1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 512（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 The History of American IndiansWhen Europeans discovered the Western hemisphere, they discovered a race of pe
3、ople.【1】_ called them Indians. 【1】_.I shall have something to say about their【2】_ and early history, 【2】_.the【3】_ for them of European settlement in the New World, the partthey have played in American history, 【3】_.their number, distribution and condition today. Most scholars believe thatthe homelan
4、d of the Indians was eastern Asia.They migrate to North America along a land【4】_ from Siberia to Alaska. 【4】_.The Indians were a【5】_ people. 【5】_.They lived in【6】_, spoke many languages, and gained their living indifferent ways. 【6】_.【7】_ revolutionized their hunting and warfare. 【7】_.Whiskey corrup
5、ted them.【8】_ changed the lives of some Indians. 【8】_.The Indians were under pressure to take【9】_ in the great French andBritish War of the eighteen century. 【9】_.The Indians made many efforts to prevent the advance of the frontier. In【10】_. 【10】_.a great uprising against the British began under a M
6、ichigan Indian leader.1 【1】2 【2】3 【3】4 【4】5 【5】6 【6】7 【7】8 【8】9 【9】10 【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
7、 given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen to the interview.11 The Knowledge mentioned in the interview is _.（A）a test about the traffic rules and the routes taxi drivers will run in London（B） the law on taxis in London（C） a test about the routes taxi drivers will ru
8、n in six-mile radius in London（D）a driving test12 How much lime does it take Jack to learn the Knowledge?（A）9 months.（B） 19 months.（C） 2 to 3 years.（D）3 years.13 Which of the following statements is TRUE?（A）The taxi has to be thoroughly examined and repaired every year.（B） In London taxi-drivers tak
9、e the Knowledge test instead of a driving test.（C） The license is annually renewed.（D）The law on taxi in London is more or less the same as in other places.14 Jack sees himself as a Londoner because _.（A）he has been in London a lot longer（B） he has got a typical London Cockney accent（C） he was born
10、in London（D）he enjoys being a taxi driver in London15 The interview is mainly about _.（A）the laws on taxis in London（B） the life of Jack, a taxi driver in London（C） how to be a taxi driver in London（D）body-building in LondonSECTION C NEWS BROADCASTDirections: In this section you will hear everything
11、 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 is INCORRECT about Michael D Higgins?（A）He is Irelands former culture minister.（B） He is a human rights activist.（C） He
12、 is a published poet.（D）He is a university lecturer.17 The style that Urrea has adopted to tell Teresitas - and Mexicos -story in his book “The Hummingbirds Daughter“ partakes of this politics as well, being simultaneously dreamy, telegraphic and quietly lyrical. Like a vast mural, the book displays
13、 a huge cast of workers, whores, cowboys, rich men, bandits and saints while simultaneously making them seem to float on the page. Urreas sentences are simple, short and muscular; he mixes low humor with metaphysics, bodily functions with deep and mysterious stirrings of the soul. These 500 pages -
14、though they could have been fewer - slip past effortlessly, with the amber glow of slides in a magic lantern, each one a tableau of the progress of earthy grace: Teresita crouched in the dirt praying over the souls of ants, Teresita having a vision of Gods messenger not as the fabled white dove but
15、as an indigenous hummingbird, Teresita plucking lice from the hair of a battered Indian orphan in a “pus-shellacked jacket.“Ferociously female though curiously asexual, Teresita has a particular ability to deliver babies while soothing the pains of laboring mothers. This, Urrea is saying, is what ma
16、tters. “Miracles,“ Teresita realizes as she learns midwifery, “are bloody and sometimes come with mud sticking to them.“ The salty cradle of life is the true church. Urreas love for Teresita, “the Mexican Joan of Arc,“ and for the world she helps bring into existence is one of the strongest elements
17、 of the book. He is unstintingly, unironically and unselfconsciously tender. He is a partisan.With such passion and care in abundant evidence, one wishes to believe. Teresita is a saint we could really use right now, and I fervently hope she can be summoned to save the galaxy. But there is a quality
18、 to Urreas novel that, for all the salt and blood and childbirth, is somehow a bit distant. “The Hummingbirds Daughter“ has the woodcut feeling of a bedtime story, or of family legends that have been told so many times theyve gone smooth, like the lettering on old gravestones.Teresita is the motherl
19、and and the mother of us all, an emissary from the Time Before, permanently encircled by butterflies and hummingbirds and the upraised rifles of revolutionaries. She is, according to the precepts of a certain perspective, entirely perfect. Her “flaws“ - her love of the lowly and the sick, her unlady
20、like strength, her uncouth habits - are clearly marks of virtue to anyone but the most bloodless capitalist. Even after shes declared dead, she manages to win.Myths, of course, both defy and rebuke this sort of quibbling: the gods always arise from a time much larger and deeper than the present mome
21、nt, and we invent them because we need to believe in someone -or something -greater than ourselves. In Vargas Llosas scheme of things, isnt Teresita the invention we need to ignite a better world?But it is exactly this aspect of “The Hummingbirds Daughter“ that makes it seem sealed off from the kale
22、idoscopic, indeterminate, loss-riven borderlands of modernity that Urrea has written about in earlier books with such depth. Toward the end of the novel, as some of the main characters flee to “great, dark North America,“ they feel as if the country theyve left is “a strange dream.“ As beautiful as
23、that dream -that notion of the unbroken whole - may be, at this late date none of us live there. Were all citizens of a haunted, mongrel terrain where nothing, not even the most appealing saint, is that simple.17 Concerning the using of language in “The Hummingbirds Daughter“, which of the following
24、 statement is NOT true?（A）The language is elegant throughout the book.（B） The language is simple.（C） The language is forceful.（D）The language mixes low humor with deep reflection on life.18 As for the sentence in the second paragraph, “The salty cradle of life is the true church“, which of the follo
25、wing statement is true?（A）This stands for the authors denial of the existence of God.（B） This stands for the authors denial of the western God.（C） This stands for the authors denial of a holy yet distant religious belief.（D）This stands for the authors denial of church.19 From this passage we may not
26、e that this book _.（A）is about a orphan girl named Teresita.（B） is about how religion would save people.（C） is about how dark the world is.（D）is about a saint and the real life in Mexico.20 About Teresita, which of the following statement is NOT true?（A）She is a girl that deliver Gods message just l
27、ike Joan of Arc.（B） She may perform miracles to people to convince them the existence of God.（C） She is an great image but a little distant to common readers.（D）She is of humble birth and lives a poor life.一、PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in th
28、is section. Choose the best answer to each question.21 The English Renaissance is said to have begun in_.（A）1422（B） 1478（C） 1485（D）149522 The clash at Concord and Lexington was_.（A）the beginning of the War of Independence（B） the beginning of the second Continental Conference（C） a minor clash between
29、 the British and the colonists with no significance（D）none of the above23 Eton College is a famous _.（A）public school（B） university（C） primary school（D）park 24 _does not belong to “Lake Poets“.（A）Blake（B） Wordsworth（C） Southey（D）Coleridge25 The novel Gullivers Travels is written by（A）Daniel Defoe.（B
30、） Jonathan Swift.（C） Francis Bacon.（D）James Joyce. 26 The Pilgrims came to America in a ship named the_.（A）Half Moon（B） Speedwell（C） Mayflower（D）Santa Maria 27 The National Health Service in Britain offers a full package of medical service to _.（A）the unemployed（B） every resident（C） citizens under t
31、he age of 16（D）residents aged over 60 28 In the United States, Halloween is night-time _ holiday.（A）childrens（B） mens（C） womens（D）old mens 29 The national anthem of Australia since 1984 has been_.（A）Waltzing Matilda（B） Song of Australia（C） Advance Australia Fair（D）God Save The Queen 30 The English R
32、enaissance period was an age of _.（A）poetry and drama（B） drama and novel（C） novel and poetry（D）romance and poetry 二、PART IV PROOFREADING possession, that tormented us, is nothing in our hands; it vanishes. Loves elusive entrenchment, his ubiquitous pretence, again become apparent; and in age we may
33、reach a haven that asking for nothing knows how to enjoy. 三、PART VI WRITING (45 MIN)Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic.42 “Nowadays people spend too much of their spare time indoors“. How far do you agree with this statement? Write a composition of about 400 wo
34、rds to state your view.In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
