英语专业八级词汇专项自测题十套_5_
英语专业八级考试试题
英语专业八级考试试题Listening ComprehensionSection A: News Report(选择的五条新闻来自不同的播报员，请根据提供的中文大纲判断是哪个播报员的报道。
)1.(关于近期某个城市的洪水灾害) "由于连续多日的暴雨，城市部分地区发生严重洪水灾害，居民的生活受到了严重影响。
" (由一个具有浓重美国口音的女播报员报道)2.(关于一部备受瞩目的电影获得票房成功) "《XYZ》这部备受期待的科幻电影在全球上映后获得了巨大成功，票房收入已经超过了预期。
" (由一个具有英国口音的男播报员报道)3.(关于全球气候变化的讨论) "在最近的联合国气候变化大会上，各国代表就如何应对气候变化进行了深入讨论。
" (由一个具有澳大利亚口音的女播报员报道)4.(关于一位著名运动员的退役声明) "在接受采访时，该著名运动员表示他计划在未来的比赛中退役，他感谢粉丝们一直以来的支持。
" (由一个具有加拿大口音的男播报员报道)5.(关于某个国家决定从另一个国家撤军) "在经过多日的谈判后，某大国决定从争议地区撤军，以缓和与该地区的紧张局势。
" (由一个具有南非口音的女播报员报道)Section B: Conversations(请根据对话内容判断主题和涉及人物之间的关系。
)1.主题：预订酒店房间人物关系：客户与酒店前台服务员2.主题：求职面试人物关系：面试官与应聘者3.主题：购买家具人物关系：客户与家具店销售员4.主题：讨论旅游计划人物关系：朋友之间5.主题：讨论电影剧情人物关系：夫妻之间。
专八词汇练习题
专八词汇练习题一、词汇选择1. The couple decided to ________ their marriage because they could no longer tolerate each other.A. dissolveB. evolveC. resolveD. involve2. The government has implemented a series of measures to ________ the economic crisis.A. simulateB. stimulateC. emancipateD. eliminate3. The professor's lecture was so ________ that many students fell asleep.A. monotonousB. instantaneousC. spontaneousD. gigantic二、词汇填空1. The ________ of the new product was a great success, thanks to the effective marketing strategy.2. In order to improve her English, she ________ reading books and newspapers in English every day.3. The ________ between the two countries has been strained due to political differences.三、同义词替换1. The thief tried to escape, but he was ________ the police.A. caughtB. apprehendedC. seizedD. graspedA. constructB. buildC. erectD. assemble3. The ________ of the project was delayed due tofinancial issues.四、反义词匹配1. rich ________2. accept ________3. fragile ________五、词组搭配1. The meeting was ________ due to the sudden illness of the president.2. He always ________ his work before the deadline.3. The government is trying to ________ the gap between the rich and the poor.六、多义词辨析1. The ________ of the new law has caused widespread controversy.A. approvalB. adoptionC. adaptationD. adeptnessA. launchB. liftC. releaseD. relay3. The ________ of the team's performance has been remarkable.A. progressB. processC. procedureD. proceedings七、词形转换1. The________ (impress) teacher managed to________ (impress) her students with her deep knowledge of the subject.2. The________ (explode) of the volcano caused widespread________ (destroy) in the surrounding areas.3. The________ (beauty) of the landscape was________ (mute) the pollution from the near factory.八、句子改写1. The book is too difficult for me to read.Rewrite: The book is________ for me________.2. He didn't attend the meeting because he was sick.Rewrite: His________ prevented him________.3. If you don't study hard, you will fail the exam.Rewrite: Unless you________, you________.九、词汇联想1. Associate the following words with "water":________________________2. Give three words related to "education":________________________十、段落填空Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words from the box. Each word can be used only once.(imagination, creativity, innovative, conventional, stagnant, dynamic)十一、词义猜测1. The term "phobia" is derived from the Greek word meaning "fear." What do you think "claustrophobia" means?________2. The prefix "un" usually means "not" or "opposite of." What is the likely meaning of "unhappy"?________3. The suffix "ness" is added to adjectives to form nouns. What noun does "happiness" likely refer to?________答案一、词汇选择1. A. dissolve2. B. stimulate3. A. monotonous二、词汇填空1. launch2. devotes3. tension三、同义词替换1. B. apprehended2. A. construct四、反义词匹配1. poor2. refuse3. sturdy五、词组搭配1. postponed3. narrow六、多义词辨析1. B. adoption2. A. launch3. A. progress七、词形转换1. impressive, impress2. explosion, destruction3. beauty, muted八、句子改写1. The book is beyond my understanding.2. His illness prevented him from attending the meeting.3. Unless you study hard, you will fail the exam.九、词汇联想1. aquatichydrationfountain2. curriculumenlightenmentscholarship十、段落填空(innovation, conventional, imagination, innovative, dynamic, stagnant)十一、词义猜测1. Fear of confined spaces2. Not happy3. The state of being happy。
英语专八自测题第九套
英语专业八级词汇专项自测题十套（1000 题）By 朱晓慧（北大出版社）Edited by Adam Brown Shenstone- 2 -804. When toxic fumes from the factory chemical spill began to drift toward our homes, we were told to _.A. evacuateB. excavateC. exhaleD. exhort805. The head of the department has a great _ for public speaking.A. flexB. flaxC. flailD. flair806. They claim that the lack of collection _ into which rain and spilt liquids can drain could contaminate the surrounding land.A. aquaticsB. sumpsC. gauzesD. torsos807. Missionaries travel all over the world to preach the _.A. GospelB. GourmetC. GranaryD. Gosh808. He worked as a builder in Chicago and _ half his monthly wage to his family in the Philippines.A. refundedB. remittedC. reposedD. rebuffed809. Spread the cream evenly over your arms and legs and _ it into the skin.A. mastermindB. massacreC. massageD. message810. The painter has managed to capture every _ of the woman's expression.A. nuanceB. hysteriaC. bisonD. bitch811. She is one of the few professors in this department who have _.A. bogeyB. tenureC. cessationD. penitence812. My idea of a holiday is to book myself into a five-star hotel and just _ in the luxury for a week.A. bellowB. burrowC. fallowD. wallow813. Health inspectors _ the kitchen staff for poor standards of cleanliness.A. castigatedB. capitulatedC. corrodedD. debilitated814. He was _ when he touched the bare wires.A. slakedB. slaughteredC. enervatedD. electrocuted815. It's wrong that some people have a _ of food, while others don't have any.A. beetB. surfeitC. gongD. rooster816. In human reproduction, one female egg is usually fertilized by one _.A. spikeB. spermC. spewD. sphere817. She found him sleeping in a _ hanging between trees.A. larvaB. larynxC. hammockD. gut818. Since its _ in 1968, the company has been at the forefront of computer development.A. inceptionB. hearthC. amnesiaD. banter819. _ is one component in several affective disorders, such as depression.A. ManorB. ManiaC. MantisD. Manila820. To make a Halloween lantern, you first have to _ out the inside of the pumpkin.A. connoteB. belieC. accrueD. gouge821. He left what little furniture he owned to his landlord in _ of rent.A. lilacB. lesionC. lieuD. levity822. He went to strike her face but she _ his hand with her arm.A. adulatedB. parriedC. harriedD. griped823. The ladder _ dangerously and I nearly fell off.英语专业八级词汇专项自测题十套（1000 题）By 朱晓慧（北大出版社）Edited by Adam Brown Shenstone- 3 -A. controvertedB. teeteredC. decipheredD. derogated824. Most political prisoners were freed under the terms of the _.A. curatorB. dioceseC. amnestyD. inquest825. Industrial waste is _ the environment.A. deflectedB. deployedC. detractedD. despoiling826. In the suburbs the spacious houses stand in _ contrast to the slums of the city's poor.A. foolhardyB. furtiveC. insidiousD. stark827. If the dam breaks it will _ large parts of the town.A. inundateB. bootlegC. circumventD. gird828. Her later writing so lacked subtlety that it almost read like a _ of her earlier work.A. urnB. satinC. consortiumD. parody829. It is a _ of contemporary psychology that an individual's mental health is supported by having good social networks.A. tenorB. tenetC. tensileD. tentacle830. The company's sales _ from $ 11 million to $ 160 million.A. zoomedB. doomedC. bustledD. buttedII. Each sentence has a word or phrase underlined. There are four words or phrases beneath each sentence. Choose the ONE word or phrase which would best keep the meaning of the original sentence if it were substituted for the underlined part: 831. The climate in the great plain is arid.A. hot and dryB. hot and wetC. cold and wetD. cold and dry832. The armaments race among the great powers is a threat to world peace.A. armsB. armyC. armourD. armature833. He was assailed with questions after his lecture.A. astonishedB. frightenedC. assaultedD. disappointed834. Many of the old houses have wooden balconies.A. stairsB. floorC. deck roofsD. verandas835. Cotton is packed in bales before it is sent to foreign countries.A. bundlesB. basketsC. boxesD. loads836. Out candidate was defeated on the third ballot.A. speechB. roundC. voteD. tour837. The graduate students will convene in the Students' Union.A. convergeB. meetC. summonD. raze838. Two corpses were found in the ruins of an old building.A. dead dogsB. dead menC. dead bodiesD. dead women839. The hospital we visited this morning has more than one thousand cots.A. wardsB. consulting roomsC. doctors and surgeonsD. beds840. We must comply with the terms of the covenant.A. demandB. articleC. AgreementD. reference841. He is not a man to jest with.英语专业八级词汇专项自测题十套（1000 题）By 朱晓慧（北大出版社）Edited by Adam Brown Shenstone- 4 -A. dealB. talkC. jokeD. work842. The coveted Oscar was won by the best performing actor.A. much desiredB. rewardingC. withstandingD. highly regarded843. My grandfather used to sit in the cozy corner near the fireplace.A. farthestB. remoteC. darkD.snug844. She was seized with cramps while swimming.A. sharksB. swift currentsC. stormsD. sharp pains845. After the air-raid, all the roads leading to the city were full of craters made by exploded bombs.A. dead bodiesB. pits and cleftsC. wounded soldiersD. destroyed tanks846. The senators came to a deadlock in their attempt to find a solution.A. an impasseB. a raidC. a hamletD. a breakthrough847. Television is so dreary because it has a dearth of good writing.A. amplitudeB. scarcityC. simplicityD. number848. Did you suspect that the entire episode was an elaborate deception?A. large partyB. deathC. invitationD. hoax849. Do you have anything to declare?A. reverberateB. vindicateC. promulgateD. instigate850. We cannot defer the decision until Mr. Adams return.A. reviewB. makeC. announceD. postpone851. At the time of the accident, many people became frantic with fear.A. wildB. quietC. seriousD. shock852. He was charged with fraud for using false coins.A. moneyB. cheatingC. lawbreakingD. murder853. The officer is gallant in his behavior toward the woman.A. braveB. pertinentC. obedientD. courtly854. The feast was garnished with flowers.A. servedB. heapedC. decoratedD. arranged855. Even after he had been named as the most valuable employee, he could not gather enough courage to ask his boss for a raise.A. mumble upB. matter upC. master upD. muster up856. She was the victim of her neighbor's malicious gossiping.A. malevolentB. violentC. lenientD. benevolent857. The new device is mandatory for engines over 120 horsepower.A. unprovenB. prohibitedC. requiredD. merged858. This part of the sea is rich in marine products.A. livestockB. foreignC. aquaticD. food859. The martial music roused everyone to a peak of excitement.A. pertaining to marriageB. dirge-likeC. seasonedD. warlike860. I ordered a plate of sausage and mash for my lunch.A. fowlB. vegetablesC. crushed potatoesD. mushrooms861. He used a brick as a prop to keep the door open.A. supportB. footingC. bearerD. barrier英语专业八级词汇专项自测题十套（1000 题）By 朱晓慧（北大出版社）Edited by Adam Brown Shenstone- 5 -862. Maria has a provisional license.A. permanentB. temporaryC. corruptD. craven863. Many wild animals prowl at night.A. crawl out of their cavesB. come out in search of waterC. move about in search of foodD. break in some house to steal864. Marc bought a pet puppy from the kennels yesterday.A. kittenB. squirrelC. young dogD. cat865. His car was rammed into from behind by a lorry with faulty brakes.A. run intoB. run downC. run overD. run through866. I’11 wring your neck if you don't behave.A. twistB. knockC. squeezeD. lower867. We like to drive in a sled in winter.A. sledgeB. carC. skateD. ski868. The naughty boys slung stones at street lamps.A. aimedB. hurledC. pickedD. smashed869. John is too slow to do anything.A, prodigious B. tedious C. dingy D. sluggish870. Be careful not to mention the matter to him; he's still a bit touchy on the subject. A, handy B. sensitive C. manual D. ill-manneredIII. Fill in the blanks with the words given below. Change the forms where necessary.A) exonerate linguist scathing venerate logo sentry mesmerize autographmerger percussion871. The priests _ the shrine as the holiest in their religion,872. I got Paul McCartney to _ my T-shirt.873. The report _ the crew from all responsibility for the collision.874. He was _ about the report, denouncing it as out of date and biased.875. The _ of the two companies would create the world's biggest accounting firm. 876. Drums, tambourines and cymbals are all _ instruments.877. At night I park the car outside the Polish embassy, within sight of a(n) _ box, to deter thieves.878. The idea of allowing players to wear the sponsor's _ may win approval.879. The audience was completely _ by her singing voice.880. Only the best _ can become interpreters at the United Nations.B) fungus nadir methane seep schism rookie turbid gazette penurycelibacy881. During the Great _ in the Roman Catholic church, from 1378 to 1417, there was a Pope in Avignon and a Pope in Rome.882. The once-clear waters of the lake have become _ with microscopic algae. 883. _ is only used now in the titles of newspapers.884. These _ cops don't know anything yet.885. She found moving from her affluent home into student _ a very difficult experience.英语专业八级词汇专项自测题十套（1000 题）By 朱晓慧（北大出版社）Edited by Adam Brown Shenstone- 6 -886. A major contributor to the destruction of the ozone layer is the _ produced by cows.887. The defeat was the _ of her career.888. This young man wish to take a vow of _ for life and study for the priesthood. 889. Mushrooms and mould are _.890. Radioactive water had _ into underground reservoirs.C) schizophrenia pentagon nauseate rogue meteor buck dope secularnepotism metro891. We live in an increasingly _ society, in which religion has less and less influence on our daily lives.892. He was known as being a bit of a _ who had left his wife and run off with his secretary.893. The _ is aiming to cut US forces by over 25 per cent in the next five years. 894. They were arrested for smoking _.895. Symptoms of _ can include delusions, hallucinations, thought disorder, and strange behavior and emotions.896. He is _ by the smell of meat cooking.897. We saw a _ streak across the night sky.898. The government was dismissed following revelations about corruption, _ and political incompetence.899. Shall we take the _, or go by bus?900. When he tried to put a saddle on it, the horse _ wildly.参考答案：I. 801～810 ABCAD BABCA 811~820 BDADB--BCABD821～830 CBBCD DADBAII. 831～840 AACDA CBCDC 841～850 CADDB ABDCD851～860 ABDCD ACCDC 861～870 ABCCA AABDBIII. 871.venerate 872.autograph 873.exonerated 874.scathing 875.merger876.percussion 877.sentry 878.logo 879.mesmerized 880.linguists881. Schism 882.turbid 883.Gazette 884. rookie 885. Penury 886. methane887. nadir 888. celibacy 889. funguses 890. seeped 891. secular 892. rogue893. Pentagon 894. dope 895.schizophrenia 896. nauseated 897. meteor898. nepotism 899.metro 900. bucked。
2020年英语专业八级试题及答案(卷十)
13. That consciousness is being transformed into ____.
A. actionB. actC. deedD. activity
14. To stress the importance of a rich vocabulary, the teacher used a(n) ____.“Writing with aseverely limited vocabulary”, she said,“is like trying to paint a circus with only a few colors.”
18. The campers ____ their tent in a sheltered valley.
A. establishedB. placedC. fixedD. built
19. An almost ____ line of traffic was moving at a snail’s pace through the center city.
A. of whichB. whichC. of whoseD. that
5. Doctor Godwin says that ____ what forceful arguments against smoking there are, manypeople persist in smoking.
A. continuousB. constantC. longD. continual
20. On entering another country, a tourist will have to ____ the customs.
英语专八真题附答案
英语专八真题附答案2010英语专八真题TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2010)-GRADE EIGHT-PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (35 MIN)SECTION A MINI-LECTUREIn 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. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.Complete the gap-filling task. Some of the gaps below may require a maximum of THREE words. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically & semantically acceptable. You may refer to your notes.Paralinguistic Features of LanguageIn face-to-face communication speakers often alter their tomes 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 featuresA.(1)__________: to express attitude or intention (1)__________B.Examples1. whispering: need for secrecy2. breathiness: deep emotion3. (2)_________: unimportance (2)__________4. nasality: anxiety5. extra lip-rounding: greater intimacySecond category: physical paralinguistic featuresA.facial expressions1.(3)_______ (3)__________----- smiling: signal of pleasure or welcome2.less common expressions----- eye brow raising: surprise or interest----- lip biting: (4)________ (4)_________B.gesturegestures are related to culture.1.British culture----- shrugging shoulders: (5) ________ (5)__________----- scratching head: puzzlement2.other cultures----- placing hand upon heart:(6)_______ (6)__________----- pointing at nose: secretC.proximity, posture and echoing1.proximity: physical distance between speakers----- closeness: intimacy or threat----- (7)_______: formality or absence of interest (7)_________ Proximity is person-, culture- and (8)________ -specific.(8)_________2.posture----- hunched shoulders or a hanging head: to indicate(9)_____ (9)________----- direct level eye contact: to express an open or challenging attitude3.echoing----- definition: imitation of similar posture----- (10)______: aid in communication (10)___________----- conscious imitation: mockerySECTION B INTERVIEWIn this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.Questions 1 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. According to Dr Johnson, diversity meansA. merging of different cultural identities.B. more emphasis on homogeneity.C. embracing of more ethnic differences.D. acceptance of more branches of Christianity.2. According to the interview, which of the following statements in CORRECT?A. Some places are more diverse than others.B. Towns are less diverse than large cities.C. Diversity can be seen everywhere.D. American is a truly diverse country.3. According to Dr Johnson, which place will witness a radical change in its racial makeup by 2025?A. MaineB. SelinsgroveC. PhiladelphiaD. California4. During the interview Dr Johnson indicates thatA. greater racial diversity exists among younger populations.B. both older and younger populations are racially diverse.C. age diversity could lead to pension problems.D. older populations are more racially diverse.5. According to the interview, religious diversityA. was most evident between 1990 and 2000.B. exists among Muslim immigrants.C. is restricted to certain places in the US.D. is spreading to more parts of the country.SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTIn this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your coloured answer sheet.Question 6 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.6. What is the main idea of the news item?A. Sony developed a computer chip for cell phones.B. Japan will market its wallet phone abroad.C. The wallet phone is one of the wireless innovations.D. Reader devices are available at stores and stations.Question 7 and 8 is 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.7. Which of the following is mentioned as the government’s measure to control inflation?A. Foreign investment.B. Donor support.C. Price control.D. Bank prediction.8. According to Kingdom Bank, what is the current inflation rate in Zimbabwe?A. 20 million percent.B. 2.2 million percent.C. 11.2 million percent.D. Over 11.2 million percent.Question 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the question.Now listen to the news.9. Which of the following is CORRECT?A. A big fire erupted on the Nile River.B. Helicopters were used to evacuate people.C. Five people were taken to hospital for burns.D. A big fire took place on two floors.10. The likely cause of the big fire isA. electrical short-cut.B. lack of fire-satefy measures.C. terrorism.D. not known.PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet.TEXT AStill, the image of any city has a half-life of many years. (So does its name, officially changed in 2001 from Calcutta to Kolkata, which is closer to what the word sounds like in Bengali. Conversing in English, I never heard anyone call the city anything but Calcutta.) To Westerners, the conveyance most identified with Kolkata is not its modern subway—a facility whose spacious stations have art on the walls and cricket matches on televisionmonitors—but the hand-pulled rickshaw. Stories and films celebrate a primitive-looking cart with high wooden wheels, pulled by someone who looks close to needing the succor of Mother Teresa. For years the government has been talking about eliminating hand-pulled rickshaws on what it calls humanitarian grounds—principally on the ground that, as the ma yor of Kolkata has often said, it is offensive to see “one man sweating and straining to pull another man.” But these days politicians also lament the impact of 6,000 hand-pulled rickshaws on a modern city’s traffic and, particularly, on its image. “Wester ners try to associate beggars and these rickshaws with the Calcutta landscape, but this is not what Calcutta stands for,” the chief minister of West Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, said in a press conference in 2006. “Our city stands for prosperity and de velopment.” The chief minister—theequivalent of a state governor—went on to announce that hand-pulled rickshaws soon would be banned from the streets of Kolkata.Rickshaws are not there to haul around tourists. (Actually, I saw almost no tourists in Kolkata, apart from the young backpackers on Sudder Street, in what used to be a red-light district and is now said to be the single place in the city where the services a rickshaw puller offers may include providing female company to a gentleman for the evenin g.) It’s the people in the lanes who most regularly use rickshaws—not the poor but people who are just a notch above the poor. They are people who tend to travel short distances, through lanes that are sometimes inaccessible to even the most daring taxi driver. An older woman with marketing to do, for instance, can arrive in a rickshaw, have the rickshaw puller wait until she comes back fromvarious stalls to load her purchases, and then be taken home. People in the lanes use rickshaws as a 24-hour ambulance service. Proprietors of cafés or corner stores send rickshaws to collect their supplies. (One morning I saw a rickshaw puller take on a load of live chickens—tied in pairs by the feet so they could be draped over the shafts and the folded back canopy and even the axle. By the time he trotted off, he was carrying about a hundred upside-down chickens.) The rickshaw pullers told me their steadiest customers are schoolchildren. Middle-class families contract with a puller to take a child to school and pick him up; the puller essentially becomes a family retainer.From June to September Kolkata can get torrential rains, and its drainage system doesn’t need torrential rain to begin backing up. Residents who favor a touch of hyperbole say that in Kolkata “if a stray cat pees, there’s a flood.” During my stay it once rained for about 48 hours. Entire neighborhoods couldn’t be reached by motorized vehicles, and the newspapers showed pictures of rickshaws being pulled through water that was up to the pullers’ waists. When it’s raining, the normal customer base for rickshaw pullers expands greatly, as does the price of a journey. A writer in Kolkata told me, “When it rains, even the governor takes rickshaws.”While I was in Kolkata, a magazine called India Today published its annual ranking of Indian states, according to such measurements as prosperity and infrastructure. Among India’s 20 largest states, Bihar finished dead last, as it has for four of the past five years. Bihar, a couple hundred miles north of Kolkata, is where the vast majority of rickshaw pullers come from. Once in Kolkata, they sleep on the street or in their rickshaws or in a dera—a combination garage and repair shop and dormitorymanaged by someone called a sardar. For sleeping privileges in a dera, pullers pay 100 rupees (about $2.50) a month, which sounds like a pretty good deal until you’ve visited a dera. They gross between 100 and 150 rupees a day, out of which they have to pay 20 rupees for the use of the rickshaw and an occasional 75 or more for a payoff if a policeman stops them for, say, crossing a street where rickshaws are prohibited. A 2003 study found that rickshaw pullers are near the bottom of Kolkata occupations in income, doing better than only the ragpickers and the beggars. For someone without land or education, that still beats trying to make a living in Bihar.There are people in Kolkata, particularly educated and politically aware people, who will not ride in a rickshaw, because they are offended by the idea of being pulled by another human being or because they consider it not the sort of thing people of their station do or because they regard the hand-pulled rickshaw as a relic of colonialism. Ironically, some of those people are not enthusiastic about banning rickshaws. The editor of the editorial pages of Kolkata’s Telegraph—Rudrangshu Mukherjee, a former academic who still writes history books—told me, for instance, that he sees humanitarian considerations as coming down on the side of keeping hand-pulled rickshaws on the road. “I refuse to be carried by another human being myself,” he said, “but I question whether we have the right to take away their livelihood.” Rickshaw supporters point out that when it comes to demeaning occupations, rickshaw pullers are hardly unique in Kolkata.When I asked one rickshaw puller if he thought the government’s plan to rid the city of rickshaws was based on a genuine interest in his welfare, he smiled, with a quick shake ofhis head—a gesture I interpreted to mean, “Ifyou are so naive as to as k such a question, I will answer it, but it is not worth wasting words on.” Some rickshaw pullers I met were resigned to the imminent end of their livelihood and pin their hopes on being offered something in its place. As migrant workers, they don’t have the political clout enjoyed by, say, Kolkata’s sidewalk hawkers, who, after supposedly being scaled back at the beginning of the modernization drive, still clog the sidewalks, selling absolutely everything—or, as I found during the 48 hours of rain, absolut ely everything but umbrellas. “The government was the government of the poor people,” one sardar told me. “Now they shake hands with the capitalists and try to get rid of poor people.”But others in Kolkata believe that rickshaws will simply be confined more strictly to certain neighborhoods, out of the view of World Bank traffic consultants and California investment delegations—or that they will be allowed to die out naturally as they’re supplanted by more modern conveyances. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, after all, is not the first high West Bengal official to say that rickshaws would be off the streets of Kolkata in a matter of months. Similar statements have been made as far back as 1976. The ban decreed by Bhattacharjee has been delayed by a court case and by a widely held belief that some retraining or social security settlement ought to be offered to rickshaw drivers. It may also have been delayed by a quiet reluctance to give up something that has been part of the fabric of the city for more than a cent ury. Kolkata, a resident told me, “has difficulty letting go.” One day a city official handed me a report from the municipal government laying out options for how rickshaw pullers might be rehabilitated.“Which option has been chosen?” I asked, noting that th e report was dated almost exactly a year before my visit.“That hasn’t been decided,” he said.“When will it be decided?”“That hasn’t been decided,” he said.11. According to the passage, rickshaws are used in Kolkata mainly for the following EXCEPTA. taking foreign tourists around the city.B. providing transport to school children.C. carrying store supplies and purchasesD. carrying people over short distances.12. Which of the following statements best describes the rickshaw pullers from Bihar?A. They come from a relatively poor area.B. They are provided with decent accommodation.C. Their living standards are very low in Kolkata.D. They are often caught by policemen in the streets.13. That “For someone without land or education, that still bea ts trying to make a living in Bihar” (4 paragraph) means that even so,A. the poor prefer to work and live in Bihar.B. the poor from Bihar fare better than back home.C. the poor never try to make a living in Bihar.D. the poor never seem to resent their life in Kolkata.14. We can infer from the passage that some educated and politically aware peopleA. hold mixed feelings towards rickshaws.B. strongly support the ban on rickshaws.C. call for humanitarian actions fro rickshaw pullers.D. keep quiet on the issue of banning rickshaws.15. Which of the following statements conveys the author’s sense of humor?A. “…not the poor but people who are just a notch above the poor.” (2 paragraph)B. “…,.which sounds like a pretty good deal until you’ve visited a de ra.” (4 paragraph)C. Kolkata, a resident told me, “ has difficulty letting go.”(7 paragraph).D.“…or, as I found during the 48 hours of rain, absolutely everything but umbrellas.” (6 paragraph)16. The dialogue between the author and the city official at the end of the passage seems to suggestA. the uncertainty of the court’s decision.B. the inefficiency of the municipal government.C. the difficulty of finding a good solution.D. the slowness in processing options.TEXT BDepending on whom you believe, the average American will, over a lifetime, wait in lines for two years (says National Public Radio) or five years (according to customer-loyalty experts).The crucial word is average, as wealthy Americans routinely avoid lines altogether. Once the most democratic of institutions, lines are rapidly becoming the exclusive province of suckers(people who still believe in and practice waiting in lines). Poor suckers, mostly.Airports resemble France before the Revolution: first-class passengers enjoy "élite" s ecurity lines and priority boarding, and disembark before the unwashed in coach, held at bay by a flight attendant, are allowed to foul the Jetway.At amusement parks, too, you can now buy your way out ofline. This summer I haplessly watched kids use a $52 Gold Flash Pass to jump the lines at Six Flags New England, and similar systems are in use in most major American theme parks, from Universal Orlando to Walt Disney World, where the haves get to watch the have-mores breeze past on their way to their seats.Flash Pass teaches children a valuable lesson in real-world economics: that the rich are more important than you, especially when it comes to waiting. An NBA player once said to me, with a bemused chuckle of disbelief, that when playing in Canada--get this--"we have to wait in the same customs line as everybody else."Almost every line can be breached for a price. In several U.S. cities this summer, early arrivers among the early adopters waiting to buy iPhones offered to sell their spots in the lines. On Craigslist, prospective iPhone purchasers offered to pay "waiters" or "placeholders" to wait in line for them outside Apple stores.Inevitably, some semi-populist politicians have seen the value of sort-of waiting in lines with the ordinary people. This summer Philadelphia mayor John Street waited outside an AT&T store from 3:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. before a stand-in from his office literally stood in for the mayor while he conducted official business. And billionaire New York mayor Michael Bloomberg often waits for the subway with his fellow citizens, though he's first driven by motorcade past the stop nearest his house to a station 22 blocks away, where the wait, or at least the ride, is shorter.As early as elementary school, we're told that jumping the line is an unethical act, which is why so many U.S. lawmakers have framed the immigration debate as a kind of fundamental sin of the school lunch line. Alabama Senator Richard Shelby, to citejust one legislator, said amnesty would allow illegal immigrants "to cut in line ahead of millions of people."Nothing annoys a national lawmaker more than a person who will not wait in line, unless that line is in front of an elevator at the U.S. Capitol, where Senators and Representatives use private elevators, lest they have to queue with their constituents.But compromising the integrity of the line is not just antidemocratic, it's out-of-date. There was something about the orderly boarding of Noah's Ark, two by two, that seemed to restore not just civilization but civility during the Great Flood.How civil was your last flight? Southwest Airlines has first-come, first-served festival seating. But for $5 per flight, an unaffiliated company called /doc/78e08b2aac51f01dc281e53a580216f c710a5328.html will secure you a coveted "A" boarding pass when that airline opens for online check-in 24 hours before departure. Thus, the savvy traveler doesn't even wait in line when he or she is online.Some cultures are not renowned for lining up. Then again, some cultures are too adept at lining up: a citizen of the former Soviet Union would join a queue just so he could get to the head of that queue and see what everyone was queuing for.And then there is the U.S., where society seems to be cleaving into two groups: Very Important Persons, who don't wait, and Very Impatient Persons, who do--unhappily.For those of us in the latter group-- consigned to coach, bereft of Flash Pass, too poor or proper to pay a placeholder --what do we do? We do what Vladimir and Estragon did in Waiting for Godot: "We wait. We are bored."17. What does the following sentence mean? “Once themost democratic of institutions, lines are rapidlybecoming the exclusive province of suckers…Poor suckers, mostly.” (2 paragraph)A. Lines are symbol ic of America’s democracy.B. Lines still give Americans equal opportunities.C. Lines are now for ordinary Americans only.D. Lines are for people with democratic spirit only.18. Which of the following is NOT cited as an example of breaching the line?A. Going through the customs at a Canadian airport.B. Using Gold Flash Passes in amusement parks.C. First-class passenger status at airports.D. Purchase of a place in a line from a placeholder.19. We can infer from the passage that politicians (including mayors and Congressmen)A. prefer to stand in lines with ordinary people.B. advocate the value of waiting in lines.C. believe in and practice waiting in lines.D. exploit waiting in lines for their own good.20. What is the tone of the passage?A. Instructive.B. Humorous.C. Serious.D. Teasing.TEXT CA bus took him to the West End, where, among the crazy coloured fountains of illumination, shattering the blue dusk with green and crimson fire, he found the café of his choice, a tea-shop that had gone mad and turned. Bbylonian, a while palace with ten thousand lights. It towered above the other building likea citadel, which indeed it was, the outpost of a new age, perhaps a new civilization, perhaps a new barbarism; and behind the thin marble front were concrete and steel, just as behind the careless profusion of luxury were millions of pence, balanced to the last halfpenny. Somewhere in the background, hidden away, behind the ten thousand llights and acres of white napery and bewildering glittering rows of teapots, behind the thousand waitresses and cash-box girls and black-coated floor managers and temperamental long-haired violinists, behind the mounds of cauldrons of stewed steak, the vanloads of ices, were a few men who went to work juggling with fractions of a farming, who knew how many units of electricity it took to finish a steak-and-kidney pudding and how many minutes and seconds a waitress( five feet four in height and in average health) would need to carry a tray of given weight from the kitchen life to the table in the far corner. In short, there was a warm, sensuous, vulgar life flowering in the upper storeys, and a cold science working in the basement. Such as the gigantic tea-shop into which Turgis marched, in search not of mere refreshment but of all the enchantment of unfamiliar luxury. Perhaps he knew in his heart that men have conquered half the known world, looted whole kingdoms, and never arrived in such luxury. The place was built for him.It was built for a great many other people too, and, as usual, they were al there. It seemed with humanity. The marble entrance hall, piled dizzily with bonbons and cakes, was as crowded and bustling as a railway station. The gloom and grime of the streets, the raw air, all November, were at once left behind, forgotten: the atmosphere inside was golden, tropical, belonging to some high mid-summer of confectionery. Disdaining the lifts, Turgis, once more excited by the sight, sound, and smell of it all, climbed thewide staircase until he reached his favourite floor, whre an orchestra, led by a young Jewish violinist with wandering lustrous eyes and a passion for tremolo effects, acted as a magnet to a thousand girls, scented air, the sensuous clamour of the strings; and, as he stood hesitating a moment, half dazed, there came, bowing, s sleek grave man, older than he was and far more distinguished than he could ever hope to be, who murmured deferentially: “ For one, sir? This way, please,” Shyly, yet proudly, Turgis followed him.21. That “behind the thi n marble front were concrete and steel” suggests thatA. modern realistic commercialism existed behind the luxurious appearance.B. there was a fundamental falseness in the style and the appeal of the café..C. the architect had made a sensible blend of old and new building materials.D. the café was based on physical foundations and real economic strength.22. The following words or phrases are somewhat critical of the tea-shop EXCEPTA. “…turned Babylonian”.B. “perhaps a new barbarism’.C. “acres of white napery”.D. “balanced to the last halfpenny”.23. In its context the statement that “ the place was built for him” means that the café was intended toA. please simple people in a simple way.B. exploit gullible people like him.C. satisfy a demand that already existed.D. provide relaxation for tired young men.24. Which of the following statements about the second paragraph is NOT true?A. The café appealed to most senses simultaneously.B. The café was both full of people and full of warmth.C. The inside of the café was contrasted with the weather outside.D. It stressed the commercial determination of the café owners.25. The following are comparisons made by the author in the second paragraph EXCEPT thatA. the entrance hall is compared to a railway station.B. the orchestra is compared to a magnet.C. Turgis welcomed the lift like a conquering soldier.D. the interior of the café is compared to warm countries.26. The author’s attitude to the café isA. fundamentally critical.B. slightly admiring.C. quite undecided.D. completely neutral.TEXT DI Now elsewhere in the world, Iceland may be spoken of, somewhat breathlessly, as western Europe’s last pristine wilderness. But the environmental awareness that is sweeping the world had bypassed the majority of Icelanders. Certainly they were connected to their land, the way one is complicatedly connected to, or encumbered by, family one can’t do anything about. But the truth is, once you’re off the beat-en paths of the low-lying coastal areas where everyone lives, the roads are few, and they’re all bad, so Iceland’s natural wonders have beenout of reach and unknown even to its own inhab-itants. For them the land has always just been there, something that had to be dealt with and, if possible, exploited—the mind-set being one of land as commodity rather than land as, well, priceless art on the scale of the “Mona Lisa.”When the opportunity arose in 2003 for the national power company to enter into a 40-year contract with the American aluminum company Alcoa to supply hydroelectric power for a new smelter, those who had been dreaming of some-thing like this for decades jumped at it and never looked back. Iceland may at the moment be one of the world’s richest countries, with a 99 percent literacy rate and long life expectancy. But the proj-ect’s advocates, some of them getting on in years, were more emotionally attuned to the country’s century upon century of want, hardship, and colonial servitude to Denmark, which officially had ended only in 1944 and whose psychological imprint remained relatively fresh. For the longest time, life here had meant little more than a sod hut, dark all winter, cold, no hope, children dying left and right, earthquakes, plagues, starvation, volcanoes erupting and destroying all vegeta-tion and livestock, all spirit—a world revolving almost entirely around the welfare of one’s sheep and, later, on how good the cod catch was. In the outlying regions, it still largely does.Ostensibly, the Alcoa project was intended to save one of these dying regions—the remote and sparsely populated east—where the way of life had steadily declined to a point of desperation and gloom. After fishing quotas were imposed in the early 1980s to protect fish stocks, many indi-vidual boat owners sold their allotments or gave them away, fishing rights ended up mostly in the hands of a few companies, and small fishermen。
大学专业八级英语(词汇与语法)全真模拟练习及答案解析
大学专业八级英语（词汇与语法）全真模拟练习及答案解析总分：100分题量：50题一、单选题（共50题，共100分）1.Sometimesabus____getsonthebustocheckthetickets.A.agentB.officerC.conductorD.inspector正确答案：C本题解析：【句意】有时，公共汽车检票员上车查票。
【难点】 bus conductor意为“公共汽车售票员”;agent意为“代理人，中介人”;officer意为“军官，官员”;inspector意为“检查员，视察员”。
2.____,sheledalifeofcompleteseclusion.A.BeingdisgracedB.DisgracedC.DisgracingD.Shewasdisgraced正确答案：B本题解析：【句意】失宠后，她过着完全隐居的生活。
【难点】 disgraced在这里是过去分词作状语，表示伴随状态。
3.Withonelegbrokeninthatcaraccident,hecannotevenwalk,____run.A.letaloneB.that’stosayC.nottospeakD.nottomention正确答案：A本题解析：【句意】在车祸中，他的一条腿骨折，他连走路都不行，更不用说跑了。
【难点】 let alone意为“更不必说”;not to mention意为“再加上”;that is to say意为“也就是说”4.Nowherebutintheremotestregionofthecountry____findaplacetosettledown .A.canheB.hecanC.heD.forhimto正确答案：A本题解析：【句意】他只能在最遥远的地方找个安身之处。
【难点】 Nowhere是否定副词，位于句首引导倒装句。
5.EinsteinwontheNobelPrizein1921andenjoyedgreatfameinGermanyuntilther iseofNazism____hewasexpelledfromGermanybecausehewasaJew.A.whenB.whoC.thenD.which正确答案：A本题解析：【句意】爱因斯坦于1921年获诺贝尔奖金，在德国享有盛誉。
专业英语八级模拟试卷500(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语八级模拟试卷500(题后含答案及解析)题型有： 1. LISTENING COMPREHENSION 2. READING COMPREHENSION 3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 4. PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION 5. TRANSLATION 6. WRITINGPART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (35 MIN)SECTION A MINI-LECTUREDirections: In this section you sill 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. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.听力原文：How Interpreters Work Good morning. Today I’d like to give you a brief introduction to an interpreter’s work. Generally speaking, an interpreter has to fulfill three stages during his work: the understanding of the speaker’s original message, the memorization of a speech and the re-expression of the same content in another language, with the help of some notes the interpreter writes down upon hearing the original message. The first stage is the understanding. The understanding we refer to here is not of words but of ideas, since an interpreter has to convey concepts. But what happens if an interpreter doesn’t know one word or an expression that he or she hears in a speech? First of all we can underline that an interpreter can understand a speaker’s meaning without actually understanding every single word and expression used. There are other occasions, however, where a word is too important to be left out. ff the interpreter does not know a key word, there can be problems. But after hearing the whole speech, he or she should be able to deduce the meaning of it from the context, given the numbers of clues they have. Moreover, interpreters cannot be expected to be encyclopaedic dictionaries, and they must accept that there are times when they do not know a word or an idiomatic expression. In a situation of direct contact with the delegates, the interpreter must admit his or her ignorance and, if necessary, clarify the question with the delegates. On the other hand, the interpreter does not have the right to guess at meanings in order to hide a normally possible, even if embarrassing, situation. Furthermore, in order to understand meaning without knowing all the lexical items, and to be able to deduce from context, interpreters must in any case have a thorough knowledge of their working languages in order to understand the ideas of a speech, an interpreter needs to get familiar with different kinds of texts. They can present logical arguments showing both points of view on a question before arriving at a synthetic conclusion,they can be a sequence of logical deductions leading to an obvious conclusion according to the speaker’s point of view, and they may simply be descriptive, focusing on an event, a scene or a situation. What follows is the identification of the main ideas. In order to understanda message, an interpreter has to identify the main ideas and give them their proper relevance in the interpretation. And, owing to the intrinsic difficulty of a speech or to the speaker’s speed, he or she might be forced to omit one or more elements of the original. It is clear that if the interpreter doesn’t translate some details, the interpretation will not be perfect but still adequate, whereas, if he or she misses out significant points of the discourse, the result will be a seriously flawed performance. Indeed, interpreters should be capable of providing a summary of a speech, since delegates often don’t want a detailed interpretation but only an exhaustive and precise summary of what has been said. What’s going on next in understanding phase is the analysis of links of the main ideas. A speech is not only a sequence of ideas, but also a series of ideas related to one another in a particular way. Ideas may be linked by logical consequences, logical causes, put together without cause-effect relations, and may also be expressed by a series of opposing concepts. The second stage of interpreting is the memorization of a speech. The objective is to create a telegraphic version of the discourse, and to link its different parts through its semantic-logical connections. We have different means to remember a speech. One possibility is that of internally visualizing the content of a speech and creating images in one’s mind. Specifically speaking, an interpreter needs to concentrate on ideas, not on single words,connect the main ideas to a series of numbers, and then concentrate on the links among the main ideas so as to reproduce the structure of the speech as a kind of skeleton. The third stage of interpreting is re-expression. After understanding, analyzing and memorizing, interpreters have to re-express the speech they have just heard. It must be clear that they are not required to give an academically perfect translation. Their role is to make sure the speaker is understood by the audience so real interpreters have to continue to work on their working languages, including their mother tongue, with the aim of keeping them rich, lively, effective and up-to-date. Therefore, they must be informed about the latest national or international events with the purpose of learning new terminology and also of grabbing the spirit of the era we’re living in. To this end, it is possible to suggest the following advice: First, constantly enrich one’s general vocabulary and style, through regular reading of a broad range of well-written publications in all working languages; Second, follow the press in one’s native language too, which is of particular importance for interpreters living abroad; Third,watch television, see movies, go to the theatre and listen to songs in their original language. To sum up, it’s tree that an interpreter’s work involves only three basic processes, i.e., understanding, memorization and re-expression. ‘Interpreting is a profession that is all about communication. In order to communicate well, interpreters have to “make their own speech”based on the speeches they interpret, and their speech must be faithful to the original and as accurate as possible in the above three processes.They should take advantage of all the possible resources available in their working languages in order to reach an effective, clear and elegant level of performance.How Interpreters Work? Ⅰ. Understanding A. About words and expressions —【1】______ words may be left out: 【1】______ —If not knowing a key word or expression,a)admit or clarify the question if necessary, with thedelegates.b)deduce from 【2】______ 【2】______ B. About ideas/concepts —【3】______ of different kinds of texts that 【3】______a)present logical argumentsb)present a sequence of 【4】______ 【4】______c)are descriptive, focusing on an event, a scene or a situation —identification of the main ideas —analysis of ideas linked by 【5】______ 【5】______ Ⅱ. Memorization of a speech A. Objective —to create a telegraphic version of the discourse —to link its different parts through its semantic-logical connections B. Means of memorization —concentrating on the ideas —connecting main ideas to a series of 【6】______ 【6】______ —focusing on the links among the main ideas Ⅲ. 【7】______ of the content in another language 【7】______ A. Goal: make sure the audience understand the speech. B. Suggestions: —enriching one’s general vocabulary and style —following the press in one’s native language —watching TV, see movies, etc. in the 【8】______ language 【8】______ Ⅳ. Conclusion A. Interpreting is a profession that is all about communication: —”make their own speech”【9】______ the speeches they interpret 【9】______ —be faithful to the original speech —as accurate as possible B. Interpreters should take advantage of all the possible 【10】______ available in their working languages. 【10】______1．【1】正确答案：Unimportant/Less important解析：讲座介绍口译工作的第一步理解阶段时，提到“a word is too important to be left out”，由此可推断，可以忽略的应是不重要的词语，故答案为Unimportant 或Less important。
英语专业八级汉译英练习50篇
英语专业八级汉译英练习50篇Translate the underlined part of the text into English.1．在兽类中我最爱虎，在虎的故事中我最爱下面的一个。
深山中有一所古庙，几个和尚在那里过着单调的修行生活。
同他们做朋友的，除了有时上山来的少数乡下人外，就是几只猛虎。
虎不惊扰僧人，却替他们守护庙宇。
作为报酬，和尚把一些可吃的东西放在庙门前。
每天傍晚，夕阳染红小半个天空，虎们成群地走到庙门口，吃了东西，跳跃而去。
庙门大开，僧人们安然在庙内做他们的日课，也没有谁出去看虎怎样吃东西，即使偶尔有一二和尚立在门前，虎们亦视为平常的事情，把他们看做熟人，不去惊动，却斯斯文文地吃完走开。
如果看不见僧人，虎就发出几声长啸，随着几阵风飞腾而去。
2．光绪二十六年，八国联军攻占北京。
慈禧太后弃城而走，一直逃到西安。
和谈开始后，她并未马上返回北京。
起初，外国列强的要求里面有一项是让慈禧太后退位，由光绪帝重新执掌朝廷。
不过，在与李鸿章多次会谈后，他们放弃了这一要求。
第二年正式签署和约，随后过了一个月慈禧才终于从西安动身。
她对外国人万分惧怕，正像她对国人无比傲慢一样。
她在河南停留了很长一段时间，到了保定又逗留多日，好不容易才回到北京。
据野史记载，在这漫长的旅途中还发生了一件趣事。
一位地方官员送给慈禧一只猴子，她颇为高兴，竟下旨给那只猴子穿黄马褂。
后来太监报告说，有的官员发出了“人不如猴”的感慨，慈禧这才发现自己的决定有些荒唐，于是又下旨给随行官员每人一件黄马褂。
得到这殊荣之后，大家真不知道该感谢慈禧还是感谢那只猴子。
3.中国对香港的政策是“一国两制”，这个原则不仅对香港经济发展有利，而且和中国本身的利益也是一致的。
我们不想使香港政府在过渡时期无法正常行使其职能，恰恰相反，我们希望它能有效地管理香港的事务，中英联合声明和建造新机场的谅解备忘录就是最好的保证。
至于1997年以后的，全国人民大会已通过了《中华人民共和国香港特别行政区基本法》。
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