1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 333（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 Conquer Public Speaking Fear. IntroductionA. Public speakinga common source of stress for everyoneB. T
3、he truth about itit is not 【1】_ stressful 【1】_it is very likely to become invigorating 【2】_bears in mind its meaning, key points and reminders related. Causes of stress in a speechA. lack of right guiding principlesB. lack of fight 【3】_ 【3】_C. lack of right plan of action. Meaning of a 【4】_ speech.
4、【4】_A. h doesnt mean perfection.B. Give your audience something 【5】_ so that 【5】_they feel better about themselves;they feel better about jobs they have to do;they feel happy or entertained. Main points for 【6】_ a speech 【6】_A. Do not deliver lots of information to the audience.B. Have 【7】_ or an in
5、dex card. 【7】_. General remindersIf you forget the 【8】_ about public speaking and feel stressful, 【8】_A. go back and review this lecture,B. find out what you did 【9】_ 【9】_C. go back out and speak again.Remember that the 【10】_ will be impressive. 【10】_ 1 【1】2 【2】3 【3】4 【4】5 【5】6 【6】7 【7】8 【8】9 【9】10
6、【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 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now l
7、isten to the interview.11 What is special about Mr. Phelpss degree?（A）It integrates an assortment of courses.（B） It includes Economics in the curriculum.（C） Courses are taught individually.（D）Students learn in separate booths.12 Which of the following does Mr. Phelps consider the LEAST when applying
8、 for the vacancy?（A）The reputation of the bank.（B） Good training opportunities.（C） Room for long-term career growth.（D）Immediate wages and bonuses.13 What is Orientation Camp mainly about?（A）Having fun around a campfire in open air.（B） Helping freshmen adapt to college life.（C） Welcoming newcomers a
9、t the school gate.（D）Offering optional courses free of charge.14 According to Mr. Phelps, being a good manager means all the following EXCEPT（A）putting his ideas across to others.（B） solving thorny problems.（C） explaining solutions to others.（D）planning ahead of colleagues.15 When encouraged to ask
10、the interviewer a question, Mr. Phelps shows interest in opportunities to（A）work elsewhere in Asia.（B） receive training in Europe.（C） rise to managerial position.（D）make independent decisions.SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTDirections: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and
11、 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 times has the House voted for a specific withdrawal target date up to now?（A）One.（B） Two.（C） Three.（D）Four. 17 According to the news, which of the following statemen
12、ts is NOT true?（A）Former President of Russia Yeltsin died of a heart attack at 76.（B） Bill Clinton and his wife are expected to attend on behalf of the United States.（C） Ordinary Russians can pay their last respects to Mr. Yeltsin.（D）Putin declared Wednesday a national day of mourning across Russia.
13、 18 Why have Russias media painted a mostly positive spin on Yeltsins life?（A）To praise the political and economic freedoms he introduced.（B） To praise his efforts to the countrys economy.（C） To remember his devotion to the countrys political development.（D）To remember his work to the countrys commo
14、n workers. 19 According to Bush, The United States will help African nations strengthen their_.（A）stock markets（B） motor industry（C） financial markets（D）medicine factories 20 U.S. President urged the U.S. Congress to play a key role in the fight against_ in Africa.（A）starvation（B） AIDS（C） discrimina
15、tion（D）unemployment 20 Historical developments of the past half century and the invention of modem telecommunication and transportation technologies have created a world economy. Effectively the American economy has died and been replaced by a world economy.In the future there is no such thing as be
16、ing an American manager. Even someone who spends an entire management career in Kansas City is in international management. He or she will compete with foreign firms, buy from foreign firms, sell to foreign films, or acquire financing from foreign banks.The globalization of the worlds capital market
17、s that has occurred in the past 10 years will be replicated right across the economy in the next decade. An international perspective has become central to management. Without it managers are operating in ignorance and cannot understand what is happening to them and their firms.Partly because of glo
18、balization and partly because of demography, the work forces of the next century are going to be very different from those of the last century. Most firms will be employing more foreign nationals. More likely than not, you and your boss will not be of the same nationality. Demography and changing so
19、cial mores mean that white males will become a smaller fraction of the work force as women and minorities grow in importance. All of these factors will require changes in the traditional methods of managing the work force.In addition, the need to produce goods and services at quality levels previous
20、ly thought impossible to obtain in mass production and the spreading use of participatory management techniques will require a work force with much higher levels of education and skills. Production workers must be able to do statistical quality control; production workers must be able to do just in-
21、time inventories. Managers are increasingly shifting from a “dont think, do what you are told“ to a “think, I am not going to tell you what to do“ style of management.This shift is occurring not because todays managers are more enlightened than yesterdays managers but because the evidence is rapidly
22、 mounting that the second style of management is more productive than the first style of management. But this means that problems of training and motivating the work force both become more central and require different modes of behavior.In the world of tomorrow managers cannot be technologically ill
23、iterate regardless of their functional tasks within the firm. They dont have to be scientists or engineers inventing new technologies, but they have to be managers who understand when to bet and when not to bet on new technologies. If they dont understand what is going on and technology effectively
24、becomes a black box, they will fail to make the changes that those who do understand what is going on inside the black box make. They will be losers, not winners.Todays CEOs are those who solved the central problems facing their companies 20 years ago. Tomorrows CEOs will be those who solve central
25、problems facing their companies today. Sloan hopes to produce a generation of managers who will be solving todays and tomorrows problems and because they are successful in doing so they will become tomorrows captains of business. 21 The author suggests that a manager should hold a(n) _ view on manag
26、ement.（A）economical（B） geographical（C） international（D）financial22 Speaking of the problems of training and motivating laborers, the author implies that _.（A）laborers should keep up with the rapid development of modern technology（B） laborers pay more attention to wages（C） laborers want to advance th
27、emselves（D）there is a radical change in management style23 By the first sentence of paragraph 7, the author means that _.（A）managers should master modern technology（B） managers should have access to technological knowledge（C） managers should focus on functional tasks（D）managers should cooperate with
28、 technicians24 The main topic of this passage is _.（A）the new concept of management（B） the great shift of management style（C） the qualities of managers for the 21 st century（D）the technique of managers modem management24 One thing that distinguishes the online world from the real one is that it is v
29、ery easy to find things. To find a copy of The Economist in print, one has to go to a news-stand, which may or may not carry it. Finding it online, though, is a different proposition. Just go to Google, type in “economist“ and you will be instantly directed to . Though it is difficult to remember no
30、w, this was not always the case. Indeed, until Google, now the worlds most popular search engine, came on to the scene in September 1998, it was not the case at all. As in the physical world, searching online was a hit-or-miss affair.Google was vastly better than anything that had come before: so mu
31、ch better, in fact, that it changed the way many people use the web. Almost overnight, it made the web far more useful, particularly for nonspecialist users, many of whom now regard Google as the internets front door. The recent fuss over Googles stock market flotation obscures its far wider social
32、significance: few technologies, after all, are so influential that their names become used as verbs.Google began in 1998 as an academic research project by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, who were then graduate students at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. It was not the first search engi
33、ne, of course. Existing search engines were able to scan or “crawl“ a large portion of the web, build an index, and then find pages that matched particular words. But they were less good at presenting those pages, which might number in the hundreds of thousands, in a useful way.Mr Brins and Mr Pages
34、 accomplishment was to devise a way to sort the results by determining which pages were likely to be most relevant. They did so using a mathematical recipe, or algorithm, called PageRank. This algorithm is at the heart of Googles success, distinguishing it from all previous search engines and accoun
35、ting for its apparently magical ability to find the most useful web pages.Untangling the webPageRank works by analysing the structure of the web itself. Each of its billions of pages can link to other pages, and can also, in turn, be linked to. Mr Brin and Mr Page reasoned that if a page was linked
36、to many other pages, it was likely to be important. Furthermore, if the pages that linked to a page were important, then that page was even more likely to be important. There is, of course, an inherent circularity to this formula-the importance of one page depends on the importance of pages that lin
37、k to it, the importance of which depends in turn on the importance of pages that link to them. But using some mathematical tricks, this circularity can be resolved, and each page can be given a score that reflects its importance.The simplest way to calculate the score for each page is to perform a r
38、epeating or “iterative“ calculation (see article). To start with, all pages are given the same score. Then each link from one page to another is counted as a “vote“ for the destination page. Each pages score is recalculated by adding up the contribution from each incoming link, which is simply the s
39、core of the linking page divided by the number of outgoing links on that page. (Each pages score is thus shared out among the pages it links to.)Once all the scores have been recalculated, the process is repeated using the new scores, until the scores settle down and stop changing (in mathematical j
40、argon, the calculation “converges“). The final scores can then be used to rank search results: pages that match a particular-set of search terms are displayed in order of descending score, so that the page deemed most important appears at the top of the list. 25 We can infer from the 1st paragragh t
41、hat by “hit-or-miss“ it is meant _.（A）before Google, searching online was impossible（B） before Google, searching online lacked accuracy（C） before Google, searching online was difficult（D）Google is easy to use26 “Though it is difficult to remember now, this was not always the case.“ In the 1st paragr
42、agh, this sentence suggests that _.（A）today Google has become a commonplace way to find information online（B） Google made a great contribution to searching online（C） Google changed a lot（D）Google is different from other search engines27 The most important factor in Googles success is _.（A）its unique
43、 mathematical recipe（B） the popularity of its brand among users（C） that it was the first search engine in the world（D）its stock market flotation28 “But they were less good at presenting those pages, which might number in the hundreds of thousands, in a useful way.“ This sentence in the 3rd paragraph
44、 tells us that _.（A）other search engines are less convenient in use（B） Google is the best search engine（C） there are too many search engine（D）all the search engines are basically the same29 Which of the following is NOT true?（A）Each page can be given a score that reflects its importance.（B） In the b
45、eginning of rating a pages relative importance, all pages are given the same score.（C） The importance of one page depends on the importance of pages that link to it, the importance of which depends in turn on the importance of pages that link to them.（D）One pages score is given totally to another pa
46、ge it links to.29 The wet volcanic ash that covered a Maya village in Central America in about AD 595 coated and preserved everyday objects beans, chilies, rope, gourds, even unwashed dishes - just as they had been left, giving archaeologists a rare chance to learn about the everyday lives of the pe
47、ople of this pre-Columbian village. Exploration of the site, which is located in E1 Salvador and has been given the name Joya de Ceren, is now in its eighth season, and archaeologists are continuing to make new finds.The volcanic eruption that entombed Ceren more than 1,400 years ago began when lava
48、 pushed its way close enough to the surface to create a great explosion of steam and. ash that was centered just north of the village. The archaeologists have not found the remains of any human beings killed by the eruption in Ceren, suggesting that they had enough warning to flee. The eruption buri
49、ed Ceren in a layer of ash 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) deep over a period of a few days.One of the most striking of the conclusions drawn from the Ceren site is that the people of this ancient village lived more comfortably than average Salvadorans do today. Cerens architecture, crafts, and agriculture were surprisingly sophisticated and varied. They ate a rich variety of foods, had s
