1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 611（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 Culture ShockI. The definition of culture shock1. feelings like surprise, disorientation, uncertainty and【B1】
3、_【B1】_2. difficulty in knowing【B2】_ and what is not【B2】_3. dislike or disgust with certain aspects of the new or different cultureII. Four stages of culture shock1. Honeymoon stage you feel extremely【B3】_ and far from bewildering【B3】_2.【B4 】_【B4 】_ it is full of frustration, disillusion and homesick
4、ness you devise some【B5】 _ to protect yourself against the effects【B5】_of culture shock:a. repression: pretend everything is acceptableb.【B6 】_: act like a child【B6】_c. isolation: avoid communicating with anybodyd. rejection :【 B7】_ to ask for help【B7】_3. Recovery stage you develop【B8】_ of everythin
5、g you dont understand【B8】_ you learn to adapt to the new culture4. Adjustment stage acquisition of understanding becomes less【B9 】_【B9】_ you begin to feel comfortable and have adjusted to the new cultureIII. Tips to deal with culture shock1. learn the culture【B10】_【B10】_2. learn out of home and make
6、 friends with neighbors1 【B1 】2 【B2 】3 【B3 】4 【B4 】5 【B5 】6 【B6 】7 【B7 】8 【B8 】9 【B9 】10 【B10 】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
7、interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen to the interview.11 Which of the following factors is NOT mentioned by Edward in choosing the location of a house?（A）Way of life one enjoys leading.（B） Proximity to the work place.（C） Convenience of othe
8、r family members.（D）Distance from relatives and friends.12 According to Edward, which of the following is CORRECT?（A）A sociable person is suitable to live in the city suburbs.（B） Suburban houses are more expensive than houses in cities.（C） City suburbs are conveniently located for commuting to work.
9、（D）City suburbs are popular among the young generation.13 Why are the town houses rarely less expensive than semi-detached houses?（A）Because they are usually built on expensive property.（B） Because they take too much space in cities.（C） Because they have larger room for price to go up.（D）Because the
10、y are built luxuriously and elegantly.14 If you decide to buy an old house, youd better（A）have a professional surveyor check it thoroughly.（B） have the owner repair and renovate it thoroughly.（C） find out the remaining life expectancy of the house.（D）check all things yourself to make sure they work
11、well.15 What is Edwards idea about the size of a garden attached to a house?（A）The bigger, the better.（B） The smaller, the better.（C） It depends on the owners preference and time.（D）It depends on the size of the house.SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTDirections: In this section you will hear everything ONCE
12、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 happened on Sunday?（A）A bomb exploded outside a building.（B） Anti-terrorism officers searched for bombs.（C） Police received a suicide bombing w
13、arning.（D）There was a bomb attack in a training office.17 Earlier reports said the victim was（A）a young boy.（B） a little girl.（C） a mother.（D）a man.18 According to the news, the health care reform by Obama benefits（A）the Democrats.（B） the Republicans.（C） all American citizens.（D）Senate committees.19
14、 In order to pass the health care reform, the Democratic leaders had to（A）get permission from the president.（B） get votes from the Republicans.（C） start debate this Tuesday.（D）pass a separate bill to change law.20 What is the main message of the news item?（A）Africans are struggling to deal with the
15、climate change.（B） Africans know and understand about the climate well.（C） Africans tend to blame themselves for global warming.（D）Africans bear the heaviest consequences of rising temperatures.20 The blind, overweight patient in the wheelchair has terrible pain in her back and burning pain in her l
16、egs. She also has advanced arthritis in her knees and end-stage circulatory disease, which have left her with two useless legs that are red, swollen and infected. Now her shoulder has started to hurt. She cant raise her arm to comb her hair. Five or six other things are wrong with her she tells me a
17、bout each. Some we can help; most we cant. I tell her as much.In my office, she listens carefully. I hardly ever have to repeat myself with Doris(not her real name). She asks questions mostly good ones. She needs lots of tests, various therapies. I ultimately recommend an operation on her shoulder.
18、Sick, weakened by multiple symptoms and with lousy insurance, Doris is surprise a really good patient. She communicates efficiently with her doctors and treats us with respect and trust. She has reasonable expectations. I can tell she looks things up, but her knowledge is helpful never challenging.
19、Ive talked about her with other doctors, and we agree on this: when you see Doris name on your days list, you know youre going to work hard. But youre usually glad her name is there.Few patients realize how deeply they can affect their doctors. That is a big secret in medicine one doctors hate to ad
20、mit. We think about, talk about, dream about our patients. We went into clinical medicine because we like dealing on a personal, even intimate level with people who have chosen to put their bodies in our hands. Our patients make or break our days.Take the compliment. Our career choice means we reall
21、y do think that you with your aches and pains are more interesting than trading hot securities, more fun than a courtroom full of lawyers. Massaging the ego is the key to manipulating responsible types like doctors. When we feel your trust, you have us.The most compelling reasons to be a good patien
22、t are selfish ones. You will get more than free drug samples if your doctor is comfortable and communicates easily with you. Youll get more of the mind that you came for, a mind working better because its relaxed recalling and associating freely, more receptive to small, even unconscious clues. That
23、 means better medical care. But you should try to be a good patient for unselfish reasons too. We worry about you 60 hours a week. We gave up our 20s for you. Why not show us some love? Its not hard.The medical relationship is intrinsically one-sided. Its about you and your problem. I am going to fi
24、nd out more about you in the next 20 minutes than you will find out about me. Dont fret about that. We dont expect you to ask much about us. Good patients answer questions accurately and completely. They ask questions too.Are doctors good patients? Others may disagree, but I think they are. Medical
25、terms dont faze them, so communication is easier, and their expectations tend to be more reasonable. Anyone in medicine is painfully aware that there are plenty of problems for which we have no good answer. Nurses tend to be even better patients, being adept at following doctors orders a virtue lack
26、ing in doctors.Doctors and nurses also know when to respect an educated opinion. When the MRI says one thing and I want to do another, they are more likely to be on my side. But you need not be a medical professional, or educated at all, to be a great patient. Its pretty much the same strain of huma
27、n decency a truthful consideration of who the people around you are and of what they are trying to do that infects a good patient and any good person.21 The first two paragraphs in the passage（A）cite an example as a hook to start the issue.（B） bring out the theme with strong argument.（C） provide way
28、s to deal with the issue.（D）introduce the issue with an extreme case.22 The expression “massaging the ego“ in Paragraph Four most probably means（A）affecting doctors deeply.（B） praising doctors sincerely.（C） showing interest in doctors.（D）staying in touch with doctors.23 The benefit for one to be a g
29、ood patient is that（A）his doctor will be receptive to all clues.（B） his doctor will undercharge him for medicine and operation.（C） he can get free drug samples and better care.（D）he can get more time to talk with his doctor.24 If one intends to become a good patient, he should learn（A）to find out mo
30、re about his doctor.（B） to respect both doctors and nurses.（C） to become as unselfish as possible.（D）to accurately follow his doctors orders.25 The text is mainly about（A）what makes a good patient.（B） how deeply patients can affect their doctors.（C） the relationship between patients and doctors.（D）t
31、he most significant reasons to be a good patient.25 Think of the solitude felt by Marie Smith before she died earlier this year in her native Alaska, at 89. She was the last person who knew the language of the Eyak people as a mother-tongue. Or imagine Ned Mandrell, who died in 1974 he was the last
32、native speaker of Manx, similar to Irish and Scots Gaelic. Both these people had the comfort of being surrounded, some of the time, by enthusiasts who knew something precious was vanishing and tried to record and learn whatever they could of a vanishing tongue. In remote parts of the world, dozens m
33、ore people are on the point of taking to their graves a system of communication that will never be recorded or reconstructed.Does it matter? Plenty of languages among them Akkadian, Etruscan, Tangut and Chibcha have gone the way of the dodo, without causing much trouble to the descendants. Should an
34、yone lose sleep over the fact that many tongues from Manchu(spoken in China)to Hua(Botswana)and Gwichin(Alaska) are in danger of suffering a similar fate?Compared with groups who lobby to save animals or trees, campaigners who lobby to preserve languages are themselves a rare breed. But they are try
35、ing both to mitigate and publicize an alarming acceleration in the rate at which languages are vanishing. Of some 6,900 tongues spoken in the world today, some 50% to 90% could be gone by the end of the century. In Africa, at least 300 languages are in near-term danger, and 200 more have died recent
36、ly or are on the verge of death. Some 145 languages are threatened in East and Southeast Asia.Some languages, even robust ones, face an obvious threat in the shape of a political power bent on imposing a majority tongue. A youngster in any part of the Soviet Union soon realised that whatever you spo
37、ke at home, mastering Russian was the key to success.Nor did English reach its present global status without ruthless tactics. In years past, Americans, Canadians and Australians took native children away from their families to be raised at boarding schools where English rules. In all the Celtic fri
38、nges of the British Isles there are bitter memories of children being punished for speaking the wrong language.But in an age of mass communications, the threats to linguistic diversity are less ruthless and more spontaneous. Parents stop using traditional tongues, thinking it will be better for thei
39、r children to grow up using a dominant language(such as Swahili in East Africa)or a global one(such as English, Mandarin or Spanish). And even if parents try to keep the old speech alive, their efforts can be doomed by films and computer games.The result is a growing list of tongues spoken only by w
40、hite-haired elders. A book edited by Peter Austin, an Australian linguist, gives some examples: Njerep, one of 31 endangered languages counted in Cameroon, reportedly has only four speakers left, all over 60. The valleys of the Caucasus used to be a paradise for linguists in search of unusual syntax
41、, but Ubykh, one of the regions baffling tongues, officially expired in 1992.26 Marie Smiths solitude results from the fact that（A）the vanishing language she spoke will never be recorded.（B） people around her could not understand her language.（C） she is the last person having Eyak as mother-tongue.（
42、D）as a native Alaska, she lives far away from that place.27 What do those who lobby to preserve languages do to save endangered languages?（A）Take measures to slow down languages vanishing rate.（B） Try to make known languages accelerating vanishing rate.（C） Try all their out to record and reconstruct
43、 the vanishing languages.（D）Slow down languages vanishing rate and meanwhile make it known.28 In the fourth and fifth paragraphs the author discusses that（A）mastering Russian is the key to success in the Soviet Union.（B） the vanishing languages are triggered by political power.（C） English becomes a
44、world language due to political power.（D）languages face an obvious threat in the shape of a political power.29 What is the authors attitude towards vanishing languages throughout the world?（A）Concerned.（B） Indifferent.（C） Pleased.（D）Sympathetic.30 In the future, the number of languages will（A）stop d
45、ecreasing.（B） begin to increase.（C） continue to decrease.（D）stop increasing.30 London is steeped in Dickensian history. Every place he visited, every person he met, would be drawn into his imagination and reappear in a novel. There really are such places as Hanging Sword Alley in Whitefriars Street,
46、 EC1(Where Jerry Cruncher lived in A Tale of Two Cities)and Bleeding Heart Yard off Greville Street, ECl(Where the Plornish family lived in Little Dorrit); they are just the sort of places Dickens would have visited on his frequent night-time walks.He first came to London as a young boy, and lived a
47、t a number of addresses throughout his life, moving as his income and his issue(he had ten children)increased. Of these homes only one remains, at 48 Doughty Street, WC1, now the Dickens House Museum, and as good a place as any to start your tour of Dickenss London.The Dickens family lived here for
48、only two years 1837-1839 but during this brief period, Charles Dickens first achieved great fame as a novelist, finishing Pickwick Papers, and working on Oliver Twist, Barna-by Rudge and Nicholas Nickleby. If you want a house full of atmosphere, you may be a little disappointed, for it is more a col
49、lection of Dickensiana than a recreation of a home. Dont let this deter you, however, for this is the place to see manuscripts, first editions, letters, original drawings, as well as furniture, pictures and artifacts from different periods of his life. Just one room, the Drawing Room, has been reconstructed to look as it would have done in 1839, but elsewhere in the house you can see the grandfather
