2023年大学专业英语八级模拟试题一套.docx

大学专业英语八级模拟试题一套
PART Ⅰ LISTENING COMPREHENSION
SECTION A MINI-LECTURE
In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the mini-lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the mini-lecture, please complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure what you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for note-taking.
   You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.
   Now listen to the mini-lecture. When it is over, you will be given THREE minutes to check your work.
Four Steps of Learning a Foreign Language
   The efforts spent in high school learning a foreign language were almost futile. Fortunately, for freshmen students, it is possible to learn a foreign language fast without traveling to the destination where that particular language is spoken.
   Ⅰ. Problem of Formal Language Class
   — Insistent mix of conversation, grammar and  1  
   — Analogy: trying to lose weight and then put on muscle
   Ⅱ. Requirement for the Method to Be Outlined
   — Time: at least  2   of studying per day
   — Materials: a notebook,  3  , and an mp3 player
   Ⅲ. Four Steps of Learning Language
   — The order of these four steps should  4  
   Step 1: Alphabet and Pronunciation
   — In terms of brain reaction, the pronunciation comes before the  5  
   — Use  6   for audio files of alphabet
   — Listen with a headphone to spot the  7   of the speech
   — Take one week to  8   yourseff with the sounds
   Step 2: Vocabulary
   — Learn the  9  
   — Get a word list from Google or pick the words from a dictionary
   — Memorize the words  10  
   — Work on 50-100 words a day for about  11  
   Step 3: Grammar
   — Search for grammar  12  
   — Study the basics: conjugations,  13   and exceptions to the basic rule
   — Study for 1 or 2 hours a day for about one month
   Step 4: Reading and Listening
   — Search for short stories,  14   or novels
   — Translate these stories into your own language
   — Download podcasts, movies, and TV shows and watch on-line videos
   —  15   what they are saying
   — Practice pronouncing words like natives
SECTION B INTERVIEW
In this section you will hear TWO interviews. At the end of each interview, five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the interviews and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the four choices of A, B, C and D, and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
   You have THIRTY seconds to preview the choices.
16、 A. The golf course.                                   B. The outdoor sports.
  C. The outdoor environment.                         D. The landscape.
17、 A. He doesn't enjoy the nature very much.            B. He doesn't do well in golf.
  C. He has been drinking too much beer.              D. He loves getting up early.
18、 A. It has fields and trees nearby.                      B. Everything is convenient.
  C. It has an ornamental fish pond.                     D. It's east of uptown.
19、 A. Manchester.         B. Colchester.                  C. London.               D. Lay-de-la-Haye.
20、 A. He can spend the rest of time along the river.
   B. He can sail the boat to wherever he want.
   C. He can give something he'd never had to the kids.
   D. He can remain as young as before.
21、 A. Positive.         B. Negative.
   C. Indifferent.        D. Tolerant.
22、 A. Women bosses give male assistants more free time during meetings.
   B. Women bosses give male employees more chances to get promotion.
   C. Women bosses give male staff members higher salaries.
   D. Women bosses give male colleagues more power.
23、 A. To offer specific plans.     B. To give backing to employees.
   C. To give suggestions to staff.     D. To take more responsibility.
24、 A. To be a good listener.     B. To be a good advisor.
   C. To be a good manager.        D. To be a good nurturer.
25、 A. To analyze the current conditions of women bosses.
   B. To clarify why women bosses are unpopular.
   C. To help change people's wrong ideas on women bosses.
   D. To eliminate sex discrimination in working places.
PART Ⅱ READING COMPREHENSION
SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
   In this section there are three passages followed by fourteen multiple choice questions. For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
   PASSAGE ONE
   26 When it came to concealing his troubles, Tommy Wilhelm was not less capable than the next fellow. So at least he thought, and there was a certain amount of evidence to back him up. He had once been an actor—no, not quite, an extra—and he knew what acting should be. Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels. He came from the twentythird floor down to the lobby on the mezzanine to collect his mail before breakfast, and he believed—he hoped—that he looked passably well: doing all right. It was a matter of sheer hope, because there was not much that he could add to his present effort. On the fourteenth floor he looked for his father to enter the elevator; they often met at this hour, on the way to breakfast. If he worried about his appearance it was mainly for his old father's sake. But there was no stop on the fourteenth, and the elevator sank and sank. Then the smooth door opened and the great dark-red uneven carpet that covered the lobby billowed toward Wilhelm's feet. In the foreground the lobby was dark, sleepy. French drapes like sails kept out the sun, but three high, narrow windows were open, and in the blue air Wilhelm saw a pigeon about to light on the great chain that supported the marquee of the movie house directly underneath the lobby. For one moment he heard the wings beating strongly.
   27 Most of the guests at the Hotel Gloriana were past the age of retirement. Along Broadway in the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties, a great part of New York's vast population of old men and women lives. Unless the weather is too cold or wet they fill the benches about the tiny railed parks and along the subway gratings from Verdi Square to Columbia University, they crowd the shops and cafeterias, the dime stores, the tearooms, the bakeries, the beauty parlors, the reading rooms and club rooms. Among these old people at the Gloriana, Wilhelm felt out of place. He was comparatively young, in his middle forties, large and blond, with big shoulders; his back was heavy and strong, if already a little stooped or thickened. After breakfast the old guests sat down on the green leather armchairs and sofas in the lobby and began to gossip and look into the papers; they had nothing to do but wait out the day. But Wilhelm was used to an active life and liked to go out energetically in the morning. And for several months, because he had no position, he had kept up his morale by rising early; he was shaved and in the lobby by eight o'clock. He bought the paper and some cigars and drank a Coca-Cola or two before he went in to breakfast with his father. After breakfast—out, out, out to attend to business. The getting out had in itself become the chief business. But he had realized that he could not keep this up much longer, and today he was afraid. He was aware that his routine was about to break up and he sensed that a huge trouble long presaged (预感) but till now formless was due. Before evening, he'd know.
   28 Nevertheless he followed his daily course and crossed the lobby.
   29 Rubin, the man at the newsstand, had poor eyes. They may not have been actually weak but they were poor in expression, with lacy lids that furled down at the corners. He dressed well. It didn't seem necessary—he was behind the counter most of the time—but he dressed very well. He had on a rich brown suit; the cuffs embarrassed the hairs on his small hands. He wore a Countess Mara painted necktie. As Wilhelm approached, Rubin did not see him; he was looking out dreamily at the Hotel Ansonia, which was visible from his corner, several blocks away. The Ansonia, the neighborhood's great landmark, was built by Stanford White. It looks like a baroque palace from Prague or Munich enlarged a hundred times, with towers, domes, huge swells and bubbles of metal gone green from exposure, iron fretwork and festoons. Black television antennae are densely planted on its round summits. Under the changes of weather it may look like marble or like sea water, black as slate in the fog, white as tufa in sunlight. This morning it looked like the image of itself reflected in deep water, white and cumulous above, with cavernous distortions underneath. Together, the two men gazed at it.
   30 Then Rubin said, "Your dad is in to breakfast already, the old gentleman."
   "Oh, yes? Ahead of me today?"
   "That's a real knocked-out shirt you got on," said Rubin. "Where's it from, Saks?"
   "No, it's a Jack Fagman—Chicago."
   31 Even when his spirits were low, Wilhelm could still wrinkle his forehead in a pleasing way. Some of the slow, silent movements of his face were very attractive. He went back a step, as if to stand away from himself and get a better look at his shirt. His glance was comic, a comment upon his untidiness. He liked to wear good clothes, but once he had put it on each article appeared to go its own way. Wilhelm, laughing, panted a little; his teeth were small; his cheeks when he laughed and puffed grew round, and he looked much younger than his years. In the old days when he was a college freshman and wore a beanie (无檐小帽) on his large blonde head his father used to say that, big as he was, he could charm a bird out of a tree. Wilhelm had great charm still.
   32 "I like this dove-gray color," he said in his sociable, good-natured way. "It isn't washable. You have to send it to the cleaner. It never smells as good as washed. But it's a nice shirt. It cost sixteen, eighteen bucks."
   PASSAGE TWO
   26 By the 1840s New York was the leading commercial city of the United States. It had long since outpaced Philadelphia as the largest city in the country, and even though Boston continued to be venerated as the cultural capital of the nation, its image had become somewhat languid; it had not kept up with the implications of the newly industrialized economy, of a diversified ethnic population, or of the rapidly rising middle class. New York was the place where the "new" America was coming into being, so it is hardly surprising that the modern newspaper had its birth there.
   27 The penny paper had found its first success in New York. By the mid-1830s Ben Day's Sun was drawing readers from all walks of life. On the other hand, the Sun was a scanty sheet providing little more than minor diversions; few today would call it a newspaper at all. Day himself was an editor of limited vision, and he did not possess the ability or the imagination to climb the slopes to loftier heights. If real newspapers were to emerge from the public's demand for more and better coverage, it would have to come from a youthful generation of editors for whom journalism was a totally absorbing profession, an exacting vocational ideal rather than a mere offshoot of job printing.
   28 By the 1840s two giants burst into the field, editors who would revolutionize journalism, would bring the newspaper into the modern age, and show how it could be influential in the national life. These two giants, neither of whom has been treated kindly by history, were James Gordon Bennett and Horace Greeley. Bennett founded his New York Herald in 1835, less than two years after the appearance of the Sun. Horace Greeley founded his Tribune in 1841. Bennett and Greeley were the most innovative editors in New York until after the Civil War. Their newspapers were the leading American papers of the day, although for completely different reasons. The two men despised each other, although not in the ways that newspaper editors had despised one another a few years before. Neither was a political hack bonded to a political party. Greeley fancied himself a public intellectual. He had strong political views, and he wanted to run for office himself, but party factotum he could never be; he bristled with ideals and causes of his own devising. Officially he was a Whig (and later a Republican), but he seldom gave comfort to his chosen party. Bennett, on the other hand, had long since cut his political ties, and although his paper covered local and national politics fully and he went after politicians with hammer and tongs, Bennett was a cynic, a distruster of all settled values. He did not regard himself as an intellectual, although in fact he was better educated than Greeley. He thought himself only a hard-boiled newspaperman. Greeley was interested in ideas and in what was happening to the country. Bennett was only interested in his newspaper. He wanted to find out what the news was, what people wanted to read. And when he found out he gave it to them.
   29 As different as Bennett and Greeley were from each other they were also curiously alike. Both stood outside the circle of polite society, even when they became prosperous, and in Bennett's case, wealthy. Both were incurable eccentrics. Neither was a gentleman. Neither conjured up the picture of a successful editor. Greeley was unkempt, always looking like an unmade bed. Even when he was nationally famous in the 1850s he resembled a clerk in a third-rate brokerage house, with slips of paper—marked-up proofs perhaps—hanging out of his pockets or stuck in his hat. He became fat, was always nearsighted, always peering over spectacles. He spoke in a high-pitched whine (哀号). Not a few people suggested that he looked exactly like the illustrations of Charles Dickens's Mr. Pickwick. Greeley provided a humorous description of himself, written under the pretense that it had been the work of his long-time adversary James Fenimore Cooper. The editor was, according to the description, a half-bald, long-legged, slouching individual "so rocking in gait (步态) that he walks down both sides of the street at once"
   30 The appearance of Bennett was somewhat different but hardly more reassuring. A shrewd, wiry (瘦而结实旳) Scotsman, who seemed to repel intimacy, Bennett looked around at the world with a squinty glare of suspicion. His eyes did not focus right. They seemed to fix themselves on nothing and everything at the same time. He was as solitary as an oyster, the classic loner. He seldom made close friendships and few people trusted him, although nobody who had dealings with him, however brief, doubted his abilities. He, too, could have come out of a book of Dickensian eccentrics, although perhaps