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2000年英语专业八级考试全真试卷 听力
Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension (40 min)
SECTION A TALK
Questions 1 to 5 refer 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. The rules for the first private library in the US were drawn up by ___. A. the legislature B. the librarian C. John Harvard D. the faculty members
2. The earliest public library was also called a subscription library bec ause books ___. A. could be lent to everyone
B. could be lent by book stores
C. were lent to students and the faculty D. were lent on a membership basis
3. Which of the following is NOT stated as one of the purposes of free pu blic libraries? A. To provide readers with comfortable reading rooms.
B. To provide adults with opportunities of further education. C. To serve the community?s cultural and recreational needs. D. To supply technical literature on specialized subjects.
4. The major difference between modem private and public libraries lies i n ___. A. readership B. content C. service D.function
5. The main purpose of the talk is ___.
A. to introduce categories of books in US libraries B. to demonstrate the importance of US libraries C. to explain the roles of different US libraries D. to define the circulation system of US libraries
SECTION B INTERVIEW
Questions 6 to 10 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you wil l be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 6. Nancy became a taxi driver because ___. A. she owned a car B. she drove well
C. she liked drivers? uniforms D. it was her childhood dream
7. According to her, what was the most difficult about becoming a taxi dr iver? A. The right sense of direction. B. The sense of judgment.
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C. The skill of maneuvering. D. The size of vehicles.
8. What does Nancy like best about her job? A. Seeing interesting buildings in the city. B. Being able to enjoy the world of nature. C. Driving in unsettled weather.
D. Taking long drives outside the city.
9. It can be inferred from the interview that Nancy in a(n) ___ moth er. A. uncaring B. strict C. affectionate D. perm issive
10. The people Nancy meets are A. rather difficult to please B. rude to women drivers
C. talkative and generous with tips D. different in personality
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
Question 11 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.
11. The primary purpose of the US anti-smoking legislation is ___. A. to tighten control on tobacco advertising B. to impose penalties on tobacco companies C. to start a national anti-smoking campaign D. to ensure the health of American children
Questions 12 and 13 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. 12. The French President?s visit to Japan aims at ___. A. making more investments in Japan
B. stimulating Japanese businesses in France C. helping boost the Japanese economy D. launching a film festival in Japan
13. This is Jacques Chirac?s ___ visit to Japan.
A. second B. fourteenth C. fortieth D. forty-first
Questions 14 and 15 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.
14. Afghan people are suffering from starvation because ___. A. melting snow begins to block the mountain paths B. the Taliban have destroyed existing food stocks
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C. the Taliban are hindering food deliveries D. an emergency air-lift of food was cancelled
15. people in Afghanistan are facing starvation.
A. 160,000 B. 16,000 C. 1,000,000 D. 100 ,000
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.
On Public Speaking
When people are asked to give a speech in public for the first time, they usually feel terrified no matter how well they speak in informal situations. In fact, public speaking is the same as any other form of (1)___ 1.___ that people are usually engaged in. Public speaking is a way for a speaker to (2)___ his thoughts with the audience. Moreover, the speaker is free 2.___ to decide on the (3)___ of his speech. 3.___ Two key points to achieve success in public speaking: —(4)___ of the subject matter. 4.___ —good preparation of the speech. To facilitate their understanding, inform your audience beforehand of the (5)___ of your speech, and end it with a summary. 5.___ Other key points to bear in mind:— be aware of your audience through eye contact. —vary the speed of (6)___ 6.___ —use the microphone skillfully to (7)___ yourself in speech. 7.___ —be brief in speech; always try to make your message (8)___ 8.___ Example: the best remembered inaugural speeches of the US presidents are the (9)___ ones. 9.___ Therefore, brevity is essential to the (10)___ of a speech. 10.___ 改错
Part Ⅱ Proofreading and Error Correction (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 provided 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 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) exhibit The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different 1.___ from the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may seem the most obvious is that grammatical words have“ less
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meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them 2.___ “empty” words as opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. 3.___ But this is a rather misled way of expressing the distinction. 4.___ Although a word like the is not the name of something as man is, it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a sharp 5.___ difference in meaning between “man is vile and” “the man is
vile”, yet the is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. 6.___ Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably among
themselves as the amount of meaning they have, even in the 7.___ lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been “little words”. But size is by no mean a good criterion for 8.___ distinguishing the grammatical words of English, when we
consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. Apart 9.___ from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some
people say: we certainly do create a great number of obscurity 10.___ when we omit them. This is illustrated not only in the poetry of
Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.
阅读理解 A
Part Ⅲ Reading 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 your answers on your Coloured Answer Sheet. TEXT A
Despite Denmark?s manifest virtues, Danes never talk about how proud they a re to be Danes. This would sound weird in Danish. When Danes talk to foreigners about Denmark, they always begin by commenting on its tininess, its unimportance , the difficulty of its language, the general small-mindedness and self-indulgen ce of their countrymen and the high taxes. No Dane would look you in the eye and say, “Denmark is a great country.” You?re supposed to figure this out for yo urself.
It is the land of the silk safety net, where almost half the national budg et goes toward smoothing out life?s inequalities, and there is plenty of money f or schools, day care, retraining programmes, job seminars-Danes love seminars: t hree days at a study centre hearing about waste management is almost as good as a ski trip. It is a culture bombarded by English, in advertising, pop music, the Internet, and despite all the English that Danish absorbs—there is no Danish Academy to defend against it —old dialects persist in Jutland that can barel y be understood by Copenhageners. It is the land where, as the saying goes,“ Fe w have too much and fewer have too little, ”and a foreigner is struck by the swe e t egalitarianism that prevails, where the lowliest clerk gives you a level gaze, where Sir and Madame have disappeared from common usage, even Mr. and Mrs. It? s a nation of recyclers—about 55 % of Danish garbage gets made into something new— and no nuclear power plants. It?s a nation of tireless planner. Trains run on time. Things operate well in general.
Such a nation of overachievers — a brochure from the Ministry of Busines s and Industry
