英语专业八级考试试题附听力mp3.docx

1、英语专业八级考试试题附听力mp320*年英语专业八级考试试题附听力mp3PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (35 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. You notes will not be market, but you will need them to complete

2、a gap-filling task for 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 onANSWER SHEET ONE.Use the blank sheet for note- tanking.SECTION B INTERVIEW In this section you will hear everything

3、ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your colored 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

4、 to the interview1. Mary doesnt seem to favour the idea of a new airport because A. the existing airports are to be wasted B. more people will be encouraged to travel. C. more oil will be consumed. D. more airplanes will be purchased.2. Which of the following is NOT mentioned by Mary as a potential

5、disadvantage? A. More people in the area. B. Noise and motorways. C. Waste of land. D. Unnecessary travel.3. Freddy has cited the following advantages for a new airport EXCEPT A. more job opportunities. B. vitality to the local economy. C. road construction, D. presence of aircrew in the area.4. Mar

6、y thinks that people dont need to do much travel nowadays as a result of A. less emphasis on personal contact. B. advances in modern telecommunications. C. recent changes in peoples concepts. D. more potential damage to the area5. We learn from the conversation that Freddy is Marys ideas, A. strongl

7、y in favour of B. mildly in favour of C. strongly against D. mildly againstSECTION 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 ba

8、sed 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. What is the main idea of the news item? A. A new government was formed after Sundays elections. B. The new government intends to change the welfare system. C. The So

9、cial Democratic Party founded the welfare system. D. The Social Democratic Party was responsible for high unemployment. Questions 7 and 8 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the news.7. The tapes of the Apol

10、lo-11 mission were first stored in A. a U.S. government archives warehouse. B. a NASA ground tracking station. C. the Goddard Space Flight Centre. D. none of the above places.8. What does the news item say about Richard Nafzger? A. He is assigned the task to look for the tapes. B. He believes that t

11、he tapes are probably lost. C. He works in a NASA ground receiving site. D. He had asked for the tapes in the 1970s. Questions 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 questions.Now listen to the news.9. The example in the news

12、 item is cited mainly to show A. that doctors are sometimes professionally incompetent B. that in cases like that hospitals have to pay huge compensations. C. that language barriers might lower the quality of treatment. D. that language barriers can result in fatal consequences.10. According to Dr.

13、Flores, hospitals and clinics A. have seen the need for hiring trained interpreters. B. have realized the problems of language barriers. C. have begun training their staff to be bilinguals. D. have taken steps to provide accurate diagnosis.PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN) In this section there

14、 are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet。TEXT A At the age of 16, Lee Hyuk Joons life is a living hell. The South Korean 10th grader gets up at 6 in the morning to go to school, and stud

15、ies most of the day until returning home at 6 p.m. After dinner, its time to hit the books againat one of Seouls many so-called cram schools. Lee gets back home at 1 in the morning, sleeps less than five hours, then repeats the routinefive days a week. Its a grueling schedule, but Lee worries that i

16、t may not be good enough to get him into a top university. Some of his classmates study even harder. South Koreas education system has long been highly competitive. But for Lee and the other 700,000 high-school sophomores in the country, high-school studies have gotten even more intense. Thats becau

17、se South Korea has conceived a new college-entrance system, which will be implemented in 20*. This years 10th graders will be the first group evaluated by the new admissions standard, which places more emphasis on grades in the three years of high school and less on nationwide SAT-style and other se

18、lection tests, which have traditionally determined which students go to the elite colleges. The change was made mostly to reduce what the government says is a growing education gap in the country: wealthy students go to the best colleges and get the best jobs, keeping the children of poorer families

19、 on the social margins. The aim is to reduce the importance of costly tutors and cram schools, partly to help students enjoy a more normal high-school life. But the new system has had the opposite effect. Before, students didnt worry too much about their grade-point averages; the big challenge was b

20、eating he standardized tests as high-school seniors. Now students are competing against one another over a three-year period, and every midterm and final test is crucial. Fretful parents are relying even more heavily on tutors and cram schools to help their children succeed. Parents and kids have se

21、nt thousands of angry online letters to the Education Ministry complaining that the new admissions standard is setting students against each other. One can succeed only when others fail,” as one parent said. Education experts say that South Koreas public secondary-school system is foundering, while

22、private education is thriving. According to critics, the countrys high schools are almost uniformly mediocrethe result of an egalitarian government education policy. With the number of elite schools strictly controlled by the government, even the brightest students typically have to settle for ordin

23、ary schools in their neighbourhoods, where the curriculum is centred on average students. To make up for the mediocrity, zealous parents send their kids to the expensive cram schools. Students in affluent southern Seoul neighbourhoods complain that the new system will hurt them the most.Nearly all K

24、orean high schools will be weighted equally in the college-entrance process, and relatively weak students in provincial schools, who may not score well on standardized tests, often compile good grade-point averages. Some universities, particularly prestigious ones, openly complain that they cannot s

25、elect the best students under the new system because it eliminates differences among high schools. Theyve asked for more discretion in picking students by giving more weight to such screening tools as essay writing or interviews. President Roh Moo Hyun doesnt like how some colleges are trying to cir

26、cumvent the new system. He recently criticized greedy universities that focus more on finding the best students than faying to nurture good students. But amid the crossfire between the government and universities, the countrys 10th graders are feeling the stress. On online protest sites, some are ca

27、lling themselves a “cursed generation” and “mice in a lab experiment”. It all seems a touch melodramatic, but thats the South Korean school system.11. According to the passage, the new college-entrance system is designed to A. require students to sit for more college-entrance tests. B. reduce the we

28、ight of college-entrance tests. C. select students on their high school grades only. D. reduce the number of prospective college applicants.12. What seems to be the effect of introducing the new system? A. The system has given equal opportunities to students. B. The system has reduced the number of

29、cram schools. C. The system has intensified competition among schools. D. The system has increased students study load.13. According to critics, the popularity of private education is mainly the result of A. the governments egalitarian policy. B. insufficient number of schools: C. curriculums of ave

30、rage quality. D. low cost of private education.14. According to the passage, there seems to be disagreement over the adoption of the new system between the following groups EXCEPT A. between universities and the government. B. between school experts and the government. C. between parents and schools

31、. D. between parents and the government.15. Which of the following adjectives best describes the authors treatment of the topic? A. Objective. B. Positive. C. Negative. D. Biased.TEXT B Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones was a teenager before he saw his first cow in his first field. Born in Jamaica, the 47-year-old grew up in inner-city Birmingham before making a career as a television producer and launching his own marketing agency. But deep down he always nurtured every true Englishmans dream of a rustic life, a dream that