1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 308（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 In the United States, charter schools provide alternatives to “regular“ public schools. Unlike most public sc
3、hools, charters dont usually have an enrollment boundary and can recruit students from a larger geographic area. Features of charter schools1)admission process no discrimination a random of method like 【1】_2)many different shapes to cater to specific regulations to offer a thematic or 【2】_ curriculu
4、mto provide an alternative to regular public school3)location more likely to be found in 【3】_ areas4)management run by large and small companies, parents, teachers, community groups and nonprofit organizations5)size most charter schools are new and 【4】_6)academic results Charter schools dont necessa
5、rily produce better academic results than regular public schools. Funding of charter schools1)mostly from the state, generally based on their 【5】_2)also from grants and additional donations for ambitious programs not fully funded y state/ district formulas3)also a limited amount of 【6】_ to help star
6、t new charter schools4)Funding for facilities can be 【7】_ for charter schools. Monitoring of charter schools1)authorizers entities that grant schools 【8】_, and monitor their performance including charter boards, school boards and 【9】_2)key masons schools close They cant recruit enough students. They
7、 cant find a stable space to operate. They cant manage 【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 you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. A
8、t 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 Who is Steven Slater?（A）A cyclist,（B） A coach on cycling.（C） An expert on tourism.（D）A tourist. 12 Which of the following is essential for all cycling tours?（A）a helm
9、et.（B） Lamps.（C） Sun cream.（D）Insect repellent. 13 Why should cyclists wear something that can easily be seen?（A）To attract the motorists.（B） To stand out.（C） To ensure safety.（D）To enjoy the scenery better. 14 According to Steven, cyclists should prepare all the following EXCEPT _ while cycling in
10、hot weather.（A）water（B） sun cream（C） insect repellent（D）cycling capes 15 HOW should cyclists prepare for the worst?（A）They should always carry enough money in case of difficulty.（B） They should carry a spare set of batteries for bicycle lamps.（C） They should never ride on their own.（D）They should ke
11、ep a puncture repair kit and a basic tool kit at hand. 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 Bush an
12、d Kerry campaigns exchanged attacks regarding _.（A）inflation（B） budget deficit（C） national security（D）unemployment rate 17 _ participated in the debate between the Bush and Kerry campaigns.（A）Cheney and Kerry（B） Bush and Kerry（C） Cheney and the head of Democratic Party（D）The heads of Democratic and
13、Republic parties 18 According to Cheney, Kerry is in favor of _.（A）cutting down on expenditure on defense and intelligence（B） increasing expenditure on national defense（C） allocating more fund on environmental pollution（D）levying more tax on large businesses 19 The Food and Agriculture Organization
14、predicts that which of the following is likely to decrease?（A）World grain supplies.（B） World grain production.（C） World grain consumption.（D）World grain trade. 20 Wheat supplies have decreased in recent years because _.（A）wheat prices are very low in the world（B） the demand for wheat is decreasing（C
15、） many regions are affected by drought（D）the wheat consumption is becoming less 20 Is there anything more boring than hearing about someone elses dream? And is there anything more miraculous than having one of your own? The voluptuous pleasure of Haruki Murakamis enthralling fictionsfull of enigmati
16、c imagery, random nonsense, and profundities that may or may not hold up in the light of dayreminds me of dreaming. Like no other author I can think of, Murakami captures the juxtapositions of the trivial and the momentous that characterize dream life, those crazy incidents that seem so vivid in the
17、 moment and so blurry and preposterous later on. His characters live ordinary lives, boiling pasta for lunch, riding the bus, and blasting Prince while working out at the gym. Then suddenly and matter-of-factly, they do something utterly nuts, like strike up a conversation with a coquettish Siamese
18、cat, or maybe mackerel and sardines begin to rain from the sky. In Murakamis world, these things make complete, cock-eyed sense.Like many of Murakamis heroes, Kafka Tamura in Kafka on the Shore has more rewarding relationships with literature and music than with people. (Murakamis passion for music
19、is infectious; nothing made me want to rush out and purchase a Brahms CD until I read his Sputnik Sweetheart.) On his 15th birthday, Kafka runs away from his Tokyo home for obscure reasons related to his famous sculptor father. His choice of a destination is arbitrary. Or is it? “Shikoku, I decide.
20、Thats where Ill go The more I look at the mapactually every time I study itthe more I feel Shikoku tugging at me.“On the island of Shikoku, Kafka makes himself a fixture at the local library, where he setties into a comfortable sofa and starts reading The Arabian Nights: “Like the genie in the bottl
21、e they have this sort of vital, living sense of play, of freedom that common sense cant keep bottled up.“ As in a David Lynch movie, all the library staffers are philosophical eccentrics ready to advance the surreal narrative. Oshima, the androgynous clerk, talks to Kafka about ( inevitably) Kafka a
22、nd the merits of driving while listening to Schubert (“a dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while Im driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right there“). The tragica
23、lly alluring head librarian, Miss Saeki, once wrote a hit song called “Kafka ma the Shore“and may or may not be Katkns long-lost mother. Alarmingly, she also stars in his erotic fantasies.In alternating chapters, Murakami records the even odder antics of Nakata, a simpleminded cat catcher who spends
24、 his days chatting with tabbies in a vacant Tokyo lot. One afternoon, a menacing clog leads him to the home of a sadistic cat killer who goes by the name Johnnie Walker. Walker ends up dead by the end of the encounter; back in Shikoku, Kafka unaccountably finds himself drenched in blood. Soon, Nakat
25、a too begins feeling an inexplicable pull toward the island.If this plot sounds totally demented, trust me, it gets even weirder than that. Like a dream, yon just have to be them. And, like a dream, what this dazzling novel meansor whether it means anything at allwe may never know. 21 What is “Kafka
26、 on the Shore“?（A）It is a fiction written by a head librarian Miss Saeki.（B） It is an autobiographical novel of Kafka Tamura.（C） It is a movie adapted from Haruki Murakarnis book.（D）It is the name of a hit song in a novel under the same name.22 According to the author, which of the following is NOT
27、true about Haraki Murakamis novels?（A）They bring the sensory pleasure to the author.（B） They are full of imagination without any profundities.（C） They juxtapose the trivial with the momentous.（D）They are similar in characteristics to dreams.23 According to the passage, which of the following is NOT
28、true about Kafka?（A）He is familiar with literature and music.（B） He has a good relationship with his father.（C） He leaves Tokyo for Shikoku at his teens.（D）He often goes to the local library on Shikoku Island.24 The word “demented“ in the last paragraph refers to（A）crazy.（B） interesting.（C） fancy.（D
29、）boring.25 What is the writers tone in this passage?（A）Approving.（B） Criticizing.（C） Ironical.（D）Neutral.25 It was said by Sir George Bernard Shaw that “England and America are two countries separated by the same language.“ My first personal experience of this was when I worked as a camp counselor f
30、or two months in 2000 in Summer Camp run by the Boy Scouts of America, as part of an international leader exchange scheme. Before I went, all the participants in the scheme were given a short list of words that are in common use in the UK which Americans would either be confused by or would even off
31、end them. I memorized the words and thought “Ill cope“.When I finally arrived in the States three months later, I realized that perhaps a lifetime of watching American television was not adequate preparation for appreciating and coping with the differences between American and British speech. In the
32、 first hour of arriving at the camp I was exposed to High School American English, Black American English and American English spoken by Joe Public, all every different to each other. Needless to say, I did cope in the end. The Americans I met were very welcoming and helpful, and I found they were p
33、atient with me when I made a social faux pas when I used an inappropriate word or phrase.Upon my return I began to wonder whether anyone had documented the differences between American and British English. I found several books on the subject but often these were written in a dry and academic way. I
34、 felt that I could do better and use my sense of humor and personal experiences to help people from both sides of Atlantic to communicate more effectively when they meet.My research into the subject led me to several conclusions.Firstly, American English and British English are coveting, thanks to i
35、ncreased transatlantic travel and the media. The movement of slang words is mostly eastwards, though a few words from the UK have been adopted by the Ivy League fraternities, This convergent trend is a recent one dating from the emergence of Hollywood as the predominant film making center in the wor
36、ld and also from the Second World War when large numbers of American GIs were stationed in the UK. This trend was consolidated by the advent of television. Before then, it was thought that American English and British English would diverge as the two languages evolved. In 1789, Noah Webster stated t
37、hat: “Numerous local causes, such as a new country, new associations of people, new combinations of ideas in the arts and some intercourse with tribes wholly unknown in Europe will introduce new words into the American tongue.“ He was right, but his next statement has since been proved to be incorre
38、ct. “These causes will produce in the course of time a language in North America as different from the modern Dutch, Danish and Swedish are from the German or from one another.“Webster had underrated the mount of social intercourse between England and her former colony. Even before Webster had start
39、ed to compile his dictionary, words and expressions from the America had already infiltrated the British language, for example “canoe“ and “hatchet“.Secondly, there are some generalizations that can be made about American and British English which can reveal the nature of the two nations and their p
40、eoples. British speech tends to be less general, and directed more, in nuances of meaning, attendant murmurings and pauses, carries a wealth of shared assumptions and attitudes. In other words, the British are preoccupied with their social status within society and speak and act accordingly to fit i
41、nto the social class they aspire to. This is particularly evident when talking to someone from “the middle class“ when he points out that he is “upper middle class“ rather than “middle class“ or “lower middle class“. John Major (the former UK Prime Minister) may have said that we are now living in a
42、 “classless society“ but the class system still prevails. At that moment both he and the Leader of the Opposition, Tony Blair, were talking about capturing the “middle England“, “ middle class vote“ as the key to winning the next general election. American speech tends to be influenced by the over-h
43、eated language of much of the media, which is designed to attach an impression of exciting activity to passive, if sometimes insignificant events. Yet, curiously, really violent activity and life-changing events are hidden in blind antiseptic tones that serve to disguise the reality. Two examples co
44、me readily to mindthe US Military with their “friendly fire“ and “collateral damages“ and the business world with their “downsizing“. British people tend to understatement whereas Americans towards hyperbole. A Briton might respond to a suggestion with a word such as “Terrific!“ only if he is expres
45、sing rapturous enthusiasm, whereas an American might use the word merely to signify polite assent.Thirdly, The American language has less regard than the British for grammatical form, and will happily bulldoze its way across distinctions rather than steer a path between them. American English will c
46、asually use one form of a word for another, for example turning nouns into verbs or verbs and nouns into adjectives. 26 The sentence “England and America are two countries separated by the same language“ in the first paragraph implies that（A）England and America used to be one country but were separa
47、ted by the language.（B） England and America share the same language but the language separates them.（C） England and America share the same language but show differences in the language use.（D）British English and American English are almost the same in the two countries.27 The author decided to write
48、 about the differences between American and British English to（A）support the statement of Bernard Shaw.（B） describe his personal experiences.（C） show his sense of humor.（D）help peoples communication.28 Which of the following does NOT contribute to the convergent trend of American English and British
49、 English?（A）More international travel between the two countries.（B） The emergence of Hollywood as a film making center.（C） The advent of television.（D）The individual evolution of the two languages,29 The British people, as is revealed by their language（A）are now living in a “classless society“.（B） are more inclined to hyperbole.（C） think much about their social status.（D）are more enthusiastic about voting.30 In terms of grammatical form,（A）the American language has m
