英语专业八级考试模拟题14Word格式.docx

1、C） Car horns.D） Car brakes.3. Which of the following is NOT cited as a means to reduce the number of cars?A） To pass laws to control the use of cars.B） To improve public transport systems.C） To increase car tax and car price.D） To construct effective subway systems.4. One of the mechanical solutions

2、 to car pollution is _.A） to change the chemical structure of fuel.B） to improve on the exhaust pipe.C） to experiment with new engines.D） to monitor the amount of chemicals.5. According to the speaker, a sensible way to solve car pollution is that we should _.A） focus on one method only.B） explore s

3、ome other alternatives.C） improve one of the four methods.D） integrate all of the four methods.SECTION B INTERVIEWQuestion 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. The interview

4、ees first job was with _.A） a newspaper.B） the government.C） a construction firm.D） a private company.7. The interviewee is not self-employed mainly because _.A） his wife likes him to work for a firm.B） he prefers working for the government.C） self-employed work is very demanding.D） self-employed wo

5、rk is sometimes insecure.8. To study architecture in a university one must _.A） be interested in arts.B） study pure science first.C） get good exam results.D） be good at drawing.9. On the subject of drawing the interviewee says that _.A） technically speaking artists draw very well.B） an artists drawi

6、ng differs little from an architects.C） precision is a vital skill for the architect.D） architects must be natural artists.10. The interviewee says that the job of an architect is _.A） more theoretical than practical.B） to produce sturdy, well-designed buildings.C） more practical than theoretical.D）

7、 to produce attractive, interesting buildings.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

8、 a 15-minute gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE after the mini lecture. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.ANSWER SHEET ONEFill 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.LAND USEA probl

9、em related to the competition for land use is whether crops should be used to produce food or fuel. 16 areas will be examined in this respect.Firstly, the problem should be viewed in its 17 perspective. When oil prices rose sharply in the 1970s, countries had to look for alternatives to solve the re

10、sulting crisis.In developing countries, one of the possible answers to it is to produce alcohol from 18 material.This has led to a lot of research in this area particularly in the use of 19. The use of this material resulted from two economic reasons: a 20 in its price and low21 costs.There are othe

11、r starchy plants that can be used to produce alcohol, like the sweet 22 or the cassava plant in tropical regions, and 23 and sugar beet in non-tropical regions. The problem with these plants is that they are also the peoples staple food in many poor countries.Therefore, farmers there are faced with

12、a choice: crops for food or for fuel. And farmers naturally go for what is more 24. As a result, the problems involved are economic in nature, rather than technological. This is my second area under consideration.Finally, there have already been practical applications of using alcohol for fuel. Basi

13、cally, they come in two forms of use: pure alcohol as is the case in 25, and a combination of alcohol and gasoline known as gasohol in Germany.16.17.18.19.20.21.22.23.24.25.PART II PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION The following passage contains ten errors .Each line contains a maximum of one error. I

14、n 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 writ

15、e 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.EXAMPLEWhen art museum wants a new exhibit,（1） anit （never/） buys things in finished form

16、 and hangs（2） neverthem on the wall. When a natural history museumwants an exhibition, it must often build it.（3）exhibitWATERThe second most important constituent of thebiosphere is liquid water. This can only existin a very narrow range of temperatures, sincewater freezes at 0 and boils at 100. Thi

17、sis only a tiny range compared with the low temperaturesof some other planets and the hot interior ofthe earth, let the temperature of the sun.26As we know, life would only be possible on the face27of a planet had temperatures somewhere within this28range.The earths supply of water probably remains

18、quite fairly29constant in quantity. A certain number of hydrogen atoms,which are one of the main constituents of water,are lost by escaping from the atmosphere toout space, but they are probably just about replaced by new30water rising away from the depths of the earth during31volcanic action. The t

19、otal quantity of water is not known,and it is about enough to cover the surface of the globe32to a depth of about two and three-quarter kms.Most of it - 97% - is in the form of the salt waters of theoceans. The rest is fresh, but three quarter of this is33in the form of ice at the Poles and on mount

20、ains,and cannot be used by living systems when melted. Of the34remaining fraction, which is somewhat fewer than 1% of the35whole, there is 10-20 times as much stored as undergroundwater as is actually on the surface. There is also a minor,but extremely important, fraction of the water supplywhich is

21、 present as water vapor in the atmosphere.26.27.28.29.30.31.32.33.34.35.PART III READING COMPREHENSIONS In this section there are four reading passages followed by fifteen multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark your answers on your Answer Sheet.TEXT A STAYING HEALTHY ON HOLIDAY D

22、o people who choose to go on exotic, far-flung holidays deserve free health advice before they travel? And even if they pay, who ensures that they get good, up-to-date information? Who, for that matter, should collect that information in the first place? For a variety of reasons, travel medicine in

23、Britain is a responsibility nobody wants. As a result, many travelers go abroad ill prepared to avoid serious disease. Why is travel medicine so unloved? Partly theres an identity problem. Because it takes an interest in anything that impinges on the health of travelers, this emerging medical specia

24、lism invariably cuts across the traditional disciplines. It delves into everything from seasickness, jet lag and the hazards of camels to malaria and plague. But travel medicine has a more serious obstacle to overcome. Travel clinics are meant to tell people how to avoid ending up dead or in a tropi

25、cal diseases hospital when they come home. But it is notoriously difficult to get anybody to pay out money for keeping people healthy. Travel medicine has also been colonized by commercial interests - the vast majority of travel clinics in Britain are run by airlines or travel companies. And while t

26、ravel concerns are happy to sell profitable injections, they may be less keen to spread bad news about travelers diarrhea in Turkey, or to take the time to spell out preventive measures travelers could take. The NHS finds it difficult to define travelers health, says Ron Behrens, the only NHS consul

27、tant in travel and tropical medicine and director of the travel clinic of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London. Should it come within the NHS or should it be paid for? Its a gray area, and opinion is split. No one seems to have any responsibility for defining its role, he says. To compound i

28、ts low status in the medical hierarchy, travel medicine has to rely on statistics that are patchy at best. In most cases we just dont know how many Britons contract diseases when abroad. And even if a disease is linked to travel there is rarely any information about where those afflicted went, what they ate, how they behaved, or which vaccinations they had. This shortage of hard facts and figures makes it difficult t