1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 34（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. Whe
2、n 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 The Texas teen Buchanan is【1】_the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. He got the 【1】_first Harry Potter bo
3、ok as a Christmas present back in 1998As the world eagerly cracks open the newest volume, whose initial U. S. run of 108 millioncopies is a【2】_record, the true mystery isnt the identity of the royal figure in the tide. Its 【2】_what impact these books are having on kids. If our society ever needed a
4、reading【3】_, its now. Only one half of young people read 【3】_a book of any kindincluding Harry Potterin 200【2】We set the bar almost on the ground. If you readone short story in a teen magazine, that would have counted, “laments Mark Bauerlein. He【4】_ 【4】_the loss of readers to the booming world of t
5、echnology. The new forms of media undoubtedly have some【5】_. TV shows promote mental gym- 【5】_nastics by forcing viewers to follow intertwining story lines. But books offer【6】_that cant 【6】_be gained from these other sources, from building vocabulary to stretching the imagination. Thats why many【7】_
6、are hoping the Harry Potter series can work some magic.【7】_“Its broken the rules, “says Cathy Denman, a middle school media specialist in Florida whochairs the young adult booklist for the International Reading Association. “Kids who hadnt pickedup a book in years unless theyd been forced to were re
7、ading the series and then asking me for morebooks like it. For the first time for them, a book was as【8】_as a video game. “Although there 【8】_have been no【9】_studies of the effect of the books in the United States. 【9】_Part of the allure is the【10】_story. Thats what ensnared precocious readers like
8、12- 【10】_year-old Hannah Bredar of Washington, D. C. , who tackled the first hook when she was just 5“Ilove that Harry lives in two worlds, one with Muggles and one with wizards and witches, and has togo between the two, “she analyzes.1 【1】2 【2】3 【3】4 【4】5 【5】6 【6】7 【7】8 【8】9 【9】10 【10】SECTION B INT
9、ERVIEWDirections: 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 listen to the inte
10、rview.11 From which place did they start their sightseeing?（A）Houses of Parliament and Big Ben.（B） The south bank of the Thames.（C） Lambeth Bridge.（D）Westminster Abbey. 12 Where does the Horatio Nelson the naval captain who defeated Napoleon at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805, and so stopped him fro
11、m invading England stand?（A）St. Jamess Park.（B） Whitehall.（C） Downing Street.（D）Trafalgar Square. 13 According to the conversation when are all the big shops closed?（A）On weekend.（B） On Sunday.（C） On workday.（D）On Saturday. 14 From the conversation we can know where is the Chinese Embassy?（A）At Marb
12、le Arch.（B） Near Hyde Park.（C） In Portland place.（D）At Mayfair. 15 From the conversation what can we deduce?（A）Robinson is an English.（B） Li is very familiar with London.（C） It is the Lis first look at London.（D）It is the Robinsons first look at London. SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTDirections: In this se
13、ction 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 Estrada, who is accused of EXCEPT_.（A）bribery, graft and corruption（B） betrayal of public trust（C） disobedient t
14、o the country（D）violations of the constitution 17 Who is the prosecutions star witness in the impeachment trial of Estrada?（A）Luis Singson.（B） Loi Ejercito.（C） Hilario Davide.（D）Accounts records. 18 According to the news, the followings are the newly approved Web site EXCEPT_.（A）.com .net, .org and
15、.gov.（B） .biz, .info,（C） .name, .pro（D）.museum, .aero. and .coop 19 There are more than an estimated_million top-level domain names, nearly all of them ending in .com or .net.（A）20（B） 25（C） 30（D）35 20 Why among the domain names not approved by the board Thursday was .kids?（A）As it said it could lead
16、 to Web sites with content harmful.（B） As it said it could be beneficial for children.（C） As it said it could not get the profit.（D）As it said it could lead to boom registries. 20 The wave of job cuts sweeping through the utility sector gathered pace yesterday with 800 more redundancies planned by t
17、wo electricity groups joining forces in order to meet regulators price demands and improve efficiency.Trade unions expressed anger that the announcement by two foreign-owned utilities, London Electricity and Eastern Electricity, came during the period immediately before Christmas. They noted that it
18、 arrived on the back of nearly 1,300 other job losses in this sector since early October.Half of the 160,000jobs in the electricity sector have gone since privatization in 1988.More than 2,000 redundancies have also been announced recently by water companies, and more are expected from United Utilit
19、ies as they, too, seek to meet tougher regulatory targets.Not everyone in the industry is convinced that the current spate of job cuts in the utility sector is justified.One leading industry executive, who wanted to remain anonymous, said: “I am very concerned that companies are using the regulators
20、 price cut as an excuse for carrying out general cuts that they have wanted to do for some time. It is causing disquiet among utilities customers.“If regulatory approval is given London Electricitya unit of Electricite de Franceand Eastern Electricity, controlled by American conglomerate Texas Utili
21、ties, will form a joint venture from April 1, 2000, which will run their respective electricity distribution businesses.The companies will continue to compete on the supply and billing side of their operations but hope the new alliance will be able to win third party business, whether in electricity
22、 or other sectors such as gas.The 800 job losses mean a quarter of the jobs affected by the joint venture will be lost within 18 months, and that the remaining positions will be dependant on the general level of business activity.The two companies plan to achieve cost savings through fewer workers,
23、having a single information system, a smaller number of buildings and buying more in bulk.Phil Turbeville, chief executive of Texas Utilities TXS Europe subsidiary, said: “It is the responsible management response to the challenges of the tough price control while delivering further improvements in
24、customer service.He added that customers would benefit because lower costs meant more money available for new investment, and denied that the decision could have been made at a better time or would have been different if it had not been a foreign owned group.“Whether we told staff just before Christ
25、mas or just after it would have been the same. There is no good time to make redundancies. As you can see from what Scottish-based utilities have been doing, this is nothing to do with Paris or Texas. It is just prudent management,“ Mr. Turbeville said.21 The phrase “gathered pace“ in the first para
26、graph most probably refers to_.（A）speeded up（B） slowed down（C） continued（D）ended 22 From early October,about_people have lost their jobs in utility sector.（A）800（B） 160,000（C） 1300（D）2100 23 When the author says that the remaining positions will be dependent on the general level of business activity
27、, he implies that_.（A）the remaining employers should undertake business activities（B） the remaining employers will work hard for the company（C） the remaining employers may lose their jobs in the future（D）the remaining employers may get high wages 24 Phil Turbeville held that_.（A）the announcement tim
28、e is appropriate（B） the situation can be different without a foreign-owned group（C） the situation can be different without regulator price demand（D）the management of the company should be further improved 24 Since his arrest by his own former police force, ex-Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan
29、Milosevic has gone public with a revelation that should have surprised no one who has read a newspaper in the past seven years.He admittedactually, braggedthat he had supplied the Serbian irregular forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina with money and weapons when the Serbian side was trying to destroy the Mo
30、slem and Croat communities.That was not news. It was clear that the well-equipped Serbian forces were an extension of the Serbian government, acting in support of the policy of a Greater Serbia.It was also quite clear at the time of the brutal war that the men who would become its chief indicted int
31、ernational war criminals, Radovan Karadzic of the Bosnian Serb Republic, and the chief commander, General Ratko Mladic, were subordinates under marching orders from Belgrade, specifically Milosevic.So the question is: Why did the Europeans and the Americans deal with Milosevic at the Dayton peace co
32、nference and later on? The answer is that this was a pure example of real politic, the practice of putting practicality over principle.It was not invented by Richard Holbrooke or any of the Western mediators, nor even by Henry Kissinger, one of its foremost practitioners. The tactic goes back to Lao
33、 Tze, Macchiavelli, Bismarck and Neville Chamberlain and anybody before who discovered that direct confrontation is not the easiest way to try to solve a problem.What is different now is that democratic governments claim to be acting on principle and international law. Dealing with Milosevic had onl
34、y a brief, limited success in halting the general war in Bosnia, but in the long run, it hurt the credibility of the governments who denounced the war crimes but not the man they knew was the chief war criminal.Recall that these crimes were not minor misdemeanours committed in the heat and anger of
35、battle. These were cold blooded massacres, a policy of using rape as a weapon of war and the random shelling of Sarajevo and other civilian targets.It will not take a very bright defence attorney at the international war crimes tribunal at The Hague to argue that his client-no matter how culpable-is
36、 the victim of selective prosecution, of being targeted because he is a small fry, rather than a major war criminal, who had some temporary utility for the Western powers.The thing about a pragmatic policy of real politic is that it doesnt work very well in a world that is becoming increasingly tran
37、sparent and increasingly concerned with things such as universal respect for human rights.There are other recent examples, such as U.S. support for Zairean president Mobuto Sese Seko, a world-class embez zler. It was common knowledge in the U.S. government that Mobuto was a monumental thief, but he
38、was useful in funnelling weapons to the man the United States was backing in neighbouring Angola, Jonas Savimbi.That arrangement ended with the end of the Cold War, but it left a heritage of misery, poverty and civil war in the heart of the African continent.Such arrangementswith Milosevic or other
39、unsavoury charactersmight have a short-term utility, but they leave a lasting cumulative stain on the credibility and reputation of those who held their noses and made such deals. And that makes it all the harder to deal with the next generation of war criminals.25 What is the main idea of this text
40、?（A）International relationship after the cold warin Yugoslavia（B） Why did the West deal with Milosevic?（C） The international war crimes tribunal at The Hague（D）The policy of real politic 26 In the last Para, the word “unsavoury“ probably means_.（A）not easy to eat（B） disgusting（C） ugly（D）shameful 26
41、First it was tulips, then it was shares in the South Sea Company. Now the dot. coms have been added to that dubious hall of fame-the problems in the financial markets.Yesterday (Fri) yet another high profile business-Letsbuyit-announced it had run into difficulties.The madness for technology stocks
42、 in 2000 had all the ingredients that investors knew little about, greed for money, an economy firing on all cylinders, some dashing young entrepreneurs andeven the rules of business had been rewritten.Yet what it did not have was the ability to rewrite the rules of economics. When the historians co
43、me to write the story of the dot. com bubble, their epitaph will be the same as that London in 1720 or Wall Street in 1929: it wasnt different this time. In vain did the Cassandra foretell that it would all end in tears, that there were Simply too many companies chasing too little revenue, and that
44、for the stock market valuations of the s to be justified every person on earth would have to be surfing the net 24 hours a day with a mobile phone clamped to each ear.Most dot.coins were destined to be squeezed by cut-throat competition. Reality has now set in. Shares in start-ups that were changin
45、g hands for hundreds of dollars each at the height of the speculative fever are now virtually worthless. Did anybody know or care what Engage Inc was actually involved in, let alone have any idea of its likely earnings potential when it was trading at US dollar 95 a share earlier this year. They pro
46、bably took a closer look as the shares fell to just over US dollar 1 this month.However, there was little analysis of this sort as the year dawned with the US economy booming, fears of a millennium bug meltdown and the merger between America Online, the worlds biggest internet services provider, and
47、 Time Warner, one of biggest traditional media companies, symbolizes the unstoppable force of the “new example“.The combination appeared to mark the coming of age of online upstarts as AOL had all the potential, but Time Warner was making all the money.Having risen a record-breaking 88% in 1999, the
48、 Nasdaq composite index of technology companies rallied even higher in the first three months of 2000. On March 10, the index reached a record high of 5048. In the dying weeks of the year, it is trading at less than half this level. With the bubble burst and investor confidence in tatters, the index has recorded its worst ever annual performance in its 29-year history. The previous low of a 35% decline was recorded during the oil crisis of 1974.This years bear market began in April, when the Nasdaq suffered four of its worst
