1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 96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.
2、When 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. 0 Advertisements An intelligent person will not allow himself to be influenced by advertisements. Instead, h
3、e will try to get to know about the 【 1】 _ regulating them. Secondly, he will try 【 1】 _ to make sure whether he can believe in advertisements. Honest advertisements can be extremely useful because they save a lot of time and【 2】 _ by putting sellers in touch 【 2】 _ with buyers in a quick and simple
4、 way. The dishonest advertiser hopes to sell his goods quickly to make a large profit before【 3】 _ begin. 【 3】 _ There are also semi-dishonest advertisers who make 【 4】 _ for their products which they know perfectly well 【 4】 _ to be incapable of【 5】 _ 【 5】 _ With no advertising,【 6】 _ would be sold
5、, so 【 6】 _ the cost of each article would be higher. The more you advertise, the more【 7】 _ you can afford to sell your products. 【 7】 _ As advertisers become more and more expert at their work, they appeal to all【 8】 _ to increase sales: greed, 【 8】 _ 【 9】 _ , love of a bargain, fear of the disapp
6、roval of other 【 9】 _ people, etc. However, more and more customers are also becoming suspicious of and【 10】 _ to high-powered advertising. 【 10】 _ This is producing a deliberately modest type of advertisement. Please move on to Section B. 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【
7、9】 10 【 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 questi
8、ons. Now listen to the interview. 11 Mr Palmer came home late because （ A） he had been caught in the rain. （ B） he had forgotten to collect his groceries. （ C） his car headlights did not seem to work properly. （ D） he had put up a ladder against his aunts bedroom. 12 _ could have been used to break
9、the window. （ A） A ladder （ B） A handbag （ C） Earth and glass （ D） Flower pots 13 After Mr Palmer realized what had happened, （ A） he called the hospital. （ B） he called the hall management. （ C） his aunt was still struggling. （ D） his aunt had already been dead. 14 _ is the most probable relationsh
10、ip between the two speakers. （ A） Detective and grocer （ B） Detective and victims relative （ C） Aunt and nephew （ D） Aunt and driver 15 Which of the following statements is INCORRECT? （ A） Mr Palmer had read no detective stories. （ B） Mr Palmer didnt touch anything in the room. （ C） Mr Palmer couldn
11、t believe what had happened. （ D） Mr Palmer couldnt think of any motive of the criminal. 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 each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to
12、answer the questions. 16 Where and when did the tornadoes strike Bangladesh? （ A） western Bangladesh on Wednesday night （ B） northern Bangladesh on Monday night （ C） northern Bangladesh on Wednesday night （ D） western Bangladesh on Monday night 17 How many people were killed in the disaster? （ A） at
13、 least 35 （ B） at least 55 （ C） nearly 100 （ D） nearly 700 18 Bangladesh _ suffers from tornadoes. （ A） seldom （ B） rarely （ C） often （ D） occasionally 19 McDonalds has been criticized for its _. （ A） high prices （ B） fatty foods （ C） sanitation problems （ D） poor nutrition 20 According to this pass
14、age, more than _ of Americans are obese. （ A） 20% （ B） 30% （ C） 40% （ D） 50% 20 1 Scholars and students have always been great travelers. The official case for “academic mobility“ is now often stated in impressive terms as fundamental necessity for economic and social progress in the world, and deba
15、ted in corridors of Europe, but it is certainly nothing new. Serious students were always ready to go abroad in search of the purest philosophy, the most effective medicine, the likeliest road to gold. 2 Mobility of this kind meant also mobility of ideas, their transference across frontiers, their s
16、imultaneous impact upon many groups of people. The point of learning is to share it, whether with students or with colleagues. It must also have been reassuring to know that other people in other parts of the world were about to make the same discovery or were thinking along the same lines, and that
17、 one was not quite alone, confronted by inquisition, ridicule or neglect. 3 In the twentieth century, and particularly in the last 20 years, the old footpaths of the wandering scholars have become vast highways. The vehicle Which has made this possible has of course been the aeroplane, providing for
18、 the very rapid transmission of knowledge. 4 Apart from the vehicle itself, some main factors are purely quantitative and require no further mention, there are far more centers of learning, and a far greater number of scholars and students. 5 In addition one must recognise the very considerable mult
19、iplication of disciplines, particularly in the sciences, which by widening the total area of advanced studies has produced an enormous number of specialists whose particular interests are precisely defined. These people would work in some isolation if they were not able to keep in touch with similar
20、 isolated groups in other countries. Associated with this is the growth of specialist periodicals, which enable scholars to become aware of what is happening in different centers of research and to meet each other in conferences and symposia. From these meetings come the personal relationships which
21、 are at the bottom of almost all formalized schemes of co- operation, and provide them with most satisfactory stimulus. 6 But as the specializations have increased in number and narrowed in range, there has been an opposite movement towards interdisciplinary studies. These owe much to the belief tha
22、t one cannot properly investigate the incredibly complex problems thrown up by the modern world and by recent advances in our knowledge along the narrow front of a single discipline. This trend has led to a great deal of academic contact between disciplines, and far greater emphasis 0n the pooling o
23、f specialist knowledge, reflected in the broad subjects chosen in many international conferences. 21 Literally, “academic mobility“ means _. （ A） academic traveling （ B） sharing ideas and experiences （ C） academic research （ D） transmission of knowledge 22 It is suggested in Para. 2 that _. （ A） aca
24、demic mobility may enhance scientific research （ B） academic mobility may promote interpersonal relations （ C） scientific researchers may be subject to misunderstanding （ D） scientific researchers work in collaboration worldwide 23 The number of specialists has enormously increased mainly because of
25、 _. （ A） academic mobility （ B） interdisciplinary research （ C） specialization （ D） modernization of transportation 24 According to the passage, interdisciplinary studies are characterized by all the following EXCEPT that _. （ A） they involve the joint efforts of scholars from different disciplines
26、（ B） they depend on the knowledge of different disciplines （ C） they promote academic contact among people from different disciplines （ D） they represent a newly emerging movement as against specializations 24 1 White-collar copycats may be less inclined to pilfer the well-chosen words of others now
27、 that software designed to ferret out plagiarism is moving out of academia and into the business world. For years, educators at colleges and universities have marshaled software tools to ensure that their students work is original. Now, tainted by scandals or leery of the Internets copy-enabling pow
28、er, a growing number of newspapers, law firms and other businesses are using data-sifting tools that can cross-check billions of digital documents and swiftly recognize patterns in just seconds. 2 Unlike Google and other search engines that find matches to typed-in key words, an advanced plagiarism-
29、detection service such as iParadigms LLCs makes a digital fingerprint of an entire document and compares it against material on the Internet and in other sources, including proprietary academic and media databases. Even the U.N. Security Council has begun to protect its credibility this way, using i
30、Paradigms technology since last fall to ensure the originality of reports by its researchers and freelance writers. 3 Oakland, Calif.-based iParadigms started in 1996 with a computer program to help researchers at the University of California, Berkeley inspect undergraduates papers. Today, its Turni
31、tin plagiarism-detector is used by about 2,500 high schools and colleges in the United States and 1,000 more abroad. It launched a commercial version, iThenticate, in January. 4 Other plagiarism-detection providers, including Glatt Plagiarism Services, MyDropBox LLC, and CFL Software Development als
32、o report growing business outside the educational sector. New clients include companies that produce instruction or training materials, attorneys searching for copyright violations, Web sites and police and military agencies that check officers applications for promotions. 5 Few of these businesses
33、are willing to talk about using these tools. Many insist that the software makers shield their identities and keep mum about any transgressions that are exposed. Last year, one publisher turned to iParadigms when it investigatedand subsequently affirmedrumors that an accomplished textbook author had
34、 plagiarized other sources. Sworn to secrecy, iParadigms president John Barrie said he watched in disbelief as the publisher quietly revised later editions, leaving the authors reputation intact. 6 “But I see a lot of plagiarism everyday,“ Barrie said. “Most authors, whether a student or professiona
35、l author, think the odds of being found out are so remote that theyll play the odds and think theyre just fine.“ 7 IParadigms charges universities a $500 annual licensing fee plus 60 cents per full-time student. Business customers pay $1,000 a year and $10 for each page submitted for screening. News
36、papers face different charging options based on word count or circulation. 8 A different program, WCopyfinder, was employed by USA Today as it probed the work of its embattled former reporter Jack Kelley. The free program compares strings of words only from preselected documents. IThenticate and MyD
37、ropBox, by contrast, are Web-based tools. Users upload documents to the Web sites; the services troll the Internet and other proprietary databases, such as Lexis-Nexis or ProQuest, for any sign of unoriginal work; then they produce reports showing matches. IThenticate also combs its archive of Inter
38、net pages, which grows by 40 million pages a day. 9 Clearly, plagiarism is a growing problem. In a survey of 30,000 undergraduates at 34 colleges, 37 percent admitted committing cut-and-paste plagiarism using the Internet, up from 10 percent in 1999. Only 20 percent of their professors use plagiaris
39、m-detection tools, according to the survey by Rutgers University professor Don McCabe, founder of the Center for Academic Integrity. 10 Plagiarism detectors can be relatively cheap insurance against intellectual property sins, but many businesses and even educators remain reluctant to use them. Some
40、 fear lawsuits if they accuse someone of cheating. And deciding what amounts to actual plagiarism remains a judgment call that humans must make, creators of the software say. 25 By “white-collar copycats“ (Para. 1), the author refers to _. （ A） students （ B） educators （ C） business employers （ D） bu
41、siness employees 26 Users of plagiarism detection tools make a point of using the service secretly because _. （ A） they do not want to ruin their business （ B） they do not want to ruin the reputation of the violators involved （ C） they cannot decide what amounts to actual plagiarism （ D） they think
42、it is not worthwhile 27 According to the passage, plagiarism remains a growing problem largely because _. （ A） the plagiarism-detection tools are not powerful enough （ B） the violators are smarter than the service providers （ C） the violators believe they can run away with their behavior （ D） the ed
43、ucators and businesses are too tolerant 28 Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? （ A） IParadigms have a system of charges that varies from users to users. （ B） There are a variety of plagiarism-detection tools available today. （ C） We can depend on the detection tools for actu
44、al plagiarism. （ D） Plagiarism-detection service is relatively cheap. 28 1 Divorce is one of those creations, like fast food and lite rock, that have more people willing to indulge in it than people willing to defend it. Back in the 1960s, easier divorce was hailed as a needed remedy for toxic relat
45、ionships. But familiarity has bred contempt. In recent years, the divorce revolution has been blamed for worsening all sorts of problems without bringing happiness to people in unhappy marriages. 2 Theres a lot of evidence that marital breakup does more social harm than good. In their 2000 book, “Th
46、e Case for Marriage“, Linda Waite and Maggie Gallagher document that adults who are married do better than singles in wealth, health and personal satisfaction. Children living with a divorced or unwed single parent are more likely to fall into poverty, sickness and crime than other kids. 3 Marriage
47、is a good thing, most people agree, while divorce is, at best, a necessary evil. So the laws that accompanied the divorce revolution have come under fire for destroying families and weakening safeguards for spouses who keep their vows. 4 Waite and Gallagher argue that loose divorce laws harm even in
48、tact households by fostering chronic uncertainty. Louisiana, in line with this criticism, has gone so far as to provide a “covenant marriage“ option for couples who want the protection of stricter divorce rules. 5 It may seem obvious that easier divorce laws make for more divorce and more insecurity
49、. But what is obvious is not necessarily true. What two scholars have found is that when you make divorce easier to get, you may actually produce better marriages. 6 In the old days, anyone who wanted to escape from the trials of wedlock had to get his or her spouse to agree to a split, or else go to c
