英语专八考试真题及答案.docx

1、英语专八考试真题及答案QUESTION BOOKLETTEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2016)-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-lecture, please complete the gap-fill

2、ing 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 task.Now listen to the mini-lecture.

3、 When it is over, you will be given THREE minutes to check your work.SECTION B INTERVIEWIn this section you will hear ONE interview. The interview will be divided into TWO parts. At the end of each part, five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the interview and the questions will be s

4、poken 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.You have THIRTY seconds to preview the questions.Now, listen to the Part One of the interview. Que

5、stions 1 to 5 are based on Part One of the interview.1.A. Maggies university life.2.B. Her moms life at Harvard.3.C. Maggies view on studying with Mom.4.D. Maggies opinion on her moms major.5.A. They take exams in the same weeks.6.B. They have similar lecture notes.7.C. They apply for the same inter

6、nship.8.D. They follow the same fashion.9.10.A. Having roommates.11.B. Practicing court trails.12.C. Studying together.13.D. Taking notes by hand.14.15.A. Protection.16.B. Imagination.17.C. Excitement.18.D. Encouragement.19.20.A. Thinking of ways to comfort Mom.21.B. Occasional interference from Mom

7、.22.C. Ultimately calls when Maggie is busy.23.D. Frequent check on Maggies grades.Now, listen to the Part Two of the interview. Questions 6 to 10 are based on Part Two of the interview.24.A. Because parents need to be ready for new jobs.25.B. Because parents love to return to college.26.C. Because

8、kids require their parents to do so.27.D. Because kids find it hard to adapt to college life.28.29.A. Real estate agent.30.B. Financier.31.C. Lawyer.32.D. Teacher.33.34.A. Delighted.35.B. Excited.36.C. Bored.37.D. Frustrated.38.A. How to make a cake.39.B. How to make omelets.40.C. To accept what is

9、taught.41.D. To plan a future career.42.43.A. Unsuccessful.44.B. Gradual.45.C. Frustrating.46.D. Passionate.PART II READING COMPREHENSION45 MINSECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONSIn this section there are three passages followed by fourteen multiple choice questions. For each multiple choice question

10、, 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)There was music from my neighbors house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the wh

11、isperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes（滑水板）over cataracts of foam. On weekends Mr. Gatsby

12、s Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with scrubbing-brushes an

13、d hammer and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.(2)Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves. There was a machine in the kitchen which could e

14、xtract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour, if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butlers thumb.(3)At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsbys enormous garden. O

15、n buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-doeuvre（冷盘）, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials（加香甜酒）so long

16、forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another.(4)By seven oclock the orchestra has arrived no thin five-piece affair but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums. The last swimmers have come in f

17、rom the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colors and hair shorn in strange new ways, and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile. The bar is in full swing, and floating round

18、s of cocktails permeate the garden outside until the air is alive with chatter and laughter and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each others names.(5)The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun and now

19、the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher. Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word. (6)The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath already there a

20、re wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the center of a group and then excited with triumph glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light.(7)Suddenly one of these g

21、ypsies in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and moving her hands like Frisco dances out alone on the canvas platform. A momentary hush; the orchestra leader varies his rhythm obligingly for her and there is a burst of chatter as the erroneous news goes aroun

22、d that she is Gilda Grays understudy from the Folies. The party has begun.(8)I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsbys house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited they went there. They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island and

23、somehow they ended up at Gatsbys door. Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby, and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks. Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a si

24、mplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.(9)I had been actually invited. A chauffeur in a uniform crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer the honor would be entirely Gatsbys, it said, if I would attend his “little party” that night.

25、 He had seen me several times and had intended to call on me long before but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it signed Jay Gatsby in a majestic hand.(10)Dressed up in white flannels I went over to his lawn a little after seven and wandered around rather ill-at-ease among swirls

26、 and eddies of people I didnt know though here and there was a face I had noticed on the commuting train. I was immediately struck by the number of young Englishmen dotted about; all well dressed, all looking a little hungry and all talking in low earnest voices to solid and prosperous Americans. I

27、was sure that they were selling something: bonds or insurance or automobiles. They were, at least, agonizingly aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs for a few words in the right key.(11)As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three peo

28、ple of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.47.It can be infer

29、red form Para. 1 that Mr. Gatsby _ through the summer.A.entertained guests from everywhere every weekendB.invited his guests to ride in his Rolls-Royce at weekendsC.liked to show off by letting guests ride in his vehiclesD.indulged himself in parties with people from everywhereE.48.In Para.4, the wo

30、rd “permeate” probably means _.A.perishB.pushC.penetrateD.perpetrateE.49.It can be inferred form Para. 8 that _.A.guests need to know Gatsby in order to attend his partiesB.people somehow ended up in Gatsbys house as guestsC.Gatsby usually held garden parties for invited guestsD.guests behaved thems

31、elves in a rather formal mannerE.50.According to Para. 10, the author felt _ at Gatsbys party.A.dizzyB.dreadfulC.furiousD.awkward51.What can be concluded from Para.11 about Gatsby?A.He was not expected to be present at the parties.B.He was busy receiving and entertaining guests.C.He was usually out

32、of the house at the weekend.D.He was unwilling to meet some of the guests.PASSAGE TWO(1)The Term “CYBERSPACE” was coined by William Gibson, a science-fiction writer. He first used it in a short story in 1982, and expanded on it a couple of years later in a novel, “Neuromancer”, whose main character, Henry Dorsett Case, is a troubled computer hacker and drug addict. In the book Mr Gibson describes cyberspace