1、专业英语八级（听力）模拟试卷 220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 Should You Learn Thai? Here are eight features about Thai language to help students decide whether they want to learn Thai or
3、not. I. Tonal Language Each word in Thai holds a(n)【 T1】 _ tone【 T1】 _ Different tones mean different【 T2】 _【 T2】 _ II. No Roman Alphabet New alphabet of 28 vowels and【 T3】 _ consonants【 T3】 _ III. Vowel Placement A vowel can go before, after,【 T4】 _ a consonant【 T4】 _ Different placements of vowels
4、 mean different【 T5】 _【 T5】 _ IV. Not Many People Speak Thai Only around【 T6】 _people speak Thai【 T6】 _ V. No Distinction Between【 T7】 _【 T7】 _ Not as【 T8】 _ as English【 T8】 _ Not as beautiful as Spanish when writing poetry VI. No Inflected Verbs or【 T9】 _【 T9】 _ The verb remains the same regardless
5、 of a)the person b)the【 T10】 _【 T10】 _ c)the numbers VII. So Many Pronouns Pronouns will change according to a)【 T11】 _【 T11】 _ b)【 T12】 _【 T12】 _ c)being a monk or not, etc. VIII. Speak of Themselves by Name Its impolite to use the word “I“, because it denotes being too【 T13】 _【 T13】 _ Speak of the
6、mselves in【 T14】 _【 T14】 _ Refer to somebody by【 T15】 _【 T15】 _ 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】 15 Choosing a Foreign Language to Study It is not easy to choose a foreign language to study, but there
7、are some questions you can answer and help you decide which language is suitable for you. I. Reasons Motivations and goals Examples: a)Learn the language of【 T1】 _【 T1】 _ b)Think the language is pretty and interesting c)Increase【 T2】 _【 T2】 _ 【 T3】 _ for people working in U.S.【 T3】 _ Mandarin Chines
8、e for people going into international business Arabic for people interested in【 T4】 _ and military【 T4】 _ II.【 T5】 _【 T5】 _ Monolingual speaker with language learning experiences Monolingual speaker without language learning experiences 【 T6】 _ speaker【 T6】 _ III. Time Half an hour to an hour rninim
9、um Linguistic【 T7】 _reduces the time required for【 T7】 _ learning a new language Example: English and Russian vs. English and Norwegian IV. Access to native speakers Converse with them on a(n)【 T8】 _basis to improve fluency【 T8】 _ They help with your pronunciation and【 T9】 _【 T9】 _ Ask for【 T10】 _【
10、T10】 _ Assess【 T11】 _to decide which language you learn【 T11】 _ V. Access to study materials Many【 T12】 _material can be found on the Internet【 T12】 _ 【 T13】 _ of study material is needed【 T13】 _ Need access to【 T14】 _【 T14】 _ Locate enough materials to support your progress VI. Desired【 T15】 _【 T15
11、】 _ Some: speaking only Others: reading and writing Learning curve English and French vs. English and Japanese 16 【 T1】 17 【 T2】 18 【 T3】 19 【 T4】 20 【 T5】 21 【 T6】 22 【 T7】 23 【 T8】 24 【 T9】 25 【 T10】 26 【 T11】 27 【 T12】 28 【 T13】 29 【 T14】 30 【 T15】 专业英语八级（听力）模拟试卷 220答案与解析 SECTION A MINI-LECTURE I
12、n 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 fill in is (are) both grammatically and sema
13、ntically acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for note-taking. You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task. 0 【听力原文】 Should You Learn Thai? Good morning, everyone. In our lecture series of language orientation, today we will turn our attention to an oriental language Thai. Ten years a
14、go, I took my first Thai language class. After a trip to Thailand, I decided for the next one Id try to learn the language so I signed up for a Thai class at a local temple near my home in the US. Fast forward ten years, and Im living in Thailand. I am still studying Thai and becoming more comfortab
15、le in speaking it fluently every day. But, if youre thinking of signing up for a Thai language class, is it really the language for you? Is Thai useful? Is it an easy language? Or would studying French or German be a better fit? Of course, only you can make that decision, but today I will tell you e
16、ight things about the Thai language. You may decide by your own whether Thai is your cup of tea. First of all, Thai is a tonal language. Thai is one of the families of language that are tonal.l/2What that means is each word in Thai holds a specific tone and in order to speak it correctly you must be
17、 able to remember the tone and use it every time you say the word. Otherwise, others may misunderstand you. If youre tone-deaf and cannot hear the difference between a low tone and a high tone, Thai may not be for you. Secondly, Thai does not use the Roman alphabet. Unlike languages like French or S
18、panish, Thai does not use the Roman alphabet.3What that means is you have to learn a completely new alphabet of 44 consonants and 28 vowels before you can even begin to learn the language. Yes, you hear that correctly, 28 vowels or vowel sounds. Before you can learn new words in Thai, you have to me
19、morize the alphabet along with how those consonants and vowels are written. For many who attempt Thai, they soon give up as remembering the alphabet alone is a lost cause. Thirdly, vowel placement. Another lovely fun thing about Thai is where the vowels are placed when its written.4A vowel can eithe
20、r go before a consonant but is pronounced after the consonant. It can also go after the consonant, above the consonant or below the consonant.5Where it is placed in the word tells you how to pronounce it. Oh and yes, you have to memorize that too. Fourthly, not many people speak Thai. If you want a
21、language you can use all over the world, its not Thai.6With 64 million people in Thailand, only around 20 million speak Thai. The others speak one of various dialects or another Tai language and yes, thats “Tai“ and not “Thai“. If you want a language you can use everywhere, probably you should try F
22、rench, Spanish or Chinese. However, you can also look at it this way. Should you ever live in Thailand, youll be unique as few foreigners speak, read and write Thai well. Fifthly,7there is no distinction between adverbs and adjectives. The same word can be used as an adjective or an adverb, as there
23、 arent separate words for the two.8Not as interesting a language as English or as beautiful as Spanish, particularly when you come to write poetry in it. 9Sixthly, there is no inflected verbs and no tenses in Thai. Unlike most European languages, where the language inflects, for instance, go, going,
24、 went, Thai has no inflection.10The word “to go“, “Bpai“, is always “Bpai“, no matter who is speaking, whether its future, past or present, if there are more than one or any number of other reasons. So it might be frustrating when youre trying to figure out how to say “I was going there tomorrow but
25、.“. Technically, there are no tenses in Thai. The verb itself “Bpai“(go)is used when modifying words are added, i.e. yesterday, today, next week, “ja“ to indicate future, to help the listener understand what time the speaker is talking about. Seventhly, Thai has so many pronouns to learn. Another fr
26、ustrating thing about learning Thai is all the pronouns you have to learn.11/12Depending on who youre speaking to, younger, older, a higher social level, a monk etc, you must use different pronouns. Thais know it instinctively. Anyone else often runs through pronouns in their head before they figure
27、 out which is the correct one and, by that time, the listener has moved on to speak to someone else. Eighthly, Thais speak of themselves by name. I dont know about you, but Im not in the habit of going around saying “Susan will go to the market tomorrow with you“, but they do in Thailand.13Its deeme
28、d impolite to use the word “I“ very much as it denotes being too self-involved,14/15so Thais often speak of themselves in the third person instead of first and by given name instead of “she“. Now, in all fairness, I love learning and speaking Thai, and have a great sense of accomplishment for how mu
29、ch I can speak already. I also think its a beautiful language, particularly in the way its written. For others though, the frustrations can often outweigh the benefits, so if you dont have a lot of patience to figure out an incredibly complex language or want to be able to speak a foreign language y
30、ou can actually use in most coun tries in the world, then Thai maybe isnt for you And I hope this orientation will help you make a decision whether you are going to pick Thai as your second foreign language. Next time, I believe we will have another teacher from the Oriental School of our university
31、 to give you an orientation about Japanese. 【知识模块】 听力填空 1 【正确答案】 specific 【试题解析】 讲座在讲到泰语的第一个特点时说到，泰语是声调语言，每个泰文单词都有其独特的音调，因此这里填入 specific。 【知识模块】 听力填空 2 【正确答案】 words/meanings 【试题解析】 本题要求考生理解并归纳信息。讲座中提到，泰语中每个单词都有特定的音调，要正确说出单词，就要记住其音调。否则，别人就会误解你。也就是说，不同的音调指代不同的单词或意思，故填 words或 meanings。 【知 识模块】 听力填空 3 【
32、正确答案】 44/forty-four 【试题解析】 本题考查考生记取数字信息的能力。泰语不使用罗马字母，学泰语意味着要学全新的字母表，即 44个辅音和 28个元音。 【知识模块】 听力填空 4 【正确答案】 above or below 【试题解析】 本题考查元音的位置。泰语中元音可以在辅音的前面、后面、上面或下面。题目已经给出了表示前、后的两个单词，缺的是上面和下面。 【知识模块】 听力填空 5 【正确答案】 pronunciations 【试题解析】 讲座中提到，元音放在单词的不同位置告诉我们怎样发音。由此可以得知不同位置的元音发音也不同。本题需将 pronounce转换为名词复数形式p
33、ronunciations。 【知识模块】 听力填空 6 【正确答案】 20 million/twenty million 【试题解析】 本题考查筛选信息的能力。讲座中提到两个数字，题目问的是说泰语的人数，即 20 million或 twenty million。 【知识模块】 听力填空 7 【正确答案】 Adverbs and Adjectives 【试题解析】 本题考查泰语的第五个特点，即泰语没有副词和形容词之分。根据题目框架结构， adverbs与 adjectives首字母要大写。 【知识模块】 听力填空 8 【正确答案】 interesting 【试题解析】 讲座提到泰语的第五个特征
34、是它的副词和形容词没有区别，同一个词既可以作为形容词，又可以用作副词，并且提出泰语不如英语那么有趣，也没有西班牙语那么优美。因此这里填 interesting。 【知识模块】 听力填空 9 【正确答案】 Tenses 【试题解析】 讲座的第六点讲到泰语的动词时提到，泰语既没有屈折变化，也没有时态变化，所以这里应填 Tenses。 【知识模块】 听力填空 10 【正确答案】 time 【试题解析】 本题需要考生归纳信息。讲座中以动词 Bpai为例，指出不管说话人是谁、是在将来、过去还是现在，不管数目是否多于一个，动词都是一样的。考生须把 “将来、过去还是现在 ”总结为 “时间 ”。 【知识模块】
35、 听力填空 11 【正确答案】 age 【试题解析】 本题需要归纳原文的信息。讲座中提到，代词的选用取决于你 与谁说话，是年长些还是年轻些，是否处于更高的社会等级、是否为和尚。这里应填写能概括 “年长些或年轻些 ”的范畴词，故答案为 age。 【知识模块】 听力填空 12 【正确答案】 social level 【试题解析】 本题考查泰语中代词的使用规则，不同的说话对象决定了你要使用什么代词。讲座列举了三种说话对象，其中第二种是根据社会等级来选用代词，故此空填 social level。 【知识模块】 听力填空 13 【正确答案】 self-involved 【试题解析】 泰语不使用 “I”，
36、 这是不礼貌的，表明人们以自我为中心 (self-involved)。听此处录音时要特别留意关键词 as并记好相关的信息。 【知识模块】 听力填空 14 【正确答案】 the third person 【试题解析】 泰语在表达 “自己 ”这个概念时不用第一人称 “I”，而会用自己的名字这样的第三人称方式来表达，所以这里填 the third person。 【知识模块】 听力填空 15 【正确答案】 given name 【试题解析】 本题考查泰语里怎样称呼人。讲座中提到称呼某人一般不用第 三人称代词 she，而用 given name。 【知识模块】 听力填空 15 【听力原文】 Choos
37、ing a Foreign Language to Study Good morning, everyone. Welcome all of you to the lecture “series of languages orientation“. The fact that you are sitting here means that you are interested in learning a foreign language. Out of the thousands of languages in the world, how do you choose which one is
38、 the best for you to study? It depends on many things, including your reasons for study and your own language background among others. Now I am going to offer some questions you should ask yourself that will help you narrow down your options and choose the ideal foreign language for you. The first q
39、uestion: What are your reasons for embarking on foreign language study? There are many reasons why people choose to study foreign languages. Think about your own motivations and know what you want to accomplish by undertaking this task. Doing so will guide you toward the best language for you to sta
40、rt with.1For instance, some people who are of a certain ethnic background are motivated to learn the language of their ancestors. Some people want to study a language simply because they think its pretty or interesting, and2others want to study a foreign language in order to increase their job prosp
41、ects.3If you want to increase your job prospects, for example, and you live in the United States, Spanish would be an excellent choice. Mandarin Chinese is good if you want to go into international business, and4Arabic is ideal for people who want to go into international relations or have any type
42、of career in the military. These are just a couple of examples, however. It depends on which country you live in and what your choice of career is. 5The second question is: what is your own linguistic background? Are you a native monolingual English speaker who has never studied another language bef
43、ore?6If so, your attempt to learn Spanish will be harder than it would be for someone who has studied Italian or Portuguese or who is bilingual in these languages, since Spanish is similar in grammatical structure and vocabulary to both Italian and Portuguese. Thirdly, you should ask yourself: how m
44、uch time do you have to study it? No matter which language you choose, you will have to put time aside every day to study it, at least half an hour to an hours time. But some languages will understandably take longer for you to learn than others. For example, if you want to learn to speak Russian in
45、 six months, and you only have an English-speaking background, this would be very, very difficult unless you have tons of free time throughout the day.7Getting to an intermediate level of conversation in Norwegian in that amount of time at an hour a day, on the other hand, with an English-only backg
46、round, is much more realistic, due to Norwegians relative similarity to English compared to Russian. Fourthly, how much access do you have to native speakers with whom you can practice? This is important. Whether the native speakers are in your family, in your community, or online in another country
47、 doesnt matter.8As long as you can reach them on a regular basis to have conversations with them, they can help you improve your fluency. Remember in order to speak a foreign language, you need to speak it!9The native speakers can help you with your pronunciation and vocabulary. Try to tell them in
48、your new language that you are just learning and would like to talk with them in their native tongue.10You can ask for feedback from them in the foreign language as well; dont be shy about it. Doing this will help you feel more comfortable in the language. The point is,11you should choose a foreign language that you can speak with others on a regular basis. Do you live in a community with a lot of Spanish speakers with whom you can easily converse, or do you have a couple of friends
