专业英语八级考试:TEM-8Exercise6(3)
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SECTION D NOTE-TAKING & GAP-FILLING
In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONLY ONCE. 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 after the mini lecture. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.
ANSWER SHEET ONE
Fill in each of the gaps with ONE suitable word. You may refer to your notes. Make sure the word you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable.
Sleepwalking
The strange behavior of sleepwalkers have puzzled police, perplexed scientist and fascinated writers for centuries. There is an early (16) record of a somnambulist who wrote a novel in his sleep. The world’s (17) sleepwalker was supposed to have been an Indian, who walked 16 miles along a dangerous road. Sleepwalking is a (18) reality. What is certain about sleepwalking is that it is a symptom of (19), which is a usually the (20) result of guilt, nervousness, worry or some other emotional (21).
One of the most common beliefs of sleepwalking is that it is dangerous or even (22) to waken the sleepwalkers. But this is one of the two mistaken beliefs. The other is that sleepwalkers are (23) to injury. Authorities on sleepwalking think that people will not do anything against their own moral (24). They also think sleepwalking itself is nothing to become alarmed about, but what may be very serious are the (25) that causes it.
PART II PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN.)
The following passage contains ten errors .Each line contains a maximum of one error. In each case only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way:
For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a "^" sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash "/" and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.
EXAMPLE
When ^ art museum wants a new exhibit,
(1) an
it (never/) buys things in finished form and hangs
(2) never
them on the wall. When a natural history museum
wants an exhibition, it must often build it.
(3)exhibit
The German poet and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
pondered the question of how organisms develop in his scientific
studies of form and structure immature plants and animals, a field he
found and named morphology. His search for a single basic body plan
(26)
across all life-forms led him to think about the prevalence of repeating
(27)
segments in body structures. The spinal columns of fish, reptiles,
(28)
birds and mammals, for instance, all are made of long strings of
(29)
repeated vertebrae. Among invertebrates the growth of virtually
identical segments is how striking: in earthworms, for example, even
(30)
internal organs are repeated in serial segments. Likewise, the
abdomen of flies and other insects are segmented, as are the
(31)
successive wormlike articulations in crabs, shrimps and other
crustaceans. To Goethe the evidence suggested that nature takes a
building-block approach to generate life, repeating a basic element
(32)
again and again to arrive at a complicated organism. The only glaring
(33)
hole he could see in the theory was the apparent lack of sort of
(34)
segmentation in the vertebrate heads. In 1790 he hypothesized that
(35)
spinal vertebrate is modified during the development to form the skull.
