1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 444（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 Creative Writing I. Introduction of creative writingA. Definition: production of aesthetic textsB. Form:1. mo
3、stly poems or stories2. other genres such as letters, journal entries, blogs, etc.C. Features of creative writing1. Use more (1)_, observation, imagination, (1)_and personal memories than expository writing2. Playfully engage languageNot a lax and unregulated use of languagerequires (2)_to the “rule
4、s“ of the sub-genre (2)_II. Benefits of creative writing for learners A. Aid language development at all levelsLearners (3)_language at a deeper level. (3)_Learners gain progress in grammar, lexicon, and sensitivity to paralinguistic features.B. Enhance 2nd language acquisition with language playChi
5、ldren encounter language while (4)_. (4)_L2 learners are encouraged to play with language and (5)_: (5)_Learning takes place during the process.C. Balance between logical and intuitive facultiesEmphasize the (6)_of the brain (6)_D. Increase self-confidence and self-esteemLearners (7)_about the langu
6、age and themselves. (7)_Personal and linguistic growth is promoted.E. Increase (8)_ (8)_Learners realize their ability of writing in a foreign language.(9)_are experienced in the process. (9)_F. Improve reading abilitiesIII. Benefits of creative writing for teachersA. Set up an example for the stude
7、ntsB. Keep teachers English fresh and vibrantC. Enhance (10)_with students (10)_D. Improve the teaching of writingSECTION 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.
8、 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 Employees in the US are paid for their time. This means that they are supposed to _.（A）work hard while their boss is around（B） come to work when there is work requi
9、red to be done（C） work with initiative and willingness（D）work through their lunch break12 One of the advantages of flexible working hours is that_.（A）pressure from work can be reduced（B） working women can have more time at home（C） traffic and commuting problems can not be solved（D）personal relations
10、hips in offices can be improved13 On the issue of working contracts in the US, which statement is NOT correct?（A）Performance at work matters more than anything else.（B） There are laws protecting employees working rights.（C） Good reasons must be provided in order to fire workers.（D）Working contracts
11、in the US are mostly short-term ones.14 We can assume from the interview that an informal atmosphere might be found in_.（A）small firms（B） major banks（C） big corporations（D）law offices15 The interview is mainly about_in the USA.（A）office hierarchies（B） office conditions（C） office roles（D）office lifeS
12、ECTION 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 Which of the following statements is TRUE?（A）Five gunmen were flown
13、 to Iran in a helicopter.（B） Most of the ransom was retrieved in the end.（C） The children were held for five days.（D）The authorities have passed sentence on the gunmen.17 According to the news, American troops in Panama_.（A）were attacked at refugee camps（B） were angry at delays in departure（C） attac
14、ked Cuban refugee camps last week（D）will be increased to 2,00018 Which of the following statements is CORRECT? U.S. lawmakers_.（A）challenged the accord for freezing Pyongyangs nuclear program（B） required the inspection of Pyongyangs nuclear site for at least five years（C） were worried that North Kor
15、ea may take advantage of the concessions（D）blamed the U. S. negotiator for making no compromises with North Korea19 According to the news, the Italian Parliament was asked to act by_.（A）the U.N.（B） the Red Cross（C） the Defense Minister（D）the Swedish Government20 On the issue of limited use of landmi
16、nes, the Italian Parliament is_.（A）noncommittal（B） resolute（C） unsupportive（D）wavering20 Have all-male clubs lost their cachet? A decade ago, the testosterone fortress of the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia was a battlefront of the feminist movement. Now, as the club contemplates a historic fi
17、rst offer of membership to a womanVirginia “Ginni“ Rometty, Chief Executive Officer of IBM, which is a sponsor of this weeks Masters Tournamentthe most remarkable part of the story is that this time theres a near-universal consensus.“A lot is different now,“ says Ilene Lang, President and Chief Exec
18、utive Officer of Catalyst, a global firm that studies women in business. “To most people looking at this, it just seems silly.“ Yet silly or not, Lang says its about time Augusta got on the distaff side of history. “It is still discrimination,“ she says, “and its ridiculous.“Rometty has stayed mum o
19、n whether shell getor even covetsthe boxy green blazer that the club has awarded to her four predecessors at IBM. At a press event Wednesday, Augusta Chairman Billy Payne, who called Tiger Woods a disappointment for his 2010 sex scandal, dodged questions about Rometty. Meanwhile, President Obama and
20、 Mitt Romney said they believe women should be admitted, and Callista Gingrich expressed interest in becoming a member.The notion of women fighting to get into the old boys club seems almost quaint now, when every socioeconomic indicator shows female fortunes on the rise, while men, it seems, devote
21、 more and more time to sexting naughty photos. Augusta is one of the few remaining bastions of a particularly anachronistic kind of male privilege, where men of means enjoy golf, whisky, and whatever other private pleasures they take in the company of their own sex.Less than one percent of Americas
22、golf clubs are still closed to women. Most big-city social groups have opened their doors, as have most country clubs and secret societies. Those that havent carry enough stigma that politicians regularly resign from them before running for officeas Mike Bloomberg did with New Yorks Brook Club befor
23、e he ran for mayor.“Certainly, I think the mainstream is less accepting of this kind of discrimination,“ says Sally Frank, a law professor who successfully sued Princetons all-male eating clubs while a student at the university in the 1980s. Furthermore, the social aspect of male-only clubs is hardl
24、y as tantalizing as it once was. Does any powerful woman actually long to participate in the ritualistic cross-dressing that passes for entertainment at VIP man-camp Bohemian Grove?Still, admission for Rometty does matter. Says Martha Burk, who led the campaign against Augusta in 2002: “What I fear
25、is that Augusta will come up with some kind of half-baked solution, such as not letting her in now but maybe waiting a year or two when all this female stuff blows over.“But the “female stuff“ likely wont blow over. Rometty, whose true passion is scuba diving, is in increasingly feminine company in
26、the C-suite, which includes the CEOs of HP, Xerox, and Pepsi. If Augusta National clings to its no-estrogen policy, will it really be able to maintain its white-hot power status for much longer? You cant make deals on the back nine when all the CEOs are at the bottom of the ocean, swimming with shar
27、ks. (From Newsweek; 572 words)21 What is Romettys attitude towards joining Augusta?（A）She doesnt show her standpoint.（B） She feels it an honour to be admitted.（C） She thinks that its another kind of gender discrimination.（D）She has an aversion about the club.22 “Bastions“ in the fourth paragraph is
28、an example of_.（A）overstatement（B） metaphor（C） pun（D）simile23 We can infer from the passage that New Yorks Brook Club is_.（A）an all male club（B） politically oriented（C） a club with stigma（D）not well managed24 Most womens attitude towards joining all-male clubs is_.（A）enthusiastic（B） uninterested（C）
29、disapproving（D）resentful25 What does “estrogen“ most probably mean?（A）No male is allowed.（B） No female is allowed.（C） No colored people is allowed.（D）No business is allowed.25 I was taken by a friend one afternoon to a theatre. When the curtain was raised, the stage was perfectly empty save for tall
30、 grey curtains which enclosed it on all sides, and presently through the thick folds of those curtains children came dancing in , singly , or in pairs, till a whole troop of ten or twelve were assembled. They were all girls; none, I think, more than fourteen years old, one or two certainly not more
31、than eight. They wore but little clothing, their legs, feet and arms being quite bare. Their hair, too, was unbound; and their faces, grave and smiling, were so utterly dear and joyful, that in looking on them one felt transported to some Garden of Hesperides, where self was not, and the spirit floa
32、ted in pure ether. Some of these children were fair and rounded, others dark and elf-like; but one and all looked entirely happy, and quite unself-conscious, giving no impression of artifice, though they had evidently had the highest and most careful training. Each flight and whirling movement seeme
33、d conceived there and then out of the joy of beingdancing had surely never been a labour to them, either in rehearsal or performance. There was no tiptoeing and posturing, no hopeless muscular achievement; all was rhythm, music, light, air, and above all things, happiness. Smiles and love had gone t
34、o fashioning of their performance; and smiles and love shone from every one of their faces and from their clever white turnings of their limbs.Amongst themthough all were delightfulthere were two who especially riveted my attention. The first of these two was the tallest of all the children, a dark
35、thin girl, in whose every expression and movement there was a kind of grave, fiery love.During one of the many dances, it fell to her to be the pursuer of a fair child, whose movements had a very strange soft charm; and this chase, which was like the hovering of a dragon-fly round some water-lily, o
36、r the wooing of a moonbeam by the June night, had in it a most magical sweet passion. That dark, tender huntress, so full of fire and yearning, had the queerest power of symbolizing all longing, and moving ones heart. In her, pursuing her white love with such wistful fervour, and ever arrested at th
37、e very movement of conquest, one seemed to see the great secret force that hunts through the world, on and on, tragically unresting, immortally sweet.The other child who particularly enchanted me was the smallest but one, a brown-haired fairy crowned with a half moon of white flowers, who wore a sca
38、nty little rose-petal-coloured shift that floated about her in the most delightful fashion. She danced as never child danced. Every inch of her small head and body was full of the scared fire of motion; and in her little pas seul she seemed to be the very sprit of movement, one felt that Joy had flo
39、wn down, and was inhabiting there; one heard the rippling of Joys laughter. And, indeed, through all the theatre had risen a rustling and whispering; and sudden bursts of laughing rapture.I looked at my friend; he was trying stealthily to remove something from his eyes with a finger. And to myself t
40、he stage seemed very misty, and all things in the world lovable; as though that dancing fairy had touched them with tender fire, and made them golden.God knows where she got that power of bringing joy to our dry hearts: God knows how long she will keep it! But that little flying Love had in her the
41、quality that lies deep in colour, in music, in the wind, and the sun , and in certain great works of artthe power to set the heart free from every barrier, and flood it with delight.26 From this passage, it can be inferred that_.（A）the dancing girls are all very beautiful（B） the girls come from all
42、over the world（C） the two tallest girls are the outstanding dancers（D）the girls performance is very successful27 Which of the following statements contains a metaphor?（A）., and smiles and love shone from every one of their faces.（B） which was like the hovering of a dragonfly round some water-lily.（C
43、） That dark, tender huntress, so full of fire and yearning, had.（D）In her, pursuing her white love with such wistful fervour.28 According to the author, the tallest girl among the children_.（A）danced with a serious expression（B） was a dark and rounded girl（C） acted as a hovering dragonfly（D）pursued
44、her love in the dance29 The sentence “. to myself the stage seemed very misty.“ in the 5th paragraph implies that the author_.（A）did not get a good seat（B） was short-sighted（C） was a bit sleepy.（D）was just too moved.30 Which of the following is NOT the point of the last paragraph?（A）To describe how
45、fantastic the dance is.（B） To express his gratefulness to God.（C） To show his deep feeling after seeing the dance.（D）To share with readers his understanding of the dance.30 For many a frazzled parent, bedtimetheir childrens, that isis the best part of the day. But it can be hard to ease snooze-avers
46、e kids into bed, and now a new study confirms that this is an age-old problem: children have consistently gotten less sleep than recommended guidelines, for at least the past 100 years.Researchers from the University of South Australia did some historical spelunking, looking for every study about sl
47、eep duration in children beginning from the end of the 19th century through 2009. They discovered 300 such studies, dating all the way back to a French paper from 1897, and found that both age-specific recommendations for appropriate sleep and the amount of time kids actually spend in dreamland both
48、 declined at similar rates: 0.71 minutes per year for recommendations versus 0.73 minutes per year for actual sleep duration, according to the study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics. Across the board, children got about 37 minutes less sleep than was recommended.Another constant: societal
49、hand-wringing over childrens lack of sleep and a tendency to blame the hectic pace of modern life.“We found that indeed kids are sleeping less,“ says senior author Tim Olds, a professor of health sciences at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, who studies health and how we use our time. “People are always recommending kids sleep more than they
