1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 192及答案与解析 SECTION A MINI-LECTURE Directions: 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.
2、 When 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 Jazz Jazz began in the early 20th century as a music of 【 1】 _Americans. The first jazz record was made i
3、n 【 1】 _ 【 2】 _. Jazz represents a mixture of musical elements,【 2】 _ including the European ideas of harmony and melody, but the rhythms are more【 3】 _in origin. Jazz has 3 notable 【 3】 _ features. First, it is【 4】 _in rhythm. Second, it has 【 4】 _ more than one rhythm. In other words, it is【 5】 _
4、【 5】 _ Third, players【 6】 _while playing. 【 6】 _ New Orleans jazz marked a major step in jazzs development. It combined the deep emotion of the American 【 7】 _and Negro spiritual with elements of European folk【 7】 _ music. The most obvious feature of New Orleans jazz was its more complex rhythm. By
5、the 1940%, thanks to the contributions made by great jazz musicians like Lester Young and Charlie Christian, jazz entered into the modern era. The new approach to rhythm even made the【 8】 _play in a more complicated way. 【 8】 _ After the 1950%, modern jazz was further developed into “free jazz.“ Wit
6、hout planning beforehand, players may change the【 9】 _of a “free jazz“ several times during a performance.【 9】 _ Today, jazz has been widely recognized as America% 【 10】 _music. It also influenced various kinds of music 【 10】 _ across the world. 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8
7、】 9 【 9】 10 【 10】 SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this 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
8、questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 Which of the following statements is TRUE? （ A） The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a film only for adult. （ B） Body Double is a character in Striptease. （ C） Demi gets 12.5 million for her roles in two films. （ D） Demi doesnt go naked in The Hunchback of Notre
9、Dame. 12 When Demi was a little girl, she _. （ A） never dreamed of becoming an actress （ B） always dreamed of becoming an actress （ C） was not good at speaking （ D） always thought she could be a good actress 13 Demi says being paid 12.5 million means a lot to her especially because _. （ A） now she i
10、s the highest paid actress in Hollywood （ B） it changes peoples perception of women in Hollywood （ C） it helps her gain self-confidence （ D） she finally gets what should be her hard works worth 14 According to Demi, she goes naked in Striptease because _. （ A） the high pay makes her feel obliged to
11、do it （ B） she was required by the contract to do it （ C） she wants to experience the real life of the character （ D） it was fun to do it 15 It seems to us that the critics may think _. （ A） Demis performance in the new film is not very good （ B） Demi just wants to please her fans by going naked （ C
12、） Demis pay for Striptease is too high （ D） Demi should not go naked in Striptease SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: 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 answer
13、 the questions. 16 According to the news, French President Chirac disagreed with President Bush on _. （ A） sending more NATO troops to Iraq （ B） changing the way NATO acts in Iraq （ C） contributing non-military NATO support for Iraq （ D） playing a new role in Iraq proposed by President Bush 17 The G
14、-8 summit reached an agreement on _ across the Middle East. （ A） providing aid and promoting democracy （ B） promoting democracy （ C） controlling a deadly disease （ D） Both B and C 18 Israels Attorney General has decided _. （ A） not to charge Sharon with corruption （ B） to indict Sharon for corruptio
15、n （ C） to charge Sharon with the failure of the Greek Island Affair （ D） not to indict Sharon for the failure of the Greek Island Affair 19 The case against Mr. Sharon involved _. （ A） peace negotiations with Greece （ B） land dispute with Greece （ C） land development on a Greek island （ D） his abili
16、ty as a foreign minister 20 In Saudi Arabia, 6 influential preachers _. （ A） are suspected of launching militant attacks on Westerners （ B） are believed to be connected with Osama Bin Laden （ C） have condemned militant attacks on Westerners （ D） have been killed by Islamic militants 20 In May 1995,
17、Andrew Lloyd Webber, creator of a string of international hit musicals and a very wealthy man, spent U. S. 29.2 million on Picassos “Portrait of Angel Fernanders de Soto. It was the highest price paid at auction for a painting since the art market crashed in 1990. Lloyd Webber has a theory that Pica
18、ssos Blue Period paintings were influenced by Burne-Jones, the British Pre-Raphaelite master whose international reputation stood high at the turn of the century. The theory is not shared by many art historians, but that doesnt matter to the composer. He had been looking for a Blue Period Picasso fo
19、r some time. It is now extremely hard to come by Blue Period Picassos figurative works that are drenched in melancholy, expressed by a dominant use of blue. Blue Period subjects par excellence are mothers and children or harlequins; Lloyd Webbers purchase is not the most attractive of them. He paid
20、roughly double what the picture was worth. He seems to have got carried away when the bidding started to climb. The Picasso was one of the two highest prices of the 1994 1995 auction season, and help illustrate what has been happening in this curious market. The very rich have got their confidence b
21、ack, which has meant that buyers can be found for works of really outstanding quality and, very occasionally, bidding battles have driven prices back to their 1989 1990 levels. The 1980s boom collapsed in 1990. After several false dawns there are now signs that serious recovery has begun. More than
22、an expansion of the market, however, it reflects the relative weakness of the American dollar, the currency in which most art deals are transacted. Collectors from countries with stronger currencies have been finding dollar prices cheap. The middle market is still fairly weak. It is not unusual for
23、up to half the lots on offer at a Christies or Sothebys sale to be left unsold. Dealers, as opposed to auctioneers, are still finding it bard to make a living and seldom buy for stock. The auctioneers have tried to replace them by encouraging private people to buy directly at auction and more of the
24、m are doing this. But private buying is unpredictable and cannot underpin the market in the way dealer buying used to. Private individuals buy what they want; they dont bid on everything that is going cheap. Overall, the nature of the market is changing. In the 1980s art was bought as a speculation:
25、 buy in April, sell for double the price in September. This mentality vanished with the 1990 collapse, but the very rich and their financial advisors still take the view that it is sensible to keep a percentage of your investment portfolio in art. It is this kind of money that creates the fancy pric
26、es at the top end of the market. Geographically, the present recovery has been led by North America. Normally a major recession, such as was experienced in the United States, results in a shift of taste. But the Americans liked Impressionist and classic modern pictures best before the market collaps
27、e and that is what they have been coming back to. It is currently the strongest sector of the picture market. Contemporary and Old Master markets are still struggling and there are few buyers for Victorian pictures, apart from Lloyd Webber.Besides Europe and America, however, there is now a growing
28、market in the East. Indeed, the East has become the great hope of hard-pressed dealers over the last three years they have been aiming to find new buyers in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. There are more rich connoisseurs in Japan than anywhere else but they have not been in a
29、buying mood. Japanese speculators lost huge amounts of money in the 1990s crash and there are few collectors who dare to buy any works of art today. The market in Chinese ceramics, works of art, jade jewelry and old and modern brush paintings is now dominated worldwide by wealthy collectors from Hon
30、g Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. The huge volume of excavated art that is smuggled out of China has dramatically weakened the archaeological end of this market but rarities, especially the late imperial porcelains, are gelling well. There have even been two or three successful auctions inside China sin
31、ce 1994. The local millionaires are beginning to put their money into art. 21 Which of the following does NOT account for the current boom in the art market? （ A） The American dollar has become weaker against some major currencies. （ B） The very rich wish to put part of their investment in art. （ C）
32、 The very rich have regained their confidence. （ D） Dealers buying is growing strong. 22 What does the author say about the North American market? （ A） The American buyers of pictures have not changed their taste. （ B） The middle market remains strong. （ C） The Americans, buy art as a speculation. （
33、 D） It is experiencing a major recession. 23 Collectors from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore would most likely buy _. （ A） impressionistic paintings （ B） Ming Dynasty imperial tea sets （ C） excavated works of art （ D） Blue Period Picassos 24 _ has the most potential art buyers. （ A） America （ B） Hon
34、g Kong （ C） Japan （ D） India 24 Dwight attended Lincoln elementary school, directly across the street from his home. The curriculum emphasized rote learning. “The darkness of the classrooms on a winter day and the monotonous hum of recitation,“ Eisenhower wrote in his memoirs, “. are my sole survivi
35、ng memories. I was either a lackluster student or involved in a lackluster program.“ He came to life for the spelling bee and arithmetic. Spelling contests aroused in him his competitive drive and his hatred of careless mistakes he became a self-confessed martinet on the subject of orthography. Arit
36、hmetic appealed to him because it was logical and straightforward an answer was either right or wrong. The subject that really excited him, however, was one that he pursued on his owns military history. He became so engrossed in it, in fact, that he neglected his chores and his schoolwork. His first
37、 hero was Hannibal. Then he became a student of the American Revolution, and George Washington excited his admiration. He talked history to his classmates so frequently that his senior yearbook predicted that he would become a professor of history at Yale (it also predicted that Edgar would become a
38、 two-term President of the United States). During Dwights high school years his interests were, in order of importance, sports, work, studies, and girls. He was shy around the girls and in any case wanted to impress his male classmates as a regular fellow, just one of the gang. Paying too much atten
39、tion to the girls was considered somewhat sissy. He was careless of his dress, his hair was usually uncombed, and he was a terrible dancer on the few occasions he tried the dance floor. Studies came easily to him and he made good to excellent grades without exerting himself. He got all Bs in his fre
40、shman year, when the subjects were English, physical geography, algebra, and German. He did a bit better the next year, and as a junior and senior he was an A or A-plus student in English, history, and geometry. His sole B was in Latin. Sports, especially football and baseball, were the center of hi
41、s life. He expended far more energy on sports than he put .into his studies. He was a good, but not outstanding, athlete. He was well coordinated, but slow of foot. He weighed only 150 pounds. His chief asset was his will to win. He loved the challenge of the games themselves, enjoyed the competitio
42、n with older and bigger boys, bubbled over with pleasure at hitting a single to drive in the winning run or at throwing the other teams star halfback for a loss. It was in sports that he first discovered his talents as a leader and an organizer. As a boy, he provided the energy and leadership that l
43、ed to a Saturday-afternoon game of football or baseball. Later, he was the one who organized the Abilene High School Athletic Association, which operated independently of the school system. Little Ike wrote to schools in the area to make up a schedule, and solved the problem of transportation by hus
44、tling his team onto freight trains for a free ride from Abilene to the site of the contest. He also organized camping and hunting trips. He got the boys together, collected the money, hired the livery rig to take them to the camping site, bought the food, and did the cooking. The central importance
45、of sports, hunting, and fishing to Little Ike cannot be overemphasized. He literally could not imagine life without them. 25 As can be inferred from the passage, at Lincoln elementary school, Dwight _. （ A） benefited a lot from rote learning （ B） was an average student （ C） studied very hard in spit
46、e of the dull courses （ D） was good at sports 26 People believed that Dwight would someday become a professor because of _. （ A） his eager pursuit of military history （ B） his excellent grades in all subjects （ C） his remarkable memory （ D） his organizational ability 27 Dwight was shy around the gir
47、ls because he was _ （ A） a poor dancer and was afraid of being laughed at （ B） engrossed in sports and (vas not interested in girls （ C） afraid to be viewed as abnormal by his classmates （ D） self-conscious about his poor dress and untidy hair 28 Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passag
48、e? （ A） Dwights competitiveness. （ B） Dwights interest in work. （ C） Dwights talents as a leader. （ D） Dwights great ambition. 28 I remember Max very well. He had a Ph. D. from Princeton. He was a Chaucerian. He was brilliant( eloquent, and professorial. He possessed everything respectable in a huma
49、n being a good mind, a sound professional ethic, a sense of learnings place in the universe. Max was truly an educator. But there is one thing I havent told you about Max: I hated his guts. Max was my freshman-English teacher. And while he was, in a sense, everything I desired to be (that is, a gentleman and a scholar), he was also a man who fgrce-fed me
