2018英語專八真題

1、1 QUESTION BOOKLET TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2018) -GRADE EIGHT- TIME LIMIT: 150 MIN PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION [25 MIN] SECTION A MINI-LECTURE In this section you will hear a mini-lectur

2、e. 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 i

3、n 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 b

4、e 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

5、was said. Both the interviews 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 ans

6、wer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO. You have THIRTY seconds to preview the choices. Now, listen to the first interview. Questions 1 to 5 are based on Part One of the interview. 1. A. Announcement of results. B. La

7、ck of a time schedule. C. Slowness in ballots counting. D. Direction of the electoral events. 試卷用后隨即銷毀 試卷用后隨即銷毀。嚴禁保留、出版 嚴禁保留、出版或復(fù)印。 或復(fù)印。 3 9. A. It was unheard of. B. It was on a small scale. C. It was insignificant. D.

8、 It occurred elsewhere. 10. A. Problems in the electoral process. B. Formation of a new government. C. Premature announcement of results. D. Democracy in Afghanistan. PART II READING COMPREHENSION [4

9、5 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

10、D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET TWO. PASSAGE ONE (1) “Britain’s best export,” I was told by the head of the Department of Immigration in Canberra, “is people.” Clo

11、se on 100,000 people have applied for assisted passages in the first five months of that year, and half of these are eventually expected to migrate to Australia. (2) The Australians are delighted. They are keenly aware t

12、hat without a strong flow of immigrants into the workforce the development of the Australian economy is unlikely to proceed at the ambitious pace currently envisaged. The new mineral discoveries promise a splendid future

13、, and the injection of huge amounts of American and British capital should help to ensure that they arc properly exploited, but with unemployment in Australia down to less than 1.3 per cent, the government is understanda

14、bly anxious (o attract more skilled labor. (3) Australia is roughly the same size as the continental United States, but has only twelve million inhabitants. Migration has accounted for half the population increase in the

15、 last four years, and has contributed greatly to the country’s impressive economic development. Britain has always been the principal source — ninety per cent of Australians arc of British descent, and Britain has provid

16、ed one million migrants since the Second World War. (4) Australia has also given great attention to recruiting people elsewhere. Australians decided they had an excellent potential source of applicants among the so-calle

17、d “guest workers” who have crossed their own frontiers to work in other parts of Europe. There were estimated to be more than four million of them, and a large number were offered subsidized passages and guaranteed jobs