1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 43 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 Just as【 1】 _ is famous for the tango, so American 【 1】 _ is well-known for jazz, a typical American inve
3、ntion. Unlike traditional music, which is restricted to European traditions, jazz music is【 2】 _ and flee-formed. 【 2】 _ Jazz is interesting, so is its【 3】 _. The music was 【 3】 _ invented by Negroes, who were taken away from West Africa and sold as slaves to the plantation owners in the South of th
4、e country. Their work was hard and their life was short. When one died, the friends and relatives would attend the【 4】 _ 【 4】 _ On the occasion, a music band often accompanied a march to the cemetery. On the way to the cemetery, slow, solemn music was played, but on the way back home【 5】 _ music 【 5
5、】 _ was preferred. The music made everyone want to dance. was the early form of jazz, There were also other musical【 6】 _ that influenced the 【 6】 _ formation of jazz. One was the musical【 7】 _ in West 【 7】 _ Africa, from where these Negroes were taken away to America. The other was the【 8】 _ music,
6、 which always 【 8】 _ describes something sad-an unhappy love affair, a money problem, bad luck. Still the third was the liberated blacks 【 9】 _ to create a new music form that was fast, 【 9】 _ happy and set a【 10】 _rhythm to express their 【 10】 _ new-found freedom after the American Civil War. 1 【 1
7、】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 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
8、 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 According to Janet, the factor that would most affect negotiations is _. （ A） English language proficiency （ B） different cultural practices （ C） different negotiation tasks （ D） the international Americanize
9、d style 12 Janets attitude towards the Americanized style as a model for business negotiations is _. （ A） supportive （ B） negative （ C） ambiguous （ D） cautious 13 Which of the following CANNOT be seen as a difference between Brazilian and American negotiators? （ A） Americans prepare more points befo
10、re negotiations. （ B） Americans are more straightforward dung negotiations. （ C） Brazilians prefer more eye contact during negotiations. （ D） Brazilians seek more background information. 14 Which group of people seems to be the most straightforward? （ A） The British. （ B） Germans. （ C） Americans. （
11、D） Not mentioned. 15 Which of the following is NOT characteristic of Japanese negotiators? （ A） Reserved. （ B） Prejudiced. （ C） Polite. （ D） Prudent. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. A
12、t the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 From the report, we can infer that the parliamentary election lasts at least _. （ A） one day （ B） two days （ C） one week （ D） two weeks 17 The assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri resulted in _. （ A）
13、 mass anti-Syrian protests （ B） Lebanese parliamentary elections （ C） President Lahouds resignation （ D） the killing of a famous journalist 18 From the news item, we can infer that Bush administration holds a/an _ towards family planning. （ A） positive （ B） negative （ C） optimistic （ D） pessimistic
14、19 According to the former U.S. Secretary of State, _ child-bearing aged women died of pregnancy related diseases each year in the world. （ A） 16,000 （ B） 25,000 （ C） 60,000 （ D） 600,000 20 _ did NOT attend the womens health conference. （ A） Madeleine Albright （ B） Marian Wright Edelman （ C） Wye-Asp
15、en （ D） Mary Robinson 20 The most important role for government in creating the conditions for commercial innovation is to support universities in their efforts to generate research and provide manpower. The most crucial issue we face is a lack of skilled manpower, a shortage of faculty in universit
16、ies for training that manpower, and a deteriorating research capability in our great universities because of the shortages of both faculty and modern equipment for instruction and for research. American industry today simply cannot get enough of the people it needs in such fields as microelectronics
17、, artificial intelligence, communications, and computer science. The universities are not turning out enough R85) (research and development) people in these areas, or enough research faculty. There is little that private companies can do about fids. We contribute to the support of universities, but
18、industry will never be able to meet more than a small fraction of university R every task must be mastered within the framework of human society and in a way that furthers human welfare. Only the individual who understands that life means contribution will be able to meet his difficulties with coura
19、ge and with a good chance of success. If teachers, parents and psychologists understand the mistakes that can be made in ascribing a meaning to life, and provided they do not make the same mistakes themselves, we can be confident that children who lack social feeling will eventually develop a better
20、 sense of their own capacities and of the opportunities in life. When they meet problems, they will not stop trying; they will not look for an easy way out, try to escape or throw the burden onto the shoulders of others; they will not demand extra consideration or special sympathy; they will not fee
21、l humiliated and seek revenge, or ask, “What is the use of life? What do I get from it? They will say, “We must make our own lives. It is our own task and we are capable of performing it. We are masters of our own actions. If something new must be done or something old replaced, no one can do it but
22、 our selves. “If life is approached in this way, as a cooperation of independent human beings, them are no limits to the progress of our human civilization. 26 Cooperation can cure the following EXCEPT _. （ A） lack of interest in others （ B） selfishness （ C） independence （ D） lack of social feeling
23、27 When the child begins to suffer the consequences of his early mistakes, we should _. （ A） help him correct the mistakes （ B） punish him for the wrongdoing （ C） leave him alone to work out the problem （ D） teach ourselves to understand their mistakes 28 Which of the following is NOT what the autho
24、r means by construing the meaning of life? （ A） We can train ourselves for responsibility and independence. （ B） We can live a meaningful life by contribution. （ C） We can face lifes tests and difficulties with courage. （ D） Individuals can acquire more material things from others. 29 The main idea
25、of the passage is _. （ A） facing lifes tests and difficulties with courage （ B） the progress of human civilization （ C） the importance of childrens learning to cooperate with others （ D） the early education of children 30 What can be inferred from the dialogue in the last paragraph? （ A） All the chi
26、ldren nowadays are being spoiled. （ B） Parents do not care about their children at all. （ C） Psychologists are the only people who know how to teach the children. （ D） Children, when they are grown-up, can sort them out. 30 Lunar sight-seeing trips and orbiting space hotels am within roach, moon wal
27、king astronaut Edwin “Buzz“ Aldrin said last week, but some who favor space tourism worried about its “giggle factor“. Thirty years after Aldrin and fellow astronaut Nell Armstrong made the first footprints on the lunar surface on July 30, 1969, Aldrin suggested that the tight budgets of NASA (Natio
28、nal Aeronautics and Space Administration) and a lack of boldness had mired human space exploration. “The achievements of Apollo (the NASA program that took Aldrin and others to the moon) were so bold and our subsequent efforts so timid that the energy of those years seems like a youthful dream,“ Ald
29、rin told more than 100 participants at a space tourism conference. “Had we continued even with that moderate investment in space, about 1 percent of our national budget, we d have walked on Mars l0 years ago, or certainly 5 years ago,“ he said. Hartmut Muller, who is affiliated with the German-based
30、 Space Tours, said that as recently as 1997 there was a “giggle factor“ whenever the topic of space travel for the ordinary citizen was mentioned. Two years ago, at the time of the first International Symposium on Space Travel in Bremen, Germany, Muller said, “There was no acceptance of space touris
31、m at all.“ But after two such meetings were held and covered by the media, “In Germany, its an accepted topic. Now how do we realize it?“ Both Aldrin and Muller envisioned orbiting space hotels-Muller even showed an early design of such a hotel that looked a bit like rite circular space station in t
32、he film “2001“-and looked for new ways to launch paying passengers into orbit. Aldrin also thought “sight-seeing trips around the moon and back“ were feasible. Even if space tourists were lobbed aloft by a reconditioned space shuttle, the ticket price would be steep, with estimates starting at $ 25,
33、000, according to Muller. And that is still far less than the $ 400 million to $1 billion each shuttle mission costs now. But the market for such travel exists. A study released by the NASA and the private Space Transportation Association (STA) this year found one-third of all American adults would
34、like to spend two weeks in space and would pay more than $ 5,000 to do so. Space tourism now-including visits to space musemns, space camps, rocket-launch recovery sites and government research and development centers, and even low-gravity aircraft trips-accounts for $1 billion each year, a sliver o
35、f the $ 400 tourism takes in annually, the NASA-STA report said. The report took the prospect of space travel for ordinary tourists seriously, and said the US government was committed to working with private industry to cut the cost of a ride in space from hundreds of thousands of dollars to tens of
36、 thousands of dollars, and to improving safety and reliability. “Private, high-priced adventuretrips to space with greater than todays commercial airline risk could become possible in the next few years,the study said. “Much larger scale, lower-priced, orbital operations, could commence in the decad
37、e thereafter.“ 31 According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true? （ A） Edwin “Buzz“ Aldrin walked on the moon 30 years ago. （ B） Apollo program was a bold program. （ C） Edwin “Buzz“ Aldrin walked on the Mars 10 years ago. （ D） Edwin “Buzz“ Aldrin is an astronaut of America.
38、32 Which of the following can be inferred from the passage? （ A） Edwin “Buzz“ Aldiin is a mad man. （ B） Space travel was once considered impossible and crazy. （ C） Hartmut Muller is the president of German-based Space Tours. （ D） Edwin “Buzz“ Aldrin and Hartmut Muller are good friends. 33 The underl
39、ined word “steep“ (Para. 9 ) can best be replaced by _. （ A） slopy （ B） inexpensive （ C） wide （ D） unduly high 34 Which of the following is NOT included in the present space tourism? （ A） Visits to museums. （ B） Visits to space camps. （ C） Visits to rocket-launch recovery sites. （ D） Low-gravity air
40、craft trips. 35 Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? （ A） Space-the Mysterious Space. （ B） Space Tom Conference. （ C） Edwin “Buzz“ Aldrin-the Space Hero. （ D） Space Tours Not Faraway. 35 Society was fascinated by science and scientific things in the nineteenth century. Gre
41、at breakthroughs in engineering, the use of steam power, and electricity were there for all to see, enjoy, and suffer. Science was fashionable and it is not surprising that, during this great period of industrial development, scientific methods should be applied to the activities of man-particularly
42、 to those involved in the processes of production. To wards the end of the nineteenth century international competition began to make itself felt. The three industrial giants of the day, Germany, America, and Great Britain, began to find that them was a limit of the purchasing power of the previousl
43、y apparently inexhaustible markets. Science and competition therefore provided the means and the need to improve industrial efficiency. Frederick Winslow Taylor is generally acknowledged as being the father of the scientific management approach, as a result of the publication of his book. The Princi
44、ples of Scientific Management was published in 1911. However, numerous other academies and practitioners had been actively applying such approaches since the beginning of the century. Charles Babbage, an English academic, well-known for his invention of the mechanical computer (with the aid of a gov
45、ernment grant as long as 1820) applied himself to the costing of processes, using scientific methods, and indeed might well be recognized as one of the fathers of cost accounting. Taylor was of well-to-do background and received an excellent education but, partly owing to troubles with his eyesight,
46、 decided to become an engineering apprentice. He spent some twenty-five years in the tough, sometimes brutal, environment of the US steel industry and carefully studied methods of work when he eventually attained supervisory status. He made various significant innovations in the area of steel proces
47、sing, but his claim to fame is through his application of methods of science to methods of work, and his personal efforts that proved they could succeed in a hostile environment. In 1901, Taylor left the steel industry and spent the rest of his life trying to promote the principles of man aging scie
48、ntifically and emphasizing the human aspects of the method, over the slave-driving methods common in his day. He died in 1915, leaving a huge school of followers to promote his approach worldwide. 36 According to the passage, what was badly needed to improve industrial industry at the turn of the 20
49、th century? （ A） Great breakthroughs. （ B） Unlimited purchasing power. （ C） Science and competition. （ D） International competition 37 Taylor is most famous for _. （ A） his application of scientific methods to work （ B） his book 7he Principles of Scientific Management （ C） his various innovations in steel processing （ D） the spr
