1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 320（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 Daydreaming. Daydreaming can be harmful because it was considered asA. a waste of timeB. a 【1】_ of neurotic t
3、endencies 【1】_C. evidence of 【2】_ or an escape from 【2】_life realities and responsibilities when it occurs 【3】_ 【3】_. However, daydreaming can be beneficialA. it is an effective technique of 【4】_ 【4】_B. it contributes tointellectual growthpowers of concentrationthe ability to 【5】_ with others 【5】_C.
4、 it improves serf-control ability and enhances 【6】 _ ability 【6】_D. it improves a persons ability tobe better adapted to practical, immediate concernssolve everyday problemsbe more readily with new ideasE. Historically, many successful people got their best ideas whilerelaxing and daydreaming. How t
5、o make a positive daydreaming?A. (7)_ yourself as vividly as possible 【7】_B. create an environment free from 【8】_ 【8】_. General remarksA. Suggestion: Put aside a few minutes daily, taking short 【9】_【9】_B. Conclusion: Daydreaming, this 【10】_ investment, 【10】_highly benefit youphysical and mental well
6、-being.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. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 secon
7、ds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen to the interview.11 The following cannot be sent for recorded delivery EXCEPT _.（A）parcels（B） airway parcels（C） mail for the Irish Republic（D）documents of little monetary value 12 Which of the following is NOT TRUE of recorded delivery?（A）
8、It is signed for by the recipient.（B） A record of the delivery is kept by the post office.（C） The post office undertakes to deliver it to the addressee in person.（D）Recorded delivery mail is carried with the ordinary unregistered post. 13 Which of the following entitles a person to compensation for
9、loss according to Susan?（A）Unregistered mail.（B） Recorded delivery.（C） Registered delivery.（D）Urgent mail. 14 What can be seht by registered mail?（A）A first-class letter.（B） Urgent mail.（C） A railway letter.（D）An airway packet. 15 Compensation will not be paid for the following EXCEPT _.（A）coupons（B
10、） bank notes（C） trading stamps（D）packets 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 According to Magdalena Al
11、varez, at least _ survivors died hours after the accident.（A）19（B） 26（C） 6（D）15317 Which of the following statements about the crash is TRUE?（A）The number of casualties was 153 on Wednesday.（B） There accident killed 172 passengers on board.（C） The crash took place when the plane was landing.（D）The c
12、rash was caused probably by the engine fire.18 According to the news, which of the following statements is TRUE?（A）Humphrey Lyttelton is known to the radio listeners as a weather broadcaster.（B） Humphrey Lyttelton sought his fame as a guitar player and band leader in the 1940s.（C） Humphrey Lyttelton
13、 produced his fast British jazz record which entered the top 20.（D）Humphrey Lyttelton continued recording and touring with his band until 1970s.19 More than two hundred years ago, the bagpipes were prohibited as_.（A）noisy nuisances.（B） arms involved in wars.（C） anti-social pipes.（D）national instrume
14、nts.20 According to the news, UEFA_.（A）could not agree with Sir Blatter, the president of FIF.（B） insisted on restricting the number of foreign players.（C） attributed the success of English teams to foreign players.（D）proposed a limit of five foreign players in each team.20 As a contemporary artist,
15、 Jim Dine has often incorporated other peoples photography into his abstract works. But, the 68-year-old American didnt pick up a camera himself and start shooting until he moved to Berlin in 1995-and once he did, he couldnt stop. The result is a voluminous collection of images, ranging from early-2
16、0th-century-style heliogravures to modern-day digital printings, a selection of which are on exhibition at the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie in Paris. They are among his most prized achievements. “ I make photographs the way I make paintings, “says Dine, “but the difference is, in photography
17、, its like lighting a fire every time.“Though photography makes up a small slice of Dines vast oeuvre, the exhibit is a true retrospective of his career. Dine mostly photographs his own artwork or the subjects that he has portrayed in sculpture, painting and prints including Venus de Milo, ravens an
18、d owls, hearts and skulls. There are still pictures of well-used tools in his Connecticut workshop, delightful digital self-portraits and intimate portraits of his sleeping wife, the American photographer Diana Miehener. Most revealing and novel are Dines shots of his poetry, scribbled in charcoal o
19、n walls like graffiti. To take in this show is to wander through Dines life:his childhood obsessions, his loves, his dreams. It is a poignant and powerful exhibit that rightly celebrates one of modern arts most intriguing-and least hyped-talents.When he arrived on the scene in the early 1960s, Dine
20、was seen as a pioneer in the pop-art movement. But he didnt last long; once pop stagnated, Dine moved on. “Pop art had to do with the exterior world, “he says. He was more interested, he adds, in “what was going on inside me. “He explored his own personality, and from there developed themes. His lov
21、e for handcrafting grew into a series of artworks incorporating hammers and saws. His Obsession with owls and ravens came from a dream he once had. His childhood toy Pinocchio, worn and chipped, appears in some self-portraits as a red and yellow blur flying through the air.Dine first dabbled in phot
22、ography in the late 1970s, when Polaroid invited him to try out a new large-format camera at its head-quarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He produced a series of colorful, out-of-focus self-portraits, and when he was done, he packed them away. A half dozen of these images-in perfect condition-are
23、on display in Paris for the first time. Though masterful, they feel flat when compared with his later pictures.Dine didnt shoot again until he went to Berlin in the mi he opens himself physically and emotionally before the lens. He says such pictures are an attempt to examine himself as well as“ rec
24、ord the march of time, what gravity does to the face in everybody. Im a very willing subject.“ Indeed, Dine sees photography as the surest path to self-discovery: “Ive always learned about myself in my art, “he says. “But photography expresses me. Its me. Me. “The Paris exhibit makes that perfectly
25、clear. 21 According the Dine, the difference between painting and photography is that（A）the latter requires more insight.（B） the former needs more patience.（C） the latter arouses great passions in him.（D）the former involves more indoor work. 22 The word “oeuvre“ in the second paragraph probably mean
26、s（A）all the works of an artist.（B） all the efforts of an artist.（C） an artists great potential.（D）an artists great talent. 23 Which o the following photographs of Dines leaves the deepest impression on the author?（A）Pictures of graffiti on walls.（B） Photographs of his poetry.（C） Shots of his well-us
27、ed tools.（D）Pictures of ravens and owls. 24 What does the author think of Dines self-portraits in the late 1970s?（A）Their connotative meanings are not rich enough.（B） They are not so exquisite as his later works.（C） They reflect themes of his childhood dreams.（D）They are much better than his later p
28、ictures. 25 All of the following field has Dine ever set foot in EXCEPT（A）a new style of painting.（B） a silver-gelatin process.（C） an old style of printing.（D）Jungian psychoanalysis. 26 What is the main idea of the passage?（A）Jim Dines exhibit is a true retrospective of his career.（B） The author tel
29、ls us Jim Dines life stories as an artist.（C） Jim Dine is distinguished for his colorful self-portraits.（D）In a revealing exhibit, Jim Dine points his lens inward. 26 Britains east midlands were once the picture of English countryside, alive With flocks, shepherds, skylarks and buttercups-the stuff
30、of fairytales. In 1941 George Marsh left school at the age of 14 to work as a herdsman in Nottinghamshire, the East Midlands countryside his parents and grandparents farmed. He recalls skylarks nesting in cereal fields, which when accidentally disturbed would fly singing into the sky. But in his lif
31、etime, Marsh has seen the color and diversity of his native land fade. Farmers used to grow about a ton of wheat per acre; now they grow four tons. Pesticides have killed off the insects upon which skylarks fed, and year-round harvesting has driven the birds from their winter nests. Skylarks are now
32、 rare. “Farmers kill anything that affects production, “says Marsh. “Agriculture is too efficient.“Anecdotal evidence of a looming Crisis in biodiversity is now being reinforced by science. In their comprehensive surveys of plants, butterflies and birds over the past 20 to 40 years in Britain, ecolo
33、gists Jeremy Thomas and Carly Stevens found significant population declines in a third of all native species. Butterflies ate the furthest along-71 percent of Britains 58 species are shrinking in number, and some, like the large blue and tortoiseshell, are already extinct. In Britains grasslands, a
34、key habitat, 20 percent of all animal, plant and insect species are on the path to extinction. Theres hardly a corner of the countrys ecology that isnt affected by this downward spiral.The problem would be bad enough if it were merely local, but its not: because Britains temperate ecology is similar
35、 to that in so many other parts of the world, its the best microcosm scientists have been able to study in detail. Scientists have sounded alarms about species extinction in the past, but always specific to a particular animal or place-whales in the 1980s or the Amazonian rain forests in the 1990s.
36、This time, though, the implications are much wider. The Amazon is a “biodiversity hot spot“ with a unique ecology. But in Britain, “the main drivers of change are the same processes responsible for species declines worldwide, says Thomas. The findings, published in the journal Science, provide the f
37、irst clear evidence that the world is in the throes of a massive extinction. Thomas and Stevens argue that we are facing a loss of 65 to 95 percent of the worlds species, on the scale of an ice age or the meteorite that may have wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.If so, this would be only
38、the sixth time such devastation had occurred in the past 600 million years. The other five were associated with one-off events like the ice ages, a volcanic eruption or a meteor. This time, ecosystems are dying a thousand deaths-from overfishing and the razing of the rain forests, but also from adva
39、nces in agriculture. The British study, for instance, finds that one of the biggest problems is nitrogen pollution. Nitrogefi is released when fossil fuels burn in cars and power plants-but also when ecologically rich heath-lands are plowed and fertilizers are spread. Nitrogen-rich fertilizers fuel
40、the growth of tall grasses, which in turn overshadow and kill off delicate flowers like harebells and eyebrights.Even seemingly innocuous practices are responsible for vast ecological damage. When British farmers stopped feeding horses and cattle with hay and switched to silage, a kind of preserved
41、short grass, they eliminated a favorite nesting spot of corncrakes, birds known for their raspy nightly mating calls; corncrake populations have fallen 76 percent in the past 20 years. The depressing list goes on and on.Many of these practices are being repeated throughout the world, in one form or
42、another, which is why scientists believe that the British study has global implications. Wildlife is getting blander. “We dont know which species are essential to the web of life so were taking a massive risk by eliminating any of them, “ says David Wedin, professor of ecology at the University of N
43、ebraska. Chances are well be seeing the results of this experiment before too long.27 From the first paragraph, we get the impression that George Marsh（A）cherishes his adolescence memories.（B） thinks highly of the efficiency of agriculture.（C） may not have happy memories of past time.（D）cannot remem
44、ber his adolescence days. 28 Which of the following statements is TRUE of Jeremy Thomas and Carly Stevenss surveys?（A）They reported the results of the surveys to the government.（B） There were no such comprehensive surveys done before.（C） The surveys show there are more plant species extinct.（D）Other
45、 ecologists will do more surveys based on theirs. 29 What is the difference between todays ecological change and the five changes in ancient times?（A）Species like the dinosaurs brought the ice ages to an end.（B） A volcanic eruption might lead to a great catastrophe.（C） Todays change is mainly caused
46、 by agricultural advances.（D）Todays change attributes to a multitude of reasons. 30 The word “innocuous“ in the fifth paragraph probably means（A）arbitrary.（B） legendary.（C） harmless.（D）lethal. 31 According to David Wedin, the extinction of many species are caused by human beings（A）arrogance.（B） igno
47、rance.（C） nonchalance.（D）blunder. 32 The most suitable title for the passage would be（A）Nitrogen Pollution.（B） Ecological Issues.（C） Goodbye, Skylarks.（D）Agricultural Advances. 32 Our public debates often fly off into the wild blue yonder of fantasy. So its been with the Federal Communications Commi
48、ssions new media-ownership rules. Were told that, unless the FCCs decision is reversed, it will worsen the menacing concentration of media power and that this will-to exaggerate only slightly-imperil free speech, the diversity of opinion and perhaps democracy itself. All this is more than overwrough
49、t; it completely misrepresents reality.In the past 30 years, media power has splintered dramatically; people have more choices than ever. Travel back to 1970. There were only three major TV networks (ABC, CBS, NBC); now, theres a fourth (Fox). Then, there was virtually no cable TV; now, 68 percent of households have it. Then, FM radio was a backwater; now there are 5, 892 FM stations, u
