1、专业八级-671 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、PART LISTENING COM(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、SECTION A(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Note-taking SkillsNote-taking requires a high level of ability in many skills, particularly in the following four most important skills:1. Understanding what the lecturer says as he says it.-A non-nativ
2、e speaker of English is usually under a strain for he may be unable to recognize words in speech which he understands in (1) _. (1) _He may not know the meaning of a new word.-A student should learn to infer the meaning of a new word from the context.-A student should (2) _ only on important points
3、so that he can (2) _ understand much of a lecture.2. Deciding what is important.-Read the (3) _ of a lecture carefully and understand its (3) _ meaning, for it implies the major points of a lecture.-Pay attention to a lecturers direct and indirect signals concerning whats important or unimportant. T
4、he direct signals are (4) _. The (4) _ indirect signals include (5) _, tempo, loudness and intonation of the (5) _ lecturers speech.3. Writing the main points quickly and clearly.-Using (6) _ when writing. (6) _-Selecting words which give (7) _information. (7) _-Choosing the right moment to write no
5、tes.-Writing only one point on each line.-Listening attentively to the lecturer when such connectives as “however“, “on the other hand“ or “nevertheless“ are uttered, for they often mean that new and (8) _ information is to follow. (8) _4. Showing the relationship between the various points he noted
6、.This can be done by a (9) _ presentation. (9) _Spacing and (10) _ are helpful in taking notes efficiently. (10) _（分数：10.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_三、SECTION B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will
7、 be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen to the interview.（分数：5.00）(1).According to Bob, Sri Lanka is well-known for the following EXCEPT _.（分数：1.00）A.beachB.high mountainsC.junglesD.waterfalls(2).What is the purpose of Bobs trip to Sri Lanka?（分数：1.00）A.To spend
8、 his holidays.B.To participate in a business negotiation.C.To meet his Australian friend there.D.To attract Sri Lankan students to undertake degree studies in Australi(3).What are the students from Sri Lanka most interested in according to Bob?（分数：1.00）A.Accountancy and computing.B.Business and fina
9、nce.C.Law and business.D.Architecture and engineerin(4).Which of the following is NOT TRUE of the current situation in Sri Lanka?（分数：1.00）A.Students have difficulty in finding jobs.B.There exists an internal strife.C.The economy is in a recession.D.The economy is developing rapidly.(5).What are the
10、parents in Sri Lanka most concerned about if they send their children to Australia?（分数：1.00）A.Expenditure.B.Safety.C.Cultural difference.D.Accommodation四、SECTION C(总题数：2，分数：5.00)Questions 6 to 8 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each
11、 question.Now listen to the news.（分数：3.00）(1).Who was found to be involved in the bombing of the National police headquarters?（分数：1.00）A.Al-Qaida.B.A militant group.C.The Muslim Brotherhood.D.A group of separatists.(2).Who were the majority of victims in the bombing on Wednesday?（分数：1.00）A.Civilians
12、.B.Students.C.Government officials.D.Police officers.(3).According to Salah, continual terrorist attacks were caused by _.（分数：1.00）A.the secular criticismB.the religious criticismC.the anger over the governments corruptionD.the antagonistic feelings against the WestQuestions 9 to 10 are based on the
13、 following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each question.Now listen to the news.（分数：2.00）(1).Sharon made a commitment three years ago that _.（分数：1.00）A.he would not harm ArafatB.he would withdraw his troopsC.he would deal with the conflict between Israel and
14、 PalestineD.he would not overthrow Palestinian government(2).When did Sharon meet Bush and told Bush that he would release himself from the commitment?（分数：1.00）A.On April 14.B.Three years ago.C.Last Friday.D.A week ago.五、PART READING COMPR(总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、TEXT A(总题数：1，分数：4.00)An ideal college should
15、 be a community, a place of close, natural, intimate association, not only of the young men who are its pupils and novices in various lines of study, but also of young men with older men, with veterans and professionals in the great undertaking of learning, of teachers with pupils, outside the class
16、room as well as inside it. No one is successfully educated within the walls of any particular classroom or laboratory or museum; and no amount of association, however close and familiar and delightful, between mere beginners can ever produce the sort of enlightenment which the young lad gets when he
17、 first begins to catch the infection of learning. The trouble with most of our colleges nowadays is that the faculty of the college live one life and the undergraduates quite a different one. They constitute two communities. The life of the undergraduates is not touched with the personal influence o
18、f the teachers: life among the teachers is not touched by the personal impressions which should come from frequent and intimate contact with undergraduates. This separation need not exist, and, in the college of the ideal university, would not exist.It is perfectly possible to organize the life of o
19、ur colleges in such a way that students and teachers alike will take part in it; in such a way that a perfectly natural daily intercourse will be established between them; and it is only by such an organization that they can be given real vitality as places of serious training, be made communities i
20、n which youngsters will come fully to realize how interesting intellectual work is, how vital, how important, how closely associated with all modern achievement-only by such an organization that study can be made to seem part of life itself. Lectures often seem very formal and empty things; recitati
21、ons generally prove very dull and unrewarding. It is in conversation and natural intercourse with scholars chiefly that you find how lively knowledge is, how it ties into everything that is interesting and important, how intimate a part it is of everything that is “practical“ and connected with the
22、world. Men are not always made thoughtful by books; but they are generally made thoughtful by association with men who think.The present and most pressing problem of our university authorities is to bring about this vital association for the benefit of the novices of the university world, the underg
23、raduates. Classroom methods are thorough enough; competent scholars already lecture and set tasks and superintend their performance; but the life of the average undergraduate outside the classroom and other stated appointments with his instructors is not very much affected by his studies, and is ent
24、irely dissociated from intellectual interests.（分数：4.00）(1).An ideal college _.（分数：1.00）A.should have mature, experienced and professional men on its staffB.should be managed by experienced scholarsC.should be managed by experienced scholars and energetic young menD.should see tight, harmonious conne
25、ction between the experienced and the inexperienced(2).Successful education is the acquiring of knowledge from _.（分数：1.00）A.classrooms, laboratories and museumsB.all sources availableC.intimate association between beginnersD.experienced scholars(3).Beginners are not likely to get the sort of enlight
26、enment mentioned in the passage from _.（分数：1.00）A.themselvesB.booksC.scholarsD.experience(4).The teacher and the student do not understand each other much because _.（分数：1.00）A.they do not live togetherB.they do not often try to exchange ideas, emotions and experiencesC.they do not respect each other
27、sD.they have different standards of education七、TEXT B(总题数：1，分数：4.00)Joyce Carol Oates published her first collection of short stories By The North Gates, in 1962, two years after she had received her Masters degree from the University of Wisconsin and become an instructor of English at the Universit
28、y of Detroit. Her productivity since then has been prodigious, accumulating in less than two decades to nearly thirty titles, including novels, collections of short stories and verse, plays, and literary criticism. In the meantime, she has continued to teach, moving in 1967 from the University of De
29、troit to the University of Windsor, in Ontario, and in 1978 to Princeton University. Reviewers have admired her enormous energy, but find a productivity of such magnitude difficult to assess.In a period characterized by the abandonment of so much of the realistic tradition by authors such as John Ba
30、rth, Donald Barthelme, and Thomas Pynchon, Joyce Carol Oates has seemed at times determinedly old-fashioned in her insistence on the essentially mimetic quality of her fiction. Hers is a world of violence, insanity, fractured love, and hopeless loneliness. Although some of it appears to come from he
31、r own observations, her dreams, and her fears. Much more is clearly form the experience of others. Her first novel, With Shuddering Fall (1964), dealt with stock car racing, though she had never seen a race. In Them (1969) she focused on Detroit from the Depression through the riots of 1967, drawing
32、 much of her material from the Depression made on her by the problems of one of her students. Whatever the source and however shocking the events or the motivations, however, her fictive world remains strikingly akin to that real one reflected in the daily newspapers, the television news and talk sh
33、ows, and the popular magazines of our day.（分数：4.00）(1).Which of the following does the passage indicate about Joyce Carol Oates first publication?（分数：1.00）A.It was part of her MA thesis.B.It was a volume of short fiction.C.It was not successful.D.It was about an English instructor in Detroit.(2).Whi
34、ch of the following does the passage suggest about Joyce Carol Oates in terms of her writing career?（分数：1.00）A.She has experienced long nonproductive periods in her writing.B.Her style is imitative of other contemporary authors.C.She has produced a surprising amount of fiction in a relatively short
35、time.D.Most of her works are based on personal experienc(3).What was the subject of Joyce Carol Oates first novel?（分数：1.00）A.Loneliness.B.Insanity.C.Teaching.D.Racin(4).Oates book Them is _.（分数：1.00）A.a typical novel of the 1960sB.her best piece of nonfictionC.a fictional work based on the experienc
36、es of another personD.an autobiography八、TEXT C(总题数：1，分数：4.00)People in the United States in the nineteenth century were haunted by the prospect that unprecedented change in the nations economy would bring social chaos. In the years following 1820, after several decades of relative stability, the eco
37、nomy entered a period of sustained and extremely rapid growth that continued to the end of the nineteenth century. Accompanying that growth was a structural change that featured increasing economic diversification and a gradual shift in the nations labor force from agriculture to manufacturing and o
38、ther nonagricultural pursuits.Although the birth rate continued to decline from its high level of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the population roughly doubled every generation during the rest of the nineteenth century. As the population grew, its makeup also changed. Massive waves o
39、f immigration brought new ethnic groups into the country. Geographic and social mobility- downward as well as upward-touched almost everyone. Local studies indicate that nearly three-quarters of the population in the North and South, in the emerging cities of the Northeast, and in the restless rural
40、 counties of the West changed their residence each decade. As a consequence, historian David Donald has written, “Social atomization affected every segment of society,“ and it seemed to many people that “all the recognized values of orderly civilization were gradually being eroded.“Rapid industriali
41、zation and increased geographic mobility in the nineteenth century had special implications for women because these changes tended to magnify social distinctions. As the roles men and women played in society became more rapidly defined, so did the roles they played in the home. In the context of ext
42、reme competitiveness and dizzying social change, the household lost many of its earlier functions and the home came to serve as a haven of tranquility and order. As the size of families decreased, the roles of husband and wife became more clearly differentiated than ever before. In the middle class
43、especially, men participated in the productive economy while women ruled the home and served as the custodians of civility and culture. The intimacy of marriage that was common in earlier periods was rent, and a gulf that at times seemed unbridgeable was created between husbands and wives.（分数：4.00）(
44、1).What does the passage mainly discuss?（分数：1.00）A.The economic development of the United States in the eighteenth century.B.Ways in which economic development led to social changes in the United States.C.Population growth in the western United States.D.The increasing availability of industrial jobs
45、 for women in the Unites States.(2).According to the passage, as the nineteenth century progressed, the people of the United States_.（分数：1.00）A.emigrated to other countriesB.often settled in the WestC.tended to change the place in which they livedD.had a higher rate of birth than ever before(3).Whic
46、h of the following best describes the society about which David Donald wrote?（分数：1.00）A.A highly conservative society that was resistant to new ideas.B.A society that was undergoing fundamental change.C.A society that had been gradually changing since the early 1700s.D.A nomadic society that was sta
47、rting permanent settlements.(4).The word “distinction“ in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _.（分数：1.00）A.differencesB.classesC.accomplishmentsD.characteristics九、TEXT D(总题数：1，分数：4.00)Man, so the truism goes, lives increasingly in a man-made environment. This places a special burden on human immatu
48、rity, for it is plain that adapting to such variable conditions must depend very heavily on opportunities for learning, or whatever the processes are that are operative during immaturity. It must also mean that during immaturity man must master knowledge and skills that are either stored in the gene pool or learned by direct encounter, but which are contained in the culture pool-knowledge about values and history, skills as varied as an obligatory natural language or an optional mathematical one, as mute as levers or as articulate as myth te
