1、专业英语八级（听力）模拟试卷 43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-lectu
2、re. 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 Study Activities in University In order to help college and university students in the process of lear
3、ning, four key study activities have been designed and used to encourage them to make knowledge their own. 1. essay writing: central focus of university work esp. in the humanities, e.g.【 B1】 _.【 B1】 _ Benefits: 1)helping to select interesting content in books and to express understanding. 2)enablin
4、g teachers to know progress and to offer 【 B2】 _【 B2】 _ 3)familiarizing students with exam forms. 2. seminars and classroom discussion: another form to internalize knowledge in specialized contexts. Benefits: 1)【 B3】 _ enables you to know the【 B3】 _ effectiveness of and others response to your speec
5、h immediately. 2)Within the same period of time, more topics can be dealt with than in【 B4】 _.【 B4】 _ 3)The use of a broader range of knowledge is encouraged. 3. individual tutorials: a substitute for group discussion. Format: from teacher【 B5】 _ to flexible conversation.【 B5】 _ Benefit: encouraging
6、 ideas and interaction. 4. lectures: a most【 B6】 _ used study activity.【 B6】 _ Disadvantages: 1)less【 B7】 _ than discussions or tutorials.【 B7】 _ 2)more demanding in note-taking. Advantages: 1)providing a general【 B8】 _ of a subject【 B8】 _ under discussion. 2)offering more easily understood versions
7、 of a theory. 3)updating students on【 B9】 _ developments.【 B9】 _ 4)allowing students to follow different 【 B10】 _.【 B10】 _ 1 【 B1】 2 【 B2】 3 【 B3】 4 【 B4】 5 【 B5】 6 【 B6】 7 【 B7】 8 【 B8】 9 【 B9】 10 【 B10】 SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen care
8、fully 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 questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 What is the purpose of Professor McKays report? （ A） To look into the
9、mental health of old people. （ B） To explain why people have negative views on old age. （ C） To help correct some false beliefs about old age. （ D） To identify the various problems of old age. 12 Which of the following is NOT Professor McKays view? （ A） People change in old age a lot more than at th
10、e age of 21. （ B） There are as many sick people in old age as in middle age. （ C） We should not expect more physical illness among old people. （ D） We should not expect to find old people unattractive as a group. 13 According to Professor McKays report, （ A） family love is gradually disappearing. （
11、B） it is hard to comment on family feeling. （ C） more children are indifferent to their parents. （ D） family love remains as strong as ever. 14 Professor McKay is _ towards the tendency of more parents living apart from their children. （ A） negative （ B） positive （ C） ambiguous （ D） neutral 15 The o
12、nly popular belief that Professor McKay is unable to provide evidence against is （ A） old-age sickness. （ B） loose family ties. （ C） poor mental abilities. （ D） difficulties in maths. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then a
13、nswer the questions that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 What is the main idea of me news item? （ A） US concern over the forthcoming peace talks. （ B） Peace efforts by the Palestinian Authority. （ C） Recommendations by the Mitchell Commi
14、ssion. （ D） Bomb attacks aimed at Israeli civilians. 17 Some voters will waste their ballots because （ A） they like neither candidate. （ B） they are all ill informed. （ C） the candidates do not differ much. （ D） they do not want to vote twice. 18 According to the UN Human Development Report, which i
15、s the best place for women in the world? （ A） Canada. （ B） The US. （ C） Australia. （ D） Scandinavia. 19 _is in the 12th place in overall ranking. （ A） Britain （ B） France （ C） Finland （ D） Switzerland 20 According to the UN report, the least developed country is （ A） Ethiopia. （ B） Mali. （ C） Sierra
16、 Leone. （ D） Central African Republic. 专业英语八级（听力）模拟试卷 43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
17、 gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. 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 【听力原文】 Study Activities in University Good morning. Today, well
18、look at some study activities used in university. As we know, students in colleges or universities are expected to master some academic materials that are fairly difficult to understand. However, some of them find it hard to learn some complex, abstract or unfamiliar subject matter. As a result, a c
19、entral problem in higher education is how to internalize academic knowledge that is, how to make knowledge our own. In order to do so, we must convert knowledge from being “other peoples knowledge“ to being part of our own ways of thinking. Then, how are we going to do it? And what are the means ava
20、ilable to help us in the process of learning? There are four key study activities currently used in higher education to encourage students to internalize knowledge. They are the ones we are familiar with: writing essays, going to classes and seminars, having individual tutorials, and listening to le
21、ctures. These four activities are long-established features of our higher education, and they are almost as important now as they were a hundred years a-go. Now lets look at the features of them one by one. First, essay writing. The central focus of university work, esp. in the humanities, for examp
22、le in literature, history or politics, is on students producing regular essays or papers which summarize and express their personal understanding of a topic. Then, what is good about essay writing? Firstly, writing essays forces you to select what you find interesting in books and journals, and to e
23、xpress your understanding in a coherent form. Individual written work also provides teachers with the best available guide to how you are progressing in a subject, and allows them to give advice on how to develop your strengths or counteract your weaknesses. Lastly, of course, individual written wor
24、k is still the basis of almost all assessment in higher education. Written assignments familiarize you with the form that your exams or coursework papers will take. The second key activity in colleges and universities is seminars and class discussions. Their role is to help you to internalize academ
25、ic knowledge by providing specialized contexts, so that you can talk about such difficult problems as the trade-off between inflation and unemployment in economic policy, or the use of metaphors in Shakespeares plays. Talking is a more interactive activity than written work. In a conversation you kn
26、ow immediately how effectively you are expressing a viewpoint, and can modify what you are saying in response to peoples reactions. In addition, a normal programme of between ten and twenty-five classes will cover far more topics in one subject than you can hope to manage in your written work. Parti
27、cipating in flexible conversations across this range of issues also allows you to practise using the broader knowledge, gained from other key activities such as lectures. Now, lets take a look at another activity: individual tutorials. Discussions between a teacher and one or two students are used i
28、n many colleges as a substitute for, or a supplement to, group discussions in classes, like those mentioned before. Tutorials can range from direct explanations by the teacher in a subject, to flexible conversational sessions which at their best are very effective in stimulating students mastery of
29、a body of knowledge. The one-to-one quality of the personal interaction is very important in stimulating acceptance of ideas and producing fruitful interaction. In order to make individual tutorials really work, students should make good preparation beforehand, and during the tutorial, they should a
30、lso ask questions to keep the ball rolling rather, than, let teachers “talk in a Vacuum“. The last activity is lectures. As we all know, lectures play a large part in most students timetables and occupy a considerable proportion of teachers efforts. However, the major difficulty with lectures is tha
31、t they are not interactive like discussions or tutorials. The lecturer normally talks for the whole time with minimal feed-back from questions. Besides, making notes in lectures while concentrating on the argument being developed is often difficult to some students, esp. when the argument is very co
32、mplicated. However, having said that, lectures are clearly valuable in several specific ways. They can provide a useful overview an area map, as it were, to familiarize you with the main landscape features to be encountered during a course. Lecturers typically give much more accessible descriptions
33、of theoretical perspectives in their oral presentations than can be found in the academic literature. Whenever there is a rapid pace of progress in theory or practice, lectures play an indispensable part in letting students know the development immediately, usually several years before the new mater
34、ial is included in textbooks. Lastly, lectures are often very useful in allowing you to see directly how exponents of different views build up their arguments. The cues provided by seeing someone talking in person may seem “irrelevant“, but these cues are important aids to understanding the subject
35、better later. So far, weve discussed four study activities and their respective features and roles in higher education. Of course, study activities are not limited to just these four types; there are other activities that are equally important, such as general reading, project learning, etc. Well co
36、ver them during our next lecture. 【知识模块】 听力 1 【正确答案】 literature/history/politics 【试题解析】 在 谈到论文写作时，原文指出 “ 大学工作，特别是在人文学科例如文学、历史或政治学科方面，重点在于 ” ，这里的三个例子填入一个即可。 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 advice suggestion 【试题解析】 原文指出：论文写作可让教师了解学生的进步，并在怎样发扬优点、克服缺点方面给学生提出建议，故此处应该填入 advice suggestion.与 offer搭配的名词，如 help，此处也行得通。 【知
37、识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 Interaction 【试题解 析】 原文在谈到课堂讨论的优点时提到：课堂讨论比写作训练更具有交互性 (interactive)。故此处应该填入 Interaction。有的考生可能会填 Talking，Discussion，但比较起来， Interaction更为恰当。 【知识模块】 听力 4 【正确答案】 essays assignments writing 【试题解析】 原文提到在同样的时间里，课堂讨论比写作覆盖更多的话题。此空把对话与写作进行比较，故此处应该填入 essays或 assignments。 than表示比较对象，此 处若未听写出来，可根
38、据前文判断，这里是把课堂讨论与写作对比。因为只能填一个词。填入 writing也可。 【知识模块】 听力 5 【正确答案】 explanation 【试题解析】 原文在提到个别指导这项活动时指出：个别指导可包括从教师的直接解释 (explanation)到灵活的会议讨论等形式，因此，这里应填入 explanation。from to结构中，两个宾语成分应有一定关联。这里与 conversation(对话 )相对的，很可能就是 “独白 ”，但又属于 “个别辅导 ”，课上的老师 “独白 ”，用explanation最合适。 【知识模块】 听力 6 【正确答案】 frequently commonl
39、y widely 【试题解析】 在谈到最后一项活动 lecture(授课 )时，原文指出：授课占据了学生大量时间，同时也占据了教师相当大的精力。因此 lecture是学习中使用最frequently或 commonly的方式。此处用 widely也可。 【知识模块】 听力 7 【正确答案】 interactive 【试题解析】 原文提到：演讲这种授课方式的主要困难在于不能像 discussion和tutorial一样有互动性。故此空应填 interactive。必须听到原文中的 interactive才能准确答题。作者讨论 n种不同授课方式时，都提到了 “互动性 ”。 【知识模块】 听力 8
40、【正确答案】 overview|outline|summary|idea 【试题解析】 lecture的第一个优点就是能对讨论的话题予以概述 (overview)，因此此空填 overview。此题根据空前的形容词 general可知空白处应填入名词性实词。如没有笔记，从下句 main landscape可推断出应填 overview。更泛一点，可填入 idea。 【知识模块】 听力 9 【正确答案】 latest recent/current 【试题解析】 lecture的另一个优点是让学生了解在理论或实践方面的最新进展。这里应该填入 current或者 latest或者 recent。原文
41、中 immediately和试题中的 updating为考生提供了填词的关键信息。 【知识模块】 听力 10 【正确答案】 viewpoints theories opinions argument 【试题解析】 lecture的最后一条优点是让学生了解不同观点的支持者如何确立自己的论点。因此，这里应该填入 viewpoints。要点提示词 lastly后的信息是常考之处，笔记中不可忽视。 【知识模块】 听力 SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen ca
42、refully 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 questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 【听力原文】 M: Today, weve Professor McKay on our Morning Talk Show. Good
43、 morning, Professor McKay. W: Good morning. M: Ive heard that you and your team have just completed a report on old age. W: Thats right. M: Could you tell me what your report is about? W: Well, the report basically looks into the various beliefs that people hold about old age and tries to verify the
44、m. M: And what do you think your report can achieve? W: We hope that it will somehow help people to change their feelings about old age. The problem is that far too many of us believe that most old people are poor, lonely and unhappy. As a result, we tend to find old people, as a group, unattractive
45、. And this is very dangerous for our society. M: But surely we cannot escape the fact that many old people are lonely and many are sick. W: No, we cant. But we must also remember that the proportion of such people, is no greater among the 60-70 age group than among the 50-60 age group. M: In other w
46、ords, there is no more mental illness, for example, among the 60s-70s than among the 50s-60s? W: Right! And why should there be? Why should we expect people to suddenly change when they reach their 60th or 65m birthday any more than they did when they reached their 21st? M: But one would expect ther
47、e to be more physical illness among old people, surely? W: Why should one expect this? After all, those people who reach the age of 65 or 70 are the strong among us. The weak die mainly in childhood, then in their 40s and 50s. Furthermore, by the time people reach 60 or 65, they have learned how to
48、look after themselves. They keep warm, sleep regular hours, and eat sensibly. Of course, some old people do suffer from physical illnesses, but these do not suddenly develop on their 65th birthday. People who are healthy in middle age tend to be healthy in old age, just as one would expect. M: Do yo
49、u find that young people these days are not as concerned about their parents as their parents were about theirs? W: We have found nothing that suggests that family feeling is either dying or dead. There do not appear to be large numbers of young people who are trying, for example, to have their dear old mother locked up in a mental hospital. M: But dont many more parents live apart from their married children tha
