1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 728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. 1 The Double Nature of Literary Translation . Introduction New tendency: combination of two theories . Tran
3、slation is a(n) 【 1】 _ A. Reproduce message through transformation of 【 2】 _ B. Focus of study Description of process of translation Structures and forms of language C. Aim To reveal the 【 3】 _ inherent in translating D. Procedures for a translator Comprehend the 【 4】 _ of the whole work Reproduce t
4、he original by using corresponding 【 5】 _ and proper 【 6】 _ of translation . Translation is a(n）【 7】 _ A. Translation is the 【 8】 _ of a literary work B. Three qualifications of a translator: Competence in two languages Thorough 【 9】 _ of the original Knowledge of the basic 【 10】 _ and methods of tr
5、anslation 1 【 1】 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 yo
6、u will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 Mr. Bristow would like to deal with the matter now because _. （ A） Keith comes to interrupt him （ B） Keith has made serious mistakes （ C） he may not have time fill late （ D） he would have to wo
7、rk in a factory 12 Keiths suspicion of embezzlement is based on the fact that _. （ A） the Works Manager has made a mistake （ B） Holder and Bragg has acted dishonestly （ C） the Purchasing Manager has made a mistake （ D） more spare parts than needed have been used 13 _, Mr. Cross wouldnt have been sus
8、pected of embezzlement. （ A） If he hadnt been on sick leave （ B） If he hadnt continued making excessive orders （ C） If he hadnt been Mr. Lawtons brother-in-law （ D） If he hadnt been spotted by Mr. Lawton 14 Mr. Lawton suspects that _. （ A） Cross and Lawton have collided in a swindle （ B） Keith does
9、not possess any evidence （ C） Cross is purposely on sick leave （ D） Keith is telling a lie 15 Which of the following statements is CORRECT? （ A） Cross may be severely punished. （ B） Cross illness justifies his misconduct. （ C） Cross and Lawton work part-time for Holder and Bragg. （ D） Cross and Hamm
10、ond have conspired against Mr. Bristow. 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 the questions. 16 The 911 emergency respon
11、se system updates the following new functions EXCEPT （ A） receiving text messages. （ B） responding to voice calls online. （ C） having automatic location system. （ D） transmitting videos and photos. 17 FCC chairman decided to update the technology mainly because （ A） the NG911 system can help more pe
12、ople. （ B） talking on phone has become out of date. （ C） telecommunications technology is developing. （ D） trapped students could not text 911. 17 I was taken by a friend one afternoon to a theatre. When the curtain was raised, the stage was perfectly empty save for tall grey curtains which enclosed
13、 it on all sides, and presently through the thick folds of those curtains children came dancing in , singly , or in pairs, till a whole troop of ten or twelve were assembled. They were all girls; none, I think, more than fourteen years old, one or two certainly not more than eight. They wore but lit
14、tle clothing, their legs, feet and arms being quite bare. Their hair, too, was unbound; and their faces, grave and smiling, were so utterly dear and joyful, that in looking on them one felt transported to some Garden of Hesperides, where self was not, and the spirit floated in pure ether. Some of th
15、ese children were fair and rounded, others dark and elf-like; but one and all looked entirely happy, and quite unself-conscious, giving no impression of artifice, though they had evidently had the highest and most careful training. Each flight and whirling movement seemed conceived there and then ou
16、t of the joy of beingdancing had surely never been a labour to them, either in rehearsal or performance. There was no tiptoeing and posturing, no hopeless muscular achievement; all was rhythm, music, light, air, and above all things, happiness. Smiles and love had gone to fashioning of their perform
17、ance; and smiles and love shone from every one of their faces and from their clever white turnings of their limbs. Amongst themthough all were delightfulthere were two who especially riveted my attention. The first of these two was the tallest of all the children, a dark thin girl, in whose every ex
18、pression and movement there was a kind of grave, fiery love. During one of the many dances, it fell to her to be the pursuer of a fair child, whose movements had a very strange soft charm; and this chase, which was like the hovering of a dragon-fly round some water-lily, or the wooing of a moonbeam
19、by the June night, had in it a most magical sweet passion. That dark, tender huntress, so full of fire and yearning, had the queerest power of symbolizing all longing, and moving ones heart. In her, pursuing her white love with such wistful fervour, and ever arrested at the very movement of conquest
20、, one seemed to see the great secret force that hunts through the world, on and on, tragically unresting, immortally sweet. The other child who particularly enchanted me was the smallest but one, a brown-haired fairy crowned with a half moon of white flowers, who wore a scanty little rose-petal-colo
21、ured shift that floated about her in the most delightful fashion. She danced as never child danced. Every inch of her small head and body was full of the scared fire of motion; and in her little pas seul she seemed to be the very sprit of movement, one felt that Joy had flown down, and was inhabitin
22、g there; one heard the rippling of Joys laughter. And, indeed, through all the theatre had risen a rustling and whispering; and sudden bursts of laughing rapture. I looked at my friend; he was trying stealthily to remove something from his eyes with a finger. And to myself the stage seemed very mist
23、y, and all things in the world lovable; as though that dancing fairy had touched them with tender fire, and made them golden. God knows where she got that power of bringing joy to our dry hearts: God knows how long she will keep it! But that little flying Love had in her the quality that lies deep i
24、n colour, in music, in the wind, and the sun , and in certain great works of artthe power to set the heart free from every barrier, and flood it with delight. 18 From this passage, it can be inferred that_. （ A） the dancing girls are all very beautiful （ B） the girls come from all over the world （ C
25、） the two tallest girls are the outstanding dancers （ D） the girls performance is very successful 19 Which of the following statements contains a metaphor? （ A） ., and smiles and love shone from every one of their faces. （ B） which was like the hovering of a dragonfly round some water-lily. （ C） Tha
26、t dark, tender huntress, so full of fire and yearning, had. （ D） In her, pursuing her white love with such wistful fervour. 20 According to the author, the tallest girl among the children_. （ A） danced with a serious expression （ B） was a dark and rounded girl （ C） acted as a hovering dragonfly （ D）
27、 pursued her love in the dance 21 The sentence “. to myself the stage seemed very misty.“ in the 5th paragraph implies that the author_. （ A） did not get a good seat （ B） was short-sighted （ C） was a bit sleepy. （ D） was just too moved. 22 Which of the following is NOT the point of the last paragrap
28、h? （ A） To describe how fantastic the dance is. （ B） To express his gratefulness to God. （ C） To show his deep feeling after seeing the dance. （ D） To share with readers his understanding of the dance. 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this
29、 section. Choose the best answer to each question. 23 The Celtsreligion used to be_. （ A） Buddhism （ B） Islam （ C） Druidism （ D） Christianity 24 The first president in the U.S. history who resigned because of a scandal is_. （ A） Wilson （ B） Nixon （ C） Jackson （ D） Kennedy 25 _does not belong to “Lak
30、e Poets“. （ A） Blake （ B） Wordsworth （ C） Southey （ D） Coleridge 26 _ was a literary trend prevailing in England which expressed the ideology and sentiment of those classes who were discontent with the development of capitalism. （ A） Naturalism （ B） Romanticism （ C） Criticism （ D） Sentimentalism 27
31、The following languages belong to Indo-European Language Family EXCEPT_. （ A） English （ B） French （ C） Japanese （ D） Russian 28 The famous spy story books about the hero James Bond(007) are written by _. （ A） Agatha Christie （ B） Dorothy Sayers （ C） Ian Fleming （ D） Conan Doyle 29 Which of the follo
32、wing works best represent the national spirit of the 18th-century England? （ A） Robinson Crusoe （ B） Gullivers Travels （ C） Jonathan Wild the Great （ D） A Sentimental Journey 30 In Britain, _ has the ultimate authority of legislation. （ A） the Queen （ B） the House of Commons （ C） the House of Lords
33、（ D） the Prime Minister 31 The capital of Australia is _. （ A） Sydney （ B） Melbourne （ C） Canberra （ D） Darwin 32 Which of the following is Henry Fieldings first novel? （ A） Joseph Andrews. （ B） Jonathan Wild. （ C） The History of Torn Jones a Foundling. （ D） The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon. 二、 PAR
34、T IV PROOFREADING those after the (9)_ mother is 35 years old; pregnancies after four births; and those lesser than (10)_ two years apart. 33 (1) 34 (2) 35 (3) 36 (4) 37 (5) 38 (6) 39 (7) 40 (8) 41 (9) 42 (10) SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH Directions: Translate the following text into English. 43 由小学
35、到中学，所修习的无非是一些普通的基本知识。就是大学四年，所授课业 也还是相当粗浅的学识。世人常，称大学为 “最高学府 ”，这名称易滋误解，好像过此以上即无学问可言。大学的研究所才是初步研究学问的所在，在这里做学问也只能算是初涉藩臂，注重的是研究学问的方法与实习。学无止境，一生的时间都嫌大短，所以古人皓首穷经，头发白了还是在继续研究，不过在这样的研究中确是有浓厚的趣味。 SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese. 44 The staff got right to busi
36、ness and conferred all day. Victor Henry worked with the planners, on the level below the chiefs of staff and their deputies where Burne-Wilke operated, and of course far below the summit of the President, the Prime Minister, and their advisers. Familiar problems came up at once:excessive and contra
37、dictory requests from the British services, unreal plans, unfilled contracts, jumbled priorities, fouled communications. One cardinal point the planners hammered out fast. Building new ships to replace U-boat sinkings came first. No war material could be used against Hitler until it had crossed the
38、ocean. This plain truth, so simple once agreed on, ran a red line across every request, every program, every projection. Steel, aluminum, rubber, valves, motors, machine tools, copper wire, all the thousand things of war, would go first to ships. This simple yardstick rapidly disclosed the poverty o
39、f the “arsenal of democracy“, and dictated - as a matter of frightening urgency - a gigantic job of building new steel mills, and plants to turn the steel into combat machines and tools. 三、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 45 “Birds
40、of a feather flock together.“ In some self-help books about making friends, it is advised that we should make friends with similar interests, personalities and attitudes toward life. Do you agree or disagree with such a statement? Write an essay of about 400 words. You should supply an appropriate t
41、itle for your essay. 专业英语八级模拟试卷 728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 aft
42、er the mini-lecture. 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. 1 【听力原文】 Good morning, todays lecture is the very first of s series of lectures on tran
43、slation, so Id like to spend some time discussing a very basic issue, nature of literary translation. Various definitions have been given to translation. Among them two definitions are most important. One is translation is a science and the other is translation is an art. The two definitions represe
44、nt two schools-the school of science and the school of art. In my opinion, both schools have their strong points and weak points so far as literary translation is concerned. Now there is a tendency to combine their theories into a comprehensive one. As a matter of fact, literary translation has a do
45、uble nature. Thats to say, on one hand, it is a science with its own laws and methods, and on the other, it is an art. Now lets have a further discussion of its double nature. First, we say translation is a science, because it has its own laws and methods. It should reproduce the message of the orig
46、inal by means of the transformation of linguistic equivalence. It focuses on the study of description of the process of translation, and the structures and forms of language so as to reveal the objective laws inherent in translating. Take the translation between English and Chinese for example. If w
47、e want to translate well, we must be entirely familiar with the content of the original and all the knowledge it concerns. In addition, we should have a comparatively comprehensive and thorough study of English and Chinese so that we may do our work with high proficiency. Although Chinese and Englis
48、h have their respective characteristics still we can do the translation between them. It is because language reflects the objective existence that is common to both English and Chinese. But at the same time we must admit that languages are quite different in characteristics and usage. This is the pr
49、oblem that troubles the translators. If one wants to be a qualified translator, one should have a penetrating study and careful comparison of the similarities and differences between these two languages so that one may find the corresponding laws and methods in the translation between them, do translation effectively and ensure the quality of translation. Anyhow, it will never do for one to translate w
