英语专业八级真题0001.docx

1、英语专业八级真题00012017年英语专业八级真题试卷用后随即销毁。严禁保留、出版或复印。QUESTION BOOKLETTEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2017)-GRADE EIGHT-TIME LIMIT: 150 MINPART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION25 MINSECTION A MINI-LECTUREIn this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the mini-lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the mini-lec

2、ture, please complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for note-taking.You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling ta

3、sk.Now listen to the mini-lecture. When it is over, you will be given THREE minutes to check your work.SECTION B INTERVIEWIn this section you will hear TWO interviews. At the end of each interview, five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the interviews and the questions will be spoken

4、 ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the four choices of A, B, C and D, and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.1.2.ideas.D. Creating things from changes in behavior, media, etc.3.A. Knowing previous success stories

5、.B. Being brave and willing to take a risk.C. Being sensitive to business data.D. Being aware of what is interesting.4.A. Having people take a risk.B. Aiming at a consumer leek.C. Using messages to do things.D. Focusing on data-based ideas.5.A. Looking for opportunities.B. Considering a starting poi

6、nt.C. Establishing the focal point.D. Examining the future carefully.6.A. A media agency.B. An Internet company.C. A venture capital firm.D. A behavioral study center.PART II READING COMPREHENSION45 MINSECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONSIn this section there are three passages followed by fourteen m

7、ultiple choice questions. For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.PASSAGE ONE(1) Its 7 pm on a balmy Saturday night in June, and I have just ordered my first b

8、eer in I Cervejaria, a restaurant in Zambujeira do Mar, one of the prettiest villages on Portugals south-west coast. The place is empty, but this doesnt surprise me at all. I have spent two weeks in this area, driving along empty roads, playing with my son on empty beaches, and staying in B&Bs where

9、 we are the only guests.(2) No doubt the restaurant, run by two brothers for the past 28 years, is buzzing in July and August, when Portuguese holidaymakers descend on the Alentejo coast. But for the other 10 months of the year, the trickle of diners who come to feast on fantastically fresh seafood

10、reflects the general pace of life in the Alentejo: sleepy, bordering on comatose.(3) One of the poorest, least-developed, least-populated regions in western Europe, the Alentejo has been dubbed both the Provence and the Tuscany of Portugal. Neither is accurate. Its scenery is not as pretty and, apar

11、t from in the capital Evora, its food isnt as sophisticated. The charms of this land of wheat fields, cork oak forests, wildflower meadows and tiny white-washed villages, are more subtle than in France or Italys poster regions.(4) To travel here is to step back in time 40 or 50 years. Life rolls alo

12、ng at a treacly pace; theres an unnerving stillness to the landscape. But that stillness ends abruptly at the Atlantic Ocean, where there is drama in spades. Protected by the South West Alentejo and Costa Vicentina national park, the 100 km of coastline from Porto Covo in the Alentejo to Burgau in t

13、he Algarve is the most stunning in Europe. And yet few people seem to know about it. Walkers come to admire the views from the Fishermans Way, surfers to ride the best waves in Europe, but day after day we had spectacular beaches to ourselves.(5) The lack of awareness is partly a matter of accessibi

14、lity (these beaches are a good two hours drive from either Faro or Lisbon airports) and partly to do with a lack of beachside accommodation. There are some gorgeous, independent guesthouses in this area, but they are hidden in valleys or at the end of dirt tracks.(6) Our base was a beautiful 600-acr

15、e estate of uncultivated land covered in rock-rose, eucalyptus and wild flowers 13km inland from Zambujeira. Our one-bedroom home, Azenha, was once home to the miller who tended the now-restored watermill next to it. A kilometre away from the main house, pool and restaurant, it is gloriously isolate

16、d. (7) Stepping out of the house in the morning to greet our neighbours wild horses on one side, donkeys on the other with nothing but birdsong filling the air, I felt a sense of adventure you normally only get with wild camping.(8) “When people first arrive, they feel a little anxious wondering wha

17、t they are going to do the whole time,” Sarah Gredley, the English owner of estate, told me. “But it doesnt usually take them long to realise that the whole point of being here is to slow down, to enjoy nature.”(9) We followed her advice, walking down to the stream in search of terrapins and otters,

18、 or through clusters of cork oak trees. On some days, we tramped uphill to the windmill, now a romantic house for two, for panoramic views across the estate and beyond.(10) When we ventured out, we were always drawn back to the coast the gentle sands and shallow bay of Farol beach. At the end of the

19、 day, we would head, sandy-footed, to the nearest restaurant, knowing that at every one there would be a cabinet full of fresh seafood to choose from bass, salmon, lobster, prawns, crabs, goose barnacles, clams We never ate the same thing twice.(11) A kilometre or so from I Cervejaria, on Zambujeira

20、s idyllic natural harbour is O Sacas, originally built to feed the fishermen but now popular with everyone. After scarfing platefuls of seafood on the terrace, we wandered down to the harbour where two fishermen, in wetsuits, were setting out by boat across the clear turquoise water to collect goose

21、 barnacles. Other than them, the place was deserted just another empty beauty spot where I wondered for the hundredth time that week how this pristine stretch of coast has remained so undiscovered.7.The first part of Para. 4 refers to the fact that _.A.life there is quiet and slowB.the place is litt

22、le knownC.the place is least populatedD.there are stunning views8.“The lack of awareness” in Para. 5 refers to _.A.different holidaying preferencesB.difficulty of finding accommodationC.little knowledge of the beauty of the beachD.long distance from the airports9.The author uses “gloriously” in Para

23、. 6 to _.A.describe the scenery outside the houseB.show appreciation of the surroundingsC.contrast greenery with isolationD.praise the regions unique feature10.The sentence “We never ate the same thing twice” in Para. 10 reflects the _ of the seafood there.A.freshnessB.delicacyC.tasteD.variety11.Whi

24、ch of the following themes is repeated in both Paras. 1 and 11?A.Publicity.B.Landscape.C.Seafood.D.Accommodation.PASSAGE TWO(1) I can still remember the faces when I suggested a method of dealing with what most teachers of English considered one of their pet horrors, extended reading. The room was f

25、ull of tired teachers, and many were quite cynical about the offer to work together to create a new and dynamic approach to the place of stories in the classroom.(2) They had seen promises come and go and mere words werent going to convince them, which was a shame as it was mere words that we were p

26、rincipally dealing with. Most teachers were unimpressed by the extended reading challenge from the Ministry, and their lack of enthusiasm for the rather dry list of suggested tales was passed on to their students and everyone was pleased when that part of the syllabus was over. It was simply a box t

27、icking exercise. We needed to do something more. We needed a very different approach.(3) That was ten years ago. Now we have a different approach, and it works. Heres how it happened (or, like most good stories, here are the main parts. You have to fill in some of yourself employing that underused c

28、lassroom device, the imagination.) We started with three main precepts:(4) First, it is important to realize that all of us are storytellers, tellers of tales. We all have our own narratives the real stories such as what happened to us this morning or last night, and the ones we have been told by ot

29、hers and we havent experienced personally. We could say that our entire lives are constructed as narratives. As a result we all understand and instinctively feel narrative structure. Binary opposites for example, the tension created between good and bad together with the resolution of that tension t

30、hrough the intervention of time, resourcefulness and virtue is a concept understood by even the youngest children. Professor Kieran Egan, in his seminal book Teaching as Storytelling warns us not to ignore this innate skill, for it is a remarkable tool for learning.(5) We need to understand that wri

31、ting and reading are two sides of the same coin: an author has not completed the task if the book is not read: the creative circle is not complete without the reader, who will supply their own creative input to the process. Samuel Johnson said: A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it. In t

32、eaching terms, we often forget that reading itself can be a creative process, just as writing is, and we too often relegate it to a means of data collection. We frequently forget to make that distinction when presenting narratives or poetry, and often ask comprehension questions which relate to factual information who said what and when, rather than speculating on why, for example, or examining the context of the action.(6) The t