1、专业英语八级（听力）模拟试卷 256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 What Is Literary Writing? I. Literary works have creative or【 T1】 _ content【 T1】 _ attract men and women to yield aesthetic【 T
3、2】 _【 T2】 _ language is used more【 T3】 _【 T3】 _ II. Literature is a vital record more carefully【 T4】 _【 T4】 _ words are used for the rhetorical effect the words flow, sound,【 T5】 _ and descriptive qualities【 T5】 _ 【 T6】 _ are employed【 T6】 _ tone, rhyme, rhythm, irony, dialogue and its variations, e
4、tc. III. Literature is a【 T7】 _【 T7】 _ a personal view expressed through the writers【 T8】 _ , ideas, thoughts and【 T8】 _ reminiscences the artist looks into himself as well as others with his own 【 T9】 _【 T9】 _ IV. An essential characteristic of literary writing: personal motivation the energy to sh
5、ape the finished work the【 T10】 _ behind creativity【 T10】 _ literary writers motives should include; the overflowing of their passions their desire for self-expression the need to form, shape【 T11】 _ etc.【 T11】 _. 【 T12】 _ needs to be resolved within the artist【 T12】 _ truth is being searched V. Cha
6、llenges to the concept of literature challenges: detective novels and【 T13】 _ novels:【 T13】 _ the meaning of “【 T14】 _ “ and “the high ideals of art“ is【 T14】 _ questioned may deal with the dark side of life, or escape into the fantastic common characters; they are books, consisting of words used to
7、 express something 【 T15】 _ decide on the value of books【 T15】 _ works that endure should be considered “literature“ 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 section you will hear O
8、NE 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 read the four choic
9、es 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） How to borrow money from family. （ B） Dos and donts of lending money to family. （ C） How to get money back from family. （ D） Problems of lending money to fami
10、ly. （ A） One who has never had two nickels to rub together. （ B） One who has a pocketful of cash to consume in the bar. （ C） One who needs a quick loan and will pay back on time. （ D） One who promises to pay back within a month. （ A） Demand for other compensations. （ B） Seek more bank loans. （ C） As
11、k the police for help. （ D） Just say no. （ A） Add the borrower to your credit cards. （ B） Dip into your own savings. （ C） Work hard to earn more money. （ D） Politely explain the situation and close the case. （ A） Co-signing for a loan. （ B） Lending cash. （ C） Asking for interests. （ D） Turning down
12、others. （ A） The purpose of the loan. （ B） The details of the borrowers relationships. （ C） The effect on the borrowers financial state. （ D） The terms of repayment. （ A） Treating lending money as a friendly transaction. （ B） Lending money in a relatively large amount. （ C） Treating lending money as
13、 a business deal. （ D） Lending money in a relatively small amount. （ A） A payment plan. （ B） A compensation plan. （ C） A conflict resolution plan. （ D） A funding plan. （ A） Those who borrow by emotional bullying. （ B） Brothers. （ C） Distant relatives. （ D） Cousins. （ A） It should be encouraged. （ B）
14、 Its morally wrong. （ C） It should be banned. （ D） Its not fair. 专业英语八级（听力）模拟试卷 256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 wr
15、ite 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 task. 0 【听力原文】 What Is Literary Writing? Good morning, welcome to our
16、writing class. Today wed like to take a glimpse at literary writing. The term “literary writing“ calls to mind works by writers such as Shakespeare, Milton or Wordsworth definitive examples of all that the term implies. We instinctively associate the term with characteristics such as artistic merit,
17、 creative genius, and the expression of mankinds noblest qualities. In this lecture I will explore some of the characteristics of this kind of writing. (1) Literary works are primarily distinguishable from other pieces of writing by their creative or artistic content. A piece of literature differs f
18、rom specialized treatises on astronomy, political economy, philosophy, or even history, in part because it appeals, not to a particular class of readers only, but to men and women; and in part because, while the object of the treatise is simply to impart knowledge, (2) one ideal end of the piece of
19、literature, whether it also imparts knowledge or not, is to yield aesthetic satisfaction by the manner in which it handles its theme. (3) In fundamental terms literature is an expression of life through the medium of “language“ , but language used more profoundly than when used simply to convey info
20、rmation. Literature is a vital record of what people have seen in life, what they have experienced of it, and what they have thought and felt about those aspects of it which have the most immediate and enduring interest for all of us. (4/5) So literary writing, having creative and artistic content,
21、is more carefully structured and uses words for the rhetorical effect of their flow, their sound, and their emotive and descriptive qualities. (6) Literary writers can also employ tone, rhyme, rhythm, irony, dialogue and its variations such as dialects and slang, and a host of other devices in the c
22、onstruction of a particular prose work, poem or play. (7) Literary writing is, in essence, a “response“ , a subjective personal view which (8) the writer expresses through his themes, ideas, thoughts, reminiscences, using his collection of words to try to evoke a response in his reader. (9) It is no
23、t only a question of the artist looking into himself but also a question of his looking into others with the experience he has of himself. He writes with sympathy because he feels that the other man is like him. Literature is a process of communication; it “helps us to understand life“. Perhaps we s
24、hould also consider the motivation of the writer as a factor which distinguishes literature from other forms of writing. The writers motivation is the energy that pulls together the strands of his creativity in the shaping of the finished work. Personal motivation is an essential characteristic of l
25、iterary writing. (10) It is the engine behind creativity. Some of the great themes, which occur again and again, not only in literary writing, but in all the arts: love, death, war, and peace, seem to provide permanent inspiration for artists. So perhaps an inventory of literary writers motives shou
26、ld include the overflowing of their passions, their desire for self-expression, an abiding fascination with humanity in all its variety, the need to come to grips with relationships as they really are in the world as it really is, the striving after an ideal world which can exist only in the imagina
27、tion, and, perhaps at the heart of it all, (11) the need to form, shape things of beauty. (12) The artist needs to resolve conflicts within himself, to reach an understanding, to search for some credible meaning of life, death, and everything. He is always reaching toward some sort of truth; an arti
28、stic creative truth, a truth that resides in the individual artist and needs to be grasped, made real, and made understandable. Perhaps in some cases the artists motivation could be seen as a need to create other worlds, in order that they can project real conflicts onto another plane. The many diff
29、erent genres of the novel constitute a particular challenge to the concept of “literary writing“. (13) Detective novels and science fiction novels, for example, are creative, imaginative depictions of life. (14) We might question their seriousness as literature, or whether they can achieve the high
30、ideals of art, but then we might equally well question the meaning of “seriousness“ and “the high ideals of art“. Popular novels may not deal with lifes great conflicts, or search for truth and beauty, and they may deal with the dark side of life, or escape into the fantastic, but can they still be
31、considered “literature“? Do they still make an important contribution to our understanding of the world as “real“ literature does? Obviously “literary“ works take an event, an aspect of life as a nucleus and construct a world around that core. They are works about real people, engaged in the real bu
32、siness of living. They convey knowledge, understanding and experience, and are hence considered important. Yet they have in common with the detective and science fiction novels that they are books, consisting of words that have been used to express something, words that may or may not be read, and m
33、ay or may not succeed in conveying an understanding of the world they depict. In my view, it comes down to subjective value judgments. I believe literature is a “broad church“ which ought to be able to deal with any subject, (15) and that ultimately it is individual reader, or readers all together,
34、who decide on the value of any particular work and on whether or not it deserves a place in the annals of literature. Writers aim to show us “the world“, but no single writer can do this, and “literature“ should encompass numerous different kinds of writers because each is trying to show us somethin
35、g which cannot be shown as a whole. Each can only give us his own small fragment of understanding. Ultimately it is those works which endure that should be considered “literature“, those which have succeeded in holding firm a fragment of life, to be seen, to be read, to be understood. Perhaps we sho
36、uld let a writer have the last word on summing up the writers art: The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed, so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality
37、 possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. OK, in conclusion, today we have discussed some distinguishable characteristics of literary writing. Literary writing is a self-conscious, imaginative mode of writing which uses words not just to convey in
38、formation, but as an art form. Ultimately it is a response to life. This is the end of the lecture. Thank you very much! 【知识模块】 听力 1 【正确答案】 artistic 【试题解析】 本篇讲座的主题是什么是文学作品。根据句 (1)可知，文学作品与其他形式的作品的主要区别在于它的内容富有创造性或者艺术性。因此答案为artistic。 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 satisfaction 【试题解析】 根据句 (2)可知，无论文学作品是否传授知识，它的一个理想目
39、标是通过处理主题的方式来产生美学满足感。因此答案为 satisfaction。 【知识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 profoundly 【试题解析】 根据句 (3)可知，从根本上讲，文学是通过 “语言 ”这种媒介对生活的表达，但是它所用的语言比单纯地传授信息用的语言更深刻。因此答案为profoundly。 【知识模块】 听力 4 【正确答案】 structured 【试题解析】 根据句 (4)可知，文学作品拥有创造性、艺术性的内容，布局更加缜密，词汇应用讲究修饰手法。因此答案为 structured。 【知识模块】 听力 5 【正确答案】 emotive 【试题解析】 根据句 (5)可知，
40、文学作 品的用词讲究其辞令、发音以及它们的情感与描述特点的修饰效果。因此答案为 emotive。 【知识模块】 听力 6 【正确答案】 devices 【试题解析】 根据句 (6)可知，文学作家在创作散文、诗歌或者剧本时也会用到语气、押韵、节奏、反语、对白、语言变体 (比如方言和俚语 )以及大量的其他修辞手法。因此答案为 devices。 【知识模块】 听力 7 【正确答案】 response 【试题解析】 根据句 (7)可知，从本质上来说，文学作品是一种 “回应 ”。因此答案为 response。 【知识模块】 听力 8 【正确答案】 themes 【试题解析】 根据句 (8)可知，文学作品
41、是一种主观的个人观点，作者通过作品的主题、信念、想法和回忆来传达自己的观点，努力用文字唤起读者的回应。因此答案为 themes。 【知识模块】 听力 9 【正确答案】 experience 【试题解析】 根据句 (9)可知，文学作品不仅是艺术家对自己的审视，还是他们通过自己的经验对他人的审视。因此答案为 experience。 【知识模块】 听力 10 【正确答案】 engine 【试题解析】 根据句 (10)可知，作者的动机是创造力的原动力。因此答案为engine。 【知识模块】 听力 11 【正确答案】 things of beauty 【试题解析】 根据句 (11)可知，文学作家的动机应
42、包括塑造美丽事物的需要。因此答案为 things of beauty。 【知识模块】 听力 12 【正确答案】 conflicts 【试题解析】 根据句 (12)可知，艺术家需要解决自身的矛盾来理解与寻找生命、死亡以及一切事物的可信的意义。因此答案为 conflicts。 【知识模块】 听力 13 【正确答案】 science fiction 【试题解析】 讲话者提到，不同种类的小说对 “文学作品 ”的概念形成了一定的挑战。根据句 (13)可知，侦探小说和科幻小说都是对生活的创造性、想象性描述。因此答案为 science fiction。 【知识模块】 听力 14 【正确答案】 serious
43、ness 【试题解析】 根据句 (14)可知，我们可能会质疑这些侦探小说、科幻小说作为文学作品的严肃性，或者质疑它们是否达到了艺术典范的高度，但我们也同样可以质疑 “严肃性 ”与 “艺术典范的高度 ”的意义。因此答案为 seriousness。 【知识模块】 听力 15 【正确答案】 readers 【试题解析】 根据句 (15)可知，讲话者认为，最终是由读者个人，或者所有的读者来决定一部作品的价值，决定它是否应该在文学历史中占据一席之地。因此答案为 readers。 【知识模块】 听力 SECTION B INTERVIEW In this section you will hear ONE
44、 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 read the four choices
45、 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. 16 【听力原文】 W: Good morning, everybody. (1) Today, we are pleased to have invited Mikey Rox, an award-winning journalist and personal finance expert to give us some su
46、ggestions on the dos and donts of lending money to family. Welcome, Mikey. M: Thank you. Im very happy to meet you all. W: Mikey, we know that loaning money to family is one of lifes greatest dilemmas. On the one hand, we want to help somebody we care for when theyre in a financial bind. On the othe
47、r hand, we know it probably wont go off without a hitch. So, how do I know when I should and shouldnt help? M: Well, first, you should carefully consider who youre helping. W: (2-1) Then what kind of person should I help? M: (2-2) If its your brother whos in need of a quick loan, and you know hell p
48、ay you back on time with interest, your decision to lend money is a no-brainer. But if its your deadbeat cousin Steven who has never had two nickels to rub together, but always somehow has a pocketful of cash to buy rounds of shots for his lady friends at the bar because he wants to look like a bail
49、er, you should probably sleep on it. W: Which means. M: (3) When theres not a snowballs chance in hell that youll see your money again, resolve to help without the expectation of being paid back, or just say no. W: But is it OK to say no to the family members who ask for help? M: Dont be afraid to say no. This is the second advice. Because you
