1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 784（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 Chinese CalligraphyCalligraphy, the writing of characters, is one of the traditional four arts and has develo
3、ped over centuries in the history of China. Today it still has a place in museums. I. Roles of calligraphyA. a means of communicationB. a way of expressing the 【B1】 of nature 【B1】_ II. Characteristics of calligraphyA. Calligraphy as an expressive art: to 【B2】 the 【B2】_identity of a manB. Calligraphy
4、 as a practical fine art: to be used as ornamentsIII. Benefits of practicing calligraphyA. getting ones subconsciousness exercisedB. bringing about 【B3】 between the mind and the body 【B3】_C. enabling one to enjoy healthy life and longevityIV. Five basic script types in Chinese calligraphyA. the Seal
5、 Script the oldest style, making a signature-like impression generally used in 【B4】 today 【B4 】_B. the Official or Clerical Script Characters appear 【B5】 : strokes often start thin 【B5】_and end thick. still common in printing because of its eleganceC. the Regular Script Characters are regular, writt
6、en 【B6】 . 【B6】_ most widely used and the most legibleD. the Running Script Strokes may run into one another. Characters are less 【B7】 . 【B7】_E. the Cursive Script a flowing style with few angular lines Strokes are altered or removed for smoothwriting or purpose 【B8】_ 【B8】_V. Status and influence of
7、calligraphyA. an important 【B9】 for imperial court to select officials 【B9】_B. an art unique to Asian culturesC. a source of inspiration to 【B10】 【B10】_1 【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
8、 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 For Mrs. Saxby, the resume is all-important, because i
9、t（A）covers all the relevant personal information.（B） includes information about education.（C） explains why a person quitted his/her last job.（D）indicates whether a person takes the application seriously.12 At the interview, Mrs. Saxby looks for in a candidate all of the following EXCEPT?（A）passion a
10、nd vigor.（B） readiness to discuss things.（C） good first impression.（D）good appearance, clean and tidy.13 According to Mrs. Saxby, new employees（A）are trained to possess the ability of multi-tasking.（B） have to look after customers who are on the “floor“.（C） take an examination during the 8-week trai
11、ning program.（D）are trained to fill in varied positions.14 All the following qualities are held in high regard at the Odeon EXCEPT（A）Customer-centeredness.（B） Capability of working independently.（C） Good manners.（D）Faithfulness to the company.15 According to the interview, which of the following pro
12、blems arises most often at the Odeon?（A）Employees are dishonest.（B） Employees are impolite to customers.（C） Young employees are late and absent.（D）Employees dont obey the disciplinary procedureSECTION C NEWS BROADCASTDirections: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully an
13、d 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 statements is INCORECT?（A）The Kairuku penguin became extinct about.（B） The Kairuku penguin lived in the Oligocene time period.（C） The fossil penguin i
14、s reconstructed in New Zealand.（D）The research is published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology17 What is the news mainly about?（A）Mexico is holding an election.（B） Voting in Mexico is threatened by drug cartels.（C） There is widespread nervousness in Mexico.（D）Election candidates in Mexico are
15、 subject to violence.18 The measures taken by the election candidates against violence mentioned in the news include all the following EXCEPT（A）keeping public agenda secret.（B） using false information.（C） avoiding violent place activity.（D）avoiding night-time political activity.19 It seems that_of t
16、he people in England are in favor of a woman bishop.（A）the majority（B） the minority（C） half（D）few20 The plan of ordaining women bishops was finally（A）approved.（B） rejected.（C） destroyed.（D）unsettled.20 Most men live in harness. Richard was one of them. Typically he had no awareness of how his male h
17、arness was choking him until his personal and professional life and his body had nearly fallen apart. He had to get sick in his harness and nearly be destroyed by role-playing masculinity before he could allow himself to be a person with his own feelings, rather than just a hollow male image. Had it
18、 not been for a bleeding ulcer he might have postponed looking at himself for many years more.Like many men, Richard had been a zombie, a daytime sleep-walker. Worse still, he had been a highly “successful“ zombie, which made it so difficult for him to risk change. Our culture is saturated with succ
19、essful male zombies, businessmen zombies, golf zombies, sports car zombies, playboy zombies, etc. They have lost touch with, or are running away from, their feelings and awareness of themselves as people. They have confused their social masks for their essence and they are destroying the selves whil
20、e fulfilling the traditional definitions of masculine-appropriate behavior. They are the heroes, the providers, the warriors, the empire builders, the fearless ones. Their reality is always approached through these veils of gender expectations.Men evaluate each other and are evaluated by many women
21、largely by the degree to which they approximate the ideal masculine model. Women have rightfully lashed out against being placed into a mold. Many women have described their roles in marriage as a form of socially approved prostitution. They assert that they are selling themselves out for an unfulfi
22、lling portion of supposed security. For psychologically defensive reasons the male has not yet come to see himself as a prostitute, day in and day out, both in and out of the marriage relationship.The males inherent survival instincts have been stunted by the seemingly more powerful drive to maintai
23、n his masculine image. He would, for example, rather die in the battle than risk living in a different way and being called a “coward“ or “not a man“. As a recently published study concluded, “A surprising number of men approaching senior citizenship say they would rather die than be buried in retir
24、ement.“The male in our culture is at a growth impasse. He wont move not because he is protecting his cherished central place in the sun, but because he cant move. He is a cardboard Goliath precariously balanced and on the verge of toppling over if he is pushed ever so slightly out of his well-worn p
25、ath. He lacks the fluidity of the female who can readily move between the traditional definitions of male or female behavior and roles. She can be wife and mother or a business executive. She can dress in typically feminine fashion or adopt the male styles. She will be loved for having “feminine“ in
26、terests such as needlework or cooking, or she will be admired for sharing with the male in his “masculine“ interests. She can be sexually assertive or sexually passive. Meanwhile, the male is rigidly caught in his masculine pose and, in many subtle and indirect ways, he is severely punished when he
27、steps out of it.Unlike some of the problems of women, the problems of men are not readily changed through legislation. The male has no apparent and clearly defined targets against which he can vent his rage. Yet he is oppressed by the cultural pressures that have denied him his feelings, by the myth
28、ology of the woman and the distorted and self-destructive way he sees and relates to her, and by the urgency for him to “act like a man“ which blocks his ability to respond to his inner promptings both emotionally and physiologically, and by a generalized self-hate that causes him to feel comfortabl
29、e only when he is functioning well in harness.Precisely because the tenor and mood of the male liberation efforts so far have been one of self-accusation, self-hate, and a repetition of feminist assertions, I believe it is doomed to failure in its present form. It is buying the myth that the male is
30、 culturally favored a notion that is clung to despite the fact that every critical statistic in the areas of longevity, disease, suicide, crime, accidents, childhood emotional disorders, alcoholism, and drug addiction shows a disproportionately higher male rate.The most remarkable and significant as
31、pect of the feminist movement to date has been womans daring willingness to own up to her resistances and resentment toward her time-honored, sanctified roles of wife and even mother. The male, however, has yet to fully realize, acknowledge, and rebel against the distress and stifling aspects of man
32、y of the roles he plays from good husband, to good daddy, to good provider, to good lover, etc. Because of the inner pressure to constantly affirm his dominance and masculinity, he continues to act as if he can stand up under, fulfill, and even enjoy all the expectations placed on him no matter how
33、contradictory and devitalizing they are.Its time to remove the disguises of privilege and reveal the male condition for what it really is.21 It can be inferred from the first paragraph that（A）up to now, Richard doesnt know he has caught certain disease.（B） there was something wrong with both Richard
34、s mental and physical health.（C） but for his illness, Richard would not have stopped working.（D）Richards illness offered him a chance to think about his life.22 The word “zombie“ in the second paragraph probably refers to（A）a person who is busy all the time.（B） a person who always acts as a leader.（
35、C） a person who behaves like a robot.（D）a person who is successful in some area.23 According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?（A）To be a man counts for a great deal for the male.（B） Some women hate being labeled as feminine.（C） Quite a few women air negative view of marriage.（D）Com
36、pared with men, women are more willing to retire from work.24 Men are under greater pressure than women in that（A）they dont have much freedom to make a choice.（B） they are not allowed to make mistakes.（C） they solely shoulder responsibilities for feeding their families.（D）they are self-motivated to
37、achieve great success.25 The authors attitude towards the present male liberation movement is（A）ambiguous.（B） pessimistic.（C） optimistic.（D）indignant.26 The best title for the passage would be（A）In Harness : the Male Condition.（B） Different Roles of Men and Women.（C） How to Solve Mens Problems.（D）Su
38、rvival Instincts vs. Male Images.26 The decline of civility and good manners may be worrying people more than crime, according to Gentility Recalled, edited by Digby Anderson, which laments the breakdown of traditional codes that once regulated social conduct. It criticizes the fact that “manners“ a
39、re scorned as repressive and outdated.The result, according to Mr. Anderson - director of the Social Affairs Unit, an independent think-tank is a society characterized by rudeness: loutish behavior on the streets, jostling in crowds, impolite shop assistants and bad-tempered drivers.Mr. Anderson say
40、s the cumulative effect of these apparently trivial, but often offensive is to make everyday life uneasy, unpredictable and unpleasant. As they are encountered far more often than crime, they can cause more anxiety than crime.When people lament the disintegration of law and order, he argues, what th
41、ey generally mean is order, as manifested by courteous forms of social contact. Meanwhile, attempts to re-establish restraint and self-control through “politically correct“ rules are artificial.The book has contributions from 12 academics in disciplines ranging from medicine to sociology and charts
42、what it calls the “coarsening“ of Britain. Old-fashioned terms such as “gentleman“ and “lady“ have lost all meaningful resonance and need to be re-evaluated, it says. Rachel Trickett, honorary fellow and former principal of St Hughs College, Oxford, says that the notion of a “lady“ protects women ra
43、ther than demeaning them.Feminism and demands for equality have blurred the distinctions between the sexes, creating situations where men are able to dominate women because of their more aggressive and forceful natures, she says. “Women, without some code of deference or respect, become increasingly
44、 victims.“Caroline Moore, the first woman fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, points out that “gentleman“ is now used only with irony or derision.“The popular view of a gentleman is poised somewhere between the imbecile parasite and the villainous one: between Woosteresque chinless wonders, and those h
45、eartless capitalist toffs who are .the stock-in-trade of television.“She argues that the concept is neither class-bound nor rigid; conventions of gentlemanly behavior enable a man to act naturally as an individual within shared assumptions while taking his place in society.“Politeness is no constrai
46、nt, precisely because the manners.are no code but a language, rich, flexible, restrained and infinitely subtle.“For Anthony OHear, professor of philosophy at the University of Bradford, manners are closely associated with the different forms of behavior appropriate to age and status. They curb both
47、the impetuosity of youth and the bitterness of old age. Egalitarianism, he says, has led to people failing to act their age.“We have vice-chancellors with earrings, aristocrats as hippies.the trendy vicar on his motorbike.“Dr. Athena Leoussi, sociology lecturer at Reading University, bemoans the del
48、iberate neglect by people of their sartorial appearance.Dress, she says, is the outward expression of attitudes and aspirations. The ubiquitousness of jeans “displays a utilitarian attitude“ that has“led to the cultural impoverishment of everyday life“.Dr. Leoussi says that while clothes used to be
49、seen as a means of concealing taboo forces of sexuality and violence, certain fashions such as leather jackets have the opposite effect.Dr. Bruce Charlton, a lecturer in public health medicine in Newcastle upon Tyne, takes issue with the excessive informality of relations between professionals such as doctors and bank managers, and their clients. He says this has eroded the distance and respect necessary in such relationships. For Tristam Engelhardt, professor of medicine in H
