1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 8及答案与解析 SECTION A MINI-LECTURE Directions: In this section you sill hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. W
2、hen the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking. 1 Three Main Literary Forms . Poetry Essential features: -evoking 【 1】 _ -creating a(n) 【 2】 _ -imagination -
3、leading to new 【 3】 _ , new feelings and experience . Fiction A. Short story Definition: a relatively brief 【 4】 _ -subject matter: single incidents in daily life -essential features: 【 5】 _ , unity and 【 6】 _ B. Novel One important technique: 【 7】 _ Three methods: -explicit presentation through 【 8
4、】 _ -presentation of character in 【 9】 _ -presentation from within a character . Drama Origin: ancient Greek festival activities Structures of a play -exposition -rising action - 【 10】 _ -falling action -ending New styles and forms 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10 【
5、10】 SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now
6、 listen to the interview. 11 In 1900, the worlds use of paper was about _ for each person in a year. （ A） 50 kilograms （ B） I kilogram （ C） 5 kilograms （ D） 15 kilograms 12 Chinese paper was made from （ A） the hair-like parts of certain plants. （ B） the wood of trees. （ C） the skin of certain young
7、animals. （ D） the stem Of tall plants. 13 Who found out that paper could be made from trees? （ A） An Englishman. （ B） A Canadian man. （ C） A Swedish man. （ D） A German. 14 Now _ makes the best paper in the world. （ A） Norway （ B） USA （ C） Canada （ D） Finland 15 Some people in Finland wear paper boot
8、s in the snow in winter because （ A） they are waterproof. （ B） nothing could be warmer. （ C） they are convenient. （ D） they are durable. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At the end of
9、each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 Frances highest court halted the final voyage of the Clemenceau because （ A） the French President Jacque Chirac has ordered the return of it. （ B） some substances on board the ship may harm peoples health. （ C） the Clemenceau s
10、hould return to France at the end of the week. （ D） the French President is ordering a test to discover what is on board. 17 The man Mr. Cheney accidentally shot and injured is （ A） a doctor. （ B） a secretary. （ C） a lawyer. （ D） a leader. 18 The Bush Administration has been accused by Harry Reid of
11、 （ A） being covert. （ B） shielding Dick. （ C） being dishonest. （ D） attacking the victim. 19 Which of the following statements about the American Defense Department is TRUE? （ A） It has denied the authenticity of the pictures of abused prisoners. （ B） It has supported the decision to stop the public
12、ation of the pictures. （ C） It has considered the pictures of abused prisoners unacceptable. （ D） It has been worrying about the violence incited by the pictures. 20 If Reno Prevals supporters exceeded 50 of the total voters, he would （ A） surpass another candidate. （ B） be the president of Haiti. （
13、 C） avoid a second round runoff. （ D） defeat his rival in the first round. 21 Theodoric Voler had been brought up, from infancy to the confines of middle age, by a fond mother whose chief solicitude had been to keep him screened from what she called the coarser realities of life. When she died she l
14、eft Theodoric alone in a world that was as real as ever, and a good deal coarser than he considered it had any need to be. To a man of his temperament and upbringing even a simple railway journey was crammed with petty annoyances and minor discords, and as he settled himself down in a second-class c
15、ompartment role September morning he was conscious of ruffled feelings and general mental discomposure. He had been staying at a country vicarage, the inmates of which had been certainly neither brutal nor bacchanalian, but their supervision of the domestic establishment had been of that lax order w
16、hich invites disaster. The pony carriage that was to take him to tile station had never been properly ordered, and when the moment for his departure drew near, the handyman who should have produced the required article was nowhere to be found. In this emergency Theodoric, to his mute but very intens
17、e disgust, found himself obliged to collaborate with the vicars daughter in the task of harnessing the pony, which necessitated groping about in an ill-lighted outbuilding called a stable, and smelling very like oneexcept in patches where it smelled of mice. As the train glided out of the station Th
18、eodorics nervous imagination accused himself of exhaling a weak odour of stable yard, and possibly of displaying a mouldy straw or two on his unusually well-brushed garments. Fortunately the only other occupation of the compartment, a lady of about the same age as himself, seemed inclined for slumbe
19、r rather than scrutiny; the train was not due to stop till the terminus was reached, in about an hours time, and the carriage was of the old-fashioned sort that held no communication with a corridor, therefore no further travelling companions were likely to intrude on Theodorics semiprivacy. And yet
20、 the train had scarcely attained its normal speed before he became reluctantly but vividly aware that he was not alone with the slumbering lady; he was not even alone in his own clothes. A warm, creeping movement over his flesh betrayed the unwelcome and highly resented presence, unseen but poignant
21、, of a strayed mouse, that had evidently dashed into its present retreat during the episode of the pony harnessing. Furtive stamps and shakes and wildly directed pinches failed to dislodge the intruder, whose motto, indeed, seemed to be Excelsior; and the lawful occupant of the clothes lay back agai
22、nst the cushions and endeavoured rapidly to evolve some means for putting an end to the dual ownership. Theodorlc was goaded into the most audacious undertaking of his life. Crimsoning to the hue of a beetroot and keeping an agonised watch on his slumbering fellow traveller, he swiftly and noiseless
23、ly secured the ends of his railway rug to the racks on either side of the carriage, so that a substantial curtain hung athwart the compartment. In the narrow dressing room that he had thus improvised he proceeded with violent haste to extricate himself partially and the mouse entirely from the surro
24、unding casings of tweed and half-wool. As the unravelled mouse gave a wild leap to the floor, the rug, slipping its fastening at either end, also came down with a heart-curdling flop, and almost simultaneously the awakened sleeper opened her eyes. With a movement almost quicker than the mouses, Theo
25、doric pounced on the rug and hauled its ample folds chin-high over his dismantled person as he collapsed into the farther corner of the carriage. The blood raced and beat in the veins of his neck and forehead, while he waited dumbly for the communication cord to be pulled. The lady, however, content
26、ed herself with a silent stare at her strangely muffled companion. How much had she seen, Theodoric queried to himself; and in any case what on earth must she think of his present posture? 21 The word “solicitude“ in the first paragraph probably means （ A） great animosity, （ B） excessive concern. （
27、C） much inducement. （ D） reasonable pretext. 22 Which of the following does NOT describe Theodorics feeling when he was on the train? （ A） Uneasy. （ B） Fretful. （ C） Irritated. （ D） Slack. 23 Which of the following statements is TRUE about the lady of the compartment? （ A） She looked out of the trai
28、n window. （ B） She intended to talk with Theoforic. （ C） She had fallen into a deep sleep. （ D） She looked at Theoforic up and down. 24 Theoforie did all the following to get the mouse out of his clothes EXCEPT （ A） pressing the mouse between his fingers. （ B） putting his feet down onto the ground.
29、（ C） moving from side to side or up and down. （ D） undressing himself to catch the mouse. 25 Meteorologists routinely tell us what next weeks weather is likely to be, and climate scientists discuss what might happen in 100 years. Christoph Schar, though, ventures dangerously close to that middle rea
30、lm, where previously only the Farmers Almanac dared go, what will next summers weather be like? Following last years tragic heat wave, which directly caused the death of tens of thousands of people, the question is of burning interest to Europeans. Schar asserts that last summers sweltering temperat
31、ures should no longer be thought of as extraordinary. “The situation in 2002 and 2003 in Europe, where we had a summer with extreme rainfall and record flooding followed by the hottest summer in hundreds of years, is going to be typical for future weather patterns,“ he says. Most Europeans have prob
32、ably never read Sehars report (not least because it was published in the scientific journal Nature in the dead of winter) but they seem to be bracing themselves for the worst. As part of its new national “heat-wave plan“, France issued a level-three alert when temperatures in Provence reached 34 deg
33、rees Celsius three days in a row; hospital and rescue workers were asked to prepare for an influx of patients. Italian government officials have proposed creating a national registry of people over 65 so they can be herded into air-conditioned supermarkets in the event of another heat wave. Londons
34、mayor has offered a 100,000 pound reward for anybody who can come up with a practical way of cooling the citys underground trains, where temperatures have lately reached nearly 40 degrees Celsius. (The money hasnt been claimed.) Global warming seems to have permanently entered the European psyche. I
35、f the public is more aware, though, experts are more confused. When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change hammered out its last assessment in 2001, scientists pulled together the latest research and made their best estimate of how much the Earths atmosphere would warm during the next century
36、. There was a lot they didnt know, but they were confident theyd be able to plug the gaps in time for the next report, due out in 2007. When they explored the fundamental physics and chemistry of the atmosphere, though, they found something unexpected: the way the atmosphereand, in particular, cloud
37、srespond to increasing levels of carbon is far more complex and difficult to predict than they had expected. “We thought wed reduce the uncertainty, but that hasnt happened,“ says Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a lead author of the next IPCC
38、report. “As we delve further and further into the science and gain a better understanding of the true complexity of the atmosphere, the uncertainties have gotten deeper.“ This doesnt mean, of course, that the world isnt warming. Only the biased or the deluded deny that temperatures have risen, and t
39、hat human activity has something to do with it. The big question that scientists have struggled with is how much warming will occur over the next century? With so much still unknown in the climate equation, theres no way of telling whether warnings of catastrophe are overblown or if things are even
40、more dire than we thought. Why do scientists like Schar make predictions? Because, like economists, its their job to hazard a best guess with the resources at hand-namely, vast computer programs that simulate what the Earths atmosphere will do in certain circumstances. These models incorporate all t
41、he latest research into how the Earths atmosphere behaves. But there are problems with the computer models. The atmosphere is very big, but also consists of a multitude of tiny interactions among particles of dust, soot, cloud droplets and trace gases that cannot be safely ignored. Current models do
42、nt have nearly the resolution they need to capture what goes on at such small scales. Scientists got an inkling that something was missing from the models in the early 1990s when they ran a peculiar experiment. They had the leading models simulate warming over the next century and got a similar answ
43、er from each. Then they ran the models again-this time accounting for what was then known about cloud physics. 25 It can be inferred from the first paragraph that （ A） climate scientists are contemptuous of weather forecast. （ B） it is a venture to forecast what weather is like tomorrow. （ C） Schar
44、has the audacity to do what others seldom do. （ D） Schar has made gloomy predictions on future weather. 26 The expression “bracing themselves for the worst“ in the second paragraph probably means （ A） sneering at the impending difficulties. （ B） cheering themselves up for the worst situation. （ C） p
45、reparing themselves for the worst situation. （ D） having a total disregard for the coming difficulties. 27 What problem did the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change meet when they studied the earth atmosphere? （ A） They found the clouds reaction to the carbon level of the atmophere was too comple
46、x to predict. （ B） They were puzzled by the carbon levels in the atmospheres cloud. （ C） The atmospheres reaction to the carbon levels raise is more diffcult to predit than they ever thought. （ D） Too many uncertainties in the atmospheres carbon level are to be reduced. 28 All of the following state
47、ments are true of climate scientists EXCEPT that （ A） they are all clued up about climate. （ B） they dont know much about climate. （ C） they are probing into the field of climate. （ D） they are uncertain of climatic phenomena. 29 As to global warming in the next century, climate scientists answer is
48、 （ A） ambivalent. （ B） inexplicit. （ C） negative. （ D） affirmative. 30 The main difference between the Earths atmosphere and the simulated one is （ A） their size. （ B） their content. （ C） their height. （ D） their density. 31 The United Nations was founded to promote peace, prosperity and human right
49、s. It is doing somewhat better on the first two counts than its critics sometimes make out. The last, however, has been such a failure that it is threatening to bring the whole edifice down. Once revered as the creator of all the great universal human-rights rules and instruments, the 53-member Commission on Human Rights has been thoroughly discredited. If it cannot be fixed it needs to be scrapped. In its present form it serves only to make a mockery of
