20XX英语专业八级真题

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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2018)

-GRADE EIGHT-

TIME LIMIIT

：

150 MIN

PART I

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

[25

MIN]

SECTION A

MINI-LECTURE

You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.

Now listen to the mini-lecture. When it is over, you will be given THREE

minutes

to check your work.

SECTION B

INTERVIEW

In this section you will hear ONE interview. The interview will be divided

into

TWO parts. At the end of each part, five questions will be asked about

what was said.

Both the interview and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After

each question

there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the

four choices

of A), B), C) and D), and mark the best answer to each question on

ANSWER SHEET

TWO.

You have THIRTY seconds to preview the choices.

Now, listen to the first interview. Questions 1 to 5 are based on Part One

of the

interview.

Now listen to the interview.

A. Announcement of results.

B. Lack of a time schedule.

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C. Slowness in ballots counting.

D. Direction of the electoral events.

A. Other voices within Afghanistan wanted so.

B. The date had been set previously.

C. All the ballots had been counted.

D. The UN advised them to do so.

A. To calm the voters.

B. To speed up the process.

C. To stick to the election rules.

A. Unacceptable.

B. Unreasonable.

C. Insensible.

D. Ill considered.

A. Supportive.

B. Ambivalent.

C. Opposed.

D. Neutral.

Now listening to Part Two of the interview. Questions 6 to 10 are based

on Part

Two of the interview.

A. Ensure the government includes all parties.

B. Discuss who is going to be the winner.

C. Supervise the counting of votes.

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D. Seek support from important sectors.

A. 36%-24%.

B. 46%-34%.

C. 56%-44%.

D. 66%-54%.

A. Both candidates.

B. Electoral institutions.

C. The United Nations.

D. Not specified.

A. It was unheard of.

B. It was on a small scale.

C. It was insignificant.

D. It occurred elsewhere.

A. Problems in the electoral process.

B. Formation of a new government.

C. Premature announcement of results.

D. Democracy in Afghanistan.

PART

Ⅱ

READING COMPREHENSION

[25

MIN]

SECTION A

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

In this section there are three passages followed by fourteen multiple

choice

questions. For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested

answers

marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer

and mark

your answer on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

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PASSAGE ONE

(1)

“

Britain's best export,

”

I was told by the Department of Immigration

in

Canberra,

“

is people.

”

Close on 100,000 people have applied for

assisted passages in

the first five months of the year, and half of these are eventually

expected to migrate

to Australia.

(2) The Australian are delighted. They are keenly ware that without a

strong flow

of immigrants into the workforce the development of the Australian

economy is

unlikely to proceed at the ambitious pace currently envisaged. The new

mineral

discoveries promise a splendid future, and the injection of huge amounts

of

American and British capital should help to ensure that they are properly

exploited,

but with unemployment in Australia down to less than 1.3 per cent, the

government

is understandably anxious to attract more skilled labor.

(3) Australia is roughly the same size as the continental United States,

but has

only twelve million inhabitants. Migration has accounted for half the

population

increase in the last four years, and has contributed greatly to the

country's

impressive economic development. Britain has always been the principal

source

–

ninety per cent of Australians are of British descent, and Britain has

provided one

million migrants since the Second World War.

(4) Australia has also given great attention to recruiting people

elsewhere.

Australians decided they had an excellent potential source of applicants

among the

so- called

“

guest workers

”

who have crossed their own frontiers to

work in other arts

of Europe. There were estimated to be more than four million of them,

and a large

number were offered subsidized passages and guaranteed jobs in

Australia. Italy has

for some years been the second biggest source of migrants, and the

Australians have

also managed to attract a large number of Greeks and Germans.

(9) Most British migrants miss council housing the National Health

scheme, and

their relatives and former neighbor. Loneliness is a big factor, especially

among

housewives. The men soon make new friends at work, but wives tend to

find it much

harder to get used to a different way of life. Many are housebound

because of

inadequate public transport in most outlying suburbs, and regular

correspondence

with their old friends at home only serves to increase their discontent.

One

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housewife was quoted recently as saying:

“

I even find I miss the people I

used to hate

at home.

”

(10) Rent are high, and there are long waiting lists for Housing

Commission

homes. Sickness can be an expensive business and the climate can be

unexpectedly

rough. The gap between Australian and British wage packets is no longer

big, and

people are generally expected to work harder here than they do at

home.

Professional men over forty often have difficulty in finding a decent job.

Above all,

perhaps, skilled immigrants often finds a considerable reluctance to

accept their

qualifications.

(11) According to the journal Australian Manufacturer, the attitude of

many

employers and fellow workers is anything but friendly.

“

We Australians,

”

it stated in a

recent issue,

“

are just too fond of painting the rosy picture of the big,

warm-hearted

Aussie. As a matter of fact, we are so busy blowing our own trumpets

that we have

not not time to be warm-hearted and considerate. Go down

“

heart-break alley

”

among some of the migrants and find out just how expansive the Aussie

is to his

immigrants.

”

The Australians want a strong flow of immigrants because

.

Immigrants speed up economic expansion

unemployment is down to a low figure

immigrants attract foreign capital

Australia is as large as the United States

Australia prefers immigrants from Britain because

.

they are selected carefully before entry

they are likely to form national groups

they are fond of living in small towns

In explaining why some migrants return to Europe the author

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stresses their economic motives

emphasizes the variety of their motives

stresses loneliness and homesickness

emphasizes the difficulties of men over forty

which of the following words is used literally, not metaphorically?

“

flow

”

(Para. 2).

“

injection

”

(Para. 2).

“

gravitate

”

(Para. 5).

“

selective

”

(Para. 6).

.

Para. 11 pictures the Australians as

.

unsympathetic

ungenerous

undemonstrative

unreliable

PASSAGE TWO

(1) Some of the advantages of bilingualism include better performance at

tasks

involving

“

executive function

”

(which involves the brain's ability to plan

and

prioritize), better defense against dementia in old age and

—

the obvious

—

the ability

to speak a second language. One purported advantage was not

mentioned, though.

Many multilinguals report different personalities, or even different

worldviews, when

they speak their different languages.

(2) It's an exciting notion, the idea that one's very self could be

broadened by

the mastery of two or more languages. In obvious ways (exposure to new

friends,

literature and so forth) the self really is broadened. Yet it is different to

claim

—

as

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many people do

—

to have a different personality when using a different

language. A

former Economist colleague, for example, reported being ruder in

Hebrew than in

English. So what is going on here?

(3) Benjamin Lee Whorf, an American linguist who died in 1941, held

that each

language encodes a worldview that significantly influences its speakers.

Often called

“

Whorfianism

”

, this idea has its sceptics, but there are still good

reasons to believe

language shapes thought.

(4) This influence is not necessarily linked to the vocabulary or grammar

of a

second language. Significantly, most people are not symmetrically

bilingual. Many

have learned one language at home from parents, and another later in

life, usually at

school. So bilinguals usually have different strengths and weaknesses in

their

different languages

—

and they are not always best in their first language.

For

example, when tested in a foreign language, people are less likely to fall

into a

cognitive trap (answering a test question with an obvious-seeming but

wrong

answer) than when tested in their native language. In part this is because

working in

a second language slows down the thinking. No wonder people feel

different when

speaking them. And no wonder they feel looser, more spontaneous,

perhaps more

assertive or funnier or blunter, in the language they were reared in from

childhood.

(6) Many bilinguals are not bicultural. But some are. And of those

bicultural

bilinguals, we should be little surprised that they feel different in their

two languages.

Experiments in psychology have shown the power of

“

priming

”

—

small

unnoticed

factors that can affect behavior in big ways. Asking people to tell a happy