controller2020年专业英语八级考试试题

2021年1月10日发(作者：车梁)

2020年专业英语八级考试试题


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
answer to each question on your coloured answer sheet

section a talk
questions i 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.

1. which of the following statements about offices is not true
according to the t
alk?
a. offices throughout the world are basically alike.
b. there are primarily two kinds of office layout.
c. office surroundings used to depend on company size.
d. office atmosphere influences workers’ performance.

2. we can infer from the talk that harmonious work relations may
have a direct impact on your
a. promotion.
b. colleagues.
c. management.
d. union.

3. supposing you were working in a small firm, which of the
following would you do when you had some grievances?
a. request a formal special meeting with the boss.
b. draft a formal agenda for a special meeting.
c. contact a consultative committee first.
d. ask to see the boss for a talk immediately.

4. according to the talk, the union plays the following roles except
a. mediation.
b. arbitration.
c. negotiation.
d. representation.

5. which topic is not covered in the talk?
a. role of the union.
b. work relations.
c. company structure.
d. office layout.

section b interview

questions 6 to 10 are based on an interview. at the end of the
interview you will be given 15seconds to answer each of the following
five questions.

now listen to the interview.

6. which of the following statements is incorrect about david’s
personal background?
a. he had excellent academic records at school and university.
b. he was once on a phd programme at yale university.
c. he received professional training in acting.
d. he came from a single-parent family.
7. david is inclined to believe in
a. aliens.
b. ufos.
c. the tv character.
d. government conspiracies.

8. david thinks he is fit for the tv role because of his
a. professional training.
b. personality.
c. life experience.
d. appearance.

9. from the interview, we know that at present david feels
a. a sense of frustration.
b. haunted by the unknown things
c. confident but moody.
d. successful yet unsatisfied.

10. how does david feel about the divorce of his parents?
a. he feels a sense of anger.
b. he has a sense of sadness.
c. it helped him grow up.
d. it left no effect on him.

section c news broadcast

question 11 is based on the following news. at the end of the news
item, you will be given 15seconds to answer the question.

now listen to the news.

11. what is the main idea of the news item?
a. us concern over th6 forthcoming peace talks.
b. peace efforts by the palestinian authority.
c. recommendations by the mitchell commission.
d. bomb attacks aimed at israeli civilians.

question 12 is based on the following news. at the end of the news
item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the question.

now listen to the news.

12. some voters will waste their ballots because
a. they like neither candidate.
b. they are all ill-informed.
c. the candidates do not differ much.
d. they do not want to vote twice.

questions 13 to 15 are based on the following news. at the end of the
news item, you will be given15 seconds to answer each of the questions.

now listen to the news.

13. according to the un human development report, which is the
best place for women in the world?
a. canada.
b. the us.
c. australia.
d. scandinavia.

14. _______ is in the 12th place in overall ranking.
a. britain
b. france
c. finland
d. switzerland

15. according to the un report, the least developed country is
a. ethiopia.
b. mali.
c. sierra leon.
d. central african republic.

section d note-taking and gap-filling

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 15-minute
gap-filling task on answer sheet one after the mini-lecture. use the blank
sheet for note-taking.

part ii proofreading & error correction (15 min)
proofread the given passage on answer sheet two as instructed.

part iii reading comprehensios (40min)

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
hostility to gypsies has existed almost from the time they first
appeared in europ
e in the 14th century. the origins of the gypsies, with little written history,
were shrouded in mystery. what is known now from clues in the various
dialects of their language, romany, is that they came from northern india
to the middle east a thousand years ago, working as minstrels and
mercenaries, metal-smiths and servants. europeans misnamed them
egyptians, soon shortened to gypsies. a clan system, based mostly on
their traditional crafts and geography, has made them a deeply
fragmented and fractious people, only really unifying in the face of
enmity from non-gypsies, whom they call gadje. today many gypsy
activists prefer to be called roma, which comes from the romany word
for “man”. but on my travels among them most still referred to
themselves as gypsies.
in europe their persecution by the gadje began quickly, with the
church seeing heresy in their fortune-telling and the state seeing
anti-social behaviour in their nomadism. at various times they have been
forbidden to wear their distinctive bright clothes, to speak their own
language, to travel, to marry one another, or to ply their traditional crafts.
in some countries they were reduced to slavery it wasn’t until the
mid-1800s that gypsy slaves were freed in romania. in more recent times
the gypsies were caught up in nazi ethnic hysteria, and perhaps half a
million perished in the holocaust. their horses have been shot and the
wheels removed from their wagons, their names have been changed,
their women have been sterilized, and their children have been forcibly
given for adoption to non-gypsy families.
but the gypsies have confounded predictions of their disappearance
as a distinct ethnic group and their numbers have burgeoned. today
there are an estimated 8 to 12 million gypsies scattered across europe,
making them the continent’s largest minority. the exact number is hard
to pin down. gypsies have regularly been undercounted, both by regimes
anxious to downplay their profile and by gypsies themselves, seeking to
avoid bureaucracies. attempting to remedy past inequities, activist
groups may overcount. hundreds of thousands more have emigrated to
the americas and elsewhere. with very few exceptions gypsies have
expressed no great desire for a country to call their own -unlike the jews,
to whom the gypsy experience is often compared. “romanestan” said
ronald lee, the canadian gypsy writer,
16. gypsies are united only when they
a are engaged in traditional crafts.
b. call themselves roma.
c. live under a clan system.
d. face external threats.

17. in history hostility to gypsies in europe resulted in their
persecution by all the following
except
a. the egyptians.
b the state.
c. the church.
d. the nazis.

18. according to the passage, the main difference between the gypsies
and the jews lies in their concepts of
a． language.
b. culture.
c. identity.
d. custom.

text ｂ

i was just a boy when my father brought me to harlem for the first
time, almost 50 years ago. we stayed at the hotel theresa, a grand brick
structure at 125th street and seventh avenue. once, in the hotel
restaurant, my father pointed out joe louis. he even got mr. brown, the
hotel manager, to introduce me to him, a bit paunchy but still the champ
as far as i was concerned.
much has changed since then. business and real estate are booming.
some say a new renaissance is under way. others decry what they see as
outside forces running roughshod over the old harlem.
new york meant harlem to me, and as a young man i visited it
whenever i could. but many of my old haunts are gone. the theresa shut
down in 1966. national chains that once ignored harlem now anticipate
yuppie money and want pieces of this prime manhattan real estate. so
here i am on a hot august afternoon, sitting in a starbucks that two years
ago opened a block away from the theresa, snatching at memories
between sips of high- priced coffee. i am about to open up a piece of the
old harlem- the new york amsterdam news—when a tourist asking
directions to sylvia’s, a prominent harlem restaurant, penetrates my
daydreaming. he’s carrying a book: touring historic harlem.
history. i miss mr. michaux’s bookstore, his house of common sense,
which was across from the theresa. he had a big billboard out front with
brown and black faces painted on it that said in large letters:
history book outlet on 2,000,000,000 africans and nonwhite peoples.
ugly state office building has swallowed that space.
i miss speaker like carlos cooks, who was always on the southwest
comer of 125th and seventh, urging listeners to support africa. harlem’s