专业八级真题专八2018年真题

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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2018)

-GRADE EIGHT-

TIME LIMIIT：150 MIN

PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION（25MIN）

SECTION A MINI-LECTURE

In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the

mini-lecture, please complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN

THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You

may use the blank sheet for note-taking.

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 Part One of the interview. Questions 1 to 5 are based on Part One of the interview.

1. [A] Announcement of results. [B] Lack of a time schedule.

[C] Slowness in ballots counting. [D] Direction of the electoral events.

2.[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.

3. [A] To calm the voters. [B] To speed up the process.

[C] To stick to the election rules. [D] To stop complaints from the labor.

4. [A] Unacceptable. [B] Unreasonable. [C] Insensible. [D] Ill-considered.

5. [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.

6. [A] Ensure the government includes all parties. [B] Discuss who is going to be the winner.

[C] Supervise the counting of votes. [D] Seek support from important sectors.

7. [A] 36%-24%. [B] 46%-34%. [C] 56%-44%. [D] 66%-54%.

8. [A] Both candidates. [B] Electoral institutions.

[C] The United Nations. [D] Not specified.

9. [A] It was unheard of. [B] It was on a small scale.

[C] It was insignificant. [D] It occurred elsewhere.

10. [A] Problems in the electoral process. [B] Formation of a new government.

[C] Premature announcement of results. [D] Democracy in Afghanistan.

PART ⅡREADING COMPREHENSION（45 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.

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.

(5) One drawback with them, so far as the Australians are concerned, is that integration tends to be more

difficult. Unlike the British, continental migrants have to struggle with an unfamiliar language and new

customs. Many naturally gravitate towards the Italian or Greek communities which have grown up in cities

such as Sydney and Melbourne. These colonies have their own newspapers, their own shops, and their own

clubs. Their inhabitants are not Australians, but Europeans.

(6) The government’s avowed aim, however, is to maintain “a substantially homogeneous society into

which newcomers, from whatever sources, will merge themselves”. By and large, therefore, Australia still

prefers British migrants, and tends to be rather less selective in their case than it is with others.

(7) A far bigger cause of concerns than the growth of national groups, however, is the increasing number

of migrants who return to their countries of origin. One reason is that people nowadays tend to be more

mobile, and that it is easier than in the past to save the return fare, but economic conditions also have

something to do with it. A slower rate of growth invariably produces discontent – and if this coincides with

greater prosperity in Europe, a lot of people tend to feel that perhaps they were wrong to come here after all.

(8) Several surveys have been conducted recently into the reasons why people go home. One noted that

“flies, dirt, and outside lavatories” were on the list of complaints from British immigrants, and added that

many people also complained about “the crudity, bad manners, and unfriendliness of the Australians”. Another

survey gave climate conditions, homesickness, and “the stark appearance of the Australian countryside” as the

main reasons for leaving.

(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 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.”

11. The Australians want a strong flow of immigrants because .

[A] Immigrants speed up economic expansion

[B] unemployment is down to a low figure

[C] immigrants attract foreign capital

[D] Australia is as large as the United States

12. Australia prefers immigrants from Britain because .

[A] they are selected carefully before entry

[B] they are likely to form national groups

[C] they easily merge into local communities

[D] they are fond of living in small towns

13. In explaining why some migrants return to Europe the author .

[A] stresses their economic motives

[B] emphasizes the variety of their motives

[C] stresses loneliness and homesickness

[D] emphasizes the difficulties of men over forty

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

[A] “flow” (Para. 2). [B] “injection” (Para. 2).

[C] “gravitate” (Para. 5). [D] “selective” (Para. 6).

15. Para. 11 pictures the Australians as .

[A] unsympathetic [B] ungenerous

[C] undemonstrative [D] 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

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