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1、英语专八真题及其答案docTESTR ENGLISH MAJORS (2010)ADEEIGHTPARTISECTION ALISTENING COMPREHENSION (35 MIN)MINI-LECTUREIn 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 c

2、omplete 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.Complete the gap-filling task. Some of the gaps below may

3、require a maximum of THREE words. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically & semantically acceptable. You may refer to your notes,Paralinguistic Features of LanguageIn face-to-face communication speakers often alter their tomes of voice or change their physical postures in order

4、 to convey messages. These means are called paralinguistic features of language, which fall into two categories.First category: vocal paralinguistic featuresA.(1) -B.Examples1.whispering:2.breathiness:3.(2) 4.nasality:5.extra lip-rounding: greater intimacySecond category: physical paralinguistic fea

5、turesA. to express attitude or intentionneed for secrecy deep emotion unimportance anxiety.B.C.facial expressions1.(3) smiling: signal of pleasure or welcome2.less common expressions eye brow raising: surprise or interest lip biting: (4)gesturegestures are related to culture.1.British culture shrugg

6、ing shoulders: (5) scratching head: puzzlement2.other cultures placing hand upon heart: (6) pointing at nose: secretproximity, posture and echoing1.proximity: physical distance between speakers closeness: intimacy or threat (7): formality or absence of interestProximity is person-, culture- and (8)-

7、specific.2.posture.(5).(6).(7).(8)_ hunched shoulders or a hanging head: to indeicate(9)(9) direct level eye contact: to express an open or challenging attitude3.echoing definition: imitation of similar posture (10): aid in communication (10) conscious imitation: mockerySECTION B INTERVIEWIn this se

8、ction you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.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

9、 questions.Now listen to the interview.1.According to Dr Johnson, diversity meansA.merging of different cultural identities.B.more emphasis on homogeneity.C.embracing of more ethnic differences.D.acceptance of more branches of Christianity.2.According to the interview, which of the following stateme

10、nts in CORRECT?A.Some places are more diverse than others.B.Towns are less diverse than large cities.C.Diversity can be seen everywhere.D.American is a truly diverse country.3.According to Dr Johnson, which place will witness a radical change in its racial makeupby 2025? A.MaineB.SelinsgroveC.Philad

11、elphiaD.California4.During the interview Dr Johnson indicates thatA.greater racial diversity exists among younger populations.B.both older and younger populations are racially diverse.C.age diversity could lead to pension problems.D.older populations are more racially diverse.5.According to the inte

12、rview, religious diversityA.was most evident between 1990 and 2000.B.exists among Muslim immigrants.C.is restricted to certain places in the US.D.is spreading to more parts of the country.SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTIn this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the

13、 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.What is the main idea of the news item?A.Sony developed

14、a computer chip for cell phones.B.Japan will market its wallet phone abroad.C.The wallet phone is one of the wireless innovations.D.Reader devices are available at stores and stations.Question 7 and 8 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer

15、 the questions.Now listen to the news.7.Which of the following is mentioned as the governmenfs measure to control inflation?A.Foreign investment.B.Donor support.C.Price control.D.Bank prediction.8.According to Kingdom Bank, what is the current inflation rate in Zimbabwe?A.20 million percent.B.2.2 mi

16、llion percent.C.11.2 million percent.D.Over 11.2 million percent.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.Which of the following is CORRECT?A.A big fire erupted on the Nile River.B.Hel

17、icopters were used to evacuate people.C.Five people were taken to hospital for burns.D.A big fire took place on two floors.10.The likely cause of the big fire isA.electrical short-cut.B.lack of fire-satefy measures.C.terrorism.D.not known.PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)In this section there a

18、re 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 AStill, the image of any city has a half-life of many years. (So does its name, officially changed in 2001 from Calcutta to Kolkata, which is

19、closer to what the word sounds like in Bengali. Conversing in English, I never heard anyone call the city anything but Calcutta.) To Westerners, the conveyance most identified with Kolkata is not its modem subwaya facility whose spacious stations have art on the walls and cricket matches on televisi

20、on monitorsbut the hand-pulled rickshaw. Stories and films celebrate a primitive-looking cart with high wooden wheels, pulled by someone who looks close to needing the succor of Mother Teresa. For years the government has been talking about eliminating hand-pulled rickshaws on what it calls humanita

21、rian groundsprincipally on the ground that, as the mayor of Kolkata has often said, it is offensive to see one man sweating and straining to pull another man., But these days politicians also lament the impact of 6,000 hand-pulled rickshaws on a modern citys traffic and, particularly, on its image.

22、Westerners try to associate beggars and these rickshaws with the Calcutta landscape, but this is not what Calcutta stands fbr, the chief minister of West Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattachaijee, said in a press conference in 2006. Our city stands for prosperity and development.99 The chief ministerthe equiv

23、alent of a state governorwent on to announce that hand-pulled rickshaws soon would be banned from the streets of Kolkata.Rickshaws are not there to haul around tourists. (Actually, I saw almost no tourists in Kolkata, apart from the young backpackers on Sudder Street, in what used to be a red-light

24、district and is now said to be the single place in the city where the services a rickshaw puller offers may include providing female company to a gentleman for the evening.) Ifs the people in the lanes who most regularly use rickshaws一not the poor but people who are just a notch above the poor. They

25、 are people who tend to travel short distances, through lanes that are sometimes inaccessible to even the most daring taxi driver. An older woman with marketing to do, for instance, can arrive in a rickshaw, have the rickshaw puller wait until she comes back from various stalls to load her purchases

26、, and then be taken home. People in the lanes use rickshaws as a 24-hour ambulance service. Proprietors of cafes or corner stores send rickshaws to collect their supplies. (One morning I saw a rickshaw puller take on a load of live chickens一tied in pairs by the feet so they could be draped over the

27、shafts and the folded back canopy and even the axle. By the time he trotted off, he was carrying about a hundred upside-down chickens.) The rickshaw pullers told me their steadiest customers are schoolchildren. Middle-class families contract with a puller to take a child to school and pick him up; t

28、he puller essentially becomes a family retainer.From June to September Kolkata can get torrential rains, and its drainage system doesnt need torrential rain to begin backing up. Residents who favor a touch of hyperbole say that in Kolkata if a stray cat pees, there9s a flood. During my stay it once

29、rained for about 48 hours. Entire neighborhoods couldnt be reached by motorized vehicles, and the newspapers showed pictures of rickshaws being pulled through water that was up to the pullers9 waists. When its raining, the normal customer base for rickshaw pullers expands greatly, as does the price

30、of a journey. A writer in Kolkata told me, When it rains, even the governor takes rickshaws.99While I was in Kolkata, a magazine called India Today published its annual ranking of Indian states, according to such measurements as prosperity and infrastructure. Among Indias 20 largest states, Bihar fi

31、nished dead last, as it has for four of the past five years. Bihar, a couple hundred miles north of Kolkata, is where the vast majority of rickshaw pullers come from. Once in Kolkata, they sleep on the street or in their rickshaws or in a deraa combination garage and repair shop and dormitory manage

32、d by someone called a sardar. For sleeping privileges in a dera, pullers pay 100 rupees (about $2.50) a month, which sounds like a pretty good deal until youve visited a dera (防护评估和研究机构). They gross between 100 and 150 rupees a day, out of which they have to pay 20 rupees for the use of the rickshaw and an occasional 75 or more for a payoff if a policeman stops them for, say, crossing a street where ri