1、专业英语八级（听力）模拟试卷 259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 The Survival of English I . 410 CE to the mid-eighth century King Vortigern invited【 T1】 _ mercenaries for defence【 T1】 _ Angl
3、e and Saxon clans called their language Englisc II. Mid-eighth century to 899 the Danes【 T2】 _ all the Anglo-Saxon areas【 T2】 _ few【 T3】 _ English-speaking people remained【 T3】 _ Alfred forced the Danes back Alfreds measures: a. reviving the language through【 T4】 _【 T4】 _ b. calling for people who c
4、ould read or write Alfreds contribution most of the existing laws, poems,【 T5】 _ and stories were【 T5】 _ in the West Saxon . 959 to 1066 Canute and Edmund divided the country into【 T6】 _ and【 T6】 _ English-speaking areas Edmund died; Canute became King of【 T7】 _ in 1018【 T7】 _ English remained【 T8】
5、_ : sermons and laws【 T8】 _ in 1066, the French-speaking Normans conquered England Norman French; the only language of literature, law, and 【 T9】 _【 T9】 _ English: the language of the brutally oppressed【 T10】 _【 T10】 _ IV. 1080 to the seventeenth century in 1258, the first public document in English
6、 showed up: the【 T11】 _ French-English “Provisions of Oxford“【 T11】 _ in the fourteenth century, English【 T12】 _ as a legal and【 T12】 _ literary language 【 T13】 _ arrived in the seventeenth century【 T13】 _ V. 1837 to today the【 T14】 _ of the British Empire in the nineteenth century:【 T14】 _ English
7、was used widely today: English is global in use: the computer, the World Wide Web and【 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】 SECTION B INTERVIEW In this section you will hear ONE interview. T
8、he 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 of A , B , C
9、 and D , and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO. You have THIRTY seconds to preview the questions. （ A） Men who are overloaded with work. （ B） Women who are overloaded with work. （ C） Men who have no time for themselves. （ D） Women who have no time for themselves. （ A） To help
10、 depressed people feel safe complaining. （ B） To help overloaded people find more spare time. （ C） To help people communicate with each other. （ D） To help people keep a balanced diet. （ A） To let you cry out safely. （ B） To help you identify and get rid of stress. （ C） To help community members com
11、municate. （ D） To help people get me time through assignments. （ A） Talk about the daily assignments. （ B） Give people advice on time management. （ C） Cry out the bad things going on. （ D） Communicate with co-workers. （ A） Give people tips to calm down. （ B） Give people tips to carve out time. （ C）
12、Teach people to send e-mails. （ D） Teach people to write daily blogs. （ A） Set up your phone list. （ B） Cancel all the appointments. （ C） Have your lunch at home. （ D） Lay out your clothes. （ A） Because it can bring back our passion and happiness. （ B） Because it can bring success and fortune. （ C）
13、Because it helps us get rid of problems. （ D） Because it helps us find more friends. （ A） Performing as caretakers. （ B） Not being able to say no. （ C） Taking every leadership. （ D） Not being able to offer help. （ A） Ask for help. （ B） Be creative. （ C） Work harder. （ D） Take a break. （ A） Keep your
14、 house neatly. （ B） Eat healthily. （ C） Take exercise frequently. （ D） Carve out me time smartly. 专业英语八级（听力）模拟试卷 259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-fillin
15、g 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 task. 0 【听力原文】 The Survival of Englis
16、h Good morning. Twice in its history, English came very close to joining the list of dead languages. 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 a look at how English escaped its extinction
17、. Death is a common fate of unwritten languages. 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. There are five critical periods in the survival of the E
18、nglish 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. Rich, unprotected, and attacked from all sides, (1) King Vortigern on the east coast invited Germanic mercenaries to cross the channel to defend him a
19、gainst 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. From the seventh through the mid-eighth century York
20、 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 ruined by Danish armies. (2) The Danes overran all the Anglo-Saxon areas, i
21、ncluding 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. Eventually, Alfred forced the Danes back. Danish Northumbria sub
22、mitted to Alfred in 886. (3) After a century and more of death and destruction, very few literate English-speaking people remained. (4) Alfred set out to revive the language through education and writing. In 891 he sent out a call for anybody who could read or write. Outside of his personal staff, t
23、he handwriting of only eight new people appeared in the earliest records. The center of literary production shifted from York in Northumbria to Winchester in Wessex. (5) Due to Alfreds education programs, most of the existing laws, poems, songs and stories were in the West Saxon, dialect of his Wess
24、ex. 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. More Danes invaded; civil war followed. This second time, violent battles ended
25、in a tie. (6) The Danish leader, Canute, and Saxon King-elect, Edmund Ironsides, divided the country into Danish and English speaking areas. Canute and Edmund made a compromise that a united kingdom went to whoever survived the other. Two years later, Edmund died; (7) Canute became King of all Engla
26、nd in 1018. With Canute, the center of literary production moved to London. (8) 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. Raised in Normandy, Edwa
27、rd preferred the French. In 1066, the French-speaking Normans conquered England. (9) Norman French, based in London, became the only language of literature, law, and court. This third time, (10) English became the language of the brutally oppressed illiterate. The language again seemed heading for e
28、xtinction. 4) 1080 to the seventeenth century 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 written records of English laws, poetry, song
29、s, or stories. (11) In 1258 the bilingual French-English “Provisions of Oxford“ , granting some rights to barons, showed up as the first public document in English. (12) In the fourteenth century the English language resurfaced as a legal and literary language. Orally transmitted English poetry was
30、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 period, John Wycliffe translated the Bible into English,
31、 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 flowering of English theater with Shakespeare and Marlowe
32、 and Jonson. (13) Modern English arrived in the seventeenth century. The English language won this “Battle of Britain“. 5) 1837 to today In the nineteenth century, the British Empire was in the English language. (14) By the twentieth century, the empire had brought areas where is now India, Canada,
33、Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Africa, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Bermuda under imperial rule. 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 Samoa. (15) There is, howeve
34、r, a substantial difference between the wide-spread, yet irregular, distribution of English in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and today. The difference is the computer, the World Wide Web, and rapid communication. Today, not surprisingly, the English language is global in use. English-
35、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 and technical docume
36、nts, as well as printers, keyboards, and monitors are for users of English. OK. Today we have learned 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; its written recor
37、ds 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】 Germanic 【试题解析】 本篇讲座的主题是英语的幸存史。根据句 (1)可知，早在 5世纪，大不列颠富庶却没有防卫，四面受到攻击，位于东海岸的沃蒂根国王邀请日耳曼雇佣兵跨越海峡来帮他抵御内忧外患。因此答案为 Germanic。 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 overran 【试题解析】 根据句 (2)可知，到 8世纪中期，丹麦人占领了所有的盎格鲁一撒克逊地区。因此答
38、案为 overran。 【知识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 literate 【试题解析】 根据句 (3)可知，经过一个多世纪的死亡和迫害，有文化的说英语的人口存在不多了。因此答案为 literate。 【知识模块】 听力 4 【正确答案】 education and writing 【试题解析】 根据句 (4)可知，阿 尔弗雷德大帝复兴英语的一个措施是教育和写作。因此答案为 education and writing。 【知识模块】 听力 5 【正确答案】 songs 【试题解析】 根据句 (5)可知，由于阿尔弗雷德大帝的教育计划，大部分现存的法律、诗歌、歌曲和故事都是用西撒克逊语写的。西
39、撒克逊语是韦塞克斯王国的方言。因此答案为 songs。 【知识模块】 听力 6 【正确答案】 Danish 【试题解析】 根据句 (6)可知，卡纽特和刚勇者埃德蒙把这个国家分成了丹麦语区和英语区。因此答案为 Danish。 【知识模块】 听力 7 【正确答案】 all England 【试题解析】 根据句 (7)可知， 1081年卡纽特成为全英格兰的国王。因此答案为all England。 【知识模块】 听力 8 【正确答案】 a written language 【试题解析】 根据句 (8)可知， 1081年卡纽特成为全英格兰的国王后，英语仍然是书面语言，至少在布道和法律上是。因此答案为 a
40、 written language。 【知识模块】 听力 9 【正确答案】 court 【 试题解析】 根据句 (9)可知， 1066年说法语的诺曼人征服了英格兰，以伦敦为基础，诺曼人的法语成了文学、法律和朝廷的唯一语言。因此答案为 court。 【知识模块】 听力 10 【正确答案】 illiterate 【试题解析】 根据句 (10)可知，诺曼人征服英格兰之后，英语成了饱受压迫的文盲的语言。因此答案为 illiterate。 【知识模块】 听力 11 【正确答案】 bilingual 【试题解析】 根据句 (11)可知， 1258年，准予男爵一些权力的法英双语 “牛津条例 ”作为 第一份英
41、语语言的公文出现了。因此答案为 bilingual。 【知识模块】 听力 12 【正确答案】 resurfaced 【试题解析】 根据句 (12)可知，在 14世纪，英语作为法律与文学的语言重新出现。因此答案为 resurfaced。 【知识模块】 听力 13 【正确答案】 Modern English 【试题解析】 根据句 (13)可知，在 17世纪，近代英语出现了。因此答案为Modern English。 【知识模块】 听力 14 【正确答案】 expansion 【试题解析】 根据句 (14)可知，截止到 20世纪，大英帝国已经把现在的印度、加拿大、澳大利亚、新西兰、香港、新加坡、南非、
42、牙买加、特立尼达和多巴哥、圭亚那和百慕大区域囊括在了其帝国统治之下。因此本要点可以概括为十九世纪大英帝国的扩张，答案为 expansion。 【知识模块】 听力 15 【正确答案】 rapid communication 【试题解析】 根据句 (15)可知，现在的英语与 19世纪到 20世纪初期广泛却无规律的英语分布有本质的区别，这个区别就是电脑，互联网以及快捷的沟通。因此答案为 rapid communication。 【知识模块】 听力 SECTION B INTERVIEW In this section you will hear ONE interview. The intervie
43、w 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 of A , B , C and D , an
44、d mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO. You have THIRTY seconds to preview the questions. 16 【听力原文】 M: The road to happiness is easier than you think. Sign up now to join thousands of others in the I Feel Good Community Challenge 6 weeks to a happier and more balanced you. IVill
45、age contributor Amy Hendel is the health expert waiting to challenge. Amy, good morning. W: Good morning, and theres a lot of happiness on this day. M: Yes. We feel good all the time. Tell us what is this thing? W: (1) This is a six-week challenge to make women realize that they need to reclaim a li
46、ttle me time. Women are out of balance. They dont realize that they are doing so much for others. Theyre not taking a little time for themselves. M: So do you think in a sense, women may feel that they are selfish if they are taking time for themselves? Thats time away from family and friends and re
47、sponsibilities. W: We are the natural caretakers and often the point persons. If we always think this way, it may have a negative connotation to take me time. We think of the women who do it to a fault, but we are actually being detrimental to our own balance. Our mental health and well-being depend
48、 on having a little happiness in our life. M: OK. So lets focus on the features and the tools of the I Feel Good Community Challenge. W: OK. M: (2-1) First of all, a rant board. W: Yes. Because its not good to cry out to your husband, nor to your co-worker, your boss, maybe your friend. But you need
49、 a place to let it out. (2-2) We want distressed people to feel safe complaining, and then get on to the me time. M: A “peace-of-mind“ plan. W: This is actually a tool thats on the health aspect of the iVillage website its ongoing all the time but it specifically addresses stress and it personally tells you how to identify it and get rid of it. Its going to be impor
