专八真题及答案详解.docx

1、专八真题及答案详解TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2003)-GRADE EIGHT-PAPER ONETIME LIMIT: 95 MINPART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION 40 MIN.In Sections A, B and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your COLORED ANSWER

2、SHEET. SECTION A TALK Questions 1 to 5 refer to the talk in this section. At the end of the talk you will be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the talk. 1. Which of the following statements about offices is NOT true according to the talk?A. Offices throug

3、hout the world are basically alike. B. There are primarily two kinds of office layout. C. Office surroundings used to depend on company size. D. Office atmosphere influences workers performance. 2. We can infer from the talk that harmonious work relations may have a direct impact on your _. A. promo

4、tion B. colleagues C. management D. union 3. Supposing you were working in a small firm, which of the following would you do when you had some grievances?A. Request a formal special meeting with the boss. B. Draft a formal agenda for a special meeting. C. Contact a consultative committee first. D. A

5、sk to see the boss for a talk immediately. 4. According to the talk, the union plays the following roles EXCPET _. A. mediation B. arbitration C. negotiation D. representation 5. Which topic is NOT covered in the talk?A. Role of the union. B. Work relations. C. Company structure.D. Office layout.SEC

6、TION B INTERVIEWQuestions 6 to 10 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 6. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT about Davids personal background? A. He had excellent a

7、cademic records at school and university. B. He was once on a PhD program at Yale University. C. He received professional training in acting. D. He came from a single-parent family. 7. David is inclined to believe in _. A. aliens B. UFOs C. the TV characterD. government conspiracies8. David thinks h

8、e is fit for the TV role because of his _. A. professional training B. personalityC. life experience D. appearance9. From the interview, we know that at present David feels _. A. a sense of frustration C. confident but moodyB. haunted by the unknown things D. successful yet unsatisfied10. How does D

9、avid feel about the divorce of his parents?A. He feels a sense of anger. B. He has a sense of sadness. C. It helped him grow up.D. It left no effect on him.SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTQuestion 11 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the ques

10、tion. Now listen to the news. 11. What is the main idea of the news item?A. US concern over the forthcoming peace talks. B. Peace efforts by the Palestinian Authority. C. Recommendations by the Mitchell Commission. D. Bomb attacks aimed at Israeli civilians. Question 12 is based on the following new

11、s. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news. 12. Some voters will waste their ballots because _. A. they like neither candidateB. they are all ill-informed C. the candidates do not differ muchD. they do not want to vote twice Questions

12、13 to 15 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer each of the questions. Now listen to the news. 13. According to the UN Human Development Report, which is the best place for women in the world? A. Canada. B. The US. C. Australia.D. Scandin

13、avia. 14. _ is in the 12th place in overall ranking. A. Britain B. France C. FinlandD. Switzerland 15. According to the UN report, the least developed country is _. A. Ethiopia B. Mali C. Sierra LeonD. Central African Republic SECTION D NOTE-TAKING AND GAP-FILLINGIn this section you will hear a mini

14、 lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the lecture, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a 15 minute gap filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE after the mini lecture. Use the blank sheet for note taking.PART II PR

15、OOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION 15 MINProofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO as instructed.PART III READING COMPREHENSION 40 MIN SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION30 min In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of fifteen multiple choice questions. Read the passages an

16、d then mark your answers on your Coloured Answer Sheet.TEXT AHostility to Gypsies has existed almost from the time they first appeared in Europe in the 14th century. The origins of the Gypsies, with little written history, were shrouded in mystery. What is known now from clues in the various dialect

17、s of their language, Romany, is that they came from northern India to the Middle East a thousand years ago, working as minstrels and mercenaries, metal smiths and servants. Europeans misnamed them Egyptians, soon shortened to Gypsies. A clan system, based mostly on their traditional crafts and geogr

18、aphy, has made them a deeply fragmented and fractious people, only really unifying in the face of enmity from non-Gypsies, whom they call gadje. Today many Gypsy activists prefer to be called Roma, which comes from the Romany word for man. But on my travels among them most still referred to themselv

19、es as Gypsies. In Europe their persecution by the gadje began quickly, with the church seeing heresy in their fortune-telling and the state seeing anti-social behavior in their nomadism. At various times they have been forbidden to wear their distinctive bright clothes, to speak their own language,

20、to travel, to marry one another, or to ply their traditional crafts. In some countries they were reduced to slavery-it wasnt until the mid-1800s that Gypsy slaves were freed in Romania. In more recent times the Gypsies were caught up in Nazi ethnic hysteria, and perhaps half a million perished in th

21、e Holocaust. Their horses have been shot and the wheels removed from their wagons, their names have been changed, their women have been sterilized, and their children have been forcibly given for adoption to non-Gypsy families. But the Gypsies have confounded predictions of their disappearance as a

22、distinct ethnic group, and their numbers have burgeoned. Today there are an estimated 8 to 12 million Gypsies scattered across Europe, making them the continents largest minority. The exact number is hard to pin down. Gypsies have regularly been undercounted, both by regimes anxious to downplay thei

23、r profile and by Gypsies themselves, seeking to avoid bureaucracies. Attempting to remedy past inequities, activist groups may overcount. Hundreds of thousands more have emigrated to the Americans and elsewhere. With very few exceptions Gypsies have expressed no great desire for a country to call th

24、eir own-unlike the Jews, to whom the Gypsy experience is often compared. Romanestan, said Ronald Lee, the Canadian Gypsy writer, is where my two feet stand. 16. Gypsies are united only when they _. A. are engaged in traditional craftsB. call themselves Roma C. live under a clan systemD. face externa

25、l threats 17. In history hostility to Gypsies in Europe resulted in their persecution by all the following EXCEPT _. A. the Egyptians B. the state C. the church D. the Nazis18. According to the passage, the main difference between the Gypsies and the Jews lies in their concepts of _. A. language B.

26、culture C. identityD. custom TEXT BI was just a boy when my father brought me to Harlem for the first time, almost 50 years ago. We stayed at the Hotel Theresa, a grand brick structure at 125th Street and Seventh Avenues. Once, in the hotel restaurant, my father pointed out Joe Louis. He even got Mr

27、. Brown, the hotel manager, to introduce me to him, a bit paunchy but still the champ as far as I was concerned. Much has changed since then. Business and real estate are booming. Some say a new renaissance is under way. Others decry what they see as outside forces running roughshod over the old Har

28、lem. New York meant Harlem to me, and as a young man I visited it whenever I could. But many of my old haunts are gone. The Theresa shut down in 1966. National chains that once ignored Harlem now anticipate yuppie money and want pieces of this prime Manhattan real estate. So here I am on a hot Augus

29、t afternoon, sitting in a Starbucks that two years ago opened a block away from the Theresa, snatching at memories between sips of high-priced coffee. I am about to open up a piece of the old Harlem-the New York Amsterdam News-when a tourist asking directions to Sylvias, a prominent Harlem restauran

30、t, penetrates my daydreaming. Hes carrying a book: Touring Historic Harlem. History. I miss Mr. Michauxs bookstore, his House of Common Sense, which was across from the Theresa. He had a big billboard out front with brown and black faces painted on it that said in large letters: World History Book O

31、utlet on 2,000,000,000 Africans and Nonwhite Peoples. An ugly state office building has swallowed that space. I miss speaker like Carlos Cooks, who was always on the southwest corner of 125th and Seventh, urging listeners to support Africa. Harlems powerful political electricity seems unplugged-although the streets are still energized, especially by West African immigrants. Hardworking southern newcomers formed the bulk of the community back in the 1920s and 30s, when Harlem renaissance artists, writers, and intellectuals