2023年英语专业八级模拟试题七.doc

英语专业八级模拟试题七
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 ——TEM-8 Exercise 07
PAPER ONE
PART ONE LISTENING COMPREHENSION(40 MIN.)
In Section A, B and C you will hear everything ONLY ONCE. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct response to each question on the
Colored Answer Sheet.

SECTION A    TALK
Question 1 to 5 refer to the talk in this section. At the end of the talk you will be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.
Now listen to the talk.
1. Children in Britain will normally come to the age of _______ when they finish their primary school education.
A. seven
B. five
C. ten
D. eleven
2. Compulsory education in Britain is ________.
A. from 7 to 11
B. from 5 to 16
C. from 4 to 16
D. from 5 to 15
3. The secondary education requires children to learn some foreign languages, but the first foreign languages is ________.
A. German
B. Italian
C. Spanish
D. French
4. Students who wish to go on college will have to take a two-leveled _______.
A. General College Examinations
B. General Course Examinations
C. General Certificate Examinations
D. General Compulsory Examinations
5. When you are a student at university, the state will pay for the cost of ________.
A. your study only
B. your living on campus only
C. your study and living on campus
D. your accommodation
SECTION B CONVERSATION OR INTERVIEW

Directions: Questions 6 to 10 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview, you will be given ONE minute to answer the following questions. Now listen to the interview.
6. Actor Dallas McKennon pointed out that broadcast stations are granted a license to ______.
A. entertain and advertise
B. educate and advertise
C. educate and entertain
D. be informative and instructive
7. Dallas Mckennon said that one of the reasons he likes to act in cartoons is that ______.
A. cartoons are a less violent medium
B. cartoons are a violent medium
C. cartoons are a more violent medium
D. cartoons are an educative medium
8. Dallas Mckennon said that for cartoons, actors are selected ________.
A. for the way they look, not the the way they sound
B. both for the way they look and the way they sound
C. for the way they sound, not the way they look
D. both for the way they act their roles and the way they look
9. In talking about his career in Hollywood, Dallas Mckennon said that his work has been ________.
A. exclusively in cartoons
B. only in Disney feature films
C. mainly in cartoons and in scientific films
D. both in cartoons and in scientific films
10. According to Dallas Mckennon, the old way of making cartoons was to _________.
A. do the drawings first, and then have the actors record the sound
B. photograph the actors first, and then do the drawings
C. record the sound first, and then photograph the actors
D. find the actors first and then have the record the sound
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

Directions: Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following news. At the end of the news items you will be given 45 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.
11. Bill Clinton confessed his inappropriate relation with Miss Lewinsky _______.
A. before a grand jury
B. in a live television broadcast
C. via closed circuit
D. in a US courthouse
12. Bill Clinton made the stunning admission hoping that ________.
A. he would not be charged
B. the case against him would end sooner
C. he could be pardoned by the Grand Jury
D. the Americans would forgive his fault
13. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Clinton and Lewinsky intended to conceal the whole affair.
B. Clinton's live television broadcast lasted several hours.
C. The Grand Jury could obtain the testimony of Clinton near White House.
D. Clinton again admitted his relation with Lewinsky through closed circuit television.
Directions: Questions 14 to 15 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item you will be given 30 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.
14. According to President Boris Yeltsin, __________.
A. immediate measures should be taken to avoid the potential social unrest
B. the Parliament should take urgent steps to improve the economy
C. the International Monetary Fund Team will appropriate more funds to his country
D. the Parliament should consider a package of proposals for improving the economy
15. How did President Yeltsin respond to the economic woes in his country?
A. Stagnant.
B. Anemic.
C. Anxious.
D. Impatient.
SECTION D NOTE-TAKING AND GAP-FILLING

Directions: In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the lecture, take notes on the important points,. Your notes will be marked but it is important that you yourself can understand them because you will need the information to complete a gap-filling task on a separate answer sheet after Part II. Proof Reading And Error Correction.
Comets
A comet is an object that resembles a fuzzy (16) and travels along a definite path through the solar system. Some of the brightest comets develop a long shining (17) when they come near the sun.
Most comets cannot be seen without a (18). Some are visible to the unaided eye, but only for several weeks or months when they pass (19) to the sun. Halley's Comet is probably the best known comet.
In 1973, Comet Kohoutek became the first comet to be (20) by men in space. Astronauts in the Skylab space station (21) it and so provided much new information about comets.
People used to believe the coming of a comet would lead to a (22), such as a war or an epidemic. Halley's Comet revived these (23) in 1910, but the earth passed through the comets tail with no apparent harm.
The pressure of the sun's light may push the (24) dust particles and gas molecules away from the coma, forming one or more tails. This pressure makes a comet's tail point away from the sun,. When a comet (25) the sun, the tail brings up the rear.
PART II PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION [15 min.]
The following passages contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. IN each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proof-read the passage and correct it in the following way:
For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For a missing word, mark the position if the missing word with a "^" sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash "/" and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.
Henry Fielding, the famous novelist who was also
26)
a London magistrate, once made a night raid to two
known hideouts in this city-within-a-city; he found seven
men, women, and children packed away in a few tiny
27)
stinking rooms. All of these people, included little children
of five and six who were trained as pick-pockets, were
wanted for crime.
Conditions like these bred more criminals. One of the
28)
typical cases was that Jack Shepard, whose execution in
1724 was watched by two hundred thousand people.
Shepard, the son of honest working people, was an
29)
apprentice in a respectful trade. He ran away from it
because he fancied that he had been ill-treated, and soon
30)
found it was easy to make more money by thieving
31)
as his father had done by a lifetime of honest work.
32)
In Shepard's day highwaymen committed robberies at
broad daylight, in sight of a crowd, and rode solemnly and
33)
triumphantly through the town with danger of molestation.
If they were chased, twenty or thirty armed men were ready
34)
to come to their assistance. Murder was a everyday affair,
35)
and there were many people who made heroes from the
murderers.
PART III READING COMPREHENSION [40 min.]
SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION [30 min.]
Directions: In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of fifteen multiple choice questions. Reading the passages and the mark your answers on your answer sheet.
TEXT A
Harrington Wilson's selling technique was simplicity itself. It was nothing more than a subtle manipulation of human vanity. He was aware that there were a number of people who professed to know a great deal about antiques, and even more who would rather not confess that they did not and who accordingly practiced little tricks and subterfuges to conceal their ignorance their neighbors.
The women -- they were mainly women -- jostling round his stall, picking over his shoddy wares, would sometimes run a finger round the rim of a cup or hold it knowingly up to the light as if to the test its luster, and plates were invariably turned upside down in search of china marks. To such a customer, Harrington would lean forward, benevolent and confidential, and in a conspiratorial whisper would murmur: "No, madam. I'm afraid it's not genuine (Wedgwood, Sevres -- whatever it might be) but it is a superb copy -- no one would ever suspect that it was not real, unless, of course, you told them. I can let you have it for -- I could sell it for much more, but it would be unethical of me to try to pass it off as genuine …"
The customer, overwhelmed by such honesty and privately determined not to be quite so honest about the article to heir friends, would then willingly pay '2 for something that had cost Harrington a few pence. The profit margin on these transactions was obviously so great that he was soon able to set up another stall and then a shop and yet another and so on. He enlarged his specialties, dealing in spurious Victoriana, Georgian silver, trinkets and bric-a-brac, eventually branching out into reproduction furniture and paintings. Without any deliberate intention of doing so, he acquired an extensive knowledge of the antique business and as time went on, was accounted one of the greatest experts of his time.
36. It seems that Harrington Wilson's initial success owed a great deal to _______.
A. his apparent ingenuousness
B. the good bargains he offered
C. his air of gullibility
D. the honesty of his methods
37. Among the people who patronized Harrington Wilson's stall, there were some who ______.
A. had more knowledge than they appeared to have
B. were less knowledgeable than they appeared
C. did not trouble to conceal their ignorance
D. dislike being thought intellectual snobs
38. When a woman customer held an article "knowingly up to the light" (line 7),she was trying to _______.
A. demonstrate her expertise
B. make sure she was not being cheated
C. compare it with another article she had bought
D. show her appreciation of its charm
TEXT B
Arid region in the southwestern United States have become increasingly inviting playgrounds for the growing number of recreation seeks who vehicles such as motorcycles or powered trail bikes and indulge in hill-climbing contests or in carving new trails in the desert. But recent scientific studies show that these off-road vehicles can cause damage to desert landscapes that has long-range effects on the area's water-conserving characteristics and on the entire ecology, both plant and animal. Research by scientists in the western Mojave Desert in California revealed that compaction of the sandy arid soil resulting from the passage of just one motorcycle markedly reduced the infiltration ability of the soil and created a stream of rain runoff water that eroded the hillside surface. In addition, the researchers discovered that the soil compaction cause by the off-road vehicles often killed native plants species and resulted in the invasion of different plant species within a few years. The native perennial species required many more years before they showed signs of returning. The scientists calculated that roughly a century would be required for the infiltration capacity of the Mojave soil to be restored after being compared by vehicles.
39. According to text, what is being damaged?
A. Motorcycles.
B. The desert landscape.
C. Roads through the desert.
D. New plant species.
40. According to the text, what is happening to native plants in these areas?
A. They are becoming more compact.
B. They are adapting.
C. They are invading other areas.
D. They are dying.
TEXT C
Without regular supplies of some hormones our capacity to behave would be seriously impaired; without others we would soon die. Tiny amounts of some hormones can modify our moods and our actions, our inclination to eat or to drink, our aggressiveness or submissiveness, and our reproductive and parental behavior. And hormones do more than influence adult behavior; early in life they help to determine the development of bodily form and may even determine an individual's behavioral capacities. Later in life the changing outputs of some endocrine glands and the body's changing sensitivity to some hormones are essential aspects of the phenomena of aging.
Communication within the body and the consequent integration of behavior were considered the exclusive province of the nervous system up to the beginning of the present century. The emergence of endocrinology as a separate discipline can probably be traced to the experiments of Bayliss and Starling on the hormone secretion. This substance is secreted from cell in the intestinal walls when food enters the stomach; it travels through the bloodstream and stimulates the pancreas to liberate pancreatic juice, which aids in digestion. By showing that special cells secret chemical agents that are conveyed by the bloodstream and regulate distant target organs or tissues. Bayliss and Starling demonstrated that chemical integration can occur without participation of the nervous system.
The term "hormone" was first used with reference to secretion. Starling derived the term form the Greek hormone, meaning "to excite or set in motion." The term "endocrine" was introduced shortly thereafter. "Endocrine" is used to refer to glands that secrete products into the bloodstream. The term "endocrine" contrasts with "exocrine," which is applied to glands that secrete their products through ducts to the site of action. Examples of exocrine juice through a duct into the intestine. Exocrine glands are also called duct glands, while endocrine glands are called ductless.
41. What is the author's main purpose in the text?
A. To explain the specific functions of various hormones.
B. To provide general information of about hormones.
C. To explain how the term "hormone" evolved.
D. To report on experiments in endocrinology
42. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an effect hormones?
A. Modification of behavior.
B. Sensitivity to hunger and thirst.
C. Aggressive feelings.
D. Maintenance of blood pressure.
43. The text supports which of the following conclusions?
A. The human body requires large amounts of most hormones.
B. Synthetic hormon