专业八级真题专八2013年真题

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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS(2013)

-GRADE EIGHT-

TIME LIMIT: 115 MIN

PART ⅠLISTENING COMPREHENSION（25 MIN）

SECTION A MINI-LECTURE

In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the mini-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 the word(s)you fill in is(are)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 questions.

Now, listen to Part One of the interview.

1. [A] Better education



greater mobility



more choices.

[B] Better education



more choices



greater mobility.

[C] Greater mobility



better education



more choices.

[D] Greater mobility



more choices



better education.

2. [A] To find out why higher education people have more opportunities.

[B] To find out the relationship between education and mobility.

[C] To find out what issues or job characteristics were important to workers.

[D] To find out workers’ opinions about mobility.

3. [A] High income. [B] Important and meaningful work.

[C] Job security. [D] Shorter work hours.

4. [A] Shorter work hours was least chosen for being most important.

[B] Chances for advancement might have been favoured by young people.

[C] High income failed to come on top for being most important.

[D] Job security came second according to the poll results.

5. [A] Important and meaningful work is most important for workers.

[B] High income is most important for workers.

[C] Chances for advancement are most important for workers.

[D] Job security is most important for workers.

Mow, listen to Part Two of the interview.

6. [A] The type of respondents who were invited.

[B] The way in which the questions were designed.

[C] The content area of the questions.

[D] The number of poll questions.

7. [A] 5. [B] 4. [C] 7. [D] 16.

8. [A] 78%. [B] 68%. [C] 62%. [D] 52%.

9. [A] Recognition from colleagues should be given less importance.

[B] Workers are always willing and ready to learn more new skills.

[C] Psychological reward is more important than material one.

[D] Work will have to be made interesting to raise efficiency.

10. [A] Contact with many people. [B] Chances for advancement.

[C] Appreciation from coworkers. [D] Chances to learn new skills.

PART ⅡREADING COMPREHENSION（45 MIN）

SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS

In this section there are several 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 answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

PASSAGE ONE

Three hundred years ago news travelled by word of mouth or letter, and circulated in taverns and coffee

houses in the form of pamphlets and newsletters. “The coffee houses particularly are very roomy for a free

conversation, and for reading at an easier rate all manner of printed news,” noted one observer. Everything changed

in 1833 when the first mass-audience newspaper, The New York Sun, pioneered the use of advertising to reduce the

cost of news, thus giving advertisers access to a wider audience. The penny press, followed by radio and television,

turned news from a two-way conversation into a one-way broadcast, with a relatively small number of firms

controlling the media.

Now, the news industry is returning to something closer to the coffee house. The internet is making news

more participatory, social and diverse, reviving the discursive characteristics of the era before the mass media. That

will have profound effects on society and politics. In much of the world, the mass media are flourishing.

Newspaper circulation rose globally by 6% between 2005 and 2009. But those global figures mask a sharp decline

in readership in rich countries.

Over the past decade, throughout the Western world, people have been giving up newspapers and TV news

and keeping up with events in profoundly different ways. Most strikingly, ordinary people are increasingly involved

in compiling, sharing, filtering, discussing and distributing news. Twitter lets people anywhere, report what they are

seeing. Classified documents are published in their thousands online. Mobile-phone footage of Arab uprisings and

American tornadoes is posted on social-networking sites and shown on television newscasts. Social-networking

sites help people find, discuss and share news with their friends.

And it is not just readers who are challenging the media elite. Technology firms including Google, Facebook

and Twitter have become important conduits of news. Celebrities and world leaders publish updates directly via

social networks; many countries now make raw data available through “open government” initiatives. The Internet

lets people read newspapers or watch television channels from around the world. The web has allowed new

providers of news, from individual bloggers to sites, to rise to prominence in a very short space of time. And it has

made possible entirely new approaches to journalism, such as that practiced by WikiLeaks, which provides an

anonymous way for whistleblowers to publish documents. The news agenda is no longer controlled by a few press

barons and state outlets.

In principle, every liberal should celebrate this. A more participatory and social news environment, with a

remarkable diversity and range of news sources, is a good thing. The transformation of the news business is

unstoppable, and attempts to reverse it are doomed to failure. As producers of new journalism, individuals can be

scrupulous with facts and transparent with their sources. As consumers, they can be general in their tastes and

demanding in their standards. And although this transformation does raise concerns, there is much to celebrate in

the noisy, diverse, vociferous, argumentative and stridently alive environment of the news business in the ages of

the internet. The coffee house is buck. Enjoy it.

11. Which of the following statements best supports “Now, the news industry is returning to

something closer to the coffee house”?

[A] Newspaper circulation rose globally by 6% between 2005 and 2009.

[B] People in the Western world are giving up newspapers and TV news.

[C] Classified documents are published in their thousands online.

[D] More people are involved in finding, discussing and distributing news.

12. According to the passage, which is NOT a role played by information technology?

[A] Challenging the traditional media.

[B] Planning the return to coffee-house news.

[C] Providing people with access to classified files.

[D] Giving ordinary people the chance to provide news.

13. The author’s tone in the last paragraph towards new journalism is ________.

[A] optimistic and cautious [B] supportive and skeptical

[C] doubtful and reserved [D] ambiguous and cautious

14. In “The coffee house is buck”, coffee house best symbolizes________.

[A] the changing characteristics of news audience

[B] the more diversified means of news distribution

[C] the participatory nature of news

[D] the more varied sources of news

PASSAGE TWO

Paris is like pornography. You respond even if you don’t want to. You turn a corner and see a

vista, and your imagination bolts away. Suddenly you are thinking about what it would be like to live

in Paris, and then you think about all the lives you have not lived. Sometimes, though, when you are

lucky, you only think about how many pleasures the day ahead holds. Then, you feel privileged.

The lobby of the hotel is decorated in red and gold. It gives off a whiff of 19th-century

decadence. Probably as much as any hotel in Paris, this hotel is sexy. I was standing facing the

revolving doors and the driveway beyond. A car with a woman in the back seat—a woman in a short

skirt and black-leather jacket—pulled up before the hotel door. She swung off and she was wearing

high heels. Normally, my mind would have leaped and imagined a story for this woman. Now it

didn’t. I stood there and told myself. Cheer up. You’re in Paris.

In many ways, Paris is best visited in winter. The tourist crowds are at a minimum, and one is

not being jammed off the narrow sidewalks along the Rue Dauphine. More than this, Paris is like

many other European cities in that the season of blockbuster cultural events tends to begin in mid-to

late fall and so, by the time of winter, most of the cultural treasures of the city are laid out to be

admired.

The other great reason why Paris in winter is so much better than Paris in spring and fall is that

after the end of the August holidays and the return of chic Parisian women to their city, the

restaurant-opening season truly begins hopping. By winter, many of the new restaurants have worked

out their kinks (不足;困难) and, once the hype has died down, it is possible to see which restaurants

are actually good and which are merely noisy and crowded.

Most people are about as happy as they set their mind to being, Lincoln said. In Paris it

doesn’t take much to be happy. Outside the hotel, the sky was pale and felt very high up. I walked the

few blocks to the Seine and began running along the blue-green river toward the Eiffel Tower. The

tower in the distance was black, and felt strange and beautiful the way that many things built for the

joy of building do. As I ran toward it, because of its lattice structure, the tower seemed obviously

delicate. Seeing it, I felt a sense of protectiveness.

I think it was this moment of protectiveness that marked the change in my mood and my slowly

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TESTFORENGLISHMAJORS(2013)-GRADEEIGHT-TIMELIMIT:115MINPARTⅠLISTENINGCOMPREHENSION（25MIN）SECTIONAMINI-LECTUREInthissectionyouwillhearamini-lecture.Youwillhearthemini-lectureONCEONLY.Whilelisteningtothemini-lecture,pleasecompletethegap-fillingtaskonANSWERSHEETONEandwriteNOMORETHANTHREEWORDSforeachgap....

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