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英语专业八级模拟试题七 TEM-8 Exercise 07PAPER ONEPART 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 ATALKQuestion 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. sevenB. fiveC. tenD. eleven 2. Compulsory education in Britain is _.A. from 7 to 11 B. from 5 to 16C. from 4 to 16D. from 5 to 15 3. The secondary education requires children to learn some foreign languages, but the first foreign languages is _.A. GermanB. ItalianC. SpanishD. French 4. Students who wish to go on college will have to take a two-leveled _.A. General College ExaminationsB. General Course ExaminationsC. General Certificate ExaminationsD. General Compulsory Examinations 5. When you are a student at university, the state will pay for the cost of _.A. your study onlyB. your living on campus onlyC. your study and living on campusD. your accommodation SECTION B CONVERSATION OR INTERVIEWDirections: 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 advertiseB. educate and advertiseC. educate and entertainD. be informative and instructive7. Dallas Mckennon said that one of the reasons he likes to act in cartoons is that _.A. cartoons are a less violent mediumB. cartoons are a violent mediumC. cartoons are a more violent mediumD. cartoons are an educative medium8. Dallas Mckennon said that for cartoons, actors are selected _.A. for the way they look, not the the way they soundB. both for the way they look and the way they soundC. for the way they sound, not the way they lookD. both for the way they act their roles and the way they look9. In talking about his career in Hollywood, Dallas Mckennon said that his work has been _.A. exclusively in cartoonsB. only in Disney feature filmsC. mainly in cartoons and in scientific filmsD. both in cartoons and in scientific films10. According to Dallas Mckennon, the old way of making cartoons was to _.A. do the drawings first, and then have the actors record the soundB. photograph the actors first, and then do the drawingsC. record the sound first, and then photograph the actorsD. find the actors first and then have the record the sound SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTDirections: 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 juryB. in a live television broadcastC. via closed circuitD. in a US courthouse12. Bill Clinton made the stunning admission hoping that _.A. he would not be chargedB. the case against him would end soonerC. he could be pardoned by the Grand JuryD. the Americans would forgive his fault13. Which of the following statements is true?A. Clinton and Lewinsky intended to conceal the whole affair.B. Clintons 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 unrestB. the Parliament should take urgent steps to improve the economyC. the International Monetary Fund Team will appropriate more funds to his countryD. 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-FILLINGDirections: 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. CometsA 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. Halleys 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. Halleys Comet revived these (23) in 1910, but the earth passed through the comets tail with no apparent harm.The pressure of the suns light may push the (24) dust particles and gas molecules away from the coma, forming one or more tails. This pressure makes a comets 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 also26)a London magistrate, once made a night raid to twoknown 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 childrenof five and six who were trained as pick-pockets, werewanted 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 Shepards 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 AHarrington Wilsons 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. Im afraid its 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 Wilsons initial success owed a great deal to _.A. his apparent ingenuousnessB. the good bargains he offeredC. his air of gullibilityD. the honesty of his methods37. Among the people who patronized Harrington Wilsons stall, there were some who _.A. had more knowledge than they appeared to haveB. were less knowledgeable than they appearedC. did not trouble to conceal their ignoranceD. dislike being thought intellectual snobs38. When a woman customer held an article knowingly up to the light (line 7),she was trying to _.A. demonstrate her expertiseB. make sure she was not being cheatedC. compare it with another article she had bought D. show her appreciation of its charmTEXT BArid 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 areas 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 CWithout 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 individuals behavioral capacities. Later in life the changing outputs of some endocrine glands and the bodys 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 authors 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 endocrinology42. 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 hormones can replace a persons natural supply of hormones if necessary.C. The quantity of hormones produced and their effects on the body are related to a persons age.D. The short child of tall parents very likely had a hormone deficiency early in life.44. According to the text, another term for exocrine glands is _.A. duct glandsB. endocrine glandsC. ductless glandsD. intestinal glandsTEXT DTo get a chocolate out of a box requires a considerable amount of unpacking; the box has to be taken out of the paper bag in which it arrived; the cellophane wrapper has to be torn off, the lid opened and the paper removed; the chocolate itself then has to be unwrapped from its own piece of paper. But this insane amount of wrapping is not confined to luxuries. It is now becoming increasingly difficult to buy anything that is not done up in cellophane, polythene, or paper.The package itself is of no interest to the shopper, who usually throws it away immediately, unless wrapping accounts for much of the refuse put out by the average London household each week. So why is it done? Some of it, like the cellophane on meat, is necessary, but most of the rest is simply competitive selling. This is abused. Packaging is using up scarce energy and resources and messing up the environment.Little reach is being carried out on the costs of alternative types of packaging. Just how possible is it, for instance, for local authorities to salvage paper, pulp it, and recycle it as egg-boxes? Would it be cheaper to plant another forest? Paper is the material most used for packaging - 20 million paper bags are apparently used in Great Britain each day - but very little is salvaged.A machine has been developed that pulps paper then processes it into packaging, e.g. egg-boxes and cartons. This could be easily adapted for local authorities use. It would mean that people would have to separate their refuse into paper and non-paper, with a different dustbin for each. Paper is, in fact, probably the material that can be most easily recycled; and now, with massive increases in paper prices, the time has come at which collection by local authorities could be profitable.Recycling of this kind is already happening with milk bottles, which are returned to the dairies, washed out, and refilled. But both glass and paper are being threatened by the growing use of plastic. More and more dairies are experimenting with plastic bottles, and British dairies would be producing the equivalent of enough plastic tubing to encircle the earth every five or six days!The trouble with plastic is that it does not rot. Some environmentalists argue that only solution to the problem of ever growing mounds of plastic containers is to do away with plastic altogether in the shops, a suggestion unacceptable to many manufacturers who say there is no alternative to their handy plastic packs. It is evident that more research is needed into the recovery and re-use of various material and into the cost of collecting and recycling containers as opposed to producing new ones. Unnecessary packaging, intended to be used just once, and making things look better so more people will guy them, is clearly becoming increasingly absurd. But it is not so much a question of doing away with packaging as using it sensibly. What is needed now is a more unimportant function.45. The local authorities are _.A. the Town councilB. the policeC. the paper manufacturerD. the most influential citizens46. If paper is to be recycled _.A. more forests will have to be plantedB. the use of paper bags will have to be restrictedC. people will have to use different dustbins for their rubbish D. the local authorities will have to reduce the price of paper47. The environmentalists think that _.A. more plastic packaging should be usedB. plastic is the most convenient form of packagingC. too much plastic is wastedD. shops should stop using plastic containersTEXT EFor me, scientific knowledge is divided into mathematical sciences, natural sciences or sciences dealing with the natural world (physical and biological sciences), and sciences dealing with mankind (psychology, sociology, all the sciences of cultural achievements, every kind of historical knowledge). Apart from these sciences is philosophy, about which we will talk later. In the first place, all this is pure or theoretical knowledge, sought only for the purpose of understanding, in order to fulfill the need to understand that is intrinsic and consubstantial to man. What distinguishes man from animal is that he knows and needs to know. If man did not know that the world existed, and that the world was of a certain kind, that he was in the world and that he himself was of a certain kind, he wouldnt be a man. The technical aspects or applications of knowledge are equally necessary for man and of the greatest importance, because they also contributing to defining him as m