2013年最新专八真题及答案

2013年TEM8真题及答案

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2013)

-GRADE EIGHT-

TIME LIMIT: 195 MIN PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (35 MIN)

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 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, using no more than three words in each gap. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may refer to your notes while completing the task. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.

Now listen to the mini-lecture.

What Do Active Learners Do?

There are difference between active learning and passive learning.

Characteristics of active learners:

I. reading with purposes

A. before reading: setting goals

B. while reading: (1) ________ (1) ________

II. (2) ______ and critical in thinking (2) ________

i.e. information processing, e.g.

— connections between the known and the new information

— identification of (3) ______ concepts (3) ________

— judgment on the value of (4) _____. (4) ________

III. active in listening

A. ways of note-taking: (5) _______. (5) ________

B. before note-taking: listening and thinking

IV. being able to get assistance

A. reason 1: knowing comprehension problems because of

(6) ______. (6) ________

B. reason 2: being able to predict study difficulties

V. being able to question information

A. question what they read or hear

B. evaluate and (7) ______. (7) ________

VI. last characteristic

A. attitude toward responsibility

— active learners: accept

— passive learners: (8) _______ (8) ________

B. attitude toward (9) ______ (9) ________

— active learners: evaluate and change behaviour

— passive learners: no change in approach

Relationship between skill and will: will is more important in

(10) ______. (10) ________

Lack of will leads to difficulty in college learning.

SECTION B INTERVIEW

In 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 answer sheet.

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.

•According to the interviewer, which of the following best indicates the relationship between choice and mobility?

•Better education →greater mobility →more choices.

•Better education →more choices →greater mobility.

•Greater mobility →better education →more choices.

•Greater mobility →more choices →better education.

•According to the interview, which of the following details about the first poll is INCORRECT?

•Shorter work hours was least chosen for being most important.

•Choices for advancement might have been favored by young people.

•High income failed to come on top for being most important.

•Job security came second according to the poll results.

•According to the interviewee, which is the main difference between the first and the second poll?

•The type of respondents who were invited.

•The way in which the questions were designed.

•The content area of the questions.

•The number of poll questions.

•What can we learn from the respondents’ answers to items 2, 4, and 7 in the second poll?

•Recognition from colleagues should be given less importance.

•Workers are always willing and ready to learn more new skills.

•Psychological reward is more important than material one.

•Work will have to be made interesting to raise efficiency.

•According to the interviewee, which of the following can offer both psychological and monetary benefits?

•Contact with many people.

•Chances for advancement.

•Appreciation from coworkers.

•Chances to learn new skills.

SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the best answer to each question on your answer sheet.

Questions 6 and 7 are 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.

•According to the news item, “sleepboxes” are designed to solve the problems of _________.

•airports

•passengers