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1、英语专业八级真题QUESTION BOOKLET 试卷用后随即销毁。 严禁保留、出版或复印。TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2018)-GRADE EIGHT- TIME LIMIIT：150 MINPART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION 25 MINSECTION A MINI-LECTURE In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to mini-lecture, please complete

2、 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. Wh

3、en 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 spo

4、ken 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

5、 to 5 are based on Part One of the interview.Now listen to 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 ballot

6、s 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 l

7、istening 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.

8、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

9、 results.D. Democracy in Afghanistan. PART READING COMPREHENSION 25 MINSECTION 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

10、 that you think is the best answer and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET TWO.PASSAGE ONE (1) “Britains 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

11、 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

12、 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 per cent, the government is understandably anxious to attract more skilled labor. (3) Australia i

13、s 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 countrys impressive economic development. Britain has always been the principal sourc

14、e 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

15、 “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,

16、 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 c

17、ustoms. 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 habitants are not Australians, but Europeans. (6) The governments avowed aim, ho

18、wever, 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 con

19、cerns 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 d

20、o 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

21、 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 t

22、he 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 mu

23、ch 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

24、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 expec

25、ted 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

26、 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 c

27、onsiderate. 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 expansionB. unemployment is down to a low figureC. immigrants attract for

28、eign capitalD. Australia is as large as the United States12. Australia prefers immigrants from Britain because .A. they are selected carefully before entryB. they are likely to form national groupsC. they easily merge into local communitiesD. they are fond of living in small towns13. In explaining w

29、hy some migrants return to Europe the author .A. stresses their economic motivesB. emphasizes the variety of their motivesC. stresses loneliness and homesickness D. emphasizes the difficulties of men over forty14. which of the following words is used literally, not metaphorically?A. “flow” (Para. 2)

30、.B. “injection” (Para. 2).C. “gravitate” (Para. 5).D. “selective” (Para. 6).15. Para. 11 pictures the Australians as .A. unsympatheticB. ungenerousC. undemonstrativeD. unreliablePASSAGE TWO (1) Some of the advantages of bilingualism include better performance at tasks involving “executive function”

31、(which involves the brains ability to plan and prioritize), better defense against dementia in old age andthe obviousthe ability to speak a second language. One purported advantage was not mentioned, though. Many multilinguals report different personalities, or even different worldviews, when they s

32、peak their different languages. (2) Its an exciting notion, the idea that ones 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 claimas many people doto have a different personality when using a different language. A former Economist colleague, for example, repor