1、D 英语专业八级模拟试题三TEM-8 Exercise 03PAPER 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 A TALKQuestion 1 to 5
2、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 best word to describe peoples attitudes towards the opening of the new museum is _.A. welcomeB. againstC. indifferentD. controversial正确答
3、案是 2. The museum is located _.A. in an art centerB. in a business districtC. in California UniversityD. near Hollywood 正确答案是 3. Which of the following is not the characteristic of the museum?A. Box-shaped.B. Five-story tall.C. Grandiose.D. White and gray. 正确答案是 4. The museum belongs to _.A. a petrol
4、eum millionaireB. a famous artistC. Los Angles CountyD. California Art Center 正确答案是 5. Kasamere Malaviz is _.A. the director of the new museumB. a Russian artistC. chairman of the Occidental Petroleum CooperationD. the Los Angeles County Museum director正确答案是 SECTION B INTERVIEW Question 6 to 10 are
5、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. According to the interviewee, what category does she belong to?A. Non-smoker.B. Light-smoker.C. Heavy-smoker.D. Chain smoker. 正确答案是 7. From Mrs. Bra
6、dleys point of view, what kind of people smoke a pipe?A. Nervy people.B. Restless people.C. Calm contented type.D. The upper-class people. 正确答案是 8. How many times did Mrs. Bradley try to give up smoking?A. Once.B. Twice.C. Three times.D. Many times. 正确答案是 9. When does Mrs. Bradley smoke most?A. When
7、 she is doing housework.B. When she is watching TV.C. When she is reading.D. When she is with friends. 正确答案是 10. Why does Mrs. Bradley smoke?A. In order to relax.B. In order to be excitable.C. In order to feel important.D. In order to keep herself awake.正确答案是 SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Question 11 is
8、based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the question.Now listen to the news.11. The newly-elected European Parliament is mainly composed of _ members.A. rightB. center-leftC. center-rightD. socialist正确答案是 Questions 12 and 13 are based on the f
9、ollowing news. At the end of the news item you will be given 30 seconds to the questions.Now listen to the news.12. The Turkish Parliaments amendment of the constitution aims at _.A. establishing a democratic governmentB. ensuring that all the members of the State Security courts are civiliansC. ple
10、asing the AmericansD. reconciling with the guerrilla groups 正确答案是 13. _ will be replaced by a civilian judge.A. The guerrilla leader, Abdullah OcalanB. The opposition leaderC. An army colonel on the judicial panelD. A parliament member 正确答案是 Questions 14 and 15 are based on the following news. At th
11、e end of the news item you will be given 30 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the news.14. The German Chancellor Helmut Kohl resigned because _.A. he has been accused of destroying the partys credibilityB. he refused to tell the public the names of the secret of donorsC. he has engaged i
12、n illegal campaignD. he has been accused of violating his duties 正确答案是 15. The worst-affected city of Puebla is _.A. the biggest city in MexicoB. a scenic spotC. a historic siteD. a world heritage site 正确答案是 SECTION D NOTE-TAKING DENTURES; HAIRPIECES; VITAL ORGANS; SMALL, ORIENTAL 9-YEAR-OLDS; ETC.
13、IF YOU HAVE NO WISH OF DYING, THEN GET OUT OF LINE NOW. THANK YOU. “Oh, its a lot of fun,“ said Lan, one of the older girls I was with. I was beginning to worry, nonetheless. “This is a wooden roller coaster?“ I asked. “Yeah, its one of the last ones around,“ boasted Lan. She reassured me a few more
14、 times that the ride was perfectly safe and that the odds of getting killed were as slim as something comparable to . ohhh, living past the age of 9. I smiled to show her that I was totally relaxed and ready for the ride. But deep in the left lobe of my brain I was thinking. “WHADDAYA MEAN WOOD?! WH
15、AT ABOUT TERMITES?! Has it not occurred to you that the reason the Cyclone was one of the last wooden coasters around was that people have better things to do than die by being flung from a few stories up off the rails at a gazillions miles an hour?“ I stood in line watching others, with the sun fil
16、tering through the rafters, twitching my leg nervously. The heat sought us out through the patches of sun, and my legs began to ache from standing. For some odd reason I stayed in line. Ill try to explain this phenomenon as best as I can. You see, all males are forced by some masculine gland, locate
17、d next to the pancreas, to get on a roller coaster even if they are scared to the point of a bladder-control loss. We are obliged by the girls standing behind us in line to get on the ride or risk the girls thinking that we, the studs we are, are of their gender if we dont. I finally got onto the ri
18、de hoping for a quick end. I actually prayed (honest, Im not lying) and people in line laughed. I thought it eased the situation a bit. I stepped into the car and put the safety bar over my lap. A mad dash for the exit was impossible. There were girls around, so I couldnt leave. The ride attendants
19、checked the bars in the seats to see if they were secure by giving a little tug on each of them. I gulped loudly and grabbed hold of the bars firmly enough to choke a horse. The cars shoved off as we headed of to “concussion city.“ Clank. Clank. Clank. We approached the dropping point. For a split s
20、econd I could see the whole park, and then WHOOSH! My stomach hit the ceiling of my skull and was about to escape via my ears as we hit the bottom. The ride did not stop until the end of the Reagan administration. I could hardly recall what happened because I was about to lose consciousness and depa
21、rt my physical body. I did not breathe for the duration of the ride, and my pale, white knuckles could have been pried off the safety bar only with a crowbar and several power tools. I would cry this fear of roller coaster and dropping at great height for the next eight years. I tried my best to sta
22、y away from the larger rides and always took the “easy“ ride with no steep drops. Embarrassment followed me every time I was near a roller coaster. I suffered a form of uncanny acrophobia commonly referred to by leading medical researchers as well “chicken“. This past summer I found myself at the pr
23、estigious Kings Island Amusement Park (also known as Spend-All-Your-Money-To-Us-Park) in Cincinnati, Ohio, with my relatives. I decided that in order to conquer my fear I had to, like any rational person would, totally avoid it. However, for some odd reason, the dormant masculine gland resurfaced, a
24、nd I was forced to get on a ride with girls waiting in line behind me. I took my younger cousin with me, also. This was so I could sit in the designated “41 wuss-section“ (or the middle) of the looping Pirate Ship and not be embarrassed because I had a small child with me. I pretended to act cool by
25、 talking through the whole ride to my cousin, who was concentrating on not dispersing the contents of these words: Me: WHOOOAHH! Here comes another one! Him: Uh huh. Me: WHOOOAHH! MOMMY! Him: Blurgh! (sound of him vomiting) People below: Look out! In coming! Before long I found myself on the ride, n
26、ot assuming the fatal position. That day I went to some other big rides and managed to seem (in the least sense of the word) “manly“. I credited my conquering the rides to my masculine gland. You know, it could have been my stupidity gland. 39. The tone of the passage can most probably be described
27、as _.A. tragic B. comicC. nostalgicD. facetious正确答案是 40. Which of the following statement is True according to the passage?A. Roller coasters were invented by a German.B. Oriental children are not allowed to ride a roller coaster.C. The speed of the roller coaster is two gazillion miles per hour.D.
28、The writer did not ride another roller coaster for eight years after his first ride.正确答案是 41. How did the writer conquer his fear?A. It should be attributed to his masculine gland.B. He pretended to seem manly to the roller coaster, and nothing serious happened, so he was no longer scared at it.C. H
29、e has outgrown the childish fear of big ride.D. He had to pretend to be manly before his cousin. 正确答案是 TEXT C Whats Right About Being Left-Handed Imagine you are Alice, stepping through the looking glass. Suddenly everything is reversed. Doorknobs are on the wrong side of the door. The gearshift in
30、your car is in the wrong place. Handles on can openers are on the wrong side and turn the wrong way. Millions of people wake up every day in just such a predicament. They are left-handed and must face the built-in bias of a world designed for the right-handed majority. In a society of rights (from A
31、nglo-Saxon right for “direct, upright, correct“) and righteousness, the southpaw is left. (Anglo-Saxon left, for “weak“) with leftovers and left-handed compliments. Why we are left- or right-handed remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of science. We know that nearly two out of three lefties a
32、re male and that left-handedness runs in families. According to one study, almost half the offspring of two left-handed parents will be southpaws. The Scot-Irish family Kerr (from the Gaelic word for “left“) produced so many left-handers that in 1470 the family built its castles spiral stairways wit
33、h a reverse twist to favor southpaw swordsmen. On the other hand, heredity alone cannot explain lefties. At least 84 percent of them are born of two right-handed parents. And in 12 percent of genetically identical twins, one will be be right-handed, the other left. Perhaps the greatest puzzle of all
34、 is not why some people are left-handed, but rather why so few are. In virtually every other species, from chimpanzees to chinchillas, roughly equal numbers of individuals will favor either the right or the left. However, scientists are trying to set things right, and they are beginning to gain insi
35、ght into the many ways southpaws differ from “northpaws“, by considering how their brains work. Many of the circuits in the human central system operate through crossed laterality - that is, the right hand is “wired“ to the left side of the brain, and vice versa. In at least 95 percent of right-hand
36、ers, the speech-language center is in the brains left hemisphere. Yet only about 15 percent of left-handers are similarly hooked up, with speech controlled by the opposite, or right, hemisphere. According to Jerre Levy, a biopsychologist at Illinois University of Chicago, about 70 percent of left-ha
37、nders have speech controlled by the left side of the brain, while the remaining 15 percent have their language-control centers in both hemisphere. Broadly speaking, the left side of the brain is thought by some scientists to process linear, logical information, while the right side tends more toward
38、 processing emotion and mood. This may be why lefties are at significantly higher risk of schizophrenia, phobias and manic-depression, and in one study were shown to be three times more likely to attempt suicide. Southpaws can be more sensitive to a variety of drugs, too. Peter Irwin, a senior clini
39、cal research scientist at Sansoz Institute in East Hanover, New Jersey, found that, after taking such medications as aspirin, antidepressants, sedatives and antihistamines, lefties had greater changes in electrical activity in the brain than righties did. As if this werent enough, southpaws, appear
40、to be twice as prone to autoimmune diseases, including diabetes, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and myasthenia gravis. With such liabilities, how have left-handers managed to survive at all? The good news is that there is a very high side to being a left. Camilla Benbow, associate professo
41、r of psychology at Iowa State University, surveyed students who scored in the top 100th of one percent in math on Americas Scholastic Aptitude Test. She discovered that fully 20 percent of these math geniuses were left-handed-double the proportion of lefties in the population. Mensa, the high-I.Q. s
42、ociety, estimates that 20 percent of its members are left-handed. Indeed, the ability to integrate what some researchers call the more “logical“ left side of the brain and the more “intuitive“ or “artistic“ right side may have helped lefties excel. Among historys most famous left-handed warriors wer
43、e Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, Joan of Arc and Napoleon (as well as his consort, Josephine). Michelangelo sculpted David holding, in his left hand, the sling used to slay Goliath. (The Bible makes note of some 700 lefties who could “sling stones at a hairbreadth and not miss.“) T
44、hough most people believe that handedness is a simple either/or proportion, this is incorrect. Chances are that you are more nearly ambidextrous than you realize. You can, for example, probably write quite well with your left hand even if you have always been right-handed. To find our, take a large
45、piece of paper, turned sideways, and pick up a pencil in each hand. With your right hand, slowly sign your name, and with your left hand match each movement in reverse, with both hands moving in opposite directions away from the papers center. After a few tries, hold your left-handed reverse signatu
46、re up to a mirror. Youll be surprised how much it resembles your forward right-handed writing. For years, many lefties have felt they were targets of discrimination. But they have begun to assert their rights. In 1980, when part-time police officer Franklin W. “Woody“ Winborn was fired in Riverside,
47、 Missouri, activists rallied to his cause. A southpaw, Winborn had refused to wear his gun holster on his right side. In Seattle, a postal clerk and lefty named Robert B. Green was told to follow the usual procedure of holding mail in the left hand and sorting with the right. Winborn settled his cas
48、e out of court, and Green was permitted to continue his left-handed sorting. Lefthanders International of Topeka, Kansas, took a keen interest in both protest. Its founder, Dean Campbell, asks, “Why must the left-handed live in a world designed to handicap us?“ His group has issued a “Bill of Lefts“
49、, which asserts in part that “left-handers shall be entitled to offer their dominant hand in a handshake, salute or oath.“ Says Campbell, smiling impishly, “If the right side of the body is controlled by the left side of the brain, and vice versa, then we left-handed people are the only ones in our right mind.“ 42. What is the most bewildering thing about the lefties?A. Why are there so few left-handed people?B. In what way do southpaws differ from northpaws?C. Why are left-handed people smarter?D. How have left-handers managed to sur
