【正文】 that Harrington Wilson39。s day highwaymen mitted 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 e 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 A Harrington Wilson39。s light may push the (24) dust particles and gas molecules away from the a, forming one or more tails. This pressure makes a et39。英語專業(yè)八級模擬試題七 —— TEM8 Exercise 07 PAPER ONE PART 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 TALK Question 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 e to the age of _______ when they finish their primary school education. A. seven B. five C. ten D. eleven 2. Compulsory education in Britain is ________. A. from 7 to 11 B. from 5 to 16 C. from 4 to 16 D. from 5 to 15 3. The secondary education requires children to learn some foreign languages, but the first foreign languages is ________. A. German B. Italian C. Spanish D. French 4. Students who wish to go on college will have to take a twoleveled _______. A. General College Examinations B. General Course Examinations C. General Certificate Examinations D. General Compulsory Examinations 5. When you are a student at university, the state will pay for the cost of ________. A. your study only B. your living on campus only C. your study and living on campus D. your acmodation SECTION B CONVERSATION OR INTERVIEW Directions: 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 advertise B. educate and advertise C. educate and entertain D. be informative and instructive 7. Dallas Mckennon said that one of the reasons he likes to act in cartoons is that ______. A. cartoons are a less violent medium B. cartoons are a violent medium C. cartoons are a more violent medium D. cartoons are an educative medium 8. Dallas Mckennon said that for cartoons, actors are selected ________. A. for the way they look, not the the way they sound B. both for the way they look and the way they sound C. for the way they sound, not the way they look D. both for the way they act their roles and the way they look 9. In talking about his career in Hollywood, Dallas Mckennon said that his work has been ________. A. exclusively in cartoons B. only in Disney feature films C. mainly in cartoons and in scientific films D. both in cartoons and in scientific films 10. According to Dallas Mckennon, the old way of making cartoons was to _________. A. do the drawings first, and then have the actors record the sound B. photograph the actors first, and then do the drawings C. record the sound first, and then photograph the actors D. find the actors first and then have the record the sound SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: 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 jury B. in a live television broadcast C. via closed circuit D. in a US courthouse 12. Bill Clinton made the stunning admission hoping that ________. A. he would not be charged B. the case against him would end sooner C. he could be pardoned by the Grand Jury D. the Americans would five his fault 13. Which of the following statements is true? A. Clinton and Lewinsky intended to conceal the whole affair. B. Clinton39。s Comet revived these (23) in 1910, but the earth passed through the ets tail with no apparent harm. The pressure of the sun39。 he found seven men, women, and children packed away in a few tiny 27) stinking rooms. All of these people, included little children of five and six who were trained as pickpockets, were wanted 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 illtreated, 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 Shepard39。s 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 uhical 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 39。s waterconserving characteristics and on the entire ecology, both plant and animal. Research by scientists in the western Mojave Desert in California r