president2004年英语专业八级考试真题听力

2021年1月10日发(作者：汤思退)
2004年英语专业八级考试真题听力

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 colored 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 75 seconds
to answer the questions. Now listen to the talk.

1. The parallel between waltzing and language use lies in ____.
A. the coordination based on individual actions
B. the number of individual participants
C. the necessity of individual actions
D. the requirements for participants

2. In the talk the speaker thinks that language use is a(n) ____ process.
A. individual
B. combined
C. distinct
D. social

3. The main difference between personal and non-personal settings is in ____.
A. the manner of language use
B. the topic and content of speech
C. the interactions between speaker and audience
D. the relationship between speaker and audience

4. In fictional settings, speakers ____.
A. hide their real intentions
B. voice others' intentions
C. play double roles on and off stage
D. only imitate other people in life

5. Compared with other types of settings, the main feature of private setting is ____.
A. the absence of spontaneity
B. the presence of individual actions
C. the lack of real intentions
D. the absence of audience

SECTION B INTERVIEW

Questions 6 to 10 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 75
seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the interview.

6. What was education like in Professor Wang's days?
A. Students worked very hard.
B. Students felt they needed a second degree.
C. Education was not career－oriented.
D. There were many specialized subjects.

7. According to Professor Wang, what is the purpose of the present－day education?
A. To turn out an adequate number of elite for the society.
B. To prepare students for their future career.
C. To offer practical and utilitarian courses in each programme.
D. To set up as many technical institutions as possible.

8. In Professor Wang's opinion, technical skills ____.
A. require good education
B. are secondary to education
C. don't call for good education
D. don't conflict with education

9. What does Professor Wang suggest to cope with the situation caused by increasing numbers of
fee-paying students
A. Shifting from one programme to another.
B. Working out ways to reduce student number.
C. Emphasizing better quality of education.
D. Setting up stricter examination standards.

10. Future education needs to produce graduates of all the following categories EXCEPT ____.
A. those who can adapt to different professions
B. those who have a high flexibility of mind
C. those who are thinkers, historians and philosophers
D. those who possess only highly specialized skills

SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be
given 45 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.

11. Which of the following regions in the world will witness the sharpest drop in life expectancy?
A. Latin America.
B. Sub Saharan Africa.
C. Asia.
D. The Caribbean.

12. According to the news, which country will experience small life expectancy drop?
A. Burma.
B. Botswana.
C. Cambodia.
D. Thailand.

13. The countries that are predicted to experience negative population growth are mainly in ____ .
A. Asia.
B. Africa.
C. Latin America.
D. The Caribbean.

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. The trade dispute between the European Union and the US was caused by ____.
refusal to accept arbitration by WTO
imposing tariffs on European steel
refusal to pay compensation to EU
refusal to lower import duties on EU products

15. Who will be consulted first before the EU list is submitted to WTO?
A. EU member states.
B. The United States.
C. WTO.
D. The steel corporations.

SECTION D NOTE-TAKING AND GAP-FILLING

In this section you will hear a mini-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 after the mini- lecture. Use the blank paper
for note-taking. Fill in each of the gaps with one word. You may refer to your notes. Make sure the
word you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable.

Conversation Skills

People who usually make us feel comfortable in conversations are good talkers. And they have
something in common, i.e. skills to put people at ease.

1. Skill to ask question
1) be aware of the human nature: readiness to answer other's questions regardless of (1)____
2) start a conversation with some personal but unharmful questions about one's (2)____ job.
questions about one's activities in the (3)____
3) be able to spot signals for further talk

2. Skill to (4)____for answers
1) don't shift from subject to subject-sticking to the same subject: signs of (5)____in conversation.
2) listen to (6)____of voice - If people sound unenthusiastic, then change subject.
3) use eyes and ears - steady your gaze while listening

3. Skill to laugh
Effects of laughter:
- ease people's (7)____
- help start (8)____

4. Skill to part
1) importance: open up possibilities for future friendship or contact
2) ways:
- men: a smile, a (9)____
- women: same as (10)____ now
- how to express pleasure in meeting someone.

(1) ______ (2) ______ (3) ______ (4) ______ ( 5 ) ______
(6) ______ (7) ______ (8) ______ (9) ______ (10) ______


听力原文
PART Ⅰ LISTENING COMPREHENSION
SECTION A TALK

Language is used for doing things. People use it in everyday conversation for transacting business,
planning meals and vacations, debating politics, and gossiping. Teachers use it for instructing
students, and comedians use it for amusing audiences. All these are instances of language use -
that is activities in which people do things with language. As we can see, language use is really a
form of joint action.


What is joint action? I think it is an action that is carried out by a group of people doing things in
coordination with each other. As simple examples, think of two people waltzing, or playing a
piano duet. When two dancers waltz, they each move around the ballroom in a special way. But
waltzing is different from the sum of their individual actions. Can you imagine these two dancers
doing the same steps, but in separate rooms, or at separate times? So waltzing is, in fact, the joint
action that emerges as the two dancers do their individual steps in coordination, as a couple.

Similarly, doing things with language is also different from the sum of the speaker speaking and
the listener listening. It is the joint action that emerges when speakers and listeners, or writers and
readers, perform their individual actions in coordination, as ensembles. Therefore, we can say that
language use incorporates both individual and social processes. Speakers and listeners, writers and
readers, must carry out actions as individuals, if they are to succeed in their use of language. But
they must also work together as participants in the social units I have called ensembles. In the
example I mentioned just now, the two dancers perform both individual actions, moving their
bodies, arms, and legs, and joint actions, coordinating these movements, as they create the waltz.
In the past, language use has been studied as if it were entirely an individual process. And it has
also been studied as if it were entirely a social process. For me, I suggest that it belongs to both.
We cannot hope to understand language use without viewing it as joint actions built on individual
actions. In order to explain how all these actions work, I'd like to review briefly settings of
language use. By settings, I mean the scene in which language use takes place, plus the medium -
which refers to whether language use is spoken or written. And in this talk, I'll focus on spoken
settings.

The spoken setting mentioned most often is conversation - either face to face, or on the telephone.
Conversations may be devoted to gossip, business transactions or scientific matters, but they're all
characterized by the free exchange of terms among the two participants. I'll call these personal
settings. Then we have what I would call nonpersonal settings. A typical example is the
monologue. In monologues, one person speaks with little or no opportunity for interruption, or
turns by members of the audience. Monologues come in many varieties too, as a professor lectures
to a class, or a student giving a presentation to a seminar. These people speak for themselves,
uttering words they formulated themselves for the audience before them, and the audience isn't
expected to interrupt. In another kind of setting which are called institutional settings, the
participants engage in speech exchanges that look like ordinary conversation, but they are limited
by institutional rules. As examples, we can think of a government official holding a news
conference, a lawyer crossquestioning a witness in court, or a professor directing a seminar
discussion. In these settings, what is said is more or less spontaneous, even though turns at
speaking are allocated by a leader, or are restricted in other ways.

The person speaking isn't always the one whose intentions are being expressed. We have the
clearest examples in fictional settings. Vivian Leigh plays Scarlett O'Hara in with the
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words composed by someone else - for instance a playwright or a composer - and are openly
pretending to be expressing opinions that aren't necessarily their own. Finally there are private
settings when people speak for themselves without actually addressing anyone else, for example, I
might explain silently to myself, or talk to myself about solving a research problem, or rehearsing
what I'm about to say in a seminar tomorrow. What I say isn't intended to be recognized by other
people, it is only of use to myself. These are the features of private settings.

SECTION B TALK

W: Good evening, I'm Nancy Johnson. The guest on our radio talk this evening is Professor Wang
Gongwu. Hello, Professor Wang.