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1、英语专业八级考试全真试卷 Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension (40 min) In Sections A, B and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully a nd then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct response to each ques tion on your Coloured Answer Sheet. SECTION A TALK Questions 1 to 5 r
2、efer to the talk in this section. At the end of the talk you w ill be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now list en to the talk. 1. Changes in the size of the World Bank’ s operations refer to ___. A. the expansion of its loan programme B. the inclusion of i
3、ts hard loans C. the inclusion of its soft loans D. the previous lending policies 2. What actually made the Bank change its overall lending strategy? A. Reluctance of people in poor countries to have small families. B. Lack of basic health services and inequality in income distribu
4、tion. C. The discovery that a low fertility rate would lead to economic development. D. Poor nutrition and low literacy in many poor countries of the world. 3. The change in emphasis of the Bank’s lending policies meant that the Bank would ___. A. be more involved in big infrastructure
5、 projects B. adopt similar investment strategies in poor and rich countries C. embark upon a review of the investment in huge dams and steel mills D.invest in projects that would benefit the low-income sector of society 4. Which of the following is NOT a criticism of the bank? A. Col
6、ossal travel expenses of its staff. B. Fixed annual loans to certain countries. C. Limited impact of the Bank’s projects. D. Role as a financial deal maker. 5. Throughout the talk, the speaker is ___ while introducing the Wor ld Bank. A. biased B. unfriendly C. objective
7、 D. sensational SECTION B CONVERSATION Questions 6 to 10 are based on a conversation. At the end of the conversation yo u will be given 15 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the conversatio n. 6. The man sounds surprised at the fact that ___. A. many Australians
8、are taking time off to travel B. the woman worked for some time in New Zealand C. the woman raised enough money for travel D. Australians prefer to work in New Zealand 7. We learn that the woman liked Singapore mainly because of its ___. A. cleanness B. multi-ethnicity
9、 C. modern characteristics D. shopping opportunities 8. From the conversation we can infer that Kaifeng and Yinchuan impressed the woman with their ___. A. respective locations B. historic interests C. ancient tombs D. Jewish descendants 9. Which of the
10、following words can best describe the woman’s feelings a bout Tibet? A. Amusement. B. Disbelief. C. Ecstasy. D. Delig ht 10. According to the conversation, it was that made the woman ready to stop traveling. A. the unsettledness of travel B. the difficulties of trekking C
11、 the loneliness of travel D. the unfamiliar environment SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Questions 11 and 12 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item , you will be given 30 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. 11. Mike Tyson was put in prison last A
12、ugust because he ___. A. violated the traffic law B. illegally attacked a boxer C. attacked sb. after a traffic accident D. failed to finish his contract 12. The license granted to Tyson to fight will be terminated ___. A. by the end of the year B. in over a year C. in A
13、ugust D. in a few weeks Question 13 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you wil l be given 15 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news. 13. The Russian documents are expected to draw great attention because ___. A. they cove
14、r the whole story of the former US president B. the assassin used to live in the former Soviet Union C. they are the only official documents released about Kennedy D. they solved the mystery surrounding Kennedy’s assassination Question 14 and 15 are based on the following news. At the
15、end of the news item, you will be given 30 seconds to answer the questions. New listen to the news. 14. In the recent three months, Hong Kong’s unemployment rate has ___. A. increased slowly B. decreased gradually C. stayed steady D. become unpredictable 15. A
16、ccording to the news, which of the following statements is TRUE? A. Business conditions have worsened in the past three months. B. The past three months have seen a declining trend in job offers. C. The rise of unemployment rate in some sectors equals the fall in others. D. The unemploym
17、ent rate in all sectors of the economy remains unchanged. SECTION D NOTE-TAKING AND GAP-FILLING Fill each of gaps with ONE word. You may refer to your notes. Make sure the word you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable. The Press Conference The press conference
18、 has certain advantages. The first advantage lies with the (1)___ nature of the event itself; public officials are supposed to 1.___ submit to scrutiny by responding to various questions at a press conference. Secondly, statements previously made at a press conference can be used as
19、a (2)___ in judging following statements or policies. Moreover, in case 2.___ of important events, press conferences are an effective way to break the news to groups of reporters. However, from the point of view of (3)___, the press conference 3.___ possesses some disadvan
20、tages, mainly in its(4)___ and news source. 4.___ The provider virtually determines the manner in which a press conference proceeds. This, sometimes, puts news reporters at a(n)(5)___ , as can 5.___ be seen on live broadcasts of news conferences. Factors in getting valuable inf
21、ormation preparation: a need to keep up to date on journalistic subject matter; —(6)___ of the news source: 6.___ 1 ) news source’ s (7)___ to 7.___ provide information; 2)news-gathering methods. Conditions under which news reporters cannot trust the information p
22、rovided by a news source — not knowing the required information; — knowing and willing to share the information, but without (8)___ skills; 8.___ — knowing the information, but unwilling to share; — willing to share, but unable to recall. (9)___ of questions aske
23、d 9.___ Ways of improving the questions: no words with double meanings; no long questions; — specific time, place, etc.; — (10) questions; 10.___ — clear alternatives, or no alternatives in answers. 改错 Part Ⅱ Proofreading and Error Correction (
24、15 min) The following passage contains TEN errors. Each line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way. For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and wri te the correct one in the blank p
25、rovided at the end of the line. For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “∧” sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line. For an unnecessary word cross out the unnecessary word with a slash “/’ and put the word
26、in the blank provided at the end of the line. Example When∧art museum wants a new exhibit, (1) an it never／ buys things in finished form and hangs (2) never them on the wall. When a natural history museum wants an exhibition, it must often build it. (3) exhibi
27、t During the early years of this century, wheat was seen as the very lifeblood of Western Canada. People on city streets watched the yields and the price of wheat in almost as much feeling as if 1.___ they were growers. The marketing of wheat became an increasing 2.___ favor
28、ite topic of conversation. War set the stage for the most dramatic events in marketing the western crop. For years, farmers mistrusted speculative grain selling as carried on through the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. Wheat prices were generally low in the autumn, so farmers could 3.___
29、 not wait for markets to improve. It had happened too often that they sold their wheat soon shortly after harvest when farm debts 4.___ were coming due, just to see prices rising and speculators getting rich. 5.___ On various occasions, producer groups, asked firmer control, 6.___ bu
30、t the government had no wish to become involving, at 7.___ least not until wartime when wheat prices threatened to run wild. Anxious to check inflation and rising life costs, the federal 8.___ government appointed a board of grain supervisors to deal with deliveries from the cro
31、ps of 1917 and 1918. Grain Exchange trading was suspended, and farmers sold at prices fixed by the board. To handle with the crop of 1919, the government 9.___ appointed the first Canadian Wheat Board, with total authority to 10.___ buy, sell, and set prices. 阅读理解 A Part Ⅲ Read
32、ing Comprehension (40 min) SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION (30 min) In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of fifteen multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark answers on your Coloured Answer Sheet. TEXT A “Twenty years ago, Blackp
33、ool turned its back on the sea and tried to make i tself into an entertainment centre. ” say Robin Wood, a local official. “Now t he thinking is that we should try, to refocus on the sea and make Blackpool a fami ly destination again.” To say that Blackpool neglected the sea is to put it mil d ly. I
34、n 1976 the European Community, as it then was called, instructed member nati ons to make their beaches conform to certain minimum standards of cleanliness wi thin ten years. Britain, rather than complying, took the novel strategy of conte nding that many of its most popular beaches were not swimming
35、 beaches at all. Be cause of Britain’s climate the sea-bathing season is short, and most people don ’ t go in above their knees anyway-and hence can’t really be said to be swimming. By averaging out the number of people actually swimming across 365 days of the y ear, the government was able to persu
36、ade itself, if no one else, that Britain ha d hardly any real swimming beaches. As one environmentalist put it to me: “You had the ludicrous situation in w hich Luxembourg had mere listed public bathing beaches than the whole of the Uni ted Kingdom. It was preposterous.” Meanwhile
37、 Blackpool continued to discharge raw sewage straight into the se a. Finally after much pressure from both environmental groups and the European U nion, the local water authority built a new waste-treatment facility for the who le of Blackpool and neighbouring communities. The facility came online
38、in June 1 996. For the first time since the industrial revolution Blackpool’s waters are safe to swim in. That done, the town is now turning its attention to making the sea-front me re visually attractive. The promenade, once a rather elegant place to stroll, ha d become increasingly tatty an
39、d neglected. “It was built in Victorian times and needed a thorough overhaul anyway, ”says Wood, “so we decided to make aestheti c improvements at the same time, to try to draw people back to it.” Blackpool rec e ntly spent about $1.4 million building new kiosks for vendors and improving seat ing ar
40、ound the Central Pier and plans to spend a further $ 15 million on various amenity projects. The most striking thing about Blackpool these days compared with 20 years a go is how empty its beaches are. When the tide is out, Blackpool’s beaches are a vast plain of beckoning sand. They look sp
41、acious enough to accommodate comforta bly the entire populace of northern England. Ken Welsby remembers days when, as he puts it,“ you couldn’t lay down a handkerchief on this beach, it was that c rowded.” Welsby comes from Preston, 20 miles down the road, and has been visiting Bl ackpool all
42、 his life. Now retired, he had come for the day with his wife, Kitty, and their three young grandchildren who were gravely absorbed in building a san dcastle. “Two hundred thousand people they’d have on this beach sometimes.” W elsby said. “You can’t imagine it now, can you?” Indeed I could n
43、ot. Though it was a bright sunny day in the middle of summe r. I counted just 13 people scattered along a half mile or so of open sand. Exce pt for those rare times when hot weather and a public holiday coincide, it is li ke this nearly always now. “You can’t imagine how exciting it was to co
44、me here for the day when we w er e young.” Kitty said. “Even from Preston, it was a big treat. Now children don ’t want the beach. They want arcade games and rides in helicopters and goodness kn ows what else.” She stared out over the glittery water. “We’ll never see thos e days again. It’s sad rea
45、lly.” “But your grandchildren seem to be enjoying it,” I pointed out. “For the moment, ”Ken said. “For the moment.” Afterward I went for a long walk along the empty beach, then went back to th e town centre and treated myself to a large portion of fish-and-chips wrapped in paper
46、 The way they cook it in Blackpool, it isn’t so much a meal as an invita t ion to a heart attack, but it was delicious. Far out over the sea the sun was se tting with such splendor that I would almost have sworn I could hear the water h iss where it touched. Behind me the lights of Blackpool
47、 Tower were just twinkling on, and the str eets were beginning to fill with happy evening throngs. In the purply light of d usk the town looked peaceful and happy — enchanting even — and there was an engaging air of expectancy, of fun about to happen. Somewhat to my surprise, I r ealized that this p
48、lace was beginning to grow on me. 16. At the beginning, the passage seems to suggest that Blackpool ___. A. will continue to remain as an entertainment centre B. complied with EC’s standards of clearliness C. had no swimming beaches all along D. is planning to revive its former attract
49、ion 17. We can learn from the passage that Blackpool used to ___. A. have as many beaches as Luxumbourg B. have seriously polluted drinking water C. boast some imposing seafront sights D. attract few domestic holiday makers 18. What Blackpool’s beaches strike visitors most is their
50、 ___. A. emptiness B. cleanliness C. modernity D. monotony TEXT B Pundits who want to sound judicious are fond of warning against generalizin g. Each country is different, they say, and no one story fits all of Asia. This is, of course, silly: all of these economies plunged int
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