1、专业英语八级（听力）模拟试卷 86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 . Distinguishing features of literary writing A. Primarily distinguishable【 T1】 : 【 T1】 _ creative
3、or artistic content B. Two differences from specialized treatises: attracting not only a specific class of readers, but 【 T2】【 T2】 _ 【 T3】 used more profoundly than when used only【 T3】 _ to convey information II. Literature is a vital record of the【 T4】【 T4】 _ A.【 T5】 : used for the rhetorical effec
4、t【 T5】 _ B. Devices: tone, rhyme, rhythm,【 T6】 , dialogue【 T6】 _ and its variations such as dialects and slang, etc. III. Literary writing is, in essence, a【 T7】【 T7】 _ A【 T8】 personal view trying to evoke a response in【 T8】 _ his reader IV. Literature is a process of【 T9】【 T9】 _ A. Personal motivat
5、ion: a(n)【 T10】 characteristic of【 T10】 _ literary writing B. Things the artist needs to do: 【 T11】 within himself【 T11】 _ reaching toward the truth V. The common nature of many different genres of the novel, like the【 T12】【 T12】 _ A. Books, consisting of words that have been used to express somethi
6、ng B. Subjective value judged by【 T13】【 T13】 _ C. “Literature“ should encompass: numerous different kinds of writers whose works endure D. The aim of every artist: to【 T14】 changing life,【 T14】 _ which makes him immortal VI. Conclusion Literature is【 T15】 , a response to life.【 T15】 _ 1 【 T1】 2 【 T2
7、】 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. The interview will be divided into TWO parts. At the end of each part, five questions will be asked about what was sa
8、id. 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 , and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO. You have THIRTY seconds to preview the quest
9、ions. （ A） How to borrow money from relatives. （ B） What to notice when lending money to family members. （ C） How to deal with family members owing your money. （ D） Whether to lend money to relatives or not. （ A） Supportive. （ B） Oppositive. （ C） Objective. （ D） Subjective. （ A） Dont lend money when
10、 you cant afford it. （ B） Dont lend money when you will face bankruptcy. （ C） Make a documentation when lending money. （ D） Lend money only when there is profit. （ A） The date and name. （ B） The purpose of borrowing money. （ C） The amount of money. （ D） The interest rate. （ A） To pay a medical bill.
11、 （ B） To make a trip. （ C） To purchase luxuries. （ D） To collect antiques. （ A） To have an intense feeling of guilty. （ B） To advise them to borrow money from others. （ C） To get a loan for them from the bank. （ D） To accommodate their requests. （ A） The person who likes to travel around. （ B） The p
12、erson who likes to borrow money. （ C） The person who is always asked to lend money. （ D） The person who is good at making money. （ A） The fear of losing money. （ B） The fear of being bankrupt. （ C） The fear of seeing them go bankrupt. （ D） The fear of seeing them hate you afterwards. （ A） To inform
13、them when you cant pay back on time. （ B） To make a documentation with them. （ C） To tell them the purpose of borrowing. （ D） To make them feel you are credible. （ A） You can reduce your interest rates. （ B） You can reconsider your terms of repayment. （ C） You should urge them to pay you back. （ D）
14、You may let them do housework to pay the debts. 专业英语八级（听力）模拟试卷 86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 T
15、HREE 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 writing class. Tod
16、ay wed like to take a glimpse on 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, creative genius,
17、 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.(2)A piece of literature differs from specialized
18、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, one ideal end of the piece of literature, whether
19、it also imparts knowledge or not, is to yield aesthetic satisfaction by the manner of 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 information. (4)Literatur
20、e is a vital record of what people have seen in life, what they have experienced, what they have thought and felt about those aspects of life which have the most immediate and enduring interest for all of us.(5)So literary writing, having creative and artistic content, is more carefully structured a
21、nd 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 variations such as dialects and slang, and a host of other devices in the construction of a particular prose wo
22、rk, poem or play. (7)Literary writing is, in essence, a “ response“ ,(8)a subjective personal view which the writer expresses through his themes, ideas, thoughts, reminiscences, using his collection of words to try to evoke a response in his reader. It is not only a question of the artist looking in
23、to 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. (9)Literature is a process of communication: it “helps us to understand life“. Perhaps we should also consider the motivation of t
24、he writer as a factor which distinguishes literary 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.(10)Personal motivation is an essential characteristic of literary writing. It is the engine behi
25、nd creativity, some of the great themes 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 should include the overflowing of their passions, their desire for self-expre
26、ssion, an abiding fascination with humanity in all its varieties, 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 imagination, and, perhaps at the heart of it, the need to form, shape things o
27、f beauty.(11)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 artistic creative truth, a truth that resides in the individual artist and needs to be
28、 grasped, made real, 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 different genres of novel constitute a particular challenge to the concept of “literary wr
29、iting“.(12)Detective novels, and science fiction novels, for example, are creative and imaginative depictions of life. We might question their seriousness as literature, or whether they can achieve the high ideals of art, but then we might equally well question the meaning of “seriousness“ , and “th
30、e 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 considered “literature“? Do they still make an important contribution to our understanding
31、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 business of living. They convey knowledge, understanding, experience and are hence consider
32、ed 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 may or may not succeed in conveying an understanding of the world they depict. In my view it c
33、omes down to subjective value judgments. I believe literature is a “broad church“ which ought to be able to deal with any subject,(13)and that ultimately it is individual reader, or readers all together, who decide on the value of any particular work and on whether or not it deserves a place in the
34、annals of literary history. 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 something which cannot be shown as a whole. Each can only give us his own small fragment of under
35、standing. 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 should let a writer have the last word on summing up the writers art: (14)The aim of every
36、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 possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will al
37、ways move. In conclusion, literary writing does embody certain distinguishing characteristics.(15)It is a self-conscious, imaginative mode of writing which uses words not just to convey information, but as an art form. Ultimately it is a response to life. This is the end of the lecture. Thank you ve
38、ry much! 【知识模块】 听力 1 【正确答案】 feature/characteristic 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 all human beings/men and women 【知识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 language 【知识模块】 听力 4 【正确答案】 authors opinion 【知识模块】 听力 5 【正确答案】 Words 【知识模块】 听力 6 【正确答案】 irony 【知识模块】 听力 7 【正确答 案】 response 【知识模块】 听力 8 【正确答案】 subjective 【知识模块】 听力 9 【正确答案】 communic
39、ation 【知识模块】 听力 10 【正确答案】 essential 【知识模块】 听力 11 【正确答案】 resolving conflicts 【知识模块】 听力 12 【正确答案】 detective novels/science Action novels 【知识模块】 听力 13 【正确答案】 readers 【知识模块】 听力 14 【正确答案】 arrest 【知识模块】 听力 15 【正确答案】 an art form 【知识模块】 听力 SECTION B INTERVIEW In this section you will hear ONE interview. The
40、 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 a
41、nd 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】 Interviewer(M)Mility Hopson(W) Now, listen to Part One of the interview. M: What if one day, one member of your family turns to you for lending him or her some money?(1)W
42、ith the dos and donts of lending money to family, we are joined by Mility Hopson, GMA financial contributor and president of Ariel Capital Management. Welcome. W: Thank you. M: So can we narrow it down? Is there a yes-no answer to the question: should you lend family money? W: (2)I wouldnt call it a
43、 yes-no answer: I would start with a very basic idea. Before you think about this familiar obligation issue, lets start with: (3 - 1)Can you afford it? And if you cant afford it, that answers the question right away. Also can you afford it if they dont pay you back? A bank thinks about the same thin
44、g. They assess the risk of the loan they are going to make,(3 - 2)and they dont make loans that are going to make them insolvent. You shouldnt either, but if you go down this path, the one thing that I suggest you that helps mute some of the resentment or problems that can occur: (3 - 3)document it.
45、 Documentation helps a lot. M: So those are the guidelines basically. Youre saying: write it down on paper, sign it, date it, and interest rates. Someone said, the interest rates are low, so this is a good deal. We do look at family as a good deal, even for paying an interest. Thats usually lower th
46、an the market rate, right? W: Well,(4 - 1)I would start with, you want your names, the date, the amount, the purpose which you also have the right to know. A bank would ask you what the loan is for.(5)You may not want to lend a family member money for a vacation versus a medical bill. M: And you sho
47、uld tell them that you dont want to pay for their trip to Disney World. W: Absolutely.(4-2)The terms may or may not include interest. They may include a payment plan. And last but not least, sign it, copy it, make sure you both have a copy and when you get into issues, you pull out that piece of pap
48、er. M: And you should have the hurt, supposed to be able to say to the person: I dont think I want to loan you money for this purpose. This is the end of Part One of the interview. Questions 1 to 5 are based on what you have just heard. 1. Whats the main topic of this part of the interview? 2. Whats
49、 Mility Hopsons attitude towards lending money to family members? 3. Which suggestion is NOT given by Mility Hopson when asked for lending money? 4. What information do you not have to put in your documentation while lending money? 5. For what purpose will you lend money to a family member according to the interviewee? 16 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 17 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 18 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 19 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 20 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 21 【听力原文】 Now, liste
