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2008英语专业八级考试全真试题附答案
【听力理解】

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS(2008)

—GRADE EIGHT—

TIME LIMIT: 195MIN

PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (35 MIN)

SECTION A MINI -LECTURE

In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While
listening, take notes on the important points. You notes will not be market, but you will need them
to complete a gap- filling task for 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- tanking.
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 colored 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. Mary doesn't seem to favour the idea of a new airport because

A. the existing airports are to be wasted

B. more people will be encouraged to travel.

C. more oil will be consumed.

D. more airplanes will be purchased.

2. Which of the following is NOT mentioned by Mary as a potential disadvantage?

A. More people in the area. B. Noise and motorways.
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C. Waste of land. D. Unnecessary travel.

3. Freddy has cited the following advantages for a new airport EXCEPT

A. more job opportunities. B. vitality to the local economy.

C. road construction, D. presence of aircrew in the area.

4. Mary thinks that people dont need to do much travel nowadays as a result of

A. less emphasis on personal contact.

B. advances in modern telecommunications.

C. recent changes in peoples concepts.

D. more potential damage to the area

5. We learn from the conversation that Freddy is Marys ideas,

A. strongly in favour of B. mildly in favour of

C. strongly against D. mildly against
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. What is the main idea of the news item?

A. A new government was formed after Sundays elections.

B. The new government intends to change the welfare system.

C. The Social Democratic Party founded the welfare system.

D. The Social Democratic Party was responsible for high unemployment.

Questions 7 and 8 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be
given 20 seconds to answer the listen to the news.
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7. The tapes of the Apollo-11 mission were first stored in

A. a U.S. government archives warehouse.

B. a NASA ground tracking station.

C. the Goddard Space Flight Centre.

D. none of the above places.

8. What does the news item say about Richard Nafzger?

A. He is assigned the task to look for the tapes.

B. He believes that the tapes are probably lost.

C. He works in a NASA ground receiving site.

D. He had asked for the tapes in the 1970s.

Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be
given 20 seconds to answer the listen to the news.

9. The example in the news item is cited mainly to show

A. that doctors are sometimes professionally incompetent

B. that in cases like that hospitals have to pay huge compensations.

C. that language barriers might lower the quality of treatment.

D. that language barriers can result in fatal consequences.

10. According to Dr. Flores, hospitals and clinics

A. have seen the need for hiring trained interpreters.

B. have realized the problems of language barriers.

C. have begun training their staff to be bilinguals.

D. have taken steps to provide accurate diagnosis.
【阅读理解】
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PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)

In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice
questions. Read the passages and then mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet

TEXT A

At the age of 16, Lee Hyuk Joons life is a living hell. The South Korean 10th grader gets up
at 6 in the morning to go to school, and studies most of the day until returning home at 6 p.m.
After dinner, its time to hit the books again—at one of Seouls many so-called cram schools. Lee
gets back home at 1 in the morning, sleeps less than five hours, then repeats the routine—five days
a week. Its a grueling schedule, but Lee worries that it may not be good enough to get him into a
top university. Some of his classmates study even harder.

South Koreas education system has long been highly competitive. But for Lee and the other
700,000 high-school sophomores in the country, high-school studies have gotten even more
intense. Thats because South Korea has conceived a new college-entrance system, which will be
implemented in 2008. This years 10th graders will be the first group evaluated by the new
admissions standard, which places more emphasis on grades in the three years of high school and
less on nationwide SAT-style and other selection tests, which have traditionally determined which
students go to the elite colleges.

The change was made mostly to reduce what the government says is a growing education gap
in the country: wealthy students go to the best colleges and get the best jobs, keeping the children
of poorer families on the social margins. The aim is to reduce the importance of costly tutors and
cram schools, partly to help students enjoy a more normal high- school life. But the new system
has had the opposite effect. Before, students didnt worry too much about their grade-point
averages; the big challenge was beating he standardized tests as high-school seniors. Now students
are competing against one another over a three-year period, and every midterm and final test is
crucial. Fretful parents are relying even more heavily on tutors and cram schools to help their
children succeed.

Parents and kids have sent thousands of angry online letters to the Education Ministry
complaining that the new admissions standard is setting students against each other. can
succeed only when others fail,” as one parent said.

Education experts say that South Koreas public secondary- school system is foundering, while
private education is thriving. According to critics, the countrys high schools are almost uniformly
mediocre—the result of an egalitarian government education policy. With the number of elite
schools strictly controlled by the government, even the brightest students typically have to settle
for ordinary schools in their neighbourhoods, where the curriculum is centred on average students.
To make up for the mediocrity, zealous parents send their kids to the expensive cram schools.
Students in affluent southern Seoul neighbourhoods complain that the new system will hurt them
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the most.

Nearly all Korean high schools will be weighted equally in the college-entrance process, and
relatively weak students in provincial schools, who may not score well on standardized tests, often
compile good grade-point averages.

Some universities, particularly prestigious ones, openly complain that they cannot select the
best students under the new system because it eliminates differences among high schools. Theyve
asked for more discretion in picking students by giving more weight to such screening tools as
essay writing or interviews.

President Roh Moo Hyun doesnt like how some colleges are trying to circumvent the new
system. He recently criticized
than faying to good studentsBut amid the crossfire between the government and
universities, the countrys 10th graders are feeling the stress. On online protest sites, some are
calling themselves a “cursed generation” and “mice in a lab experiment”. It all seems a touch
melodramatic, but thats the South Korean school system.

11. According to the passage, the new college-entrance system is designed to

A. require students to sit for more college-entrance tests.

B. reduce the weight of college-entrance tests.

C. select students on their high school grades only.

D. reduce the number of prospective college applicants.

12. What seems to be the effect of introducing the new system?

A. The system has given equal opportunities to students.

B. The system has reduced the number of cram schools.

C. The system has intensified competition among schools.

D. The system has increased students study load.

13. According to critics, the popularity of private education is mainly the result of

A. the governments egalitarian policy. B. insufficient number of schools:

C. curriculums of average quality. D. low cost of private education.

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14. According to the passage, there seems to be disagreement over the adoption of the new system
between the following groups EXCEPT

A. between universities and the government.

B. between school experts and the government.

C. between parents and schools.

D. between parents and the government.

15. Which of the following adjectives best describes the authors treatment of the topic?

A. Objective. B. Positive. C. Negative. D. Biased.
TEXT B

Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones was a teenager before he saw his first cow in his first field. Born in
Jamaica, the 47-year-old grew up in inner-city Birmingham before making a career as a television
producer and launching his own marketing agency. But deep down he always nurtured every true
Englishmans dream of a rustic life, a dream that his entrepreneurial wealth has allowed him to
satisfy. These days hes the owner of a thriving 12-hectare farm in deepest Devon with cattle, sheep
and pigs. His latest business venture: pushing his brand of Black Fanner gourmet sausages and
barbecue sauces. “My background may be very urban,” says Emmanuel-Jones.

“But it has given me a good idea of what other urbanites want.”

And of how to sell it. Emmanuel-Jones joins a herd of wealthy fugitives from city life who
are bringing a new commercial know-how to British farming. Britains burgeoning farmers
markets -numbers have doubled to at least 500 in the last five years—swarm with specialty
cheesemakers, beekeepers or organic smallholders who are redeploying the business skills they
learned in the city.

come to terms with the fact that things have Emmanuel-Jones. can
produce the best food in the world, but if you dont know how to market it, you are wasting your
time. We are helping the traditionalists to move on.

The emergence of the new class of superpeasants reflects some old yearnings. If the British
were the first nation to industrialize, they were also the first to head back to the land.
romantic image of the countryside that is particularly English,says Alun Howkins of the
University of Sussex, who reckons the population of rural England has been rising since 1911.
Migration into rural areas is now running at about 100,000

a year, and the hunger for a taste of the rural life has kept land prices buoyant even as
agricultural incomes tumble. About 40 percent of all farmland is now sold to
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rather than the dwindling number of traditional farmers, according to the Royal Institution of
Chartered Surveyors.

Whats new about the latest returnees is their affluence and zeal for the business of producing
quality foods, if only at a micro-level. A healthy economy and surging London house prices have
helped to ease the escape of the would-be rustics. The media recognize and feed the fantasy. One
of the big TV hits of recent years, the

Cottageseries, chronicled the attempts of a London chef to run his own Dorset farm.
Naturally, the newcomers cant hope to match their City salaries, but many are happy to trade any
loss of income for the extra job satisfaction. Who cares if theres no six-figure annual bonus when
the land offers other incalculable compensations?

Besides, the specialist producers can at least depend on a burgeoning market for their
products. Todays eco-aware generation loves to seek out authentic ingredients. like me
may be making a difference in a small way,Jan McCourt, a onetime investment banker now
running his own 40-hectare spread in the English Midlands stocked with rare sts see
signs of far-reaching change: Britain isnt catching up with mainland Europe; its leading the way.
“Unlike most other countries, where artisanal food production is being eroded, here it is being
recovered,
that we rediscover the desirability of being a peasant.” And not an investment banker.

16. Which of the following details of Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones is INCORRECT?

A. He was born and brought up in Birmingham.

B. He used to work in the television industry.

C. He is wealthy, adventurous and aspiring.

D. He is now selling his own quality foods.

17. Most importantly, people like Wilfred have brought to traditional British farming

A. knowledge of farming.

B. knowledge of brand names.

C. knowledge of lifestyle.

D. knowledge of marketing,

18. Which of the following does NOT contribute to the emergence of a new class of farmers?

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