1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 19（无答案）SECTION A MINI-LECTUREDirections: 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. Whe
2、n 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.1 AcupunctureRecently, acupuncture has become a 【1】 _word in America.Acupuncture was performed in China long bef
3、ore the study of 【2】 _.In very ancient times, pieces of sharp stones were used to press or prick certain section of the body in order to cure an illness. Later, needles were made from 【3】 _and bamboo.In the course of time, the Chinese people learned to make needles out of copper, iron, and silver. T
4、oday, the needlesare made of 【 4】 _.Important factors in the acupuncture treatment: - The size and 【5】 _of the needles.The depth of the insertion. The 【6】 _of the time the needle should be left in the body.Finally, the number of needles used in each treatment. The earliest recorded acupuncture cure
5、took place about 【7】 _years ago.The most important book on acupuncture appeared in the Qin Dynasty. In the book, 【8】 _basic points in human body were listed, and a total of 649 points in a human body were defined. A French 【9】 _introduced it to the west at the beginning of this century.The first acu
6、puncture clinicwas set up in 【10】 _It was not until 1958 that the Chinese began to use acupuncture as an anesthesia.1 【1】2 【2】3 【3】4 【4】5 【5】6 【6】7 【7】8 【8】9 【9】10 【10】SECTION B INTERVIEWDirections: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions th
7、at 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 was most important, according to Kofi Annan（A）Getting the WHO work（B） Looking at the figures and statisti
8、cs and the devastation（C） Getting the leaders speaking up（D）Discussing the issue with the WHO and the UNAIDS12 How did Annan see the individuals struggle through the course of the illness?（A）He was concerned with the statistics（B） He was concerned with the suffering and the pain（C） He was concerned
9、with the medication（D）He was concerned with the UNs activities there13 Annan hoped that the governments could increase assistance in the areas of _.（A）treatment, funds, prevention and getting organizations involved（B） prevention, education, treatment and getting organizations involved（C） education,
10、leadership, prevention and treatment（D）treatment, education, prevention and leardership14 Annan was pleased with Dr. Lees approach of rying to get the AIDS medication to _.（A）three billion people in four years（B） three million people in four years（C） four million people in three years（D）three millio
11、n people in five years15 Why did Annan meet the seven top pharmaceutical companies?（A）He urged them to provide more medications for these countries（B） He urged them to reduce the production of the medications（C） He urged them to lower the prices of the medications（D）He urged them to produce more eff
12、ective medicationsSECTION C NEWS BROADCASTDirections: 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 Around how many tons of hazardous waste does the
13、 world produce each year?（A）150 million（B） 1.50 million（C） 15 million（D）50 million17 Now the U.S. economy growth rate is _.（A）higher than 1995 to 2000（B） lower than 1973 to 1995（C） As good as 1995 to 2000（D）the same as 1993 to 199518 Dale Jorgenson points out that the 2.78 grow rate will be continue
14、d in the next years.（A）2 years（B） 10 years（C） 20 years（D）5 years19 What is the mason of the decline of the number of the wild horses ?（A）climate change and human activities（B） the hunting and culling（C） farming and industrializing（D）mass killing caused by people20 Whom does the provision intend to s
15、ell the wild horses for?（A）federal government（B） the horse-lovers（C） the people who kill the wild horse（D）the native people21 Mark RothkoMark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in Daugavpils, Latvia in 1903. His father emigrated to the United States, afraid that
16、his sons would be drafted into the Czarist army. Mark stayed in Russia with his mother and older sister; they joined the family later, arriving in the winter of 1913, after a 12-day voyage.Mark moved to New York in the autumn of 1923 and found employment in the garment trade and took up residence on
17、 the Upper West Side. It was while he was visiting someone at the Art Students League that he saw students sketching a nude model. According to him, this was the start of his life as an artist. He was twenty years old and had taken some art lessons at school, so his initial experience was far from a
18、n immediate calling.In 1936, Mark Rothko began writing a book, which he never completed, about the similarities in the childrens art and the work of modern painters. The work of modernists, which was influenced by primitive art, could, according to him, be compared to that of children in that “child
19、 art transforms itself into primitivism, which is only the child producing a mimicry of himself.“ In this same work, he said that “the fact that one usually begins with drawing is already academic. We start with colour.It was not long before his multiforms developed into the style he is remembered f
20、or; in 1949 Rothko exhibited these new works at the Betty Parsons Gallery. For critic Harold Rosenberg, the paintings were a revelation. Rothk0 had, after painting his first multiform, secluded himself to his home in East Hampton on Long Island, only inviting a very few people, including Rosenberg,
21、to view the new paintings. The discovery of his definitive form came at a period of great grief; his mother Kate died in October 1948 and it was at some point during that winter that Rothko chanced upon the striking symmetrical rectangular blocks of two to three opposing or contrasting, yet compleme
22、ntary colours. As part of this new uniformity of artistic vision, his paintings and drawings no longer had individual titles; from this point on they were simply untitled, numbered or dated; however, to assist in distinguishing one work from one another, dealers would sometimes add the primary colou
23、rs to the name. Additionally, for the next few years, Rothko painted in oil only on large vertical canvasses. This was done to overwhelm the viewer, or, in his words, to make the viewer feel enveloped within the picture.On February 25, 1970, Oliver Steindecker, Rothkos assistant, found him in his ki
24、tchen, lying on the floor in front of the sink, covered in blood. HIS arms had been cut open with a razor. The emergency doctor arrived on the scene minutes later to pronounce him dead as the result of suicide; it was discovered during the autopsy that he had also overdosed on anti-depressants. He w
25、as just 66 years old.21 Mark Rothko emigrated to the United States _.（A）with his father and elder sister（B） with his mother and brothers（C） with his mother and elder sister（D）with all his family22 Rothko wanted to be an artist _.（A）since his early childhood（B） when he joined the Art Students League（
26、C） when he watched students drawing（D）when he moved to the Upper West Side23 Rothko thought that modern art _.（A）was primitive（B） could be compared to childrens pictures（C） was already academic（D）was childish24 Rothkos distinctive style _.（A）was inspired by Rosenberg（B） resulted from moving to Long
27、Island（C） resulted from his grief（D）evolved in 194825 Who named paintings by their colours?（A）Rosenberg.（B） Rothko.（C） Dealers.（D）Steindecker.26 The Great Wall of ChinaWalls and wall building have played a very important role in Chinese culture. These people, from the dim mists of prehistory have be
28、en wail-conscious; from the Neolithic period when ramparts of pounded earth were used to the Communist Revolution, walls were an essential part of any village. Not only towns and villages; the houses and the temples within them were somehow walled, and the houses also had no windows overlooking the
29、street, thus giving the feeling of wandering around a huge maze. The name for “city“ in Chinese (cheng) means wall, and over these walled cities, villages, houses and temples presides the god of walls and mounts, whose duties were, and still are, to protect and be responsible for the welfare of the
30、inhabitants. Thus a great and extremely laborious task such as constructing a wall, which was supposed to-run throughout the country, must not have seemed such an absurdity.However, it is indeed a common mistake to perceive the Great Wall as a single architectural structure, and it would also be err
31、oneous to assume that it was built during a single dynasty, for the building of the wall spanned the various dynasties, and each of these dynasties somehow contributed to the refurbishing and the construction of a wall, whose foundations had been laid many centuries ago. It was during the fourth and
32、 third century B.C. that each warring state started building walls to protect their kingdoms, both against one another and against the northern nomads. Especially three of these states: the Chin, the Chao and the Yen, corresponding respectively to the modem provinces of Shensi, Shansi and Hopei, ove
33、r and above building walls that surrounded their kingdoms, also laid the foundations on which Chin Shih Huang Di would build his first continuous Great Wall.The role that the Great Wall played in the growth of Chinese economy was an important one. Throughout the centuries many settlements were estab
34、lished along the new border. The garrison troops were instructed to reclaim wasteland and to plant crops on it, roads and canals were built, to mention just a few of the works carried out. All these undertakings greatly helped to increase the countrys trade and cultural exchanges with many remote ar
35、eas and also with the southern, central and western parts of Asia-the formation of the Silk Route. Builders, garrisons, artisans, farmers and peasants left behind a trail of objects, including inscribed tablets, household articles, and written work, which have become extremely valuable archaeologica
36、l evidence to the study of defence institutions of the Great Wall and the everyday life of these people who lived and died along the wall.26 Chinese cities resembled a maze _.（A）because they were walled（B） because the houses has no external windows（C） because the name for cities means “wall“（D）becau
37、se walls have always been important there27 Constructing a wall that ran the length of the country _.（A）honoured the god of walls and mounts（B） was an absurdly laborious task（C） may have made sense within Chinese culture（D）made the country look like a huge maze28 The Great Wall of China _.（A）was bui
38、lt in a single dynasty（B） was refurbished in the fourth and third centuries BC（C） used existing foundations（D）was built by the Chin, the Chao and the Yen29 Crops were planted _.（A）on wasteland（B） to reclaim wasteland（C） on reclaimed wasteland（D）along the canals30 The Great Wall _.（A）helped build tra
39、de only inside China（B） helped build trade in China and abroad（C） helped build trade only abroad（D）helped build trade only to remote areas31 English as a National Foreign LanguageIndia has two national languages for central administrative purposes: Hindi and English. Hindi is the national, official,
40、 and main link language of India. English is an associate official language. The Indian Constitution also officially approves twenty-two regional languages for official purposes.Dozens of distinctly different regional languages are spoken in India, which share many characteristics such as grammatica
41、l structure and vocabulary. Apart from these languages, Hindi is used for communication in India. The homeland of Hindi is mainly in the north of India, but it is spoken and widely understood in all urban centers of India. In the southern states of India, where people speak many different languages
42、that are not much related to Hindi, there is more resistance to Hindi, which has allowed English to remain a lingua franca to a greater degree.Since the early 1600s, the English language has had a toehold on the Indian subcontinent, when the East India Company established settlements in Chennai, Kol
43、kata, and Mumbai, formerly Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay respectively. The historical background of India is never far away from everyday usage of English. India has had a longer exposure to English than any other country which uses it as a second language, its distinctive words, idioms, grammar and
44、rhetoric spreading gradually to affect all places, habits and culture.In India, English serves two purposes. First, it provides a linguistic tool for the administrative cohesive- ness of the country, causing people who speak different languages to become united. Secondly, it serves as a language of
45、wider communication, including a large variety of different people covering a vast area. It overlaps with local languages in certain spheres of influence and in public domains.Generally, English is used among Indians as a “link“ language and it is the first language for many well-educated Indians. I
46、t is also the second language for many who speak more than one language in India. The English language is a tie that helps bind the many segments of our society together. Also, it is a linguistic bridge between the major countries of the world and India.English has special national status in India.
47、R has a special place in the parliament, judiciary, broadcasting, journalism, and in the education system. One can see a Hindi-speaking teacher giving their students instructions during an educational tour about where to meet and when their bus would leave, but all in English. It means that the lang
48、uage permeates daily life. It is unavoidable and is always expected, especially in the cities.The importance of the ability to speak or write English has recently increased significantly because English has become the de facto standard. Learning English language has become popular for business, comm
49、erce and cultural reasons and especially for Internet communications throughout the world. English is a language that has become a standard not because it has been approved by any “standards“ organization but because it is widely used by many information and technology industries and recognized as being standard. The call centre phenomenon has stimulated a huge expansion of Internet-related act
