1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 391（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 Write a Book Review. The definition of a book reviewA. a descriptive and critical or evaluative accoun
3、t of a bookB. a summary of content and an analysis of structure. Two approaches to book reviewingA. the descriptive review giving the essential【1】about a bookB. the critical review describing and evaluating the book. Basic requirements and minimum essentialsA. Knowledge of the book【2】B. Mastery of t
4、he genre in the workC. Description, not a summary of the bookD. Something about, not a biography of, the authorE.【3】appraisal. Five preliminary mechanical stepsA. Reading the book【4】B. Noting effective passages for quotingC. Noting your impressions as you readD.【5】what you have readE. Aiming at achi
5、eving a single impression. Starting the outlineA. Getting an over-all grasp of the organizationB. Determining the central point to be madeC. Eliminating【6】or irrelevanciesD. Filling in gaps or omissions. Making the draftA. The opening paragraphin a position of emphasis, andsetting the【7】of the paper
6、B. The main bodybeing【8】organized by the outlinelogical development of the central pointC. The concluding paragraphsumming up or【9】making the final judgmentintroducing no new ideas.【10】the draftA. Correcting all mistakes in grammar and punctuationB. Looking for unity, organization and logical develo
7、pmentC. Verifying quotations for accuracy and checking the referencesSECTION 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 give
8、n 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen to the interview.11 Which of the following is CORRECT about the accident?（A）The young lady was thrown through the windscreen.（B） The young lady didnt wear a seatbelt despite Simpsons advice.（C） The two passengers were driven to h
9、ospital by Mr. Simpson.（D）Simpsons wife got more serious injuries than the young lady.12 Mr. Simpson stopped at the pedestrian crossing because（A）the lighting was very good along the stretch.（B） he was riding with two ladies at the moment.（C） he wanted to ensure the safety of two passers-by.（D）he wa
10、s a new driver who tends to be cautious.13 What leads the policeman to believe that Mr. Simpson didnt drink alcohol before driving?（A）A breathalyzer test.（B） A blood test.（C） The certainty of his claim.（D）No smell of wine in his breath.14 What is the most probable cause of the accident?（A）Mr. Simpso
11、ns speeding.（B） The two pedestrians at the junction.（C） The other drivers drunk driving.（D）Mr. Simpsons drunk driving.15 What will Mr. Simpson probably do after being asked all the questions by the policeman?（A）Meet his wife in the hospital.（B） Take his wife to hospital by taxi.（C） Write a written s
12、tatement to the police.（D）Have his damaged car repaired.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 What is th
13、e main idea of the news item?（A）World oil prices rose again after a short decline.（B） More investors shifted their interest in the U.S. dollars.（C） The Russian president suggested less dependence on the dollar.（D）The U.S. dollars gained value after world oil prices ros17 Which of the following best
14、states Chinas standpoint on the Iran nuclear issues?（A）China opposes any form of economic sanctions against Iran.（B） China plans to stop multilateral talks with other parties involved.（C） China hopes to continue talks with parties concerned for solutions.（D）China supports international efforts to im
15、pose sanctions on Iran.18 The UN Security Council plus_agreed to impose new sanctions on Iran.（A）Canada（B） Japan（C） Australia（D）Germany19 What are the scientists at the University of California doing to help patients blink?（A）They are transplanting a piece of muscle from the leg to the eye.（B） They
16、are doing surgeries on the eye to help patients blink.（C） They are doing tests of a new blink system on real patients.（D）They are developing artificial muscles to help patients blink.20 Which of the following is NOT a part of the new blink system?（A）The eyelid sling.（B） The temples.（C） The electrost
17、atic polymer.（D）A tiny battery.20 Americans life has once again been greatly changed by the new age of science and technology since the Second World War. Everything has speeded up to a tremendous rate. Information is immediate, nobody has to wait to hear any news. There is a television set in every
18、house. There is instant printing which has changed the way that offices and the universities run.But perhaps the biggest change is the telephone. People no longer write letters to one another. They pick up the telephone. Every house has at least two, sometimes three, four and five telephones. Every
19、office has many telephones. It speeds things up. And its cost is not much.Perhaps the biggest difference is in the growth of computers. Computers can think, can remember, can calculate faster than any human brain. A computer can hold more than a million facts in its memory. There are computers that
20、are so big they would fill this entire auditorium with machinery. Businesses and banks are now managed by computers. Parts of the government are managed by computers. Students grades, their marks are all managed by computers.However, if a computer makes a mistake about one of you, it is terribly dif
21、ficult to correct that mistake. And sometimes a computer does make mistake, never learned by another computer and the same mistake will go into other computers. So in many ways people have become the servants of computers who are bigger and cleverer than they are. Of course, computers speed up every
22、 operation because computers can immediately record, remember facts and produce new information that it combines with these facts. It makes science possible. Modern science would not be possible without the computers to do the calculations.Life is complicated. People need to know many technical skil
23、ls to get money from a bank. You have to know how to work the automatic teller that will give you your money. You have to know how to use the new punch button telephones. Everything is very complicated. Many Americans find it so complicated, that they try to escape by drinking alcohol. Alcoholism is
24、 a major disease in America. Some people take drugs and some people belong to strange religion looking for some meaning in their life. I think perhaps you read about the terrible event in Guyana, when people who belong to a strange religion all committed suicide. This sort of thing would not have ha
25、ppened fifty years ago. It is a by-product of an age that has become too complicated for people to live in happily.There are many contradictions in American society. Because of the complex way of life people are no longer the optimistic, self- reliant free people that they were when they were pionee
26、rs, when they were conquering the new land. Now people are becoming more pessimistic. Very often they are lonely. The doctors who have the most work are psychiatrists trying to help people find ways that they can again be happy. Often efficiency replaces good quality.We still have two classes of peo
27、ple. Too much money is still in the hands of too few people. The rich capitalists no longer wear black hats and stripped trousers. They have facesthat nobody knows because now they are called the “multi- national corporations. “They are the great faceless companies like General Motors, General Fords
28、, United States Steel. There are no longer any faces like Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. Ford. They have become faceless forces, which control our government and control the money. The poorest class is still mostly made up of black people, minority people, Spanish speaking Americans. And the poorest people
29、have not benefited from the new age of science and technology. So Americans are no longer the happy carefree people that they once were.21 According to the passage, the characteristic of a highly technological society is _.（A）its electronic technology（B） peoples way of living（C） wide use of televisi
30、on（D）its rapidness and efficiency in doing things22 Which of the following statements can best describe the telephone in the U. S.?（A）Its very inexpensive.（B） It saves a lot of trouble.（C） Its very convenient.（D）A, B and23 In authors opinion, _.（A）without computers, there would be no modern science（
31、B） computers are more intelligent than human beings（C） computers will replace everything in the future（D）computers never make mistakes24 What makes American people more pessimistic?（A）The fast pace and complicated way of life.（B） Too much leisure time.（C） Loose relationship between people.（D）All of
32、the abov25 According to the author, America is a highly modern society, _.（A）so people like it better than before（B） but there is still a big gap between different classes（C） all the people there lead a very happy life（D）all the industries and companies are in the hands of the goverment25 The dark s
33、moke that comes out of stacks or from a burning dump contains tiny bits of solid or liquid matter. The smoke also contains many gases, most of which cannot be seen. Altogether, they make up the serious problems of air pollution. In so many places it keeps us from seeing the sun, irritates our eyes,
34、causes us to cough, and makes us ill.Air pollution can spread from city to city. It even spreads from one country to another. Some northern European countries have had “black snow“ from pollutants that have traveled through the air from other countries and have fallen with the snow. So air pollution
35、 is really a global problem.Air pollution can kill babies, older people , and those who have respiratory (呼吸道的) diseases. In London, in 1952, four thousand people died in one week as a result of a serious air-pollution episode. In 1948, in the small town of Donora, Pennsylvania, twenty people died i
36、n a four-day period of bad air pollution.At levels often found in cities, air pollution increases the risks of certain lung diseases, such as emphysema, bronchitis, and asthma. Of course, smoking and other factors help to cause these illnesses, too, but these cases have increased greatly during rece
37、nt years as air pollution has become worse. Air pollution can cause both airplane and auto accidents because it cuts down visibility. There are other possible health dangers from air pollution that we dont know much about. For example, scientists are trying to find out whether chemicals that reach u
38、s from the air may cause changes in our cells.These changes might cause babies to be born with serious birth defects. Scientists are trying to learn how all the many chemicals we are apt to take into our bodies from air, water, food, and even medicines act together to affect our health and the way o
39、ur bodies work. That is another reason why it is so important to begin to control pollution now instead of waiting until we learn all the answers.Air pollution costs us a lot of money. It soils and corrodes our buildings. It damages farm crops and forests. It has a destructive effect on our works of
40、 art. The cost of all this damage to our government is astronomical. It would be much more worthwhile, both for us and for the environment, to spend our tax dollars on air pollution control.26 The author mentions people dying of air pollution in _.（A）Illinois（B） Pennsylvania（C） New Jersey（D）Washingt
41、on27 Air pollution causes airplane accidents because _.（A）pilots become ill（B） visibility is reduced（C） engines fail.（D）the air is too hot28 Scientists are trying to find a link between pollution and _.（A）intelligence levels（B） antisocial behavior（C） birth defects（D）divorce percentage29 Scientists h
42、ave not yet determined _.（A）all of the effects of pollution on the human body（B） how pollution can be controlled successfully（C） when the atmosphere first became polluted（D）how to wash the black snow clean30 We can conclude that _.（A）civilization may be doomed if pollution is not controlled（B） pollu
43、tion is more serious in Europe than it is in America（C） most people do not know that pollution is a serious problem（D）black snow is not so serious compared with white snow30 In the late 1960s many people in North America turned their attention to environmental problems, and new steel-and-glass skysc
44、rapers were widely criticized: ecologists pointed out that a cluster of tall buildings in a city often overburdens public transportation and parking lot capacities.Skyscrapers are also lavish consumers, and wasters of electric power. In one recent year, the addition of 17 million square feet of skys
45、craper office space in New York City raised the peak daily demand for electricity by 120, 000 kilowatts-enough to supply the entire city of Albany, New York, for a day.Glass-walled skyscrapers can be especially wasteful. The beat loss ( or gain) through a wall of half-inch plate glass is more than t
46、en times that through a typical masonry wall filled with insulation board. To lessen the strain on heating and air-conditioning equipment, builders of skyscrapers have begun to use double-glazed panels of glass, and reflective glasses coated with silver or gold mirror films that reduce glare as well
47、 as heat gain. However, mirror-walled skyscrapers raise the temperature of the surrounding air and affect neighboring buildings.Skyscrapers put a severe strain on a citys sanitation facilities, too. ( If fully occupied, the two World Trade Center towers in New York City would alone generate 2.25 mil
48、lion gallons of raw sewage each year- as much as a city the size of Stanford, Connecticut, which has a population of more than 109, 000. )Skyscrapers also interfere with television reception, block bird flyways, and obstruct air traffic. In Boston in the late 1960s, some people even feared that shad
49、ows from skyscrapers would kill the grass on Boston Common.Still, people continue to build skyscrapers for all the reasons that they have always built them-personal ambition , civic pride, and the desire of owners to have the largest possible amount of rentable space.31 The main purpose of the passage is to _.（A）compare skyscrapers with other modern structures（B） describe skyscrapers and their effect on the environment（C） advocate the use of masonry in the construction of skyscrapers（D）illustrate
