[外语类试卷]专业英语八级模拟试卷675（无答案）.doc

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1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 675（无答案）SECTION A MINI-LECTUREDirections: 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. Wh

2、en 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 Franklin D. RooseveltRoosevelt was elected President in 1932, when the United States was in【1】. Then the new

3、president began to adopt a complex of【2】known as the New Deal. The New Deal brought to the individual citizen a sharp【3】of interest in government. Then a policy of【4】 currency inflation was adopted in order to start an upward movement in commodity prices. In agriculture, far-reaching reforms were【5】

4、. By 1940, nearly six million farmers were receiving【6】subsidies under this program. In the 1936 election, Roosevelt won an even more【7】victory over his republican opponent. The 1940 presidential election【8】another majority for Roosevelt. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Roosevelt di

5、rected organization of the Nations【9】and resources for global war. He was devoted much to the planning of a United Nations, where, he hoped, international difficulties could be【10】.1 【1】2 【2】3 【3】4 【4】5 【5】6 【6】7 【7】8 【8】9 【9】10 【10】SECTION B INTERVIEWDirections: In this section you will hear everyt

6、hing 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 listen to the interview.11 According to the news, most poor people canno

7、t do all of the following EXCEPT _.（A）growing enough food.（B） feeding their families.（C） buying enough necessities.（D）feeding their fowl. 12 The reason for the 800 million people going to bed hungry is that _.（A）there is no enough food for everyone.（B） they have no access to grow or buy food.（C） the

8、y are lazy and dont want to grow food.（D）they are used to receiving others aid. 13 Which of the following is NOT a task of WFP as a humanitarian relief organization?（A）Communicate with donors.（B） Assess the beneficiaries needs.（C） Get food to the right people.（D）Contact regional authorities. 14 Acco

9、rding to Ms. Bertini, in the mission to end hunger, women play _.（A）a decisive role.（B） a minor role.（C） an important role.（D）no role at all. 15 The greatest challenge in delivering food to people who need it is to _.（A）raise the resources and delivering food to poor people.（B） convince people to co

10、ntribute more food and money.（C） help people improve their well-being over the long term.（D）devote more energy to those who are still most at risk. SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTDirections: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At t

11、he end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.16 According to the news item, what is expected from Obamas announcement?（A）A gradual withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.（B） A rapid withdrawal of around 5,000 troops from Afghanistan.（C） A decision of Democra

12、tic Party on American troops in Afghanistan.（D）An agreement between Republicans and Democrats on troops in Afghanistan.17 The news item implies that the public are（A）worried about young Americans（B） impatient with Obamas decision（C） cautious to support President Obama（D）tired of a war seemingly with

13、out an end17 As in the field of space travel, so in undersea exploration new technologies continue to appear. They share a number of similarities with each other-as well as some important differences.Manned submersibles, like spaceships, must maintain living conditions in an unnatural environment. B

14、ut while a spaceship must simply be sealed against the vacuum of space, a submersible must be able to bear extreme pressure if it is not to break up in the deep water.In exploring space, unmanned vehicles were employed before astronauts. In undersea exploration, on the other hand, men paved the way,

15、 and only recently have unmanned re- mote-operated vehicles (ROVs) been put to use.One reason for this is that communicating with vehicles in orbit is much easier than talking to those underwater. A vacuum is an ideal medium for radio communications, but underwater communications are limited to much

16、 slower sound waves. Thus, most undersea vehicles-particularly ROVs-operate at the end of long ropes.For a similar reason, knowing where you are undersea is much more difficult than in space. A spaceships position can be located by following its radio signal, or by using telescopes and radar. For an

17、 undersea vehicle, however, a special network of sonar devices must be laid out in advance on the ocean floor in the area of a dive to locate the vehicles position.Though undersea exploration is more challenging than outer space in a number of aspects, it has a distinct advantage, going to the ocean

18、 depths doesnt require the power necessary to escape Earths gravity. Thus, it remains far less expensive.18 People did not begin to use unmanned vehicles in undersea exploration until recently because of_.（A）the communication problem（B） the movement of waves（C） the ocean depths（D）the problem of vacu

19、um 19 Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?（A）New techniques are continually developed and new machines invented for undersea exploration.（B） If not well built, a submersible is most likely to get crushed in deep water.（C） A submersible, when manned, looks very like a spaceship.（D）

20、In certain respects undersea exploration is often faced with the same problem as the space exploration. 一、PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question.20 _is reputed as the automobile capital of the wo

21、rld.（A）London（B） Los Angeles（C） Toronto（D）Detroit21 Elementary and secondary education is_.（A）free（B） free and attendance is required by law（C） compulsory（D）Both B and C22 The extremes of temperature often occur in the Midwest region because of the effect of_.（A）the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges（

22、B） the Rocky Mountains（C） the Coast Mountains（D）the Appalachian Mountains23 _, written in 1854 by Charles Dickens, is an earnest attack on the vulgarity and materialism of the rising middle class industrialists.（A）Bleak House（B） Hard Times（C） Little Dorrit（D）Great Expectations24 _ deals with how lan

23、guage is acquired, understood and produced.（A）Psycholinguistics（B） Sociolinguistics（C） Neurolinguistics（D）Anthropological linguistics25 The first writer in America to win the Nobel Prize in literature is _.（A）Mark Twain（B） Jack London（C） Sinclair Lewis（D）Ernest Hemingway 26 Which of the following ne

24、wspaper does NOT belong to the broadsheet of Britain?（A）The Times.（B） The Guardian.（C） The Observer.（D）The News of the World.27 _ can be used to describe arbitrariness, one of the design features of language?（A）We can easily teach our children to learn a certain language（B） We can use both shu and t

25、ree to describe the same thing（C） We can use language to refer to something not present（D）We can produce sentences that have never been heard before 28 Who was the leader of Federalists in the early history of United States?（A）Jefferson.（B） Hamilton.（C） Washington.（D）Lincoln. 29 Martin Luther King,

26、Jr. who delivered a famous speech named I Have a Dream was the leader of _ in U.S.A（A）Bus Boycott（B） the Progressive Movement（C） Civil Rights Movement（D）the Westward Movement二、PART IV PROOFREADING a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.三、PART VI WRITING

27、(45 MIN)Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic.41 On Small KindnessIn the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the 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 apprapriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.