2002年英语专业八级考试真题

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2002)GRADE EIGHT
PAPER ONE
PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (40 MIN)
In sections A , B and C, you will hear everything ONCE ONLY, listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct response for each question on your Colored Answer Sheet.
SECTION A TALK
Questions 1 to 5 refer to the talk in this section. At the end of the talk you will be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the talk.

1. According to the passage, during the 18th and 19th centuries cities were small in size mainly because .
A. the urban population was stable B. few people lived in cities
C. transport was backward D. it was originally planned
2. Cities survived in those days largely as a result of .
A. the trade activities they undertook
B. the agriculture activities in the nearby areas
C. their relatively small size
D. the non-economic roles they played
3. City dwellers were engaged in all the following economic activities EXCEPT ______.
A. commerce B. distribution
C. processing D. transportation
4. Urban people left cities for the following reasons EXCEPT .
A. more economic opportunities
B. a freer social and political environment
C. more educational opportunities
D. a more relaxed religious environment
5. Why did the early cities fail to grow as quickly as expected throughout the 18th century?
A. Because the countryside attracted more people.
B. Because cities did not increase in number.
C. Because the functions of the cities changed.
D. Because the number of city people was stable.

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SECTION B INTERVIEW
Questions 6 to 10 are based on an interview with an architect. At the end of the interview you will be given 13 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview.
6. According to Janet, the factor that would most affect negotiation is ____
A. English language proficiency
B. different cultural practices
C. different negotiation tasks
D. the international Americanized style
7. Janet's attitude towards the Americanized style as a model for business negotiation is ______.
A. supportive B. negative C. ambiguous D. cautious
8. Which of the following can NOT be seen as a difference between Brazilian and American negotiators?
A. Americans prepare more points before negotiations.
B. Americans are more straightforward during negotiations.
C. Brazilians prefer more eye contact during negotiations.
D. Brazilians seek more background information.
9. Which group of people seems to be the most straightforward?
A. The British. B. Germans.
C. Americans. D. Not mentioned.
10. Which of the following is NOT characteristic of Japanese negotiators?
A. Reserved. B. Prejudiced. C. Polite. D. Prudent.
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
Questions 11 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the two questions. Now listen to the news.
11. The news item is mainly about
A. a call for research papers to be read at the conference
B. an international conference on traditional Tibetan medicine
C. the number of participants at the conference and their nationalities
D. the preparations made by the sponsors for the international conference
Question 12 and 13 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 30 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.
12. The news item mainly concerns in Hong Kong.
A. Internet centres B. an IBM seminar
C. e-government D. broadcasting
13. The aims of the three policy objectives include all the following EXCEPT
A. improvement of government efficiency
B. promotion of e-commerce
C. integration of service delivery
D. formulation of Digital 21 Strategy
Questions 14 to 15 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 30 seconds to answer the two questions. Now listen to the news.
14. Which of the following records was the second best time of the year by Donovan Bailey?
A. 9.98. B. 9.80. C. 9.91. D. 9.95.
15. The record shows that Bailey was .
A. still suffering from an injury B. getting back in shape
C. unable to compete with Greene D. less confident than before
SECTION D NOTE-TAKING AND GAP-FILLING
In this section you will hear a mini-lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the lecture, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a 15-minute gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE after the mini-lecture. Use the blank paper for note-taking. Fill in each of the gaps with one word. You may refer to your notes. Make sure the word you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable.
Study Activities in University
In order to help college and university students in the process of learning, four key study activities have been designed and used to encourage them to make knowledge their own.
1. Essay writing: central focus of university work esp. in the humanities, e.g. (1)_ .
benefits: 1) helping to select interesting content in books and to express understanding.
enabling teachers to know progress and to offer (2) .
familiarizing students with exam forms.
2. Seminars and classroom discussion: another form to internalize knowledge in specialized contexts
benefits: 1) (3) enables you to know the effectiveness of and others' response to your speech immediately.
Within the same period of time, more topics can be dealt with than in (4) .
The use of a broader range of knowledge is encouraged.
3. Individual tutorials: a substitute for group discussion
format: from teacher (5) to flexible conversation.
benefit: encouraging ideas and interaction.
4. Lectures: a most (6) used study activity
disadvantages: 1) less (7)____ than discussions or tutorial.
2) more demanding in note-taking.
advantages: 1) providing a general (8) of a subject under discussion.
offering more easily understood versions of a theory.
updating students on (9) developments.
allowing students to follow different (10)_____

(1) ______ (2) ______ (3) ______ (4) ______ ( 5 ) ______
(6) ______ (7) ______ (8) ______ (9) ______ (10) ______

PART II PROOFREADING AND ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN)

The following passage contains TEN errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error and three are free from error. In each case, only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way.?

For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.?
For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “∧” sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.?
For an unnecessary word, cross out the unnecessary word with a slash “／” and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.?
If the line is correct, place a V in the blank provided at the end of the line
PART II PROOFREADING AND ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN)

The following passage contains TEN errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error and three are free from error. In each case, only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way.?

For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.?
For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “∧” sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.?
For an unnecessary word, cross out the unnecessary word with a slash “／” and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.?
If the line is correct, place a V in the blank provided at the end of the line.
Example
When ^ art museum wants a new exhibit, (1) an
It never buys things in finished form and bangs (2) never
them on the wall. When a natural history museum (3) ∕
wants an exhibition, it must often build it. (4) exhibit
There are great impediments to the general use of a standard
in pronunciation comparable to that existing in spelling
(orthography). One is the fact that pronunciation is learnt
'naturally' and consciously, and orthography is learnt (1)_____
deliberately and consciously. Large numbers of us, in fact,
remain throughout our lives quite unconscious with what (2)_____
our speech sounds like when we speak out, and it often (3)_____
comes as a shock when we firstly hear a recording of ourselves. (4)_____
It is not a voice we recognize at once, whereas our own handwriting
is something which we almost always know. We begin the "natural' (5)_____
learning of pronunciation long before we start learning to read or
write, and in our early years we went on unconsciously imitating and (6)____
practicing the pronunciation of those around us for many more hours
per every day than we ever have to spend learning even our difficult (7)_____
English spelling. This is 'natural', therefore, that our speech-sounds (8)_____
should be those of our immediate circle? after all, as we have seen,
speech operates as a means of holding a community and (9)_____
giving a sense of 'belonging'. We learn quite early to recognize a
'stranger', someone who speaks with an accent of a different
community - perhaps only a few miles far. (10)_____

PART III READING COMPREHENSION (40 MIN)
SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)
In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of fifteen multiple-choice questions. Read the passages carefully and then mark your answers on your Colored Answer Sheet.
TEXT A

Do you ever feel as though you spend all your time in meeting?
Henry Mintzberg. in his book The Nature of Managerial Work, found that in large organizations managers spent 22 percent of their time at their desk. 6 percent on the telephone. 3 percent on other activities, but a whopping 69 percent in meetings.
There is a widely-held but mistaken belief that meetings are for " solving problems" and "making decisions". For a start, the number of people attending a meeting tends to be inversely proportional to their collective ability to reach conclusions and make decisions. And these are the least important elements.
Instead hours are devoted to side issues, playing elaborate games with one another. It seems, therefore, that meetings serve some purpose other than just making decisions.
All meetings have one thing in common: role-playing. The most formal role is that of chairman. He sets the agenda, and a good chairman will keep the meeting running on time and to the point. Sadly, the other, informal, role-players are often able to gain the upper hand. Chief is the "constant talker", who just loves to hear his or her own voice.
Then there are the "can't do" types who want to maintain the status quo. Since they have often been in the organization for a long time, they frequently quote historical experience as an excuse to block change: "It won't work, we tried that last year and it was a disaster. " A more subtle version of the "can't do" type, the "yes, but...", has emerged recently. They have learnt about the need to sound positive, but they still can't bear to have things change.
Another whole sub-set of characters are people who love meetings and want them to continue until 5:30 p. m. or beyond. Irrelevant issues are their specialty. They need to call or attend meetings, either to avoid work, or to justify their lack of performance, or simply because they do not have enough to do.
Then there are the "counter-dependents", those who usually disagree with everything that is said, particularly if it comes from the chairman or through consensus from the group. These people need to fight authority in whatever form.
Meetings can also provide attenders with a sense of identification of their status and power. In this case, managers arrange meetings as a means of communicating to others the boundaries of their exclusive club: who is "in", and who is not.
Because so many meetings end in confusion and without a decision, another game is played at the end of meetings, called reaching a false consensus. Since it is important for the chairman to appear successful in problem-solving and making a decision, the group reaches a false consensus. Everyone is happy, having spent their time productively. The reality is that the decision is so ambiguous that it is never acted upon, or, if it is, there is continuing conflict, for which another meeting is necessary. In the end, meetings provide the opportunity for social intercourse, to engage in battle in front of our bosses, to avoid unpleasant or unsatisfying work, to highlight our social status and identity. They are. in fact, a necessary thought not necessarily productive psychological sideshow. Perhaps it is our civilized way to moderating, if not preventing, change.

16. On role-playing, the passage seems to indicate that chairman .
A. talks as much as participants
B. is usually a "constant talkers"
C. prefers to take the role of an observer
D. is frequently outshone by participants
17. Which of the following is NOT a distinct characteristic of the three types of participants?
A. Submissiveness. B. Stubbornness.
C. Disobedience. D. Lack of focus.
18. The passage suggests that a false consensus was reached at the end of a meeting in order to .
A. make room for another meeting
B. bring an illusory sense of achievement
C. highlight the importance of a meeting
D. go ahead with the agreed programme
TEXT B
Cooperative competition. Competitive cooperation. Confused? Airline alliances have travelers scratching their heads over what's going on in the skies. Some folks view alliances as a blessing to travelers, offering seamless travel, reduced fares and enhanced frequent-flyer benefits. Others see a conspiracy of big business, causing decreased competition, increased fares and fewer choices. Whatever your opinion, there's no escaping airline alliances: the marketing hype is unrelenting, with each of the two mega-groupings. Oneworld and Star Alliance, promoting itself as the best choice for all travelers. And, even if you turn away from their ads, chances are they will figure in any of your travel plans. By the end of the year, Oneworld and Star Alliance will between them control more than 40% of the traffic in the sky. Some pundits predict that figure will be more like 75% in 10 years.
But why, after years of often ferocious competition, have airlines decided to band together? Let's just say the timing is mutually convenient. North American airlines, having exhausted all means of earning customer loyalty at home, have been looking for ways to reach out to foreign flyers. Asian carriers are still hurting from the region-wide economic downturn that began two years ago — just when some of the airlineswere taking delivery of new aircraft. Alliances also allow carriers to cut costs and increase profits by pooling manpower resources on the ground (rather than each airline maintaining its own ground crew) and code-sharing — the practice of two partners selling tickets and operating only one aircraft.
So alliances are terrific for airlines - but are they good for the passenger? Absolutely, say the airlines: think to the lounges, the joint FFP (frequent flyer programme) benefits, the round-the-world fares, and the global service networks. Then there's the promise of "seamless" travel: the ability to, say, travel form Singapore to Rome to New York to Rio de Janiero, all on one ticket, without having to wait hours for connections or worry about your bags. Sounds Utopian? Peter Buecking, Cathay Pacific's director of sales and marketing, thinks that seamless travel is still evolving. "It's fair to say that these links are only in their infancy. The key to seamlessness rests in infrastructure and information sharing. We're working on this." Henry Ma, spokesperson for Star Alliance in Hong Kong, lists some of the other benefits for consumers: "Global travelers have an easier time making connections and planning their itineraries." Ma claims alliances also assure passengers consistent service standards.
Critics of alliances say the much-touted benefits to the consumer are mostly pie in the sky, that alliances are all about reducing costs for the airlines, rationalizing services and running joint marketing programmes. Jeff Blyskal, associate editor of Consumer Reports magazine, says the promotional ballyhoo over alliances is much ado about nothing. "I don't see much of a gain for consumers: alliances are just a marketing gimmick. And as far as seamless travel goes, I'll believe it when I see it. Most airlines can't even get their own connections under control, let alone coordinate with another airline."
Blyskal believes alliances will ultimately result in decreased flight choices and increased costs for consumers. Instead of two airlines competing and each operating a flight on the same route at 70% capacity, the allied pair will share the route and run one full flight. Since fewer seats will be available, passengers will be obliged to pay more for tickets.
The truth about alliances and their merits probably lies somewhere between the travel Utopia presented by the players and the evil empires portrayed by their critics. And how much they affect you depends on what kind of traveler you are.
Those who have already made the elite grade in the FFP of a major airline stand to benefit the most when it joins an alliance: then they enjoy the FFP perks and advantages on any and all of the member carriers. For example, if you're a Marco Polo Club "gold" member of Cathay Pacific's Asia Miles FFP. you will automatically be treated as a valuable customer by all members, of one world, of which Cathay Pacific is a member — even if you’ve never flown with them before.
For those who haven't made the top grade in any FFP, alliances might be a way of simplifying the earning of frequent flyer miles. For example, I belong to United Airline's Mileage Plus and generally fly less than 25 000 miles a year. But I earn miles with every flight I take on Star Alliance member — All Nippon Airways and Thai j Airways.
If you fly less than I do. you might be smarter to stay out of the FFP game altogether. Hunt for bargains when booking flights and you might be able to save enough to take that extra trip any way. The only real benefit infrequent flyers can draw from an alliance is an inexpensive round-the-world fare.
The bottom line: for all the marketing hype, alliances aren't all things to all people-but everybody can get some benefit out of them.
19. Which is the best word to describe air traveler's reaction to airline alliances?
A. Delight. B. Indifference. C. Objection. D. Puzzlement.
20. According to the passage, setting up airline alliances will chiefly benefit ___
A. North American airlines and their domestic travelers
B. North American airlines and their foreign counterparts
C. Asian airlines and their foreign travelers
D. Asian airlines and their domestic travelers
Which of the following is NOT a perceived advantage of alliances?
A. Baggage allowance. B. Passenger Comfort.
C. Convenience. D. Quality.
One disadvantage of alliances foreseen by the critics is that air travel may be more expensive as a result of _____.
A. less convenience B. higher operation costs
C. less competition D. more joint marketing
23. According to the passage, which of the following categories of travelers will gain most from airline alliances?
A. Travelers who fly frequently economy class.
B. Travelers who fly frequently business class.
C. Travelers who fly occasionally during holidays.
D. Travelers who fly economy class once in a while.

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