1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 880（无答案）SECTION A MINI-LECTUREIn this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the mini-lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the mini-lecture, please complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure the word(s) you fi
2、ll in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for note-taking.You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.0 How to Conquer Public Speaking FearI. IntroductionA. Public speakinga common source of stress for everyoneB. The truth about itit is no
3、t 【T1】_ stressful 【T1】_it is very likely to become 【T2】_ 【T2】_experience if the speaker correctly understands the 【 T3】_: 【T3】_bears in mind its meaning, key points and reminders related.II. Causes of stress in a speechA. lack of right 【T4】_ 【T4】_B. lack of right 【T5】_ 【T5】_C. lack of right plan of
4、actionIII. Meaning of a 【T6 】_ speech. 【T6】_A It doesnt mean perfection.B. Give your audience something 【T7】_ so that 【T7】_they feel better about themselves:they feel better about jobs they have to do:they feel 【T8】_ 【T8】_IV. Main points for 【T9】 _ a speech 【T9 】_A. Do not deliver 【T10 】_ to the aud
5、ience. 【T10】_B. Have 【T11】_ or an index card. 【T11】_V. General remindersIf you forget the 【T12】_ about public speaking and 【T12 】_feel 【 T13】_, 【T13】_A go back and review this lecture,B. find out what you did 【T14】_, 【T14】_C. go back out and speak again.Remember that the 【T15 】_ will be impressive.
6、【T15】_1 【T1】2 【T2】3 【T3】4 【T4】5 【T5】6 【T6】7 【T7】8 【T8】9 【T9】10 【T10】11 【T11】12 【T12】13 【T13】14 【T14】15 【T15】SECTION B INTERVIEWIn this section you will hear ONE interview. The interview will be divided into TWO parts. At the end of each part, five questions will be asked about what was said. Both th
7、e interview and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the four choices of A , B , C and D , and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.You have THIRTY seconds to preview the questions.（A）Peop
8、le prefer to put their private picture online.（B） People just put their preferable pictures online.（C） Pictures with microphone are prohibited online.（D）Pictures are not allowed to be copied online.（A）People can sign up for whatever website they like.（B） People can copy whatever online into their ow
9、n computer.（C） People can attack every personal computer they like.（D）People can sanitize whatever website they like.（A）By sanitizing the websites they often surf.（B） By sending them to Miss New Jersey.（C） By supervising them with proper advice.（D）By comparing them with their jealous friends.（A）Copy
10、ing and pasting pictures on your personal homepage.（B） Sanitizing your photos before putting them online.（C） Blacklisting all your angry and jealous friends.（D）Sending photos via emails rather than websites.（A）To better help their children with these sites.（B） To narrow the generation gap.（C） To fol
11、low the fashionable trend.（D）To set an example for their children.（A）The childs academic performance.（B） The childs character and personality.（C） The childs computer skills.（D）The childs willingness to communicate.（A）Keeping updated with current internet applications.（B） Splitting the bill with thei
12、r children for going online.（C） Getting the password of their childs online account.（D）Asking their kids to watch the language on their sites.（A）Frequently change their passwords of online accounts.（B） Put their photos online frequently and randomly.（C） Guarantee the decency of language on their sit
13、es.（D）Use their real full name for their online account.（A）Their potential employers.（B） Their future spouse.（C） Their childhood teachers.（D）Their financial advisors.（A）Use first name only.（B） Use a name of cartoon characters.（C） Use an invented name.（D）Use their parents name.SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOI
14、CE QUESTIONSIn this section there are several passages followed by fourteen multiple-choice questions. For each multiple-choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A , B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer.25 (1)If you want to see what it takes to set up an entir
15、ely new financial center (and what is best avoided), head for Dubai. This tiny, sun-baked patch of sand in the midst of a war-torn and isolated region started with few advantages other than a long tradition as a hub for Middle Eastern trade routes.(2)But over the past few years Dubai has built a new
16、 financial center from nothing. Dozens of the worlds leading financial institutions have opened offices in its new financial district, hoping to grab a portion of the $2 trillion-plus investment from the Gulf. Some say there is more hype than business, but few big firms are willing to risk missing o
17、ut(3)Dealmaking in Dubai centers around The Gate, a cube-shaped structure at the heart of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). A brainchild of the ruling Al-Maktoum family, the DIFC is a tax-free zone for wholesale financial services. Firms licensed for it are not approved to serve the l
18、ocal financial market The DIFC aims to become the leading wholesale financial centre in the Gulf, offering one-stop shopping for everything from stocks to sukuk (Islamic)bonds, investment banking and insurance. In August the Dubai bourse made a bid for a big stake in OMX, a Scandinavian exchange ope
19、rator that also sells trading technology to many of the worlds exchanges.(4)Dubai may have generated the biggest splash thus far, but much of the Gulf region has seen a surge of activity in recent years. Record flows of petrodollars have enabled governments in the area to spend billions on infrastru
20、cture projects and development Personal wealth too is growing rapidly. According to Capgemini and Merrill Lynch, the number of people in the Middle East with more than $1m in financial assets rose by nearly 12% last year, to 300,000.(5)Qatar, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi also have big aspirations for their
21、 financial hubs, though they keep a lower profile than Dubai. They, too, are trying to learn from more established financial centers what they must do to achieve the magic mix of transparent regulation, good infrastructure and low or no taxes. Some of the fiercest competition among them is for talen
22、t. Most English-speaking professionals have to be imported.(6)Each of the Gulf hubs, though, has its own distinct characteristics. Abu Dhabi is trying to present itself as a more cultured, less congested alternative to neighboring Dubai, and is building a huge Guggenheim museum. Energy-rich Qatar is
23、 an important hub for infrastructure finance, with ambitions to develop further business in wealth management, private equity, retail banking and insurance. Bahrain is well established in Islamic banking, but it is facing new competition from London, Kuala Lumpur and other hubs that have caught on t
24、o Islamic finance. “If youve got one string to your bow and suddenly someone takes it away, youre in trouble,“ says Stuart Pearce of the Qatar Financial Centre about Bahrain.(7)Saudi Arabia, by far the biggest economy in the Gulf, is creating a cluster of its own economic zones, including King Abdul
25、lah City, which is aimed at foreign investors seeking a presence in the country. Trying to cut down on the number of “suitcase bankers“ who fly in from nearby centers rather than live in the country, the Saudis now require firms working with them to have local business licenses. Yet the bulk of the
26、regions money is still flowing to established financial centers in Europe, America and other parts of Asia.(8)The financial hubs there offer lessons for aspiring centers in other parts of the developing world. Building the confidence of financial markets takes more than new skyscrapers, tax breaks a
27、nd incentives. The DIFC, for instance, initially suffered from suspicions of government meddling and from a high turnover among senior executives. Trading on its stock market remains thin, and the government seems unwilling to float its most successful companies there. Making the desert bloom was ne
28、ver easy.26 According to the passage, Dubai has built a new financial center_.（A）because of its innate advantages over other countries（B） thanks to the $2 trillion-plus investment from the Gulf（C） from its past tradition as a trade center in the Gulf（D）for its a war-torn and isolated region in the w
29、orld27 According to the passage, which of the following about Dubai is INCORRECT?（A）It enjoys record flows of petrodollars.（B） Personal wealth too is growing rapidly.（C） It has the same scale of financial hubs with Qutar and Bahrain.（D）Billions are spent on infrastructure.28 Which of the following i
30、s NOT true about Saudi Arabia?（A）It is building a cluster of its own economic zones.（B） It is trying to decrease the number of “suitcase bankers“.（C） It is very strict about granting local business licenses.（D）It cant attract the bulk of the regions money to flow in.29 By saying “making the desert b
31、loom was never easy“ in Para. 8, the author means _.（A）new skyscrapers need to be built to guarantee the confidence of financial markets（B） cutting on taxes and giving more incentives brings the confidence of financial markets（C） the government is trying to bring the confidence of financial markets
32、down（D）it takes great efforts to build the confidence and prosperity of financial markets29 (1)Most people have experienced the feeling, after a taxing mental work-out, that they cannot be bothered to make any more decisions. If they are forced to, they may do so intuitively, rather than by reasonin
33、g. Such apathy is often put down to tiredness, but a study published recently in Psychological Science suggests there may be more to it than that. Whether reason or intuition is used may depend simply on the decision-makers blood-sugar levelwhich is, itself, affected by the process of reasoning.(2)E
34、.J. Masicampo and Roy Baumeister of Florida State University discovered this by doing some experiments on that most popular of laboratory animals, the impoverished undergraduate. They asked 121 psychology students who had volunteered for the experiment to watch a silent video of a woman being interv
35、iewed that had random words appearing in bold black letters every ten seconds along the perimeter of the video. This was the part of the experiment intended to be mentally taxing. Half of the students were told to focus on the woman, to try to understand what she was saying, and to ignore the words
36、along the perimeter. The other half were given no instructions. Those that had to focus were exerting considerable self-control not to look at the random words.(3)When the video was over, half of each group was given a glass of lemonade with sugar in it and half was given a glass of lemonade with su
37、gar substitute. Twelve minutes later, when the glucose from the lemonade with sugar in it had had time to enter the students blood, the researchers administered a decision-making task that was designed to determine if the participant was using intuition or reason to make up his mind.(4)The students
38、were asked to think about where they wanted to live in the coming year and given three accommodation options that varied both in size and distance from the university campus. Two of the options were good, but in different ways: one was far from the campus, but very large: the other was close to camp
39、us, but smaller. The third option was a decoy, similar to one of the good options, but obviously not quite as good. If it was close to campus and small, it was not quite as close as the good close option and slightly smaller. If it was far from campus and large, it was slightly smaller than the good
40、 large option and slightly farther away.(5)Psychologists have known for a long time that having a decoy option in a decision-making task draws people to choose a reasonable option that is similar to the decoy. Dr. Masicampo and Dr. Baumeis-ter suspected that students who had been asked to work hard
41、during the video and then been given a drink without any sugar in it would be more likely to rely on intuition when making this decision than those from the other three groups. And that is what happened: 64% of them were swayed by the decoy. Those who had either not had to exert mental energy during
42、 the showing of the video or had been given glucose in their lemonade, used reason in their decision-making task and were less likely to be swayed by the decoy.(6)It is not clear why intuition is independent of glucose. It could be that humans inherited a default nervous system from other mammals th
43、at was similar to intuition, and that could make snap decisions about whether to fight or flee regardless of how much glucose was in the body.(7)Whatever the reason, the upshot seems to be that thinking is, indeed, hard work. And important decisions should not be made on an empty stomach.30 In E. J.
44、 Masicampo and Roy Baumeisters study, about _ students who received no instructions in the video watching were given a glass of lemonade with sugar in it.（A）121（B） 60（C） 30（D）1531 Which group of students tended to be swayed by the decoy, according to the study?（A）The no-watching-instructions group t
45、hat had been given glucose in their lemonade.（B） The no-watching-instructions group having been given sugar substitute in their lemonade.（C） The mental-energy-exerting group that had been given glucose in their lemonade.（D）The mental-energy-exerting group that had been given sugar substitute in thei
46、r lemonade.32 Which of the following is NOT true, according to the study?（A）Peoples blood-sugar level is affected by the process of reasoning.（B） Whether people resort to reasoning or intuition may depend on their blood-sugar level.（C） Both reasoning and intuition are certainly affected by peoples b
47、lood-sugar level.（D）It is not wise to make important decisions when one is hungry.33 The last paragraph suggests that_.（A）people are not able to make important decisions when hungry（B） decisions made on an empty stomach may be unreasonable（C） people are less intelligent when they are hungry（D）people
48、 are more intelligent when they are hungry33 (1)Considering how jazz is transcribed in Chinese (jueshi), you may be misled into assuming that it is an aristocratic cultural form. Nothing could be further from the truth. It originated among black Americans at the end of the 19th century, at a time wh
49、en they occupied the very bottom of the American social heap.(2)So how has something that was created by a once downtrodden and despised minority acquired a central place in todays American culture? Perhaps the essence of America is that you could never get two Americans to agree on just what that might be. After thinking about it for a while, we might chuckle and say, “Hmm, see
