1、专业英语八级（听力）模拟试卷 163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)
2、 you 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 Survival of English Language I . Introduction English widespread in【 T1】 _【 T1】 _ 【 T2】 _show(s)how English survived【 T2】 _ II
3、. Five periods of its【 T3】 _【 T3】 _ 1)410 CE to the mid-8 th century 【 T4】 _mercenaries coming and spreading their language among【 T4】_ the Britons center of【 T5】 _: York in Northumbia【 T5】 _ 2)Mid-8th century to 899 The Danes replaced the Anglo-Saxons to rule Northumbia, but were【 T6】 _by Alfred of
4、 Wessex.【 T6】 _ Alfred called on people to【 T7】 _【 T7】 _ Center was shifted to【 T8】 _.【 T8】 _ Alfreds【 T9】 _enabled most of the existing laws and literary【 T9】 _ works to be in English. 3)959 to 1066 England was divided into【 T10】 _and English speaking areas.【 T10】 _ Canute became ruler of【 T11】 _【
5、T11】 _ Center was moved to London. Edward succeeded Canute and English gave way to【 T12】 _【 T12】 _ 4)1080 to the 17 th century Written English【 T13】 _before the advent of “Provision of【 T13】 _ Oxford“. Since 14th century, English had gained renewed life. 【 T14】 _English appeared in the 17th century.
6、【 T14】 _ 5)1837 to today English was used widely as a result of【 T15】 _, computer, the【 T15】 _ World Wide Web and rapid communication. 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 secti
7、on 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 question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should r
8、ead 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） English Literature. （ B） Computer. （ C） Business Administration. （ D） Finance. （ A） He changed his major in his postgraduate study. （ B） He
9、participated in training programs after graduating from college. （ C） He had worked at least in two companies before this interview. （ D） He started working in a foreign representative office two years ago. （ A） Because the working environment was poor. （ B） Because the job was boring. （ C） Because
10、the pay was rather low. （ D） Because he disliked his employer. （ A） To pursue personal interests. （ B） To make both ends meet. （ C） To improve the quality of family life. （ D） To realize individual value. （ A） Enthusiastic. （ B） Perseverant. （ C） Eloquent. （ D） Cooperative. （ A） Overtime work. （ B）
11、Regular work. （ C） High Salary. （ D） Varied work. （ A） Qualified. （ B） Questionable. （ C） Unsuitable. （ D） Apathetic. （ A） The employees can get paid sick leave every year. （ B） There is a hard and fast rule about asking for a sick leave. （ C） Paternity leave hasnt been mentioned in the contract yet
12、. （ D） Male employees are entitled to paternity leave with full pay. （ A） Doctors note is not necessary for a one-day sick leave. （ B） Some employees used to take advantage of its loopholes. （ C） All the terms in it are preferred to the candidate. （ D） Paternity leave is as long as maternity leave w
13、hen the first child is born. （ A） Self-introduction. （ B） Discussion about sick leave. （ C） Revision of contract. （ D） Job interview. 专业英语八级（听力）模拟试卷 163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-lec
14、ture, 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 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 t
15、ask. 0 【听力原文】 Survival of English Language Good morning. Twice in its history, English came very close to joining the list of dead languages.(1)Yet, this language of a small island not only survived, but lived to be spoken by an estimated 1. 5 billion people in the 21st century. Today we shall have
16、a look at how English escaped its extinction. Death is a common fate of unwritten languages.(2)But written records of the languages spoken on the island of Britain show us how the English language became the language of the island and how it survived. We now turn to those written records. (3)There a
17、re five critical periods in the survival of the English language. 1)410 CE to the mid-eighth century Early in the fifth century, Rome recalled its legions and told the Britons to defend themselves.(4)Rich, unprotected, and attacked from all sides, King Vortigern on the East coast invited Germanic me
18、rcenaries to cross the channel to defend him against his enemies within and without. These mercenaries, mostly Angle and Saxon clans of Germanic peoples, called their language “ englisc“(pronounced “ anglish“). The language of the Germanic mercenaries became the language of the conquered area.(5)Fro
19、m the seventh through the mid-eighth centuries York in Northumbria, famed for its schools and for its literary productions, was the center of the English-speaking world. 2)Mid-eighth century to 899 By the mid 700s, the Anglo-Saxons were on the receiving end of slaughter and ruin by Danish armies. Th
20、e Danes overran all the Anglo-Saxon areas, including Northumbria, the heartland of literacy in Anglo-Saxon England. Wessex, ruled by Alfred the Great, remained the only area still controlled by English-speakers. The Danes were neither united nor had a united command: Alfred did.(6)Eventually, Alfred
21、 forced the Danes back. Danish Northumbria submitted to Alfred in 886. After a century and more of death and destruction, very few literate English-speaking people remained.(7)Alfred set out to revive the language through education and writing. In 891 he sent out a call for anybody who could read or
22、 write. Outside of his personal staff, the handwriting of only eight new people appeared in the earliest records.(8)The center of literary production shifted from York in Northumbria to Winchester in Wessex. (9)Due to Alfreds education programs, most of the existing laws, poems, songs and stories we
23、re in the West Saxon dialect of his Wessex. Alfred died in 899. 3)959 to 1066 In 959, King Edgar, the great-grandson of Alfred, ruled both Danes and Saxons in England. The incompetent King Ethelred the Unready succeeded Edgar. He could not control the Danes.(10)More Danes invaded: civil war followed
24、. This second time, violent battles ended in a tie. The Danish leader, Canute, and Saxon King-elect, Edmund Ironsides, divided the country into Danish and English speaking areas.(11)Canute and Edmund made a compromise that a united kingdom went to whoever died first. Two years later, Edmund died: Ca
25、nute became King of all England in 1018. With Canute the center of literary production moved to London. English remained a written language, at least for sermons and laws. Widower Canute wedded Emma, daughter of the Duke of Normandy. She was the mother of Edward, who became king after Canutes heir f
26、rom his marriage to Emma died.(12)Raised in Normandy, Edward preferred the French. In 1066, the French-speaking Normans conquered England. Norman French, based in London, became the only language of literature, law, and court. This third time, English became the language of the brutally oppressed il
27、literate. The language again seemed heading for extinction. 4)1080 to the 17 th century (13)After 1080, only a few written documents in English appeared: a last chronicle entry in 1134: a manual for religious women from around 1200. During the twelfth and most of the thirteenth centuries, we have no
28、 written records of English laws, poetry, songs, or stories. In 1258 the bilingual French-English “ Provisions of Oxford,“ granting some rights to barons, showed up as the first public document in English in more than 200 years. In the 14th century the English language resurfaced as a legal and lite
29、rary language. Orally transmitted English poetry was preserved in written form in the Auchinleck Manuscript from 1325 to 1330. In 1344 the first petition in English appeared. In the last quarter of the century, Chaucer wrote his works, including the Canterbury Tales, in English. During this same per
30、iod, John Wycliffe translated the Bible into English, the language of the common people. In the fifteenth century, English gave further signs of renewed life. In 1413 , King Henry IV wrote the first royal will in English. Religious plays were in English. By the late sixteenth century, we see the flo
31、wering of English theater with Shakespeare and Marlowe and Jonson.(14)Modern English arrived in the 17th century. The English language won this “ Battle of Britain. “ 5)1837 to Today In the nineteenth century, the “sun never set on the British Empire“ was in the English language.(15)By the twentieth
32、 century, the Empire included India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Africa, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Bermuda. English, of course, was also the language of the United States. The United States did its part to spread the language to the Philippines and Sam
33、oa. There is, however, a substantial difference between the wide-spread, yet irregular, distribution of English in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and today. That difference is the computer, the World Wide Web, and rapid communication. Today, not surprisingly, the English language is gl
34、obal in use. English-speakers built the first electronic computing machines during World War II, which heralded the computer age. Years later, the technology that created the Internet and the World Wide Web is primarily the product of speakers and writers of the English language. Instruction manuals
35、 and technical documents, as well as printers, keyboards, and monitors are for users of English. Now, youve got to know the five critical periods of English language. Although other languages across history reached the corners of their then known world, the English language survived near extinction:
36、 its written records now endlessly circle the entire world. So much for today. Thank you for your attention. 【知识模块】 听力 1 【正确答案】 the 21st century 【试题解析】 本题考查重要细节。根据句 (1)可知，然而，这个小岛上的语言不仅幸存下来，而且直到现在大约有 15亿人都在说英语，所以填 the 21st century。 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 written records 【试题解析】 本题设题点在转折处。根据句 (2)可知，有文字记载的英
37、国历史为人们展示出英语是怎样成为通用语言并幸存下来的，故答案为 written records。 【知识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 survival 【试题解析】 本题考点设在分论点处。根据句 (3)可知，英语的幸存经历了 5个关键期，所以填 survival。 【知识模块】 听力 4 【正确答案】 Germanic Anglo-Saxon 【试题解析】 本题考查重要细节。根据句 (4)可知，英国国王 Vortigern请求日耳曼雇佣军来英国帮助其应对内忧外患，这些日耳曼士兵大都是盎格鲁 -撒克逊人，他们所说的语言是英语的前身，故答案为 Germanic或者 Anglo-Saxon。 【知
38、识模块】 听力 5 【正确答案】 English-speaking world 【试题解析】 本题设题点在原因解释处。根据句 (5)可知，当时由于诺桑比亚的约克成立教授英语的学校，并出现了使用英语的文学作品，因此成为说英语国家的中心，故答案为 Englishspeaking world。 【知识模块】 听力 6 【正确答案】 defeated 【试题解析】 本题设题点在结果处。根据句 (6)可知，丹麦人占领诺桑比亚之后，英国国王阿尔弗雷德率军击败丹麦军队，把他们赶出英国，故答案为defeated，此处需用动词的过去分词形式。 【知识模块】 听力 7 【正确答案】 revive English
39、【试题解析】 本题考查重要细节。根据句 (7)可知，阿尔弗雷德开始通过教育和写作两方面号召人们复兴英语，所以填 revive English。 【知 识模块】 听力 8 【正确答案】 Winchester 【试题解析】 本题考查重要细节。根据句 (8)可知，文学创作中心从诺森布里亚的约克转移到了韦塞克斯的温彻斯特，所以填 Winchester。 【知识模块】 听力 9 【正确答案】 education programs 【试题解析】 本题设题点在原因解释处。根据句 (9)可知，由于阿尔弗雷德实施相关的教育方案以推广英语的使用，当时的法律、诗歌所用的语言都是其领地威塞克斯西部撒克逊人的方言，故答
40、案为 education programs。 【知识模块】 听力 10 【正确答案】 Danish 【试题解析】 本题考查重要细节。根据句 (10)可知，这一时期，丹麦军队再次入侵英国，两军打成平手，丹麦国王喀奴特与英国国王埃德蒙平分英国，因此英国被分为丹麦语地区和英语地区，故答案为 Danish。 【知识模块】 听力 11 【正确答案】 a united kingdom 【试题解析】 本题考查重要细节。根据句 (11)可知，两年后，埃德蒙死亡，在1018年喀奴特成了英国的国王，所以填 a united kingdom。 【知识模块】 听力 12 【正确答案】 Norman French 【试
41、题解析】 本题考查重要细节。根据句 (12)可知，爱德华在法国诺曼底长大，他继位之后，诺曼法语成为官方语言，故答案为 Norman French。 【知识模块】 听力 13 【正确答案】 verged on extinction 【试题解析】 本题考查对信息的概括。根据句 (13)可知， 1080年之后，英语日渐没落，鲜有书面语的形式，故答案为 verged on extinction。 【知识模块】 听力 14 【正确答案】 Modern 【试题解析】 本题设题点在时间处。根据句 (14)可知，近代英语的产生以 17世纪为起点，故答案为 Modern，注意此处作为专有名词，首字母要大写。 【
42、知识模块】 听力 15 【正确答案】 colonization 【试题解析】 本题考查对信息的概括。根据句 (15)可知， 19世纪英帝国大肆扩张殖民地，这也促进了殖民地人民对英语的使用，故答案可概括为 colonization。 【知识模块】 听力 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 wha
43、t 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 question on ANSWER SHEET TWO. You have THIRTY seconds to preview t
44、he questions. 16 【听力原文】 Interviewer(W) Mr. Smith(M) Now, listen to Part One of the interview. W: Good morning, Mr. Smith. Have a seat, please! M: Thanks a lot. W: OK, next lets get down to the business. What is your major? M: My major is Business Administration. I am especially interested in “ Marke
45、ting“. W: “Marketing“? Nice! That perfectly suits our qualifications. Have you received any degrees? M: Yes.(1 - 1/2- 1)First, I received my Bachelors degree in English Literature, and then an MBA degree. W: That sounds you did a good job in your university. Do you feel that you have received a good
46、 general training? M:(1 - 2/2 - 2)Yes, I have studied in an English training program and a computer training program since I graduated from university. I am currently studying Finance at a training school. W:(2 - 3)Your resume says that you have had one-year experience working in a foreign represent
47、ative office in Shanghai, may I ask why you left? M: I worked in a foreign rep. office for one year.(2-4/3)However, I left there two years ago because the work they gave me was rather dull.(2-5)I found another job that is more interesting. W:(4- 1)You mean you couldnt work to live, you enjoy whateve
48、r you do, right? M:(4-2)Yes, I will love whatever I do. W: But, does your present employer know you are looking for another job? M: No, I havent discussed my career plans with my present employer, but I am sure he will understand. W: If you believe you are a good fit for the position, please talk ab
49、out what kind of personality you think you have. M:(5- 1)I always approach things very enthusiastically. When I begin something, I dont like to leave it half-done. I cant concentrate on something new until the first thing is finished. W: And what are your personal weaknesses? M:(5 - 2)Im afraid Im a poor talker. Im not comfortable talking with the people who
