1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 301（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. Wh
2、en 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 How to Read EffectivelyMany students tend to read books without any purpose. They often read a book slowly an
3、d in great detail with the result that they frequently have no 【1】_view of what they are reading. 【1】_To read effectively, students are suggested to do the following:1)To decide precisely on the 【2】_ for reading a book. 【2】_2)To decide what they are going to read:a. The 【3】 _page should be read firs
4、t. 【3】 _b. The chapter headings are useful in indicating what should be read.c. The Index can help to 【4】_the pages related to some 【4】_information.3)To read the opening and final paragraphs so that they could know whata book is mainly about.4)To ask themselves what is the main part of their reading
5、 and then tryto answer the question by making notes, which can help them toconcentrate on the reading and provide a 【5】_which can bo 【5】_re-read later.5)To increase reading speed without loss of 【6】_ 【6】_Three main kinds of silent reading speed:1)the slowest, study speed for a higher level of unders
6、tanding,2)the average speed for easier textbooks, novels, etc.3)the fastest: 【7】_used to get a general idea of a book or an 【7】_article.The results of a survey of students reading speed conducted by EdwardFry:A good reader achieves 【8】_comprehension when he skims at 【8】_over 800 words a minute, 70%
7、comprehension at 250-500 words a minute,and 80%-90% comprehension at 200-300 words a minute.The average speed of a poor reader is 150 to 【9】_words a 【9】_minute with a comprehension rate of 【10】_. 【10】_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
8、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.11 According to Nick, what i
9、s the most dangerous notion in the world?（A）Predominance.（B） Local characteristics and customs.（C） Individual identity.（D）Potential dividing forces. 12 Which description is not true about Nick Ularu?（A）He has Romanian origin.（B） He is a teacher and a set designer in the same time.（C） He had a cultur
10、al resonance when he first came to the USA（D）He couldnt understand why Americans invest so much on entertainment industry but not on art. 13 What is Nicks opinions about teaching?（A）He thinks that teaching doesnt help the artistic side.（B） He believes that teaching keeps him energetic.（C） Teaching s
11、houldnt be totally isolated from politics.（D）Teaching frustrates him so many times. 14 What is Nicks philosophy of teaching?（A）The students must be the followers of their teacher.（B） He should work hard to make students believe in their own abilities.（C） Pleasing students is the most necessary facto
12、r.（D）Teacher should have a decisive effect on the personalities of students. 15 Which one is Nicks idea about the leader?（A）Everyone has the access to leadership.（B） Leaders create the worst work situation.（C） Books can help to improve people ability and make someone a leader.（D）The real leaders are
13、 born. SECTION 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 The strike has broken out in South Africa because（A）more th
14、an one hundred miners died in a disaster.（B） black miners have been calling for a wage rise.（C） miners wanted to mourn over colleagues death.（D）miners wanted to better their working conditions. 17 Which of the following statements about the strike is TRUE?（A）The strike has resulted in a great loss t
15、o the mining industry.（B） A few reporters were allowed to approach the mine.（C） Half the countrys black miners were on strike.（D）A white church leader called the strike action. 18 On hearing Yamanis firing, on traders in New York were（A）annoyed.（B） ecstatic.（C） surprised.（D）gloomy. 19 The H5N1 bird
16、flu has been found in all the following places EXCEPT（A）Australia.（B） Maharashtra.（C） France.（D）Austria. 20 The news is mainly about the UN human rights investigators calling for（A）a better treatment of the US detainees at Guantanamo Bay.（B） an independent judicial body to bring the detainees to tri
17、al.（C） the immediate closure of the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay.（D）the implementation of international human rights law at Guantanamo Bay. 20 In the eighteenth century, Japans feudal overlords, from the shogun to the humblest samurai, found themselves under financial stress. In part, this stres
18、s can be attributed to the overlords failure to adjust to a rapidly expanding economy, but the stress was also due to factors beyond the overlords control. Concentration of the samurai in castle towns had acted as a stimulus to nude. Commercial efficiency, in turn, had put temptations in the way of
19、buyers. Since most samurai had been reduced to idleness by years of peace, encouraged to engage in scholarship and martial exercises or to perform administrative tasks that took little time, it is not surprising that their tastes and habits grew expensive. Overlords income, despite the increase in r
20、ice production among their tenant farmers, failed to keep pace with their expenses. Although shortfalls in overloads income resulted almost as much from laxity among their tax collectors (the nearly inevitable outcome of hereditary office-holding) as from their higher standards of living, a misfortu
21、ne like a fire or flood, bringing an in crease in expenses or a drop in revenue, could put a domain in debt to the city rice-brokers who handled its finances. Once in debt, neither the individual samurai nor the shogun himself found it easy to recover.It was difficult for individual samurai overlord
22、s to increase their income because the amount of rice that farmers could be made to pay in taxes was not unlimited, and since the income of Japans central government consisted in part of taxes collected by the shogun from his huge domain, the government too was constrained. Therefore, the Tokugawa s
23、hoguns began to look to other sources for revenue. Cash profits from government-owned mines were already on the decline because the most easily worked deposits of silver and gold had been exhausted, although debasement of the coinage had compensated for the loss. Opening up new farmland was a possib
24、ility, but most of what was suitable had already been exploited and further reclamation was technically unfeasible. Direct taxation of the samurai themselves would be politically dangerous. This left the shoguns only commerce as a potential source of government income.Most of the countrys wealth, or
25、 so it seemed, was finding its way into the hands of city merchants. It appeared reasonable that they should contribute part of that revenue to ease the shoguns burden of financing the state. A means of obtaining such revenue was soon found by levying forced loans, known as goyo-kin; although these
26、were not taxes in the strict sense, since they were irregular in timing and arbitrary in amount, they were high in yield. Unfortunately, they pushed up prices. Thus, regrettably, the Tokugawa shoguns search for solvency for the government made it increasingly difficult for individual Japanese who li
27、ved on fixed stipends to make ends meet.21 Which is the authors attitude toward the samurai discussed in the first paragraph?（A）Warmly approving.（B） Mildly sympathetic.（C） Bitterly disappointed.（D）Harshly disdainful. 22 Which is the major mason fur the financial problems experienced by Japans feudal
28、 overlords?（A）Profits from mining had declined.（B） Spending had outdistanced income.（C） The samurai had concentrated in castle-towns.（D）The coinage had been sharply debased. 23 The reason that individual samurai did not find it easy to recover from debt is _.（A）taxes were irregular in timing and arb
29、itrary in amount（B） the Japanese government had failed to adjust to the needs of a changing economy（C） there was a limit to the amount in taxes that farmers could be made to pay（D）the domains of samurai overlords were becoming smaller and poorer as government revenues increased 24 Which could best b
30、e substituted for the word “THIS“ in the last sentence of the second paragraph?（A）The search of Japans Tokugawa shoguns for solvency.（B） The unfairness of the tax structure in eighteenth-century Japan.（C） The difficulty experienced by both individual samurai and the shogun himself in extricating the
31、mselves from debt.（D）The difficulty of increasing government income by other means. 25 According to the passage, the actions of the Tokugawa shoguns in their search for solvency for the government were regrettable because those actions _.（A）resulted in the exhaustion of the most easily worked deposi
32、ts of silver and gold（B） raised the cost of living by pushing up prices（C） were far tower in yield than had originally been anticipated（D）acted as deterrent to trade 25 A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over:“Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapri
33、sti! Thats all right!“ He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mocking-bird that hung on the other side of the door, whistling his fluty notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence.Mr. Pontellier, unable to read his newspaper with any
34、degree of comfort, arose with an expression and an exclamation of disgust. He walked down the gallery and across the narrow “bridges“ which connected the Lebrun cottages one with the other. He had been seated before the door of the main house. The parrot and the mockingbird were the property of Mada
35、me Lebrun, and they had the right to make all the noise they wished. Mr. Pontellier had the privilege of quitting their society when they ceased to be entertaining.He stopped before the door of his own cottage, which was the fourth one from the main building and next to the last. Seating himself in
36、a wicker rocker which was there, he once more applied himself to the task of reading the newspaper. The day was Sunday; the paper was a day old. The Sunday papers had not yet reached Grand Isle. He was already acquainted with the market reports, and he glanced restlessly over the editorials and bits
37、 of news which he had not had time to read before quitting New Orleans the day before.Mr. Pontellier wore eye-glasses. He was a man of forty, of medium height and rather slender build; he stooped a little. His hair was brown and straight, parted on one side. His beard was neatly and closely trimmed.
38、Once in a while he withdrew his glance from the newspaper and looked about him. There was more noise than ever over at the house. The main building was called “the house,“ to distinguish it from the cottages. The chattering and whistling birds were still at it. Two young gifts, the Farival twins, we
39、re playing a duet from “Zampa“ upon the piano. Madame Lebrun was bustling in and out, giving orders in a high key to a yard-boy whenever she got inside the house, and directions in an equally high voice to a dining-room servant whenever she got outside. She was a fresh, pretty woman, clad always in
40、white with elbow sleeves. Her starched skins crinkled as she came and went. Farther down, before one of the cottages, a lady in black was walking demurely up and down, telling her beads. A good many persons of the pension had gone over to the Cheniere Caminada in Beaudetets lugger to hear mass. Some
41、 young people were out under the water-oaks playing croquet. Mr. Pontelliers two children were theresturdy little fellows of four and five. A quadroon nurse followed them about with a faraway, meditative air.Mr. Pontellier finally lit a cigar and began to smoke, letting the paper drag idly from his
42、hand. He fixed his gaze upon a white sunshade that was advancing at snails pace from the beach. He could see it plainly between the gaunt trunks of the water-oaks and across the stretch of yellow chamomile. The gulf looked far away, melting hazily into the blue of the horizon. The sunshade continued
43、 to approach slowly. Beneath its pink-lined shelter were his wife, Mrs. Pontellier, and young Robert Lebrun. When they reached the cottage, the two seated themselves with some appearance of fatigue upon the upper step of the porch, facing each other, each leaning against a supporting post.“What foll
44、y! to bathe at such an hour in such heat!“ exclaimed Mr. Pontellier. He himself had taken a plunge at daylight. That was why the morning seemed long to him.“You are burnt beyond recognition,“ he added, looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some
45、damage. She held up her hands, strong, shapely hands, and surveyed them critically, drawing up her lawn sleeves above the wrists. Looking at them reminded her of her rings, which she bad given to her husband before leaving for the beach. She silently reached out to him, and he, understanding, took t
46、he rings from his vest pocket and dropped them into her open palm. She slipped them upon her fingers; then clasping her knees, she looked across at Robert and began to laugh. The rings sparkled upon her fingers. He sent back an answering smile.“What is it?“ asked Pontellier, looking lazily and amuse
47、d from one to the other. It was some utter nonsense; some adventure out there in the water, and they both tried to relate it at once. It did not seem half so amusing when told. They realized this, and so did Mr. Pontellier. He yawned and stretched himself. Then he got up, saying he had half a mind t
48、o go over to Kleins hotel and play a game of billiards.“Come go along, Lebrun,“ he proposed to Robert. But Robert admitted quite frankly that he preferred to stay where he was and talk to Mrs. Pontellier.“Well, send him about his business when he bores you, Edna,“ instructed her husband as he prepar
49、ed to leave.“Here, take the umbrella,“ she exclaimed, holding it out to him. He accepted the sunshade, and lifting it over his head descended the steps and walked away.“Coming back to dinner?“ his wife called after him. He halted a moment and shrugged his shoulders. He felt in his vest pocket; there was a ten-dollar bill there. He did not know; perhaps he would return for the early dinner and perhaps he would not. It all depended upon the
