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篇1：英语专业八级考试试题原题

英语专业八级考试试题原题

PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)

SECTION A MINI-LECTUR

In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.

Writing a Research Paper

I. Research Papers and Ordinary Essay

A. Similarity in (1) __________:

e.g. —choosing a topic

—asking questions

—identifying the audience

B. Difference mainly in terms of (2) ___________

1. research papers: printed sources

2. ordinary essay: ideas in one''s (3) ___________

II. Types and Characteristics of Research Papers

A. Number of basic types: two

B. Characteristics:

1. survey-type paper:

—to gather (4) ___________

—to quote

—to (5) _____________

The writer should be (6) ___________.

2. argumentative (research) paper:

a. The writer should do more, e.g.

—to interpret

—to question, etc.

b. (7) _________varies with the topic, e.g.

—to recommend an action, etc.

III. How to Choose a Topic for a Research Paper

In choosing a topic, it is important to (8) __________.

Question No. 1: your familiarity with the topic

Question No. 2: Availability of relevant information on the chosen topic

Question No. 3: Narrowing the topic down to (9) _________

Question No. 4: Asking questions about (10) ___________

The questions help us to work out way into the topic and discover its possibilities.

SECTION B INTERVIEW

In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your coloured answer sheet.

Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen to the interview.

1. What is the purpose of Professor McKay''s report?

A. To look into the mental health of old people.

B. To explain why people have negative views on old age.

C. To help correct some false beliefs about old age.

D. To identify the various problems of old age

2. Which of the following is NOT Professor McKay''s view?

A. People change in old age a lot more than at the age of 21.

B. There are as many sick people in old age as in middle age.

C. We should not expect more physical illness among old people.

D. We should not expect to find old people unattractive as a group.

3. According to Professor McKay''s report,

A. family love is gradually disappearing.

B. it is hard to comment on family feeling.

C. more children are indifferent to their parents.

D. family love remains as strong as ever.

4. Professor McKay is ________ towards the tendency of more parents living apart from their children.

A. negative

B. positive

C. ambiguous

D. neutral

5. The only popular belief that Professor McKay is unable to provide evidence against is

A. old-age sickness.

B. loose family ties.

C. poor mental abilities.

D. difficulities in maths.

SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your coloured answer sheet.

Question 6 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.

6. Scientists in Brazil have used frog skin to

A. eliminate bacteria.

B. treat burns.

C. Speed up recovery.

D. reduce treatment cost.

Question 7 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.

7. What is NOT a feature of the new karaoke machine?

A. It is featured by high technology.

B. It allows you to imitate famous singers.

C. It can automatically alter the tempo and tone of a song.

D. It can be placed in specially designed theme rooms.

Question 8 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.

8. China''s Internet users had reached _________ by the end of June.

A. 68 million

B. 8.9 million

C. 10 million

D. 1.5 million

Question 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 s

econds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.

9. According to the WTO, Chinese exports rose _________ last year.

A. 21%

B. 10%

C. 22%

D. 4.73

10. According to the news, which trading nation in the top 10 has reported a 5 per cent fall in exports?

A. The UK.

B. The US.

C. Japan.

D. Germany.

PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)

TEXT A

I remember meeting him one evening with his pushcart. I had managed to sell all my papers and was coming home in the snow. It was that strange hour in downtown New York when the workers were pouring homeward in the twilight. I marched among thousands of tired men and women whom the factory whistles had unyoked. They flowed in rivers through the clothing factory districts, then down along the avenues to the East Side.

I met my father near Cooper Union. I recognized him, a hunched, frozen figure in an old overcoat standing by a banana cart. He looked so lonely, the tears came to my eyes. Then he saw me, and his face lit with his sad, beautiful smile -Charlie Chaplin''s smile.

“Arch, it''s Mikey,” he said. “So you have sold your papers! Come and eat a banana.”

He offered me one. I refused it. I felt it crucial that my father sell his bananas, not give them away. He thought I was shy, and coaxed and joked with me, and made me eat the banana. It smelled of wet straw and snow.

“You haven''t sold many bananas today, pop,” I said anxiously.

He shrugged his shoulders.

“What can I do? No one seems to want them.”

It was true. The work crowds pushed home morosely over the pavements. The rusty sky darkened over New York building, the tall street lamps were lit, innumerable trucks, street cars and elevated trains clattered by. Nobody and nothing in the great city stopped for my father''s bananas.

“I ought to yell,” said my father dolefully. “I ought to make a big noise like other peddlers, but it makes my throat sore. Anyway, I''m ashamed of yelling, it makes me feel like a fool. ”

I had eaten one of his bananas. My sick conscience told me that I ought to pay for it somehow. I must remain here and help my father.

“I''ll yell for you, pop,” I volunteered.

“Arch, no,” he said, “go home; you have worked enough today. Just tell momma I''ll be late.”

But I yelled and yelled. My father, standing by, spoke occasional words of praise, and said I was a wonderful yeller. Nobody else paid attention. The workers drifted past us wearily, endlessly; a defeated army wrapped in dreams of home. Elevated trains crashed; the Cooper Union clock burned above us; the sky grew black, the wind poured, the slush burned through our shoes. There were thousands of strange, silent figures pouring over the sidewalks in snow. None of them stopped to buy bananas. I yelled and yelled, nobody listened.

My father tried to stop me at last. “Nu,” he said smiling to console me, “that was wonderful yelling. Mikey. But it''s plain we are unlucky today! Let''s go home.”

I was frantic, and almost in tears. I insisted on keeping up my desperate yells. But at last my father persuaded me to leave with him.

11. “unyoked” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to

A. sent out

B. released

C. dispatched

D. removed

12. Which of the following in the first paragraph does NOT indicated crowds of people?

A.Thousands of

B. Flowed

C. Pouring

D. Unyoked

13. Which of the following is intended to be a pair of contrast in the passage?

A. Huge crowds and lonely individuals.

B. Weather conditions and street lamps.

C. Clattering trains and peddlers'' yells.

D. Moving crowds and street traffic.

14. Which of the following words is NOT suitable to describe the character of the son?

A. Compassionate

B. Responsible

C. Shy

D. Determined

15. What is the theme of the story?

A. The misery of the factory workers.

B. How to survive in a harsh environment.

C. Generation gap between the father and the son.

D. Love between the father and the son.

16. What is the author''s attitude towards the father and the son?

A. Indifferent

B. Sympathetic

C. Appreciative

D. Difficult to tell

TEXT B

提示：原文出自美国时代杂志（TIME）日期Jan. 29,

文章标题No Fall Insurance 作者AN K. SMITH, M.D.

When former President Ronald Reagan fell and broke his hip two weeks ago, he joined a group of more than 350,000 elderly Americans who fracture their hips each year. At 89 and suffering from advanced Alzheimer''s disease, Reagan is in one of the highest-risk groups for this type of accident. The incidence of hip fractures not only increases after age 50 but doubles every five to six years as the risk of falling increases. Slipping and tumbling arenot the only causes of hip fractures; weakened bones

sometimes break spontaneously. But falling is the major cause, representing 90% of all hip fractures. These... ...

17. The following are all specific measures to guard against injuries with the EXCEPTION of

A. removal of throw rugs.

B. easy access to devices

C. installation of grab bars

D. re-arrangement of furniture

18. In which paragraph does the author state his purpose of writing?

A. The third paragraph

B. The first paragraph

C. The last paragraph

D. The last but one paragraph

19. The main purpose of the passage is to

A. offer advice on how to prevent hip fractures

B. emphasize the importance of health precautions

C. discuss the seriousness of hip fractures.

D. identify the causes of hip fractures.

TEXT C

In his classic novel, “The Pioneers”, James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a land developer, take his cousin on a tour of the city he is building. He describes the broad streets, rows of houses, a teeming metropolis. But his cousin looks around bewildered. All she sees is a forest. “Where are the beauties and improvements which you were to show me?” she asks. He''s astonished she can''t see them. “Where! Everywhere,” he replies. For though they are not yet built on earth, he has built them in his mind, and they as concrete to him as if they were already constructed and finished.

Cooper was illustrating a distinctly American trait, future-mindedness: the ability to see the present from the vantage point of the future; the freedom to feel unencumbered by the past and more emotionally attached to things to come. As Albert Einstein once said, “Life for the American is always becoming, never being.”... ...

20. The third paragraph examines America''s future-mindedness from the _________ perspective.

A. future

B. realistic

C. historical

D. present

21. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT brought about by future-mindedness?

A. Economic stagnation

B. Environmental destruction

C. High divorce rates

D. Neglect of history

22. The word “pooh-pooh” in the sixth paragraph means

A. appreciate

B. praise

C. shun

D. ridicule

23. According to the passage, people at present can forecast ________ of a new round of future-mindedness.

A. the nature

B. the location

C. the variety

D. the features

24. The author predicts in the last paragraph that the study of future-mindedness will focus on

A. how it comes into being

B. how it functions

C. what it brings about

D. what it is related to.

TEXT D

25. The phrase “men''s sureness of their sex role” in the first paragraph suggests that they

A. are confident in their ability to charm women.

B. take the initiative in courtship.

C. have a clear idea of what is considered “manly”.

D. tend to be more immoral than women are.

26. The third paragraph does NOT claim that men

A. prevent women from taking up certain professions.

B. secretly admire women''s intellect and resolution.

C. doubt whether women really mean to succeed in business.

D. forbid women to join certain clubs and societies.

27. The third paragraph

A. generally agrees with the first paragraph

B. has no connection with the first paragraph

C. repeats the argument of the second paragraph

D. contradicts the last paragraph

28. At the end of the last paragraph the author uses humorous exaggeration in order to

A. show that men are stronger than women

B. carry further the ideas of the earliest paragraphs

C. support the first sentence of the same paragraph

D. disown the ideas he is expressing

29. The usual idea of the cave man in the last paragraph

A. is based on the study of archaeology

B. illustrates how people expect men to behave

C. is dismissed by the author as an irrelevant joke

D. proves that the man, not woman, should be the wooer

30. The opening quotation from Margaret Mead sums up a relationship between man and woman which the author

A. approves of

B. argues is natural

C. completely rejects

D. expects to go on changing

PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)

31. ______ is the capital city of Canada.

A. Vancouver

B. Ottawa √

C. Montreal

D. York

32. U.S. presidents normally serves a (an) _________term.

A. two-year

B. four-year √

C. six-year

D. eight-year

33. Which of the following cities is NOT located in the Northeast, U.S.?

A. Huston. √

B. Boston.

C. Baltimore.

D. Philadelphia.

34. ________ is the state church in England.

A. The Roman Catholic Church.

B. The Baptist Church

C. The

Protestant Church

D. The Church of England √

注：The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion.

35. The novel Emma is written by

A. Mary Shelley.

B. Charlotte Bront.

C. Elizabeth C. Gaskell.

D. Jane Austen. √

36. Which of following is NOT a romantic poet?

A. William Wordsworth.

B. George Elliot. √

C. George G. Byron.

D. Percy B. Shelley.

37. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous for

A. his poems.

B. his plays.

C. his short stories. √

D. his novels

注：O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910), He was famous for his short stories and a master of the surprise ending, O. Henry is remembered best for such enduring favorites as “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Ransom of Red Chief.” The combination of humor and sentiment found in his stories is the basis of their universal appeal.

38. Syntax is the study of

A. language functions.

B. sentence structures. √

C. textual organization.

D. word formation.

注：Definition of Syntax:

a. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences.

b. A publication, such as a book, that presents such rules.

c. The pattern of formation of sentences or phrases in a language.

d. Such a pattern in a particular sentence or discourse.

39. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language?

A. Arbitrariness. 任意性

B. Productivity. 丰富性

C. Cultural transmission. 文化传播性

D. Finiteness. 局限性？

注：design feature: features that define our human languages,such as arbitrariness,duality,creativity,displacement,cultural transmission,etc.

40. The speech act theory was first put forward by

A. John Searle.

B. John Austin. √

C. Noam Chomsky.

D. M.A.K. Halliday.

注：John Langshaw Austin (March 28, 1911 - February 8, 1960) was a philosopher of language, who developed much of the current theory of speech acts. He was born in Lancaster and educated at Balliol College, Oxford. After serving in MI6 during World War II, Austin became White''s Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford. He occupies a place in the British philosophy of language alongside Wittgenstein in staunchly advocating the examination of the way words are used in order to elucidate meaning.

PART V TRANSLATION （60 MIN）

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Translate the following text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.

部分译文：Accomplished men of all ages treat their lives very seriously. As long as they are living, they always labor, work, and study as hard as possible, unwilling to spend time in vain, let alone waste even a single moment of their lives.

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Translate the following underlined part of the text into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.

It is simple enough to say that since books have classes fiction, biography,poetry—we should separate them and take from each what it is right that each should give us. Yet few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconception when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. Do not dictate to your author; try to become him. Be his fellowworker and accomplice.If you hang back, and reserve and criticize at first, you are preventing yourself from getting the fullest possible value from what you read. But if you open your mind as widely as possible, then signs and hints of almost imperceptible finess, from the twist and turn of the first sentences, will bring you into the presence of a human being unlike any other. Steep yourself in this, acquaint yourself with this, and soon you will find that your author is giving you, or attempting to give you, something far more definite.

篇2：英语专业八级模拟试题

TEXT A

A magazines design is more than decoration, more than simple packaging. It expresses the magazines very character. The Atlantic Monthly has long attempted to provide a design environment in which two disparate traditions -- literary and journalistic -- can co-exist in pleasurable dignity. The redesign that we introduce with this issue -- the work of our art director, Judy Garlan -- represents, we think, a notable enhancement of that environment. Garlan explains some of what was in her mind as she began to create the new design:“ I saw this as an opportunity to bring the look closer to matching the elegance and power of the writing which the magazine is known for. The overall design has to be able to encompass a great diversity of styles and subjects -- urgent pieces of reporting, serious essays, lighter pieces, lifestyle-oriented pieces, short stories, poetry. We dont want lighter pieces to seem too heavy, and we dont want heavier pieces to seem too pretty.

We also use a broad range of art and photography, and the design has to work well with that, too. At the same time, the magazine needs to have a consistent feel, needs to underscore the sense that everything in it is part of one Atlantic world. The primary typefaces Garlan chose for this task are Times Roman, for a more readable body type, and Bauer Bodoni, for a more stylish and flexible display type (article titles, large initials, and so on). Other aspects of the new design are structural. The articles in the front of the magazine, which once flowed into one another, now stand on their own, to gain prominence. The Travel column, now featured in every issue, has been moved from the back to the front. As noted in this space last month, the word ”Monthly“ rejoins ”The Atlantic“ on the cover, after a decade-long absence. Judy Garlan came to the Atlantic in 1981 after having served as the art director of several other magazines.

During her tenure here the Atlantic has won more than 300 awards for visual excellence. from the Society of illustrators, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, and elsewhere. Garlan was in various ways assisted in the redesign by the entire art-department staff: Robin Gilmore, Barnes, Betsy Urrico, Gillian Kahn, and Lisa Manning. The artist Nicholas Gaetano contributed as well: he redrew our colophon (the figure of Neptune that appears on the contents page) and created the symbols that will appear regularly on this page (a rendition of our building), on the Puzzler page, above the opening of letters, and on the masthead. Gaetano, whose work manages to combine stylish clarity and breezy strength, is the cover artist for this issue.

11. Part of the new design is to be concerned with the following EXCEPT ______

A) variation in the typefaces.

B) reorganization of articles in the front.

C) creation of the travel column.

D) reinstatement of its former name.

12. According to the passage, the new design work involves ______

篇3：英语专业八级考试真题

A less visible but equally significant trend a affected pensions. To make costs easier to control, companies moved away from defined benefit pension plans, which obligate them to pay out specified amounts years in the future, to defined contribution plans, which specify only how much goes into the play today. The most common type of defined-contribution plan is the 401(k). the significance of

The 401(k) is that it puts most of the responsibility for a person’s economic fate back on the employee. Within limits the employee must decide how much goes into the plan each year and how it gets invested- the two factors that will determine how much it’s worth when the employee retires.

Which brings us back to Enron? Those billions of dollars in vaporized retirement savings went in employees’ 401(k) accounts. That is, the employees chose how much money to put into those accounts and then chose how to invest it. Enron matched a certain proportion of each employee’s 401(k) contribution with company stock, so everyone was going to end up with some Enron in his or her portfolio; but that could be regarded as a freebie, since nothing compels a company to match employee contributions at all.At least two special features complicate the Enron case. First, some shareholders charge top management with illegally covering up the company’s problems, prompting investors to hang on when they should have sold. Second, Enron’s 401(k) accounts were locked while the company changed plan administrators in October, when the stock was falling, so employees could not have closed their accounts if they wanted to.

But by far the largest cause of this human tragedy is that thousands of employees were heavily overweighed in Enron stock. Many had placed 100% of their 401(k) assets in the stock rather than in the 18 other investment options they were offered. Of course that wasn’t prudent, but it’s what some of them did.

The Enron employees’’ retirement disaster is part of the larger trend away from guaranteed economic security. That’s why preventing such a thing from ever happening again may be impossible. The huge attitudinal shift to I’ll-be-taken-care-of took at least a generation. The shift back may take just as long. It won’t be complete until a new generation of employees see assured economic comfort as a 20th- century quirk, and understand not just intellectually but in their bones that, like most people in most times and places, they’re on their own

26. why does the author say at the beginning “The miserable fate of Enron’s employees will be a landmark in business history…”?

A. Because the company has gone bankrupt.

B. Because such events would never happen again.

C. Because many Enron workers lost their retirement savings.

D. Because it signifies a turning point in economic security.√

27. According to the passage, the combined efforts by governments, layout unions and big corporations to guarantee economic comfort have led to a significant change in

A. people’s outlook on life.√

B. people’s life styles.

C. people’s living standard

D. people’s social values.

28. Changes in pension schemes were also part of

A. the corporate lay-offs.

B. the government cuts in welfare spending.√

C. the economic restructuring.

D. the warning power of labors unions.

29. Thousands of employees chose Enron as their sole investment option mainly because

A. The 401(k) made them responsible for their own future.

B. Enron offered to add company stock to their investment.√

C. their employers intended to cut back on pension spending.

D. Enron’s offer was similar to a defined-benefit plan.

30. Which is NOT seen as a lesson drawn from the Enron disaster?

A. 401(k) assets should be placed in more than one investment option.

B. Employees have to take up responsibilities for themselves.

C. Such events could happen again as it is not easy to change people’s mind.

D. Economic security won’t be taken for granted by future young workers.√

PART Ⅲ GENERAL KNOWLEDGE(10 MIN)

31. The majority of the current population in the UK are decedents of all the following tribes respectively EXCEPT

A. the Anglos

B. the Celts

C. the Jutes √

D. the Saxons

32. The Head of State of Canada is represented by

A. the Monarch

B. the President

C. the Prime Minister

D. the Governor-general √

33. The Declaration of Independence was written by

A. Thomas Jefferson √

B. George Washington

C. Alexander Hamilton

D. James Madison

34. The original inhabitants of Australia were

A. the Red Indians

B. the Eskimos

C. the Aborigines √

D. the Maoris

35. Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bronte?

A. Oliver Twist

B. Middlemarch

C. Jane Eyre

D. Wuthering Heights √

36. William Butler Yeats was a(n) ______ poet and playwright.

A. American

B. Canadian

C. Irish √

D. Australian

37. Death of a Salesman was written by

A. Arthur Miller √

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. Ralph Ellison

D. James Baldwin

38. _______ refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the rules of word formation.

A. Phonology

B. Morphology √

C. Semantics

D. Sociolinguistics

39. The distinctive features of a speech variety may be all the following EXCEPT

A. lexical

B. syntactic

C. phonological

D. psycholinguistic √

40. The word tail once referred to “the tail of a horse”, but now it is used to mean “the tail of any animal.” This is an example of

A. widening of meaning √

B. narrowing of meaning

C. meaning shift

D. loss of meaning

篇4：英语专业八级考试真题

Text B

Getting to the heart of Kuwaiti democracy seems hilariously easy. Armed only with a dog-eared NEWSWEEK ID, I ambled through the gates of the National Assembly last week. Unscanned, unsearched, my satchel could easily have held the odd grenade or an anthrax-stuffed lunchbox. The only person who stopped me was a guard who grinned and invited me to take a swig of orange juice from his plastic bottle.

Were I a Kuwaiti woman wielding a ballot, I would have been a clearer and more present danger. That very day Parliament blocked a bill giving women the vote; 29 M.P.s voted in favour and 29 against, with two abstentions. Unable to decide whether the bill had passed or not, the government scheduled another vote in two weeks- too late for women to register for June’s municipal elections. The next such elections aren’t until . Inside the elegant, marbled Parliament itself, a sea of mustachioed men in white robes sat in green seats, debating furiously. The ruling emir has pushed for women’s political rights for years. Ironically, the democratically elected legislature has thwarted him. Traditionalists and tribal leaders are opposed. Liberals fret, too, that Islamists will let their multiple wives vote, swelling conservative ranks. “When I came to Parliament today, people who voted yes didn’t even shake hands with me,” said one Shia clerc. “Why can’t we respect each other and work together?”

Why not indeed? By Gulf standards, Kuwait is a democratic superstar. Its citizens enjoy free speech (as long as they don’t insult their emir, naturally) and boast a Parliament that can actually pass laws. Unlike their Saudi sisters, Kuwaiti women drive, work and travel freely. They run multibillion-dollar businesses and serve as ambassadors. Their academic success is such that colleges have actually lowered the grades required for make students to get into medical and engineering courses. Even then, 70 percent of university students are females.

In Kuwait, the Western obsession with the higab finds its equivalent. At a fancy party for NEWSWEEK’s Arabic edition, some Kuwaiti women wore them. Others opted for tight, spangled, sheer little numbers in peacock blue or parrot orange. For the party’s entertainment, Nancy Ajram, the Arab world’s answer to Britney Spears, sang passionate songs of love in a white mini-dress. She couldn’t dance for us, alas, since shaking one’s body onstage is illegal in Kuwait. That didn’t stop whole tables of men from raising their camera-enabled mobile phones and clicking her picture. You’d think not being able to vote or dance in public would anger Kuwait’s younger generation of women. To find out, I headed to the malls-Kuwait’s archipelago of civic freedom. Eager to duck

Strict parents and the social taboos of dating in public. young Kuwaitis have taken to cafes, beaming flirtatious infrared e-mails to one another on their cell photos. At Starbucks in the glittering Al Sharq Mall, I found only tables of men, puffing cigarettes and grumbling about the service .At Pizza Hut, I thought I’d got an answer after encountering a young woman who looked every inch the modern suffragette―drainpipe jeans,strappy sliver high-heeled sandals and a higab studded with purple rhinestones. But, no, Miriam Al-Enizi, 20,studying business administration at Kuwait University, doesn’t think women need the vote.” Men are better at politics than women,”she explained, adding that women in Kuwait already have everything they need. Welcome to democracy, Kuwait style.

16. According to the passage, which of the following groups of people might be viewed as being dangerous by the guards?

A. Foreign tourists.

B. Women protestors.√

C. Foreign journalists.

D. Members of the National Assembly.

17. The bill giving women the vote did not manage to pass because

A. Different interest groups held different concerns.√

B.Liberals did not reach consensus among themselves.

C. Parliament was controlled by traditionalists.

D.Parliament members were all conservatives.

18. What is the role of the 4th and 5th paragraphs in the development of the topic?

A. To show how Kuwaiti women enjoy themselves.

B. To describe how women work and study in Kuwait.

C. To provide a contrast to the preceding paragraphs.√

D. To provide a contrast to the preceding paragraphs.

19. Which of the following is NOT true about young Kuwaiti women?

A. They seem to be quite contented.

B. They go in for Western fashions.

C. They desire more than modern necessities.√

D. They favour the use of hi-tech products.

Text C

Richard, King of England from 1189 to 1199, with all his characteristic virtues and faults cast in a heroic mould, is one of the most fascinating medieval figures. He has been described as the creature

and embodiment of the age of chivalry, In those days the lion was much admired in heraldry, and more than one king sought to link himself with its repute. When Richard's contemporaries called him” Coeur de Lion“(The Lion heart), they paid a lasting compliment to the king of beasts. Little did the English people owe him for his services, and heavily did they pay for his adventures. He was in England only twice for a few short months in his ten years' reign; yet his memory has always English hearts, and seems to present throughout the centuries the pattern of the fighting man. In all deeds of prowess as well as in large schemes of war Richard shone. He was tall and delicately shaped strong in nerve and sinew, and most dexterous in arms. He reioiced in personal combat, and regarded his opponents without malice as necessary agents in his fame He loved war, not so much for the sake of glory or political ends, but as other men love science or poetry, for the excitement of the struggle and the glow of victory. By this his whole temperament was toned; and united with the highest qualities of the military commander, love of war called forth all the powers of his mind and body.

Although a man of blood and violence, Richard was too impetuous to be either treacherous on habitually cruel. He was as ready to forgive as he was hasty to offend; he was open-handed and munificent to profusion; in war circumspect in design and skilful in execution; in political a child, lacking in subtlety and experience. His political alliances were formed upon his likes and dislikes; his political schemes had neither unity nor clearness of purpose. The advantages gained for him by military geoids were flung away through diplomatic ineptitude. When, on the jouthey to the East, Messina in Sicily was won by his arms he was easily persuaded to share with his polished, faithless ally, Philip Augustus, fruits of a victory which more wisely used might have foiled the French King's artful schemes. The rich and tenable acquisition of Cyprus was cast away even more easily than it was won. His life was one magnificent parade, which, when ended, left only an empty plain.

In 1199, when the difficulties of raising revenue for the endless war were at their height, good news was brought to King Richard. It was said there had been dug up near the castle of Chaluz, on the lands of one of his French vassals, a treasure of wonderful quality; a group of golden images of an emperor, his wife, sons and daughters, seated round a table, also of gold, had been unearthed. The King claimed this treasure as lord paramount. The lord of Chaluz resisted the demand, and the King laid siege to his small, weak castle. On the third day, as he rode daringly, near the wall. confident in his hard-tried luck, a bolt from a crossbow struck him in the left shoulder by the neck. The wound, already deep, was aggravated by the necessary cutting out of the arrow-head. Gangrene set in, and Coeur de Lion knew that he must pay a soldier’s debt. He prepared for death with fortitude and calm, and in accordance with the principles he had followed. He arranged his affairs, he divided his personal belongings among his friends or bequeathed them to charity. He declared John to be his heir, and made all present swear fealty to him. He ordered the archer who had shot the fatal bolt, and who was now a prisoner, to be brought before him. He pardoned him, and made him a gift of money. For seven years he had not confessed for fear of being compelled to be reconiled to Philip, but now he received the offices of the Church with sincere and exemplary piety, and died in the forty-second year of his age on April 6, 1199, worthy, by the consent of all men, to sit with King Arthur and Roland andother heroes of martial romance at some Eternal round Table, which we trust the Creator of the Universe in His comprehension will not have forgotten to provide.

The archer was flayed alive.

20 “ little did the English people own him for his service” (paragraph one) means that the English

A. paid few taxes to him.

B. gave him little respect.

C. received little protection from him.

D. had no real cause to feel grateful to him.√

21. To say that his wife was a “ magnificent parade’( paragraph Two) implies that it was to some extent.

A . spent chiefly at war.

B. impressive and admirable.

C. lived too pompously

D. an empty show.√

22. Richard’s behaviour as death approached showed.\\

A. bravery and self-control.

B. Wisdom and correctness

C. Devotion and romance

D. Chivalry and charity√

23. The point of the last short paragraph is that Richard was

A. cheated by his own successors

B. determined to take revenge on his enemies.

C. more generous to his enemies than his seccesors.

D unable to influence the behavior of his successors.√

24. Which of the following phrase best describes Richard as seen by the author?

A. An aggressive king, too fond of war.

B. A brave king with minor faults.√

C. A competent but cunning soldier.

D. A kind with great political skills.

25. The relationship between the first and second paragraphs is that

A. each presents one side of the picture. √

B. the first generalizes the second gives examples.

C. the second is the logical result of the first.

D. both present Richard’s virtues and faults.

TEXT D

The miserable fate of Enron’s employees will be a landmark in business history, one of those awful events that everyone agrees must never be allowed to happen again. This urge is understandable and noble: thousands have lost virtually all their retirement savings with the demise of Enron stock. But making sure it never happens again may not be possible, because the sudden impoverishment of those Enron workers represents something even larger than it seems. It’s the latest turn in the unwinding of one of the most audacious promise of the 20th century.

? The promise was assured economic security-even comfort- for essentially everyone in the developed world. With the explosion of wealth, that began in the 19th century it became possible to think about a possibility no one had dared to dream before. The fear at the center of daily living since caveman days- lack of food warmth, shelter- would at last lose its power to terrify. That remarkable promise became reality in many ways. Governments created welfare systems for anyone in need and separate programmes for the elderly (Social Security in the U.S.). Labour unions promised not only better pay for workers but also pensions for retirees. Giant corporations came into being and offered the possibility- in some cases the promise- of lifetime employment plus guaranteed pensions.? The cumulative effect was a fundamental change in how millions of people approached life itself, a reversal of attitude that most rank as one of the largest in human history. For millennia the average person’s stance toward providing for himself had been. Ultimately I’m on my own. Now it became, Ultimately I’ll be taken care of.

The early hints that this promise might be broken on a large scale came in the 1980s. U.S. business had become uncompetitive globally and began restructuring massively, with huge Layoffs. The trend accelerated in the 1990s as the bastions of corporate welfare faced reality. IBM ended it’s no-layoff policy. AT&T fired thousands, many of whom found such a thing simply incomprehensible, and a few of whom killed themselves. The other supposed guarantors of our economic security were also in decline. Labour-union membership and power fell to their lowest levels in decades. President Clinton signed a historic bill scaling back welfare. Americans realized that Social Security won’t provide social security for any of us.

篇5：英语专业八级考试真题

英译中

Good bye and good luck Scientific and technological advances are enabling us to comprehend the furthest reaches of the cosmos, the most basic constituents of matter, and the miracle of life.

At the same time, today, the actions, and inaction, of human beings imperil not only life on the planet, but the very life of the planet.

Globalization is making the world smaller, faster and richer. Still, 9/11, avian flu, and Iran remind us that a smaller, fatster world is not necessarily a safer world.

Our world is bursting with knowledge - but desperately in need of wisdom. Now, when sound bites are getting shorter, when instant messages crowd out essays, and when individual lives grow more frenzied, college graduates capable of deep reflection are what our world needs.

For all these reasons I believed - and I believe even more strongly today - in the unique and irreplaceable mission of universities.

科技进步正在使我们能够探索宇宙的边陲、物质最基本的成分及生命的奇迹.与此同时，今天，人类所做的及没能做到的事情，不仅危害到这个星球上的生命，也危害到该星球的寿命。

全球化正在使地球变得愈来愈小、愈来愈快和愈来愈富有。尽管如此，9/11、禽流感及伊朗提醒我们，更小更快的世界决不意味着其更安全。

我们正处于一个知识爆炸的世界之中，不过，迫切需要智慧。现在，在(新闻采访的)原声摘要播出变得愈来愈短，即时信息淘汰了杂记文，个人生活变得如痴如狂之际，这个世界还是需要能够深思的大学生。

考虑到这些理由，我过去信仰，而今天甚至更加强烈地信仰大学独特的、无可取代的使命。

改错题：

From what has been said, it must be clear that no one can

make very positive statements about how language originated.

There is no material in any language today and in the earliest (1) and→or

records of ancient languages show us language in a new and ? (2) show→showing?

emerging state. It is often said, of course, that the language ? (3) the

originated in cries of anger, fear, pain and pleasure, and the (4) and→but?

necessary evidence is entirely lacking: there are no remote

tribes, no ancient records, providing evidence of

a language with a large proportion of such cries ? (5) large→lager?

than we find in Engli**. ** is true that the absence

of such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in ? (6) in→on?

other grounds too the theory is not very attractive.

People of all races and languages make rather similar

noises in return to pain or pleasure. The fact that (7) return→response?

such noises are similar on the lips of Frenchmen

and Malaysians whose languages are utterly different,

serves to emphasize on the fundamental difference (8)on

between these noises and language proper. We may

say that the cries of pain or chortles of amusement

are largely reflex actions, instinctive to∧large extent, (9) ∧a?

whereas language proper does not consist of signs

but of these that have to be learnt and that are ? (10) these→those?

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Translate the underlined part of the following text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.

暮色中，河湾里落满云霞，与天际的颜色混合一起，分不清哪是流云哪是水湾。

也就在这一幅绚烂的图画旁边，在河湾之畔，一群羊正在低头觅食。它们几乎没有一个顾得上抬起头来，看一眼这美丽的黄昏。也许它们要抓紧时间，在即将回家的最后一刻再次咀嚼。这是黄河滩上的一幕。牧羊人不见了，他不知在何处歇息。只有这些美生灵自由自在地享受着这个黄昏。这儿水草肥美，让它们长得肥滚滚的，像些胖娃娃。如果走近了，会发现它们那可爱的神情，洁白的牙齿，那丰富而单纯的表情。如果稍稍长久一点端详这张张面庞，还会生出无限的怜悯。

参考译文：Beside this picture with profusions of colors, a group of sheep are lowing their heads, eating by the river bank. Hardly none of them would spare some time to raise their eyes to have a glance at the beautiful dusk. They are, perhaps, taking use of every minute to enjoy their last chew before being driven home. This is a picture of the Yellow River bank, in which the shepherd disappears, and no one knows where he is resting himself. Only the sheep, however, as free creatures, are joyfully appreciating the dusk. The exuberant water plants have nutrited the sheep, making them grow as fat as balls. When approaching near, you would find their lily-white teeth and a variety of innocent facial impressions.

篇6：英语专业八级考试真题(语法部分)

03年英语专业八级考试真题(语法部分)

PART II PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN)

The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved You should proof, read the passage and correct it in the following way: For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank pro-vided 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 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, it never buys things in finished form and hangs them on the wall. When a natural history museum wants an exhibition, it must often build it.

Demographic indicators show that Americans in the postwar period were more eager than ever to establish families. They quickly brought down the age at marriage for both men and women and brought the birth rate to a twentieth century height after more than a hundred (1)__ years of a steady decline, producing the “baby boom.”

These young (2)__ adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively large families that Went for more than two decades and caused a major (3)__ but temporary reversal of long-term demographic patterns.

From the 1940S through the early 1960s, Americans married at a high rate (4)__ and at a younger age than their Europe counterparts.(5)__ Less noted but equally more significant, the men and women on who (6)__ formed families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced the (7)__ divorce rate after a postwar peak; their marriages remained intact to a greater extent than did that of couples who married in earlier as well (8)__ as later decades.

Since the United States maintained its dubious (9)__ distinction of having the hig

篇7：英语专业八级考试真题(阅读部分)

03年英语专业八级考试真题(阅读部分)

It came as something of a surprise when Diana, Princess of Wales, made a trip co Angola in , to support the Red Cross’s campaign for a total ban on all anti-personnel landmines. Within hours of arriv!ng in Angola, television screens around the world were filled with images of her comforting victims injured in explosions caused by landmines. ”I knew the statistics,“ she said. ”But putting a face to those figures brought the reality home to me; like when I met Sandra, a 13- year-old girl who had lost her leg, and people like her.“

The Princess concluded with a simple message: ”We must stop landmines“. And she used every opportunity during her visit to repeat this message. But, back in London, her views were not’ shared by some members of the British government, which refused to support a ban on these weapons. Angry politicians launched an attack On the Princess in the press. They described her as ”very ill-informed“ and a ”loose cannon (乱放跑的人) The Princess responded by brushing aside the Criticisms: “This is a distraction ( 干扰) we do not need. All I’m trying to do is help.” Opposition parties, the media and the public immediately voiced their Support for the Princess. To make matters worse for the government, it soon emerged that the Princess’s trip had been approved by the Foreign Office, and that she was in fact very well-inf0rmed about both the situa-tion in Angola and the British government’s policy regarding landmines.

The result was a severe embarrassment for the government. To try and limit the damage, the Foreign Secretary, Malcolm Rifkidnd, claimed that the Princess’s views on landmines were not very different from government policy, and that it was “working towards” a worldwide ban. The Defence Secretary, Michael Portillo, claimed the matter was “a misinterpretation or misunderstanding.” - For the Princess, the trip to this war-torn countrywas an excellent opportunity to use her popularity to show the world how much

篇8：英语专业八级考试真题(翻译部分)

03年英语专业八级考试真题(翻译部分)

PART IV TRANSLATION (60 MIN)

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Translate the following text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.

得病以前，我受父母宠爱，在家中横行霸道，一旦隔离，拘禁在花园山坡上一幢小房子里，我顿觉打入冷宫，十分郁郁不得志起来。一个春天的傍晚，园中百花怒放，父母在园中设宴，一时宾客云集，笑语四溢。我在山坡的`小屋里，悄悄掀起窗帘，窥见园中大千世界，一片繁华，自己的哥姐，堂表弟兄，也穿插其间，个个喜气洋洋。一霎时，一阵被人摈弃，为世所遗的悲愤兜上心头，禁不住痛哭起来。

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Translate the following text into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.

In his classic novel, “The Pioneers”, James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a land developer, take his cousin on a tour of the city he is building. He describes the broad streets, rows of houses, a teeming metropolis. But his cousin looks around bewildered. All she sees is a forest. “Where are the beauties and improvements which you were to show me?” she asks. He’s astonished she can’t see them. “Where! Why everywhere,” he replies. For thought they are not yet built on earth, he has built them in his mind, and they are as concrete to him as if they were already constructed and finished.

篇9：英语专业八级考试真题(写作部分)

03年英语专业八级考试真题(写作部分)

PART V WRITING (60 MIN)

An English newspaper is currently running a discussion on whether young people in China today are (not) more self-centered and unsympathetic than were previous generations. And the paper is inviting contributions from university students. You have been asked to write a short article for the newspaper to air your views.

Your article should be about 300 words in length. In the first part of your article you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary. You should supply a title for your article.

Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Failure to following the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.

篇10：英语专业八级模拟试题练习例题

In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of fifteen multiple-choice questions. Read the passages carefully and then write your answers on the space given.

1. Part of the new design is to be concerned with the following EXCEPT ______

A) variation in the typefaces.

B) reorganization of articles in the front.

C) creation of the travel column.

D) reinstatement of its former name.

2. According to the passage, the new design work involves ______

A) other artists as well.

B) other writers as well.

C) only the cover artist.

D) only the art director.

3. This article aims to ______

A) emphasize the importance of a magazine’s design.

B) introduce the magazine’s art director.

C) persuade the reader to subscribe to the magazine.

D) inform the reader of its new design and features.

篇11：英语专业八级的改错练习试题

英语专业八级的改错练习试题

Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved, what he may do, It is __1__ improbable that he will ever again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in turn. In addition, __2__ life is always presenting new things to the child—things that have lost their interesting for older people because __3__ they are too well-known. A child finds pleasure in playing in the rain, or in the snow.His first visit to the seaside is a marvelous adventure. But a child has his pains:He is not so free to do as he wishes as he thinks old people do; he is continually being told not to do things, __4__ or being punished for that he has done wrong. __5__ His life is therefore not longer perfectly happy. __6__ When the young man starts to earn his own living, he becomes free from the discipline of school and parents;but at the same time he is forced to accept responsibilities.

He can not longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live comfortable. If he spends most of his time playing about in __7__ the way that he used to as a child, he will suffer hungry. __8__ And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, therefore, __9__ he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health,he can have the great happiness of seeing himself making __10__ steady progress in his job and of building up for himself his own position in society.

答案：

1.what改为whatever。whatever引导让步状语从句，相当于no matter what，意思是“无论什么”，“不管什么”，whatever在从句中作宾语。

2.turn改为return。短语in turn表示“轮流地; 挨个, 依次; 反过来”，而在这里是指孩子对父母的回报。

3.interesting改为interest。在形容词性物主代词their的.后面应跟名词性成分。

4.第一个do改为 are。与前面的is相对应。

5.that改为what。that引导的是定语从句，在本句中应该使用关系代词what，相当于the thing/ things that。

6.not改为no。固定搭配的副词短语“no longer”

7.comfortable改为comfortably。修饰动词live应为副词而不是形容词。

8.suffer改为go或become或be。或把hungry改为hunger。

9.therefore改为however。此处的条件状语从句表示转折。

10.making 改为 make。

篇12：在线练习：英语专业八级模拟试题

在线练习：英语专业八级模拟试题

TEXT F

First read the question. 27. The message of the passage is that shares can now be sold ______ A. through the computer. B. in the shop. C. at the bank. D. through the mail. Now, go through the text quickly and answer the question. Investors seeking a cheap, no-frills way to sell privatisation shares need look no further than the post box.

Most stockbrokers offer bargain-basement deals on postal trades. They are ideal for selling a small holding for the lowest possible commission. But the arrangements leave investors at the mercy of the Royal Mail and a seller will not know in advance how much a sale will produce. Data processing engineer Mark Stanistreet of Bradford sold by post after buying a few National Power and PowerGen shares when they were privatised. He says: ”I didnt really know where to go to for help.

An information slip with the shares gave details of Yorkshire Building Societys share shop service, which offered to sell for a flat fee of ?. “It was an ideal first step that showed me how easy and cheap it is to sell shares. I have been investing in a small way since then. ”I use Yorkshires telephone service, which has a ? minimum fee.\" Many stock brokers offer postal deals as part of their usual dealing services, but clients may normally sell only big company or privatisation shares this way. ShareLinks minimum postal commission is 7.50, Skipton Building Societys is 9 and Nat Wests is 9.95.

27. The message of the passage is that shares can now be sold ______

A) through the computer.

B) in the shop.

C) at the bank.

D) through the mail.