1997年英语专业八级考试真题（附听力mp3及答案）

　　试卷二 (120 min)

　　Part Ⅳ

　　Translation (60 min)

　　SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH?

　　Translate the following text into English. Write yourtranslation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.?

　　来美国求学的中国学生与其他亚裔学生一样，大多非常刻苦勤奋，周末也往往会抽出一天甚

　　至两天的时间去实验室加班，因而比起美国学生来，成果出得较多。我的导师是亚裔人，嗜

　　烟好酒，脾气暴躁。但他十分欣赏亚裔学生勤奋与扎实的基础知识，也特别了解亚裔学生的

　　心理。因此，在他实验室所招的学生中，除有一名来自德国外，其余5位均是亚裔学生。他

　　干脆在实验室的门上贴一醒目招牌：“本室助研必须每周工作7天，早10时至晚12时，工作时间必须全力以赴。”这位导师的严格及苛刻是全校有名的，在我所呆的3年半中，共有14位学生被招进他的实验室，最后博士毕业的只剩下5人。1990年夏天，我不顾别人劝阻，硬着头皮接受了导师的资助，从此开始了艰难的求学旅程。?

　　SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

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

　　Opera is expensive: that much is inevitable. But expensive things are not inevitably theprovince of the rich unless we abdicate society’s power of choice. We can choose to makeopera, and other expensive forms of culture, accessible to those who cannot individually payfor it. The question is: why should we? Nobody denies the imperatives of food, shelter,defence, health and education. But even in a prehistoric cave, mankind stretched out a handnot just to eat, drink or fight, but also to draw. The impulse towards culture, the desire toexpress and explore the world through imagination and representation is fundamental. InEurope, this desire has found fulfillment in the masterpieces of our music, art, literature andtheatre. These masterpieces are the touchstones for all our efforts; they are the touchstonesfor the possibilities to which human thought and imagination may aspire; they carry the mostprofound messages that can be sent from one human to another.　?

　　Part Ⅴ

　　Writing (60 min)

　　Some people hold the view that a student’s success in university study follows the samepattern as that of fanning, which is characterized by the sowing the seeds, nurturing growthand harvesting the rewards’ process. Write an essay of about 300 words on the topic givenbelow to support this view with your own experience as a university student.?

　　SOWING THE SEEDS,NURTURING GROWTH AND HARVESTING THE REWARDS?

　　In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the secondpart you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part youshould bring what you have written to a natural conclusion with a summary.?

　　Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Failure to follow theabove instructions may result in a loss of marks.?

　　Write your response on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.

　　参考答案

　　PAPER ONE?

　　PARTⅠ LISTENING COMPREHENSION?

　　SECTION A TALK?

　　1.B 2.D 3.A 4.D 5.A

　　SECTION B INTERVIEW?

　　6.A 7.C 8.B 9.A 10.C

　　SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST?

　　News Item 1?

　　11.B

　　News Item 2?

　　12.A

　　News Item 3?

　　13.C?

　　News Item 4?

　　14.C 15.B

　　SECTION D NOTE-TAKING AND GAP-FILLING?

　　1.limited/restricted ?

　　2.bank?

　　3.purchases/transaction ?

　　4.bill?

　　5.necessary/essential?

　　6.regular??

　　7.place ?

　　8.emergency?

　　9.overspend ?

　　10.payments??

　　PART Ⅱ PROOFREADING AND ERROR CORRECTION?

　　1.can → must?

　　2.not∧→to。?

　　3.of→about?

　　4.to删掉?

　　5.therefore→but?

　　6.raise→rise。?

　　7.as∧→if或though?

　　8.make→perform或do

　　9.the→a?

　　10.post→posture

　　PART Ⅲ READING COMPREHENSION?

　　SECTION A

　　TEXT A

　　16.C 17.A 18.D

　　TEXT B ?

　　19.C 20.D 21.C 22.B 23.C

　　TEXT C ?

　　24.B 25.D

　　TEXT D ?

　　26.A 27.B 28.C 29.B 30.A

　　SECTION B SKIMMING AND SCANNING?

　　TEXT E

　　31.B

　　TEXT F

　　32.D?

　　TEXT G

　　33.A

　　TEXT H

　　34.A

　　TEXT I

　　35.B 36.D 37.C

　　TEXT J

　　38.B 39.C

　　TEXT K

　　40.D?

　　PAPER TWO

　　PART Ⅳ TRANSLATION

　　SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

　　My advisor was an Asian American. He indulged himself in smoking and alcoholic drinking andwas hot-tempered. But he appreciated the diligence and the sound basic knowledge ofstudents of Asian origin very much, and shared their sentiments (understood their feeling).Therefore, of the six students who were permitted to study in his laboratory, only one wasfrom Germany, the other five were all from Asia. He was so straight forward as to put up a noteon the door of his lab, which read: “Research assistant in this lab must work seven days aweek, from 10 a.m. to midnight every day, and must spare no effort (go all out) in workhours.“ He was well known throughout the campus for his strictness and severity.

　　During the three and a half years of my work there fourteen students entered his lab, but onlyfive left with a doctor’s degree. In the summer of 1990, irrespective of other’s advice, I forcedmyself to receive his assistance and began my hard journey for schooling.?

　　SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE?

　　观看歌剧是件昂贵的事。昂贵是必然的。然而昂贵的东西并非富人所独有，除非我们放弃社会赋予的选择权。我们有权做出选择去创作歌剧和其它昂贵的文化形式，使那些单凭个人的能力无力支付的人享受得起。问题在于我们为什么要这样做?没有人否定食物、住所、防御能力、健康和教育是必不可少的，即使在史前的山洞里，人类伸出手来不仅是为了吃、喝、战斗，他们还作画。文化的冲动，即通过想象和表达去显示和探索世界的渴望是最根本的东西。在欧洲，这种渴望已通过音乐、绘画、文学和戏剧的名著得以实现。这些名著对我们付出的所有努力进行了检验。它们成了人类的思维和想象力所能达到程度的试金石它们包含着人与人之间能够传递的最深刻的信息。?

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　　PART Ⅴ WRITING

　　Sowing the Seeds, Nurturing Growth and Harvesting the Rewards?

　　In spring we sow the seeds in the soil. We look after them and cut off seeds for them. And inautumn, we are very happy to get harvest. A student’s success in university study follows thesame pattern as that of farming. The teachers are the seeds in our mind by giving lectures tous. We can get nothing without hard working. That is to say “No pains, no gains.”?

　　First, if we hope a harvest, the seeds play the fundamental role, or we can say that it is veryimportant to listen carefully to the teachers. In my point of view, it is the teacher who sows theseeds. What is seed? It is knowledge. Some students sleep in the class. They carry nothingwith them when they leave the classroom. That is to say they don’t get seeds from theteachers. They are not interested in the lectures. They like to stay up all night to review thelesson. Now it seems that they are working hard in a field, which has no seeds in the soil. Itsounds ridiculous, isn’t it? Therefore, to absorb in class is very important.?

　　Second, nurturing growth is the key point in farming, or we can say that hard working for thestudents themselves is the most important. We can imagine that we sow the seeds in the soiland then don’t pay attention to them any more. Then how can we get a harvest? If we don’twater the seeds, they will dry and can never become a plant. If we don’t get rid of the seeds,the plant will die of malnutrition. It is the same in study. Listen carefully to the teachers andget the seeds in our mind and notebooks. But we must review the lesson. We must grasp theknowledge. We should borrow more books which are relevant to the class from library andabsorb the knowledge. This is the most important process in study. When you say: “ Oh, theknowledge is mine now. It doesn’t belong to the teachers any longer,” you finish the hard workprocess in study.?

　　Third, harvesting is also an important process. That is to say that you must learn to use whatyou have studied to get a good result in examination. Some students work all day long. Theyusually fail in the exam. They are worried before exam and forget everything when enter theclassroom for exam. They got the seeds, they devoted all their energy to the field but theydon’t know how to harvest their rewards. So let’s learn the skill of harvest and get our rewards. ?

　　To sum up, the three processes are all important if we want to be a successful student.Without one of them, we will fail in our study. Try to improve your

　　self in the three aspects; you can certainly become an excellent student.

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