英语专业八级考前拉力赛（3）(1)
文章出处： 发布时间：2006-07-09
In Sections A, B and C you will hear everything once only. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct response for each question on your Coloured ANSWER SHEET.
SECTION A TALK
Questions 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 speaker is____.
A.talking on the phone. B.talking on the television.
C.talking on the radio. D.talking on the platform.
2.Many children know little of the lives of relatives because____.
A.they have no time. B.they are from the unclear family.
C.they have never met them before. D.they don’t like them.
3.Who is Joe Browne?
A.He is an expert in mental workings.
B.He is an actor.
C.He is a writer on the importance of friends and relatives.
D.He is a clinical psychologist and talkshow host.
4.People form a close connection to celebrities hot because____.
A.they have busy lives.
B.they live faraway from their relatives and friends.
C.they cannot escape media coverage of celebrities.
D.they work with those celebrities.
5.The purpose of the talk is to____.
A. stay connected to our own families and relatives.
B. B.remain intimate with celebrities.
C. stop crying for celebrities.
D.learn how to love both families and celebrities.
SECTION B CONVERSATION
Questions 6 to l0 are based on Mr.Jones and Engineer.At the end of the comversation you will be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.
Now Listen to the interview.
6.The interviewer believes that.
A. advertising can’t be a kind of lying.
B.advertising must be a kind of lying.
C.advertising is most likely to be a kind of lying.
D.advertising may be a kind of lying.
7.How many years has this advertising man been in the ad. business for?
A.fifteen years B.sixteen years C.fourteen years D.ten years
8.What kind of work does he find most interesting?
A.making ad. Plans B.selling products successfully
C.developing new markets D.making a new product
9.What does advertising function as according to this ad. man?
A.A determiner that leads people to bring the product into their lives.
B.A complete lie that leads people to buy the produet.
C.As a stable value which makes people believe what the product has.
D.As a promotion which makes people aware of the new product.
10.What will determine that people will continue to use the product?
A.The product’s own worth. B.The product’s design.
C.The product’s advertising. D.The proudct’s price.
SECTION C NEWS BROCDCAST
Questions 11 to 12 are based on the following news from the BBC.At the end of the news item,you will be given 30 seconds to answer the two questions.
Now Listen to the news.
11.How did this accident happen?
A.The train was controled by outlaws. B.The bus went past a stop sign.
C.The train went past a stop sign. D.The bus hit the oncoming train itself.
12.How was the bus driver?
A.He was dead. B.He was injured. C.He was gone. D.It was not clear.
Questions 13 to 15 are based on the following news from the VOA.At the end of the news item,you will be given 45 seconds to answer the three questions.
Now Listen to the news.
13.Which programme is season finale toprated primetime drama?
A.“You’ll never forget.” B.“ER” C.“Law & Order” D.“Third Watch”
14.Media experts give credit for all not to
A.the fierce rivalry of the current ratings “sweep”.
B.TV dramas’ growing tendency to transform news into fiction.
C.writers’ increasing the ability to imagine the killings.
D.the recent spate of reallife school violence making headlines.
15.Which movie publicized a case that turned the issue of missing children into a national crisis?
A.“Adams” B.“ER” C.“Sweeps” D.“Law & Order”
SECTION D NOTE|TAKING & GAP|FILLING
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 not be marked,but you will need them to complete a 15-minute gap-filling task on Answer Sheet One.Use the blank paper for note-taking.
PART Ⅱ PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION［15 min.］
Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO as instructed.
PART Ⅲ READING COMPREHENSION ［40 min.］
SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION ［30 min.］
In this section there are six reading passages followed by a total of fiften multiple choice questions.Read the passages and then mark your answer on you Coloured ANSWER SHEET.
Tricky Business
“All right,boys and girls,who’d like to see some magic?”Twice a day the ferry Arahura—and it is greeted with cries of “Me!”from children,and with sighs of relief from parents,glad to find something to occupy their kids for at least half an hour of the threehour trip.
The parental saviour in question is Nigel Kennedy,a professional magician who has been working in the ferry for the past seven years.The facilities aren’t great—there is no designated performance space,and he has to conjure more or less in a corridor—but there is room enough to wave a wand and wow an audience more captive than most.
Kennedy,33, thrives on the work,which guarantees him a level of exposure he would not readily find elsewhere.The Arahura carries,thousands of people each day in the holiday season.“Every time I travel,”says Jonathan Morgan,manager of passenger services for the ferry line,“he is ringed with kids,like the Pied Piper.”
The key to what horgan refers to as Kennedy’s stunning success in audience participation:every show,he ropes in four kinds to help,although they usually wind up being the butt of his tricks.Wands are apt to wobble,droop,squeak or vanish;lossies and hankies turn up in unexpected places.Kennedy is a dab hand with balloons,too,twisting them at top speed into crowns,swords,worms,ducks and donkeys.
The children’s work,he says,is his bread and butter,although it is not without its hazards.“Adults are very predictable to perform for as an audience.They will always clap in the same place,always laugh in the same place.But kids,you can’t predict what they’re going to say or do.Sometimes you’re going to have a little fiveyearold who’s going to sit there with his arms folded and say this trick’s absolutely pathetic—some word he’s learnt from his parents.”
Kennedy was drawn to magic in the classic manner .“I got given a magic book when I was eight years old and that started me on it.From then on,I was putting on shows in Mum and Dad’s garage and plastering up flyerson lampposts and letterboxes around the streets,probably to their embarrassment.And it just developed from there.”
“I remember vividy a magician in a touring show.I remember sitting watching him in this little seat on my own.I don’t know how old I would have been,but I was just rapt.He threw this big hula hoop at me and I had to examine it.I thought,wow,I feel so special.”
Since turning professional in 1989,Kennedy has made what he calls a good living from magic.But the business is not what it was.He can remember doing cabaret every Friday and Saturday night,plus a round of conferences,dineanddances and garden parties.He still does conferences,but these days,“rather than having a set stage show with illusions,they’re more inclined to hire me for an hour or two,having me walk around the tables,do a little trick in somebody’s hand,which is what they call closeup magic.”
He augments his income by running an ail|order husiness for aspiring magicians,but admits that the average age of his clients is climbing:fewer and fewer children are taking up the craft.“it’s the competition.Nowadays they can push a computer screen and a magic effect happens:why learn a magic trick?People come along to a magic club and,if they can’t see a person in half on the first evening,they lose interest.”
Kennedy’s skill is acknowledged by fellow magicians who have recently voted him best children’s entertainer.But—you have to ask—do people confuse him with the other Nigel Kennedy,the internationally famous violinist?
Well,yes,and Kennedy shamelessly plays up to it:“Whenever Nigel is touring in this area,I make the most of it.I come on stage with a violin case while Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons plays in the background.Then I pull out a magic wand from the violin case and everyone laughs.”
There are no plans for a name|change,and in any case the confusion is worth it to overhear,as Kennedy once did,someone say：“This must be what that violinist does in the offseason.”
16.Nigel kennedy is____.
A.a professional violinist.
B.a professional magician and violinist.
C.a famous musician and childrens’ entertainer.
D.an internationally famous player.
17.Which of the following statements is not true?
A.Kennedy started to be drawn to magic at the age of 8.
B.Kennedy was turned professional in 1989.
C.Kennedy the magician often performed on the stage with Kennedy the violinist.
D.Kennedy ran a mailorder business for those interested in magic.
TEXT B
Suits for All Seasons
The business suit has for a long time been the uniform for male office workers.But it is not very satisfactory.For a start,it means that all men look the same,give or take their ties.
But that is not the only problem:at the height of summer the business suit is hot and stuffy,restricting movement,and —since the suit must always be worn with a tie—it demands a tightness at the neck that causes unnecessary discomfort and irritation.
Women in offices are free to wear what they please,within certain limits.Some women wear business suits,too;but these are usually less formal and,most importantly,they are designed to show off the feminine shape to advantage.The same cannot be said for the male suit.Most men look unattractive in them.They are shapeless,lumpy and dull in colour and do nothing for the male physique.A male office worker’s only way of expressing himself in this boring business uniform is through his selection of ties.The tie becomes his outward sign of inner personality.Unfortunatey,few men have any sense of style and fewer still stop to ponder what their personality is really like.For this reason,many male office wokers go to work in apallingly loud,garish ties,in the mistaken belief that they look good.
Add to all this the problem of cleaning a man’s suit.Do men actually clean them at all?A private (and not very scientific) study of male office workers indicates that they do not.Unlike their female counterparts,who are always taking notes to the drycleaners even when they have only been worn once in the past three weeks,men send their suits to the cleaners perhaps once a season.And yet most men wear the same suit to the cleaners perhaps once a season.And yet most men wear the same suit several days a week,with just a change of shirt and tie for variety.
Why do men not rebel and find some other way of dressing at the office?Well,they have thought this problem through very carefully.They realise how many hours they can save from their morning routine by wearing the same clothes day in,day out.Whereas the average female office worker takes time to plan what she will wear in the morning before ironing her outfit and finding coordinating fashion accessories,all a man has to do is leap out of bed,fumble around in the closet for his underwear and the first available shirt that hasn’t had tomato sauce dripped down its front,select a tie at random (only the most fastidious attempt a colour match between suit,shirt and tie) and step into the trousers that have been draped across the back of an armchair in the bedroom the previous night.Simple.Now,where did he leave his shoes and socks?
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