1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 373（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 Argumentation: Functions and Strategies. Functions of argumentation: You can use argumentation to1) make a po
3、int in【1】. 2) persuade a friend to lend you money,3) talk an employer into giving you a day off. It helps see through【2】arguments that others may make. . Five strategies in advancing an argument: 1 Use Tactful, polite Languagenot to anger opponents by referring to their opinions in【3】terms. 2 Point
4、Out Common Groundto point Out common groundopinions that you share. Readers will be【4】to your idea. 3 Acknowledge Differing ViewpointsFirst, it helps you【5】in the opposing position. Second, it gives the impression that you are willing to look at an issue【6】. Several techniques to acknowledge differi
5、ng viewpoints. 1) divide your thesis into two parts. 2) use one or two sentences in the introduction to【7】the alternative position. 3) use a paragraph to summarize opposing opinions. 4 Grant the Merits of Differing ViewpointsYou will lose credibility if you argue against something that clearly【8】. 5
6、 Rebut Differing ViewpointsTo rebut means to【9】with an opposing view. A rebuttal can take two forms. 1) You can first mention【10】of the other side. 2) You can present the first point and rebut that point, then move on to the second. ANSWER SHEET TWOSECTION B INTERVIEWDirections: In this section you
7、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 interview.11 What is the single largest pr
8、oblem facing the healthcare system today?（A）It is difficult for individuals to maintain their healthcare coverage.（B） It is uncertain for individuals to maintain their healthcare coverage.（C） The individuals cant afford the healthcare cost.（D）Whether or not the individuals can acquire the healthcare
9、 coverage.12 According to the woman, what is the mans organizations remedy plan basically?（A）It is a plan to help the poor family.（B） It is a plan to decrease the healthcare coverage.（C） It is a plan for broader coverage than what currently exists, mixture of private and public.（D）It is a plan to in
10、crease the threshold for the healthcare coverage.13 How many people who are eligible for public programs are NOT on the rolls?（A）33 million.（B） 10 million.（C） 11 million.（D）12 million.14 Whats the problem of the middle income people working generally for small employers?（A）Losing insurance.（B） Getti
11、ng disease.（C） Losing jobs.（D）Decreasing incomes.15 Individuals who find themselves working for a number of employers have been very frustrated because（A）they dont have the coverage.（B） they dont have that consistency of coverage.（C） they dont have the eligibility of coverage.（D）they dont understand
12、 why they lose the coverage.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 Why was Charles Taylor accused of crim
13、es against humanity?（A）Because he has waged many wars.（B） Because he supported rebels in Sierra Leone in the 1990s.（C） Because he has wrongly prosecuted war crime suspects.（D）Because he started the civil war in the 1990s.17 The oil prices will decrease sharply in the long run mainly because_.（A）the
14、worlds biggest oil companies will launch a large price competition（B） new fuels will take the place of oil（C） new technology in extracting oil will be used（D）British and German governments will bring the price down18 Why were there hundreds of mourners in the Australian city of Newcastle who gathere
15、d to mourn the death of twenty people killed in bombings last year?（A）Because Newcastle is the home of three of the victims.（B） Because these people died in Newcastle last year.（C） Because four Islamist fighters have been found guilty of involvement in the bombings in Newcastle.（D）Because Newcastle
16、is the city where there are many friends and relatives of the victims.19 Which of the following statements about the command change of troops is true?（A）The US will take command from Afghanistan military as many as 12,000 troops.（B） The command change would complete the expansion of the Internationa
17、l Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.（C） The overall American force level in Afghanistan will increase after the command change.（D）The Command change took place a few days ago.20 Why was Brent Bennett held in prison for more than two years?（A）Because he was found guilty of torturing Afghan sus
18、pects in an unofficial anti-terrorism operation（B） Because he said that American and Afghan officials supported his activities.（C） Because he flew out of Afghanistan on Saturday.（D）Because he helped one of the other two men get free in April20 “Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend
19、to become one,“ wrote Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the search firms founders, in a letter to investors ahead of its stock market flotation in 2004. Since then, Google has burnished its reputation as one of the quirkiest companies on the planet. This year alone it has raised eyebrows by taking a stake
20、 in a wind-energy project off the east coast of America and by testing self-driving cars, which have already covered over 140,000 miles (225,000km) on the countrys roads. Google has been able to afford such flights of fancy thanks to its amazingly successful online-search business. This has produced
21、 handsome returns for the firms investors, who have seen the company transform itself in the space of a mere 12 years from a tiny start-up into a behemoth with a $180 billion market capitalization that sprawls across a vast headquarters in Silicon Valley known as the Googolplex. Google also stretche
22、s across the web like a giant spider, with a leg in everything from online search and e-mail to social networking and web-based software applications, or apps. Much of its growth has been organic, but Google has also splashed out on some sizeable acquisitions. In 2006 it paid $1. 7 billion for You T
23、ube, a website that lets people post videos of their children, kittens and Lady Gaga impersonations. The following year it snapped up Double-Click, an online-advertising network, for $ 3. 1 billion. More deals are likely. Google is bidding for Group on, a trendy e-commerce business, using some of th
24、e $ 33 billion sitting in its coffers. All this has turned Google into a force to be reckoned with. But now the champion of the unorthodox is faced with two conventional business challenges. The first involves placating regulators, who fret that it may be abusing its considerable power. On November
25、30th the European Union announced a formal investigation into claims that Google has been manipulating search results to give an unfair advantage to its own servicesa charge the firm vigorously denies. In America, Google faces a similar investigation in Texas and is also battling with a bunch of onl
26、ine-travel companies who have been lobbying the government to veto its recent purchase of ITA Software, a company that provides data about flights. The other challenge facing Google is how to find new sources of growth. In spite of all the experiments it has launched, the firm is still heavily depen
27、dent on search related advertising. Last year this accounted for almost all of its $ 24 billion of revenue and $ 6. 5 billion of profit. Acquisitions such as You Tube have deepened rather than reduced the firms dependence on advertising. Steve Ballmer, the boss of Googles arch-rival Microsoft, has d
28、erided the search company for being “a one trick pony“. Ironically, investors biggest worry is that Google will end up like Microsoft, which has failed to find big new sources of revenue and profit to replace those from its two ageing ponies, the Windows operating system and the Office suite of busi
29、ness software. That explains why Googles share price has stagnated. “The market seems to believe this could be like Microsoft version two,“ says Mark Mahoney, an analyst at Citigroup. News of the formal EU antitrust enquiry will no doubt invite further comparisons with Mr. Ballmers firm, which fough
30、t a long and bruising battle with European regulators. Is such a comparison fair? Those who think it is point to several changes that could damage Google. The first is the rise of new ways in which people can find information online. They include social networks such as Facebook, which saw traffic t
31、o its site in America surpass that to Googles sites earlier this year, and apps offered by Apple and other firms that help people find information without using a web browser. 21 The authors attitude towards Googles unconventionality is（A）disapproval.（B） approval.（C） neutral.（D）ambiguous.22 The word
32、 “behemoth“ in the second paragraph probably means（A）colossus.（B） corporation.（C） pioneer.（D）leader.23 Google did all the following EXCEPT（A）acquiring different companies.（B） developing software applications.（C） actively probing into new industries.（D）setting foot in various Internet areas.24 The fu
33、ture of Google is expected to be（A）bleak.（B） promising.（C） uncertain.（D）unknown.25 Which is the best title of the passage?（A）The Prosperity of Giant Google（B） The Tough Days of Giant Google（C） How Is Google Different from Others?（D）How Long Will Googles Magic Last?25 Not so long ago television was s
34、cary. It was held to turn children into imbeciles, make men violent and corrupt political discourse. Books tried to alert people to the menace in their living rooms: the best of them was Neil Postmans Amusing Ourselves to Death, published in 1985. Musicians vilified TV in songs like “She Watch Chann
35、el Zero“ and “Television, the Drug of the Nation“. These clays newspapers are filled with tales of Facebook stalkers, Craigslist killers, cyber-bullying and screen addiction. E-mail, bogs and YouTube, not television, are held responsible for the degradation of politics. As the Internet grabs attenti
36、on, television has become more pitied than feared. A Google search on the phrase “threat from television“ turns up some 500 results, many of them historical. “Threat to television“ generates eight times as many. Much of this is misguided. People spend more time watching television now than they did
37、when rappers attacked it with songs. As a thorough study by the Council for Research Excellence has shown, Americans spend more time watching television than they spend surfing the web, sending e-mails, watching DVDs, playing computer games, reading newspapers and talking on mobile phones put togeth
38、er. Television is not disappearing. But nor is it the only star in the sky. The Internet, both fixed and mobile, poses a growing challenge to television. It lures advertisers with promises of precision: why pay huge sums to scatter a message among millions of people when you can target the few who s
39、eem to be interested in your product? To consumers it promises choice, engagement and a low (or no) price. And the Internet has powerful backers. Despite all that hand-wringing over the dangers of technology, governments from South Korea to Sweden seem to regard universal fast broadband as a human r
40、ight, to be paid for out of general taxation. With the important exception of sport, early attempts to deliver TV content over the web and mobile phones have proved unprofitable. The worst mistakes are now being put right. But it is doubtful that the economics of online or mobile video will ever be
41、as attractive as the economics of traditional television. As video goes online, a world of restricted choice and limited advertising space turns into one where both are available in almost endless quantities. More supply means lower prices. Technology also competes for attention. Although families s
42、till gather around the TV set as they have done for decades, they now bring electronic distractions with them. Nielsen reckons that 13% of people who watched the Academy Awards ceremony this year went online during the programmed, up from 9% last year. The multitask did not appear to gravitate to en
43、tertainment websites. Google and Facebook topped the list of websites visited during the Oscars, just as they did during the Super Bowl and the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics. For the biggest TV shows, technology is a boon. Social-networking websites create chatter around reality-TV program
44、mers, increasing awareness and drawing viewers. Television executives have long endeavored to create “water-cooler“ shows which people will talk about at work the next day. Chris Silverman, president of International Creative Management, a talent agency, says Facebook and Twitter function a bit like
45、 large digital water-coolers. As audiences fragment, the big shows ability to draw huge numbers of eyeballs at a specific time becomes ever more valuable to advertisers. For shows of middling popularity, including many scripted dramas and comedies, life is harder. Big shows are crowding out smaller
46、ones, partly because of the amplifying effects of social media and partly because of the spread of digital video recorders, which make it easy to watch nothing but hits. Online video nibbles at their audience, too. How to survive in this world of giant competitors and new distractions? One answer is
47、 to involve viewers more in programmers. Television is extremely good at creating characters and gripping stories. It is much less good at encouraging people to engage with those stories. Simon Cowbell has proved that people will vote for contestants in talent shows. Television is supreme at holding
48、 the attention of a large number of people for long periods. Other gadgets divert people from the box, but not nearly as much as TV diverts them from all those other gadgets. And technology has undermined some of televisions biggest competitors, notably newspapers. In a world of fragmenting audience
49、s, if TV can combine scale with specificity, become more responsive to its audience and learn to aim adverts more precisely, it will continue to thrive. 26 It can be inferred from the first two paragraphs that（A）people regard television as a plague.（B） people prefer television to the Internet.（C） the quality of television programs is improving.（D）people blame the Internet for some social problems.27 Advertisements on the Internet have all the following advantages over TV ads EXCEPT（A）guarantee of quality.（B） easy availability.（C） the competitive price.
