1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 313（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 Complete the gap-filling task. Some of the gaps below may require a maximum of THREE words. Make .sure the wo
3、rd (s)you fill .in is (are)both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may refer to your notes.Structure of the Canadian GovernmentCanada is a former British colony. There are manysimilarities and differences in the political conditionsbetween the two countries. Both countries have the same
4、official head of state,i.e. ,【1】_ 【1】_In Canada, the official head is represented by a【2】_, who, when heads of state visit Canada, 【2】_will first greet them before they are welcomed by【3】_ 【3】_. The biggest difference between Canada and theUK is that Canada is a 【4】_ 【4】_1)Canada has ten provinces a
5、nd 【5】_ 【5】_territories, each with their own government. These localgovernments all have a great deal of power.2)Canada was the first political community tocombine federalism with a(n)【6】_ model of 【6】_government, which is labeled with “strength, order and【7】_“. 【7】_. The Canadian parliament consist
6、s of the Houseof Commons and the Senate.1)The MPs in the House of Commons ale electedto represent different electoral districts ,which are based on 【8】_ rather than geographic size. 【8】_ 2)The senators am not elected. They are 【9】 【9】_ by the Governor General to represent theregions more equally. Th
7、e Senate is 【10】_ to the【10】_House of Lords in the UK1 【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. At the e
8、nd of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen to the interview.11 Paul Ray said they discovered that a clear cultural change was happening in many areas except _.（A）peoples lives（B） environmental issues（C） consumption patterns（D）media adve
9、rtisements 12 According to Ray, the official culture is featured by _.（A）small government（B） dynamic media（C） materialism（D）the massive support from most Americans 13 Why do cultural creatives regard themselves alone in the society?（A）They are seldom mentioned by mass media.（B） They dont express the
10、mselves.（C） They have to sacrifice many things which are parts of their old lives.（D）All of the above. 14 Why are there so many women among Cultural Creatives, according to Ray?（A）Because they are not burdened so much as men.（B） Because they are more sensitive and feel more.（C） Because they will pus
11、h for change and for a better world because of their husbands.（D）Because they have more intelligence and skills. 15 Ray said he had been an activist, involved in _.（A）anti-discrimination movement（B） environmental movement（C） non-violence movement（D）human rights movement SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTDirec
12、tions: 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 How many South Korean hostages will Taliban insurgents plan to release?（A）3（B） 19（C） 21（D）23 17
13、 Afghan government insisted that _.（A）all the Taliban captors be caught and punished（B） it would not exchange Taliban prisoners for Korean hostages（C） it would negotiate with the Taliban for a compromise（D）it would help the South Korean officials rescue their hostages 18 Where is the damage gouge lo
14、cated in Space Shuttle Endeavour?（A）In one black heat tile under the right wind.（B） In one of the main landing gear doors.（C） In one black heat tile under the left wind.（D）In the middle of Endeavours belly. 19 Endeavours repair options include a heat resistant paint, a protective plate or _.（A）a hea
15、t protection tile（B） a mechanical hand（C） a measuring instrument（D）a thick compound 20 Which of the following statements is NOT mentioned in the news?（A）The US government has sent dive teams to help in the recovery effort.（B） The bridge located in Hennepin County collapsed on Wednesday.（C） The Sheri
16、ff transferred the casualties in the collapse to other states.（D）The National Transportation Safety Board took pictures of the wreckage. 20 Theodoric Voler had been brought up, from infancy to the confines of middle age, by a fond mother whose chief solicitude had been to keep him screened from what
17、 she called the coarser realities of life. When she died she left Theodoric alone in a world that was as real as ever, and a good deal coarser than he considered it had any need to be. To a man of his temperament and upbringing even a simple railway journey was crammed with petty annoyances and mino
18、r discords, and as he settled himself down in a second-class compartment one September morning he was conscious of ruffled feelings and general mental discomposure.He bad been staying at a country vicarage, the inmates of which had been certainly neither brutal nor bacchanalian, but their supervisio
19、n of the domestic establishment had been of that lax order which invites disaster. The pony carriage that was to take him to the station had never been properly ordered, and when the moment for his departure drew near, the handyman who should have produced the required article was nowhere to be foun
20、d. In this emergency Theodoric, to his mute but very intense disgust, found himself obliged to collaborate with the vicars daughter in the task of harnessing the pony, which necessitated groping about in an ill-lighted outbuilding called a stable, and smelling very like oneexcept in patches where it
21、 smelled of mice.As the train glided out of the station Theodorics nervous imagination accused himself of exhaling a weak odour of stable yard, and possibly of displaying a mouldy straw or two on his unusually well brushed garments. Fortunately the only other occupation of the compartment, a lady of
22、 about the same age as himself, seemed inclined for slumber rather than scrutiny; the train was not due to stop till the terminus was reached, in about an hours time, and the carriage was of the old fashioned sort that held no communication with a corridor, therefore no further travelling companions
23、 were likely to intrude on Theodorics semiprivacy. And yet the train had scarcely attained its normal speed before he became reluctantly but vividly aware that he was not alone with the slumbering lady; he was not even alone in his own clothes.A warm, creeping movement over his flesh betrayed the un
24、welcome and highly resented presence, unseen but poignant, of a strayed mouse, that had evidently dashed into its present retreat during the episode of the pony harnessing. Furtive stamps and shakes and wildly directed pinches failed to dislodge the intruder, whose motto, indeed, seemed to be Excels
25、ior; and the lawful occupant of the clothes lay back against the cushions and endeavoured rapidly to evolve some means for putting an end to the dual ownership. Theodoric was goaded into the most audacious undertaking of his life. Crimsoning to the hue of a beetroot and keeping an agonised watch on
26、his slumbering fellow traveller, he swiftly and noiselessly secured the ends of his railway rug to the racks on either side of the carriage, so that a substantial curtain hung athwart the compartment. In the narrow dressing room that he had thus improvised he proceeded with violent haste to extricat
27、e himself partially and the mouse entirely from the surrounding casings of tweed and half-wool.As the unravelled mouse gave a wild leap to the floor, the rug, slipping its fastening at either end, also came down with a heart-curdling flop, and almost simultaneously the awakened sleeper opened her ey
28、es. With a movement almost quicker than the mouses, Theodoric pounced on the rug and hauled its ample folds chin-high over his dismantled person as he collapsed into the farther corner of the carriage. The blood raced and beat in the veins of his neck and forehead, while he waited dumbly for the com
29、munication cord to be pulled. The lady, however, contented herself with a silent stare at her strangely muffled companion. How much had she seen, Theodoric queried to himself; and in any case what on earth must she think of his present posture? 21 The word “solicitude“ in the first paragraph probabl
30、y means（A）great animosity.（B） excessive concern.（C） much inducement.（D）reasonable pretext. 22 Which of the following does NOT describe Theodorics feeling when he was on the train?（A）Uneasy.（B） Fretful.（C） Irritated.（D）Slack. 23 Which of the following statements is TRUE about the lady of the compartm
31、ent?（A）She looked out of the train window.（B） She intended to talk with Theoforic.（C） She had fallen into a deep sleep.（D）She looked at Theoforic up and down. 24 Theoforic did all the following to get the mouse out of his clothes EXCEPT（A）pressing the mouse between his fingers.（B） putting his feet d
32、own onto the ground.（C） moving from side to side or up and down.（D）undressing himself to catch the mouse. 24 Meteorologists routinely tell us what next weeks weather is likely to he, and climate scientists discuss what might happen in 100 years. Christoph Schar, though, ventures dangerously close to
33、 that middle realm, where previously only the Farmers Almanac dared go: what will next summers weather be like? Following last years tragic heat wave, which directly caused the death of tens of thousands of people, the question is of burning interest to Europeans. Schar asserts that last summers swe
34、ltering temperatures should no longer be thought of as extraordinary. “The situation in 2002 and 2003 in Europe, where we had a summer with extreme rainfall and record flooding followed by the hottest summer in hundreds of years, is going to be typical for future weather patterns,“ he says.Most Euro
35、peans have probably never read Schars report (not least because it was published in the scientific journal Nature in the dead of winter) but they seem to be bracing themselves for the worst. As part of its new national “heat-wave plan“, France issued a level-three alert when temperatures in Provence
36、 reached 34 degrees Celsius three days in a row; hospital and rescue workers were asked to prepare for an influx of patients. Italian government officials have proposed creating a national registry of people over 65 so they can be herded into air-conditioned supermarkets in the event of another heat
37、 wave. Londons mayor has offered a 100,000 pound reward for anybody who can come up with a practical way of cooling the citys underground trains, where temperatures have lately reached nearly 40 degrees Celsius. (The money hasnt been claimed.) Global warming seems to have permanently entered the Eur
38、opean psyche.If the public is more aware, though, experts are more confused. When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change hammered out its last assessment in 2001, scientists pulled together the latest research and made their best estimate of how much the Earths atmosphere would warm during th
39、e next century. There was a lot they didnt know, but they were confident theyd be able to plug the gaps in time for the next report, due out in 2007. When they explored the fundamental physics and chemistry of the atmosphere, though, they found something unexpected: the way the atmosphereand, in par
40、ticular, cloudsrespond to increasing levels of carbon is far more complex and difficult to predict than they had expected. “We thought wed reduce the uncertainty, but that hasnt happened,“ says Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a lead author of
41、the next IPCC report. “As we delve further and further into the science and gain a better understanding of the true complexity of the atmosphere, the uncertainties have gotten deeper.“This doesnt mean, of course, that the world isnt warming. Only the biased or the deluded deny that temperatures have
42、 risen, and that human activity has something to do with it. The big question that scientists have struggled with is how much warming will occur over the next century? With so much still unknown in the climate equation, theres no way of telling whether warnings of catastrophe are overblown or if thi
43、ngs are even more dire than we thought.Why do scientists like Schar make predictions? Because, like economists, its their job to hazard a best guess with the resources at hand-namely, vast computer programs that simulate what the Earths atmosphere will do in certain circumstances. These models incor
44、porate all the latest research into how the Earths atmosphere behaves. But there are problems with the computer models. The atmosphere is very big, but also consists of a multitude of tiny interactions among particles of dust, soot, cloud droplets and trace gases that cannot be safely ignored. Curre
45、nt models dont have nearly the resolution they need to capture what goes on at such small scales.Scientists got an inkling that something was missing from the models in the early 1990s when they ran a peculiar experiment. They had the leading models simulate warming over the next century and got a s
46、imilar answer from each. Then they ran the models again-this time accounting for what was then known about cloud physics.25 It can be inferred from the first paragraph that（A）climate scientists are contemptuous of weather forecast.（B） it is a venture to forecast what weather is like tomorrow.（C） Sch
47、ar has the audacity to do what others seldom do.（D）Schar has made gloomy predictions on future weather. 26 The expression “bracing themselves for the worst“ in the second paragraph probably means（A）sneering at the impending difficulties.（B） cheering themselves up for the worst situation.（C） preparin
48、g themselves for the worst situation.（D）having a total disregard for the coming difficulties. 27 What problem did the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change meet when they studied the earth atmosphere?（A）They found the clouds reaction to the carbon level of the atmophere was too complex to predict.
49、（B） They were puzzled by the carbon levels in the atmospheres cloud.（C） The atmospheres reaction to the carbon levels raise is more diffcult to predit than they ever thought.（D）Too many uncertainties in the atmospheres carbon level are to be reduced. 28 All of the following statements are true of climate scientists EXCEPT that（A）they are
