八级模拟测试题.docx

1、八级模拟测试题TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS- GRADE EIGHT-TIME LIMIT: 195 MIN.PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION 35 MIN.SECTION A MINI-LECTURE (10MIN)In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONLY ONCE. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, b

2、ut you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note taking. Now listen to the mini-lecture.

3、 SECTION B INTERVIEW In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your colored answer sheet.Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seco

4、nds to the answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to interview.1. Whats the title of the book which is in the bestseller lists? A. Two Hemispheres of the Brain B. Joining the Hemispheres C. Spheres of the World D. Computer and Brain2. According to the interview, what is particular a

5、bout Westerners? A. They use the right hemisphere a lot. B. They use the left hemisphere a lot. C. They use both hemispheres a lot. D. They use computers a lot.3. Which of the following is a left-hemisphere job?A. Musician. B. Writer. C. Artist. D. Secretary. 4. Which of the following is INCORRECT?

6、A. Human beings only use a small proportion of brainpower. B. Creativity is a left-hemisphere product. C. Some people keep things in disorder due to their laziness. D. Two hemispheres are joined physically by a sort of telephone cable of nerves.5. Why do people think of disorder in different ways? A

7、. They perceive the world in different hemispheres. B. They are different in intelligence. C. They share different characters. D. They have different hobbies.SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark

8、the correct answer to each question on your colored answer sheet.Question 6 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.Now listen to the news.6. The 14 suspected asylum seekers _. A. have reached the Australian mainland and applie

9、d for refugee status. B. have been granted refugee status. C. are being detained by the Australian police D. have been repatriatedQuestions 7 and 8 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the two questions.Now listen to the news.7.

10、 Israels attorney General has decided _.A. not to charge Sharon with corruptionB. to indict Sharon for corruption C. to charge Sharon with the failure of the Greek Island AffairD. not to indict Sharon for the failure of the Greek Island Affair8. The case against Mr. Sharon involved _.A. peace negoti

11、ations with GreeceB. land dispute with Greece C. land development on a Greek islandD. his ability as a foreign ministerQuestions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer each of the two questions.Now listen to the news.9. According

12、 to the news, French President Chirac disagreed with President Bush on _. A. sending more NATO troops to Iraq. B. changing the way NATO acts in Iraq. C. contributing non-military NATO support for Iraq D. playing a new role in Iraq proposed by President Bush10. The G-8 summit reached an agreement on

13、_ across the Middle East. A. providing aid and promoting democracy B. promoting democracy C. controlling a deadly disease D. both B and CPART II READING COMPREHENSION 30 MIN. In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and th

14、en mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet.TEXT A “I want to criticize the social system, and to show it at work, at its most intense.” Virginia Woolfs provocative statement about her intentions in writing Mrs. Dalloway has regularly been ignored by the critics, since it highlights an aspect

15、 of her literary interests very different from the traditional picture of the “poetic” novelist concerned with examining states of reverie and vision and with following the intricate pathways of individual consciousness. But Virginia Woolf was realistic as well as a poetic novelist, a satirist and s

16、ocial critic as well as a visionary: literary critics cavalier dismissal of Woolfs social vision will not withstand scrutiny.In her novels, Woolf is deeply engaged by the questions of how individuals are shaped (or deformed) by their social environments, how historical forces impinge on peoples live

17、s, how class, wealth, and gender help to determine peoples fates. Most of her novels are rooted in a realistically rendered social setting and in a precise historical time.Woolfs focus on society has not been generally recognized because of her intense antipathy to propaganda in art. The pictures of

18、 reformers in her royal novels are usually satiric or sharply critical. Even when Woolf is fundamentally sympathetic to their causes, she portrays people anxious to reform their society and possessed of a message or program as arrogant or dishonest, unaware of how their political ideas serve their o

19、wn psychological needs. (Her Writers Diary notes: “the only honest people are the artists,” whereas “these social reformers and philanthropists” harbor discreditable desires under the disguise of loving their kind) Woolf detested what she called “preaching” in fiction, too, and criticized novelist D

20、.H. Lawrence (among others) for working by this method.Woolfs own social criticism is expressed in the language of observation rather than in direct commentary, since for her, fiction is a contemplative, not an active art. She describes phenomena and provides materials for a judgement about society

21、and social issues: it is the readers work to put the observations together and understand the coherent point of view behind them. As a moralist, Woolf works by indirection, subtly undermining officially accepted mores, mocking, suggesting, calling into question, rather than asserting, advocating, be

22、aring witness: hers is the satirists art.Woolfs literary models were acute social observers like Chekhov and Chaucer. As she put it in The Common Reader, “It is safe to say that not a single law has been framed or one stone set upon another because of anything Chaucer said or wrote; and yet, as we r

23、ead him, we are absorbing morality at every pore.” Like Chaucer, Woolf chose to understand as well as to judge, to know her society root and branch a decision crucial in order to produce art rather than polemic.11. Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for the passage?A. Poetry

24、and Satire as Influences on the Novels of Virginia WoolfB. Virginia Woolf: Critic and Commentator on the Twentieth Century NovelC. Trends in Contemporary Reform Movements as a Key to Understanding Virginia Woolfs NovelsD. Virginia Woolfs Novels: Critical Reflections on the Individual and on Society1

25、2. In the first paragraph of the passage, the authors attitude toward the literary critics mentioned can best be described as _.A. disparaging B. ironic C. facetious D. skeptical but hopeful13. It can be inferred from the passage that Woolf chose Chaucer as a literary model because she believed that

26、 _.A. Chaucer was the first English author to focus on society as a whole as well as on individual characters.B. Chaucer was an honest and forthright author, whereas novelists like D. H. Lawrence did not sincerely wish to change the societyC. Chaucer was more concerned with understanding his society

27、 than with calling its accepted mores into questionD. Chaucers writing was greatly, if subtly, effective in influencing the moral attitudes of his readers14. It can be inferred from the passage that the most probable reason why Woolf realistically described the social setting in the majority of her

28、novels was that she _.A. was aware that contemporary literary critics considered the novel to be the most realistic of literary genresB. was interested in the effect of a persons social milieu on his or her character and actionsC. needed to be as attentive to detail as possible in her novels in orde

29、r to support the arguments she advanced in themD. wanted to show that a painstaking fidelity in the representation of reality did not in any way hamper the artist15. Which of the following phrases best expresses the sense of the word “contemplative” as it is used in Para.4?A. Gradually elucidating t

30、he rational structures underlying accepted mores.B. Reflecting on issues in society without prejudice or emotional commitment.C. Avoiding the aggressive assertion of the authors perspective to the exclusion of the readers judgement.D. Conveying a broad view of society as a whole rather than focusing

31、 on an isolated individual consciousness.TEXT B At last she spoke to me. When she addressed the first words to me I was so confused that I did not know what to answer. She asked me if I was going to Araby. I forgot whether I answered yes or no. It would be a splendid bazaar; she said she would love

32、to go.“And why cant you?” I asked. While she spoke she turned a silver bracelet round and round her wrist. She could not go, she said, because there would be a gathering for prayer and meditation in her convent school. Her brother and two other boys were fighting for their caps, and I was alone at the railings. She held one of the spikes, bowing her head towards me. The light from the lamp opposite our door