英语八级真题2013年试卷及答案解析

专业英语八级真题2013年

PART Ⅰ LISTENING COMPREHENSION

SECTION A

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 differences between active learning and passive learning. Characteristics of active learners: Ⅰ. reading with purpose

A. before reading: setting goals B. while reading: (1)

Ⅱ. (2) and critical in thinking i.e. information processing, e.g.

-connections between the known and the new information -identification of (3) concepts -judgment on the value of (4) Ⅲ. active in listening

A. ways of note-taking: (5)

B. before note-taking: listening and thinking Ⅳ. being able to get assistance

A. reason 1: knowing comprehension problems because of (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) Ⅵ. last characteristic

A. attitude toward responsibility -active learners: accept -passive learners: (8) B. attitude toward (9)

-active learners: evaluate and change behaviour -passive learners: no change in approach

Relationship between skill and will: will is more important in (10)

Lack of will leads to difficulty in college learning.

SECTION B

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 ANSWER SHEET TWO.

1、 According to the interviewer, which of the following best indicates the relationship between choice and mobility? A. Better education → more choices → greater mobility. B. Better education → greater mobility → more choices. C. Greater mobility → better education → more choices. D. Greater mobility → more choices → better education.

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

A. Job security came second according to the poll results. B. Chances for advancement might have been favoured by young people.

C. High income failed to come on top for being most important. D. Shorter work hours was least chosen for being most important.

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

A. The type of respondents who were invited. B. The way in which the questions were designed.

C. The content area of the questions. D. The number of poll questions.

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

A. Recognition from colleagues should be given less importance. B. Workers are always willing and ready to learn more new skills. C. Work will have to be made interesting to raise efficiency. D. Psychological reward is more important than material one.

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

A. Contact with many people. B. Appreciation from coworkers.

C. Chances for advancement. D. Chances to learn new skills.

SECTION C

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 ANSWER SHEET TWO.

6、 According to the news item, \the problems of

A. airports. B. passengers. C. architects. D. companies.

7、 Which of the following is NOT true with reference to the news? A. Renters can take a shower inside the box.

B. Renters of normal height can stand up inside. C. Bedding can be automatically changed.

D. Sleepboxes can be rented for different lengths of time. 7、 What is the news item mainly about?

A. London's preparations for the Notting Hill Carnival. B. Main features of the Notting Hill Carnival.

C. Police's preventive measures for the carnival. D. Police participation in the carnival.

9、 The news item reports on a research finding about

A. early malnutrition and heart health. B. the Dutch famine and the Dutch women.

C. the causes of death during the famine. D. nutrition in childhood and adolescence.

10、 When did the research team carry out the study?

A. At the end of World War Ⅱ. B. Between 1944 and 1945.

C. In the 1950s. D. In 2007.

PART Ⅱ READING COMPREHENSION

In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

TEXT A

Three hundred years ago news travelled by word of mouth or letter, and circulated in taverns and coffee houses in the form of pamphlets

and newsletters. \a free conversation, and for reading at an easier rate all manner of printed news,\the first mass-audience newspaper, The New York Sun, pioneered the use of advertising to reduce the cost of news, thus giving

advertisers access to a wider audience. The penny press, followed by radio and television, turned news from a two-way conversation into a one-way broadcast, with a relatively small number of firms controlling the media.

Now, the news industry is returning to something closer to the coffee house. The internet is making news more participatory, social and diverse, reviving the discursive characteristics of the era

before the mass media. That will have profound effects on society and politics. In much of the world, the mass media are flourishing.

Newspaper circulation rose globally by 6% between 2005 and 2009. But those global figures mask a sharp decline in readership in rich countries.

Over the past decade, throughout the Western world, people have been giving up newspapers and TV news and keeping up with events in profoundly different ways. Most strikingly, ordinary people are increasingly involved in compiling, sharing, filtering, discussing and distributing news. Twitter lets people anywhere, report what they are seeing. Classified documents are published in their thousands

online. Mobile-phone footage of Arab uprisings and American tornadoes is posted on social-networking sites and shown on television newscasts. Social-networking sites help people find, discuss and share news with their friends.

And it is not just readers who are challenging the media elite. Technology firms including Google, Facebook and Twitter have become important conduits of news. Celebrities and world leaders publish updates directly via social networks; many countries now make raw data available through \lets people read newspapers or watch television channels from around the world. The web has allowed new providers of news, from individual bloggers to sites, to rise to prominence in a very short space of

time. And it has made possible entirely new approaches to journalism, such as that practiced by WikiLeaks, which provides an anonymous way for whistleblowers to publish documents. The news agenda is no longer controlled by a few press barons and state outlets.

In principle, every liberal should celebrate this. A more participatory and social news environment, with a remarkable diversity and range of news sources, is a good thing. The

transformation of the news business is unstoppable, and attempts to reverse it are doomed to failure. As producers of new journalism,