2012专业八级模拟46(含详细解析).docVIP

\Model Test Twelve TIME LIMIT: [ 190 MIN. ] PART Ⅰ LISTENING COMPREHENSION [30 min. ] SECTION A MINI -LECTURE In this section, you will hear a mini - lecture. You will hear the 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 on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note - taking. Now listen to the mini- lecture Introduction to M. de I Aube pine M · de I Aubepine is unknown to many of his countrymen, as well as to the students of foreign literature. As a writer, he occupied a (n) [1] ______ ______ place between the Transcendentalists and the great body of pen - and - ink men who address the intellect and sympathies of the multitude. [2] ______ His writings, to do them ______ , are not all together destitute of fancy [3] ______ and ______ ;they might have won him greater reputation but for an invet- [4] ______ erate love of ______. His fictions are sometimes historical, sometimes of the present day, and sometimes have little or no reference either to time or [5] ______ space. In any case, he consents himself with the slightest possible counter- [6] ______ felt of real life and endeavors to interest his readers with the pecularity of [7] ______ the ______ . M · de I Aube pine’s productions, if you read it in the [8] ______ point of view, may amuse a leisure hour; if ______ , they can hardly fail to look like nonsense. [9] ______ M - de I Aubepine is ______;he continues to write and publish. [10] ______ His first appearance was by a collection of stories, in a long series of vol- umes, ______: Contesdeur fois racontees. Our wearisome perusal of the titles of some of his recent works showed a certain personal affection and ______, though by no means admiration for the writer;