attach英语专业1993专八试卷

2021年1月10日发(作者：施予厚)
TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (1993)
-GRADE EIGHT-
PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (30 min)
PAPERONE
In this part of the test you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the
questions that follow. Mark the correct response for each question in your ANSWER BOOKLET
SECTION A CONVERSATION
Questions 1 to 5 refer to the conversation in this section.
1. Janet is not happy about Paul' s arrangement because
A. Paul hasn' t told her about the invitation B. the au pair girl will stay at home
C. their children cannot stay at their friend' s home D. Saturday is a bad day for her
2. According to the conversation, we know that Sam Urwin is
A. a man in charge of charity in town B. a businessman
C. a schoolmate of Janet' s D. a neighbour of theirs in Canada
3. The following statements about Sam are true except
A. Sam is very fond of duck and goes out shooting ducks a lot
B. Sam likes golf better than shooting
C. Sam is Janet' s favourite back in Canada
D. Sam pays much attention to his figure
4. Paul will buy the wine at
A. a pub B. a shop where drinks are sold to take away
C. Downes' D. a supermarket near his office
5. The conversation takes place
A. in the course of their dinner B. in the kitchen before supper
C. in the sitting room after supper D. late in the afternoon
SECTION B TALK
Questions 6 to ID refer to the talk in this section.
6. One specific difference between animal brain and human brain is
A. the division of sides B. the controlling functions
C. the cross-over effect D. the verbal abilities
7. People got to know things like the specialized abilities of the human brain
A. during the last decade B. early this century
C. through Dr Rogers Barry D. after many experiments
8. The 'Split Brain Experiments' were considered
A. a surgical experiment with the nerve
B. a help to the patients' recovery
C. a further proof of what had been known before
D. a great step in brain research
9. The right hand was still able to write after the splitting of the brain, because
A. verbal ability is located in the left hemisphere
B. the left hemisphere has a logic function
C. the right hemisphere can recognize and remember
D. information is going through the left hemisphere
10. This talk is mainly about
r-Ak the different functions of the two hemispheres
B. the Split Brain Experiments in California

SECTION C INTERVIEW
Questions 11 to 15 refer to the interview in this section.
11. The woman said that TV is a medium that
A. gives kids a lot of good information
B. teaches kids to be passive
C. teaches kids something that they cannot learn from books
D. gets kids so excited that they literally come out of their chairs
12. The woman pointed out that teachers are forced into the role of having to compete with
A. the exciting films that kids are shown in school
B. the kinds of things kids learn from their parents at home
C. the kinds of programmes kids watch on TV
D. the good acting of the actors and actresses in films
13. The woman said that she uses a number of educational films in a class she teaches on
A. minorities B. history
C. ancient, civilizations D. Black Americans
14. According to the woman, when she shows films in class, the kids always seem to
A. miss the really important points
B. appreciate the really important points
C. catch the really important points
D. understand the really important points
15. The woman said that the fact that kids audibly and visibly react the way they do to certain
violent scenes in these films is
A. pessimistic B. understandable
C. very surprising D. sad
SECTION D NEWS BROADCAST
Questions 16 to 20 refer to the news broadcast in this section.
16. The news from Luxemburg tells us that the EC ministers
A. are trying to help make peace
B. came to visit Luxemburg
C. are involved in Yugoslavia' s ethnic conflict
D. have made a successful cease-fire
17. The information concerning President Bush is about
A. his attitude towards developing countries
B. his opinions of some former USSR republics
C. the US action following other countries
D. the US recognition of Lithuania
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18. The tropical storm in Southern India
A. was caused by cyclones
B. would have had more serious casualties but for cyclone shelters
C. was brought about by the landslides
D. loosened top soil in Sri Lanka
19. The number of the female senators in the 102nd Congress was
A.3 B.2 C.6 D.4
20. Before she became the first Black woman senator, Miss Carol Moseley Braun
A. worked in a country club of men
B. served as an aide in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
C. was the Recorder of Deeds in Illinois
D. was on the Judiciary Committee in California
PART II LISTENING & NOTE-TAKING
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. ?
The Cinema
The first moving pictures, developed by an (1)______ in the 1890' s were (1)______
different from what we know about cinema today. Because the sound and pictures (2)______
were not (2)______in addition to the smallness of the screens, the (3) ______ (3) ______
which his system was called, was only popularized in its (4)______form. (4)
The Frenchmen developed the same principle and succeeded in exporting their
(5)______. Cinematographe, to Europe, India, Australia and Japan. But the films (5)______
were still (6)______and (4)______. After that, great advances were made in cinema. (6) ______
In 1903, with the use of (7)______ cameras, an improvement on the (13) ______ (7) ______
cameras, The Great Train Robbery, which lasted (8)______minutes, was made. (8)______
In the following years, films were longer and the (9)______became larger and other (9)______
refinements were introduced. In the early (10)______, with the development (10)______
of effective (11)______system, the major problem of (11)______
sound and picture (12)______was solved. But oddly enough, for a few (12)______
years, the cameras had to be (13)______again to reduce the (13)______
(14)______of their mechanism. The development of (14)______
(15)______was the last important change in cinema. Though early films (15)______
were generally black and white, people thought they were more (16) ______ (16)______
In 1922, a two-colour system, was used in the first real (15)______films. By using three
main colours, (17)______was improved in 1932. Because of the unstable quality, (17) ______
the scenes, sometimes (18)______, and high cost, it took longer for (15) (18)______
to be accepted. For all the improvements in the (19) ______ of cinema and the changes in the
(19)______
style of (20)______, the basics--moving pictures, colour and sound-remain the same. (20)______

PART II PROOFREADING AND ERROR CORRECTION (20 MINS)
The following passage contains 17errors. Each line contains a ,naxinurrn of one
error and three are free from error. In each case, only one word is involved.
For
a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write 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
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
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 (3)
wants an exhibition, it must often build it. (4) exhibit
en build it.
PART III PROOFREADING (15 min)
The following passage contains 17 errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error, and three
are free from error. In each case only one word is involved. You should passage and correct it.
What is a drug? Most of people probable think there' s a 1.
perfectly simple answer to this question. In fact, if one 2.
carries a quick survey on any street corner, one finds that, 3.
according to vast majority of people, there are two groups of 4.
drugs: those prescribed by doctors and those people take for 5.
non-medical use. As medicine and the medical profession are 6.
generally self-respectful, there aren' t any objections to the 7.
use of prescribing drugs. What most people don' t realize is 8.
that when prescribed drugs are usually beneficial, they can 9.
also represent a serious problem. There were many people 10.
addicted by tranquillizers before doctors began to prescribe 11.
them: now there being literally millions who depend on them. 12.
An acceptance of the use of drugs for non-medical reasons is 13.
largely a matter of a culture. Some Eastern people think the 14.
use of alcohol with horror, mainly as a result of religious 15.
upbringing. However, these similar people freely use marijuana 16.
without a second thought, and this, in turn isn' t accepted 17.
in Western culture which accepts alcohol. In most Western 18.
societies, the tea-or coffee-break' s now a part of the life, and 19.
huge quantifies of these drinks are eaten daily. 20.
READING COMPREHENSION (40 min)
Read TEXT A, an extract from a book on economic psychology, and answer questions 41 to 44.
TEXT A
A scientist who does research in economic psychology and who wants to predict the way in which
consumers will spend their money must study consumer behaviour. He must obtain data both on
the resources of consumers and on the motives that tend to encourage or discourage money
spending.
If an economist were asked which of three groups borrow most 梡eople with rising incomes,
stable incomes, or declining incomes 梙e would probably answer: those with declining incomes.
Actually, in the years 1947-1950, the answer was: people with rising incomes. People with
declining incomes were next and people with stable incomes borrowed the least. This shows us
that traditional assumptions about earning and spending are not always reliable. Mother traditional
assumption is that if people who have money expect prices to go up, they will hasten to buy. If
they expect prices to go down, they will postpone buying. But research surveys have shown that
this is not always true. The expectations of price increases may not stimulate buying. One typical
attitude was expressed by the wife of a mechanic in an interview at a time of rising prices.
few months, she said,
things. family had been planning to buy a new car but they postponed this purchase.
Furthermore, the rise in prices that has already taken place may be resented add buyer' s resistance
may be evoked. This is shown by the following typical comment:
they are too high.
Traditional assumptions should be investigated carefully, and factors of time and place should be
considered. The investigations mentioned above were carried out in America. Investigations
conducted at the same time in Great Britain, however, yielded results that were more in agreement
with traditional assumptions about saving and spending patterns. The condition most conductive
to spending appears to be price stability. If prices have been stable and people have become
accustomed to consider them
it appears that the common business policy of maintaining stable prices with occasional sales or
discounts is based on a correct understanding of consumer psychology.
21. The best title of the passage is
A. Consumer' s Purchasing Power
B. Relationship between Income and Purchasing Power
C. Traditional Assumptions
D. Studies in Consumer Behaviour
22. The example of the mechanic' s wife is intended to show that in times of rising prices
A. people with declining income tend to buy less
B. people with stable income tend to borrow less
C. people with increasing income tend to buy more
D. people with money also tend to buy less
23. Findings in investigations in Britain are mentioned to show
A. factors of time and place should be taken into consideration
B. people in Britain behave in the same way as those in America
C. maintaining stable prices is based on a correct understanding of consumer psychology
D. occasional discounts and sales are necessary
24. According to the passage people tend to buy more when
A. prices are expected to go up
B. prices are expected to go down
C. prices don' t fluctuate
D. the business policy remains unchanged
Read TEXT B, an extract from a popular science book, and answer questions 25 to 28.
TEXT B
Weed Communities
In an intact plant community, undisturbed by human intervention, the composition of a
community is mainly a function of the climate and the type of soil. Today' , such original
communities are very rare 梩hey are practically limited to national parks and reservations.
Civilization has progressively transformed the conditions determining the composition of plant
communities. For several thousand years vast areas of arable land have been hoed, ploughed,
harrowed and grassland has been cut or grazed. During the last decades the use of chemical
substances, such as fertilizers and most recently of weed killers (herbicides) has greatly influenced
the composition of weed communities in farm land.
All selective herbicides have specific ranges of activity. They control the most important weeds
but not all the plants of a community. The latter profit fronithe new free space and from the
fertilizer as much as the crop does; hence they often spread rapidly and become problem weeds
unless another herbicide for their eradication is found.
The soil contains enormous quantities of seeds of numerous species 梪p to half a million per m'
according to scientific literature 梩hat retain their ability to germinate for decades. Thus it may
occur that weeds that were hardly noticed before emerge in masses after the elimination of their
competitors. Hence, the knowledge of the composition of weed communities before selective
weed killers are applied is not only of scientific interest since the plant species present in the soil
in the form of seeds must be considered as potential weeds. For efficient control the identification
of weeds at the seedling stage, i.e. at a time when they can still be controlled, is particularly
necessary; for the choice of the appropriate herbicides depends on the composition of the weed
community.
25. The composition of a plant community -
A. depends on climate and soil type in a virgin environment undamaged by human beings
B. was greatly affected by human beings before they started using chemical substances on the soil
C. was radically transformed by uncivilized human beings
D. refers to plants, trees, climate, type of soil and the ecological environment
26. Why are there problem weeds?
A. Because they are the weeds that cannot be eradicated by herbicides.
B. Because all selective herbicides can encourage the growth of previously unimportant weeds by
eliminating their competitors.
C. Because they were hardly considered before so that their seeds were not prevented from
germinating.
D. Because they benefit greatly from the fertilizer applied to the farm land.
27. A knowledge of the composition of a weed community
A. is essential to the efficient control of weeds
B. may lead us to be aware of the fact that the soil contains enormous quantities of seeds of
numerous species
C. helps us to have a good idea of why seeds can lie dormant for years
D. provides us with the means to identify weeds at the seedling stage
28. The best alternative title for the passage will be
A. A study of Weed Communities
B. The Importance of Studying How Plants Live in Communities
C. How Herbicides May Affect Farm Land
D. Weed Control by Means of Herbicides
Read TEXT C, an extract from a novel, and answer questions 29 to 31.
TEXT C
Raju and His Father’s Shop
My mother told me a story every evening while we waited for Father to close the shop and come
home. The shop remained open till midnight. Bullock-carts in long caravans arrived late in the
evening from distant villages, loaded with coconut, rice, and other commodities for the market.
The animals were unyoked under the big tamarind tree for the night, and the cartmen drifted in
twos and threes to the shop, for a chat or to ask for things to eat or smoke. How my father loved to
discuss with them the price of grain, rainfall, harvest, and the state of irrigation channels. Or they
talked about old litigations. One heard repeated references to magistrates, affidavits, witnesses in
the case, and appeals, punctuated with roars of laughter梡ossibly the memory of some absurd
legality or loophole tickled them.
My father ignored food and sleep when he had company. My mother sent me out several times to
see if he could be made to turn in. He was a man of uncertain temper and one could not really
guess how he would react to interruptions, and so my mother coached me to go up, watch his
mood, and gently remind him of food and florae. I stood under the shop- awning, coughing and
clearing my throat, hoping to catch his eye. But the talk was all-absorbing and he would not
glance in my direction, and I got absorbed in their talk, although I did not understand a word of it.
After a while my mother' s voice came gently on the night air, calling, Raju, Raju,' and my father
interrupted his activities to look at me and say, Tell your mother not to wait for me. Tell her to
place a handful of rice and buttermilk in a bowl, with just one piece of lime pickle, and keep it in
the oven for me. I' 11 come in later. It was almost a formula with him five days in a week. He
always added, Not that I' m really hungry tonight. ' And then I believe he went on to discuss health
problems with his cronies.
But I didn' t stop to hear further. I made a quick dash back home. There was a dark patch between
the light from the shop and the dim lantern shedding its light on our threshold, ,a matter of about
ten yards,-I suppose, but the passage through it gave me a cold sweat. I expected wild animals and
supernatural creatures to emerge and grab me. My mother waited on the doorstep to receive me
and said. Not hungry, I suppose! That'll give him an excuse to talk to the village folk all night, and
then come in for an hour' s sleep and get up with the crowing of that foolish cock somewhere. He
will spoil his health.
I followed her into the kitchen. She placed my plate and hers side by side on the floor, drew the
rice-pot within reach, and served me and herself simultaneously, and we finished our dinner by the
sooty tin lamp, stuck on a nail in the wall. She unrolled a mat for me in the front room, and I lay
down to sleep. She sat at my side, awaiting Father' s return. Her presence gave me a feeling of
inexplicable cosiness. I felt I ought to put her proximity to good use, and complained, Something
is bothering my hair, ?and she ran her fingers through my hair, and scratched the nape of my neck.
And then I commanded, A story.'
Immediately she began, Once upon a time there was a man called Devaka' I heard his name
mentioned almost every night. He was a hero, saint, or something of the kind. I never learned fully
what he did or why, sleep overcoming me before my mother was through even the preamble.
29. Which of the following was NOT what we can infer from the conversation between Father and
the cartmen?
A. Sometimes during lawsuits, one side or the other tricked the law, probably by finding faults in
the legal code which were favourable to themselves.
B. There were times when the courts came to foolish decisions.
C. Matters related to farming were of great interest to them.
D. The magistrates were ludicrous.
30. Which of the following occurred before Raju went to sleep?
A. He felt uncomfortable to lie on the mat prepared by his mother and complained that there was
something itching.
B. After he lay down to sleep he wanted his mother to move as close to him as possible.
C. He learned a lot about the legendary hero Devaka from the story which his mother told him
before he went to sleep.
D. His father returned soon after he and his mother fell asleep.
31:yibich of the following did NOT happen when his father stayed on at the shop after closing
time? –
A:His father returned home very late from the shop and ate what had been set aside for him.
B. His mother sent him several times to the shop to see if he could call his father home.
C. Around midnight, his father came home and ate the night time meal with him and his mother.
D. His father slept for a short while before he got up when the cock crowed.
Read TEXT D, an extract from a book on short-term memory, and answer questions 32 to 35.
TEXT D
Psychologists study memory and learning with both animal and human subjects. The two
experiments reviewed here show how short-term memory has been studied.
Hunter studied short-term memory in rats. He used a special apparatus which had a cage for the rat
and three doors. There was a light in each door. First the rat was placed in the closed cage. Next
one of the lights was turned on and then off. %. There was food for the rat only at this door. After
the light was turned off, the rat had to wait a short time before it was released from its cage. Then,
if k went to the correct door, it was rewarded with the food that was there. Hunter did this
experiment many times. He always turned on the lights in a random order. The rat had to wait
different intervals before it was released from the cage. Hunter found that if the rat had to. wait
more than ten seconds, it could not remember the correct door. Hunter' s results show that rats
have a short-term memory of about ten seconds.
Henning studies how students who learning English as a second language remember vocabulary.
The subjects in his experiment were 75 students at the University of California in Los Angeles.
They represented all levels of ability in English. beginning, intermediate, advanced; and
native-speaking students.
To begin, the subjects listened to a recording of a native speaker reading a paragraph in English.
Following the recording, the subjects took a 15-question test to see which words they remembered.
Each question had four choices. The subjects had to circle the word they had heard in the
recording. Some of the questions had four choices that sound alike. For example, weather, whether,
wither, and wetter are four words that sound alike. Some of the questions had four choices that
have the same meaning. Method, way, manner, and system would be four words with the same
meaning. Some of them had four unrelated choices. For instance, weather, method, love, result
could be used as four unrelated words. Finally the subjects took a language proficiency test.
Henning found that students with a lower proficiency in English made more of their mistakes on
words that sound alike; students with a higher proficiency made more of their mistakes on words
that have the same meaning. Henning' s results suggest that beginning students hold the sound of
words in their short-term memory, and advanced students hold the meaning of words in their
short-term memory.
32. In Hunter' s experiment, the rat had to remember
A. where the food was B. how to leave the cage
C. how big the cage was D. which light was turned on
33. Hunter found that rats
A. can remember only where their food is
B. cannot learn to go to the correct door
C. have a short-term memory of one-sixth a minute
D. have no short-term memory
34. Henning tested the students' memory of
A. words copied several times B. words explained
C. words heard D. words seen
35. Henning- concluded that beginning and advanced students
A. have no difficulty holding words in their short-term memory
B. have much difficulty holding words in their short-term memory
C. differ in the way they retain words
D. hold words in their short-term memory in the same way
Read TEXT E, a book review, and answer questions 36 to 40.
TEXTE
Goal Trimmer
TITLE: THE END OF EQUALITY
AUTHOR: MICKEY KAUS
PUBLISHER: BASIC BOOKS; 293 PAGES; $$25
THE BOTTOM LINE: Let the American rich get richer, says Kaus, and the poor get respects.
That' s a plan for the Democrats?
By RICHARD LACAYO
UTIOPIAS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE dreams of the future. But the American Utopia? Lately it' s a
dream that was, a twilit memory of the Golden Age between V-J day and OPEC, when even a
blue-collar paycheck bought a place in the middle class. The promise of paradise regained has
become a key to the Democratic party pitch. Mickey Kaus, a senior editor of the New Republic,
says the Democrats are wasting their time. As the U. S. enters a world where only the highly
skilled and well educated will make a decent living, the gap between rich and poor is going to
keep growing. No fiddling with the tax code, retreat to protectionism or job training for jobs that
aren' t there is going to stop it. Income equality is a hopeless cause in the U. S.

money equality.
can' t bring everyone into the middle class, let it expand the areas of life in which everyone,
regardless of income, receives the same treatment. National health care, improved public schools,
universal national service and government financing of nearly all election campaigns, which