2016年英语专八考试真题及答案
QUESTION BOOKLET
TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2016) -GRADE EIGHT-
TIME LIMIT: 150 MIN
PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION [25 MIN]
SECTION A MINI-LECTURE
In 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 SHEET 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 mini-lecture. When 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 spoken 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 questions.
Now, listen to the Part One of the interview. Questions 1 to 5 are based on Part One of the interview.
1.A. Maggie’s university life. B. Her mom’s life at Harvard. C. Maggie’s view on studying with Mom. D. Maggie’s opinion on her mom’s major. 2.A. They take exams in the same weeks. B. They have similar lecture notes. C. They apply for the same internship.
D. They follow the same fashion.
3.A. Having roommates.
B. Practicing court trails. C. Studying together.
D. Taking notes by hand.
4.A. Protection.
B. Imagination. C. Excitement. D. Encouragement.
5.A. Thinking of ways to comfort Mom.
B. Occasional interference from Mom. C. Ultimately calls when Maggie is busy.
D. Frequent check on Maggie’s grades.
Now, listen to the Part Two of the interview. Questions 6 to 10 are based on Part Two of the interview.
6.A. Because parents need to be ready for new jobs.
B. Because parents love to return to college. C. Because kids require their parents to do so.
D. Because kids find it hard to adapt to college life.
7.A. Real estate agent. B. Financier.
C. Lawyer.
D. Teacher.
8.A. Delighted.
B. Excited.
C. Bored.
D. Frustrated. 9.A. How to make a cake. B. How to make omelets. C. To accept what is taught. D. To plan a future career.
10.A. Unsuccessful. B. Gradual. C. Frustrating. D. Passionate.
PART II READING COMPREHENSION [45 MIN]
SECTION 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 that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
PASSAGE ONE
(1)There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes（滑水板）over cataracts of foam. On weekends Mr. Gatsby’s Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with scrubbing-brushes and hammer and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before. (2)Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York –every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves. There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour, if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler’s thumb.
(3)At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby’s enormous garden. On
buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d’oeuvre（冷盘）, spiced baked hams crowded
against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials（加香甜酒）so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another.
(4)By seven o’clock the orchestra has arrived– no thin five-piece affair but a whole pitful
2016英语专八
1
QUESTION BOOKLET
TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2016)
-GRADE EIGHTTIME
LIMIT: 150 MIN
PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION [25 MIN]
SECTION A MINI-LECTURE
In 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 SHEET
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 mini-lecture. When 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
SAMPLE TEXT(TEM8)2016年专八官方样卷
- 1 - TEM8 SAMPLE TEST（部分） TIME LIMIT: 155 MIN PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (25 MIN) SECTION A MINI-LECTURE In 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 SHEET 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 mini-lecture. When 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 spoken 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 questions. Now, listen to Part One of the interview. 1. A. Doing what they have promised to schools B. Creating opportunities for leading universities C. Reducing opportunities for state school pupils D. Considering removing barriers for state school pupils 2. A. The government has lowered state pupils’ expectations. B. The number of state pupils applying to Oxford fails to increase.
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1 / 178 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 圣才电子书 2016年英语专业八级真题及详解 TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2016) -GRADE EIGHT- TIME LIMIT: 150 MIN PART Ⅰ LISTENING COMPREHENSION [25 MIN] SECTION A MINI-LECTURE In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the mini-lecture, please complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET 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 mini-lecture. When it is over, you will be given THREE minutes to check your work. Models for Arguments 2 / 178 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 圣才电子书 1. ____ 【答案】the dialectical model 【解析】细节题。录音中提到“The first model, let’s call this the dialectical model”，所以第一种模式就是“the dialectical model”。 2. ____ 【答案】common and fixed Three models for arguments ·the first model for arguing is called (1) _____: (1) _____ —arguments are treated as war —there is much winning and losing —it is a (2) _____ model for arguing (2) _____ ·the second model for arguing is arguments as proofs: —(3) warranted _____ (3) _____ —valid inference and conclusions —no (4) _____ in the adversarial sense (4) _____ ·the third model for arguing is (5) _____: (5) _____ —the audience is (6) _____ in the argument (6) _____ —arguments must (7) _____ the audience (7) _____ Traits of the argument as war ·very dominant: it can shape (8) _____ (8) _____ ·strong arguments are needed ·negative effects include: —(9) _____ are emphasized (9) _____ —winning is the only purpose —this type of arguments prevent (10) _____ (10) _____ —the worst thing is (11) _____ (11) _____ ·implication from arguments as war: (12) _____ (12) _____ —e.g., one providing reasons and the other raising (13) _____ (13) _____ —the other one is finally persuaded Suggestions on new ways to (14) _____ of arguments (14) _____ ·think of new kinds of arguments ·change roles in arguments ·(15) _____ (15) _____ 3 / 178 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 圣才电子书 【解析】细节题。录音中提到在第一种模式中“And that’s not really a very helpful model for arguing but it’s a pretty common and fixed one”，所以应填入common and fixed。 3. ____ 【答案】premises 【解析】细节题。在第二种辩论模式中，需要论证的点包括“Are the premises warranted?”，故应填入premises。 4. ____ 【答案】opposition/ arguing 【解析】细节题。第二种模式还有一个特点，就是“No opposition, no adversary reality, not necessarily any arguing in the adversarial sense”，故应填入opposition或arguing。 5. ____ 【答案】the rhetorical model 【解析】细节题。该处考查的是第三种模式，录音中提到“Let’s call this model the rhetorical model”，故应填入the rhetorical model。 6. ____ 【答案】participating 4 / 178 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 圣才电子书 【解析】细节题。在第三种模式中，录音中讲到“sometimes the audience has a more participatory role in the argument ...”，因此观众会参与其中，故填入participating。 7. ____ 【答案】be before 【解析】细节题。在第三种模式中“Arguments have been in front of an audience”，因此该辩论模式要在观众面前进行，因词数限制，故应填入与“be in front of”意思相同的词“be before”。 8. ____ 【答案】how we argue 【解析】细节题。在该讲座的第二部分中，录音提到“it shapes how we argue, our actual conduct in arguments”，故应填入how we argue。 9. ____ 【答案】tactics 【解析】细节题。在讲到该模式的弊端时，录音中提到“it elevates tactics over substance”，因此它更注重策略而不是内容，故应填入tactics。 10. ____ 【答案】negotiation and collaboration 【解析】细节题。录音中提到“And worst of all, it seems to prevent things like 5 / 178 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 圣才电子书 negotiation and collaboration”，所以说最坏的负面影响是它妨碍协商和合作，故应填入negotiation and collaboration。 11. ____ 【答案】dead ends 【解析】细节题。录音中提到“And finally, this is really the worst thing. Arguments don’t seem to get us anywhere. They’re dead ends”，所以最坏的情形是争论毫无结果，走入死胡同，故填入dead ends。 12. ____ 【答案】learning with losing 【解析】细节题。录音中提到“if argument is war, then there is also an implicit aspect of meaning, learning with losing”，所以其中暗示着在失败中学习，故填入learning with losing。 13. ____ 【答案】questions 【解析】细节题。在辩论的过程中，其中一方会给出自己的理由，另一方则针对该观点提出自己的问题，故应填入questions。 14. ____ 【答案】achieve positive effects 6 / 178 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 圣才电子书 【解析】细节题。辩论同时也存在积极的影响，讲座的第三部分涉及的就是如何实现辩论积极的影响，故应填入achieve positive effects。 15. ____ 【答案】be self-supported 【解析】细节题。讲座中提到“That means you need to be supported by yourself, even when you lose the argument”，所以说即使失败了，也要支持自己，故应填入be self-supported。 【录音原文】 Models for Arguments Good morning, everyone! My name is David. And I am good at arguing. So, welcome to our introductory lecture on argumentation. Why do we want to argue? Why do we try to convince other people to believe things that they don’t want to believe? Isn’t that even a nice thing to do? Is that a nice way to treat other human being, trying and making them think something they don’t want to think? Well, my answer is going to make reference to three models for arguments. [1]The first model, let’s call this the dialectical model. It’s that we think of arguments as war, and you know what that’s like. There is a lot of screaming and shouting, and winning and losing. [2]And that’s not really a very helpful model for arguing but it’s a pretty common and fixed one. I guess you must have seen that type of arguing many times in the street, on the bus, or in the subway. Let’s move on to the second model. The second model for arguing regards
2016专八真题
PART I
SECTION A 2016年专八真题试卷
LISTENING COMPREHENSION
MINI-LECTURE TIME LIMIT: lSOMIN
[25 MIN]
In 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-fill
ing task on ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE
WORDS for each gap. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is(are) both gram
matically 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. When it is over you will be given THREE minutes to
check your work.心
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 in
2016年专八英语改错练习题及答案
2016年专⼋英语改错练习题及答案
Halloween’s origins dated back to the ancient Celtic _1_
Festival of Samhain (pronouncing sow-in).The Celts, who _2_
Lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, United _3_
Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated its new year on November 1.This day marked the end of summer and theharvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death.Celts believedthat at the night before the new year, the boundary _4_
between the worlds of the live and the dead became blurred._5_
On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, it was _6_
Believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth.In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thoughtthat the presence of the otherworldly spirits made easier for _7_
The Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future.For a people entirely dependent on the volatile naturalworld, these prophecies were an important on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source ofcomfort and direction during the long, dark winter.
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【篇一：2016英语专业八级真题参考答案】
section a mini-lecture
1. the dialectical model
3.premises
4.opposition/arguing
5. arguments as performances/the rhetorical model
6. participating
7. convince
8. how we argue
9. tactics
10. negotiation and collaboration
11. they’re dead ends
12. learning with losing
13. questions
14.achieve positive effects
15.be self-supported
sectionb
interview
1. what is the topic of the interview?
答案：c. maggie’s view on studying with mom.
2. which of the following indicates that they have the same
study schedule?
答案：a. they take exams in the same weeks.
3. what do the mother and daughter have in common as
students?
答案：d. taking notes by hand.
4. what is the biggest advantage of studying with mom? 答案：d. encouragement.
5. what is the biggest disadvantage of studying with mom?答案：b. occasional interference from mom.
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[真题] 2016年专业英语八级真题
[真题] 2016年专业英语八级真题
PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION SECTION A MINI-LECTURE In this section you will
hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. while listening, take notes on the
important points. Your notes will not be marked, but yon will need them to complete a gap-filling
task after the mini-lecture. when the lecture is over, yon 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.
Models for Arguments
I. Three models for arguments
A. the first model for arguing is called__1__:
—arguments are treated as war
—there is much winning and losing
—it is a__2__model for arguing
B. the second model for arguing is arguments as proofs:
—warranted__3__
—valid inferences and conclusions
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QUESTION BOOKLET 试卷用后随即销毁。 严禁保留、出版或复印。 TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2016) -GRADE EIGHT- TIME LIMIT: 150 MIN PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION [25 MIN] SECTION A MINI-LECTURE In 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 SHEET 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 mini-lecture. When 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 question will be spoken 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 questions. Now listening to Part One of the interview. Questions 1 to 5 are based on Part One of the interview. 1. A. Maggie’s university life. B. Her mom’s life at Harvard. C. Maggie’s view on studying with Mom. D. Maggie’s opinion on her mom’s major. 2. A. They take exams in the same weeks. B. They have similar lecture notes. C. They apply for the same internship. D. They follow the same fashion. 3. A. Having roommates. B. Practicing court trials. C. Studying together. D. Taking notes by hand. 4. A. Protection. B. Imagination. C. Excitement. D. Encouragement. 5. A. Thinking of ways to comfort Mom. B. Occasional interference from Mom. C. Untimely calls when Maggie is busy. D. Frequent check on Maggie’s grades. Now listening to Part Two of the interview. Questions 6 to 10 are based on Part Two of the interview. 6. A. Because parents need to be ready for new jobs. B. Because parents love to return to college. C. Because kids require them to do so. D. Because kids find it hard to adapt to college life. 7. A. Real estate agent. B. Financier. C. Lawyer. D. Teacher. 8. A. Delighted. B. Excited. C. Bored. D. Frustrated. 9. A. How to make a cake. B. How to make omelets. C. To accept what is taught. D. To plan a future career. 10. A. Unsuccessful. B. Gradual. C. Frustrating. D. Passionate. PART II READING COMPREHENSION [45 MIN] SECTION 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 that you think is the best answer and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET TWO. PASSAGE ONE (1)There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes (滑水板) over cataracts of foam. On weekends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before. (2)Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York — every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves. There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler’s thumb. (3)At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby’s enormous garden. On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d’oeuvre (冷盘), spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials (加香甜酒) so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another. (4)By seven o’clock the orchestra has arrived, no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums. The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing up-stairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colors, and hair shorn in strange new ways, and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile. The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names. (5)The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music, and the opera of voices pitches a key higher. Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word. (6)The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath; already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the centre of a group, and then, excited with triumph, glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light. (7)Suddenly one of the gypsies, in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and, moving her hands like Frisco, dances out alone on the canvas platform. A momentary hush; the orchestra leader varies his rhythm obligingly for her, and there is a burst of chatter as the erroneous news goes around that she is Gilda Gray’s understudy from the FOLLIES. The party has begun. (8)I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited — they went there. They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island, and somehow they ended up at Gatsby’s door. Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby, and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks. Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission. (9)I had been actually invited. A chauffeur in a uniform crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer: the honor would be entirely Gatsby’s, it said, if I would attend his “little party” that night. He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it — signed Jay Gatsby, in a majestic hand. (10)Dressed up in white flannels I went over to his lawn a little after seven, and wandered around rather ill at ease among swirls and eddies of people I didn’t know — though here and there was a face I had noticed on the commuting train. I was immediately struck by the number of young Englishmen dotted about; all well dressed, all looking a little hungry, and all talking in low, earnest voices to solid