1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 882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 Write a Book Review I. The definition of a book review A. a descriptive and critical or evaluative account of a book B. a s
3、ummary of content and a(n)【 T1】 _ 【 T1】 _ II. Two approaches to book reviewing A. the descriptive review giving the essential 【 T2】 _about a book 【 T2】 _ B. the critical review describing and evaluating the book III. Basic requirements and nunimum essentials A. Knowledge of the book 【 T3】 _ 【 T3】 _
4、B. Mastery of the genre in the work C. Description, not a summary of the book D. Something about, not a biography of, the author E. 【 T4】 _appraisal 【 T4】 _ IV. Five preliminary mechanical steps A. Reading the book 【 T5】 _ 【 T5】 _ B. Noting effective passages for 【 T6】 _ 【 T6】 _ C. Noting your impre
5、ssions as you read D. 【 T7】 _ what you have read 【 T7】 _ E. Aiming at achieving a single impression V. Starting the outline A. Getting an over-all grasp of the organization B. Determining the central point to be made C. Eliminating 【 T8】 _ or irrelevancies 【 T8】 _ D. Filling in gaps or omissions VI.
6、 Making the draft A. The opening paragraph in a position of emphasis, and setting the 【 T9】 _ of the paper 【 T9】 _ B. The main body being 【 T10】 _ organized by the outline 【 T10】 _ logical development of the central point C. The concluding paragraph summing up or 【 T11】 _ 【 T11】 _ making the 【 T12】
7、_ 【 T12】 _ introducing no new ideas VII. 【 T13】 _ the draft 【 T13】 _ A. Correcting all mistakes in 【 T14】 _ 【 T14】 _ B. Looking for unity, organization and logical development C. Verifying quotations for accuracy and 【 T15】 _ 【 T15】 _ 1 【 T1】 2 【 T2】 3 【 T3】 4 【 T4】 5 【 T5】 6 【 T6】 7 【 T7】 8 【 T8】 9
8、 【 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 said. Both the interview and the questions will be sp
9、oken 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 questions. （ A） Marketing trainee. （ B） Financial assist
10、ant. （ 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 learn in separate booths. （ A） It can be passed more easily. （ B） It is more coherent and motivating.
11、（ 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） Immediate wages and bonuses. （ A） Having fun around a campfire in open air. （ B） Helping freshmen adap
12、t 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 enough experience in organizing such a project. （ C） Because his parents supported him to do so. （
13、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. （ A） It is reconcilable. （ B） It is contradictory. （ C） It has to be treated carefully. （ D） It is
14、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 QUESTIONS In this section there are several passages followed by fourteen multiple-choice questions. For
15、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, Tchaikovsky. The 19th century was a
16、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, promising peace and prosperity. (3)S
17、t. 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 altogether. Others thought it was j
18、ust 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 sayings are down and gaudy advertisi
19、ng 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 in spite of this, you can still
20、 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 one of the worlds most famous ar
21、t 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, nearly surrounded by water, you
22、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 any way. Its own weight keeps it
23、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 canals and pass by smaller palaces a
24、nd 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 canal a short distance. The Church of t
25、he 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 for himself better than Versailles.
26、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 glory of the past, but most know that is
27、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） St. Isaacs Cathedral. （ C） Kazan Cathe
28、dral. （ 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 The authors attitude towards the
29、 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 sides, and presently through the thick f
30、olds 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, their legs, feet and arms being quite b
31、are. 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 were fair and rounded, others dark and
32、 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 of beingdancing had surely never been
33、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 smiles and love shone from every one
34、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 expression and movement there was a kind of grav
35、e, 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 the June night, had in it a most magical
36、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 seemed to see the great secret force tha
37、t 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-coloured shift that floated about her in the mos
38、t 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 there; one heard the rippling of Joys lau
39、ghter. 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 misty, and all things in the world lovable;
40、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 deep in colour, in music, in the wind, and t
41、he 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 world （ C） the two tallest girls are the outstan
42、ding 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. （ C） That dark, tender huntress, so full of
43、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 bit sleepy （ D） was just too moved 32 Whic
44、h 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. 32 (1)This has been quite a week for liter
45、ary 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 anticipated, to Turkish author Orhan Pamuk or the
46、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, the Academy said Pinter was “generally seen a
47、s 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 announcement, Pinter was barely thought to be in
48、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 Transtromer, with Margaret Atwood, Milan Kundera
49、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 bookies. (4)Pinters victory means that the prize has been given to a British writer for the second time in under five ye
