1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 785（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 How to Write a Thesis I. Introduction partwriting the 【B1 】 after finishing the rest 【B1】_including a hook at
3、 the beginning quoting previous research in this field other points1) an explanation of the 【 B2】 of the paper 【B2】 _2) enough background knowledge3) an appropriate recognition of the previous work4) questions of the thesis5) the 【B3 】 of your work 【B3】_6) guiding the reader verbally7) making it cle
4、ar where your 【B4 】 starts 【B4 】_II. Method partinformation of the 【B5】 of your results 【B5】_information to duplicate your experimentlimitations, 【B6】 , and range of validity, as well as 【B6】_description of your methodsIII. Result part 【B7 】 of observations 【B7】_IV. Discussion partstarting with sent
5、ences that 【B8】 the most important results 【B8 】_being a 【B9】 in itself and answering necessary questions 【B9】_rich references of 【B10】 work and background 【B10】_moving unnecessary material1 【B1 】2 【B2 】3 【B3 】4 【B4 】5 【B5 】6 【B6 】7 【B7 】8 【B8 】9 【B9 】10 【B10 】SECTION B INTERVIEWDirections: In this
6、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 to the interview.11 Working out is be
7、neficial to human in all the following ways EXCEPT（A）it does good to your body.（B） it can improve your intelligence.（C） it can enlarge your circle of acquaintance.（D）it can fight diseases.12 Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?（A）Exercise could reduce the risk of getting Alzheimer.（B） Exe
8、rcise could improve cognitive function.（C） Interconnection of nerve cells primarily benefits memory function.（D）The brain functions better with interconnection of nerve cells.13 According to the woman, in which way does exercise help people in their 40s and 50s?（A）It can reduce the risk of getting A
9、lzheimer.（B） It can reduce the risk of getting cognitive impairment.（C） It can reduce the risk of getting cancer.（D）It can make them spiritually healthy.14 The California Teacher Study found the greatest reduction in breast cancer of about_percent among the women that were exercising the most.（A）26（
10、B） 40（C） 31（D）1415 The first thing for a woman who gets a diagnosis of breast cancer to do is（A）to start exercising.（B） to go the doctor.（C） to get a good medical team.（D）to keep a healthy mood.SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTDirections: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully a
11、nd 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 is Justice Secretary Jack Straws declaration?（A）Lotfi Raissi should be released.（B） Lotfi Raissi is the victim of the heightened emotional atmosphere at the end of 200
12、1.（C） Lotfi Raissi is eligible for compensation.（D）Compensation of hundreds of thousands of pounds should be given to Lotfi Raissi.17 What is the topic of the news?（A）The execution of a convicted murderer.（B） Firing squad execution.（C） Capital punishment.（D）American law ruling death.18 Which of the
13、following is INCORRECT about Ronnie Lee Gardner?（A）He once wanted to escape from the prison.（B） He was convicted because of killing an attorney.（C） He preferred facing a firing squad to lethal injection.（D）He is the first person in Oklahoma to face a firing squad in 14 years.19 The sharp rise of Eur
14、opean stock markets is a result of（A）the prevention of the spreading of Greece crisis.（B） the announcement of a one-trillion-dollar international financial package.（C） the large gains European stock markets have made.（D）the European deal to provide loans to Europe countries.20 Why has the euro gaine
15、d an interest rate?（A）It is the result of the rise of stock markets.（B） Because bank shares have risen especially strongly.（C） Because the debts of governments such as Greece and Portugal have fallen.（D）Because the central banks began to buy governments debts in the markets.20 Florence Nightingale e
16、ntered the hospital and was appalled and horrified by what she saw. Wounded soldiers lay on straw mats that lined the room like coffins waiting for burial. The floor was covered with dirt and blood. There were no hospital gowns: the men still wore their uniforms. As Nightingale passed them, each sol
17、dier tried to act stern and tough, but their boyish faces betrayed unmistakable pain. Those who were able to conquer their convulsions lay still, as if dead.These were the hospital conditions in Scutari, Turkey during the Crimean War. Florence and a group of nurses were sent to this hospital to help
18、 make the hospital a more efficient place. The first change Florence made was scrubbing all the injured mens clothes. Then, she spent her own money buying bandages, operating tables and other basic necessities for the hospital. Her nurses cleaned the whole hospital so there were no more germs and th
19、is helped to stop contamination and spread of disease. She is a hero because she changed the hospital and saved lives with her determination and hard work.Florence Nightingale also changed the profession of nursing forever. Nursing was once an occupation with little respect: people didnt think you n
20、eeded any special training or skills to do it, and most nurses were poor and uneducated. It was very unusual for Florence, who came from the upper class, to work in a hospital. The hospital conditions were more sanitary after she reorganized everything. Funds and donations flooded into hospitals and
21、 the patients received better care. Hospitals around the world were changed forever and caring for the sick became an honorable profession.Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy on May 12, 1820. Although Italian born, she grew up in London, England where she received her education included the stud
22、y of Greek, Latin, German, French and Italian. Her father taught her history and philosophy, while her governess schooled her in music and drawing. As part of an upper class family, Nightingale and her sister were expected to grow up as proper ladies who would devote themselves to their family, husb
23、and, society, entertainment and cultural pursuits. She was driven by a different dream. She believed that her attraction to nursing was Gods will, or “a calling“, and because of that she made many personal sacrifices to pursue her professional life with intensity.Her family disapproved of her decisi
24、on to take up the nursing profession, which was seen in her day as a vocation for lower classes, one carried out under harsh conditions in dirty hospital environments. The familys disappointment did not deter her from her goal, and at the age of 33, having studied nursing for nine years, Florence be
25、gan caring for the sick.In 1853, she was asked to work at the Harley Street Nursing Home. There she made improvements that included better organization and training for the staff, and she implemented a system that piped hot water to every floor. She also created a lift to bring patients their meals.
26、The Crimean War began and the British army was unprepared to accommodate British battle injuries and casualties in Crimea. This led to disasters such as cholera, lack of supplies, and inadequate sanitation. British Secretary of War Sidney Herbert asked Nightingale to take nurses and help the hospita
27、l in Scutari, Turkey. On October 21, 1854 she set out for the hospital with the 38 nurses she had trained.The state of the hospital in Turkey was horrendous, but even more challenging was the hostile attitude the nurses received from the doctors. Many did not even allow nurses inside the wards. It w
28、asnt until the Battle of Inkerman, during which the British suffered many casualties and the hospitals became overcrowded, that the doctors were forced to ask for help.Nightingale used her own money to make the hospital a cleaner, healthier and more efficient place for patients. She brought in basic
29、s including bandages, extra clothes, 200 scrub brushes and better food. She also took all the dirty clothing outside the hospital to be washed.She sent reports back to London about ways to improve conditions, and assumed care of the patients at night, moving about each floor comforting patients with
30、 a lamp in hand. This intimate relationship with her patients earned her the affectionate title of “Lady with the Lamp“.Though the male hospital team often resented her power to affect change, the troops were so grateful to her that they raised a special fund to allow her to continue her work. Throu
31、gh selfless devotion and sheer determination, Florence Nightingale transformed the profession of nursing forever. She gave dignity and honor to what continues to be a female-dominated profession, and revolutionized hospital conditions, making them more organized and above all, sanitary. Largely beca
32、use of her efforts, funds and donations flood into hospitals, allowing patients around the world to receive better care.21 Which of the following is NOT true about nursing before Nightingale came in this field?（A）Most nurses were not professionally trained.（B） People only had respect for the nurses
33、from the upper classes.（C） Nurses did not pay enough attention to sanitation.（D）There were little donations flowing into the hospitals.22 Nightingale can best be described as a_person.（A）knowledgeable and creative（B） pious and kind（C） versatile and determined（D）rebellious and brave23 What was the mo
34、st difficult part for Nightingales work at the hospital?（A）There were disasters of cholera.（B） There were too many injured soldiers.（C） The financial condition was very bad in the hospital.（D）There were prejudices and pressure from the hospital.24 Which of the following statements about Nightingale
35、is true?（A）As the only child of an upper class family, her parents disapproved of her decision to be a nurse.（B） Nightingale began to learn nursing when she was 24.（C） Nightingales efforts to reorganize the hospitals were welcomed by both the doctors and the injured soldiers.（D）Nightingale received
36、all her education from her father.25 Which of the following can be the best title of this passage?（A）Florence Nightingale at Hospital（B） Changes to Hospital Made by Nightingale.（C） Nightingales Contribution to Nursing（D）Lifesaver Hero Florence Nightingale25 After thirty years of married happiness, h
37、e could still remind himself that Victoria was endowed with every charm except the thrilling touch of human frailty. Though her perfection discouraged pleasures, especially the pleasures of love, he had learned in time to feel the pride of a husband in her natural frigidity. For he still clung, amid
38、 the decay of moral platitudes, to the discredited ideal of chivalry. In youth the world was suffused with the after-glow of the long Victorian age, and graceful feminine style had softened the manners, if not the natures, of men. At the end of that interesting epoch, when womanhood was exalted from
39、 a biological fact into a miraculous power, Virginius Littlepage, the younger son of an old and affluent family, had married Victoria Brooke, the granddaughter of a tobacco planter, who had made a satisfactory fortune by forsaking his plantation and converting tobacco into cigarettes. While Virginiu
40、s had been trained by stern tradition to respect every woman who had not stooped to folly, the virtue peculiar to her sex was among the least of his reasons for admiring Victoria. She was not only modest, which was usual in the nineties, but she was beautiful, which is unusual in any decade.In the b
41、eginning of their acquaintance he had gone even further and ascribed intellect to her; but a few months of marriage had shown this to be merely one of the many delusions created by perfect features and noble expression. Everything about her had been smooth and definite, even the tones of her voice a
42、nd the way her light brown hair, which she wore a Pompadour, was rolled stiffly back from her forehead and coiled in a burnished rope on the top of her head. A serious young man, ambitious to attain a place in the world more brilliant than the secluded seat of his ancestors, he had been impressed at
43、 their first meeting by the compactness and precision of Victorias orderly mind. For in that earnest period the minds, as well as the emotions, of lovers were orderly. It was an age when eager young men flocked to church on Sunday morning, and eloquent divines discoursed upon the Victorian poets in
44、the middle of the week. He could afford to smile now when he recalled the solemn Browning class in which he had first lost his heart. How passionately he had admired Victorias virginal features! How fervently he had envied her competent but caressing way with the poet!Incredible as it seemed to him
45、now, he had fallen in love with her while she recited from the more ponderous passages in The Ring and the Book. He had fallen in love with her then, though he had never really enjoyed Browning, and it had been a relief to him when the Unseen, in company with its illustrious poet, had at last gone o
46、ut to fashion. Yet, since he was disposed to admire all the qualities he did not possess, he had never ceased to respect the firmness with which Victoria continued to deal in other forms with the Absolute.As the placid years passed, and she came to rely less upon her virginal features, it seemed to
47、him that the ripe opinions of her youth began to shrink and flatten as fruit does that has hung too long on the tree. She had never changed, he realized, since he had first known her; she had become merely riper, softer, and sweeter in nature.Her advantage rested where advantage never fails to rest,
48、 in moral fervour. To be invariably right was her single wifely failing. For his wife, he singed, with the vague unrest of a husband whose infidelities are imaginary, was a genuinely good woman. She was as far removed from pretence as she was from the posturing virtues that flourish in the credulous
49、 world of the drama. The pity of it was that even the least exacting husband should so often desire something more piquant than goodness.26 In her husbands eye, Victoria has all the following qualities EXCEPT（A）delicacy.（B） beauty.（C） humbleness.（D）intelligence.27 We get the impression that Virginius is a man of（A）harmless vanity.（B） profound knowledge.（C） high aspiration.（D）immovable confidence.28 When Brownings poem became unpopular, Virginius felt（A）sympathy for it.（B） free from it.（C
