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1、专业英语八级模拟试卷203(题后含答案及解析)题型有：1. LISTENING COMPREHENSION 2. READINGCOMPREHENSION 3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 4. PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION 5. TRANSLATION 6. WRITINGPART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (35 MIN)SECTION A MINI-LECTUREDirections: In this section you sill hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the
2、lecture ONCE ONLY . While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but 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 g
3、ap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.听力原文： How Do the Movies Do It? Good morning, everyone. Today s lecture is about the Movies, or to be more specific, How Do the Movies Do It? Have you ever seen a movie in which a building was burned down or a bridge was destroy
4、ed? Have you seen films in which a train crashed or a ship sank into the ocean? If so, you may have wondered how these things could happen without harming the people in the film. The man who knows the answer is the “special-effects” man. He has one of the most important jobs in the film industry. He
5、 may be ordered to create a flood or to make a battlefield explode. But he may also be asked to create a special effect which is much less exciting, though just as important to the success of the film. In a scene for a movie there was a big glass bowl filled with water in which small fish were swimm
6、ing. The director of the movie wanted the fish to stop swimming suddenly while it seemed to stare at an actor. Then the director wanted the fish to stop staring and swim away. But fish can t be ordered to do anything. It was quite a problem. The special-effects man thought about this problem for a l
7、ong time. The result was an idea for controlling the fish with a harmless use of electricity. First he applied electricity to the fish bowl causing the fish to be absolutely still. Then he rapidly reduced the amount of electricity allowing the fish to swim away. Thus he got the humorous effect that
8、the director wanted. As in other parts of movie making there are those who have developed particular skill in creating certain kinds of effects. Jim White, who has been a special-effects man for thirty-two years, is best known for work with ships and airplanes. Calmly he builds and crashes airplanes
9、 or sends tiny models of ships on dangerous voyages. For a movie about World War Two he built a boat which was a copy of a real ship. The copy was made of wood and was 165 feet long. As it sailed along at a speed of seven sea miles an hour in the Pacific Ocean, it seemed so real that a United States military airplane flew down near it, trying to discover which country owned it. For fires the special-effects man does not trust the normal burning process of wood or other materials. He does not have time to wait until large flames appear. Usually he places metal pipes in the area that is
