1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 872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 Question and Answer Choice Order This lecture is a part of a series of lectures on survey designing. We tend to talk about the way
3、s to determine the question and answer choice order, contributing to a successful questionnaire. I. Two Broad Issues A. How the order can encourage people to【 T1】 _the survey.【 T1】 _ B. How the order could affect the【 T2】 _of the survey.【 T2】 _ II. Solutions to the First Issue A. question order list
4、ing the questions from easy to difficult can build【 T3】 _【 T3】 _ grouping together questions on the same topic leaving difficult or【 T4】 _questions until near the end【 T4】 _ B. answer choice order using the【 T5】 _order【 T5】 _ presenting agree-disagree choices positive to negative and【 T6】 _to poor s
5、cales【 T6】 _ numeric rating scales:【 T7】 _should mean more agreeing answers【 T7】_ III. Solutions to the Second Issue A. something【 T8】 _mentioned【 T8】 _ solutions: randomize the order of related questions or separating related questions with【 T9】 _ones【 T9】 _ B.【 T10】 _【 T10】 _ solutions: a. use goo
6、d softwares to list questions in a random order b. ask a short series of【 T11】 _at a point【 T11】 _ c. change the “positive“ answer by【 T12】 _some questions【 T12】 _ C. answer choice order solutions: a. If answer choices have【 T13】 _, use that order.【 T13】 _ b. If questions are about【 T14】 _or recall
7、or with long answer choices,【 T14】_ use software to list them in a random order. IV. Conclusion 【 T15】 _: keep the questionnaire as short as possible【 T15】 _ If a question is not necessary, do not include it. 1 【 T1】 2 【 T2】 3 【 T3】 4 【 T4】 5 【 T5】 6 【 T6】 7 【 T7】 8 【 T8】 9 【 T9】 10 【 T10】 11 【 T11】
8、 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 will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each
9、 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） Scientific facts and principles are too dull to attract students.
10、（ B） There is little connection between science and daily life. （ C） The content of the science teaching is too old. （ D） Teachers do not provide enough help in students learning. （ A） They learn a minimal complete set of scientific facts. （ B） Everyone in the world is of this group. （ C） They respo
11、nd to science differently from the scientists. （ D） They dont have their particular personal and cultural values. （ A） The project was launched about five years ago. （ B） It is a professional scientific journal for students. （ C） The students can work as editors and journalists. （ D） It aims to incr
12、ease peoples interest in science. （ A） Four. （ B） Three. （ C） Two. （ D） One. （ A） Students can generate interest for science. （ B） Students can develop leadership skills. （ C） Students can finally get clear answers. （ D） Students can learn how to find information. （ A） It is one of the ways to arous
13、e students interests in science. （ B） It fails to achieve its original target as planned. （ C） It definitely can lead students to the scientific field. （ D） It involves building things in simple technical field. （ A） Children are fascinated about these scientific games. （ B） They help people learn a
14、bout the scientific process. （ C） They make science classes in schools really fun. （ D） These scientific games require large spaces. （ A） Its more fundamental. （ B） Its pretty general. （ C） Its very specific. （ D） Its quite influential. （ A） Question the normal way that we do things. （ B） Bring doub
15、t to our assumptions about science. （ C） Change the balance between daily life and science education. （ D） Give up some stuff we have always done. （ A） To understand their influence on young kids. （ B） To be careful to make sure everything is right. （ C） To exchange ideas with common citizens. （ D）
16、To tell frankly what science actually is. SECTION 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 bes
17、t answer. 25 (1)At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house. I have thus surveyed the country on every side within a dozen miles of where I live. In imagination I have bought all the farms in succession, for all were to be bought, and I kn
18、ew their price. I walked over each farmers premises, tasted his wild apples, discoursed on husbandry with him, took his farm at his price, at any price, mortgaging it to him in my mind: even put a higher price on it took everything but a deed of it took his word for his deed, for I dearly love to ta
19、lk cultivated it, and him too to some extent, I trust, and withdrew when I had enjoyed it long enough, leaving him to carry it on. This experience entitled me to be regarded as a sort of real-estate broker by my friends. Wherever I sat, there I might live, and the landscape radiated from me accordin
20、gly. What is a house but a sedes, a seat? better if a country seat. I discovered many a site for a house not likely to be soon improved, which some might have thought too far from the village, but to my eyes the village was too far from it. Well, there I might live, I said: and there I did live, for
21、 an hour, a summer and a winter life: saw how I could let the years run off, buffet the winter through, and see the spring come in. The future inhabitants of this region, wherever they may place their houses, may be sure that they have been anticipated. An afternoon sufficed to lay out the land into
22、 orchard, wood-lot, and pasture, and to decide what fine oaks or pines should be left to stand before the door, and whence each blasted tree could be seen to the best advantage: and then I let it lie, fallow, perchance, for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to l
23、et alone. (2)My imagination carried me so far that I even had die refusal of several farms the refusal was all 1 wanted but I never got my fingers burned by actual possession. The nearest that I came to actual possession was when I bought the Hollowell place, and had begun to sort my seeds, and coll
24、ected materials with which to make a wheelbarrow to carry it on or off with: but before the owner gave me a deed of it, his wife every man has such a wife changed her mind and wished to keep it, and he offered me ten dollars to release him. Now, to speak the truth, I had but ten cents in the world,
25、and it surpassed my arithmetic to tell, if I was that man who had ten cents, or who had a farm, or ten dollars, or all together. However, I let him keep the ten dollars and the farm too, for I had carried it far enough: or rather, to be generous, I sold him the farm for just what I gave for it, and,
26、 as he was not a rich man, made him a present of ten dollars, and still had my ten cents, and seeds, and materials for a wheelbarrow left. I found thus that I had been a rich man without any damage to my poverty. But I retained the landscape, and I have since annually carried off what it yielded wit
27、hout a wheelbarrow. With respect to landscapes, “I am monarch of all I survey. My right there is none to dispute. “(3)I have frequently seen a poet withdraw, having enjoyed the most valuable part of a farm, while the crusty farmer supposed that he had got a few wild apples only. Why, the owner does
28、not know it for many years when a poet has put his farm in rhyme, the most admirable kind of invisible fence, has fairly impounded it, milked it, skimmed it, and got all the cream, and left the farmer only the skimmed milk. (4)The real attractions of the Hollowell farm, to me, were: its complete ret
29、irement, being, about two miles from the village, half a mile from the nearest neighbor, and separated from the highway by a broad field: its bounding on the river, which the owner said protected it by its fogs from frosts in the spring, though that was nothing to me: the gray color and ruinous stat
30、e of the house and barn, and the dilapidated fences, which put such an interval between me and the last occupant: the hollow and lichen-covered apple trees, nawed by rabbits, showing what kind of neighbors I should have: but above all, the recollection I had of it from my earliest voyages up the riv
31、er, when the house was concealed behind a dense grove of red maples, through which I heard the house-dog bark. I was in haste to buy it, before the proprietor finished getting out some rocks, cutting down the hollow apple trees, and grubbing up some young birches which had sprung up in the pasture,
32、or, in short, had made any more of his improvements. To enjoy these advantages I was ready to carry it on: like Atlas, to take the world on my shoulders I never heard what compensation he received for that and do all those things which had no other motive or excuse but that I might pay for it and be
33、 unmolested in my possession of it: for I knew all the while that it would yield the most abundant crop of the kind I wanted, if I could only afford to let it alone. But it turned out as I have said. (5)All that I could say, then, with respect to farming on a large scale I have always cultivated a g
34、arden was, that I had had my seeds ready. Many think that seeds improve with age. I have no doubt that time discriminates between the good and the bad: and when at last I shall plant, I shall be less likely to be disappointed. But I would say to my fellows, once for all, as long as possible live fre
35、e and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail. (6)Old Cato, whose “De Re Rustica“ is my “Cultivator“ , says and the only translation I have seen makes sheer nonsense of the passage “When you think of getting a farm turn it thus in your mind,
36、 not to buy greedily: nor spare your pains to look at it, and do not think it enough to go round it once. The oftener you go there the more it will please you, if it is good. “ I think I shall not buy greedily, but go round and round it as long as I live, and be buried in it first, that it may pleas
37、e me the more at last. 26 It can be inferred from Para. 1 that_. （ A） the author had bought a farm （ B） the author enjoyed talking with farmers （ C） the author was quite adept at bargaining over the price of houses （ D） the author spent the winter in the countryside 27 The authors attitude indicated
38、 in the second paragraph is that_. （ A） he took the landscape as his true possession （ B） he did not want to own the Hollowell farm （ C） he should be generous to others no matter rich or poor （ D） he enjoyed surveying the farms 28 Which of the following statements contains a metaphor? （ A） .to my ey
39、es the village was too far from it.(Para. 1) （ B） .like Atlas, to take the world on my shoulders.(Para.4) （ C） .I had been a rich man without any damage to my poverty.(Para. 2) （ D） .has fairly impounded it, milked it, skimmed it.(Para.3) 29 According to Para. 5 and Para. 6, what is the authors atti
40、tude towards getting a farm? （ A） He is not interested in the issue of ownership. （ B） He believed a farm would become a jail if you are uncommitted to it. （ C） He wanted to own one farm and yield abundant crop. （ D） He enjoyed wandering around his farm. 30 Which of the following does the author NOT
41、 advocate in the passage? （ A） The harmony between man and nature. （ B） The charm of country life. （ C） The importance of buying property. （ D） The indifference to material wealth. 30 (1)As a child, I loved Charlie Chaplin films. I would put on my fathers shoes and wander about with a trampish gait.
42、 Luckily, I never boiled and ate the shoes I would not see Chaplin do that(in The Gold Rush)for a few years yet. I am from the last generation that found it quite normal to watch silent films on television. There was nothing arcane or archaic about it. It was an everyday part of BBC2 programming. (2
43、)As I grew older, my love of Laurel and Hardy remained, but Chaplin went out of favour. The received wisdom that he was overly sentimental meant that it became unfashionable to like him. Keaton was the one to revere: he was considered a more serious clown, with a stone face of existential angst and
44、boasting a collaboration with Samuel Beckett. (3) Why it might be necessary to make a choice between Keaton and Chaplin I have no idea there is time enough to celebrate both. But I find a surprising number of people who say: “I never really got Chaplin. “ Each time I return to Chaplin, I find it har
45、der to understand how anyone can dismiss him. He wrote, produced, directed, starred in and composed the music for a series of powerful, funny, philosophical and moving films. Even the first cinematic outing of the tramp, Kid Auto Races at Venice, can make me laugh 100 years on, as Chaplin repeatedly
46、 gets in the way of the news cameras and racing cars with such brazen cheek. (4)Or there is the ludicrous image of Chaplin becoming a wooden hedgehog as he hurls 11 chairs on his back in Behind the Screen, as fresh as any visual comedy being made now. (5)Though the bread-roll dance from The Gold Rus
47、h has been so often imitated that it may seem to have lost some of its wonder, watch the sequence again and you will see how intricate something of seeming simplicity is. Johnny Depp spoke of having to imitate it in Benny and Joon and said it took days to get everything just right. It is so much mor
48、e than it at first seems. (6)That is what makes Chaplin live on the depth of thought behind each seemingly simple routine. It is never just falling over with a bang, it is acrobatics with aplomb, it is the grace of the chaos. As his biographer Richard Schickel noted, with Chaplin, all that seems sol
49、id melts into something else. (7)For those who ask, “But is Chaplin really still funny?“ I can promise you that a new generation of children do laugh at Chaplin attempting a tightrope walk while distracted by monkeys in The Circus. There may be many banana-skin routines, but I am pretty sure Chaplin was the first to attempt the banana skin on the tightro
