2021英语专业八级考试全真模拟试题

SECTION A MINI-LECTURE In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Some of the gaps may require a maximum of THREE words. Make sure the word( s ) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may refer to your notes while completing the task. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.

SECTION B INTERVIEW In this section you will hear

everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the best answer to each question on ANSER SHEET TWO. Questions I to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to.answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview.

1. The interview is mainly about __ A. how to select universities in the UK B. living in the UK for students C. living in the UK for immigrants D. how to find jobs in the UK

2. According to George Allen, tuition fees mostly depend on __ A. the university students' own choice B. the location of the university C. the type of courses students take D. the teaching facilities of the university

3. What can we learn from George Allen? A. The food is rather boring and uninteresting. B. The food without spices is very excellent. C. Local pubs often serve the cheapest food. D. Coffee shops are much more common in the UK. 4. Which place has the best nightlife in Britain according to George Allen? A. London B. Manchester C. Birmingham D. southwest of England

5. People can get information about the UK from the following EXCEPT __ A. guide books B. Internet C. the British Council D. the university accommodation office SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the

questions that follow. Mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO. Questions 6 to 7 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.

6. Which of the following statements is CORRECT according to the news? A. Childhood obesity rates today are at least three times more than those in 1980. B. Obesity rates have exceeded 25 percent in 30 states. C. Obesity rates have reached 30 percent in 31 states. D. Obesity rates are above 30 percent in 49 states.

7. According to the news item, obesity may result from the following EXCEPT __ A. stress B. anxiety C. depression D. nutritious foods

Questions 8 to 9 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. 8. After the global financial crisis broke out, it was predicted that __ A. the times of Wall Street would come to an end B. the US financial system would be greatly reduced C. the financial

industry in U.S. wouldn't be influenced badly D. the US government would lose several hundred billion dollars 9. What is the main message of the news item? A. The financial institution regained confidence inthe global economy. B. The financial industry in America is coming back to stability. C. The US is still the biggest economy in the word. D. The role of Wall Street won't change for a long time.

Question 10 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news. 10. According to the news item, about how many high school graduates are there this year? A. Fewer than 3 million. B. Fewer than 5 million. C. Fewer than 7 million. D. Fewer than l 0 million. TEXT A Why should Native American students be allowed to have specially adapted educational programs, and what is so different about their learning motivation, compared to that of the Anglo majority?

Native American students, whether young or old, learn by applying principles and skills to their daily lives. In

order for these students to learn a skill, or subject, they must first understand how it relates to their everyday life,and how it can help them to stay upon a strong spiritual path. Learning for Native American students, is not motivated by better grades, or awards, but by the success that it will afford them in future, so when learning environment do not address, or even take into consideration, the cultural, and spiritual differences of the Native American students, future success in life becomes an elusive and unattainable goal. Educational programs for Native American students need to be practical, applicable, and culturally based. The Native American population's educational motivation, as a whole, is more focused on the future utilization of lessons and skills learned, and the benefit that will be given back to the Native American community. As each individual succeeds educationally, they become a model for others, and give hope that the Native American way of life will continue. Unlike the majority of Anglo children, for which our current academic models were forged, Native American children suffer from cultural exclusion and identity crises, racism, poverty and isolation, poor role models,

familial instability and abuse, poor mental, physical, and emotional bealth, as well as anonymity. Native

American students, primarily those in grades K-12, can be categorized as dangerously \"at risk\". The cultural hurdles, compounded by those thrown at them educationally, cause many Native American students to drop out, abuse drugs and alcohol, and/or commit crimes to medicate and alleviate their inability to cope with seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

Native American youths have long been at a disadvantage, with regard to post-secondary education, primarily because if a youth does succeed in graduating high school, it is usually by attending a non-Native American program. This limits their ability to interact and succeed in an atmosphere whose predominant cultural alignment is white. While Tuba City High School, which addresses rural, reservation, and isolated students, has been quite successful in raising test scores, graduating more students, keeping substance abuse and teen pregnancy low, it has not provided the Native American youth an opportunity to leam and interact with the white culture

that surrounds them. But what of the urban Native American students? What can we do for them?

We can make room for alternative programs specifically designed for the Native American students--programs that will address the need to acclimate these students to urban life and white culture gradually, so that they can develop the skills and education necessary to succeed in a diverse and alien culture.

It cannot be stressed enough, that the first, and most important, skill that we must impart to the Native American students is how to live and exist in a foreign culture, while maintaining a solid identity with their own.We must stop trying to fit the Native American youth into the cultural mold of white society, and allow them to live and learn according to their own culturally specific applications and values, and prepare for academic and personal life beyond the reservation.

11. We can learn from paragraph 2 that for Native American students A. everyone has to learn skills useful to their daily lives B. learning is motivated by scores and awards C. success is the only motivation for their learning D. the

current educational programs are quite practical and applicable

12. The word \"hurdles\" (Line 4, Para. 3 ) most probably means A. handles B. obstacles C. gaps D. disadvantages 13. According to the text, what's the problem of Native American youths in non-Native schools? A. Difficulty in raising test scores. B. Being isolated by others. C. Lack of the ability to interact with the white culture. D. Being conservative.

14. What is the author's suggestion on helping Native American students? A. Design special alternative programs for them. B. Teach them how to adapt to urban life and white culture. C. Teach them how to reject their own culture. D. Fit them completely into the cultural mold of white society.

15. What's the author's attitude toward Native American students? A. Indifferent. B. Sympathetic. C. Disappointed. D. Pessimistic. TEXT B

In sixteenth-century Italy and eighteenth-century France, waning prosperity and increasing social unrest led the ruling families to try to preserve their superiority by withdrawing from the lower and middle classes behind barriers of etiquette. In a prosperous community, on the other hand, polite society soon absorbs the newly rich, and in England there has never been any shortage of books on etiquette for teaching them the manners appropriate to their new way of life.

Every code of etiquette has contained three elements: basic moral duties; practical rules which promote efficiency; and artificial, optional graces such as formal compliments to, say, women on their beauty or superiors on their generosity and importance.

In the first category are consideration for the weak and respect for age. Among the ancient Egyptians the young always stood in the presence of older people. Among the Mponguwe of Tanzania, the young men bow as they pass the huts of the elders. In England, until about a century ago, young children did not sit in their parents' presence without asking permission. Practical rules are helpful in

such ordinary occurrences of social life as making proper introductions at parties or other functions so that people can be brought to know each other. Before the invention of the fork, etiquette directed that the fingers should be kept as clean as possible; before the handkerchief came into common use,etiquette suggested that, after spitting, a person should rub the spit inconspicuously underfoot. Extremely refined behavior, however, cultivated as an art of gracious living, has been characteristic only of societies with wealth and leisure, which admitted women as the social equals of men. After the fall of Rome, the first European society to regulate behavior in private life in accordance with a complicated code of etiquette was twelfth-century Province, in France. Province had become wealthy The lords had returned to their castles from the crusades, and there the ideals of chivalry grew up, which emphasized the virtue and gentleness of women and demanded that a knight should profess a pure and dedicated love to a lady who would be his inspiration, and to whom he would dedicate his valiant deeds, though he would never come physically close to her. This was the introduction of the concept of romantic love, which was to influence literature

for many hundreds of years and which still lives on in a debased form in simple popular songs and cheap novels today.

In Renaissance Italy too, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, a wealthy and leisured society developed an extremely complex code of manners, but the rules of behavior of fashionable society had little influence on the daily life of the lower classes. Indeed many of the rules, such as how to enter a banquet room, or how to use a sword or handkerchief for ceremonial purposes, were irrelevant to the way of life of the average~working man, who spent most of his life outdoors or in his own poor hut and most probably did not have a handkerchief, certainly not a sword, to his name.

Yet the essential basis of all good manners does not vary. Consideration for the old and weak and the avoidance of harming or giving unnecessary offence to others is a feature of all societies everywhere and at all levels from the highest to the lowest. You can easily think of dozens of examples of customs and habits in your own daily life which come under this heading.

16. One characteristic of the rich classes of a declining society is their tendency to __ A. preserve their

superiority B. retreat from the awkward position C. produce publications on manners D. change the laws of etiquette 17. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an element of the code of etiquette? A. Basic moral duties. B. Practical rules. C. Artificial and optional graces. D. Generosity and contribution.

18. Etiquette as an art of gracious living is quoted as a feature of__ A. Egypt B, 18th century France C. Renaissance Italy D. England

19. According to the author, a knight should A. inspire his lady to perform valiant deeds B. perform deeds which would inspire romantic songs C. express his love for his lady from a distance D. regard his lady as strong and independent

20. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT? A. About a century ago, children in England could not sit beside their parents without permission. B. In Renaissance Italy, complex code of manners had no effect on common

people. C. In Renaissance Italy, common working men lived in poor conditions. D. Consideration for the old and weak is still one of the fundamental elements of all good manners.

TEXT C Eliot's interested in poetry in about 1902 with the discovery of Romantic. He had recalled how he was initiated into poetry by Edward Fitzgerld's Omar Khayyam at the age of fourteen. \"It was like a sudden conversion,\" he said, an \"overwhelming introduction to a new world of feeling.\" From then on, till about his twentieth year of age (1908), he took intensive courses in Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Rossetti and Swinburne.

It is, no doubt, a period of keen enjoyment...At this period, the poem, or the poetry of a single poet, invades the youthful consciousness and assume complete possession for a time...The frequent result is an outburst of scribbling which we may call imitation...It is not deliberate choice of a poet to mimic, but writing under a kind of daemonic possession by one poet.

Thus, the young Eliot started his career with a mind preoccupied by certain romantic poets. His imitative

scribbling survives in the Harvard Eliot Collection, a part of which is published as Poems Written in Early Youth.\"A Lyric\" (1905), written at Smith Academy and Eliot's first poem ever shown to another's eye, is a straightforward and spontaneous overflow of a simple feeling. Modeled on Ben Johnson, the poem expresses a conventional theme, and can be summarized in a single sentence: since time and space are limited, let us love while we can. The hero is totally self-confident, with no Prnfrockian self-consciousness. He never thinks of retreat, never recognizes his own limitations, and never experiences the kind of inner struggle which will so blight the mind of Prufrock. \"Song: When We Came Home across the Hill\" (1907), written after Eliot entered Harvard College, achieved about the same degree of success. The poem is a lover's mourning of the loss of love, the passing of passion, and this is done through a simple contrast. The flowers in the field are blooming and flourishing, but those in his lover's wreath are fading and withering. The point is that, as flowers become waste then they have been plucked, so love passes when it has been consummated. The poem achieves an effect similar to that of Shelley's \"When the Lamp Is Shattered\".

The form, the dictation and the images are all borrowed. So is the carpe diem theme. In \"Song: The Moonflower Opens\" (1909), Eliot makes the flower-love comparison once more and complains that his love is too cold-hearted and does not have \"tropical flowers with scarlet life for me.\" ,In these poems, Eliot is not writing in his own right, but the poets who possessed him are writing through him. He is imitating in the usualsense of the word, having not yet developed his critical sense. It should not be strange to find him at this stage so interested in flowers: the flowers in the wreath, this morning's flowers, flowers of yesterday, the moonflower which opens to the moth--not interested in them as symbols, but interested in them as beautiful objects. In these poems, the Romantics did not just work on his imagination; they compelled his imagination to work their way.

Though merely fin-de-siecle routines, some of these early poems already embodied Eliot's mature thinking,and forecasted his later development. \"Before Morning\" (1908) shows his awareness of the co-habitation of beauty and decay under the same sun and the same sky. \"Circle's Palace\" (1909) shows that he already entertained the view

of women as emasculating their male victims or sapping their strength. \"On a Portrait\" (1909) describes women as mysterious and evanescent, existing \"beyond the circle of our thought.\" Despite all these hints of later development, these poems do not represent the Eliot we know. Their voice is the voice of traditionand their style is that of the Romantic period. It seems to me that the early Eliots connection with Tennyson is especially interesting,in that Tennyson seems to have foreshadowed Eliot's own development.

21. According to the first paragraph, we can learn that_____. A. Eliot started to learn poems from Edward Fitzgerald B. Edward Fitzgerald wrote Omar Khayyam at ! 4 C. Eliot engaged in the poetry at the age of fourteen D. Eliot started to write romantic poetry in 1902 22. Eliot was wrapped up in __ when he began to write poems. A. Edward Fitzgerald's poems B. romantic poems C. classical literature D. romantic literature

23. Which of the following statements is NOT true of Eliot's first poem? A. It was written at Smith Academy. B. It was modeled on Ben Johnson. C. It was included in Poems

Written in Early Youth. D. It expresses the theme that a common person's mind is loaded with inner struggle. 24. Which of the following is NOT Eliot's poem? A. Song: When We Came Home across the Hill B. Song: The Moonflower Opens C. Fin-de-siecle D. Before Morning

25. The article is primarily concemed with_____ A. comparing the early poems of Tennyson and Eliot B. illustrating Eliot's talent as a young artist C. introducing some background knowledge of Eliot D. representing Eliot's early style and his connection with romantic poets TEXT D Despite Denmark's manifest virtues, Danes never talk about how proud they are to be Danes. This would sound weird in Danish. When Danes talk to foreigners about Denmark, they always begin by commenting on its tidiness, its nnimportanee, the difficulty of its language, the general small-mindedness and self indulgence of their countrymen and the high taxes. No Dane would look you in the eye and say \"Denmark is a great country.\"

You are supposed to figure this out for yourself. It is the land of the silk safety net, where almost half the national budget goes toward smoothing out life's inequalities, and

there is plenty of money for schools, day care, retraining programs, job seminars--Danes love seminar: three days at a study center hearing about waste management is almost as good as a ski trip. It is a culture bombarded by English, in advertising, pop music, the Interact, and despite all the English that Danish absorbs--there is no Danish Academy to defend against it—old dialects persist in Jutland that can barely be understood by Copenhageners. It is the land where, as the saying goes,\"Few have too much and fewer have too little,\" and a foreigner is struck by the sweet egalitarianism that prevails,where the lowliest clerk gives you a level gaze, where Sir and Madame have disappeared from common usage,even Mr. and Mrs. It's a nation ofrecyclers--about 55% of Danish garbage gets made into something new----and no nuclear power plants. It's a nation of tireless planners. Trains run on time. Things operate well in general. Such a nation of overachievers a brochure from the Ministry of Business and Industry says, \"Denmark is one of the world's cleanest and most organized

countries, with virtually no pollution, crime, or poverty. Denmark is the most corruption-free society in the Northern Hemisphere.\" So, of course, one's heart lifts at any

sighting of Danish sleaze: skinhead graffiti on buildings (\"Foreigners Out of Denmark!\" ), broken beer bottles in the gutters, drunken teenagers slumped in the park. Nonetheless, it is an orderly land. You drive through a Danish town, it comes to an end at a stone wall, and on the other side is a field of barley, a nice clean line: town here, country there. It is not a nation of jaywalkers. People stand on the curb and wait for the red light to change, even if its 2 a.m. and there's not a car in sight. However,Danes don't think of themselves as a waiting-at-2-a.m.-for-thc-green-light-people that is how they see Swedes and Germans. Danes see themselves as jazzy people, improvisers, more free-spirited than Swedes, but the truth is (though one should not say it) that Danes are very much like Germans and Swedes.

Orderliness is a main selling point. Denmark has few natural resources, limited manufacturing capability; its future in Europe will be as a broker, banker, and

distributor of goods. You send your goods by container ship to Copenhagen, and these bright, young, English-speaking, utterly honest, highly disciplined people will get your

goods around to Scandinavia, the Baltic States, and Russia. Airports, seaports, highways, and rail lines are ultramodern and well-maintained.

The orderliness of the society doesn't mean that Danish lives are less messy or lonely than yours or mine, and no Dane would tell you so. You can hear plenty about bitter family feuds and the sorrows of alcoholism and about perfectly sensible people who went off one day and killed themselves.

An orderly society can not exempt its members from the hazards of life. But there is a sense of entitlement and security that Danes grow up with. Certain things are yours by virtue of citizenship, and you shouldn't feel bad for taking what you have entitled to, you are as good as anyone else. The rules of the welfare system are clear to everyone, the benefits you get if you lose your job, the steps you take to get a new one; and the orderliness of the system makes it possible for the country to weather high unemployment and social unrest without a sense of crisis.

26. The author thinks Danes adopt a______ attitude towards their country. A. boastful B. modest C. deprecating D. mysterious

27. Which of the following is NOT a Danish characteristic cited in the passage.'? A. Hate of foreign culture. B. Equality in society. C. Linguistic tolerance. D. Persistent planning.

28. The author's reaction to the statement by the Ministry of Business and Industry is ---------______. A. disapproving B. approving C. noncommittal D. doubtful 29. According to the passage, Danish orderliness______ A. sets the people apart from Germans and Swedes B. spares Danes social troubles besetting other peoples C. is considered economically essential to the country D. prevents Danes from acknowledging existing troubles 30. At the end of the passage the author states all the following EXCEPT that_____ A. Danes are clearly informed of their social benefits B. Danes take for granted what is given to them C. the open system helps to tide the country over D. orderliness has alleviated unemployment

There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO. 31. The capital of Scotland is _____ A. Glasgow B. Edinburgh C. Manchester D. Dublin

32. The US formally entered the Second World War in _____ A. 1937 B. 1939 C. 1941 D. 1943

33. The original New Zealand residents are ___ A. Eskimos B. Maoris C. Indians D. Inuits

34. is said to be the home of golf. A. England B. Scotland C. Wales D. Ireland

35. The Catcher in the Rye is written by A. J. D. Salinger B. Jack London C. Flannery O'Connor D. Saul Bellow 36. The main theme of Emily Dickinson's poems is the following except ._ A. friendship B. love and marriage C. life and death D. war and peace

37. Which of the following is regarded as the \"Declaration of Intellectual Independence\"? A. The American Scholar. B. English Traits. C. The Conduct of Life. D. Representative Men.

39. Theme and Rheme are terms in _____of syntax. A. the Traditional Approach B. the Structural Approach C. the Functional Approach D. the Generative Approach

40. Lexeme is _____ A. a physically definable unit B. the common factor underlying a set of forms C. a grammatical unit D. an indefinable unit

The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way:

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 “∧” sign and 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 “／”and put 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) exhibit wants an exhibition, it must often build it. Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately

have political and economical causes: it is not due simply to the bad 41.______

influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become of 42._____

a cause, reinforce the original cause and producing the same effect 43._____

in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take drink 44._____

because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the most 45._____

completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening

to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the sloven of our language 46._____

makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the

process is irreversible. Modem English, especially written English, 47._____

is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be

avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets

rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and think clearly is a 48._____

necessary first step towards political regeneration: so that the fight

against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concerning 49.____

of professional writers. I will come back to this present, and I hope 50.____

by that time the meaning of what I have said here will have become clearer.

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH Translate the following text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE. 我常常听人说，他想读一点书，苦于没有时间。我不太同意这种说法。不管他是多么忙，他总不至于忙得一点时间都抽不出来。一天当中如果抽出一个小时来读书，一年就有365个小时，积少成多，无论研究什么都会有惊人的成绩。零碎的时间最宝贵，但也最容易丢弃。我记得陆放翁有两句诗：“呼僮不应自生火，待饭未来还读书。”这两句诗给我的印象很深。待饭未来的时候是颇难熬的，用来读书岂不甚妙。我们的时间往往于不知不觉中被荒废掉。 SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE Translate the following text into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE. I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I have never found the companion that was as companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad

among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervish in the desert. The farmer can work alone in the field or the woods all day, hoeing or chopping, and not feel lonesome, because he is employed...

Last week, a group of us students, who are ready to leave the campus and face the real world, talked about an issue: What kind of jobs we should take, part-time (on-the-side) extemporaneous jobs or stable fulltime jobs? Some think that the former best suit them while others maintain that the latter render them more benefits. What is your opinion? Write an essay of about 400 words to state your opinion. In the first part of your writing you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary.

You should supply an appropriate title for your essay. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, language and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Write your essay on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.