2021年英语专业八级真题

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专八 2021 真题-

新题型 TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2021)

——GRADE EIGHT——

TIME LIMIT: 150 MIN

PART ⅠLISTENING COMPREHENSION [25MIN]

SECTION AMINI-LECTURE

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

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 usethe 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 theend 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 thechoices.

Now, listen to Part One of theinterview. Questions 1 to 5 are based on Part Oneof the interview.

1. A. A publisher. B. A broadcaster. C. An anchorwoman. D. An academic.

2. A. During her childhood. B. During elementary school.

C. During high school. D. During nursery.

3. A. Historians. B. Writers and poets.

C.Professor of music. D. Professor of English.

4. A. The environment. B. Academic work.

C.Commercialization. D.Local history.

5. A. To help students to better remember poems. B. To facilitate the process of composing poems.

C. To activate one's inner ear automatically. D. To better appreciate the poems.

Now, listen to Part Two of the interview. Questions 6 to 10 are based on Part Two of the interview.

6. A. Continuity between writing and social life was a gift.

B. Link between writing and social life was necessary.

C. She preferred to stay away from other poets.

D. She thought socializing experience helped a lot.

7. A. Its members could be anyone. B. Its members had to be poets.

C. It should be professional. D. It had a networking role.

8. A. To express stronger emotions. B. To allow for flexibility in expression.

C. To avoid readers' misunderstanding. D. To signal the end of a section.

9. A. It was innovative. B. It was emotional. C. It was different. D. It was ordinary.

10. A. Maureen's teaching and writing experience. B. Maureen's experience as a student and poet.

C. Maureen's views on socializing for poets. D. Maureen's works of criticism and poems.

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PART II READING COMPREHENSION [45MIN]

SECTION AMULTIPLE 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) The gorilla is something of a paradox in the African scene. One thinks one knows him well. For a

hundred years or more he has been killed, captured and imprisoned in zoos. His bones have been mounted in

natural history museums everywhere, and he has always exerted a strong fascination upon scientists and romantics

alike. He is the stereotyped monster of the horror films and the adventure books, and an obvious (though not

perhaps strictly scientific) link with our ancestral past.

(2) Yet the fact is we know very little about gorillas. No really satisfactory photograph has ever been taken of

one in a wild state; no zoologist, however intrepid, has been able to keep the animal under close and constant

observation in the dark jungles in which it lives. Carl Akeley, the American naturalist, led two expeditions to

Uganda in the 1920s and now lies buried there among the animals he loved so well; but even he was unable to

discover how long the gorilla lives, or how or why it dies, nor was he able to define the exact social pattern of the

family groups, or indicate the final extent of their intelligence. All this and many other things remain almost as

much a mystery as they were when the French explorer Du Chaillu first described the animal to the civilized

world a century ago. The Abominable Snowman who haunts the imagination of climbers in the Himalayas is

hardly more elusive.

(3) The little that is known about gorillas certainly makes you want to know more. Sir Julian Huxley has

recorded that thrice in the London Zoo he saw an eighteen-month-old specimen trace the outline of its own

shadow with its finger. “No similar artistic initiative," he writes, “has been recorded for any other anthropoid (类

人猿 ), though we all know now that young chimpanzees will paint 'pictures' if provided with the necessary

materials." Huxley speaks too of a traveler seeing a male gorilla help a female up a steep rockstep, and gallantry

of that kind is certainly not normal among animals. It is this “human-ness" of the gorilla that is so beguiling.

According to some observers he courts and makes love the same way as humans do. Once the family is

established it clings together. It feeds in a group in the thick bamboo jungles on the mountainside in the daytime ,

each animal making a tidy pile of its food 一wild celery, bamboo shoots, and other leaves - and squatting down

to eat it; and by night each member of the family makes its own bed by bending over and interlacing the bamboo

fronds so as to form a kind of oval-shaped nest which is as comfortable and springy as a mattress. The father tends

to make his bed just a foot or two from the ground, the mother a little higher, and the children are safely lodged in

the branches up above.

(4) When he walks the gorilla takes the main weight on his short legs and rests lightly on the knuckles of his

hands at the end of his very long arms. When he stands upright a full-grown male rises to six feet, but with that

immense chest he is far heavier than any normal man could ever be. Six hundred pounds is not uncommon. His

strength is incredible 一certainly great enough to take a man in his arms and wrench his head off.

(5) Gorillas appear to talk to one another in high-pitched voices, not unlike those of women, or by smacking

their lips or striking their cheeks, and the female, if alarmed, will scream. The male is capable of making a

frightening demonstration in the face of danger. He stays behind while his family gets away, rising to his feet and

uttering a terrifying roar. Sometimes he will drum on his chest and shake the trees around him with every

appearance of uncontrollable fury. In extremity he will charge.

(6) But all this is no more than shadow boxing as a general rule, for the gorilla is a gentle, kindly creature, a

most forgiving ape who lives at peace with all the other animals, and his reputation for savagery and belligerence

is nothing but a myth. When the animal charges, the thing to do is to stand your ground and look him in the eye.

Then he will turn aside and slip away through the undergrowth.

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11. Which of the following facts about gorillas does mankind know?

A Lifespan. B. Causes of death. C. Family structure. D. Bone structure.

12. Which of the following words is closer to the meaning of“mystery" in Para. 2?

A. Myth. B. Elusive. C. Horror. D. Stereotyped.

13. What does the author mean by saying “But all this is no more than shadow boxing, .. (Para. 6)?

A. When facing danger, gorillas seldom intend to attack others.

B. When gorillas get into fury, they usually attack others.

C. When the family is in danger, the male gorilla protects them.

D. When alarmed, the male gorilla is more likely to show fury.

14. We can learn from the passage that the author's attitude towards gorillas is .

A. ambiguous B. hostile C. sympathetic D. nonchalant

PASSAGE TWO

(1) In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together. Early every morning they would come

out from the house where they lived and walk arm in arm down the street to work . The one who always steered

the way was an obese and dreamy Greek. In the summer he would come out wearing a yellow or green polo shirt

stuffed sloppily into his trousers in front and hanging loose behind. When it was colder he wore over this a

shapeless gray sweater. His face was round and oily, with half-closed eyelids and lips that curved in a gentle,

stupid smile. The other mute was tall. His eyes had a quick, intelligent expression. He was always immaculate and

very soberly dressed. Every morning the two friends walked silently together until they reached the main street of

the town. Then when they came to a certain fruit and candy store they paused for a moment on the sidewalk

outside. The Greek, Spiros Antonapoulos,worked for his cousin, who owned this fruit store. His job was to make

candies and sweets, uncrate the fruits, and keep the place clean. The thin mute, John Singe, nearly always put his

hand on his friend's arm and looked for a second into his face before leaving him. Then after this goodbye Singer

crossed the street and walked on alone to the jewelry store where he worked as a silverware engraver. In the late

afternoon the friends would meet again. Singer came back to the fruit store and waited until Antonapoulos was

ready to go home. The Greek would be lazily unpacking a case of peaches or melons, or perhaps looking at the

funny paper in the kitchen behind the store where he cooked. Before their departure Antonapouloes always

opened a paper sack he kept hidden during the day on one of the kitchen shelves. Inside were stored various bits

of food he had collected 一a piece of fruit or samples of candy. Usually before leaving Antonapouloes waddled

gently to the gassed case in the front of the store where some meats and cheeses were kept. He glided open the

back of the case and his fat hand groped lovingly for some particular dainty inside which he had wanted.

Sometimes his cousin who owned the place did not see him. But if he noticed he stared at his cousin with a

warning in his tight, pale face. Sadly Antonapoulos would shuffle the morsel from one corner of the case to the

other. During these times Singer stood very straight with his hands in his pockets and looked in another direction.

He did not like to watch this little scene between the two Greeks. For, except drinking and a certain solitary secret

pleasure, Antonapoulos loved to eat more than anything else in the world.

(2) In the dusk the two mutes walked slowly home together. At home Singer was always talking to

Antonapoulos. His hands shaped the words in a swift series of designs. His face was eager and his graygreen eyes

sparkled brightly. With his thin, strong hands he told Antonapoulos all that had happened during the day.

(3) When back at home, Antonapoulos sat back lazily and looked at Singer. It was seldom that he ever

moved his hands to speak at all 一and then it was to say that he wanted to eat or to sleep or to drink .These three

things he always with the same vague, fumbling signs. At night, if he were not too drunk, he would kneel

down before his bed and pray awhile Then his plump hands shaped the words Holy Jesus,or God, or Darling Mary,

These were the only words Antonapoulos ever said. Singer never knew just how much his friend understood of all

the things he told him. But it did not matter.

(4) They shared the upstairs of a small house near the business section of the town. There were two rooms.

On the oil stove in the kitchen Antonapoulos cooked all of their meals, There were straight, plain kitchen chairs

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专八2021真题-新题型TESTFORENGLISHMAJORS(2021)——GRADEEIGHT——TIMELIMIT:150MINPARTⅠLISTENINGCOMPREHENSION[25MIN]SECTIONAMINI-LECTUREInthissectionyouwillhearamini-lecture.YouwillhearthelectureONCEONLY.Whilelisteningtomini-lecture,pleasecompletethegap-fillingtaskonANSWERSHEETONEandwriteNOMORETHANTHREEWORDSforea...

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