1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 614（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 AdvertisingI. The definition of advertising【B1 】_ but encouraging presentation of goods and services【B1】_II.
3、The importance of advertising to a company increase【B2】_ within the circle of potential targets【B2】_III. Three categories of mediaA. The print media1. Newspapers Advantages: a. newspaper ads are available to huge numbers of peopleb. newspapers ads approach to local people directlyc. ads can be【B3】_
4、due to low cost【B3】_ Disadvantages: a. newspaper ads have no colorb. they are not very exciting or【B4】_【B4】_2. Magazines Advantages: magazines have【B5 】_ of readers【B5】_ Disadvantages: advertising in magazine can be very expensiveB. The broadcast media1. Radios Advantages: a. everyone listens to rad
5、io.b. radio is usually local Disadvantages: a. the ads are hard to attract audiences【B6】_【B6】_b. company has to advertise on different stations2. TVs Advantages: a. it conveys information with sight, sound and【B7】_【B7】_b. it reaches audience nationwide Disadvantages: ads on TV are enormously expensi
6、veC. The direct media1. Mails Advantages: the ad goes directly to the potential customers. Disadvantages: direct mails are often considered as【B8】_【B8】_2.【B9 】_【B9 】_ Advantages: they are easy to see with【B10】_ messages.【B10】_ Disadvantages: they dont contain much information.3. Signs and posters Ad
7、vantages: it is cheap1 【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 in
8、terview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen to the interview.11 Which of the following is INCORRECT about Los Angeles?（A）There are many attractive places to visit.（B） The cost of living is in the medium range.（C） Apartment rentals arent as high as i
9、n New York City.（D）Its culture is internationally famous.12 Why would the job in Atlanta City probably be the best for Mary in terms of career progression?（A）It offers the highest salary.（B） It has the most responsibility.（C） It has much room for promotion.（D）She likes the job most.13 Which of the f
10、ollowing is NOT mentioned about Los Angeles?（A）Pantages Theater is its architectural landmark.（B） Many museums and galleries offer free admission.（C） University of California is located in this city.（D）It is the most magnificent metropolitan city in the U.S.14 The following are the benefits for Mary
11、 to get the Los Angeles job EXCEPT（A）the city is the closest to New York City.（B） the working environment is good for health.（C） she has good chance of further education.（D）the city is thick with cultural atmosphere.15 At last, Mary is inclined to choose the job in（A）Los Angeles.（B） Detroit.（C） Atla
12、nta City.（D）New York City.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 Which of the following is the cause of r
13、ising oil price?（A）Job creation improvement.（B） High unemployment rate.（C） Signs of economy recovery.（D）A strong dollar.17 The highest oil price in history was _ a barrel.（A）$86.64（B） $85.70（C） 162（D）14718 What is the main message of the news item?（A）Spain has implemented tougher immigration policie
14、s.（B） Employers in Spain dont hire as many immigrants as before.（C） Immigrants dont see many job opportunities in Europe.（D）The numbers of immigrants dropped in Spain and France.19 Which of the following statements is CORRECT about the tornadoes?（A）They were spotted from Florida to Virginia.（B） They
15、 came with heavy rain and hail.（C） One severe tornado was reported in North Carolina.（D）An industrial building fell down due to the tornado.20 The video on YouTube showed horrible flashes in（A）Belmont.（B） Charlotte.（C） High Point.（D）Greensboro.20 When Arsenal, an English football club, took on Readi
16、ng in 2007, the cover of the official program featured Theo Walcott, a young football player known for his speed. A copy is on display near the town of Bhig-wan in the Indian state of Maharashtra, in a factory belonging to Ballarpur Industries Limited(BILT). It is Indias biggest maker of writing and
17、 printing paper, including the glossy stock that Arsenal supporters browse before kick-off.BILT is part of the Avantha Group, a corporation headed by Gautam Thapar that spans agribusiness, power and manufacturing, among other things. The group has grown at a pace that would shame Mr. Walcott, earnin
18、g revenues of about $4 billion in 2009, compared with $1 billion in 2003. It provides one example of how corporate India might evolve, as it globalizes its operations, professionalizes its management and modernizes its technologies, while remaining a family corporation.The group was founded in the 1
19、920s by Karam Chand Thapar, who passed it on to his son, Lalit Mohan. Like many family corporations, it split in its third generation. But it split amicably, leaving Mr. Thapar with the lions share of the businesses. Other corporate siblings squabble over the family name. Mr. Thapar dropped it, rebr
20、anding the group “Avantha“ in 2007.Mr. Thapar cites a European tradition, where the heirs to family businesses first go off to try their luck elsewhere, before returning to the family fold. By accident, if not by design, he enjoyed a similar upbringing.As the second son of Lalit Mohans brother, Gaut
21、am grew up “twice removed from any position of inheritance.“That was probably just as well. Sudhir Trehan, who runs Crompton Greaves, Avanthas electrical equipment-maker, jokes that when he joined as a trainee in 1972, the management would not drink tea unless it were served with white gloves from a
22、 silver pot. That complacent culture could not survive the less sheltered economy of the 1990s. Mr. Thapar became boss of BILT after steering it clear of bankruptcy in the latter half of that decade. Thereafter his uncle left him free to get on with it. Mr. Thapar cultivates a similar relationship w
23、ith those who work for him, giving promising young executives responsibility for smaller units early on, so they can make their mistakes before the stakes get too big. “You actually believe its your company,“ says Vineet Chhabra, head of Global Green, a subsidiary which exports foods to 50 countries
24、.One advantage of a corporation is that it allows the ambitious to graduate from one company to another without leaving the group. When Mr. Chhabra began to feel irritated by Global Greens small scale, he was given that option. But instead he chose to turn Global Green into the bigger company he wan
25、ted to run. With the groups backing, it acquired Intergarden, a Belgian company three times its size. The purchase illustrates another advantage of the corporation: it gives units access to finance they could not raise on their own.Indian companies typically buy firms abroad to secure materials, mar
26、kets, or technologies. Avantha has gone in search of all three. Intergarden, for example, gave Global Green valuable customer relationships. BILT bought a Malaysian firm to gain access to its timber. Crompton Greaves wanted Pauwels, a Belgian company, mainly for its know-how.Mr. Thapar is unusual am
27、ong Indian businessmen in seeking inspiration(as well as acquisitions and markets)in continental Europe. In both Europe and India, he points out, the state remains a big owner of enterprise, the capital markets have yet to supersede banks as a source of corporate finance, and share ownership is ofte
28、n concentrated in family hands. Even the groups new name is an unlikely mix of Indian and European. It evokes both the Sanskrit for “strong foundations“ and the French for “advance“ a combination worth trading the family name for.21 Why does the author say in the second paragraph “The group has grow
29、n at a pace that would shame Mr. Walcott.“?（A）Because the group has gone bankrupt.（B） Because such events would never happen again.（C） Because Mr. Walcott didnt play well afterward.（D）Because the group developed at an unbelievable speed.22 The word amicably in “But it split amicably“ in the third pa
30、ragraph means（A）peacefully.（B） anxiously.（C） seriously.（D）ambitiously.23 According to the passage, which of the following is brought about by self-satisfied culture?（A）Bankruptcy.（B） Inability to handle crisis.（C） Firms prosperity.（D）Efficient management.24 Which is NOT seen as a benefit of a corpor
31、ation?（A）To enable the company to retain ambitious staff.（B） To back up the companys acquisition.（C） To give units access to finance.（D）To add long-term value to companys performance.25 The passage cites the following examples EXCEPT _ to show Mr. Thapars uniqueness in running business.（A）encouragin
32、g young managers to take responsibility（B） acquiring foreign firms（C） searching for inspiration and markets（D）contribution to national economy25 Boundaries have underpinned pretty much every aspect of my life, both past and present. From the profound lack of them in early childhood right through to
33、growing up and discovering ways to create ones clear enough and strong enough to be able to stay off drugs, out of prison and create healthy relationships with friends, family and colleagues.The emotional and psychological free for all spiraling around me as a kid pretty much guaranteed that Id deve
34、lop a series of debilitating addictions, court potentially lethal violence and begin the slow inevitable slide toward prison. An early death was always on the cards. The profound lack of boundaries throughout my fathers own life lead to his suicide. Seeing how his inability to create a safe boundary
35、 around his dysfunctional emotional life contributed to his .early death, woke me up to what I needed to do to stay off drugs, out of prison and alive.Its no surprise to me then that the biggest problem we have when working with young people in prison is around boundaries. Implementing and holding t
36、hem is key to the work we do in Write to Freedom(W2F). Young people from dysfunctional families who end up in custody seem to have a built in biological default to test any form of boundary presented to them. If theres a weak boundary in our staff team the young prisoners make it their business to p
37、ush it to breaking point.Every weekend weve organized has had a problem with the security clearance needed to get the lads out and onto the moors. There are always a variety of reasons for this, not least of all the volatility of the young people themselves. Whatever the reason, each weekend weve se
38、t up weve found ourselves below the minimum number set to make a weekend happen. So we ended up walking onto the wings, going from cell to cell looking for rookies to come on a writing weekend on Dartmoor. Locked cell door or open Devon moor? The decision for them is clearly a no brainer. Doing this
39、 has lead to lads coming on the weekend who were far from ready to engage with what we were asking of them. As a result we faced chaos and stress that could easily have been avoided.So I tightened up the criteria. Each participant had to complete three memoir based assignments before the weekend. Al
40、l was good till the security board meeting two days before the March weekend. Out of the four lads whod worked hard, completed the assignments and proved their understanding and commitment to W2F, only one was cleared to leave prison for the weekend. I could easily have done the same thing as last t
41、ime, gone from wing to wing to build the numbers back up, I wanted to believe me, and Ashfield put pressure on me to do it. But we chose to stick to the assessment criteria. Right or wrong it had to be kept. The weekend has been postponed till May.The psychology of boundaries, implicit and explicit,
42、 for the staff and participants in W2F is crucial to making the work we do safe. It builds trust, even if it means I do something I dont want to, like cancel a weekend after so much work has gone into its preparation. This is about self esteem; of the staff and the participants. Low self esteem crip
43、pled me in my early years and is still prone to erosion if Im not careful. Boundaries inside and outside were the making of me. Lack of boundaries for these young people led them to prison. Everybody needs a line that must not be crossed. Boundaries create trust. This can and has lead to changed liv
44、es and changed relationships, and offers all of us hope in the darkest of times.26 According to the passage, the serious consequence of being short of boundaries would be the following EXCEPT（A）a loss of consciousness.（B） addiction.to drugs.（C） committing crimes.（D）committing suicide.27 What is the
45、role of the 4th and 5th paragraphs in the development of the topic?（A）To show how the author persuaded young people to be boundary-limited.（B） To describe how lads worked hard to finish their assignment.（C） To offer supporting evidence to the preceding paragraph.（D）To provide a contrast to the prece
46、ding paragraphs.28 When the author discussed the emotional and psychological boundaries,（A）he is in favor of it.（B） his view is balanced.（C） he is critical of it.（D）he is anxious about it.29 Which category of writing does the passage belong to?（A）Narration.（B） Description.（C） Argumentation.（D）Exposi
47、ton29 We keep an eye out for wonders, my daughter and I, every morning as we walk down our farm lane to meet the school bus. And wherever we find them, they reflect the magic of water: a spider web drooping with dew like a necklace. A rain-colored heron rising from the creek bank. One astonishing mo
48、rning, we had a visitation of frogs. Dozens of them hurtled up from the grass ahead of our feet, launching themselves, white-bellied, in bouncing arcs, as if wed been caught in a downpour of amphibians. It seemed to mark the dawning of some new watery age. On another day we met a snapping turtle in
49、his olive drab armor. Normally this is a pond-locked creature, but some ambition had moved him onto our gravel lane, using the rainy week as a passport from our farm to somewhere else.The little, nameless creek tumbling through our hollow holds us in bondage. Before we came to southern Appalachia, we lived for years in Arizona, where a permanent brook of that size would merit a nature preserve. In the Grand Canyon Stat
