英语专业八级考前拉力赛（2）(1)
文章出处： 发布时间：2006-07-09
TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS GRADE EIGHT
(SAMPLE)QUESTION BOOKLET
PAPER ONE
TIME LIMIT:［95 MIN.］
PART 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 response for each question on your Coloured ANSWER 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.
1The speaker is____.
A.the travel guide B.the language professor
C.the school supervisor D.the talkshow host
2What does the word“hip”mean in this talk?
A.It is derived from “hippie”.
B.It means following the social fashion in the 1960s and 1970s.
C.It comes from a more recent usuage.
D.It means“out-of-date slang.”
3The problem with slang and trendy expressions is____.
A.that they are out-of-date. B.that they are difficult.
C.that they change fast. D.that they mean nonsense.
4What does“hinny”mean in NewCastle?
A.The sterile hybrid of a horse and a donkey. B.A common term of cursing.
C.The local form of“hello”. D.A usual way of affection.
5The speak asks listeners____.
A.to never use slang B.to understand what these slang words mean
C.to take time to use slang often D.to stick with official English
SECTION B CONVERSATION
Questions 6 to l0 are based on Mr.Jones and Engineer.At the end of the conversation you will be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.
Now Listen to the interview.
6What materials were not used for road surfaces during the last century?
A.gravel B.asphalt C.macadam D.concrete
7Concrete is used in extensive projects because of____.
A.The increase in traffic B.The cost of other materials
C.The change of the climate D.The construction of the roads
8For light traffic,which of the following is not used?
A.Sand clay. B.Macadam. C.Brick. D.Bituminous mixture.
9What do“turnpikes”mean?
A.Roads. B.Streets. C.Lanes. D.Highways.
10The total width of the Pennsylvania Turnpike is____.
A.100 feet B.78 feet C.68 feet D.88 feet
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
Questions 11 to 12 are based on the following news from the BBC.At the end of the news item,you will be given 30 seconds to answer the two questions.
Now Listen to the news.
11South Korean Law-makers planned for an Asiawide coalition against____.
A. Japan’s invasion B.Japan’s violation of human rights
C.Japan’s distortion of history D.Japan’s cruelty
12Protests in South Korea have not____.
A.escalated into civic campaigns nationwide
B.called for a boycott of Japanese goods
C.postponed joint military exercises with Tokyo
D.established a neutral just body to settle such a dispute
Questions 13 to 15 are based on the following news from the VOA.At the end of the news item,you will be given 45 seconds to answer the three questions.
Now Listen to the news.
13When did George W.Bush present a letter to Congress?
A.Friday B.Thursday C.Tuesday D.Monday
14Last year exports to China was boosted by____.
A.25 percent B.24 percent C.23 percent D.22 percent
15The annual review will continue____.
A. in White House B.in the Pentagon Building
C.in the United Nations D.on the Capital Hill
SECTION D NOTE|TAKING & GAP|FILLING［15 min.］
In this section you will hear a mini-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.Use the blank paper for note-taking.
PART Ⅱ PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION
Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO as instructed.
PART Ⅲ READING COMPREHENSION ［40 min.］
SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION ［30 min.］
In this section there are six reading passages followed by a total of fiften multiple choice questions.Read the passages and them mark your answer on you Coloured ANSWER SHEET.
TEXT A
What Is History?
When does history begin?It is tempting to reply in the beginning’s but like many obvious answers,this soon turns out to be unhelpful.As a great Swiss historian once pointed out in another connexion,history is the one subject where you cannot begin at the beginning.If we want to,we can trace the chain of human descent back to the appearance of vertebrates,or even to the photosynthetic cells which lie at the start of life itself.We can go back further still,to almost unimaginable upheavals which formed this planet and even to the origins of the universe.Yet this is not‘history.’
Commonsense helps here:history is the story of mankind,of what it has done,suffered or enjoyed.We all know that dogs and cats do not have histories,while human beings do.Even when historians write about a natural process beyond human control,such as the ups and downs of climate,or the spread of disease,they do so only because it helps us to understand why men and women have lived (and died) in some ways rather than others.
This suggests that all we have to do is to identify the moment at which the first human beings step out from the shadows of the remost past.It is not quite as simple as that,though.We have to know what we are looking for first and most attempts to define humanity on the basis of observable characteristics prove in the end arbitrary and cramping,as long arguments about‘apemen’and‘missing links’have shown.Physiological tests help us to classify data but do not identify what is or is not human.That is a matter of a definition about which disagreement is possible.Some people have suggested that human uniqueness lies in language,yet other primates possess vocal equipment similar to our own;when noises are made with it which are signals,at what point do they become speech?Another famous definition is that man is a tool-maker,but observation has cast doubt on our uniqueness in this respect,too,long after Dr Johnson scoffed at Boswell for quoting it to him.
What is surely and identifiably unique about the human species is not its possession of certain faculties or physical characterstics,but what it has done with them—its achievement,or history,in fact.Humanity’s unique achievement is its remarkably intense level of activity and creativity,its cumulative capacity to create change.All animals have ways of living,some complex enough to be called cultures.Human culture alone is progressive:it has been increasingly built by conscious choice and selection within it as well as by accident and natural pressure,by the accumulation of a capital of experience and knowledge which man has exploited.Human history began when the inheritance of genetics and behavior which had until them provided the only way of dominating the environment was first broken through by conscious choice.Of course,human beings have always only been able to make their history within limits.These limits are now very wide indeed,but they were once so narrow that it is impossible to identify the first step which took human evolution away from the determination of nature.We have for a long time only a blurred story,obscure both because the evidence is poor and because we cannot be sure exactly what we are looking for.
16According to the author history is____.
A.in the beginning.
B.the story of mankind,of what it has done,suffered or enjoyed.
C.the progressiveness of human conscious choice and selection which breaks through the inheritance of genetics and behavior.
D.a natural process beyond human control.
17In order to understand what history is the predeterminate thing is to make clear the uniqueness of the human species which lies in____.
A.its possession of certain faculties or physical characteristics.
B. language.
C.tool-making.
D.what human beings have done with their certain faculties or physical characteristies.
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