俄语专业八级听力试题

关键词：八级听力语境语言

俄语专业八级听力试题（共6篇）

篇1：俄语专业八级听力试题

广州汤尼俄语学校俄语考试指南

俄语专业八级考试指南

俄语专业八级考试在于全面考核学生各项知识和语言运用能力，从而了解教学大纲执行情况，促进教学改革，提高教学质量。

【报名条件】

参加俄语专业八级水平测试的考生范围严格限于通过俄语专业四级水平测试(有四级证书)的四年级在校学生，即应届俄语专业学生。

参加往届考试未通过者有一次补考机会。

【报名时间】

一般为每年的11月或12月，具体时间以各高校教务处的通知为准。

【考试时间】

俄语专业八级考试与每年3月份进行，由俄语专业测试小组在外语专业教学指导委员会俄语组的领导下负责命题与实施。

【考试内容】

俄语专业八级考试共六部分：听力理解、阅读理解、综合知识、口语表述、翻译和写作，前三项为客观题，后三项为主观题。考试分两场进行：第一场包括口语表述、听力理解、阅读理解和综合知识(语法、词汇、修辞、文学和国情文化);第二场包括翻译和写作。全部考试时间为180分钟。

【考试类型】

为了全面考核学生的各项能力，并兼顾考试的科学性和客观性，考试采用客观试题与主观试题相结合的形式。客观试题占总分的60%，主观试题占总分的40%

篇2：俄语专业八级听力试题

来源:: kui.cc考试培训网时间:2010-08-22 12:38

俄语专业八级考试时间及专八考试介绍前言：俄语专业八级考试是中国俄语协会组织的全国性的俄语专业水平测试，一般在每年的三月份进行。中国俄语协会统一组织，俄语专业八级考试时间及专八考试介绍

前言：俄语专业八级考试是中国俄语协会组织的全国性的俄语专业水平测试，一般在每年的三月份进行。中国俄语协会统一组织，统一命题，统一考试，统一批卷，统一公布成绩。八级考试目前是我国俄语专业学生最高等级的水平考试，测试内容主要为大学八个学期所学的俄语知识和俄语技能。八级水平通过者可基本胜任俄语听说读写译的实践工作，也为进一步深造打下良好的基础。

俄语专业八级考试在于全面考核学生各项知识和语言运用能力，从而了解教学大纲执行情况，促进教学改革，提高教学质量。

【报名条件】

参加俄语专业八级水平测试的考生范围严格限于通过俄语专业四级水平测试（有四级证书）的四年级在校学生，即应届俄语专业学生。

参加往届考试未通过者有一次补考机会。

【报名时间】

一般为每年的11月或12月，具体时间以各高校教务处的通知为准。

【考试时间】

俄语专业八级考试与每年3月份进行，由俄语专业测试小组在外语专业教学指导委员会俄语组的领导下负责命题与实施。

【考试内容】

俄语专业八级考试共六部分：听力理解、阅读理解、综合知识、口语表述、翻译和写作，前三项为客观题，后三项为主观题。考试分两场进行：第一场包括口语表述、听力理解、阅读理解和综合知识（语法、词汇、修辞、文学和国情文化）；第二场包括翻译和写作。全部考试时间为180分钟。

【考试类型】

篇3：俄语专业八级听力试题

1 听力焦虑感的定义

语言焦虑是学习者因语言学习过程的独特性而产生的一种与课堂语言学习相关的自我意识、信仰、感情以及行为的明显焦虑情绪[2]。听力焦虑感是制约听力理解水平的重要情感因素。听的过程也就是听者对言语信号接收、解码的过程。对言语符号接收、解码的速度由听者大脑中储存的外语经验所决定:如一定数量的可感应性词汇、一定数量的可使用的语法、语言规则、有关的社会文化背景知识等[3]。学生头脑中积累的词汇、语法规则和社会文化背景越多, 在听的过程中对听到的信息解码、理解得就越快。听力测试时, 学生由于忧虑的事情更多, 因而承受的各种心理压力往往会大于平时做练习时的状态。在听到生词或较难理解的句子时, 沉不住气, 对于这些一时不能理解的内容老是纠缠不放。但听力测试中学生是不可能停下来对某个句子或单词仔细斟酌的, 它会持续进行下去, 造成有的学生在试题进行到下一部分时仍念念不忘, 无法完全将精力集中到后面的测试上。这样一来, 表面上似乎在听, 实际上学生的注意力在这个时候已经受到了干扰, 无法高度集中, 造成对听到的内容完全不能正确理解, 最终导致听力焦虑感。

2 英语专业八级考试中听力焦虑感对测试的影响及其成因

2.1 听力焦虑感对听力测试的影响

听力焦虑感对听力测试主要会产生以下方面的影响:首先, 分散学生注意力。在正常情况下, 在听力理解过程, 听力材料是需要高度关注的对象, 然而人在焦虑状态下注意力被分散了, 很难集中在这些材料上, 不是对听到的内容进行解码、加工, 而是把注意分散在各种各样的担忧上, 相应地各种生理反应随之而来, 包括身体发抖、呼吸急促、面红耳赤等等, 这样更难集中注意力, 进而对听力测试造成影响;其次, 瓦解学生思维过程。焦虑者由于焦虑情绪的困扰作用, 使他们的思维活动处于呆滞和凝固状态。他们的比较、分析、综合、抽象、概括等具体思维能力无法正常发挥, 从而难以将听到的内容与已有的知识进行匹配, 做出合理的判断[4];第三, 降低学生的瞬时记忆能力。在听力过程中, 瞬时记忆能力对听力理解的影响至关重要。人一旦焦虑, 这种情绪就会干扰大脑神经, 学生的瞬时记忆能力就会受到影响。焦虑状态下, 学生烦躁不安, 很难把听到的信息储存到大脑的瞬时记忆区中, 无法集中注意力, 记忆的容量就减小, 记忆的能力也随之降低;第四, 摧毁学生自信心。自信心是建立在自我肯定的基础之上, 同时也源于自己知识和经验的积累。当一个中国学生在面对他们不那么熟悉的英语语言时, 自然而然地会出现一些过度焦虑的状态, 觉得自己的词汇储备和语法储备不够, 唯恐自己不能正确地理解听到的内容。学生在这种状态下就不能正常地发挥自己的水平和能力, 他们的自信心就会受到打击。

2.2 客观原因

试题本身难度大是造成学生听力焦虑感非常重要的客观原因。英语专业八级考试是针对英语专业学生高年级阶段的一个测试, 主要考查学生对语言的综合运用能力。听力测试是专八考试最先进行的一个项目, 主要由三个部分组成:听力笔记填空、访谈和新闻。第一部分由一个约900词的讲座和一项填空任务组成, 答题时间10分钟, 共10题。讲座内容广泛, 涉及到政治、经济、历史、文化、教育、语言文学等多个方面。学生边听讲座边做笔记, 然后根据笔记内容填空;第二部分由一个约800词的访谈或对话组成, 共5道选择题, 每道题后有10秒钟的答题时间;第三部分由若干段新闻报道组成, 每段新闻后有1-2道选择题, 共5题, 每道题后有10秒钟的答题时间。新闻的内容都选自VOA、BBC或CNN等国外媒体节目。三个部分的语速均为每分钟150个单词。就考试的三个部分而言, 第一部分的难度最大, 得分率也最低。因为学生在完成该项目时要达到手、脑的并用, 首先要对听到的讲座内容进行分析、解码, 理解其意思;其次要辨别讲座的基本结构, 分清主次;第三要有条理地将听到的关键信息记录下来;最后, 要根据记录的内容填空。这四个环节缺一不可, 任何一个环节出问题都会造成学生在该项目失分。

2.3 主观原因

2.3.1 背景知识贫乏

TEM 8听力测试的三个部分的选材相当广泛, 涉及到了政治、经济、历史、文化、教育、语言文学、科普等多个方面。从测试中反映出的情况却是学生对语言以外的背景知识了解甚少, 有的方面只知其皮毛, 有的方面则毫无了解。在听力测试中, 缺乏相关的背景会对学生理解文章大意产生非常大的阻碍。他们往往只能听懂一些单个的词或句子, 无法掌握其真正含义, 进而对答题产生很大的影响。

2.3.2 听力技巧缺失

TEM 8的听力测试, 尤其是第一部分听力笔记填空是对学生的听力技巧和能力要求很高的一个项目。要很好地完成这一项目, 学生要同时掌握“听”的技巧, “记”得技巧和“填”的技巧。尤其是近几年的考题更倾向于在听力笔记填空中考查学生的推理能力和归纳总结的能力。

2.3.3 心理素质欠佳

心理素质差主要表现为缺乏自信, 精神紧张, 易受干扰。有的学生平时听力成绩还不错, 但一遇到考试就非常紧张, 致使无法发挥其正常水平, 造成听力成绩不理想。还有些学生在听的过程中如果遇到生词或自己不熟悉的听力材料就会完全慌了阵脚, 焦虑不安, 异常紧张, 无法集中注意力, 对听到的信息不能进行正常的解码、加工, 难以正确理解其含义, 当然也不能较好地完成听力测试。

3 解决策略

3.1 扩展知识面, 增加词汇量

学生在学习语言知识的时候不能仅仅局限于语言本身, 还应广泛地涉猎各个学科的知识。这一目标可以通过两种途径来实现。首先, 阅读是扩展知识面非常有效的方式。但学生在阅读的时候不能只选择自己感兴趣的材料, 而是文学、文化、政治、经济、科普等什么方面都要读一点, 不求精通, 但求有一些基本的常识。阅读的材料以英文为主, 因为这不但可以拓展知识面, 还可以提高阅读能力, 增加词汇积累。其次, 观看一些国外电视台的新闻、访谈和科普等相关视频节目同样也可以扩大知识面, 同时提高听力理解能力, 而且趣味性也会更强。

3.2 掌握听力技巧, 提高听力技能

熟练地运用听力技巧是TEM 8听力测试能取得高分的关键。因为专八考试对学生的听力技巧和能力要求相当高, 学生要掌握“听”、“记”、“填”的各种技巧。在完成第一个项目听力笔记填空的时候在听的过程要通过语意标记词确定讲座的基本结构, 辨别相关信息和不相关信息;在记的过程中要抓主题, 记实词, 并合理运用速记方法;填的过程要分析上下文, 学会归纳总结。对于第二、三部分的访谈和新闻, 预读考题非常关键, 浏览考题的同时要勾画出题干中的关键词, 通过这些词确定听的重点。在听的过程中要特别关注访问者的提问, 留意一些表达情感和态度的词, 并在同时做一些必要的记录。

3.3 树立自信心, 克服焦虑感

首先, 教师在平时的教学中要对学生进行正确的引导, 告知学生由于听力测试的性质和特点, 产生焦虑是很正常的现象, 是大多数学生都会面临的问题, 不要有太大的思想包袱;其次, 学生自己要通过平时的训练消除紧张情绪和焦虑感。每一次练习都当做考试来对待, 每一次考试都当作练习来做, 自然就不会那么紧张和焦虑了;最后, 要抱着必胜的信念, 每次考试或练习都对自己进行积极的心理暗示, 不要被考试中出现的困难吓倒, 丧失斗志。只有克服了心理问题、树立了自信心, 考试的时候才能轻松上阵, 发挥出最佳水平。

4 结束语

听力焦虑感是听力测试中普遍存在的一种心理现象, 但也是影响听力测试成绩的重要心理因素之一。由于英语专业八级考试听力测试部分具有较大的难度, 而且学生存在背景知识缺乏、听力技巧掌握不到位以及心理素质欠佳等问题, 学生在考试过程中产生了较明显的听力焦虑感。针对这些问题, 学生要正确认识和对待听力焦虑感, 在教师的指导下分析专八考试听力测试的特点, 不断拓展知识面、扩充词汇量, 掌握相关的听力技巧和方法, 并且树立自信心, 最终提高听力测试成绩。

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篇4：俄语专业八级听力试题

【关键词】英语专业八级新闻听力教学策备考策略

一、研究背景

英语新闻听力是英语专业八级考试听力的重要组成部分，也是历年考生在听力中失分最多的部分。所以英语新闻听力既是重点，又是难点。《高校英语专业八级考试大纲》（2004）要求学生能听懂VOA、BBC或CNN等国外媒体节目中有关政治、经济、文化、教育、科技等方面的专题报道由于新闻听力题材广泛、正式的新闻词汇出现频率比较高，从而使新闻听力对于教师教学和学生备考都有很大的难度。

而目前关于英语新闻听力的研究大多都是根据教师的教学体会和学生学习成果的反馈，缺乏对英语专业八级考试新闻听力的文本特征进行定量研究。为了具体而又客观的了解英语专业八级考试新闻听力的文本特征，笔者搜集了自2005年至2014年的英语专业八级考试新闻听力的文本材料。并将其作为语料，首先对各类语料中各类新闻题材进行分类统计，其次把定量分析和定性分析的方法相结合，利用语料库检索工具AntConc对语料进行分析和研究。通过分析和研究，为英语专业八级新闻听力教师教学和学生备考提供相关策略。

本文的题目是基于语料库的英语专业八级考试新闻听力的研究，那么现在有必要介绍一下语料库及语料库语言学的知识。语料库（corpus）顾名思义就是存放语言材料的仓库（或数据库），传统上，语言学家用语料库这个术语表示可作为语言研究基础的、大量出现的语言数据。语料库在语言学研究中的一个重要作用就是可以为研究者提供一般的、经验的语言数据，这些经验数据可以使语言学家做出的结论更客观。上世纪90年代中期以来，语料库在英语相关的各个领域中得到广泛应用，已成为语言学实证研究的一个重要手段。正是由于语料库语言学采用把定量分析和定性分析相结合的研究方法，因此其对语言的描述更准确、更客观。

二、语料的收集和研究方法

1.语料的收集和加工。笔者将2005年至2014年的英语专业八级考试新闻听力的文本材料进行收集、整理。一共 30篇新闻听力文本材料，共计4721词，平均每篇文章157个词。并将句子进行分割（以英语中句号为准）。并根据需要利用word文档对语料进行相关标注。根据研究新闻特殊词汇的要求，用N、T、P、PN、ZM、和ZY 分别代表数字、时间、地点、人名、组织机构名称、专业词汇，对文本进行标注；根据研究新闻句式结构的要求，用S10（该句子所包含单词数位于10个-14个之间）、S15（该句子所包含单词数位于15个-19个之间）、S20（该句子所包含单词数位于20个-24个之间）、S25（该句子所包含单词数位于25个-29个之间）、S30（该句子所包含单词数超过30个），CJ（表示从句）、BD（表示被动语态）分别对语料进行标注。利用AntConc 检索到共有203个句子。

2.研究方法。本文的研究方法有两种：

（a）分类统计。通过分类统计可以看出各种类型的新闻材料在新闻听力中所占的比重，并为下一步的分析做好准备。

（b）利用索引工具进行分析与研究。通过该方法可以更客观更准确地对文本进行细致的分析。

（a）首先对新闻文本材料进行分类，按新闻内容分为政治类、经济类、灾难事故类、教育类、航天类、医学类、环保类、社会文化类、科技研究发现类。经过统计发现，出现频率较高的是科技研究发现类，其次是社会文化类，然后依次是灾难事故类，经济类，政治类航天类、医学环保类，出现平率最低的是教育类。

（b）利用语料库语言学的相关知识对语料进行分析与研究，根据历年英语专业八级考试新闻听力真题的考查重点，侧重分析新闻听力当中的数字和组织结构名称。并主要集中研究在英语专业八级考试新闻听力的句法特征，句法特征主要有以下三个方面：句长、从句结构和被动语态。在本研究方法中，采用的索引工具是AntConc，借助该索引工具可以分析文本的相关信息，如数字及组织结构等相关词汇出现的频率。

三、分析文本的特征

1.文本中的数字和组织结构名称。由于新闻听力包含的题材比较广泛，因而会涉及到各行各业的组织结构名称，而数字词汇（包括百分数和小数）也几乎是每年英语专业八级考试新闻听力中都会出现的，同样也是重点。本段的研究主要集中在数字词汇和组织结构名称。通过检索软件检索数字和组织结构名称在文本中出现的频率，并分析数字和组织结构名称在各类新闻题材中的出现频率，从而可以把握重点，有针对性的进行教学和备考。经检索发现，组织结构名称在30篇新闻听力文本中出现了41次，而数字在30篇新闻听力文本中出现了72次。详细情况見下表：

2.文本的句法特征。本部分所研究的文本句法特征主要集中在以下三个方面：句长、被动语态和从句结构，通过这三方面的研究，可以使教师和学生对英语专业八级考试新闻听力的句法特征有个清晰的认识，从而可以有针对性地进行教学和备考。

（a）句长。通过分析句子的长度，使教师和学生认识英语专业八级考试新闻听力中的句子所包含的单词数，平时可以进行针对性、有目的的训练，从而提高教学和备考的效率。该研究根据每个句子所包含的单词数，将句子分成四个类别：①10个单词-14个单词（因10个单词以下的句子仅出现5次，故忽略不计）。②15个单词-19个单词。③20个单词-24个单词。④25个单词-29个单词。⑤30个单词及以上。

经检索分析可以发现：含20-24个单词的句子在文本中出现的频率最高，其次是含30个及30个以上单词的句子，含10-14个单词和含15-19个单词的句子出现片频率相当。出现频率最低的是含25-29个单词的句子。在所有的文本中，最长的句子出现在2014年的第三篇新闻报道中，该句包含60个单词。

（b）被动语态。被动语态在英语中应用非常广泛，而汉语中没有所谓的“被动语态”。那么研究英语新闻听力当中被动语态的应用是否频繁，对于母语是汉语的英语学习者来说，具有非常重要的意义：可以使他们在听英语新闻听力的时候转变思维模式，遇到被动语态时，听完整句，了解施动主体和受动客体后再下结论，有利于更好地理解新闻报道。

经过检索发现被动语态的句子有29个，占总句子数的14.3%。由此可见被动语态在英语新闻听力中占据了一定的比例。

（c）从句结构。英语句式多样，要表达复杂的内容时，会多个从句连用，由于新闻的特点是：用最简洁的话语把新闻事件描述清楚。那么在英语新闻中，为了把新闻事件描述清楚，会不会大量运用从句呢？通过分析英语专业八级考试新闻听力中从句运用的频率。可以更好地了解英语新闻的句子结构特点，有利于英语新闻听力的教学和备考。

四、英语专业八级考试新闻听力的教学和备考策略

关于英语专业八级新闻听力的教学和备考方法有许多种，本部分重点介绍基于以上研究，并结合各个专家学者的研究成果，总结出以下新闻听力教学和备考策略：

1.选择适当的材料进行教学。（a）通过统计。我们可以看出，科技发现类和社会文化类的新闻所占比重比较大，要加大有关这两方面新闻的练习强度。（b）选取材料的时候，要综合考虑每篇新闻的单词数及每句所包含的单词数，根据表6.的数据，最好选取每篇大约160个单词，每句包含20个左右单词的新闻报道，从而使所选材料最大限度的接近英语专业八级考试新闻听力的材料，提高教学和备考效率。

2.掌握相关的新闻词汇。根据表1.我们可以发现相关组织结构名称经常出现在新闻听力当中，例如NASA（美国国家航空和宇宙航行局）一词分别在2008年和2012年的新闻听力中出现过。之所以要强调新闻听力中的相关组织机构名称，是因为如果在听力过程中能够听到并辨认出相关组织结构，有利于了解听力报道的内容，从而提高答题的准确性。当然，除了掌握相关组织机构的名称外，还要掌握相关题材的词汇：（a）政治类：parliament（议会）、Charter（宪章）等。（b）经济类：inflation（通货膨胀）、foreign exchange（外汇）等。例子众多，这里不再一一列举。

除此之外，根据检索，数字在30篇新闻报道中不重复出现了72次，可见其出现频率之高，而在英语专业八级考试的新闻听力部分，平均每两年就有一道有关数字的问题，所以教师要在教学过程中适当安排数字听写，以便考试出现数字时，学生能够轻松应对。

3.注意被动语态和从句结构。为了体现报道的客观性和真实性，新闻听力在句式结构上多采用被动语态的形式，而为了更清楚、准确、全面地表达观点，再现事发场景，英语新闻听力中会出现许多从句。由于被动语态和从句出现的频率较高，这两项都是中国学生不太擅长的部分，因此加大了英语新闻听力的难度。所以教师在教学或学生在备考过程中，应该特别注意被动语态和从句结构，学生在听力练习的过程中，注重培养被动语态和从句的意识，理清各个句子之间的关系，从而更好地理解新闻报道的內容。

4.掌握新闻听力的叙述结构。英语新闻报道往往在第一句就交代人物，地点、相关事件。这在学者界被称为倒金字塔叙述方法，即按照新闻内容重要性的程度由高到低进行扩展，安排全文。新闻的第一句话，即新闻的导语，是整个新闻的浓缩，往往涵盖了新闻的几个基本要素。因此在听新闻听力时，第一句话非常关键，掌握了新闻听力的叙述结构，可以很容易地理解该新闻报道的重要内容所在，从而把握住重点。

5.掌握相关背景知识。新闻背景是指新闻事件的历史背景、周围环境及与其他方面的联系等。背景知识对听力理解至关重要：（a）背景知识可以为篇章的内容提供参照和向导；（b）在理解的过程中，篇章内容和听者具有的相关背景知识相融合，有利于听者理解新闻报道；（c）听者的背景知识可以帮助听者准确判断上下文

为了让学生掌握相关背景知识，教师在教学过程中，要引导学生多关注国际新闻，注意近期重大国际事件及热点报道。并定期对重大的国际新闻报道进行梳理，方便学生理解与掌握。当然备考的学生课下也应该积极关注国际重大新闻。

五、结语

综上所述，英语专业八级新闻听力在文本上有许多的特点，如被动语态、从句结构的广泛用用等。基于这些特点，本文通过对听力文本的分析和研究，并结合其他学者的研究成果，概括出了五个新闻听力教学策略。希望对英语新闻听力的教学有所帮助。

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作者简介：

篇5：英语专业八级考试试题原题

PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)

SECTION A MINI-LECTUR

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. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.

Writing a Research Paper

I. Research Papers and Ordinary Essay

A. Similarity in (1) __________:

e.g. —choosing a topic

—asking questions

—identifying the audience

B. Difference mainly in terms of (2) ___________

1. research papers: printed sources

2. ordinary essay: ideas in one's (3) ___________

II. Types and Characteristics of Research Papers

A. Number of basic types: two

B. Characteristics:

1. survey-type paper:

—to gather (4) ___________

—to quote

—to (5) _____________

The writer should be (6) ___________.

2. argumentative (research) paper:

a. The writer should do more, e.g.

—to interpret

—to question, etc.

b. (7) _________varies with the topic, e.g.

—to recommend an action, etc.

III. How to Choose a Topic for a Research Paper

In choosing a topic, it is important to (8) __________.

Question No. 1: your familiarity with the topic

Question No. 2: Availability of relevant information on the chosen topic

Question No. 3: Narrowing the topic down to (9) _________

Question No. 4: Asking questions about (10) ___________

The questions help us to work out way into the topic and discover its possibilities.

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 coloured 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.

1. What is the purpose of Professor McKay's report?

A. To look into the mental health of old people.

B. To explain why people have negative views on old age.

C. To help correct some false beliefs about old age.

D. To identify the various problems of old age

2. Which of the following is NOT Professor McKay's view?

A. People change in old age a lot more than at the age of 21.

B. There are as many sick people in old age as in middle age.

C. We should not expect more physical illness among old people.

D. We should not expect to find old people unattractive as a group.

3. According to Professor McKay's report,

A. family love is gradually disappearing.

B. it is hard to comment on family feeling.

C. more children are indifferent to their parents.

D. family love remains as strong as ever.

4. Professor McKay is ________ towards the tendency of more parents living apart from their children.

A. negative

B. positive

C. ambiguous

D. neutral

5. The only popular belief that Professor McKay is unable to provide evidence against is

A. old-age sickness.

B. loose family ties.

C. poor mental abilities.

D. difficulities in maths.

SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

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 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. Scientists in Brazil have used frog skin to

A. eliminate bacteria.

B. treat burns.

C. Speed up recovery.

D. reduce treatment cost.

Question 7 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.

7. What is NOT a feature of the new karaoke machine?

A. It is featured by high technology.

B. It allows you to imitate famous singers.

C. It can automatically alter the tempo and tone of a song.

D. It can be placed in specially designed theme rooms.

Question 8 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.

8. China's Internet users had reached _________ by the end of June.

A. 68 million

B. 8.9 million

C. 10 million

D. 1.5 million

Question 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 s

econds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.

9. According to the WTO, Chinese exports rose _________ last year.

A. 21%

B. 10%

C. 22%

D. 4.73

10. According to the news, which trading nation in the top 10 has reported a 5 per cent fall in exports?

A. The UK.

B. The US.

C. Japan.

D. Germany.

PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)

TEXT A

I remember meeting him one evening with his pushcart. I had managed to sell all my papers and was coming home in the snow. It was that strange hour in downtown New York when the workers were pouring homeward in the twilight. I marched among thousands of tired men and women whom the factory whistles had unyoked. They flowed in rivers through the clothing factory districts, then down along the avenues to the East Side.

I met my father near Cooper Union. I recognized him, a hunched, frozen figure in an old overcoat standing by a banana cart. He looked so lonely, the tears came to my eyes. Then he saw me, and his face lit with his sad, beautiful smile -Charlie Chaplin's smile.

“Arch, it's Mikey,” he said. “So you have sold your papers! Come and eat a banana.”

He offered me one. I refused it. I felt it crucial that my father sell his bananas, not give them away. He thought I was shy, and coaxed and joked with me, and made me eat the banana. It smelled of wet straw and snow.

“You haven't sold many bananas today, pop,” I said anxiously.

He shrugged his shoulders.

“What can I do? No one seems to want them.”

It was true. The work crowds pushed home morosely over the pavements. The rusty sky darkened over New York building, the tall street lamps were lit, innumerable trucks, street cars and elevated trains clattered by. Nobody and nothing in the great city stopped for my father's bananas.

“I ought to yell,” said my father dolefully. “I ought to make a big noise like other peddlers, but it makes my throat sore. Anyway, I'm ashamed of yelling, it makes me feel like a fool. ”

I had eaten one of his bananas. My sick conscience told me that I ought to pay for it somehow. I must remain here and help my father.

“I'll yell for you, pop,” I volunteered.

“Arch, no,” he said, “go home; you have worked enough today. Just tell momma I'll be late.”

But I yelled and yelled. My father, standing by, spoke occasional words of praise, and said I was a wonderful yeller. Nobody else paid attention. The workers drifted past us wearily, endlessly; a defeated army wrapped in dreams of home. Elevated trains crashed; the Cooper Union clock burned above us; the sky grew black, the wind poured, the slush burned through our shoes. There were thousands of strange, silent figures pouring over the sidewalks in snow. None of them stopped to buy bananas. I yelled and yelled, nobody listened.

My father tried to stop me at last. “Nu,” he said smiling to console me, “that was wonderful yelling. Mikey. But it's plain we are unlucky today! Let's go home.”

I was frantic, and almost in tears. I insisted on keeping up my desperate yells. But at last my father persuaded me to leave with him.

11. “unyoked” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to

A. sent out

B. released

C. dispatched

D. removed

12. Which of the following in the first paragraph does NOT indicated crowds of people?

A.Thousands of

B. Flowed

C. Pouring

D. Unyoked

13. Which of the following is intended to be a pair of contrast in the passage?

A. Huge crowds and lonely individuals.

B. Weather conditions and street lamps.

C. Clattering trains and peddlers' yells.

D. Moving crowds and street traffic.

14. Which of the following words is NOT suitable to describe the character of the son?

A. Compassionate

B. Responsible

C. Shy

D. Determined

15. What is the theme of the story?

A. The misery of the factory workers.

B. How to survive in a harsh environment.

C. Generation gap between the father and the son.

D. Love between the father and the son.

16. What is the author's attitude towards the father and the son?

A. Indifferent

B. Sympathetic

C. Appreciative

D. Difficult to tell

TEXT B

提示：原文出自美国时代杂志（TIME）日期Jan. 29,

文章标题No Fall Insurance 作者AN K. SMITH, M.D.

When former President Ronald Reagan fell and broke his hip two weeks ago, he joined a group of more than 350,000 elderly Americans who fracture their hips each year. At 89 and suffering from advanced Alzheimer's disease, Reagan is in one of the highest-risk groups for this type of accident. The incidence of hip fractures not only increases after age 50 but doubles every five to six years as the risk of falling increases. Slipping and tumbling arenot the only causes of hip fractures; weakened bones

sometimes break spontaneously. But falling is the major cause, representing 90% of all hip fractures. These... ...

17. The following are all specific measures to guard against injuries with the EXCEPTION of

A. removal of throw rugs.

B. easy access to devices

C. installation of grab bars

D. re-arrangement of furniture

18. In which paragraph does the author state his purpose of writing?

A. The third paragraph

B. The first paragraph

C. The last paragraph

D. The last but one paragraph

19. The main purpose of the passage is to

A. offer advice on how to prevent hip fractures

B. emphasize the importance of health precautions

C. discuss the seriousness of hip fractures.

D. identify the causes of hip fractures.

TEXT C

In his classic novel, “The Pioneers”, James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a land developer, take his cousin on a tour of the city he is building. He describes the broad streets, rows of houses, a teeming metropolis. But his cousin looks around bewildered. All she sees is a forest. “Where are the beauties and improvements which you were to show me?” she asks. He's astonished she can't see them. “Where! Everywhere,” he replies. For though they are not yet built on earth, he has built them in his mind, and they as concrete to him as if they were already constructed and finished.

Cooper was illustrating a distinctly American trait, future-mindedness: the ability to see the present from the vantage point of the future; the freedom to feel unencumbered by the past and more emotionally attached to things to come. As Albert Einstein once said, “Life for the American is always becoming, never being.”... ...

20. The third paragraph examines America's future-mindedness from the _________ perspective.

A. future

B. realistic

C. historical

D. present

21. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT brought about by future-mindedness?

A. Economic stagnation

B. Environmental destruction

C. High divorce rates

D. Neglect of history

22. The word “pooh-pooh” in the sixth paragraph means

A. appreciate

B. praise

C. shun

D. ridicule

23. According to the passage, people at present can forecast ________ of a new round of future-mindedness.

A. the nature

B. the location

C. the variety

D. the features

24. The author predicts in the last paragraph that the study of future-mindedness will focus on

A. how it comes into being

B. how it functions

C. what it brings about

D. what it is related to.

TEXT D

25. The phrase “men's sureness of their sex role” in the first paragraph suggests that they

A. are confident in their ability to charm women.

B. take the initiative in courtship.

C. have a clear idea of what is considered “manly”.

D. tend to be more immoral than women are.

26. The third paragraph does NOT claim that men

A. prevent women from taking up certain professions.

B. secretly admire women's intellect and resolution.

C. doubt whether women really mean to succeed in business.

D. forbid women to join certain clubs and societies.

27. The third paragraph

A. generally agrees with the first paragraph

B. has no connection with the first paragraph

C. repeats the argument of the second paragraph

D. contradicts the last paragraph

28. At the end of the last paragraph the author uses humorous exaggeration in order to

A. show that men are stronger than women

B. carry further the ideas of the earliest paragraphs

C. support the first sentence of the same paragraph

D. disown the ideas he is expressing

29. The usual idea of the cave man in the last paragraph

A. is based on the study of archaeology

B. illustrates how people expect men to behave

C. is dismissed by the author as an irrelevant joke

D. proves that the man, not woman, should be the wooer

30. The opening quotation from Margaret Mead sums up a relationship between man and woman which the author

A. approves of

B. argues is natural

C. completely rejects

D. expects to go on changing

PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)

31. ______ is the capital city of Canada.

A. Vancouver

B. Ottawa √

C. Montreal

D. York

32. U.S. presidents normally serves a (an) _________term.

A. two-year

B. four-year √

C. six-year

D. eight-year

33. Which of the following cities is NOT located in the Northeast, U.S.?

A. Huston. √

B. Boston.

C. Baltimore.

D. Philadelphia.

34. ________ is the state church in England.

A. The Roman Catholic Church.

B. The Baptist Church

C. The

Protestant Church

D. The Church of England √

注：The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion.

35. The novel Emma is written by

A. Mary Shelley.

B. Charlotte Bront.

C. Elizabeth C. Gaskell.

D. Jane Austen. √

36. Which of following is NOT a romantic poet?

A. William Wordsworth.

B. George Elliot. √

C. George G. Byron.

D. Percy B. Shelley.

37. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous for

A. his poems.

B. his plays.

C. his short stories. √

D. his novels

注：O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910), He was famous for his short stories and a master of the surprise ending, O. Henry is remembered best for such enduring favorites as “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Ransom of Red Chief.” The combination of humor and sentiment found in his stories is the basis of their universal appeal.

38. Syntax is the study of

A. language functions.

B. sentence structures. √

C. textual organization.

D. word formation.

注：Definition of Syntax:

a. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences.

b. A publication, such as a book, that presents such rules.

c. The pattern of formation of sentences or phrases in a language.

d. Such a pattern in a particular sentence or discourse.

39. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language?

A. Arbitrariness. 任意性

B. Productivity. 丰富性

C. Cultural transmission. 文化传播性

D. Finiteness. 局限性？

注：design feature: features that define our human languages,such as arbitrariness,duality,creativity,displacement,cultural transmission,etc.

40. The speech act theory was first put forward by

A. John Searle.

B. John Austin. √

C. Noam Chomsky.

D. M.A.K. Halliday.

注：John Langshaw Austin (March 28, 1911 - February 8, 1960) was a philosopher of language, who developed much of the current theory of speech acts. He was born in Lancaster and educated at Balliol College, Oxford. After serving in MI6 during World War II, Austin became White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford. He occupies a place in the British philosophy of language alongside Wittgenstein in staunchly advocating the examination of the way words are used in order to elucidate meaning.

PART V TRANSLATION （60 MIN）

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Translate the following text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.

部分译文：Accomplished men of all ages treat their lives very seriously. As long as they are living, they always labor, work, and study as hard as possible, unwilling to spend time in vain, let alone waste even a single moment of their lives.

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Translate the following underlined part of the text into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.