1、专业英语八级（听力）模拟试卷 68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 Survival of English Language I . Introduction English widespread in the 21st century 【 B1】 _show(s)how
3、 English survived【 B1】 _ II. Five periods of its survival 1)410 CE to the mid-8th century 【 B2】 _mercenaries coming and spreading their language among【 B2】_ the Britons center of【 B3】 _: York in Northumbia【 B3】 _ 2)Mid-8 th century to 899 The Danes replaced the Anglo-Saxons to rule Northumbia, but w
4、ere【 B4】 _by Alfred of Wessex.【 B4】 _ Alfred called on people to revive English. Center was shifted to Winchester. Alfreds【 B5】 _enabled most of the existing laws and literary【 B5】 _ works to be in English. 3)959 to 1066 England was divided into【 B6】 _and English speaking areas.【 B6】 _ Canute became
5、 ruler of a united kingdom. Center was moved to London. Edward succeeded Canute and English gave way to【 B7】 _【 B7】 _ 4)1080 to the 17 th century Written English【 B8】 _before the advent of “Provision of Oxford“.【 B8】_ Since 14th century, English had gained renewed life. 【 B9】 _English appeared in th
6、e 17th century.【 B9】 _ 5)1837 to today English was used widely as a result of【 B10】 _, computer, the【 B10】 _ World Wide Web and rapid communication. 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 everyth
7、ing ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully 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 The candidate got a masters degree in_. （ A）
8、 English Literature （ B） Computer （ C） Business Administration （ D） Finance 12 The candidate left the foreign representative office because_. （ A） the working environment was poor （ B） the job was boring （ C） the pay was rather low （ D） he disliked his employer 13 Which of the following does NOT des
9、cribe the candidates personality? （ A） Enthusiastic. （ B） Perseverant. （ C） Eloquent. （ D） Cooperative. 14 Which of the following is most acceptable to the candidate? （ A） Overtime work. （ B） Regular work. （ C） Work of leadership. （ D） Varied work. 15 Which statement about the employment contract is
10、 CORRECT? （ 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 when the first child is born. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Direc
11、tions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 How much has the rate of deforestation risen since last year? （ A） 30%. （ B） 27%. （ C） 57%. （
12、D） 60%. 17 How many centimeters of rain have fallen within a day during the heavy rain? （ A） 10. （ B） 24. （ C） 28.8. （ D） 102. 18 All of the following have happened before Wednesday EXCEPT that_. （ A） 102 people have died in landslides and floods （ B） mudslides swept away many buildings in hillside
13、slums （ C） mudslides threatened at least 10,000 homes （ D） dozens of people died in Rio in December and January 19 The major sectors of the US economy are much influenced by_. （ A） mass consumption （ B） other countries contribution （ C） economy recession （ D） interest rates 20 What did the the US Ce
14、ntral Bank do to stimulate the economy? （ A） It lent less money to people for buying houses. （ B） It bought tens of billions of dollars of securities each month. （ C） It bought equipment for businesses to expand and develop. （ D） It worked hard to develop key sectors of the US economy. 专业英语八级（听力）模拟试
15、卷 68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-lecture. When the l
16、ecture 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】 Survival of English Language Good morning. Twice in its history, English came very close to joining the list
17、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. Death is a common fate of unwritten languages.(1)But written records of the lan
18、guages 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 English language. 1)410 CE to the mid-eighth century Early in the fifth century,
19、 Rome recalled its legions and told the Britons to defend themselves.(2)Rich, unprotected, and attacked from all sides, King Vortigern on the East coast invited Germanic mercenaries to cross the channel to defend him against his enemies within and without. These mercenaries, mostly Angle and Saxon c
20、lans of Germanic peoples, called their language “ englisc“(pronounced “ anglish“). The language of the Germanic mercenaries became the language of the conquered area.(3)From the seventh through the mid-eighth centuries York in Northumbria, famed for its schools and for its literary productions, was
21、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. The Danes overran all the Anglo-Saxon areas, including Northumbria, the heartland of literacy in Anglo-Saxon England. Wessex, rule
22、d 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.(4)Eventually, Alfred forced the Danes back. Danish Northumbria submitted to Alfred in 886. After a century and more of death and destruction, very f
23、ew literate English-speaking people remained. 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, the handwriting of only eight new people appeared in the earliest records. The center of li
24、terary 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 Wessex. Alfred died in 899. 3)959 to 1066 In 959, King Edgar, the great-grandson of Alfred, rule
25、d both Danes and Saxons in England. The incompetent King Ethelred the Unready succeeded Edgar. He could not control the Danes.(6)More Danes invaded: civil war followed. This second time, violent battles ended in a tie. The Danish leader, Canute, and Saxon King-elect, Edmund Ironsides, divided the co
26、untry into Danish and English speaking areas. Canute and Edmund made a compromise that a united kingdom went to whoever died first. Two years later, Edmund died: Canute became King of all England in 1018. With Canute the center of literary production moved to London. English remained a written langu
27、age, 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 from his marriage to Emma died.(7)Raised in Normandy, Edward preferred the French. In 1066, the French-speaking Normans conquered England
28、. 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 illiterate. The language again seemed heading for extinction. 4)1080 to the 17th century (8)After 1080, only a few written documents in Eng
29、lish 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, songs, or stories. In 1258 the bilingual French-English “ Provisions of Oxford,“ granting some ri
30、ghts 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 literary language. Orally transmitted English poetry was preserved in written form in the Auchinleck Manuscript from 1325 to 1330. In 1344 the
31、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, the language of the common people. In the fifteenth century, English gave further sig
32、ns 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 and Jonson.(9)Modern English arrived in the 17th century. The English language won th
33、is “ Battle of Britain. “ 5)1837 to Today In the nineteenth century, the “sun never set on the British Empire“ was in the English language.(10)By the twentieth century, the Empire included India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Africa, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana
34、, 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 Samoa. There is, however, a substantial difference between the wide-spread, yet irregular, distribution of English in the nineteenth and early t
35、wentieth centuries and today. That difference is the computer, the World Wide Web, and rapid communication. Today, not surprisingly, the English language is global in use. English-speakers built the first electronic computing machines during World War II, which heralded the computer age. Years later
36、, 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 documents, as well as printers, keyboards, and monitors are for users of English. Now, youve got to know the five critical per
37、iods of English language. Although other languages across history reached the corners of their then known world, the English language survived near extinction: 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】 written recor
38、ds 【试题解析】 本题设题点在转折处。根据句 (1)可知，有文字记载的英国历史给人们展示出英语是怎样成为通用的语言并幸存下来的，故答案为 written records。 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 Germanic Anglo-Saxon 【试题解析】 本题考查重要细节。根据句 (2)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。 【知识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 English-speaking world 【试题解析】 本题
39、设题点在原因解释处。根据句 (3)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 English-speaking world。 【知识模块】 听力 4 【正确答案】 defeated 【试题解析】 本题设题点在结果处。根据句 (4)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 5 【正确答案】 education programs 【试题解析】 本题设题点在原因解释处。根据句 (5)可知，由于阿尔弗雷德实施相关的教育
40、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，故答案为 education programs。 【知识模块】 听力 6 【正确答案】 Danish 【试题解析】 本题考查重要细节。根据句 (6)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 7 【正确答案】 Norman French 【试题解析】 本题考查重要细节。根据句 (7)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 Fren
41、ch。 【知识模块】 听力 8 【正确答案】 verged on extinction 【试题解析】 本题考查对信息的概括。根据句 (8)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 onextinction。 【知识模块】 听力 9 【正确答案】 Modern 【试题解析】 本题设题点在时间处。根据句 (9)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。 【知识模块】 听力 10 【正确答案】 colonization 【试题解析】 本题考查对信息的概括。根据句 (10)可知， 19世纪英帝国大肆扩张殖民
42、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 Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully 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 a
43、nswer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 【听力原文】 Interviewer(W)Mr. Smith(M) 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 inter
44、ested in “ Marketing“. W: “Marketing“? Nice! That perfectly suits our qualifications. Have you received any degrees? M: Yes.(1 -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 recei
45、ved a good general training? M:(1 - 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: Your resume says that you have had one-year experience working in a foreign representat
46、ive office in Shanghai, may I ask why you left? M: I worked in a foreign rep. office for one year.(2)However, I left there two years ago because the work they gave me was rather dull. I found another job that is more interesting. W: You mean you couldnt work to live, you enjoy whatever you do, right
47、? M: 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 about what kind of pe
48、rsonality you think you have. M:(3-1)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:(3-2)Im afraid Im a poor talker. Im not c
49、omfortable talking with the people whom I have just met for the first time. That is not very good for business, so I have been studying public speaking. W: It is very difficult for somebody to see ones own weakness. Are you more of a leader or a follower? M:(4- 1)I dont try to lead people.(3 - 3)Id rather cooperate with everybody, and get the job done by working together. W: You know, most work
