1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 766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 William Faulkner was born in Oxford, Miss. He had【 1】 _ education, 【 1】 _ then he joined the British Roya
3、l Air Force in Canada because he was too short. After the war he stayed at the University of Mississippi and began to publish poems or essays. In New Orleans, he met Sherwood Anderson, who helped him a lot. With the publication of Sartoris ( 1929), he found Yoknapatawpha 【 2】 _ 【 2】 _ a regional myt
4、h of 200 - year - long history, which was written 【 3】_ in a【 3】 _hut often baroque style and considered as a【 4】 _ 【 4】_ Among all novels, The Sound and the Fury ( 1929 ) , As I lay Dyig ( 1930 ) , Sanctuary ( 1931 ) ,Light in August (1932) ,Absalom, Absalom (1936) ,received much critical【 5】 _. 【
5、5】 _ Apart from the creation of long novels, Faulkner often used short stories to fill【 6】 _ in the historical development of Yoknapatawpha 【 6】_ County. Durihg the 1930s he was off and on in Hollywood as a script writer, but his works for film are not accounted as being of much【 7】 _ 【 7】_ For his
6、literary accomplishments he was【 8】 _ a Nobel Prize in 【 8】_ 1950 and he made a brief but important statement about his belief in the Nobel【 9】 _ Speech: 【 9】 _ I believe that man will not merely endure: he will【 10】 _.“ 【 10】 _ 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10 【 10】
7、 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 questions. Now li
8、sten to the interview. 11 Which of the following questions is not mentioned by Clara as one might be asked during an interview? （ A） Why are you interested in the new job? （ B） How much are you paid in your present job? （ C） How old are you? Where are you from? （ D） Where do you live? How do you get
9、 to work? 12 What position is Pat applying for? （ A） research manager （ B） sales manager （ C） assistant engineer （ D） research engineer 13 What kind of part time job has Pat taken for the past two years? （ A） research engineer （ B） auto mechanic （ C） sales manager （ D） motorbike mechanic 14 What kin
10、d of degree is Pat going to get when he graduate? （ A） Bachelors degree in engineering （ B） Masters degree in engineering （ C） Doctors degree in engineering （ D） Masters degree in Science 15 According to the interview, why does Pat decide to leave her present job? （ A） The salary is unsatisfactory.
11、（ B） The working conditions are very bad. （ C） She was fired from the present position, （ D） She wants to find a more challenging job. 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 ea
12、ch news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 Gates suggested an increase of 10% yearly in U.S. funding for research for _. （ A） the next 5 years （ B） the next 7 years （ C） the next 11 years （ D） the next 17 years 16 Growing concerns over the safety and efficacy of anti-depr
13、essant drugs prescribed to children have caught the eye of Congress and the New York state attorney general. Now theyre becoming the catalyst for calls to reform the way clinical trials of all drugs are reported. Pressure is already causing some changes within the pharmaceutical industry. And it has
14、 put the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which approves new drugs, in the hot seat. If reforms are carried out, they could bring an unprecedented level of transparency to drug research. The solution now under consideration: a public database, or registry, of drug trials, where companies would
15、 post the results of those trials. In congressional testimony Thursday, a spokesman for the American Medical Association endorsed the registry and said it should include information on each trials purpose and objective, its design, and the dates it begins and ends. If the trial is not completed, the
16、 registry should include an explanation. While drug companies have been eager to make public any positive results of their trials, recent revelations suggest theyve balked at divulging tests when the results are not what theyd hoped to see. The furor has centered around the use of anti- depressants
17、on children. The industry has begun to make some moves to address the concerns about drug trials. Drug companies have agreed to set up a voluntary system of posting their drug trials on the Internet. But that seems unlikely to satisfy some members of Congress, who are expected to ! ntroduce legislat
18、ion to establish a mandatory drug registry. Last week, editors of a dozen influential medical journals announced that they would begin requiring drug companies to post a drug trial in a public database prior to accepting an article about it. Doctors rely on these articles to make treatment choices.
19、The editors hope that the registry will force unfavorable drug studies, before kept secret, into the open. Medical journals already had been tightening up on the authorship of their articles, insisting that authors declare if they had any conflicts of interest, such as any financial or other ties to
20、 the drug company, says Daniel Callahan, a director at the Hastings Center, a nonprofit bioethics research institute in Garrison, N.Y. Information from previously undisclosed clinical trials could lower prices, reduce the number of badly designed trials, and help doctors considering the use of a dru
21、g for a non-approved purpose to know why it hash t been approved for that use. Antidepressant drugs “have some serious side effects . that seem to be much more common than people realize, much more common than you might think from seeing drug ads and from reports on drug studies,“ says Joel Gurin, e
22、xecutive vice president of Consumer Reports. His magazine just finished a survey of readers showing a “dramatic shift from talk therapy to drug therapy for mental health problems“ during the past decade. In 1995, less than half of people getting mental health treatment 40 percent- got drug therapy.
23、Today 68 percent receive drug treatment, Mr. Gurin says. Some studies coming to light show that antidepressants work no better than placebos. Even better than merely registering drug trials, Caplan (director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia) suggests, wou
24、ld be to require that a new drug not only be “safe and do what it s sup- posed to do“, but that it do it as well or better than other drugs already on the market. That, he says, would help push research into new areas and save money. 17 What causes the pressure to reform the way clinical trials of a
25、ll drugs are reported? （ A） Growing concerns over the safety and efficacy of anti-depressant drugs prescribed to children. （ B） The requirements of Congress and the New York state attorney general. （ C） Changes within the pharmaceutical industry. （ D） The information provided by a dozen influential
26、medical journals. 18 Who is willingly to introduce the registry of drug trials? （ A） The pharmaceutical industry. （ B） US Food and Drug Administration. （ C） The Congress. （ D） The drug companies. 19 Which of the following statements is true about drug companies? （ A） They are very transparent in rep
27、orting the results of the tests. （ B） They have reached an agreement with Congress. （ C） Sometimes they hold back unfavorable results. （ D） They are willingly to post a drug trial in a public database. 20 New measures of Medical journals does NOT aim at_. （ A） helping doctors to make right treatment
28、 choices （ B） enhancing the transparency of drug studies （ C） stopping unfavorable drug studies from being kept back （ D） lowering prices of drugs 21 What is Caplans opinion in the last paragraph? （ A） Registry of drug trials is of no use. （ B） We should make demands on new drugs besides registering
29、 drug trials. （ C） To put requirements on new drugs is much more effective than registering drug trials. （ D） A new drug must be safe and better than any other drugs already on the market. 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Cho
30、ose the best answer to each question. 22 In Ireland today about_of the population are Roman Catholics. （ A） 75% （ B） 80% （ C） 0.9 （ D） 0.93 23 _ refers to the type of language which is selected as appropriate to the type of situation. （ A） Register （ B） Discourse （ C） Dialect （ D） Creole 24 In the U
31、nited Kingdom, police officers are not allowed to join_or to go on strike. （ A） a trade union （ B） a choir （ C） a political party （ D） a club 25 There are _ words by combining “white“ ,“up“ ,“wash“ mutually. （ A） 1 （ B） 2 （ C） 3 （ D） 4 26 Why does America confront the mineral resources problems? （ A
32、） There are few mineral resources in America. （ B） Excessive explorations and large consumption have exhausted many resources that are not renewable. （ C） Geographic change and Climate effect. （ D） Terrorist has burnt it over. 27 Wuhan learners of English tend to pronounce “night“ as “light“. This s
33、hows _. （ A） they cant pronouce the sound n （ B） they do not like to pronounce nasal sounds （ C） interlangue interference because there is not n in Wuhan dialect （ D） their teachers do not have a good teaching method 28 In writing the poem “The River - Merchants wife: A letter“, Pound took its mater
34、ial from the ancient _ poetry. （ A） French （ B） Italian （ C） Chinese （ D） Japanese 29 The college with the longest history in America is _. （ A） Yale （ B） Princeton （ C） Harvard （ D） Columbia 30 Speech act theory did not come into being until _. （ A） the late 50s of the 20th century, （ B） the early
35、1950s of the 20th century. （ C） the late 1960s of the 20th century. （ D） the early 21st century, 31 The Anglo-Saxons began to settle in Britain in _ century. （ A） the 4th （ B） the 5th （ C） the 6th （ D） the 7th 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING these should not be allowed to turn our attention from the sound,
36、established materials that form the basis of courses for 【 M10】 _ beginners. 32 【 M1】 33 【 M2】 34 【 M3】 35 【 M4】 36 【 M5】 37 【 M6】 38 【 M7】 39 【 M8】 40 【 M9】 41 【 M10】 SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH Directions: Translate the following text into English. 42 加拿大的温哥华 1986年刚刚度过百岁的生日， 但城市的发展令世界瞩目。以港立市，以港兴市
37、，是许多港口城市生存发展的道路。经过百年开发建设，有着天然不冻良港的温哥华，成为举世闻名的港口城市，同亚洲、大洋洲、欧洲、拉丁美洲均有定期班轮，年货物吞吐量达 8000万吨，全市就业人口中有三分之一从事贸易与运输行业。 温哥华 (Vancouver)的辉煌是温哥华人的智慧和勤奋的结晶，其中包括多民族的贡献。加拿大地广人稀，国土面积比中国还大，人口却不足 3000万。吸收外来移民，是加拿大长期奉行的国策。可以说，加拿大除了印第安人外，无一不是外来移民，不同的只 是时间长短而已。温哥华则更是世界上屈指可数的多民族城市。现今 180万温哥华居民中，有一半不是在本地出生的，每 4个居民中就有一个是亚洲
38、人。而 25万华人对温哥华的经济转型起着决定性作用，其中有一半是近 5年才来到温哥华地区的，使温哥华成为亚洲以外最大的中国人聚居地。 SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese. 43 We may say that religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural lif
39、e and the supernatural life have a conformity to each other which neither has with the mechanistic life: but so far has our notion of what is natural become distorted, that people who consider it “unnatural“ and therefore repugnant, that a person of either sex should elect a life of celibacy, consid
40、er it perfectly “natural“ that families should be limited to one or two children. It would perhaps be more natural, as well as in better conformity with the Will of God, if there were more celibates and if those who were married had larger families. But I am thinking of “conformity to nature“ in a w
41、ider sense than this. We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our mater
42、ial progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly. I need only mention, as an instance now very much before the public eye, the results of “soil-erosion“ the exploitation of the earth, on a vast scale for two generations, for commercial profit: immediate benefits lea
43、ding to dearth and desert. I would not have it thought that I condemn a society because of its material ruin, for that would be to make its material success a sufficient test of its excellence. 三、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 44
44、As we know, womens social status have been improved. But they cant eliminate all the discriminations. You are asked to write an article to explain what caused womens liberation and what problems are still around. In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the
45、second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may resul
46、t in loss of marks. Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR. 专业英语八级模拟试卷 766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
47、need them to complete a gap-filling task after 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. 0 【听力原文】 William Faulkner William Faulkner
48、grew up in Oxford, Miss, the great - grandson of William C. Faulkner and a member of a family like that of the sartoris clan in his novels centered on “Jefferson“ in his mythical Yoknapatawpha County. After desultory education he joined tile British Royal Air Force in Canada because he was too, slight for U. S. requirements, but World War I ended before be was commissioned or saw service beyond training, Following the war he took some courses at the University of Mississippi and published The Marble Fawn (1924), pastoral poems. Drifting to New Orleans, where
