2003年英语专业八级考试真题（附听力mp3及答案）

　　TEXT K

　　First read the questions.

　　39. When did Moore receive his first commission?

　　A. In 1948. B. In 1946. C. In 1931. D. In 1928.

　　40. Where did Moore win his first international prize?

　　A. In London. B. In Venice. C. In New York. D. InHamburg.

　　Now go through TEXT K quickly to answer questions39 and 40.

　　Henry Moore, the seventh of eight children of Raymond Spencer Moore and his wife Mary, wasborn in Yorkshire on 30 July 1898. After graduating from secondary school, Moore taught for ashort while. Then the First World War began and he enlisted in the army at the age of eighteen.After the war he applied for and received an ex-serviceman's grant to attend Leeds School ofArt. At the end of his second year he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London.

　　In 1928 Moore met Irina Radesky, a painting student at the college, whom he married a yearlater. The couple then moved into a house which consisted of a small ground-floor studio withan equally small flat above. This remained their London home for ten years.

　　Throughout the 1920's Moore was involved in the art life of London. His first commission,received in 1928, was to produce a sculpture relief for the newly opened headquarters ofLondon Transport. His first one-man exhibition opened at the Warren Gallery in 1928; it wasfollowed by a show at the Leicester Galleries in 1931 and his first sale to a gallery abroad-theMuseum fur Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. His success continued.

　　In 1946 Moore had his first foreign retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art,New York. In 1948 he won the International Sculpture Prize at the 24th Venice Biennale, thefirst of countless international accolades acquired in succeeding years. At the same time sales ofMoore's work around the world increased, as did the demand for his exhibitions. By the end of1970's the number of exhibitions had grown to an average of forty a year, ranging from thevery small to major international retrospectives taking years years of detailed planning andpreparation.

　　The main themes in Moore's work included the mother and child, the earliest work created in1922, and the reclining figure dating from 1926. At the end of the 1960's came stringedfigures based on mathematical models observed in the Science Museum, and the first helmethead, a subject that later developed into the internal-external theme-variously interpreted asa hard form covering a soft, like a mother protecting her child or a foetus inside a womb.

　　A few years before his death in 1986 Moore gave the estate at Perry Green with its studios,houses and cottages to the Trustees of the Henry Moore Foundation to promote sculptureand the fine arts within the cultural life of the country and in particular the works of HenryMoore.

　　试卷二 (120 min)

　　Part Ⅳ Translation (60 min)

　　SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

　　Translate the following text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.

　　在得病以前，我受父母宠爱，在家中横行霸道，一旦隔离，拘禁在花园山坡上一幢小房子里，顿感被打入冷宫，十分郁郁不得志起来。一个春天的傍晚，园中百花怒放，父母在园中设宴，霎时宾客云集，笑语四溢。我在山坡的小屋里，悄悄掀起窗帘，窥见园中大千世界，一片喧闹。自己的哥姐，堂表弟兄，也穿插其间，个个喜气洋洋。一霎时，一阵被人摈弃，为世所遗忘的悲愤兜上心头，禁不住痛哭起来。

　　SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

　　Translate the following text into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THERR.

　　In his classic novel, "The Pioneers", James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a land developer, withhis cousin on a tour of the city he is building. He decribes the broad streets, rows of houses, abustling metropolis. But his cousin looks around bewildered. All she sees is a forest. "Whereare the beauties and improvements which you were to show me?" she asks. He's astonishedshe can't see them. "Where! Why everywhere," he replies. For though they are not yet built onearth, he has built them in his mind, and they are as concrete to him as if they were alreadyconstructed and finished.? Cooper was illustrating a distinctly American trait, future-mindeness: the ability to see the present from the vantage point of the future; the freedom tofeel unencumbered by the past and more emotionally attached to things to come. As AlbertEinstein once said, "Life for the American is always becoming, never being."

　　Part Ⅴ Writing (60 min)

　　An English newspaper is currently running a discussion on whether young people in China todayare (not) more self-centred and unsympathetic than were previous generations. And thepaper is inviting contributions from university students. You have been asked to write a shortarticle for the newspaper to air your views.

　　Your article should be about 300 words in length. In the first part of your article you shouldstate clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argumentwith appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a naturalconclusion or a summary.

　　You should supply a title for your article.

　　Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Failure to follow theabove instructions may result in a loss of marks. Write your composition on ANSWER SHEETFOUR.

　　参考答案?

　　PAPER ONE

　　PART Ⅰ LISTENING COMPREHENSION

　　SECTION A TALK

　　1.B 2.A 3.D 4.B 5.C

　　SECTION B INTERVIEW

　　6.C 7.D 8.C 9.A.10.C

　　SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

　　News Item 1

　　11.A

　　News Item 2

　　12.A

　　News Item 3

　　13.D 14.B 15.C

　　SECTION D NOTE-TAKING AND GAP-FILLING

　　1.basic (或 fundamental)

　　2.safety

　　3.emotional

　　4.worries

　　5.pension

　　6.work

　　7.variable

　　8.human

　　9.motivation

　　10.coexist

　　PART Ⅱ PROOFREADING AND ERROR CORRECTION

　　1.height→high

　　2.a

　　3.went∧→on

　　4.high→higher

　　5.Europe→European

　　6.more

　　7.nevertheless→also

　　8.that→those

　　9.Since→Although(或While)

　　10.in→to

　　PART Ⅲ READING COMPREHENSION

　　SECTION A

　　TEXT A

　　16.D 17.A 18.C

　　TEXT B

　　19.B 20.D 21.A 22.C

　　TEXT C

　　23.B 24.D 25.A 26.C

　　TEXT D

　　27.D 28.A 29.C.30.B

　　SECTION B

　　TEXT E

　　31.C

　　TEXT F

　　32.A

　　TEXT G

　　33.D

　　TEXT H

　　34.A

　　TEXT I

　　35.B 36.D

　　TEXT J

　　37.A 38.C

　　TEXT K

　　39.D 40.B

　　PAPER TWO

　　PART Ⅳ TRANSLATION

　　SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

　　【参考译文】 Before I fell ill, my parents doted on me a lot. I could have my way at home. Once Iwas isolated and confined in a chamber on the hillside of the garden, I suddenly felt I wasneglected and became very depressed. One spring evening, my parents held a Banquet in thegarden, where all sorts of flowers were in full bloom. In no time, a crowd of their guestscollected and laughter was heard all over there. I, without being noticed, lifted the curtain in mysmall room, only to spy the bustle of a kaleidoscopic world down in the garden, and my eldersisters, brothers and my cousins, each full of the joys of spring, were shuttling among theguests. Quickly enough, I was thrown into a fist of sorrowful anger at being forgotten anddiscarded by the rest and could not help crying my heart out.

　　SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

　　【参考译文】在其经典小说《开拓者》中，詹姆士·菲尼摩尔·库珀让主人公，一个土地开发商，带他的表妹参观正在由他承建的一座城市。他描述了宽阔的街道，林立的房屋，热闹的都市。他的表妹环顾四周，大惑不解。她所看见的只是一片树林。"你想让我看的那些美景和改造了的地方在哪儿啊?"她问道。他见表妹看不到那些东西，感到很惊讶。"哪儿?到处都是啊!"他答道。虽然那些东西还未建成在大地上，但他已在心中将它们建好了。对他来说，它们都是实实在在的，宛如已建成竣工一样。

　　库珀这里阐明的是一种典型的美国人特性：着眼于未来，即能够从未来的角度看待现在;可以自由地不为过去所羁绊，而在情感上更多地依附于未来的事物。正如阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦曾经说过的那样："对美国人来说，生活总是在发展变化中，从来不会静止不变。"

　　PART Ⅴ WRITING

　　【参考范文】 Love, and Then Be LovedIn recent years, more and more teachers complain thattheir students are indifferent to others. Some even worry that the young generation mightruin the future of China. To be sure, many of our young people cannot see eye to eye with thisview. However, as a university student, I myself would like to content that we young peopletoday are in general more self-centered and unsympathetic than our previous generations.

　　To start with, most, if not all, young people choose to attend exclusively to their own needs.In their eyes, It is all too natural to seek satisfaction from what they do, even if it may meaninconvenience to others. Take my dormitory for example. It is a common scene here that aroommate cheerfully talks to his girlfriend on the phone at midnight when others are strugglingfor a sound sleep. One may complain now and then, but to no avail. In fact, the others, to theexclusion of me, live their dormitory life much in the same way. When I take a nap at noon,they often play cards. They have no regard for others. Life is a joy to them, yet they oftenenjoy it to the neglect of others' feelings. In sharp contrast, our caring parents always payheed to our needs and those of others. Whenever my father comes back home late in thenight, he tiptoes In for fear that he might awake me.

　　Moreover, our young people tend to be insensitive to others' difficulty. When a classmate fallsill, few people offer to help, but regard it as none of their business. Some students in my classcome from poor families. Yet, they are active mobile phone users, who may spend twice asmuch as what their parents earn from arduous labor. When asked why they behave so, theyanswer that their parents have the obligation to accommodate their expenses. Personally, Idetest their answer, for I know my parents never thought that way when they were young.Being aware of their parents' financial difficulty, they managed to save every penny they could.?For the above reasons and those not mentioned here, I subscribe to the view that youngpeople in today's China are more self-centered and unsympathetic than were our previousgenerations. It is high time that we learned from older generations so that a harmonious andsplendid future can be anticipated.

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