1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 619（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 Education Out of SchoolI. The origin of “Youth Hostel“:A German schoolmaster started the idea of “Youth Hoste
3、l“ in 1907. He turned his little schoolhouse into a (1)_for young peoples summer holidays.II. The current use of “Youth Hostel“:A. Admission and price:show their (2)_in a hostel organization;use the facilities for a (3)_price.B. “Hostelling“:The young from different countries meet together in Youth
4、Hostels. They learn a lot from those of other countries.“Hostelling“ has become a form of (4)_education asuseful as classes in school.Today, hostels are considered important for (5)_theyoung with a first-hand contact with youths of other lands.III. (6)_work:A. Young people serve at a (7)_without pay
5、 during theirsummer holidays.B. They also see the (8)_, meet people and have discussions.C. They come to (9)_a community, building communitycenters, organizing clubs, etc.D. They often work (10)_and the locals become interestedin helping themselves.SECTION B INTERVIEWDirections: In this section you
6、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 to the interview.11 What can jobs and work provid
7、e according to the speaker?（A）They can provide material happiness.（B） They can provide psychological happiness.（C） They can provide workshops.（D）They can provide psychological well-being as well as material things.12 Some institutions dealing with mental health problems are establishing workshops be
8、cause（A）they need more financial support.（B） they want to provide patients with an opportunity to earn a living.（C） they believe that work can help patients to gain renewed self-confidence.（D）they believe that work can help cure all acute symptoms of patients.13 What is the purpose of mentioning the
9、 craftsman who shapes some material into an object that may be either useful or beautiful or both?（A）In order to show he enjoys craftsmanship.（B） In order to show he is good at shaping materials.（C） In order to show the value of a teamwork.（D）In order to show the pride and sense of accomplishment st
10、imulated by the job.14 Which of the following statements is INCORRECT according to the interview?（A）Working in a team also provides a sense of accomplishment.（B） A sense of belonging from an organization can provide employees with self-confidence.（C） Working for a team does not provide the same prid
11、e as working individually does.（D）The human being longs for a sense of being accomplished.15 What is Professor Sayles attitude towards workaholics?（A）They usually have the inferiority complex.（B） They perform an insignificant proportion of American business.（C） They will probably not have the regret
12、s that many “normal“ people face at middle age.（D）They usually suffer from low self-esteem.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
13、 answer the questions.16 The discovery of the tomb will enable archeologists to know about the life of（A）commons.（B） farmers.（C） aristocrats.（D）workers.16 A team of international researchers has found new evidence that an endangered subspecies of chimpanzee is the source of the virus that causes acq
14、uired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in humans. Experts said the finding could lead to new treatments for AIDS and contribute to the development of a vaccine against the disease.The research team said the chimp - a subspecies known as Pan troglodytes troglodytes native to west central Africa - ca
15、rries a simixan immunodeficiency virus (SIV) that is closely related to three strains of human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV), the virus that causes AIDS. One of these strains, HIV - 1, has caused the vast majority of the estimated 30 million HIV infections around the world.The researchers are uncert
16、ain When the chimp virus, called SIVcpz (for simixan immunodeficiency virus chimpanzee), first infected humans, although the oldest documented case of HIV has been linked to a Bantu man who died in Central Africa in 1959. But they said the virus, which does not appear to harm the chimps, was most li
17、kely transmixtted to humans when hunters were exposed to chimp blood while killing and butchering the animals for food. Once transmixtted to humans, the researchers believe the virus mutated into HIV - 1.Team leader Beatrice Hahn, an AIDS researcher at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, said t
18、he chimps have probably carried the virus for hundreds of thousands of years. Since humans have likely hunted the animals since prehistoric times, Hahn said the virus may have jumped to humans on many occasions, but was not transmixtted widely among humans until the 20th century. Increased hunting o
19、f the chimpanzees, along with human mixgration to African cities and changing sexual mores, could help explain the recent epidemixc, Hahn said.Scientists had long suspected that a nonhuman primate was the source of HIV - 1. Earlier studies suggested that the sooty mangabey monkey, a native of West A
20、frica, was the likely source of HIV - 2 - a rarer form of the AIDS virus that is transmixtted less easily than HIV - 1. However, only a few samples of SIV strains exist, making it difficult for researchers to confidently connect the strains to HIV - 1.As part of their effort to discover the source o
21、f HIV - 1, the research team studied the four known samples of SIVcpz. They learned that three of the four samples came from chimps belonging to the subspecies P.t. troglodytes. The remaining sample came from another subspecies, Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii, which inhabits East Africa.The team the
22、n compared the SIVcpz strains to each other and found that all three of the viruses from P. t. troglodytes were closely related, while the virus from P.t. schweinfurthii was genetically different. Next they compared the SIVcpz strains to the main subgroups of HIV - 1, known as M, N, and O. Their com
23、parisons showed that the P.t. troglodytes viruses strongly resembled all three HIV - 1 subgroups.Additional evidence that HIV - 1 could be linked to P. t. troglodytes came when the researchers examined the chimps natural habitat. The researchers quickly discovered that the chimps live primarily in t
24、he West African nations of Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Republic of the Congo the geographic region where HIV -1 was first identified.Upon closer study, the researchers learned that the chimps were being killed in growing numbers for the so - called bushmeat trad
25、e, a trend assisted by the construction of new logging roads in once remote forests. The researchers said that continued hunting of the animals meant that many people are still likely to be exposed to SIVcpz, increasing the risk of additional cross - species transmissions.Many AIDS researchers welco
26、med the teams finding, but said the new work had not proved the connection definitively. Most of the doubts centered on the difficulty of drawing conclusions from such a small number of SIVcpz samples. Because so few samples exist - all drawn from chimps in captivity - researchers do not know how pr
27、evalent the virus is among wild chimps, or how the virus is transmixtted. Doubts are likely to persist until the course of the virus is studied in chimps in the wild.Some health experts said the finding could have far- reaching implications for combating AIDS. Because SIVcpz does not cause the chimp
28、s to become iii, researchers believe that the animals disease -fighting immune systems may have developed a defense against the virus. Since chimps are 98 percent genetically similar to humans, learning more about the chimps immune systems could shed light on new ways to prevent and treat AIDS in hu
29、mans. Discovering how the chimps immune system controls the virus, for ex- ample, could help researchers develop a vaccine that generates a similar immune -system response in humans.Other experts noted that even if the finding does not help in the fight against AIDS, it provides strong evidence that
30、 dangerous viruses can be transmixtted to humans from wild animals. In some cases, the viruses may be harmless to the host animals, but cause sickness and death when transmixtted to humans. As people increasingly venture into remote animal habitats, some scientists believe there is a growing risk of
31、 new human exposures to previously unknown disease -causing microbes.In the meantime, widespread slaughter of the chimps could make further study of P. t. troglodytes difficult. The wild chimp population, which exceeded 1 million animals in the early 20th century, is now believed to number fewer tha
32、n 100,000. “We cannot afford to lose these animals, either from the animals conservation point of view or a medical investigation standpoint,“ said Hahn. “It is quite possible that the chimpanzee, which has served as the source of HIV - 1, also holds the clues to its successful control.“17 The signi
33、ficance of the finding is that _.（A）people now know the number of chimpanzees is much smaller than expected（B） it may make it possible for scientists to discover new ways of treating AIDS.（C） it proves some deadly human diseases can also be transmitted to wild animals（D）it will soon help the scienti
34、sts develop a vaccine that prevents the AIDS virus18 According to Hahn, all the following increase the transmission of AIDS virus EXCEPT _.（A）hunting and killing more chimpanzees.（B） more champ hunters moving to cities（C） peoples changed sexual behaviors.（D）travelling to more African countries.19 Ma
35、ny AIDS experts are not completely satisfied with results of the study because _.（A）only a limited number of chimpanzees are used for sampling the virus.（B） it is now extremely difficult to find chimpanzees that carry the virus.（C） the samples collected are from two different subspecies of chimpanze
36、es.（D）it does not provide reliable evidence of the link between SIV and HIV - 1.20 Since chimpanzees are genetically very similar to humans, _.（A）chimpanzees are likely to suffer AIDS just like humans if they are infected.（B） it does not matter if human beings are infected with SIV rather than HIV -
37、 1.（C） we can use human vaccines to prevent chimpanzees from getting AIDS virus.（D）AIDS vaccines based on chimp s immune mechanism are possible to be made.21 The biggest worry that the researchers now have is _.（A）more and more wild chimpanzees are being slaughtered.（B） AIDS virus is difficult to be
38、 killed and controlled.（C） it is not easy to repair people s deficient immune systems.（D）many dangerous viruses are being transmitted to humans.一、PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question.22 _ made
39、the British Monarch “Supreme Head of the Church of England“.（A）Bill of Rights（B） Act of Supremacy（C） Both A and B（D）None of the above23 The sentence “.government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth“ comes from_.（A）the Emancipation Proclamation（B） The Declara
40、tion of Independence（C） Gettysburg Address（D）I Have a Dream24 The majority of French Canadians live in（A）Quebec.（B） Ontario.（C） Newfoundland.（D）Nova Scotia.25 If three plosive consonants come together, there is only one explosion, that of the_consonant(s).（A）first（B） second（C） third（D）any of the thr
41、ee26 _is a study of how speakers oif a language use sentences to effect successful communication.（A）Pragmatics（B） Semantics（C） Syntax（D）Etymology27 What are the most important natural resources in Canada?（A）Forest resources.（B） Mineral resources.（C） Water resources.（D）Agricultural resources.28 Predi
42、cation analysis, a way to analyze sentence meaning, was proposed by（A）John Austin.（B） J. R. Searle.（C） G. Leech.（D）N. Chomsky.30 Which of the following words is formed through derivation?（A）Foolish.（B） Clockwise.（C） Babysit.（D）Earthward. 31 Which of the following words is NOT formed through clipping
43、?（A）Phone.（B） Smog.（C） Memo.（D）Fridge. 二、PART IV PROOFREADING no two creatures are perfectly equal. “The people in all nations are naturally divided into two sorts, the gentlemen and the simplemen, a word which is here chosen to signify the common people.“ The factors which cause this division of so
44、ciety are essentially threefold-inequality of wealth, inequality of birth, and inequality of merit. By virtue of these factors are the few separated from the many, the natural aristocracy from the common people. The basis of a natural aristocracy rests upon the possession of influence. “By aristocra
45、cy, I understand all those men who can command, influence or procure more than an average of votes; by an aristocrat, every man who can and will influence one man to vote besides himself.“ 三、PART VI WRITING (45 MIN)Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic.35 As you k
46、now, science has had great effect on our lives since the ancient time. Nowadays science has a closer relation with our life. Whats the latest development in science and technology and how does it affect out lives. Write an essay of a- bout 400 words on the following topic:THE EFFECT OF SCIENCE ANDTE
47、CHNOLOGY ON OUR LIVESIn 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 appropriacy. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.Write your essay on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.
