1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 549（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 Travelling in the JungleThere are a lot of difficulties to travel in the jungle country which seems 【1】_ 【1】_
3、to man, but with right equipments and knowledge, it is not imlpossible to 【2】_ in 【2】_it. The following are several tips:1. Right equipment: a compass is an instrument which helps you to find the 【3】_ , 【3】_since it is very easy to get hopelessly lost in a jungle 【 4】_ after leaviog a known 【4】_land
4、mark. Whenever possible, you may 【5】_ streams and rivers that are going in 【5】_your general direction, which may cause your many extra miles of travel, but will【6】_ time and energy in the end. 【6】_2. Right kind of clothing 【7】_ will be with you all the time, so you should never 【7】_wear shorts in th
5、e jungle. Your legs must be covered by trousers.3. Learn the knowledge about the jungle: find water that is 【8】_ to drink. The 【8】_best way to be sure of having enough food in the jungle is to learn 【9】_ what 【9】_plants provide food. If you havent had a chance to do this, watch what kinds of fruitsa
6、nd nuts the birds and monkey choose, which is safe for a man to eat.Surviving in a jungle is a matter of 【10】_ . Learn more about what to expect 【10】_in the jungle and you can manage to live off in a jungle.Please move on to Section B Interview.1 【1】2 【2】3 【3】4 【4】5 【5】6 【6】7 【7】8 【8】9 【9】10 【10】SEC
7、TION 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 given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen t
8、o the interview.11 What did Richard consider when choosing his product?（A）Whether the suppliers could respond quickly to demand.（B） Whether customers would be worried about the price.（C） Whether product could be distributed around the world easily.（D）Whether the market growth is stable. 12 According
9、 to Richard, what has been an important element in Bookstores success?（A）Attracting good staff.（B） The many new ideas that were generated.（C） His knowledge of computer software.（D）Raising enough funds. 13 What was Bookstores sales revenue at the end of 1997?（A）120 million dollars.（B） 230 million dol
10、lars.（C） 310 million dollars.（D）340 million dollars. 14 Why is Bookstores customer service so successful?（A）The company is able to offer any book title in print.（B） The company deals with complaints in a positive way.（C） The company gives priority to orders from regular customers.（D）The company is a
11、ble to offer fast delivery. 15 Bookstore can perform better than its competitors because（A）its distribution network is more efficient.（B） it has a wider share of the international market.（C） its staff have a personal investment in the company.（D）its prices are cheaper. SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTDirect
12、ions: 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 Who said the talks will not be negotiations?（A）The general who led Thailands military ouster.（B）
13、 The rebel leaders.（C） The former Prime Minister.（D）The new Prime Minister.17 Who will be the new Prime Minister of Thailand?（A）General Sondhi Boonyaratkalin.（B） Thaksin Shinawatra.（C） Surayud Chulanont.（D）The former governor of the province of Pattan18 The main idea of these business-school academi
14、cs is appealing. In a world where companies must adapt to new technologies and source of competition, it is much harder than it used to be to offer good employees job security and an opportunity to climb the corporate ladder. Yet it is also more necessary than ever for employees to invest in better
15、skills and sparkle with bright ideas. How can firms get the most out of people ff they can no longer offer them protection and promotion?Many bosses would love to have an answer. Sumantra Ghoshal of the London Business School and Christopher Bartlett of the Harvard Business School think they have on
16、e: “Employability.“ If managers offer the right of training and guidance, and change their attitude towards their underlings, they will be able to reassure their employees that they will always have the skills and experience to find a good jobeven ff it is with a different company.Unfortunately, the
17、y promise more than they deliver. Their thoughts on what an ideal organization should accomplish are hard to quarrel with: encourage people to be creative, make sure the gains from creativity are shared with the pains of the business that can make the must of them, keep the organization from getting
18、 stale and so forth. The real disappointment comes when they attempt to show how firms might actually create such an environment. At its nub is the notion that companies can attain their elusive goals by changing their implicit contract with individual workers, and treating them as a source of value
19、 rather than a cog in a machine.The authors offer a few inspiring example of companiesthey include Motorola, 3M and ABBthat have managed to go some way towards mating such organizations. But they offer little useful guidance on how to go about it, and leave the biggest questions unanswered, How do y
20、ou continuously train people, without diverting them from their everyday job of making the business more profitable? How do you train people to be successful elsewhere while still encouraging them to make big commitments to your own firm? How do you get your newly liberated employees to spend their
21、time on ideas that create value, and not simply on those they enjoy? Must of their answers are platitudinous, and when they are not they are unconvincing.18 We can infer from the passage that in the past an employee _.（A）had job security and opportunity of promotion（B） had to compete with each other
22、 to keep his job（C） had to undergo training all the time（D）had no difficulty climbing the corporate ladder19 What does the writer of this passage think of the ideas of Ghoshal and Bartlett?（A）Very instructive.（B） Very inspiring.（C） Hard to implement.（D）Quite harsh.20 In their work, Ghoshal and Bartl
23、ett discuss（A）changes in business organizations（B） contracts between employers and employees（C） employment situation（D）management ideas21 This passage seems to be a(n) _（A）book review（B） advertisement（C） news report（D）research paper22 According to Chritopher Bartlett what will improve “employability
24、“?（A）Ability to lay out ones talents to employers.（B） Skills and knowledge accumulated from school education.（C） Training opportunity and guidance offered by company.（D）Being creative and ready to share collective wisdom.一、PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)Directions: There are ten multiple-choice
25、questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question.23 The heir to the English throne is named the _, which was initiated by Edward I in 1301.（A）Prince of Scotland（B） Prince of England（C） Prince of Wales（D）Prince of Northern Ireland24 _forms a natural boundary between Mexico and the U
26、nited States.（A）The Colorado（B） The Rio Grande River（C） The Hudson（D）The Potomac25 The highest mountain of Britain is（A）Scafell.（B） Ben Nevis.（C） Cross Fell.（D）Snowdonia.26 The meaning relationship between the two words “sheep“ and “ewe“ is_.（A）antonymy（B） homonymy（C） hyponymy（D）polysemy27 _is accla
27、imed as “the poets poet“.（A）Shakespeare（B） Spenser（C） Keats（D）Chaucer28 The Leatherstocking Tales, which included The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder and the Deerslayer, were written by _.（A）Washington Irving（B） Edgar Ellan Poe（C） James Cooper（D）William Bryant 29 _ st
28、udies speech sounds.（A）Phonology（B） Syntax（C） Semantics（D）phonetics 30 Charlotte Brontes masterpiece is _.（A）Jane Eyre（B） Wuthering Heights（C） Tess of dUrbervilles（D）Agnes Grey 31 Which of the following is a U.K. news agency?（A）Reuters（B） Tass News Agency（C） AFP News Agency（D）The Associated Press 32
29、 Whose name is used to call New World “America“ ?（A）Columbus.（B） Vespucci.（C） Francois Dr. ake.（D）Cartier. 二、PART IV PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN)Directions: Proofread the given passage. The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, on
30、ly ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way:(1)For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.(2)For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “ sign and write t32
31、Most doctors in a recent survey said that annual physical examinations were effective with detecting illness 【M1】_in apparently healthy patients, even there is little scientific evidence 【M2】_to support the exams. The report found that physicians are largely unaware that 【M3】_current federal governm
32、ent guidelines did not recommend annual exams for healthy adultswith symptoms. The study also suggested that in performing annual physicals many physicians 【M4】_routinely order screening tests that had not been proved useful for patients with no symptoms. 【M5 】_Sixty-five percent of 783 physicians w
33、ho completed a questionnaire maintained that【M6】_an annual physical was necessary, and 55 percent believed that annual physicals for healthyadults were recommended by national organizations. The researchers found that evenmany a doctors who were aware of published guidelines continued to perform ann
34、ual physicals, 【M7 】_because patients wanted them, or because they believed the procedure gave them the chance 【M8 】_to offer advice about preventive health measures. Among the physicians, those are younger, 【M9】_the women, the gynecologists and those in private practice were the most inclined ones
35、to favor 【M10 】_annual exams.33 【M1】34 【M2】35 【M3】36 【M4】37 【M5】38 【M6】39 【M7】40 【M8】41 【M9】42 【M10】SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISHDirections: Translate the following text into English. 43 对了！男人懒。他可以懒洋洋坐在旋椅上，五官四肢，连同他的脑筋（假如有），一概停止活动。像呆鸟一般：“不闻夫博弈者乎” 那段放是专对男人说的。他若是上街买东西，很少时候能令他的妻子满意，他总是不肯多问几家，怕跑腿，怕费话，怕讲价钱
36、。什么事他都嫌麻烦，除了指使别人替他做的事之外，他像残废人一样，对于什么事都愿坐享其成，而名之曰“室家之乐” 。紧毗连着“懒 ”的是“馋”。男人大概有好胃口的居多。他的嘴，用在吃的方面的时候多，他吃饭时总要在菜碟里发现至少一英寸见方半英寸厚的肉，才能算是没有吃素。几天不见肉，他就喊”嘴里要淡出鸟儿来!” 有一个人半年没有吃鸡，看见了鸡毛帚就流涎三尺。一餐盛馔之后，他的人生观都能改变，对于什么都乐观起来，主中馈是女人，修食谱的是男人.SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESEDirections: Translate the following text into Chinese.
37、44 Possession for its own sake or in competition with the rest of the neighborhood would have been Thoreaus idea of the low levels. The active discipline of heightening ones perception of what is enduring in nature would have been his idea of the high. What he saved from the low was time and effort
38、he could spend on the high. Thoreau certainly disapproved of starvation, but he would put into feeding himself only as much effort as would keep him functioning for more important efforts.Effort is the gist of it. There is no happiness except as we take on life-engaging difficulties. Short of the im
39、possible, as Yeats put it, the satisfaction we get from a lifetime depends on how high we choose our difficulties. Robert Frost was thinking in something like the same terms when he spoke of “the pleasure of taking pains“. The mortal flaw in the advertised version of happiness is in the fact that it
40、 purports to be effortless.We demand difficulty even in our games. We demand it because without diffculty there can be no game. A game is a way of making something hard for the fun of it. The rules of the game are an arbitrary imposition of difficulty. When someone ruins the fun, he always does so b
41、y refusing to play by the rules. It is easier to win at chess if you are free, at your pleasure, to change the wholly arbitrary rules, but the fun is in winning within the rules. No difficulty, no fun.三、PART VI WRITING (45 MIN)Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic
42、.45 Nowadays the telephone plays a very important role in our life. It makes our life more convenient. How- ever, it has its disadvantages.You are to write an essay of approximately 400 words on both the positive and negative effects of the telephone on modem life. Support your ideas with reasons an
43、d examples.In the first part of your letter 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 with 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. Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.
