1、专业英语八级（听力）练习试卷 2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-lectur
2、e. 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 Note-taking in Lectures For listeners, note-taking is an essential way to achieve better-understanding
3、of a lecture. It involves many separate skills, four of which will be analyzed here. . Understand what【 1】 says. 1. severe strain: 2 reasons word【 2】 in speech. new words. 2. solution: eoncentrate on what are most important . Sort out the main points. 1. focus on the title: write down the title【 3】
4、and completely. 2. be aware of signals of what is important or unimportant. signals indicating importance: 【 4】 speak slowly or loudly use a greater range of intonation employ a combination of the devices signals【 5】 deliver sentences quickly, softly use a narrow range of intonation use【 6】 pauses .
5、 Write down【 7】 quickly and clearly. 1. use abbreviation 2. select words that give【 8】 ( nouns, verbs, adjectives) 3. write one point on each line 4. find time to write【 9】 . . Show the connections between the various points the listeners have noted. 1. use spacing, underlining, and【 10】 2. number p
6、oints 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10 【 10】 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 wi
7、ll be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 According to the interview, which of the following statements is TRUE ahout Sam? （ A） He has rushed out to get the crib. （ B） He is going to have a baby soon. （ C） He is not good at family budget.
8、（ D） He doesnt plan properly for his life. 12 When it comes to nursing articles, sam suggests that parents should （ A） go to a Costco. （ B） buy in large quantity. （ C） ask for others favor. （ D） buy second-hand items. 13 Sometimes parents buy the best thing in all the labels because it is about （ A）
9、 price. （ B） quality. （ C） status. （ D） safety. 14 If parents want to know how they spend the money, they should （ A） figure out where the money goes. （ B） take a piece of paper with them. （ C） budget for a baby every day. （ D） note down every expense. 15 According to the interviewee, parents can do
10、 all of the following to save money EXCEPT （ A） swaping clothes with other parents. （ B） buying clothes in discount stores. （ C） buying fancy newborn equipment. （ D） going on eBay to buy nursing articles. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen
11、 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 Steve Fossett landed in his destination ahead of scheduled time because （ A） there was something wrong with the generator. （ B） the pilots of the aircraft went
12、 on a strike. （ C） there was no electrical power in the battery. （ D） he didnt know hew to generate electricity. 17 According to NASA, meeting the cosmics head on from such a great distance is （ A） very easy. （ B） impossible. （ C） possible. （ D） very difficult. 18 Which of the following is TRUE abou
13、t the comet Tempel? （ A） Its surface temperature is above zero. （ B） Its a big solid ball. （ C） Its gaseous. （ D） It was formed 4.5 billion years ago. 19 Frances stand of the conflict between Israel and Palestine is （ A） to mediate between the two parties. （ B） to distinguish them as two countries.
14、（ C） to invite Hamas leaders to Paris. （ D） to legitimize terror in Palestine. 20 In order to avoid certain charge, the analysis involves （ A） cautious predictions. （ B） impartial judgment. （ C） careful calculation. （ D） simple statistics. 专业英语八级（听力）练习试卷 2答案与解析 SECTION A MINI-LECTURE Directions: In
15、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 lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to
16、 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】 Note-taking in Lectures Note-taking is a complex activity which requires a high level of ability in many separate skills. Taking your own notes will promote
17、a deeper understanding of the content of the lecture. How to take notes? The general principle in note-taking is to reduce the language by shortening words and sentences. Today Im going to analyze the four most important of these skills. (1) Firstly, the student has to understand what the lecturer s
18、ays as he says it. The student cannot stop the lecture in order to look up a new word or check an unfamiliar sentence pattern. This puts the non-native speaker of English under a particularly severe strain. Often as weve seen in a previous lecture (2) he may not be able to recognize words in speech
19、which he understands straight away in print. Hell also meet words in a lecture which are completely new to him. While he should, of course, try to develop the ability to infer their meaning from the context, he wont always be able to do this successfully. He must not allow failure of this kind to di
20、scourage him however. Its often possible to understand much of a lecture by concentrating solely on those points which are most important. But how does the student decide whats important? This is in itself another skill he must try to develop. It is, in fact, the second of the four skills I want to
21、talk about today. Probably the most important pieee of information in a lecture is the title itself. If this is printed or referred to beforehand the student should study it carefully and make sure hes in no doubt about its meaning. (3) Whatever happens he shouht make sure that he writes it down acc
22、urately and completely. A title often implies many of the major points that wilt later be covered in the lecture itself. It should help the student therefore to decide what the main point of the lecture will be. A good lecturer, of course, often signals whats important or unimportant. He may give di
23、rect signals or indirect signals. Many lecturers, tor example, explicitly tell their audience that a point is important and that the student should write it clown. Unfortunately, the lecturer whos trying to establish a friendly relationship with his audience is likely on these occasions to employ a
24、colloquial style. He might say such things as “This is, of course, the crunch“ or “Perhaps youd like to get it down“. Ahhough this will help the student whos a native English speaker, it may very well cause difficulty for the non-native English speaker. Hell therefore have to make a big effort to ge
25、t used to the various styles of his lecturers. Its worth remembering that most lecturers also give indirect signals to indicate whats important. (4) They either pause or speak slowly or speak loudly or use a greater range of intonation, or they employ a combination of these devices, when they say so
26、mething important.(5) Conversely, their sentences are delivered quickly, softly, within a narrow range of intonation and with (6) short infrequent pauses when they are saying something which is incidental. It is, of course, helpful for the stuclent to be aware of this and for him to focus his attent
27、ion accordingly. (7) Having sorted out the main points, however, the student still has to write them down. And he has to do this quickly and clearly. That is, in fact, the third basic skill he must learn to develop. In order to write at speed most students find it helps to abbreviate.(8) They also t
28、ry to select only those words which give maximum information. These are usually nouns, but sometimes verbs or adjectives. Writing only one point on each line also helps the student to understand his notes when he comes to read them later. An important difficulty is, of course, (9) finding time to wr
29、ite the notes. If the student chooses the wrong moment to write he may miss a point of greater importance. Connecting words or coimectives may guide hiiu to a correct choice here. Those connectives which indicate that the argument is proceeding in the same direction also tell the listener that its s
30、afe time to write “moreover, “ “furthermore,“ “also,“ etc. , are examples of this. Connectives such as “however“ “on the other hand“ or “ nevertheless“ usually mean that new and perhaps unexpected information is going to follow. Therefore, it may, on these occasions, be more appropriate to listen. T
31、he fourth skill that the student must develop is one that is flequently neglected. He must learn to show the connections between the various points hes noted. This can often be done more effectively, by a visual presentation than by a lengthy statement in words.(10) Thus the use of spacing, underlin
32、ing, and conventional symbols plays an important part in efficient note-taking. Points should be numbered, too, wherever possible. In this way the student can see at a glance the framework of the lecture. 【知识模块】 听力 1 【正确答案】 the lecturer 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 recognition 【知识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 accurately 【知
33、识模块】 听力 4 【正确答案】 pause 【知识模块】 听力 5 【正确答案】 indicating unimportance 【知识模块】 听力 6 【正确答案】 short or infrequent 【知识模块】 听力 7 【正确答案】 the main points 【知识模块】 听力 8 【正确答案】 maximum information 【知识模块】 听力 9 【正确答案】 the notes 【知识模块】 听力 10 【正确答案】 conventional symbols 【知识模块】 听力 SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this s
34、ection 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 answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 10 【听力原文】 W: Good m
35、orning, Sam. M: Good morning, Mary. How are you? W: Well, first of all, congratulations to you. M: Thank you very much. W: (1)Its a very exciting time for you. But for a lot of expectant parents, there are lots of things to consider. You have cribs, and strollers, and diapers, and college for crying
36、 out loud, how can one little bundle of toy cost so much money? M: Well, when your factor in heahh care, education, food, clothing, shelter, the average amount that the parent is going to spend to raise their child from birth to 18 is about 200, 000 dollars. And it can be a lot more. W: (1) Yeah, yo
37、uve got these tips that youve come and you are using them yourself, right? M: I am. W: You are used to doing it. Anyway, you are not sucking the joy out of this pregnancy for her, are you? M: Ah, I hope not. W: OK, right! (2) The first tip you say is to buy in bulk. M: Yes, my wife and I, urn, have
38、never been to a Costco before. W: What? Come on! M: We just have another way that came up, were just two adults. Its amazing. And now, all of a sudden, we started to kind of check it out because we know that we are probably gonna be spending a lot of time there. The prices are a lot better for thing
39、s like diapers and formulae and other things; such are just amazingly much cheaper. W: You also say and I can remember this with the first baby, you want to have the best thing, you want to have the newest in all the labels and I remember telling my husband weve got to have this type of stroller. We
40、 really should be buying for the baby, not for us, isnt it? (3) Because at some points its all about status. M: Right, I mean, you know, there is a certain point when youre buying a good product, and it costs a certain amount and then after that, its all about what you want and what, you know, you t
41、hink is important. The baby is a baby. Baby is probably not gonna really know the differences. So long as something is safe, you know a good stroller can cost about, maybe 200 dollars at the top end. But there are strollers that go to a thousand dollars and, really, thats just like buying a little B
42、MW for your kid or something. W: Um, you say the other thing is you really need to figure out what your, say, a monthly expenses will be an end. To that, you and your wife are sort of budgeting for a baby. You are taking this month and tracking everything down to a pack of gum. M: (4) Absolutely. We
43、 talk around with a little piece of paper during the day, and this is a good idea for anybody to do if they want to get a sense of where the money is going. And when you have a kid, all of that sort of good personal finance ideas really come into play, so I get the soda, I write it down, I take a ca
44、b somewhere, I write it down. W: Even little things like that? M: Absolutely. Because thats what you are gonna start to see where some of your money is going. And you can say I have no idea I was taking that money taxies or something. Maybe I shouldnt be, you know, getting a soda every two hours and
45、 I should just get a bottle of water and refill it later, things like that. W: Think before you spend another. M: Um, one of the places that a lot of people miscalculate is right out of the gate. You know, as soon as they leave the hospital, theyre paying more out of pocket than they ever thought th
46、ey would. So what you want to do is to call your insurer before you go to the hospital and to find out exactly whats going to be covered and exactly what youll have to pay for. W: These are an awful lot of expenses. When the baby comes and all of a sudden, things are, maybe then you were planning fo
47、r prop-up, maybe an extra, a visitor tour to the doctor. You know, one of the things you say also is that we should save, even if its just a little bit, we need to save for what, retirement? M: Well, we should save for both college education for your child and retirement. Urn, if you can save ten do
48、llars a week for your childs college education, thats 40 dollars a month, yeah 500 dollars a year. W: Ok, now here is the thing you and I were just talking at the green room. These kids outgrow these clothes. Like this. Youve got an idea that to help us there? M: Well, “go usedis one big idea, I mea
49、n talk to your friends whove had children, (5) do a clothing swap, get a circle of people together and do that. Go on eBay, go to the discount stores, I mean, you dont have to spend a lot of money on really fancy newborn equipment; you can just get a T-shirt. W: Sam Grobart, good luck! Youve been depending on delivery. 【知识模块】 听力 11 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 12 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 13 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 14 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 15 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this secti
