1999年专业英语八级考试试题

1、姓名：_ 班级：_ 学号：_-密-封 -线- 1999年专业英语八级考试试题考试时间：120分钟 考试总分：100分题号一二三四五总分分数遵守考场纪律，维护知识尊严，杜绝违纪行为，确保考试结果公正。part 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 to each question on

2、 your coloured answer sheet.section a talkquestions 1 to 5 refer to the talk in this section. at the end of the talk you w ill be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. now list en to the talk.1. the technology to make machines quieter _.a. has been in use since the 1930sb.

3、 has accelerated industrial productionc. has just been in commercial used. has been invented to remove all noises2. the modern electronic anti-noise devices _.a. are an update version of the traditional methodsb. share similarities with the traditional methodsc. are as inefficient as the traditional

4、 methodsd. are based on an entirely new working principle3. the french company is working on anti-noise techniques to be used in a ll except _.a. streets b. factories c. aircraft d. cars4. according to the talk, workers in “zones of quiet” can _.a. be more affected by noiseb. hear talk from outside

5、the zonec. work more efficientlyd. be heard outside the zone5. the main theme of the talk is about _.a. noise-control technologyb. noise in factoriesc. noise-control regulationsd. noise-related effectssection b interviewquestions 6 to 10 are based on an interview. at the end of the interview you wil

6、 l be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. now listen to the interview. 6. employees in the us are paid for their time. this means that they are supposed to _.a. work hard while their boss is around b. come to work when there is work to be donec. work with initiative and

7、willingnessd. work through their lunch break7. one of the advantages of flexible working hours is that _.a. pressure from work can be reducedb. working women can have more time at homec. traffic and commuting problems can be solvedd. personal relationships in offices can be improved8. on the issue o

8、f working contracts in the us, which statement is not co rrect?a. performance at work matters more than anything else.b. there are laws protecting employees working rights.c. good reasons must be provided in order to fire workers.d. working contracts in the us are mostly short-term ones. 9. we can b

9、e assumed from the interview that an informal atmosphere might be found in _.a. small firms b. major banks c. big corporations d. law offices10. the interview is mainly about _ in the usa.a. office hierarchies b. office conditions c. office roles d. office lifesection c news broadcastquestion 11 is

10、based on the following news. at the end of the news item, you wil l be given 15 seconds to answer the question. now listen to the news.11. senator bob doles attitude towards clintons anti-crime policy is that of _.a. oppositionb. support c. ambiguity d . indifferencequestions 12 and 13 are based on

11、the following news. at the end of the news item , you will be given 30 seconds to answer the questions . now listen to the news.12. japan and the united states are now _.a. negotiating about photographic materialb. negotiating an automobile agreementc. facing serious problems in traded. on the verge

12、 of a large-scale trade war13. the news item seems to indicate that the agreement _. a. will end all other related trade conflictsb. is unlikely to solve the dispute once and for allc. is linked to other trade agreementsd. is the last of its kind to be reachedquestions 14 and 15 are based on the fol

13、lowing news. at the end of the news item, you will be given 30 seconds to answer the questions . now listen to the news.14. according to the news, the ice from greenland provides information ab out _.a. oxygen b. ancient weather c. carbon dioxide d. temperature15. which of the following statements i

14、s correct?a. drastic changes in the weather have been common since ancient times.b. the change in weather from very cold to very hot lasted over a century.c. the scientists have been studying ice to forecast weather in the future.d. the past 10,000 years have seen minor changes in the weather.sectio

15、n d note-taking and gap-fillingfill 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.at present companies and industries like to sponsor sports events. two reasons are put forward to explain this phenomen

16、on. the first reason is that they get (1)_ throughout the world. 1._the second reason is that companies and industries(2)_ money, 2._ as they get reductions in the tax they owe if they sponsor sports or arts activities.as sponsorship is (3)_, careful thinking is required in deciding 3._ which events

17、 to sponsor.it is important that the event to be sponsored(4)_ the product(s) 4._ to be promoted. that is, the right(5)_ and maximum product coverage 5._ must be guaranteed in the event.points to be considered in sports sponsorship. popularity of the eventinternational sports events are big(6)_ even

18、ts, which get extensive 6._ coverage on tv and in the press. smaller events attract fewer people. identification of the potential audienceaiming at the right audience is most important for smaller events.the right audience would attract manufacturers of other related products like(7)_ , etc. 7._ adv

19、antages of sponsorshipadvantages are longer-term.people are expected to respond (8)_ to the products promoted. 8._ and be more likely to buy them.advertising is (9)_ the mind. 9._sponsorship is better than straight advertising: a)less(10) _ 10._b)tax-free改错part proofreading and error correction (15

20、min)the following passage contains ten errors. each line contains a maximum of one 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 wri te the correct one in the blank provided at the

21、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 en

22、d of the line.examplewhenart museum wants a new exhibit, (1) anit never buys things in finished form and hangs (2) neverthem on the wall. when a natural history museum wants an exhibition, it must often build it. (3) exhibitthe hunter-gatherer tribes that today live as our prehistoric 1._human ances

23、tors consume primarily a vegetable diet supplementing 2._with animal foods. an analysis of 58 societies of modem hunter-gatherers, including the kung of southern africa, revealed that one half emphasize gathering plant foods, one-third concentrate on fishingand only one-sixth are primarily hunters.

24、overall, two-thirds and more of the hunter-gatherers calories come from plants. detailed 3._studies of the kung by the food scientists at the university oflondon, showed that gathering is a more productive source of foodthan is hunting. an hour of hunting yields in average about 100 4._edible calori

25、es, as an hour of gathering produces 240. 5._plant foods provide for 60 percent to 80 percent of the kung 6._diet, and no one goes hungry when the hunt fails. interestingly, ifthey escape fatal infections or accidents, these contemporaryaborigines live to old ages despite of the absence of medical c

26、are. 7._they experience no obesity, no middle-aged spread, little dentaldecay, no high blood pressure, on heart disease, and their bloodcholesterol levels are very low( about half of the average american 8._adult), if no one is suggesting what we return to an aboriginal life 9._style, we certainly c

27、ould use their eating habits as a model for 10._healthier diet.阅读 apart reading comprehension (40 min)section a reading comprehension (30 min )in this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of fifteen m ultiple-choice questions. read the passages carefully and then mark your ans

28、wers on your coloured answer sheet.text ariccis “operation columbus”ricci, 45, is now striking out on perhaps his boldest venture yet. he plan s to market an english language edition of his elegant monthly art magazine, fmr , in the united states. once again the skeptice are murmuring that the succe

29、ssfu l ricci has headed for a big fall. and once again ricci intends to prove them wr ong.ricci is so confident that he has christened his quest “operation columbu s ” and has set his sights on discovering an american readership of 300,000. that goal may not be too f ar-fetched. the italian edition

30、of fmr the initials, of course, stand for franco maria ricci-is only 18 months old. but it is already the second largest art magazine in the world, with a circulation of 65,000 and a profit margin of us $ 500,000. the american edition will be patterned after th e italian version, with each 160-page

31、issue carrying only 40 pages of ads and no more than five articles. but the contents will often differ. the english-langua ge edition will include more american works, ricci says, to help americans get o ver “an inferiority complex about their art.” he also hopes that the magazine will become a vehi

32、cle for a two -way cultural exchange what he likes to think of as a marriage of brains, culture and taste from both sides of the atlantic. to realize this vision, ricci is mounting one of the most lavish, enterpris ing and expensive-promotional campaigns in magazine publishing history. between novem

33、ber and january, eight jumbo jets will fly 8 million copies of a sample 16-page edition of fmr across the atlantic. from a warehouse in michigan, 6.5 million copies will be mailed to american subscribers of various cultural, art and business magazines. some of the remaining copies will circulate as

34、a spe cial sunday supplement in the new york times. the cost of launching operation co lumbus is a staggering us $ 5 million, but ricci is hoping that 60% of the price tag will be financed by italian corporations.“ to land in america columbus had to use spanish sponsors,” reads one sentence in his p

35、romotional pamphlet. “we would like italians.”like columbus, ricci cannot know what his reception will be on foreign shor es. in italy he gambled and won on a simple concept: it is more important to show art than to write about it. hence, one issue of fmr might feature 32 fu ll-colour pages of 17th-

36、century tapestries, followed by 14 pages of outrageous e yeglasses. he is gambling that the concept is exportable. “i dont expect that more than 30% of my reader. will actually read fmr,” he says. “the magazine is such a visual delight that they dont have to.” still, he is lining up an impr es sive

37、stable of writers and professors for the american edition , including noam chomsky, anthony burgess, eric jong and norman mailer. in addition, he seems to be pursuing his won eclectic vision without giving a moments thought to such e s tablished competitors as connosisseur and horizon. “the american

38、s can do almost everything better than we can,” says rieci, “but we(the italians)have a 2,000 year edge on them in art.”16. ricci intends his american edition of fmr to carry more american art works in order to_. a. boost americans confidence in their artb. follow the pattern set by his italian edit

39、ionc. help italians understand american art betterd. expand the readership of his magazine17. ricci is compared to columbus in the passage mainly because_.a. they both benefited from italian sponsorsb. they were explorers in their own waysc. they obtained overseas sponsorshipd. they got a warm recep

40、tion in america18. we get the impression that the american edition of fmr will probably _.a. carry many academic articles of high standardb. follow the style of some famous existing magazinesc. be mad by one third of american magazine readersd. pursue a distinctive editorial style of its owntext b m

41、y mothers relations were very different from the mitfords. her brother, uncle geoff, who often came to stay at swimbrook, was a small spare man with th oughtful blue eyes and a rather silent manner. compared to uncle tommy, he was a n intellectual of the highest order, and indeed his satirical pen b

42、elied his mil d demeanor. he spent most of his waking hours composing letters to the times and other publications in which he outlined his own particular theory of the develo pment of english history. in uncle geoffs view, the greatness of england had r isen and waned over the centuries in direct pr

43、oportion to the use of natural man ure in fertilizing the soil. the black death of 1348 was caused by gradual loss of the humus fertility found under forest trees. the rise of the elizabethans tw o centuries later was attributable to the widespread use of sheep manure. many of uncle geoffs letters-t

44、o-the-editor have fortunately been preserv ed in a privately printed volume called writings of a rebel. of the collection, one letter best sums up his views on the relationship between manure and freedom . he wrote:collating old records shows that our greatness rises and falls with the li ving ferti

45、lity of our soil. and now, many years of exhausted and chemically murd ered soil, and of devitalized food from it, has softened our bodies and still wo rse, softened our national character. it is an actual fact that character is lar gely a product of the soil. many years of murdered food from deaden

46、ed soil has m ade us too tame. chemicals have had their poisonous day. it is now the worms t urn to reform the manhood of england. the only way to regain our punch, our char acter, our lost virtues, and with them the freedom natural to islanders, is to c o mpost our land so as to allow moulds, bacte

47、ria and earthworms to remake living s oil to nourish englishmens bodies and spirits.the law requiring pasteurization of milk in england was a particular targe t of uncle geoffs. fond of alliteration, he dubbed it “murdered milk measure ”, and established the liberty restoration league, with headquar

48、ters at his house i n london, for the specific purpose of organizing a counteroffensive. “freedom n o t doctordom” was the leagues proud slogan. a subsidiary, but nevertheless imp or tant, activity of the league was advocacy of a return to the “unsplit, slowly s m oked fish” and bread made with “eng

49、lish stone-ground flour, yeast, milk, sea s alt and raw cane-sugar.”19. according to uncle geoff, national strength could only be regained by _.a. reforming the manhood of englandb. using natural manure as fertilizerc. eating more bacteria-free foodd. granting more freedom to englishmen刚刚度过百岁生日，但城市的发展令世界瞩目。以港立市，以港兴市，是许多港口城市生存发展的道路。经过百年开发建设，有着天然不冻良港的温哥华，成为举世闻名的港口城市，同亚洲、大洋洲、欧洲、拉丁美洲均有定期班轮，年货物吞吐量达到8，000万吨，全市就业人口中有三分之一从事贸易与运输行业。温哥华（vancouver）的辉煌是温哥华人智慧和勤奋的结晶，其中包括多民族的贡献。加拿大地广人稀，国土面积比中国还大，人口却不足3000万。吸收外来移民，是加拿大长期奉行的国策。可以说，加拿大除了印第安人