2009-2021年专业英语八级考试真题打印版（含答题卡）

1、新题型 TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2009)-GRADE EIGHT-time LIMIT: 150 MINPART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION25 MINSECTION A MINI-LECTUREIn 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 SHEE

2、T 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 minidecture. When it is over, you w

3、ill be given THREE minutes to check your work.SECTION B INTERVIEWIn 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

4、each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the four choices of A, Bf 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. Questions 1 to 5 are based on P

5、art One of the interview.A. It is a local organization headquartered in California.It was originally set up to train speaking skills.It was founded in 1924 by Ralph Smedley.It is an exclusive club for professional speakers.A. To help people develop effective translating skills.To help with personal

6、growth and communication skills.To help people increase their overall self-confidence.To help people getting comfortable around friends.A. Individuals who wish to become professional speakers.Individuals who wish to improve their public speaking.Individuals who want to increase their selPconfidence.

7、Individuals who hope to improve their ways of thinking.A. It helps people improve their ability to do presentation.It helps people deliver message in an organized way.It helps people improve their listening skills.It helps people improve their summarizing ability.A.Becausethey are absent-minded.B.Be

8、causetheyare waiting fortheirturnC.Becausethey are organizing their thoughts.D.Becausetheyare not interestedinthetalking.Now, listen to Part Two of the intetyiew. Questions 6 to 10 are based on Part Two of the interview.A.Practiceplus overall training.B.Practicepluslectures.C.Practiceplus voice trai

9、ning.D.Practiceplusspeech writing.A. Because the menu helps people organize thoughts.Because the menu contains an objective to develop vocal variety.Because the menu provides a guideline for speech developmentBecause the menu helps people improve their humor in speeches.B. Evaluating others* speeche

10、s.D. Polishing speech drafts.B. Evaluating others* speeches.D. Polishing speech drafts.B. The mission of Toastmasters.D. The programs of Toastmasters.B. The description of training courses.D. The overall personal growth.C. Monitoring use of filler words or phrases.A. The introduction to Toastmasters

11、.C. The publicity of Toastmasters.A. The background information.C. The requirements of public speaking.PART II READING COMPREHENSION45 MINSECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONSIn this section there are four passages followed by fourteen multiple choice questions. For each multiple choice question, ther

12、e 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(l)We had been wanting to expand our childrens horizons by taking them to a place that was unlike anything wed been exposed to during our travels

13、in Europe and the United States. In thinking about what was possible from Geneva, where we are based, we decided on a trip to Istanbul, a two-hour plane ride from Zurich.(2)We envisioned the trip as a prelude to more exotic ones, perhaps to New Delhi or Bangkok later this year, but thought our 11- a

14、nd 13-year-olds needed a first step away from manicured boulevards and pristine monuments.(3)What we didnt foresee was the reaction of friends, who warned that we were putting our children “in danger/* referring vaguely, and most incorrectly, to disease, terrorism or just the unknown. To help us get

15、 acquainted with the peculiarities of Istanbul and to give our children a chance to choose what they were particularly interested in seeing, we bought an exceDent guidebook and read it thoroughly before leaving.Friendly warnings didnt change our planning, although we might have more prudently checke

16、d with the U.S. State Departments list of troublespots. We didnt see a lot of children among the foreign visitors during our six-day stay in Istanbul, but we found the tourist areas quite safe, very interesting and varied enough even to suit our son, whose oft-repeated request is that we not see *ev

17、ery singleM church and museum in a given city.(5)Vaccinations werent needed for the city, but we were concerned about adapting to the water for a short stay. So we used bottled water for drinking and brushing our teeth, a precaution that may seem excessive, but we all stayed healthy.(6)Taking the ad

18、vice of a friend, we booked a hotel a 20-minute walk from most of Istanbuls mjor tourist sites. This not only got us some morning exercise, strolling over the Karakoy Bridge, but took us past a colorful assortment of fishermen, vendors and shoe shiners.(7)FYom a teenager and pre-teen,s view, Istanbu

19、l street life is fascinating since almost everything can be bought outdoors. They were at a good age to spend time wandering the labyrinth of the Spice Bazaar, where shops display mounds of pungent herbs in sacks. Doing this with younger children would be harder simply because the streets are so pac

20、ked with people; it would be easy to get lost.(8)For our two, whose buying experience consisted of department stores and shopping mall boutiques, it was amazing to discover that you could bargain over price and perhaps end up with two of something for the price of one. They also learned to figure ou

21、t the relative value of the Turkish lira, not a small matter with its many zeros.(9)Being exposed to Islam was an important part of our trip. Visiting the mosques, especially the enormous Blue Mosque, was our first glimpse into how this mjor religion is practiced. Our childrens curiosity already had

22、 been piqued by the five daily calls to prayer over loudspeakers in every comer of the city, and the scarves covering the heads of many women.(lO)Navigating meals can be troublesome with children, but a kebab, bought on the street or in restaurants, was unfailingly popular. Since we had decided this

23、 trip was not for gourmets, kebabs spared us the agony of trying to find a restaurant each day that would suit the adults desire to tiy something new amid childrens insistence that the food be served immediately. Gradually, we branched out to try some other Turkish specialties.(ll)Although our son h

24、ad studied Islam briefly, it is impossible to be prepared for every awkward question that might come up, such as during our visits to the Topkapi Sarayi, the Ottoman Sultans palace. No guides were available so it was do-it-yourself, using our guidebook, which cheated us of a lot of interesting histo

25、ry and anecdotes that a professional guide could provide. Next time, we resolved to make such arrangements in advance.(12)On this trip, we wandered through the magnificent complex, with its imperial treasures, its courtyards and its harem. The last required a bit of explanation that we would have ha

26、ppily left to a learned third party.Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?The family found the city was exactly what they had expected.Their friends were opposed to their holiday plan.They could have been more cautious about bringing kids along.They were a bit cautious about the quality of

27、water in the city.The last two paragraphs suggest that to visit places of interest in IstanbulA. guidebooks are very useful.B. a professional guide is a mustC. one has to be prepared for questions.D. one has to make arrangements in advance.The family have seen or visited all the following in Istanbu

28、l EXCEPTA. religious prayers.B. historical buildings.C. local-style markets.D. shopping mall boutiques.PASSAGE TWO(l)Last month the first baby-boomers turned 60. The bulky generation bom between 1946 and 1964 is heading towards retirement. The looming 14 demographic cliff will see vast numbers of sk

29、illed workers dispatched from the labour force.(2)The workforce is ageing across the rich worid. Within the EU the number of workers aged between 50 and 64 wiD increase by 25% over the next two decades, while those aged 20-29 will decrease by 20%. In Japan almost 20% of the population is already ove

30、r 65, the highest share in the world. And in the United States the number of workers aged 55-64 will have increased by more than half in this decade, at the same time as the 35- to 44-year-olds decline by 10%.(3)Given that most societies are geared to retirement at around 65, companies have a loomin

31、g problem of knowledge management, of making sure that the boomers do not leave before they have handed over their expertise along with the office keys and their e-mail address. A survey of human-resources directors by IBM last year concluded “When the baby-boomer generation retires, many companies

32、will find out too late that a careers worth of experience has walked out the door, leaving insufficient talent to fill in the void.”(4)Some also face a shortage of expertise. In aerospace and defence, for example, as much as 40% of the workforce in some companies will be eligible to retire within th

33、e next five years. At the same time, the number of engineering graduates in developed countries is in steep decline.(5)A few companies are so squeezed that they are already taking exceptional measures. Earlier this year the Los Angeles Times interviewed an enterprising Australian who was staying in

34、Beverly Hills while he tried to persuade locals to emigrate to Toowoomba, Queensland, to work for his engineering company there. Toowoomba today; the rest of the developed world tomorrow?(6)If you look hard enough, you can find companies that have begun to adapt the workplace to older workers. The A

35、ARP, an American association for the over-50s, produces an annual list of the best employers of its members. Health-care firms invariably come near the top because they are one of the industries most in need of skilled labour. Other sectors similarly affected, says the Conference Board, include oil,

36、 gas, energy and government.(7)Near the top of the AARPs latest list comes Deere & Company, a no-nonsense industrial-equipment manufacturer based in Illinois; about 35% of Deeres 46,000 employees are over 50 and a number of them are in their 70s. The tools it uses to achieve that - flexible working,

37、 telecommuting, and so forth - also coincidentally help older workers to extend their working lives. The company spends “a lot of time” on the ergonomics of its factories, making jobs there less tiring, wliich enables older workers to stay at them for longer.(8)Likewise, for more than a decade, Toyo

38、ta, aiguably the worlds most advanced manufacturer, has adapted its workstations to older workers. The shortage of skilled labour available to the automotive industry has made it unusually keen to recruit older workers. BMW recently set up a factory in Leipzig that expressly set out to employ people

39、 over the age of 45. Needs must when the devil drives.(9)Other firms are polishing their alumni networks. IBM uses its network to recruit retired people for particular projects. Ernst & Young, a professional-services firm, has about 30,000 registered alumni, and about 25% of its experienced* new rec

40、ruits are former employees who return after an absence.(10)But such examples are unusual. A survey in America last month by Ernst & Young found that *although corporate America foresees a significant workforce shortage as boomers retire, it is not dealing with the issue.n Almost three-quarters of th

41、e 1,400 global companies questioned by Deloitte last year said they expected a shortage of salaried staff over the next three to five years. Yet few of them are looking to older workers to fill that shortage; and even fewer are looking to them to fill another gap that has already appeared. Many firm

42、s in Europe and America complain that they struggle to find qualified directors for their boards - this when the pool of retired talent from those very same firms is growing by leaps and bounds.(ll)Why are firms not working harder to keep old employees? Part of the reason is that the crunch has been

43、 beyond the horizon of most managers. Nor is hanging on to older workers the only way to cope with a falling supply of labour. The participation of developing countries in the world economy has increased the overall supply whatever the local effect of demographics in the rich countries. A vast amoun

44、t of work is being sent offshore to such places as China and India and more will go in future. Some countries, such as Australia, are relaxing their immigration policies to allow much needed skills to come in from abroad. Others will avoid the need for workers by spending money on machinery and auto

45、mation.The following are all the measures that companies have adopted to cope with the ageing workforce EXCEPTmaking places of work accommodate the needs of older workers.using alumni networks to hire retired former employees.encouraging former employees to work overseas.granting more convenience in

46、 working hours to older workers.“The company spends a lot of time on the ergonomics of its factories” (Paragraph Seven) means thatthe company attaches great importance to the layout of its factories.the company improves the working conditions in its factories.the company attempts to reduce productio

47、n costs of its factories.the company intends to renovate its factories and update equipmentWhich of the following best describes the authors development of argument?introducing the issue dting ways to deal with the issue describing the actual status offering reasons.describing the actual status -int

48、roducing the issue _*citing ways to deal with the issue offering reasons.citing ways to deal with the issue *introducing the issue describing the actual status -offering reasons.describing the actual status offering reasons -introducing the issueciting ways to deal with the issue.PASSAGE THREE(l)The

49、 other problem that arises from the employment of women is that of the working wife It has two aspects: that of the wife who is more of a success than her husband and that of the wife who must rely heavily on her husband for help with domestic tasks. There are various ways in which the impact of the

50、 first difficulty can be reduced. Provided that husband and wife are not in the same or directly comparable lines of work, the harsh fact of her greater success can be obscured by a genial conspiracy to reject a purely monetary measure of achievement as intolerably crude. Where there are ranks, it i

51、s best if the couple work in different fields so that the husband can find some special reason for the superiority of the lowest figure in his to the most elevated in his wifes.(2)A problem that affects a much larger number of working wives is the need to re-allocate domestic tasks if there are chil

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55、tettsi(fl)IS)1 B 1llIBI171171171t7it7117118118181IBIiaiIBIIBI191ISIiei191PARTILISTENING COMPREHENSIONextra lip rounding: greater intimacyT6)surprise or interest1.一 QO):formality or absence of interestProximity is person-, culture- and (11)-specific.2.3.T14)conscious imitation： (15).5.(2)：breathiness

56、：(3):nasality：need for secrecy deep emotion unimportance anxietySECTION A MINI-LECTCREII. Second category: (4)A. facial expressions1. (5)smiling: signal of pleasure or welcome2. less common expressionslip biting: (7)下列各题必须使用黑色字迹在学堡在答物区域内作答.超出il.色矩形道柞限定区域的答案无效In face-to-face communication speakers of

57、ten alter their tones of voice or change their physical postures in order to convey messages. These means are called paralinguistic features of language, which fall into two categories.First category: vocal paralinguistic features(1): to express attitude or intentionexamplesgestureGestures are relat

58、ed to culture.British cultureshrugging shoulders: (8)scratching head: puzzlementother culturesplacing hand upon heart: (9)pointing at nose: secret C. proximity, posture and echoingproximity: physical distance between speakerscloseness： intimacy or threat posturehunched shoulders or a hanging head: t

59、o indicate (12) 一direct level eye contact: to express a(n) (13) echoing:aid in communicationdefinition: imitation of similar posture:aid in communicationANSWER SHEET3(TEM8)学1.答题前，考生务必用黑色字迹签字笔填准考证里1写自己的准考证号、姓名和学校；再用 2B铅笔把对应准考证号码的标号涂黑， 使用其它笔填涂无效。.考生不得填涂缺考、违纪项，违者责任 自负。.选择题必须用2B铅笔填涂，使用其它笔 填涂无效，修改时要用糠皮擦干

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