[作者：清聿]2005年英语专业八级考试模拟试题原题及答案
2005年 03月06日
TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS
-GRADE EIGHT-
PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION
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 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 gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.
Writing a Research Paper
I. Research Papers and Ordinary Essay
A. Similarity in __________:
e.g. —choosing a TOPic
—asking questions
—identifying the audience
B. Difference mainly in terms of ___________
1. research papers: printed sources
2. ordinary essay: ideas in ones ___________
II. Types and Characteristics of Research Papers
A. Number of basic types: two
B. Characteristics:
1. survey-type paper:
—to gather ___________
—to quote
—to _____________
The writer should be ___________.
2. argumentative paper:
a. The writer should do more, e.g.
—to interpret
—to question, etc.
b. _________varies with the TOPic, e.g.
—to recommend an action, etc.
III. How to Choose a Topic for a Research Paper
In choosing a TOPic, it is important to __________.
Question No. 1: your familiarity with the TOPic
Question No. 2: Availability of relevant information on the chosen TOPic
Question No. 3: Narrowing the TOPic down to _________
Question No. 4: Asking questions about ___________
The questions help us to work out way into the TOPic and discover its possibilities.
SECTION B INTERVIEW
In this section you will hear everything onCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your coloured answer sheet.
Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen to the interview.
1. What is the purpose of Professor McKays report?
A. To look into the mental health of old people.
B. To explain why people have negative views on old age.
C. To help correct some false beliefs about old age.
D. To identify the various problems of old age
2. Which of the following is NOT Professor McKays view?
A. People change in old age a lot more than at the age of 21.
B. There are as many sick people in old age as in middle age.
C. We should not expect more physical illness among old people.
D. We should not expect to find old people unattractive as a group.
3. According to Professor McKays report,
A. family love is gradually disappearing.
B. it is hard to comment on family feeling.
C. more children are indifferent to their parents.
D. family love remains as strong as ever.
4. Professor McKay is ________ towards the tendency of more parents living apart from their children.
A. negative
B. positive
C. ambiguous
D. neutral
5. The only popular belief that Professor McKay is unable to provide evidence against is
A. old-age sickness.
B. loose family ties.
C. poor mental abilities.
D. difficulities in maths.
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
In this section you will hear everything onCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your coloured answer sheet.
Question 6 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.
6. Scientists in Brazil have used frog skin to
A. eliminate bacteria.
B. treat burns.
C. Speed up recovery.
D. reduce treatment cosplayt.
Question 7 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.
7. What is NOT a feature of the new karaoke machine?
A. It is featured by high technology.
B. It allows you to imitate famous singers.
C. It can automatically alter the tempo and tone of a song.
D. It can be placed in specially designed theme rooms.
Question 8 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.
8. Chinas Internet users had reached _________ by the end of June.
A. 68 million
B. 8.9 million
C. 10 million
D. 1.5 million
Question 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.
9. According to the WTO, Chinese exports rose _________ last year.
A. 21%
B. 10%
C. 22%
D. 4.73
10. According to the news, which trading nation in the TOP 10 has reported a 5 per cent fall in exports?
A. The UK.
B. The US.
C. Japan.
D. Germany.
PART II READING COMPREHENSION
TEXT A
I remember meeting him one evening with his pushcart. I had managed to sell all my papers and was coming home in the snow. It was that strange hour in downtown New York when the workers were pouring homeward in the twilight. I marched among thousands of tired men and women whom the factory whistles had unyoked. They flowed in rivers through the clothing factory districts, then down along the avenues to the East Side.
I met my father near Cooper Union. I recognized him, a hunched, frozen figure in an old overcoat standing by a banana cart. He looked so lonely, the tears came to my eyes. Then he saw me, and his face lit with his sad, beautiful smile -Charlie Chaplins smile.
"Arch, its Mikey," he said. "So you have sold your papers! Come and eat a banana."
He offered me one. I refused it. I felt it crucial that my father sell his bananas, not give them away. He thought I was shy, and coaxed and joked with me, and made me eat the banana. It smelled of wet straw and snow.
"You havent sold many bananas today, pop," I said anxiously.
He shrugged his shoulders.
"What can I do? No one seems to want them."
It was true. The work crowds pushed home morosely over the pavements. The rusty sky darkened over New York building, the tall street lamps were lit, innumerable trucks, street cars and elevated trains clattered by. Nobody and nothing in the great city sTOPped for my fathers bananas.
"I ought to yell," said my father dolefully. "I ought to make a big noise like other peddlers, but it makes my throat sore. Anyway, Im ashamed of yelling, it makes me feel like a fool. "
I had eaten one of his bananas. My sick conscience told me that I ought to pay for it somehow. I must remain here and help my father.
"Ill yell for you, pop," I volunteered.
"Arch, no," he said, "go home; you have worked enough today. Just tell momma Ill be late."
But I yelled and yelled. My father, standing by, spoke occasional words of praise, and said I was a wonderful yeller. Nobody else paid attention. The workers drifted past us wearily, endlessly; a defeated army wrapped in dreams of home. Elevated trains crashed; the Cooper Union clock burned above us; the sky grew black, the wind poured, the slush burned through our shoes. There were thousands of strange, silent figures pouring over the sidewalks in snow. None of them sTOPped to buy bananas. I yelled and yelled, nobody listened.
My father tried to sTOP me at last. "Nu," he said smiling to console me, "that was wonderful yelling. Mikey. But its plain we are unlucky today! Lets go home."
I was frantic, and almost in tears. I insisted on keeping up my desperate yells. But at last my father persuaded me to leave with him.
11. "unyoked" in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to
A. sent out
B. released
C. dispatched
D. removed
12. Which of the following in the first paragraph does NOT indicated crowds of people?
A.Thousands of
B. Flowed
C. Pouring
D. Unyoked
13. Which of the following is intended to be a pair of contrast in the passage?
A. Huge crowds and lonely individuals.
B. Weather conditions and street lamps.
C. Clattering trains and peddlers yells.
D. Moving crowds and street traffic.
14. Which of the following words is NOT suitable to describe the character of the son?
A. Compassionate
B. Responsible
C. Shy
D. Determined
15. What is the theme of the story?
A. The misery of the factory workers.
B. How to survive in a harsh environment.
C. Generation gap between the father and the son.
D. Love between the father and the son.
16. What is the authors attitude towards the father and the son?
A. Indifferent
B. Sympathetic
C. Appreciative
D. Difficult to tell
TEXT B
提示：原文源于美国年代杂志（TIME） 日期Jan. 29, 2001
文章标题No Fall Insurance 作者AN K. SMITH, M.D.
When former President Ronald Reagan fell and broke his hip two weeks ago, he joined a group of more than 350,000 elderly Americans who fracture their hips each year. At 89 and suffering from advanced Alzheimers disease, Reagan is in one of the highest-risk groups for this type of accident. The incidence of hip fractures not only increases after age 50 but doubles every five to six years as the risk of falling increases. Slipping and tumbling are not the only causes of hip fractures; weakened bones sometimes break spontaneously. But falling is the major cause, representing 90% of all hip fractures. These... ...
17. The following are all specific measures to guard against injuries with the EXCEPTION of
A. removal of throw rugs.
B. easy access to devices
C. installation of grab bars
D. re-arrangement of furniture
18. In which paragraph does the author state his purpose of writing?
A. The third paragraph
B. The first paragraph
C. The last paragraph
D. The last but one paragraph
19. The main purpose of the passage is to
A. offer advice on how to prevent hip fractures
B. emphasize the importance of health precautions
C. discuss the seriousness of hip fractures.
D. identify the causes of hip fractures.
TEXT C
提示：原文同2003年专八英文翻译中文翻译考试试题相同
In his classic novel, "The Pioneers", James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a land developer, take his cousin on a tour of the city he is building. He describes the broad streets, rows of houses, a teeming metropolis. But his cousin looks around bewildered. All she sees is a forest. "Where are the beauties and improvements which you were to show me?" she asks. Hes astonished she cant see them. "Where! Everywhere," he replies. For though they are not yet built on earth, he has built them in his mind, and they as concrete to him as if they were already constructed and finished.
Cooper was illustrating a distinctly American trait, future-mindedness: the ability to see the present from the vantage point of the future; the freedom to feel unencumbered by the past and more emotionally attached to things to come. As Albert Einstein once said, "Life for the American is always becoming, never being."... ...
20. The third paragraph examines Americas future-mindedness from the _________ perspective.
A. future
B. realistic
C. historical
D. present
21. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT brought about by future-mindedness?
A. Economic stagnation
B. Environmental destruction
C. High divorce rates
D. Neglect of history
22. The word "pooh-pooh" in the sixth paragraph means
A. appreciate
B. praise
C. shun
D. ridicule
23. According to the passage, people at present can forecast ________ of a new round of future-mindedness.
A. the nature
B. the location
C. the variety
D. the features
24. The author predicts in the last paragraph that the study of future-mindedness will focus on
A. how it comes into being
B. how it functions
C. what it brings about
D. what it is related to.
TEXT D
25. The phrase "mens sureness of their sex role" in the first paragraph suggests that they
A. are confident in their ability to charm women.
B. take the initiative in courtship.
C. have a clear idea of what is considered "manly".
D. tend to be more immoral than women are.
26. The third paragraph does NOT claim that men
A. prevent women from taking up certain professions.
B. secretly admire womens intellect and resolution.
C. doubt whether women really mean to succeed in business.
D. forbid women to join certain clubs and societies.
27. The third paragraph
A. generally agrees with the first paragraph
B. has no connection with the first paragraph
C. repeats the argument of the second paragraph
D. contradicts the last paragraph
28. At the end of the last paragraph the author uses humorous exaggeration in order to
A. show that men are stronger than women
B. carry further the ideas of the earliest paragraphs
C. support the first sentence of the same paragraph
D. disown the ideas he is expressing
29. The usual idea of the cave man in the last paragraph
A. is based on the study of archaeology
B. illustrates how people expect men to behave
C. is dismissed by the author as an irrelevant joke
D. proves that the man, not woman, should be the wooer
30. The opening quotation from Margaret Mead sums up a relationship between man and woman which the author
A. approves of
B. argues is natural
C. completely rejects
D. expects to go on changing
PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
31. ______ is the capital city of Canada.
A. Vancouver
B. Ottawa √
C. Montreal
D. York
32. U.S. presidents normally serves a _________term.
A. two-year
B. four-year √
C. six-year
D. eight-year
33. Which of the following cities is NOT located in the Northeast, U.S.?
A. Huston. √
B. Boston.
C. Baltimore.
D. Philadelphia.
34. ________ is the state church in England.
A. The Roman Catholic Church.
B. The Baptist Church
C. The Protestant Church
D. The Church of England √
注：The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion.
35. The novel Emma is written by
A. Mary Shelley.
B. Charlotte Bront.
C. Elizabeth C. Gaskell.
D. Jane Austen. √
36. Which of following is NOT a romantic poet?
A. William Wordsworth.
B. George Elliot. √
C. George G. Byron.
D. Percy B. Shelley.
37. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous for
A. his poems.
B. his plays.
C. his short stories. √
D. his novels
注：O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter , He was famous for his short stories and a master of the surprise ending, O. Henry is remembered best for such enduring favorites as "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Ransom of Red Chief." The combination of humor and sentiment found in his stories is the basis of their universal appeal.
38. Syntax is the study of
A. language functions.
B. sentence structures. √
C. textual organization.
D. word formation.
注：Definition of Syntax:
a. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences.
b. A publication, such as a book, that presents such rules.
c. The pattern of formation of sentences or phrases in a language.
d. Such a pattern in a particular sentence or discourse.
39. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language?
A. Arbitrariness. 任意性
B. Productivity. 丰富性
C. Cultural transmission. 文化传播性
D. Finiteness. 局限性 ？
注：design feature: features that define our human languages,such as arbitrariness,duality,creativity,displacement,cultural transmission,etc.
有关内容请点击查询：胡壮麟《语言学课程》课后答案
40. The speech act theory was first put forward by
A. John Searle.
B. John Austin. √
C. Noam Chomsky.
D. M.A.K. Halliday.
注：John Langshaw Austin was a philosopher of language, who developed much of the current theory of speech acts. He was born in Lancaster and educated at Balliol College, Oxford. After serving in MI6 during World War II, Austin became Whites Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford. He occupies a place in the British philosophy of language alongside Wittgenstein in staunchly advocating the examination of the way words are used in order to elucidate meaning.
PART V TRANSLATION （60 MIN）
提示：今年专八翻译部分的选材均源于《散文佳作108篇》
作者： 乔萍 翟淑蓉 宋洪玮，建议大伙熟读此书。点击查询该书介绍及文章目录
SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH
Translate the following text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
提示：本文节选自文章《生命的三分之一》作者：马南邨 该文原始出处为《燕山夜话》。
初中语文自读课本初一上册第8课 《短文两篇》中也有此文。
一个人的生命到底有多大意义，这有哪些标准可以衡量吗？提出一个绝对的规范当然非常困难；但，大体上看一个人对待生命的态度是不是严肃认真，看他对待劳动、工作等等的态度怎么样，也就不难对这个人的存在乎义做出适合的估计了。
古来所有有收获的人，都非常严肃地对待我们的生命，当他活着一天，总要尽可能多劳动、多工作、多学习，不愿虚度年华，不让时间白白地浪费掉。国内历代的劳动人民及大政治家、大思想家等等都莫不这样。
部分译文：Accomplished men of all ages treat their lives very seriously. As long as they are living, they always labor, work, and study as hard as possible, unwilling to spend time in vain, let alone waste even a single moment of their lives.
SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE
Translate the following underlined part of the text into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
提示：本文原文标题about Reading Books 作者：Virginia Woolf
2004年6月大学四级考试前预测模拟试题阅读理解中有此文
It is simple enough to say that since books have classes fiction, biography,poetry—we should separate them and take from each what it is right that each should give us. Yet few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconception when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. Do not dictate to your author; try to become him. Be his fellow?worker and accomplice.If you hang back, and reserve and criticize at first, you are preventing yourself from getting the fullest possible value from what you read. But if you open your mind as widely as possible, then signs and hints of almost imperceptible finess, from the twist and turn of the first sentences, will bring you into the presence of a human being unlike any other. Steep yourself in this, acquaint yourself with this, and soon you will find that your author is giving you, or attempting to give you, something far more definite.
谈 读 书
维吉尼亚·伍夫
既然书本有不一样的门类，如小说、传记、诗歌等，大家就应该把它们区别开来，并从每种中汲取它应当给大家提供的正确的东西;这话说起来固然容易，然而，极少有人需要从书本中得到它们所能提供的东西，一般大家一直朝三暮四地携带模糊的观念去看书：需要小说情节真实，需要诗歌内容虚构，需要传记阿谀奉承，需要历史能加深大家我们的偏见。假如大家念书时能抛弃所有这类成见，那将是一个极可贵的开端。大家对作者不要指手划脚，而应努力站在作者的立场上，设想自己在与作者一同创作。倘若你退缩不前，有所保留并且刚开始就批评指责，你就在妨碍自己从你所读的书中得到最大的益处, 然而，假如你能尽可能打开思想，那样，书中开头几句迂回曲折的话里所包括的几乎很难觉察的细微的迹象和暗示，就会把你引到一个独一无二的人物的面前去。假如你深入下去，假如你去认识这个人物，你非常快就会领悟作者正在给你或试图给你某些明确得多的东西。假如大家第一考虑如何读小说，那样，一部小说中的三十二章就是企图创造出象一座建筑物那样既有肯定的形式而各部分又遭到控制的东西，不过词句要比砖块很难捉摸，阅读的过程要比看一看更浪费时间、更复杂。理解小说家创作工作的各项要点的捷径或许并非阅读，而是写作，而是亲自尝试一下遣词造句中的艰难险阻。那样，回想一下给你留下鲜明印象的某些事——譬如，你如何在大街的拐角处从两个正在交谈着的人身边走过，树在摇曳、灯光在晃动，谈话的语气既喜又悲；这一瞬间好像包括了一个完整的想象，一个整体的构思。
作者介绍
维吉尼亚·伍夫（1882-1941），英国小说家，在她的小说里，缩小作者作为叙述者或评论者有哪些用途。她同时也是一位公认的评论家。
注解
blur模糊;使模糊不清
banish 流放,放逐
preconception偏见
try to become him：应努力站在作者的立场上。become在这里用作及物动伺、解作"配合"、"适应"。
steep陡峭的
acquaint yourself with...，使（你）自己认识（知道）...
impalpable无形的
contained从容的
PART VI WRITING
Interview is frequently used by employers as a means to recruit prospective employees. As a result, there have been many arguments for or against the interview as a selection procedure. What is your opinion? Write an essay of about 400 words to state your view.
In the first part of your writing you should state your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.
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PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION
SECTION A MINI-LECTURE
1. basic steps 2. raw materials 3. head 4. facts
5. explain 6. objective 7. purpose 8. ask questions
9. a manageable size 10. the TOPic itself
SECTION B INTERVIEW
1. C 2. A 3. D 4. B 5. D
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
6. B 7. C 8. A 9. C 10. B
PART II READING COMPREHENSION
11. B 12. D 13. A 14. C 15. D
16. B 17. D 18. A 19. A 20. C
21. A 22. D 23. B 24. A 25. C
26. B 27. A 28. C 29. B 30. A
PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
31. B 32. B 33. A 34. D 35. D
36. B 37. C 38. B 39. D 40. B
PART IV PROOFREADING ERROR CORRECTION
1. 把investing改为invested
2. 第二题irrespective后加of
3. 把those 改为 that
4. the fact 后面加that
5. eliminate 改为eliminating
6. 最后一个purely of need 改为on need
PART V TRANSLATION
SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH
SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE
PART VI WRITING
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