英语专业八级考试模拟题5(1).doc

WORD格式整理英语专业八级考试模拟题5(1)PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSIONIn Section A, B and C you will hear everything ONLY ONCE. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct response to each question on the Colored Answer Sheet.SECTION A TALKQuestion 1 to 5 refer to the talk in this section. At the end of the talk you will be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen to the talk.1. _ had it not for the courage of a minor chieftain _ means _ A) thanks toB) in spite ofC) but forD) because of2. Shaka was inhuman because _ A) he made himself King of the ZulusB) he gave special privileges to his bodyguardC) he set standards he could not keep himselfD) he had no respect for human life3. All those who had failed to be present at the funeral _ means _. A) all who had not comeB) all who had not been able to comeC) all who had not brought presentsD) all who had not announced their arrival4. Shakas orders were little less than a sentence of national starvation because _. A) the Zulus were not lazy to cultivate anything but grainB) the Zulus were already on a dietC) the Zulus food consisted mainly of grain and milk products.D) the Zulus had nothing else to eat5. To challenge the Kings wishes at such a moment was _. A) to want to die at onceB) to beg to be killed at onceC) to run the risk of being killed on the spotD) to ask for a quick and painless deathSECTION B INTERVIEWQuestion 6 to 10 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following question.Now listen to the interview.6. A particular way to deal with aggressive children is to _. A) give them severe punishmentB) tell them to behave themselvesC) organize them to fightD) send some of them to prison7. The boxing competition was to _. A) train them to be professional boxersB) teach them to follow rulesC) give them some physical exerciseD) cultivate their sense of competition8. What did one of the boys do? A) He killed his cat.B) He cut off his dogs ears.C) He hurt another boy.D) He blinded his cat.9. Some children are aggressive because _. A) they are from very poor familiesB) their parents are usually aggressiveC) they want to show they are strongD) they are longing for attention10. In this special school, there are usually _ children in a class. A) 5 or 6B) 30 or 40C) 7 to 10D) 13 to 14SECTION D NOTE-TAKING AND GAP-FILLINGIn this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONLY ONCE. While listening to the lecture, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a 15-minute gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE after the mini lecture. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.ANSWER SHEET ONEFill in each of the gaps with ONE suitable word. You may refer to your notes. Make sure the word you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable.Sports In BritainThere are 3 major (16) sports in Great Britain. They are football, Cricket, and Rugby. Football, or soccer, is the most popular. Football matches are shown on the BBC on (17) evenings around 10 oclock. Some football grounds will have crowds more than (18).Professional teams are organized into four (19) in England and 2 in Scotland. At the end of the season, some teams are (20), and some are (21) Recently, some clubs are always in (22) trouble.Rugby was first played at a famous public school called (23). Rugby is played all over Britain. It has been described as a game designed for hooligans but played by gentlemen.Cricket seems more peaceful and is played in (24).Some of the countries of the (25) send national teams to play each other. This is called A Test Match, which can go on for 5 days.PART II PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTIONThe following passage contains ten errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error. In each case only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way:For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash / and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.The telephone system is a circuit-switched network.For much of the history of the system, when you placed(26)a call, you were renting a pair of copper wires that rancontinuously from your telephone to the other partysphone. You had excluding use of those wires during the(27)call; when you hung up, they were rented to someoneelse. Today the transaction is more complicated. (your callmay well possess a fiber-optic cable or a satellite withhundreds of other calls), but more conceptually the system(28)still works the same way. When you dial the phone, you geta private connection of one other party.This is an alternative network architecture called(29)packet switching, in which all stations are always connectedto the network, but they receive only the messages addressedto them. It is as if your telephone was always tuned in to(30)thousands of conversations going on the wire, but you(31)heard only the occasional word intended to you. Most(32)computer networks employ packet switching, becauseit is more efficient than circuit switching when trafficis heavy. It seems reasonable the existing packet-switched(33)network will grow, and new one may be created; they could(34)well absorb traffic that would otherwise go to the telephonesystem and thereby reduce the need for telephone numbers.PART III READING COMPREHENSIONSIn this section there are four reading passages followed by fifteen multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark your answers on your Answer Sheet.TEXT A The House of Lords has a charm few people seem able to resist. The more cut-off it becomes from everyday life, the greater its attraction for weary businessmen and politicians. On the road outside the word Peers is painted across the car-park in large white letters. Inside a tall ex-Guardsman directs you through the vaulted entrance hall, past a long row of elaborate gothic coat-hooks, each one labeled, beginning with the royal dukes one of the many features of the building reminiscent of a school. Upstairs you come to a series of high, dark rooms, with gothic woodwork and carved ceilings. A life-size white marble statue of the young Queen Victoria watches elderly peers sitting at tables writing letters on gothic writing paper. Doors lead off to long dining-rooms, one for guests, another for peers only and to a large bar looking over the river, which serves drinks all day and sells special House of Lords cigarettes. Other closed doors are simply marked Peers an embarrassing ambiguity for lady peers, for peers can mean the Lords equivalent of gentle-men. There is an atmosphere of contented old age. The rooms are full of half-remembered faces of famous men or politicians one had how shall one put it forgotten were still around. There is banter between left-wing peers and right-wing peers and a great deal of talk about operations and ailments and nursing homes. Leading off the man ante-room is the chamber itself the fine flower of the Victorian romantic style. It is small, only eighty feet long. Stained glass windows shed a dark red light, and rows of statues look down from the walls. On either side are long red-leather sofas with dark wooden choir stalls at the back. Between the two sides is the Woolsack, the traditional seat of the Lord Chancellor, stuffed with bits of wool from all over the Commonwealth. At the far end is an immense gold canopy, with twenty-foot high candlesticks in the middle, the throne from which the monarch opens Parliament. Leaning back, on the sofa, whispering, putting their feet up, listening, fumbling with papers, making notes or simply sleeping, are the peers. On a full day, which is rear, you can see them in their groups: bishops, judges, industrial peers. But usually there is only a handful of peers sitting in the room, though since peers have been paid three guineas for attending, there are often an average of 110 peers in an afternoon. In the imposing surroundings it is sometimes difficult to remember how unimportant the Lords are. The most that the Lords can do now is delay a bill a year, and any money bill they can delay for only a month. Their main impact comes from the few inches of space in next mornings papers. The Prime Minister can create as many peers as he likes and, though to carry out the threat would be embarrassing, the nightmare is real enough to bring the peers to heel.36. The author feels that House of Lords is _A) delightful, but out of touch with the modern world.B) remote from daily life and rather tired.C) a place that businessmen and politicians like resting in.D) an excellent resting place for politicians and businessmen.37. Many members of the House of Lord are _A) well-known politicians and famous TV personalities.B) distinguished and celebrated politicians.C) notorious and remarkable men.D) men who have dropped out of the world in which they became well-know.38. The only real influence the peers have now is _A) to delay money bills for one year if they dont agree with them.B) if their speeches affect pubic opinion through the newspapers.C) that they can make the Prime Minister nervous if they threaten not to agree to his bills.D) they can refuse to accept any government act for one year.TEXT B With its common interest in lawbreaking but its immense range of subject-matter and widely-varying method of treatment, the crime novel could make a legitimate claim to be regarded as a separate branch of the traditional novel. The detective story is probably the most respectful (at any in the narrow sense of word) of the crime species. Its creation is often the relaxation of University dons, literary economists, scientists or even poets. Fatalities may occur more frequently and mysteriously than might be expected in polite society, is familiar to us, if not from our own experience, at least in the newspaper or the lives of friends. The characters, though normally realized superficially, are as recognizable human and consistent as our less intimate associates. As story set in a more remote environment, African jungle or Australian bush, ancient China or gas-lit London, appeals to our interest in geography or history, and most detective story writers are conscientious in providing a reasonably authentic background. The elaborate, carefully-assemble plot, despised by the modern intellectual critics and creators of significant novels, has found refuge in the murder mystery, with its sprinkling of clues, its spicing with apparent impossibilities, all with appropriate solutions and explanations at the end. With the guilt of escapism from Real Life nagging gently, we secretly revel in the unmasking of evil by a vaguely super-human sleuth, who sees through and dispels the cloud of suspicion which has hovered so unjustly over the innocent. Though its villain also receives his rightful deserts, the thriller presents a less comfortable and credible world. The sequence of fist fights, revolver duels, car crashes and escaped from gas-filled cellars exhausts the reader far more than than the hero, who, suffering from at least two broken ribs, one black eye, uncountable bruises and a hangover, can still chase and overpower an armed villain with the physique of a wrestler. He moves dangerously through a world of ruthless gangs, brutality, a vicious lust for power and money and, in contrast to the detective tale, with a near-omniscient arch-criminal whose defeat seems almost accidental. Perhaps we miss in the thriller the security of being safely led by our imperturbable investigator past a score of red herrings and blind avenues to a final gathering of suspects when an unchallengeable elucidation of all that has bewildered us is given justice and goodness prevail. All that we vainly hope for from life is granted vicariously.39. The crime novel may be regarded as _A) a not quite respectable form of the conventional novel.B) not a true novel at all.C) related in some ways to the historical novel.D) an independent development of the novel.40. The passage suggests that intellectuals write detective stories because _A) the stories are often in fact very instructiveB) they enjoy writing these stories.C) the creation of these stories demands considerable intelligence.D) detective stories are an accepted branch of literature.41. Which of the following is mentioned in the passage as one of the similarities between the detective story and the thriller?A) both have involved plots.B) both are condemned by modern critics.C) both are forms of escapist fiction.D) both demonstrate the triumph of right over wrong.42. In what way are the detective story and the thriller unlike?A) in introducing violenceB) in providing excitement and suspenseC) in appealing to the intellectual curiosity of the readersD) in ensuring that everything comes tight in the end.TEXT C In most of the human civilization of which we have any proper records, youth has drawn on either art or life for models, planning to emulate the heroes depicted in epics on the shadow play screen or the stage, or those known human beings, fathers or grandfathers, chiefs or craftsmen, whose every characteristic can be studied and imitated. As recently as 1910, this was the prevailing condition in the United States. If he came from a non-literate background, the recent immigrant learned to speak, move, and think like an American by using his eyes and ears on the labor line and in the homes of more acculturated cousins, by watching school children, or by absorbing the standards of the teacher, the foreman, the clerk who served him in the store. For the literate and the literate children of the non-literate, there was art the story of the frustrated artist in the prairie town of the second generation battling with the limitations of the first. And at a simpler level, there were the Western and Hollywood fairy tales which pointed a moral but did not, as a rule, reach table manners. With the development of the countermovement against Hollywood, with the efflorescence of photography, with Time-Life-Fortune types of reporting and the dead-pan New York manner of describing the life of an old-clothes dealer in a forgotten street or of presenting the accurate, checked details of the lives of people whose eminence gave at least a sort of license to attack them, with the passion for human documents in Depression days a necessary substitute for proletarian art among middle-class writers who knew nothing about proletarians, and middle-class readers who needed the shock of verisimilitude a new era in American life was ushered in. It was the era in which young people imitated neither life nor art nor fairy tale, but instead were presented with models drawn from life with minimal but crucial distortions. Doctored life histories, posed carelessness, candid shots of people in their own homes which took hours to arrange, pictures shot from real life to script written months before supplemented by national polls and surveys which assured the reader that this hobby socks did indeed represent a national norm or a growing trend replaced the older models.43. This article is based on the idea that _A) people today do not look for models to imitate.B) whom we emulate is not important.C) people generally pattern their lives after models.D) heroes are passed.44. Stories of the second generation battling against the limitation of the first were often responsible for _A) inspiring literate immigrants.B) frustrating educated immigrants.C) preventing the assimilation of immigrants.D) instilling into immigrants an antagonistic attitude toward their forebears.45. The counter movement against Hollywood was a movement _A) toward fantasy.B) against the teachings of morals.C) towards realism.D) away from realism.46. The author attribute the change in attitude since 1920 to _A) a logical evolution of ideas.B) widespread of moral decay.C) the influence of the press.D) a philosophy of plenty.TEXT D During the holiday I received no letter from Myrtle and when I returned to the town she had gone away. I telephoned each day until she came back, and then she said she was going to a party. I put up with her new tactics patiently. The next time we spent an evening together there was no quarrel. To avoid it I took Myrtle to the cinema. We did not mention Haxby. On the other hand it was impossible to pretend that either of us was happy. Myrtles expression of unhappiness was deepening. Day by day I watched her sink into a bout of despair, and I concluded it was my fault had I not concluded it was my fault, the looks Myrtle gave me would rapidly have concluded it for me. The topic of conversation we avoided above all others was the project of going to America. I cursed the tactlessness of Robert and Tom in talking about it in front of her before I had had time to prepare her for it. I felt aggrieved, as one does after doing wrong and being fo