英语专业八级考试模拟试题（十一）

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　　PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION

　　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. The trio began their career in a ____.来源：www.examda.com

　　A) museum

　　B) coffee house

　　C) concert hall

　　D) school

　　2. Which of the following is not their song?

　　A) Walking in the Rain.

　　B) Blowing in the Wind.

　　C) Puff the Magic Dragon.

　　D) If I had a Hammer.

　　3. Which of the following is not their concert in 1969?

　　A) Civil Right.

　　B) The Vietnam War.

　　C) World Hunger.

　　D) Apartheid.

　　4. Their song Light One Candle ____.

　　A) gives their accounts of the events in Central America

　　B) gives support to Soviet Jews

　　C) gives support to Martin Luther King

　　D) support the homeless

　　5. The singers latest song is ____. A) Early Morning Rain

　　B) Leaving on a Jet Plane

　　C) El Salvador

　　D) Flowers and Stones

　　SECTION B INTERVIEW

　　Question 6 to 10 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following question.

　　Now listen to the interview.

　　6. Where did these people meet? A) In a library

　　B) On a bus

　　C) In a supermarket

　　D) At the newsagents

　　7. Where did Mr. Mercer advise the couple to go? A) France.

　　B) Majorca.

　　C) Jamaica.

　　D) Geneva.

　　8. What was the basic cost two weeks for two persons? A) 360.

　　B) 500.

　　C) 250.

　　D) 460.

　　9. Which of the following was suggested by Mr. Mercer? A) "Dont get too familiar with the hotel staff."

　　B) "Keep a check on your spending."

　　C) "Dont sit down at a bar."

　　D) "Book your hotel right away."

　　10. What happened to Jim at the end of the conversation? A) He bumped into someone.

　　B) He narrowly escaped an accident.

　　C) He ran into a lamp-post.

　　D) he got run over.

　　SECTION D NOTE-TAKING AND GAP-FILLING

　　In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONLY ONCE. While listening to the lecture, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a 15-minute gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE after the mini lecture. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.

　　ANSWER SHEET ONE

　　Fill in each of the gaps with ONE suitable word. You may refer to your notes. Make sure the word you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable.

　　Nineteenth Century Science

　　The nineteenth century produced three important theories: the conservation of (16), the conservation of (17), and (18). The first two pointed towards (19), the third produced a revolution in thought, and science began to split up into the (20) we know today.

　　A French philosopher evolved a system called "(21)" in which science finally took the place of theology and metaphysics. The great scientific principles of (22) of matter and the conservation of energy led to the view that the essential reality of the universe was matter, and thoughts are the results of chemical activities in the brain.

　　Railways and steamships made great changes possible in systems of transports. The first London (23) exchanges was set up in 1879. The first station to supply electricity to private users began to operate in New York.

　　French science was often perfect in form and thought. English science was individualistic and highly (24). German science was (25) and very well organized.

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　　PART II PROOFREADING &. ERROR CORRECTION

　　The following passage contains ten errors .Each line contains a maximum of one error. In each case only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way:

　　For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.

　　For a missing word, mark the position of 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.

　　EXAMPLE

　　When ^ art museum wants a new exhibit,

　　(1) an

　　it (never/) buys things in finished form and hangs

　　(2) never

　　them on the wall. When a natural history museum

　　wants an exhibition, it must often build it.

　　(3)exhibit

　　The changes in language will continue forever, but no one knows sure

　　(26)

　　who does the changing. One possibility is that children are

　　responsible. A professor of linguistic at the University of Hawaii,

　　(27)

　　explores this in one of his recent books. Sometimes around 1880, a

　　(28)

　　language catastrophe occurred in Hawaii when thousands of emigrant

　　(29)

　　workers were brought to the islands to work for the new sugar

　　industry. These people speaking different languages were unable to

　　communicate with each other or with the native Hawaiians or the

　　dominant English-speaking owners of the plantations. So they first

　　spoke in Pidgin English —— the sort of thing such mixed language

　　(30) populations have always done. A pidgin is not really a language at

　　all. It is more like a set of verbal signals used to name objects and

　　(31)

　　without the grammatical rules needed for expressing thought and

　　ideas. And then, within a single generation, the whole mass of mixed

　　people began speaking a totally new tongue: Hawaiian Creole. The

　　(32)

　　new speech was contained ready-made words borrowed form all the

　　(33)

　　original tongues, but beared little or no resemblance to the

　　(34)

　　predecessors in the rules used for stringing the words together.

　　Although generally regarded as primitive language, Hawaiian Creole

　　(35)

　　had a highly sophisticated grammar.

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