1995-2017年英语专业八级改错真题及答案
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2017年改错真题
The ability to communicate is the primary factor that distinguishes human beings from animals. And it is the ability to communicate well which 1.________ distinguishes one individual from another.
The fact is that apart from the basic necessities, one needs to
be equipped with habits for good communication skills, thus this is 2.________ what will make one a happy and successful social being.
In order to develop these habits, one needs to first acknowledge
the fact that they need to improve communication skills from time to time.
They need to take stock of the way how they interact and the direction 3.________ in which their work and personal relations are going. The only constant
in life is change, th e more one accepts one’s strengths and works 4._______ towards dealing with their shortcomings, specially in the area of 5.________ communication skills, the better will be their interactions and
the more their social popularity.
The dominated question that comes here is: How to improve 6.________ communication skills? The answer is simple. One can find
plenty of literature on this. There are also experts, who conduct
workshops and seminars based on communication skills of men
and women. In fact, a large number of companies are bringing in
trainers to regularly make sessions on the subject, in order to 7.________ help their work force maintain better interpersonal work relations.
Today effective communication skills have become a predominant
factor even while recruiting employees. While interviewing candidates,
most interviewers judge them on the basis of the skills they communicate with.
They believe that some skills can be improvised on the job; but ability to 8.________ communicate well is important, as every employee becomes the
representing face of the company.
There are trainers, who specialized in delivering custom-made 9._______ programs on the subject. Through the sessions they not only facilitate
better communication skills in the workplace, but also look into
the problems in the manner of being able to convey messages effectively. 10._______ 2016年改错真题
All social units develop a culture. Even in two-person relationships,
a culture develops in time. In friendship and romantic relationships, 1._________ for example, partners develop their own history, shared experiences,
language patterns, habits, and customs give that relationship a special 2._________ character—a character that differs it in various ways from 3._________ other relationships. Examples might include special dates, places,
songs, or events that come to have a unique and
important symbolic meaning for the two individuals. Thus, any 4._________ social unit—whether a relationship, group, organization, or
society—develops a culture with the passage of time.
While the defining characteristics of each culture are unique,
all cultures share certain same functions. The relationship between 5.__________ communication and culture is a very complex intimate one. 6.__________ Cultures are created through communication; that is, communication is
the means of human interaction, through it cultural characteristics 7.__________ are created and shared. It is not so much that individuals set out to create a culture when they interact in relationships, groups, organizations, or societies,
but rather than that cultures are a natural by-product of social interaction.8._________ In a sense, cultures are the “residue” of social communication.
Without communication and communication media, it would be impossible to
have and pass along cultural characteristics from one place and time to 9.__________ another. One can say, furthermore, that culture is created, shaped, 10._________ transmitted, and learned through communication.
2015年改错真题
When I was in my early teens, I was taken to a spectacular show
on ice by the mother of a friend. Looked round at the luxury of the 1. ________ rink, my friend’s mother remarked on the “plush” seats we had been
given. I did not know what she meant, and being proud of my 2.________ vocabulary, I tried to infer its meaning from the context. “Plush”
was clearly intended as a complimentary, a positive evaluation; that 3. ________ much I could tell it from the tone of voice and the context. So I 4. ________ started to use the word. Yes, I replied, they certainly are plush, and
so are the ice rink and the costumes of the skaters, aren’t they? My
friend’s mother was very polite to correct me, but I could tell from her 5. ________ expression that I had not got the word quite right.
Often we can indeed infer from the context what a word roughly
means, and that is in fact the way which we usually acquire both 6. ________ new words and new meanings for familiar words, specially in our 7. ________ own first language. But sometimes we need to ask, as I should have
asked for plush, and this is particularly true in the 8.________ aspect of a foreign language. If you are continually surrounded by 9________ speakers of the language you are learning, you can ask them directly,
but often this opportunity does not exist for the learner of English.
So dictionaries have been developed to mend the gap. 10. _________
2014年改错真题
There is widespread consensus among scholars that second language acquisition (SLA) emerged as a distinct field of research from the late 1950s to
early 1960s.
There is a high level of agreement that the following questions 1.__________ have possessed the most attention of researchers in this area: 2.__________
◆Is it possible to acquire an additional language in the
same sense one acquires a first language? 3.__________
◆What is the explanation for the fact adults have 4.__________ more difficulty in acquiring additional languages than children have?
◆What motivates people to acquire additional languages?
◆What is the role of the language teaching in the 5.___________
acquisition of an additional language?
◆What socio-cultural factors, if any, are relevant in studying the
learning of additional languages?
From a check of the literature of the field it is clear that all 6.__________ the approaches adopted to study the phenomena of SLA so far have
one thing in common: The perspective adopted to view the acquiring
of an additional language is that of an individual attempts to do 7.___________ so. Whether one labels it “learning” or “acquiring” an additional
language, it is an individual accomplishment or what is under 8.___________ focus is the cognitive, psychological, and institutional status of an individual. That is, the spotlight is on what mental capabilities are
involving, what psychological factors play a role in the learning 9.___________ or acquisition, and whether the target language is learnt in the
classroom or acquired through social touch with native speakers. 10.___________ 2013年改错真题
Psycho-linguistics is the name given to the study of the psychological processes involved in language. Psycholinguistics study understanding,
production and remembering language, and hence are concerned 1.__________ with listening, reading, speaking, writing, and memory for language.
One reason why we take the language for granted is that it usually 2.__________ happens so effortlessly, and most of time, so accurately. 3.__________ Indeed, when you listen to someone to speaking, or looking at this page, 4.________ you normally cannot help but understand it.
It is only in exceptional circumstances we might become aware of 5._________ the complexity involved: if we are searching for a word but cannot
remember it; if a relative or colleague has had a stroke which has 6._________ influenced their language; if we observe a child acquire language; 7._________ if we try to learn a second language ourselves as an adult; or if we
are visually impaired or hearing-impaired or if we meet anyone else 8._________ who is. As we shall see, all these examples of what might be called
“language in exceptional circumstances” reveal a great deal about the
processes evolved in speaking, listening, writing and reading. But 9.__________ given that language processes were normally so automatic, we also 10.__________ need to carry out careful experiments to get at what is happening.
2012年改错真题
The central problem of translating has always been whether to
translate literally or freely. The argument has been going since at least 1.__________ the first century B.C. Up to the beginning of the 19th century, many
writers favored certain kind of “free” translation: the spirit, not the 2.__________ letter; the sense not the word; the message rather the form; the matter 3.__________ not the manner. This is the often revolutionary slogan of writers who 4.___________ wanted the truth to be read and understood. Then in the turn of 5.___________ 19th century, when the study of cultural anthropology suggested that
the linguistic barriers were insuperable and that the language was 6.__________ entirely the product of culture, the view translation was impossible 7.__________ gained some currency, and with it that, if was attempted at all, it must 8.__________ be as literal as possible. This view culminated the statement of the 9._________ extreme “literalists” Walter Benjamin and Vladimir Nobokov.
The argument was theoretical: the purpose of the translation,
the nature of the readership, the type of the text, was not discussed.
Too often, writer, translator and reader were implicitly identified with each
other. Now, the context has changed, and the basic problem remains. 10. _________ 2011年改错真题
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I
knew that when I grew I should be a writer. Between the ages 1._____________ of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this
idea, but I did so with the conscience that I was outraging my 2._____________ true nature and that soon or later I should have to settle down 3._____________ and write books.
I was the child of three, but there was a gap of
five years on either side, and I barely saw my father 4._____________ before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat
lonely, and I soon developed disagreeing mannerisms which 5._____________ made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. I had the
lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding
conversations with imaginative persons, and I think from the 6._____________ very start my literal ambitions were mixed up with the feeling 7._____________ of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility
with words and a power of facing in unpleasant facts, and I 8._____________ felt that this created a sort of private world which I could get 9._____________ my own back for my failure in everyday life. Therefore, the 10.____________ volume of serious — i.e. seriously intended —writing which
I produced all through my childhood and boyhood would not
amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem
at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation.
2010年改错真题
So far as we can tell, all human languages are equally
complete and perfect as instruments of communication: that is,
every language appears to be well equipped as any other to say 1____________ the things their speakers want to say. 2____________ There may or may not be appropriate to talk about primitive 3_____________ peoples or cultures, but that is another matter. Certainly, not all
groups of people are equally competent in nuclear physics or
psychology or the cultivation of rice . Whereas this is not the 4____________ fault of their language. The Eskimos , it is said, can speak about
snow with further more precision and subtlety than we can in 5_____________ English, but this is not because the Eskimo language (one of those
sometimes miscalled 'primitive') is inherently more precise and
subtle than English. This example does not come to light a defect 6____________ in English, a show of unexpected 'primitiveness'. The position is
simply and obviously that the Eskimos and the English live in similar 7___________ environments. The English language will be just as rich in terms 8____________ for different kinds of snow, presumably, if the environments in which
Englishwas habitually used made such distinction as important. 9___________ Similarly, we have no reason to doubt that the Eskimo language
could be as precise and subtle on the subject of motor manufacture
or cricket if these topics formed the part of the Eskimos' life. 10____________ For obvious historical reasons, Englishmen in the nineteenth century
could not talk about motorcars with the minute discrimination
which is possible today: cars were not a part of their culture.
But they had a host of terms for horse-drawn vehicles
which send us, puzzled, to a historical dictionary when we
are reading Scott or Dickens. How many of us could distinguish
between a chaise, a landau, a victoria, a brougham, a coupe, a gig,
a diligence, a whisky, a calash, a tilbury, a carriole, a phaeton, and a clarence?
2009年改错真题
The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes from
one school child to the next and illustrates the further difference 1.__________ between school lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore a verse,learnt in
early childhood, is not usually passed on again when the little listener 2.__________ has grown up, and has children of their own, or even grandchild 3.___________ The period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmitting it may
be something from twenty to seventy years.With the playground lore, 4.__________ therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on within the very hour it is 5._________ learnt; and in the general, it passes between children of the same age, 6.___________
or nearly so, since it is uncommon for the difference in age between
playmates to be more than five years. If, therefore, a playground rhyme
can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or even just 7.___________ for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitted over and over; very 8.___________ possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three hundred young
hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live after so much 9.__________ handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the 10.___________ 2008年改错真题
The desire to use language as a sign of national identity is a
very natural one, and in result language has played a prominent 1.__________ part in national moves. Men have often felt the need to cultivate 2.__________ a given language to show that they are distinctive from another 3.__________ race whose hegemony they resent. At the time the United States 4.__________ split off from Britain, for example, there were proposals that
independence should be linguistically accepted by the use of a 5.__________ different language from those of Britain. There was even one 6.__________ proposal that Americans should adopt Hebrew. Others favoured
the adoption of Greek, though, as one man put it, things would
certainly be simpler for Americans if they stuck on to English 7.__________
and made the British learn Greek. At the end, as everyone 8.__________
knows, the two countries adopted the practical and satisfactory
solution of carrying with the same language as before. 9.__________ Since nearly two hundred years now, they have shown the world 10.__________ that political independence and national identity can be complete
without sacrificing the enormous mutual advantages of a common language.
2007年改错真题
From what has been said, it must be clear that no one can
make very positive statements about how language originated.
There is no material in any language today and in the earliest 1.__________ records of ancient languages show us language in a new and 2.__________
emerging state. It is often said, of course, that the language 3._________ originated in cries of anger, fear, pain and pleasure, and the 4.__________ necessary evidence is entirely lacking: there are no remote
tribes, no ancient records, providing evidence of
a language with a large proportion of such cries 5.__________ than we find in English. It is true that the absence
of such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in other grounds 6.___________ too the theory is not very attractive.
People of all races and languages make rather similar
noises in return to pain or pleasure. The fact that 7.___________ such noises are similar on the lips of Frenchmen
and Malaysians whose languages are utterly different,
serves to emphasize on the fundamental difference 8.___________
between these noises and language proper. We may
say that the cries of pain or chortles of amusement
are largely reflex actions, instinctive to large extent, 9.____________ whereas language proper does not consist of signs
but of these that have to be learnt and that are wholly conventional. 10.___________ 2006年改错真题
We use language primarily as a means of communication with
other human beings. Each of us shares with the community in which we
live a store of words and meanings as well as agreeing conventions as 1.________ to the way in which words should be arranged to convey a particular 2.________ message: the English speaker has in his disposal vocabulary and a 3._________ set of grammatical rules which enables him to communicate his 4._________ thoughts and feelings, in a variety of styles, to the other English 5._________ speakers. His vocabulary, in particular, both that which he uses actively
and that which he recognises, increases in size as he grows
old as a result of education and experience. 6._________ But, whether the language store is relatively small or large, the system remains no more than a psychological reality for the individual, unless
he has a means of expressing it in terms able to be seen by another 7._________ member of his linguistic community; he has to give the system a
concrete transmission form. We take it for granted the two most 8.___________ common forms of transmission-by means of sounds produced by our
vocal organs (speech) or by visual signs (writing). And these are 9.___________ among most striking of human achievements. 10.___________ 2005年改错真题
The University as Busines
A number of colleges and universities have announced steep tuition
increases for next year—much steeper than the current, very low rate of
inflation. They say the increases are needed because of a loss in value of
university endowments heavily investing in common stock. I am skeptical. 1._______ A business firm chooses the price that maximizes its net revenues,
irrespective fluctuations in income; and increasingly the outlook of 2._________ universities in the United States is indistinguishable from those of 3._________ business firms. The rise in tuitions may reflect the fact economic 4._________ uncertainty increases the demand for education. The biggest cost of
being in the school is foregoing income from a job (this is primarily a 5._________ factor in graduate and professional-school tuition);
the poor one's job prospects, the more sense it makes to 6.__________ reallocate time from the job market to education,
in order to make oneself more marketable.
The ways which universities make themselves attractive to students7._________
include soft majors, student evaluations of teachers, giving students
a governance role, and eliminate required courses. Sky-high tuitions 8.____________ have caused universities to regard their students as customers. Just as
business firms sometimes collude to shorten the rigors of competition, 9.___________ universities collude to minimize the cost to them of the athletes
whom they recruit in order to stimulate alumni donations, so the best
athletes now often bypass higher education in order to obtain salaries
earlier from professional teams. And until they were stopped by the
antitrust authorities, the Ivy League schools colluded to limit competition
for the best students, by agreeing not to award scholarships on the basis
of merit rather than purely of need—just like business
firms agreeing not to give discounts on their best customer. 10 ___________ 2004年改错真题
One of the most important non-legislative functions of the U.S. Congress
is the power to investigate. The power is usually delegtated to
committees —either stading committees,
special committees set for a specific purpose, 1.___________ or joint committees consisted of members of both houses. 2.___________ Investigations are held to gather information on the need for
Future legislation, to test the effectiveness of laws already passed,
to inquire into the qualification and performance of members and
officials of the other branches, and in rare occasions, to lay the 3.___________ groundwork for impeachment proceedings. Frequently, committees
rely outside experts to assist in conducting investigative hearings 4.___________ and to make out detailed studies of issues. 5.____________ There are important corallaries to the investigative power.
One is the power to publicize investigations and its results. 6.___________ most committee hearings are open to public and are reported 7.___________ widely in the mass media. Congressional investigation
nevertheless represent one important tool available to lawmakes 8.___________ to inform the citizenry and to arouse public interests in national issuses.9.__________ Congressional committees also have the power to compel
testimony from unwilling witnesses, and to cite fro contempt
of Congress witnesses who refuse to testify and for perjury
these who give false testimony. 10.__________ 2003年改错真题
Demographic indicators show that Americans in the postwar
period were more eager than ever to establish families. They quickly
brought down the age at marriage for both men and women and brought
the birth rate to a twentieth century height after more than a hundred 1.________ years of a steady decline, producing the “baby boom.” These young 2.________ adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively large
families that went for more than two decades and caused a major 3.___________ but temporary reversal of long-term demographic patterns. From
the 1940s through the early 1960s, Americans married at a high rate 4.__________ and at a younger age than their Europe counterparts. 5.__________ Less noted but equally more significant, the men and women who 6._________ formed families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced the 7._________ divorce rate after a postwar peak; their marriages remained intact to
a greater extent than did that of couples who married in earlier as well 8.__________ as later decades. Since the United States maintained its dubious 9.__________ distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world, the
temporary decline in divorce did not occur in the same extent in 10._________ Europe. Contrary to fears of the experts, the role of
breadwinner and homemaker was not abandoned.
2002年改错真题
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 unconsciously, 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.__________ 2001年改错真题
During the early years of this century, wheat was seen as the very
lifeblood of Western Canada. People on city streets watched the yields
and the price of wheat in almost as much feeling as if they were growers. 1.________ The marketing of wheat became an increasing favorite topic of conversation.2.______ War set the stage for the most dramatic events in marketing the
western crop. For years, farmers mistrusted speculative grain selling
as carried on through the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. Wheat prices
were generally low in the autumn, so farmers could not wait for 3.____________ markets to improve. It had happened too often that they sold their wheat
soon shortly after harvest when farm debts were coming due, 4.____________ just to see prices rising and speculators getting rich. On various occasions,5.________ producer groups, asked firmer control, but the government had no wish to 6.________ become involving, at least not until wartime when wheat prices threatened7.________ to run wild.
Anxious to check inflation and rising life costs, the federal 8.___________ government appointed a board of grain supervisors to deal with deliveries
from the crops of 1917 and 1918. Grain Exchange trading was suspended,
and farmers sold at prices fixed by the board. To handle with the crop of 9._________ 1919, the government appointed the first Canadian Wheat Board,
with total authority to buy, sell, and set prices. 10.___________ 2000年改错真题
The grammatical words which play so large a part in English
grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different
from the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may
seem the most obvious is that grammatical words have“ less 1.___________ meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them 2.___________ “empty” words as opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. 3.__________ But this is a rather misled way of expressing the distinction. 4.__________ Although a word like the is not the name of something as man is,
it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a sharp 5.__________ difference in meaning between “man is vile and” “the man is
vile”, yet the is the single vehicle of this diff erence in meaning. 6.___________ Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably among
themselves as the amount of meaning they have, even in the 7.___________ lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been
“little words”. But size is by no mean a g ood criterion for 8.___________ distinguishing the grammatical words of English, when we
consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. Apart 9.___________ from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some
people say: we certainly do create a great number of obscurity 10.__________ when we omit them. This is illustrated not only in the poetry of
Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.
1999年改错真题
The hunter-gatherer tribes that today live as our prehistoric 1.____________ human ancestors 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
fishing and only one-sixth are primarily hunters. Overall, two-thirds
and more of the hunter-gatherer’s calories come from plants. Detailed 3.__________ studies of the Kung by the food scientists at the University of
London, showed that gathering is a more productive source of food
than is hunting. An hour of hunting yields in average about 100 4.___________ edible calories, 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, if
they escape fatal infections or accidents, these contemporary
aborigines live to old ages despite of the absence of medical care. 7.___________ They experience no obesity, no middle-aged spread, little dental
decay, no high blood pressure, on heart disease, and their blood
cholesterol levels are very low( about half of the average 8.__________ American adult), if no one is suggesting what we return to 9.___________
an aboriginal life style, we certainly could use their eating habits
as a model for healthier diet.
1998年改错真题
When a human infant is born into any community in any part
of the world it has two things in common with any infant, provided 1.____________ neither of them have been damaged in any way either before 2.___________ or during birth. Firstly, and most obviously, new born children
are completely helpless. Apart from a powerful capacity to
pay attention to their helplessness by using sound, there is nothing 3.___________ the new born child can do to ensure his own survival. Without
care from some other human being or beings, be it mother,
grandmother, or human group, a child is very unlikely to survive.
This helplessness of human infants is in marked contrast with
the capacity of many new born animals to get on their feet 4.___________ within minutes of birth and run with the herd within a few
hours. Although young animals are certainly in risk, sometimes 5.___________ for weeks or even months after birth, compared with the human
infant they very quickly develop the capacity to fend for them. 6.__________ It is during this very long period in which the human infant
is totally dependent on the others that it reveals the second feature 7.__________ which it shares with all other undamaged human infants, a
capacity to learn language. For this reason, biologists now suggest
that language be "species specific" to the human race, that is 8.__________ to say, they consider the human infant to be genetic programmed 9._________ in such way that it can acquire language. This suggestion implies 10.__________ that just as human beings are designed to see three-dimensionally and in colour, and just as they are designed to stand upright rather than to move on all fours, so they are designed to learn and use language as part of their normal developments as well-form ed human beings.
Classic Intention Movement
In social situations, the classic Intention Movement is
"the chair-grasp". Host and guest have been talking for some time,
but now the host has an appointment to keep
and can get away. His urge to go is 1.___________ held in check by his desire not be rude to his guest. 2.___________ If he did not care of his guest's feelings he would 3.___________ simply get up out of his chair and to announce his 4.___________ departure. This is what his body wants to do, therefore 5.____________ his politeness glues his body to the chair and refuses
to let him raise. It is at this point that he 6.____________ performs the chair-grasp Intention Movement. He continues
to talk to the guest and listen to him, but leans forward
and grasps the arms of the chair as about to push 7.____________ himself upwards. This is the first act he would
make if he were rising. If he were not hesitating, 8._____________ it would only last a fraction of the second. He would 9._____________ lean, push, rise, and be up. But now, instead, it lasts
much longer. He holds his "readiness-to-rise" post and 10._____________ keeps on holding it. It is as if his body had frozen at the get-ready moment.
1996年改错真题
The second most important constituent of the biosphere is liquid water. This can only exist in a very narrow range of temperatures, since water freezes at 0°C and boils at 100°C. This is only a tiny range compared with the low temperatures of some other planets and the hot interior of the earth, let the temperatures 1.__________ of the sun. As we know, life would only be possible on the face of a 2. __________ planet had temperatures somewhere within this range. 3.___________ The earth's supply of water probably remains quite fairly 4.___________ constant in quantity. A certain number of hydrogen atoms, which are one of the main constituents of water, are lost by escaping from the
atmosphere to out space, but they are probably just 5.___________ about replaced by new water rising away from the depths of the 6.__________ earth during volcanic action. The total quantity of water is not known,
and it is about enough to cover the surface of the globe 7.___________ to a depth of about two and three-quarter kms. Most of it -97% - is
in the form of the salt waters of the oceans. The rest is fresh,
but three quarter of this is in the form of ice at the Poles 8.____________ and on mountains, and cannot be used by living systems when 9.___________ melted. Of the remaining fraction, which is somewhat fewer than 10.___________ 1% of the whole, there is 10—20 times as much stored as underground water as is act ually on the surface. There is also a minor, but extremely important, fraction of the w ater supply which is present as water vapor in the atmosphere.
There are far too many road accidents in this country,
too many deaths and too many people injured. One
wonders who are most to blame, drivers and pedestrians. 1._____________ Some people say that the blame cannot be put fairly
with considering the state of the roads and the whole 2._____________ transport system. In such crowed cities London, 3._____________ Birmingham or Manchester, road conditions are so
chaotic that both driver and pedestrian often endanger
lives through no fault of their own. Such sufficiency 4._____________ as too many road signs, faulty traffic lights, suddenly
narrowing of the streets, congested parking are all a
sure indication of bad road conditions. On the other
hand, many experts are convincing that the larger 5._____________ part of the blame for the death toll must be put on
persons alone: Drivers who drive too fast and without
any consideration for others; drivers who think they
are safe at the wheel as though they have drunk too 6.____________ much alcohol; drivers, who out of some curious sense
of power, are incapable of understanding that their car
is a lethal weapon if is improperly used. Pedestrians, 7.____________ likewise, must share the guilt-stepping off the
pavement without first looking to the left or right,
crossing roads when the traffic lights are for them, 8.____________ jump off a moving bus. To be fair, pedestrians, drivers 9._____________ and road conditions are all to blame. One looks
forward to the day when the motor-car has been
replaced by some more dangerous means of transport. 10._____________
1.把which改为that，这里是强调句型
2.把thus 改为as或because，后一句是原因而不是结果
3.去掉way 后面的how，the way 后面可以直接用状语从句，how 已经有“the way of”的语法意义，也可以把how 改为that
4. 在the more 前面加上and，两个小句之间缺少承接关系连词
5. 把specially 改为especially
6. 把domininated 改为dominating
7. 把make 改为conduct，have或者deliver，指上课、开会等，搭配合理
8. 把some 去掉，或者ability前面加the
9. 把specialized 改为specialize
10.把manner 改成way
2016年Key：
1.把in 改为over
2.在give 前面加which 或者that
3.把differs 改为differentiates 或者把it 删掉
4.把the 删掉
5.把same 改为commen 或者把certain 改为the
6.在complex 后面加and
7. 把it 改为which
8.删掉than
9.把have 改为preserve
10.把furthermore 改为therefore
2015年Key：
1. 把Looked改为Looking
2. 把and 改为but
3. 把complimentary 改为compliment
4. 把it 删掉
5. 把very 改为too
6. which 前面加in 或者删掉which 或者把which 改为that
7.specially 改为especially
8. for 改为about
9.把aspect 改为case
10. 删掉been
2014年Key
1. 把a 前面加also
2. 把possessed 改为attracted
3. 在one 前面加as
4. 在fact 后面加that
5. 把language 前面的the 删掉
6. 把check 后面的of 改为on
7.attempts改为attempt 或者attempting
8. or改为and
9.把involving 改为involved
10. 把touch 改为interaction或者contact
2013年Key:
1. 把production 改为producing
2. 把language 前面的the 删掉
3. 在time前面加the
4. 把looking 改为look
5. 在we 前面加that
6. 把has had 中去掉had
7. 把their 改为his
8. 把anyone 改为someone
9. 把evolved 改为involved
10. 把were 改为are
2012年Key:
1．going∧ since－加入on 题解：go on的意思是“继续”，符合句子表达的含义“争论一直在继续”。
2．certain－改为a certain题解：此处要表达的意思是“很多作家喜欢一种自由的翻译方法”，第一次出现这种方法应该加上不定冠词。
3．rather－改为not ，或者rather 后面加than
题解：根据原句的句子结构，rather应改为not。
4．is －改为was
题解：此句应该为过去时。
5．in －改为 at
题解：at the turn of 19th century“十九世纪之初”，是固定搭配。
6．删去language 前面的the
题解：这里并没有特指某种语言，所以不用定冠词。
7．view∧translation－加入that
题解：在view和translation之间加上that，可将“translation was impossible”看成view的同位语。
8．was－删去was
题解：条件状语从句常可以省略主语和系动词。
9．culminated∧the－加入in
题解：culminate in是“以......告终”的意思，符合上下文含义。
10．and －改为but
题解：根据原句意思“现在背景变化了，但是基本问题依然存在”，两句话之间应该是转折关系。
2011年Key:
1．在grow后加up, 考固定短语
2．改consience为consciousness 考词语区别，consience翻译为“良心，道德
心”, consiousness翻译为“意识”
3．改soon为sooner，sooner or later是固定短语
4．去掉either 前面的the
5.改disagreeing 为disagreeable ，disagreeing只能作动名词，不能作形容词。disagreeable mannernisms 令人讨厌的习惯
6．改imaginative为imaginary, 考词语区别 imaginative翻译为“有想象力的”，imaginary翻译为“想象的，虚构的”
7．改literal 为literary , 考词义区别， literal翻译为“字面的”，literary 翻译为“文学方面的”
8．去掉face后的in，face接宾语时是及物动词。考动词的基本用法
9．在world后加in或者改which为where, 考定语从句
10．改Therefore为However或者Nevertheness, 考语境。
2010年Key：
1．be后加 as; as…as引导的比较级
2．their改为its; its代替every language
3．There改为It; It此处作为形式主语，真正的主语是后面的不定式
4. Whereas改为But ；语境需要表示转折的连词，whereas表示对比
5．further 改为much further不能修饰比较级
6．come改为bring; (sth)come to light , bring sth to light
bring to light the defect of English =bring the defect of english to light 揭示英语的缺陷
7．similar改为different; 根据语境应该用different
8．will改为would; 虚拟语气
9．as important去掉as;
10．the part去掉the或者改the为a be/become/form (a) part of 是固定短语2009年Key:
1.the further difference改为a further difference（此次应该用不定冠词表示泛指,第一次提到的新信息）
2. 改when 为until, 结构not...until翻译为“直到……才”
3.their改为his（代词与前文a little listener在单复数上保持一致）
4.something 改为anything 此处指二十到七十的任何时段
5.therefore改为however （根据上下文逻辑关系，两种lore的传播形成对比）
6.in the general去掉the （习惯用法in general 表示总的来说，一般不用冠词）
7.currently 改为current （这里起的是表语的作用，需要形容词而不是副词）
8.and over 后面加again, over and over again 表示一再的短语
9.live 改为 alive alive翻译为“鲜活的”，一般作补语；live翻译为“现场转播的；活的”，一般作定语，做前置定语，修饰人用living，修饰物用live
10. to let alone改为 let alone (let alone 为习惯搭配，意思是“更不用说”
2008年Key
1.in result 改成in consequence，
2.moves改成movements.
3.distinctive改成distinct或different
4. 在time后加when
5.accepted 改成realized ,acknowleged, confirmed
6.those改成that
7. 删除on,
8 .At 改成In
9 .carrying with 改成 carrying on with
10 .now改成 ago 或者把Since 改为For
2007年Key:
1.改and为or, any languagages today or recordsof ancient languages 是并列成分，在否定句中用or
2.改show为showing, 现在分词作定语
3. 删除the, 表示泛指
4. 改and为but, 根据语境此处是转折
5. 改 large为larger, 后面有than, 应该用比较级
6. 改in为on, on other grounds “基于其它理由”，为固定搭配
7. 改return为response , in response to “对……作出反应”
8. 删除on, emphasize sth emphasize是及物动词
9. 在large前加a, extent 是可数名词，前面要加冠词。 "to a large extent"翻译为“在很大程度上”
10. 改 these为 those, those that/who为固定形式
2006年Key:
1. 改agreeing为agreed, agreed conventions翻译为“习俗”
2. words前加the, 或者those, these此处为特指
3. 改in为at at one?s disposal为固定短语，翻译为“由某人做主”
4. 改enables为enable，定语从句与先行词vocabulary and a set of grammatical rules 保持一致
5. 删除the, 此处需要泛指
6. 改 old为older, 此处需要比较级
7. 改seen为understood，perceived, comprehended, system应该是被理解
8. 删除it , take sth for granted take it for granted that…
9. 改 or为and ,语境需要并列关系而不需选择关系
10. most前加the, 形容词最高级中that一般不能省略
2005年Key:
1. investing应改为invested，过去分词作定语
2. 在irrespective和fluctuations之间加上介词of。Irrespective of 是一固定用法，意指“不论，不管，不顾，”等，此处指公司不顾收入的波动变化。
3. 把those改为that， that此处代替outlook
4. 在fact和economic之间力口上关系代词that。这是一个同位语从语，that在同位语从句中是不能省略的.
5. 把定冠词the去掉, in school表示上学这个抽象意义
6．把形容词poor改为其比较级poorer。这句中的poor与后面的more形成一对比较关系，表示“越……越……”
7．在ways和which之间加上一个介词in。
8.把eliminate改为eliminating,以便使句型结构与前面的giving(students a governance role)保持一致，否则句子结构和意思都显得不正确。9．将shorten(缩短；使变短)改为reduce/lesson/weaken/minimize。此处属于用词不当。
10．将to give discounts on改为to give discounts to their best customer
2004年Key:
1.在set 后加up, set up“建立、成立”是固定短语,或者删掉set
2.把consisted →改为 consisting或者composed
3.答案：in → on
固定搭配on ...occasions
4.答案 rely后加on，或者把rely 改为ask/invite
固定搭配rely on sb. to do something
5.答案：make out → make make out 意思是“辨认出”，而此处意思是“对...做详细的研究”，故用“make detailed studies of...”即可。或者把make 改为carry
6.答案：its → their
此处指代的是“investigations”, 故用复数。
7.答案： public → the public
the +adj. 可表示某一类人，此处意思是“面向公众”，故应用“the public”。
8.答案：nevertheless → therefore/ thus/then/hence
此处不是表示意思的转折，而是与前文构成因果关系，故可改为therefore 或thus。
9.答案：interests → interest
【详细解答】此处看成不可数名词为佳
10.答案：these → those
【详细解答】those 指代witnesses , 即指代名词复数做定语从句的先行词，而these 不行
2003年Key:
1. height→high， high 作为名词翻译为“最高水平”，又如reach an all-time high 2．删除a
此处steady decline指稳定下降的行为、过程而不是其结果，为不可数名词，故应去掉定冠词a。
3．went后加on 或者把went 改为lasted go on为固定搭配，意为“持续”。 4． high→higher 后面有than，此处应为比较级。
5．Europe→European
根据上下文，此处应用形容词作定语修饰名词counterparts。
6．删掉more 由上下文可知，more与equally矛盾，故应去掉。
7． nevertheless→also
由上下文可知，此处讲的内容与前部分内容之间为递进关系，而非转折关系。8． that→those
由上下文可知，此处所指代的应为前面复数形式的marriages，故指示代词也应该用复数形式。
9．Since→Although（或While）
从逻辑上讲，此处应表达让步关系，而非因果关系。
10．in→to to．．．extent为固定搭配，意为“到……程度”
2002年Key:
1.把and 改为while/whereas/but/yet 都可以
2.把with 改为of
3.把speak out 的out删掉，或者在中间加上them
4.把firstly改为first
5.把which 改为that 或者删掉which
6.把went 改为go
7. 删掉per 或者删掉every
8. 把This 改为It
9. 在community 后面加上together
10.把far 改为away
2001年Key:
1.答案：in→with with…feeling 怀着。。。感情，感觉。。。
2.答案：increasing→increasingly increasing可用来修饰名词，表示"正在增加"，修饰名词topic不合题意。本句中应该用副词作状语修饰形容词favorite，所以应该改用副词increasingly。
3.答案：so→but 根据上下文判断，小麦价格在秋天不断下降，但是农民不能等着市场提升价格。这里应该是转折关系，而不是因果关系。
4.答案：删掉soon或shortly 要表达"不久以后"，要么用soon after，要么用shortly after，就是没有soon shortly after这种搭配。
5.答案：just→only only to 的含义是“不料，结果却。。。”符合句意
6.答案：asked∧→for ask for为固定搭配，意为"要求，请求"。
7.答案：involving→involved be involved in为一固定搭配，意为"被卷入…"，这里的be为连系动词，可用become替换。
8.答案：1ife→living 根据上下文，这里要表达的意思是"生活费用"，应为living costs。life则意为"生命"，不能修饰costs。
9.答案：handle→deal或删掉with handle为及物动词，应直接带宾语。而固定搭配deal with与handle同义，都表示"处理(某事)"。
10.答案：total→ful l/ complete total意为"总体的，全体的"，指一种整体的概念。而这里要表达的是"全部的权威"，英语中常用full authority。
2000年Key:
1.删除seem后的the
本句中的most为副词，不是最高级形式，故不用定冠词the。翻译为“极其”
2.but→and
根据文章内容判断，but后面的陈述与前文并不是相反之意，而是并列关系。3.答案：in→to as opposed to为固定搭配，意为“与……对照，与……相比”。
4. misled→misleading 根据句意，这里的方式（way）是对他人有误导，不是被他人误导。所以应该用m islead的现在分词表示主动的含义。
5.删掉away
far away from意为“距离某处很远”，而far from being则意为“远不是，远够不上”。根据上下文，这里是说“远非毫无意义”，故应该用短语far from being。
6. single→only 此处用only修饰vehicle比用single更符合习惯用法。
7. as→in 本句中的介词in表示“在……方面”，as则无此意。
8. mean→means by no means为固定搭配，意为“丝毫不，绝不”。
9. have后加such such … as是常见表达方式，用来举例说明。
10. number改为deal/amount
1999年Key:
1.答案：as→like 【详细解答】as our prehistoric human ancestors意为"作为人类史前的祖先那样"，但是根据上下文，此处应表达的意思是"像人类史前的祖先那样"，故应该将as改为介词like。
2.答案：supplementing→supplemented 【详细解答】本句中的分词短语supplementing with animal foods 是定语，修饰vegetable diet，根据上下文，此处是指"素食被肉食补充"，故应该用过去分词表被动。
3.答案：and→or 【详细解答】根据上下文，这里的意思只能是三分之二或多于三分之二，所以不能用表示并列关系的and，而应该用表示选择关系的or。
4.答案：in→on 【详细解答】on average为固定搭配，意为"平均"。
5.答案：as→whereas/while 【详细解答】根据上下文意思，这两句话表示的是一种对比关系。故应该改用连词whereas或w hile，引出相反或不同的事实。
6.答案：for 【详细解答】provide是及物动词，可以直接连宾语或者把provide 改为account.
7.答案：of 【详细解答】despite是一介词，其后可直接名词。
8.答案：half∧→that 【详细解答】在这里加上that，用来指代前面的blood cholesterol levels，句子结构才完整。
9.答案：if→though 【详细解答】根据上下文，这里的主从句关系不是条件，而是让步关系，即"尽管没有人建议我们回到土著人的生活方式，…"。
10.答案：for ∧→a 【详细解答】本句中的a healthier diet表示一种更加健康的饮食。冠词a泛指"一种或一类"。
1998年Key:
1.在any infant 中间加other，在比较一物与他物,一人与他人的异同时,必须从比较对象中排除该物或该人.
2．将have改为has ，该谓语动词的主语为neither,所以要使用单数形式.
3．将pay改为draw/call/attract/elicit。这里要表达的是“引起注意”.
4．将on改为to get/ rise/ spring to one’s feet 作“起身,站起来”将.
5 . in risk 改为in danger 或者at risk
6. 将them 改为themselves 根据上下文,我们可以看出,这里需要一个代词来作fend for 的宾语.
7.删除定冠词the
8.将be 改为is, 在这里suggest 作“认为,提出看法,暗示说”讲,不作“建议”讲,
英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析 About half of the infant and maternal deaths in developing countries could be avoided if women had used family planning methods to prevent high risk ____1____ pregnancies, according to a report publishing recently by the Johns Hopking ____2____ University. The report indicates that 5.6 million infant deaths and 2,000,000 maternal Deaths could be prevented this year if women chose to have theirs children ____3____ within the safest years with adequate intervals among births and limited their ____4____ families to moderate size. This amounts to about half of the 9.8 million infant and 370.000 maternal deaths in developing countries, excluded China, estimated for this year by ____5____ the United Nation’s Children’s Fund and the US Centers for Disease Control respectably. China was excluded because very few births occur in the high ____6____
【星火英语版】2017年英语专业八级考试参考答案 SECTION A MINI-LECTURE 1. signing 2. primary 3. literacy 4. different but complementary 5. avoiding 6. many other contexts 7. characteristics/features 8. reaction 9. distance 10. emotion 11. deliberate 12. intimacy and immediacy 13. continuum 14. types of language 15. the usage SECTION B INTERVIEW 1.What is international leaders’ assessment of the current battle
against Ebola? 答案：B. Disheartening. 2.How many people are now working in the treatment unit in Liberia? 答案：A. 200. 3.According to Mary, what is the challenge in the battle against Ebola? 答案：D. Insufficient operational efforts on the ground. 4.Why do health workers need case management protocol training? 答案：B. They can open up more treatment units. 5.What does this interview mainly talk about? 答案：C. Ebola outpacing operational efforts. 6.What is Tom’s main role in his new position? 答案：C. Using media information to inspire new ideas. 7.According to Tom, what does innovation require of people? 答案：B. Being brave and willing to take a risk 8.What does T om see as game-changing chances in the future? 答案：B. Aiming at a consumer level. 9.What does T om do first to deal with the toughest part of his work?
2017年英语专业八级考试改错模拟测试 题及答案5 I think it is true to saying that, in general, language teachers (26) have paid little attention to the way sentences are used in combination to form stretches of disconnected discourse. They have tended to take (27) their cue from the grammarian and have concentrated to the teaching (28) of sentences as self-contained units. It is true that these are often represented in "contexts" and strung together in dialogues and (29) reading passages, but these are essentially setting to make the formal properties of the sentences stand out more clearly, properties which are then established in the learners brain(30) by means of practice drill and exercises. Basically, the language teaching unit is the (31)
1995-2017年英语专业八级改错真题及答案 （文字/答案校对版） 2017年改错真题 The ability to communicate is the primary factor that distinguishes human beings from animals. And it is the ability to communicate well which 1.________ distinguishes one individual from another. The fact is that apart from the basic necessities, one needs to be equipped with habits for good communication skills, thus this is 2.________ what will make one a happy and successful social being. In order to develop these habits, one needs to first acknowledge the fact that they need to improve communication skills from time to time. They need to take stock of the way how they interact and the direction 3.________ in which their work and personal relations are going. The only constant in life is change, th e more one accepts one’s strengths and works 4._______ towards dealing with their shortcomings, specially in the area of 5.________ communication skills, the better will be their interactions and the more their social popularity. The dominated question that comes here is: How to improve 6.________ communication skills? The answer is simple. One can find plenty of literature on this. There are also experts, who conduct workshops and seminars based on communication skills of men and women. In fact, a large number of companies are bringing in trainers to regularly make sessions on the subject, in order to 7.________ help their work force maintain better interpersonal work relations. Today effective communication skills have become a predominant factor even while recruiting employees. While interviewing candidates, most interviewers judge them on the basis of the skills they communicate with. They believe that some skills can be improvised on the job; but ability to 8.________ communicate well is important, as every employee becomes the representing face of the company. There are trainers, who specialized in delivering custom-made 9._______ programs on the subject. Through the sessions they not only facilitate better communication skills in the workplace, but also look into the problems in the manner of being able to convey messages effectively. 10._______ 2016年改错真题 All social units develop a culture. Even in two-person relationships, a culture develops in time. In friendship and romantic relationships, 1._________ for example, partners develop their own history, shared experiences, language patterns, habits, and customs give that relationship a special 2._________ character—a character that differs it in various ways from 3._________ other relationships. Examples might include special dates, places,
英语专业八级翻译练习题带答案2017 英语专业八级翻译练习题带答案2017 机会只对进取有为的人开放，庸人永远无法光顾。以下是小编为大家搜索整理的英语专业八级翻译练习题带答案2017，希望对正在关注的您有所帮助!更多精彩内容请及时关注我们应届毕业生考试网! part 1 The next day, when their mended carriage had come up to fetch them, and they were just starting to drive away from the inn, the Conte' s old servant appeared with the rose-cutting neatly wrapped up, and the compliments and wishes for a buon viaggio from her master. The town collected to see them depart, and the children ran after their carriage through the gate of the little city. They heard a rush of feet behind them for a few moments, but soon they were far down towards the valley; the little town with all its noise and life was high above them on its mountain peak. She had planted the rose at home, where it had grown and flourished in a wonderful manner; and every June the great mass of leaves and shoots still broke out into a passionate splendour of scent and crimson colour, as if in its root and fibres there still burnt the anger and thwarted desire of that Italian lover. Of course the old Conte must have died many years ago; she had forgotten his name, and had even forgotten the name of the mountain city that she had stayed in, after first seeing it twinkling at dawn in the sky, like a nest of stars. 参考译文: 次日，他们的马车修好了,上山来接他们。在就要离开旅馆之际，伯爵的老仆赶来了，送来一根包扎整齐的玫瑰枝条，并转达了伯爵旅途愉快的祝福。小城中的居民都赶来目送他们离去，孩童们也追随在车子后面，一直跟到小城门外。开始他们还能听到身后散乱的脚步声，但不久车子便驶入山谷，而这座喧闹的小城依然高高耸立于他们头顶的山颠. 她把玫瑰种在家中.玫瑰的长势非常好,枝繁叶茂;每年六月，在片片绿叶与新芽之中，绽放出绚丽的红花，散发出浓郁的香味,仿佛它的根须之间依旧燃烧着那位意大利情人的愤怒与没能实现的渴望。当然老伯爵肯定早已去世多年;而她也记不起他的名字了，甚至连她所住过的那座小城的名字也忘记了，虽然她曾经在拂晓之时看它犹如满天的繁星在空中闪烁。
英语专业八级改错（1） It is difficult to think of a nation as an abstract collection of people living on a patch of territory. It is easier to think of as a person. This is why we sometimes call Great Britain __1__ "Britannia" and the United States "Columbia", and think of it as stately women. We also use masculine symbols in our __2__ personification of nations. In 1712 John Arbuthont, a Scot,wrote a political satire in that the characters were supposed __3__ to be typical members of different nationalities. The Englishman was John Bull. This name, which was sufficient flattering to be __4__ adopted generally, combined the most common English first name with a last name indicated strength. John Bull is usually __5__ pictured as a partly businessman with a Union Jack on his hatband. After the American War of Independence began in 1783, the United __6__States was knownfor "Brother Jonathan". Jonathan was a biblical __7__ name associated with simple people from rural areas, and it seemed fitting since the United States is rural and unsophiscated, and since __8__American considered their type of simplicity a virtue compared to __9__ the wickedness of European cities. It is possible, however, that the name was originated with President George Washington,
2009 （文化差异/文化遗产的保留） Mandarin, or putonghua, is the standard service sector language in our country. But recently, employees at a big city's subway station have been busy learning dialects of other parts of the country. Proponents say that using dialects in the subway is a way to provide better service. But opponents think that encouraging the use of dialects in public counter s the national policy to promote putonghua. What is your opinion? Write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic: Are Dialects Just as Acceptable in Public Places? 2008 （教育） In a few months' time you are going to graduate from university. How do you think your college years have prepared you for your future life? Write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic: What I have learned from my years at university 2007 （朋友） Some people think that financial disparity affects friendship. What do you think? Write an essay of about 400 words. You should supply an appropriate title for your essays. 2006 （建议/野心） Joseph Epstein, a famous American writer, once said, "We decide what is important and what is trivial in life we decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do but no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about do you agree or disagree with him? Write an essay of about 400 words entitled: Ambition 2005 （工作） Interview is frequently used by employers as a means to recruit prospective employees. As a result, there have been many arguments for or against the interview as a selection procedure. What is your opinion? Write an essay of about 400 words to state your view. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay. 2004 （校园学习重要） It was reported in the press some time ago that a few second-and third-year students in a provincial university decided to try their hands at business in order to get prepared for the future. They opened six small shops near their university. Their teachers and classmates had different opinions about this phenomenon. Some thought that the students' business experience would help them adapt better to society after graduation, while others held a negative view, saying that running shops might occupy too much of the students' time and energy which should otherwise be devoted to their academic study. What do you think?
英语专业八级改错练习题 Humankind’s future safety and longevity of life on Earth largely depend on the environment which we live.Keeping the air we __1__breathe free of pollution is a major priority towards making this earth a safe place.Other areas of concern are water,land,the ozone layer,and the preservation of flora and fauna of the planet. Every country has ecological issues to deal.In South America,__2__the rain forests are rapidly disappearing as people burn and cut down trees to make for farmland.Many Middle-Eastern and Asian countries __3__have a battle to fight with air,water,and land https://www.doczj.com/doc/2712501601.html,kes and swamps are spread with debris.__4__Mass chemical spraying is used to kill pests on trees and plants.Abundant __5__use of water in countries as China has caused major water shortage.__6__Rivers be polluted by factories and the populations that live on their banks.Global warming is considered a major factor caused __7__the droughts in eastern China,the Sudan,Ethiopia,and northern Kenya. The reduction of the ozone layer is blamed for the global warming trends in variant countries of this globe,and
TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2014) GRADE EIGHT PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (35 MIN) SECTION A MINI-LECTURE In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONL Y. 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. How to Reduce Stress Life is full of things that cause us sress. Though we may not like stress, we have to live with it. I. Definition of stress A. (1) reaction i.e.force exerted between two touching bodies B. human reaction i.e. response to (2) on someone e.g. increase in breathing, heart rate, (3) , or muscle tension II. (4) , A. positive stress where it occurs: Christmas, wedding, (5) B. negative stress where it occurs: test-taking situations, friend?s death III. Ways to cope with stress A. recoginition of stress signals —monitor for (6) of stress —find ways to protect oneself B. attention to body demand —effect of (7) C. planning and acting appropriately —reason for planning —(8) of planning D. learning to (9) —e.g. dlay caused by traffic E. pacing activities —manageable task —(10) SECTION B INTERVIEW In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONL Y. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO. 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.
QUESTION BOOKLET TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2017) -GRADE EIGHT- TIME LIMIT: 150 MIN PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION [25 MIN] SECTION A MINI-LECTURE In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. 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 in 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 be given THREE minutes to check your work. SECTION B INTERVIEW In this section you will hear TWO interviews. At the end of each interview, five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the interviews and the questions 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 answer 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 the first interview. 1. A. Comprehensive. B. Disheartening. C. Encouraging. D. Optimistic. 2. 3. A. 200. B. 70. C. 10. D. 500. 4. 5. 试卷用后随即销毁。 严禁保留、出版或复印。
2011年专八作文 Should famous Chinese sites of historical interest charge higher fees during peak travel seasons? In the first part of essay you should state dearly your main argument,and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part,should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary 2010专八作文 Recently newspapers have reported that officials in a little-known mountainous area near Guiyang, Guizhou Province wanted to turn the area into a “central business district” for Guiyang and invited a foreign design company to give it a n entirely new look. The design company came up with a blueprint for unconventional, super-futuristic buildings. Tis triggered off different responses. Some appreciated the bold innovation of the design, but others held that it failed to reflect regional characteristics or local cultural heritage. What is your view on this? Write an essay of about 400 words. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay. In the first part of your writing you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. 2009专八作文 Mandarin, or putonghua, is the standard service sector language in our country. But recently, employees at a big city's subway station have been busy learning dialects of other parts of the country. Proponents say that using dialects in the subway is a way to provide better service. But opponents think that encouraging the use of dialects in public counters the national policy to promote putonghua. What is your opinion? Write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic: Are Dialects Just as Acceptable in Public Places? In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second partyou should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary.
2019年英语专业八级真题及详解 TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2019) -GRADE EIGHT- TIME LIMIT: 150 MIN PART ⅠLISTENING COMPREHENSION [25 MIN] SECTION A MINI-LECTURE In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. 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 what you fill in is 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 be given THREE minutes to check your work. Body Language and Mind
1. ____ 【答案】power and dominance 【解析】细节题。录音提到“I’m interested in power dynamics, that is, the nonverbal expressions of power and dominance”，即讲座主题是肢体语言的力量和主导性。故答案为power and dominance。