2019专八听力全真模拟练习mp3附文本（10）

2019专八听力全真模拟练习mp3附文本（10）

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2019专八听力全真模拟练习二十篇

　　[00:23.60]TEST 10

　　[00:25.17]SECTION A MINI-LECTURE

　　[00:28.49]In this section

　　[00:29.39]you will hear a mini-lecture.

　　[00:31.60]You will hear

　　[00:32.29]the mini-lecture ONCE ONLY.

　　[00:34.48]While listening to the mini-lecture,

　　[00:36.18]please complete the gap-filling task

　　[00:38.36]on ANSWER SHEET ONE and write

　　[00:40.98]NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS

　　[00:42.50]for each gap.

　　[00:44.44]Make sure the word(s) you fill in

　　[00:47.63]is (are) both grammatically

　　[00:50.22]and semantically acceptable.

　　[00:52.72]You may use the blank sheet

　　[00:54.33]for note-taking.

　　[00:55.88]You have THIRTY seconds

　　[00:57.19]to preview the gap-filling task.

　　[01:29.71]Now listen to the mini-lecture.

　　[01:31.59]When it is over,

　　[01:33.03]you will be given THREE minutes

　　[01:34.46]to check your work.

　　[01:36.93]The Survival of English

　　[01:39.47]Good morning.

　　[01:40.72]Twice in its history,

　　[01:42.09]English came very close

　　[01:43.76]to joining the list

　　[01:44.75]of dead languages.

　　[01:46.48]Yet,

　　[01:46.96]this language of a small island

　　[01:48.75]not only survived,

　　[01:50.07]but lived to be spoken

　　[01:51.43]by an estimated 1.5 billion people

　　[01:54.37]in the 21st century.

　　[01:56.47]Today we shall have a look at

　　[01:57.86]how English escaped its extinction.

　　[02:01.12]Death is a common fate

　　[02:02.53]of unwritten languages.

　　[02:04.47]But written records of the languages

　　[02:06.33]spoken on the island of Britain

　　[02:08.52]show us how the English language

　　[02:10.63]became the language of the island

　　[02:12.68]and how it survived.

　　[02:14.62]We now turn to those written records.

　　[02:17.38]There are five critical periods

　　[02:19.28]in the survival

　　[02:20.10]of the English language.

　　[02:22.23]1) 410 CE to the mid-eighth century

　　[02:26.86]Early in the fifth century,

　　[02:28.42]Rome recalled its legions

　　[02:30.21]and told the Britons

　　[02:31.44]to defend themselves.

　　[02:33.50]Rich, unprotected,

　　[02:34.89]and attacked from all sides,

　　[02:36.75]King Vortigern on the east coast

　　[02:39.12]invited Germanic mercenaries

　　[02:41.08]to cross the channel

　　[02:42.50]to defend him against his enemies

　　[02:44.57]within and without.

　　[02:46.30]These mercenaries,

　　[02:47.47]mostly Angle and Saxon clans

　　[02:49.92]of Germanic peoples,

　　[02:51.61]called their language "Englisc".

　　[02:54.83]The language

　　[02:55.47]of the Germanic mercenaries

　　[02:57.12]became the language

　　[02:58.24]of the conquered area.

　　[03:00.13]From the seventh

　　[03:01.11]through the mid-eighth century

　　[03:02.63]York in Northumbria,

　　[03:04.36]famed for its schools

　　[03:05.58]and for its literary productions,

　　[03:07.78]was the center

　　[03:08.66]of the English-speaking world.

　　[03:11.58]2) Mid-eighth century to 899

　　[03:15.74]By the mid 700's,

　　[03:17.56]the Anglo-Saxons

　　[03:19.11]were on the receiving end

　　[03:20.26]of slaughter and ruined

　　[03:22.17]by Danish armies.

　　[03:24.34]The Danes overran

　　[03:25.46]all the Anglo-Saxon areas,

　　[03:27.43]including Northumbria,

　　[03:29.59]the heartland of literacy

　　[03:31.33]in Anglo-Saxon England.

　　[03:33.47]Wessex,

　　[03:34.54]ruled by Alfred the Great,

　　[03:36.51]remained the only area

　　[03:37.95]still controlled by English speakers.

　　[03:41.02]The Danes were neither united

　　[03:42.62]nor had a united command;

　　[03:45.10]Alfred did.

　　[03:46.34]Eventually,

　　[03:47.38]Alfred forced the Danes back.

　　[03:50.08]Danish Northumbria

　　[03:51.26]submitted to Alfred in 886.

　　[03:54.79]After a century

　　[03:55.92]and more of death and destruction,

　　[03:58.38]very few literate

　　[03:59.46]English-speaking people remained.

　　[04:02.12]Alfred set out

　　[04:03.21]to revive the language

　　[04:04.48]through education and writing.

　　[04:07.13]In 891 he sent out a call

　　[04:09.38]for anybody

　　[04:10.46]who could read or write.

　　[04:12.64]Outside of his personal staff,

　　[04:15.10]the handwriting

　　[04:16.27]of only eight new people

　　[04:17.82]appeared in the earliest records.

　　[04:20.42]The center of literary production

　　[04:22.23]shifted from York in Northumbria

　　[04:24.75]to Winchester in Wessex.

　　[04:27.13]Due to Alfred's education programs,

　　[04:29.80]most of the existing laws,

　　[04:31.65]poems, songs and stories

　　[04:33.88]were in the West Saxon,

　　[04:35.50]dialect of his Wessex.

　　[04:37.60]Alfred died in 899.

　　[04:40.82]3) 959 to 1066

　　[04:44.67]In 959, King Edgar,

　　[04:46.87]the great-grandson of Alfred,

　　[04:48.98]ruled both Danes and Saxons

　　[04:51.08]in England.

　　[04:52.70]The incompetent King

　　[04:53.92]Ethelred the Unready

　　[04:55.38]succeeded Edgar.

　　[04:57.22]He could not control the Danes.

　　[04:59.55]More Danes invaded;

　　[05:01.16]civil war followed.

　　[05:02.86]This second time,

　　[05:04.05]violent battles ended in a tie.

　　[05:06.02]The Danish leader, Canute,

　　[05:07.98]and Saxon King-elect,

　　[05:09.72]Edmund Ironsides,

　　[05:11.38]divided the country into Danish

　　[05:13.14]and English speaking areas.

　　[05:15.31]Canute and Edmund

　　[05:16.57]made a compromise

　　[05:17.79]that a united kingdom went to

　　[05:19.16]whoever survived the other.

　　[05:21.63]Two years later,

　　[05:22.93]Edmund died;

　　[05:24.22]Canute became King of all England

　　[05:26.42]in 1018.

　　[05:28.21]With Canute,

　　[05:29.34]the center of literary production

　　[05:31.10]moved to London.

　　[05:32.86]English remained a written language,

　　[05:35.06]at least for sermons and laws.

　　[05:38.10]Widower Canute wedded Emma,

　　[05:40.30]daughter of the Duke of Normandy.

　　[05:42.45]She was the mother of Edward,

　　[05:44.43]who became king after Canute's heir.

　　[05:47.51]Raised in Normandy,

　　[05:49.02]Edward preferred the French.

　　[05:51.25]In 1066,

　　[05:52.96]the French-speaking Normans

　　[05:54.44]conquered England.

　　[05:55.94]Norman French, based in London,

　　[05:58.10]became the only language of literature,

　　[06:00.53]law, and court.

　　[06:02.50]This third time,

　　[06:03.78]English became the language

　　[06:04.97]of the brutally oppressed illiterate.

　　[06:07.66]The language again

　　[06:08.73]seemed heading for extinction.

　　[06:11.42]4) 1080 to the seventeenth century

　　[06:14.67]After 1080,

　　[06:16.05]only a few written documents

　　[06:17.79]in English appeared:

　　[06:19.41]a last chronicle entry in 1134;

　　[06:22.70]a manual for religious women

　　[06:24.78]from around 1200.

　　[06:26.70]During the twelfth

　　[06:27.62]and most of the thirteenth centuries,

　　[06:30.04]we have no written records

　　[06:31.38]of English laws, poetry,

　　[06:33.26]songs, or stories.

　　[06:35.26]In 1258 the bilingual French-English

　　[06:38.34]"Provisions of Oxford",

　　[06:40.32]granting some rights to barons,

　　[06:42.28]showed up as

　　[06:43.14]the first public document in English.

　　[06:46.31]In the fourteenth century

　　[06:47.97]the English language resurfaced

　　[06:49.81]as a legal and literary language.

　　[06:52.34]Orally transmitted English poetry

　　[06:54.62]was preserved in written form

　　[06:56.55]in the Auchinleck Manuscript

　　[06:58.94]from 1325 to 1330.

　　[07:02.02]In 1344 the first petition

　　[07:04.86]in English appeared.

　　[07:06.64]In the last quarter of the century,

　　[07:08.54]Chaucer wrote his works,

　　[07:10.62]including The Canterbury Tales,

　　[07:12.48]in English.

　　[07:13.81]During this same period,

　　[07:15.25]John Wycliffe translated the Bible

　　[07:17.62]into English,

　　[07:18.92]the language of the common people.

　　[07:21.19]In the fifteenth century,

　　[07:22.86]English gave further signs

　　[07:24.19]of renewed life.

　　[07:26.18]In 1413,

　　[07:27.95]King Henry IV

　　[07:29.46]wrote the first royal will in English.

　　[07:32.31]Religious plays were in English.

　　[07:34.67]By the late sixteenth century,

　　[07:36.74]we see the flowering of English theater

　　[07:39.19]with Shakespeare and Marlowe

　　[07:40.74]and Jonson.

　　[07:42.23]Modern English arrived

　　[07:43.49]in the seventeenth century.

　　[07:45.57]The English language

　　[07:46.75]won this "Battle of Britain".

　　[07:49.46]5) 1837 to today

　　[07:52.88]In the nineteenth century,

　　[07:54.59]the British Empire

　　[07:55.54]was in the English language.

　　[07:57.79]By the twentieth century,

　　[07:59.78]the empire had brought areas

　　[08:01.70]where is now India,

　　[08:03.10]Canada,

　　[08:03.80]Australia,

　　[08:04.63]New Zealand,

　　[08:05.44]Hong Kong,

　　[08:06.21]Singapore,

　　[08:07.13]South Africa,

　　[08:08.40]Jamaica,

　　[08:09.20]Trinidad and Tobago,

　　[08:10.78]Guyana,

　　[08:11.76]and Bermuda under imperial rule.

　　[08:14.54]English, of course,

　　[08:15.60]was also the language

　　[08:16.62]of the United States.

　　[08:18.94]The United States did its part

　　[08:20.55]to spread the language

　　[08:21.63]to the Philippines and Samoa.

　　[08:24.05]There is, however,

　　[08:25.22]a substantial difference

　　[08:26.58]between the wide-spread,

　　[08:27.94]yet irregular,

　　[08:28.97]distribution of English

　　[08:30.44]in the nineteenth

　　[08:31.74]and early twentieth centuries and today.

　　[08:34.46]The difference is the computer,

　　[08:36.39]the World Wide Web,

　　[08:37.76]and rapid communication.

　　[08:40.21]Today, not surprisingly,

　　[08:42.21]the English language is global in use.

　　[08:45.29]English-speakers built

　　[08:46.54]the first electronic computing machines

　　[08:48.95]during World War II,

　　[08:50.81]which heralded the computer age.

　　[08:53.17]Years later, the technology

　　[08:55.07]that created the Internet

　　[08:56.53]and the World Wide Web

　　[08:58.43]is primarily the product of speakers

　　[09:00.73]and writers of the English language.

　　[09:03.81]Instruction manuals

　　[09:05.24]and technical documents,

　　[09:07.18]as well as printers, keyboards,

　　[09:09.02]and monitors are for users of English.

　　[09:12.13]OK. Today we have learned

　　[09:14.23]the five critical periods

　　[09:15.83]of English language.

　　[09:17.77]Although other languages

　　[09:18.86]across history

　　[09:20.04]reached the corners

　　[09:21.14]of their then known world,

　　[09:23.16]the English language

　　[09:24.15]survived near extinction;

　　[09:25.95]its written records now

　　[09:27.86]endlessly circle the entire world.

　　[09:31.37]So much for today.

　　[09:32.98]Thank you for your attention.

　　[09:35.29]Now, you have THREE minutes

　　[09:36.99]to check your work.

　　[12:38.78]This is the end of

　　[12:39.69]Section A Mini-lecture.

　　[12:43.17]SECTION B INTERVIEW

　　[12:46.34]In this section

　　[12:47.31]you will hear ONE interview.

　　[12:49.56]The interview

　　[12:50.22]will be divided into TWO parts.

　　[12:52.85]At the end of each part,

　　[12:54.36]five questions will be asked

　　[12:56.21]about what was said.

　　[12:57.87]Both the interview

　　[12:58.80]and the questions

　　[12:59.87]will be spoken ONCE ONLY.

　　[13:02.38]After each question

　　[13:03.61]there will be a ten-second pause.

　　[13:06.03]During the pause,

　　[13:07.12]you should read the four choices

　　[13:09.09]of A, B, C and D,

　　[13:12.19]and mark the best answer

　　[13:13.57]to each question

　　[13:14.72]on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

　　[13:16.76]You have THIRTY seconds

　　[13:18.17]to preview the questions.

　　[13:50.20]Now, listen to Part One

　　[13:51.70]of the interview.

　　[13:53.31]Questions 1 to 5 are based on

　　[13:55.33]Part One of the interview.

　　[13:58.05]M: The road to happiness

　　[13:59.21]is easier than you think.

　　[14:01.50]Sign up now to join

　　[14:03.01]thousands of others

　　[14:04.23]in the I Feel Good

　　[14:05.70]Community Challenge-

　　[14:07.52]6 weeks to a happier

　　[14:08.93]and more balanced you.

　　[14:11.17]IVillage contributor Amy Hendel

　　[14:13.76]is the health expert

　　[14:15.03]waiting to challenge.

　　[14:16.80]Amy, good morning.

　　[14:19.06]W: Good morning,

　　[14:20.05]and there's a lot of happiness

　　[14:21.73]on this day.

　　[14:23.20]M: Yes. We feel good all the time.

　　[14:26.31]Tell us what is this thing?

　　[14:29.06]W: This is a six-week challenge

　　[14:30.97]to make women realize

　　[14:32.43]that they need to reclaim

　　[14:33.90]a little me time.

　　[14:35.83]Women are out of balance.

　　[14:37.78]They don't realize

　　[14:38.83]that they are doing so much

　　[14:40.17]for others.

　　[14:41.46]They're not taking a little time

　　[14:42.90]for themselves.

　　[14:44.72]M: So do you think in a sense,

　　[14:46.45]women may feel

　　[14:47.60]that they are selfish

　　[14:48.81]if they are taking time

　　[14:50.27]for themselves?

　　[14:51.89]that's time away from

　　[14:53.09]family and friends

　　[14:54.17]and responsibilities.

　　[14:56.37]W: We are the natural caretakers

　　[14:58.43]and often the point persons.

　　[15:00.60]If we always think this way,

　　[15:02.58]it may have a negative connotation

　　[15:04.64]to take me time.

　　[15:06.51]We think of the women

　　[15:07.57]who do it to a fault,

　　[15:09.52]but we are actually

　　[15:10.72]being detrimental to our own balance.

　　[15:14.11]Our mental health and well-being

　　[15:16.01]depend on having a little happiness

　　[15:18.10]in our life.

　　[15:19.57]M: OK. So let's focus on the features

　　[15:22.61]and the tools of the I Feel

　　[15:24.47]Good Community Challenge.

　　[15:26.09]W: OK.

　　[15:27.00]M: First of all, a rant board.

　　[15:29.33]W: Yes. Because it's not good

　　[15:31.18]to cry out

　　[15:31.96]to your husband,

　　[15:32.86]nor to your co-worker, your boss,

　　[15:35.17]maybe your friend.

　　[15:36.81]But you need a place to let it out.

　　[15:39.01]We want distressed people

　　[15:40.22]to feel safe complaining,

　　[15:42.16]and then get on to the me time.

　　[15:44.73]M: A 〝peace-of-mind〞 plan.

　　[15:47.17]W: This is actually a tool

　　[15:48.55]that's on the health aspect

　　[15:49.78]of the iVillage website-

　　[15:52.25]it's ongoing all the time

　　[15:54.12]but it specifically addresses stress

　　[15:56.89]and it personally tells you how

　　[15:59.05]to identify it and get rid of it.

　　[16:02.12]It's going to be important

　　[16:03.43]in this challenge.

　　[16:05.20]M: And then you got the iConnect.

　　[16:08.59]I guess that's

　　[16:09.26]where everybody comes together.

　　[16:11.62]W: that's the message board.

　　[16:13.38]That's where

　　[16:13.98]the community comes together

　　[16:15.77]because it's

　　[16:16.15]about supporting each other

　　[16:18.21]and giving each other ideas

　　[16:20.17]on how to do this.

　　[16:22.36]M: Now you got down here a Daily Blog.

　　[16:25.29]Is this your blog?

　　[16:27.38]W: I do a daily blog,

　　[16:29.15]and I normally cry out

　　[16:30.61]the bad things going on.

　　[16:32.94]But specifically to this challenge,

　　[16:35.58]I'll be talking

　　[16:36.17]about the daily assignments,

　　[16:38.27]my own challenges with it,

　　[16:40.18]and how people can creatively

　　[16:42.04]get me time.

　　[16:43.91]M: And then you got coaches.

　　[16:46.14]What kind of coaches?

　　[16:47.81]W: Well. I'm a coach,

　　[16:49.16]and there's another coach.

　　[16:50.94]We are actually going to be

　　[16:52.10]accepting personal me

　　[16:53.80]time makeovers

　　[16:55.32]where somebody sends in e-mail,

　　[16:57.39]and we give them four

　　[16:58.66]or five quick tips

　　[17:00.07]to carve out the time to realize

　　[17:02.12]why they need it

　　[17:03.51]and then to creatively find it.

　　[17:06.29]This is the end

　　[17:07.08]of Part One of the interview.

　　[17:09.17]Questions 1 to 5 are based on

　　[17:11.33]what you have just heard.

　　[17:13.38]1. What kind of people is

　　[17:16.33]the six-week challenge designed for?

　　[17:29.05]2. Why does Amy present

　　[17:31.67]the rant board?

　　[17:43.23]3. What is the function of iConnect

　　[17:46.81]as a board on the website?

　　[17:58.77]4. What does Amy normally do

　　[18:02.10]on her daily blog?

　　[18:13.76]5. What does Amy do as a coach?

　　[18:27.92]Now, listen to Part Two

　　[18:29.65]of the interview.

　　[18:31.05]Questions 6 to 10 are based on

　　[18:33.73]Part Two of the interview.

　　[18:36.27]M: And you've got

　　[18:37.23]I Feel Good Video, right?

　　[18:40.33]W: After this morning

　　[18:41.36]on the 〝Today〞 set,

　　[18:42.71]you're home, get rid of the chaos,

　　[18:44.74]organizational skills,

　　[18:46.41]you've got to find me time

　　[18:48.22]by being creative

　　[18:49.39]about your organization.

　　[18:51.71]M: You got some assignment tips,

　　[18:53.69]So that in other words,

　　[18:55.29]carve out me time.

　　[18:57.39]W: Carve out me time at home

　　[18:59.01]and on the job.

　　[19:00.53]On the job, the day before,

　　[19:02.62]take 10 minutes,

　　[19:03.92]set up your folders,

　　[19:05.23]set up your phone list, find out

　　[19:07.13]who's going to need you tomorrow,

　　[19:09.60]so there are fewer surprises.

　　[19:11.79]At home, lay out your clothes,

　　[19:14.01]lay out the breakfast table,

　　[19:15.65]the lunches,

　　[19:16.54]and even lay out your make-up

　　[19:17.97]in order,

　　[19:18.84]so it can happen quickly

　　[19:20.86]and maybe you'll get more sleep time,

　　[19:23.53]maybe you'll get some exercises.

　　[19:26.26]M: And what I guess would be

　　[19:26.76]kind of a subset of me time is

　　[19:29.37]to find a hobby.

　　[19:30.70]W: Absolutely.

　　[19:31.91]We need to reclaim passion

　　[19:33.43]and happiness.

　　[19:34.75]Think about

　　[19:35.44]what made you happy as a kid,

　　[19:37.72]think about a new direction

　　[19:39.00]you want to

　　[19:39.64]go and rethink your life goals,

　　[19:42.38]find quiet time to think

　　[19:43.68]about these stuff,

　　[19:45.38]and then realize

　　[19:46.30]how enhanced your life would be

　　[19:48.42]if you have it.

　　[19:50.18]M: And you said avoid roadblocks.

　　[19:52.86]What are roadblocks?

　　[19:54.92]W: Not being able to say no.

　　[19:57.05]You know the just-say-no phrase?

　　[19:59.54]You need to invoke it.

　　[20:01.42]We're PMSing, meaning we are

　　[20:03.43]perfect mommy syndrome people.

　　[20:06.18]We are the caretakers of the world?

　　[20:08.26]Say no.

　　[20:09.60]Don't be the head of every team,

　　[20:11.17]every group;

　　[20:12.22]don't take every leadership role.

　　[20:14.72]Tell your husband,

　　[20:15.92]communicate and say

　　[20:17.23]those hard words: Honey,

　　[20:19.10]I need help.

　　[20:20.59]M: OK,

　　[20:21.79]And when you say be creative,

　　[20:23.88]what do you mean?

　　[20:25.29]W: I mean you need to really be smart

　　[20:27.58]about how you carve out me time.

　　[20:30.45]You need to save yourself:

　　[20:32.94]Is my house needing

　　[20:33.92]a little Zen-like recreation,

　　[20:36.19]so that I am not walking

　　[20:37.23]through chaos,

　　[20:38.78]so that I am not wasting time

　　[20:40.31]looking for things?

　　[20:42.16]Also be creative

　　[20:43.42]about what you want to do

　　[20:45.01]with the time, make it valuable,

　　[20:47.70]healthy eating

　　[20:48.66]takes carve-out me time,

　　[20:50.51]exercise takes carve-out me time.

　　[20:53.36]M: And it's all on the website.

　　[20:55.75]W: All on the website

　　[20:56.90]and it starts May 21.

　　[20:59.21]Sign up now.

　　[21:00.43]M: OK, Amy, thanks so much.

　　[21:03.48]This is the end

　　[21:04.56]of Part Two of the interview.

　　[21:06.50]Questions 6 to 10 are based on

　　[21:08.55]what you have just heard.

　　[21:10.64]6. According to Amy,

　　[21:13.61]what should you do

　　[21:15.14]if you want to get more sleep time?

　　[21:27.17]7. Why is hobby a good subset

　　[21:31.09]of me time?

　　[21:42.55]8. What is the roadblock for woman?

　　[21:56.85]9. What should a woman do

　　[21:59.34]to avoid roadblocks?

　　[22:11.59]10. What does Amy mean

　　[22:14.35]by saying be creative?

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