body. (7) Whatever the reason, the upshot seems to be that thinking is,
44、indeed, hard work. And important decisions should not be made on an empty stomach. 30 In E. J. Masicampo and Roy Baumeisters study, about_students who received no instructions in the video watching were given a glass of lemonade with sugar in it. （ A） 121 （ B） 60 （ C） 30 （ D） 15 31 Which group of st
45、udents tended to be swayed by the decoy, according to the study? （ A） The no-watching-instructions group that had been given glucose in their lemonade. （ B） The no-watching-instructions group having been given sugar substitute in their lemonade. （ C） The mental-energy-exerting group that had been gi
46、ven glucose in their lemonade. （ D） The mental-energy-exerting group that had been given sugar substitute in their lemonade. 32 Which of the following is NOT true, according to the study? （ A） Peoples blood-sugar level is affected by the process of reasoning. （ B） Whether people resort to reasoning
47、or intuition may depend on their blood-sugar level. （ C） Both reasoning and intuition are certainly affected by peoples blood-sugar level. （ D） It is not wise to make important decisions when one is hungry. 33 The last paragraph suggests that _. （ A） people are not able to make important decisions w
48、hen hungry （ B） decisions made on an empty stomach may be unreasonable （ C） people are less intelligent when they are hungry （ D） people are more intelligent when they are hungry 33 (1) Considering how jazz is transcribed in Chinese (jueshi), you may be misled into assuming that it is an aristocrati
49、c cultural form. Nothing could be further from the truth. It originated among black Americans at the end of the 19th century, at a time when they occupied the very bottom of the American social heap. (2) So how has something that was created by a once downtrodden and despised minority acquired a central place in todays American culture? Perhaps the essence of America is that you cou
