2004年英语专业八级考试真题（附听力mp3及答案）

　　TEXT H

　　First read the question.

　　34. What is the following passage mainly concerned with?

　　A. Educational facilities in Africa.

　　B. Founding a university for women.

　　C. Agricultural production in Zimbabwe.

　　D. Women's role in agricultural production.

　　Now go through TEXT H quickly to answer question 34.

　　Access to education facilities is inadequate in sub Saharan Africa. And women and girls thereface greater disadvantages. They are often denied education as customs dictate they marryearly and have children.

　　Two Zimbabwean academics plan to open a university to help African women whose educationwas interrupted by either family commitments or financial constraints.

　　The university will initially be in Harare, but will be relocated to Marondera, 80 kilometres east.The academics, Hope Sadza, former deputy commissioner of Zimbabwe's Public ServiceCommission and Fay Chung, former Minister of Education,

　　are to open the university this month. It will initially have 400 students.?

　　Students will be split into groups of 100 and placed in one of four faculties: social science,agriculture, environmental studies or science and technology. The university is for women aged25 or older.

　　The need for a university for women is more acute in Africa, where women are the poorest andmost disadvantaged. When they do have access to education they often must endure ***ualharassment. Most women drop out because they lack educational materials or the schools areinaccessible.

　　"In Africa, women till the land and produce the bulk of the food, yet they have nounderstanding about marketing," Sadza siad. "Agriculture is another area where we canempower women."

　　The university will have a 285-hectare farm and courses will include agricultural production andmarketing.

　　Women account for 80 per cent of Africa's agricultural production, but have no control overeither the resources or policies.

　　The university since August has raised about Z$32.5 million (US$591,000) in donations andpledges. The university will be open to students from across Africa. It will be the secondwomen's university - after Sudan's Ahfad University - in Africa.

　　TEXT I

　　First read the questions.

　　35. Which president advocated the lifting of the ban on women teachers?

　　A. Xu Yangqiu.

　　B. Wu Yifang.

　　C. Tao Xingzhi.

　　D. Chen Heqin.

　　36. What is Guo Juefu?

　　A. A painter.

　　B. A poet.

　　C. A biologist.

　　D. A psychologist.

　　Now go through TEXT I quickly to answer questions 35 and 36.

　　Many presidents of the century old Nanjing Normal University (NJNU) have put forwardinsightful and inspiring education theories and practices, which have had a far-reachingimpact on China's education history.

　　Jiang Qian and Guo Bingwen proposed a school running principle that advocated the balancebetween versatility and specialization, liberal arts and sciences.

　　Tao Xingzhi, a well-known educator, carried out many important reforms in the university. Forthe first time in China, he advocated the lifting of the ban on women teachers and opened adulttraining classes in summer vacations.

　　Wu Yifang, China's first woman university president, emphasized normal education, regarding itas the parent engine and heavy industry of education.

　　Chen Heqin established a Chinese?style and scientific theory for modern education for children.There have also been many noted scholars and artists. Educator Xu Yangqiu was one of China'searliest scholars to study American education theory.

　　Professor Luo Bingwen devoted himself to normal education theory and Chinese and foreigneducation history, advocating that teachers should be models of virtue for the students sothat their behaviour guides the students.

　　Psychologist Guo Juefu is an important figure in China's psychological history. ChinaPsychological History〖WTBZ〗, a book he authored, has made its mark in internationalpsychological circles.

　　Zhang Daqian, a well-known master of traditional Chinese painting, advised his students toread books systematically and selectively to rid themselves of worldliness, fickleness andpedantry. Zhang also pointed out that success comes largely from one's own endeavours, butpartly from circumstance.

　　Sun Wang, a poet versed in the poems popular in the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 907),toldstudents to map out a long term schedule for their studies and to work towards fulfillment oftheir goal phase by phase.

　　Biologist Chen Bangjie overcame formidable difficulties to collect plant specimen and becameChina's father of bryology. Generations of talented educators have given Nanjing NormalUniversity a fine reputation.

　　TEXT J

　　First read the questions.

　　37. The Chicago GSB M.B.A. Programme for Executives is scheduled to be completed within____.

　　A.22 months

　　B.20 months

　　C.16 weeks

　　D.14 weeks

　　38. If you are in Malaysia, when is your attendance date?

　　A. January 17th.

　　B. January 15th.

　　C. January 29th.

　　D. February 27th

　　Now go through TEXT J quickly to answer questions 37 and 38.

　　CHICAGO Worldwide campuses. World renowned faculty. World class M.B.A. degree. A worldof opportunity. Limitless, lifelong opportunity awaits you when you attend the University ofChicago Graduate School of Business, and now you can do so from anywhere in the world.

　　Experience international business firsthand at the only top ranked graduate school withcampuses worldwide. The Chicago GSB M.B.A. Programme for Executives spreads 16 weeks ofclass sessions over 20 months so you can earn this renowned degree without leaving your jobor relocating. Base your studies in Singapore; then collaborate with executives at our Chicagoand Barcelona campuses. Learn not just the business theories of today but the businessframework of tomorrow from the most acclaimed faculty in the world. Establish a globalnetwork of accomplished peers. And benefit for the rest of your life from the leadershiptraining, the thinking, the relationships that become yours at Chicago GSB.

　　If you are a top-level manager seeking an unparalleled general management education, apply tothe Chicago GSB M.B.A. Programme for Executives. And be among those who shape the future.

　　The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Where world class leaders emerge.

　　Chicago GSB / Asia Campus

　　101 Penang Road, Singapore 238466

　　telephone 65 238 2196〓fax 65 835 6483

　　emailsingapore.inquiries@gsb.uchicago.edu

　　www.gsb.uchicago.edu/execMBASia

　　Please reserve your attendance by fax or email.

　　Jakarta 15/Jan,Tuesday

　　The Grand Hyatt Hotel 19:00-21:30

　　Manila 24/Jan,Tuesday Taipei

　　The Shangri La Edsa Plaza 19:00-21:30 The Grand Formosa Regent Hotel Hotel

　　17/Jan,Tuesday Kuala Lumpur 19/Feb,Tuesday

　　19:00-21:30 The Regent Hotel 19:00-21:30

　　29/Jan,Tuesday

　　Bangkok 19:00-21:30 Singapore

　　The Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel GSB Asia Campus

　　22/Jan,Tuesday Hong Kong 27/Feb,Tuesday

　　19:00-21:30 The Mandarin Oriental Hotel 19:00-21:30

　　05/Feb,Tuesday

　　Tokyo 19:00-21:30

　　The Imperial Hotel

　　TEXT K

　　First read the questions.

　　39. Who has written Cultural Amnesia: America's Future and the Crisis of Memory?

　　A. Michael G.Zey.

　　B. Stephen Bertman.

　　C. Don Tapscott, et al.

　　D. Marvin Cetron et al.

　　40. Which book is a collection of papers?

　　A. Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs.

　　B. Cheating Death: The Promise and the Future Impact of Trying to Live Forever.

　　C. The Future Factor: The Five Forces Transforming Our Lives and Shaping Human Destiny.

　　D. The University in Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Future of the University.

　　Now go through TEXT K quickly to answer questions 39 and 40.

　　Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs by Don Tapscott, David Ticoll, and AlexLowy.Harvard Business School Press. 2000. 272 pages.

　　Electronic business webs have demolished the rules of competition. Innovative partnerships ofdigitally linked producers, suppliers, service providers, and customers are acceleratingproductivity and generating wealth in entirely new ways.

　　This book offers a behind the scenes look at success stories such as Linux, eBay, and Cisco,and provides a step by step process for implementing an effective business-web strategy.

　　Regular Price:$27.50

　　The University in Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Future of the University

　　edited by Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley.

　　Bergin & Garvey/Greenwood Publishing Group. 2000. 270 pages.

　　This anthology of essays from scholars around the world describes how the forces

　　of technology and economic globalization may alter what we think of as higher education.Topics include the virtual university, paying for college, feminist a

　　lternative universities, the role of corporations in higher education, and the rise of"multiversities".

　　Regular Price:$65.00

　　The Future Factor: The Five Force Transforming Our Lives and Shaping Human Destiny byMichael G.Zey.

　　McGraw Hill. 2000. 289 pages.

　　This optimistic vision of the human future argues that unprecedented opportunities forgrowth are emerging from breathtaking innovations in biotechnology, computing, robotics,medicine, energy development, and space technology. Powerful new forces altering society andthe global economy include cybergenesis, the merging of humans and smart machines, andbiogenesis, the harnessing of genetic technologies to improve ourselves.

　　Regular Price: $24.95

　　Cheating Death: The Promise and the Future Impact of Trying to Live Forever by Marvin Cetronand Owen Davies.

　　St. Martin's Press. 1998. 224 pages.

　　With advances in medicine and new gene research, the human life?span could extendhundreds of years. But a future of billions of people "cheating death" could have devastatingimpacts on societies, the economy, the environment, and family life.

　　Regular Price: $21.95

　　Cultural Amnesia: America's Future and the Crisis of Memory by Stephen Bertman.

　　Praeger. 2000. 176 pages.

　　American society is losing its memory: 60% of American adults cannot name the president whoordered the dropping of the first atomic bomb, and 42% of college seniors cannot place the CivilWar in the correct half of the nineteenth century.

　　This loss of culture memory, as insidious as Alzheimer's disease, eats away at the soul of thenation, says Bertman, author of Hyperculture. He argues that, to build a culture worthy of thefuture, Americans need to move away from their materialistic, present?oriented lives and getmore in touch with other dimensions of time.

　　Regular Price: $35.00

　　试卷二 (120 min)

　　Part Ⅳ Translation (60 min)

　　SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH?

　　Translate the underlined part of the following textinto English. Write your translation on ANSWERSHEET THREE.

　　在人际关系问题上我们不要太浪漫主义。人是很有趣的，往往在接触一个人时首先看到的都是他或她的优点。这一点颇像是在餐馆里用餐的经验。开始吃头盘或冷碟的时候，印象很好。吃头两个主菜时，也是赞不绝口。愈吃愈趋于冷静，吃完了这顿宴席，缺点就都找出来了。于是转喜为怒，转赞美为责备挑剔，转首肯为摇头。这是因为，第一，开始吃的时候你正处于饥饿状态，而饿了吃糠甜如蜜，饱了吃蜜也不甜。第二，你初到一个餐馆，开始举筷时有新鲜感，新盖的茅房三天香，这也可以叫做"陌生化效应"吧。

　　SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

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

　　For me the most interesting thing about a solitary life, and mine has been that for the lasttwenty years, is that it becomes increasingly rewarding. When I can wake up and watch thesun rise over the ocean, as I do most days, and know that I have an entire day ahead,uninterrupted, in which to write a few pages, take a walk with my dog, read and listen to music,I am flooded with happiness. I'm lonely only when I am overtired, when I have worked too longwithout a break, when fro the time being I feel empty ad need filling up. And I am lonelysometimes when I come back home after a lecture trip, when I have seen a lot of people andtalked a lot, and am full to the brim with experience that needs to be sorted out.

　　Then for a little while the house feels huge and empty, and I wonder where my self is hiding. Ithas to be recaptured slowly by watering the plants and perhaps, by looking again at each oneas though it were a person.

　　It takes a while, as I watch the surf blowing up in fountains, but the moment comes when theworlds falls away, and the self emerges again from the deep unconscious, bringing back all Ihave recently experienced to be explored and slowly un

　　derstood.

　　Part Ⅴ Writing (60min)

　　It was reported in the press some time ago that a few second-and third-year students in aprovincial university decided to try their hands at business in order to get prepared for thefuture. They opened six small shops near their university. Their teachers and classmates haddifferent opinions about this phenomenon. Some thought that the students' businessexperience would help them adapt better to society after graduation, while others held anegative view, saying that running shops might occupy too much of the students' time andenergy which should otherwise be devoted to their academic study. What do you think? Writea composition of about 300 words on the following topic:

　　Should University Students Go in for Business?

　　In the first part of your writing you should state clearly your main argument, and in the secondpart you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you shouldbrig what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.

　　Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure tofollow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

　　参考答案?

　　PAPER ONE

　　PART Ⅰ LISTENING COMPREHENSION?

　　SECTION A TALK

　　1.A 2.B 3.C 4.B 5.D

　　SECTION B INTERVIEW

　　6.C 7.B 8.C 9.C 10. D

　　SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

　　11.B 12.D 13.B 14.B 15.A

　　SECTION D NOTE-TAKING & GAP-FILLING

　　1.shyness

　　2.first

　　3.morning

　　4.listen

　　5.interest

　　6.tones

　　7.discomfort

　　8.conversations

　　9.handshake

　　10.men

　　PART Ⅱ PROOFREADING AND ERROR CORRECTION

　　1.^ special committees → or special committees

　　2.consisted → consisting

　　3.in → on

　　4.rely ^ → rely on

　　5.make out → make

　　6.its → their

　　7.^ public → the public

　　8.nevertheless → therefore (thus)

　　9.citizenry → citizens

　　10.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。

　　PART Ⅲ READING COMPREHENSION

　　SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION

　　TEXT A

　　16.C 17.A 18.A 19.C

　　TEXT B

　　20.C 21.B 22.A

　　TEXT C

　　23.B 24.D 25.A 26.C 27.A

　　TEXT D

　　28.C 29.B 30.A

　　SECTION B SKIMMING AND SCANING

　　TEXT E

　　31.B

　　TEXT F

　　32.A

　　TEXT G

　　33.D

　　TEXT H

　　34.B

　　TEXT I

　　35.C 36.D

　　TEXT J

　　37.B 38.C

　　TEXT K

　　39.B 40.D

　　PAPER TWO

　　PART Ⅳ TRANSLATION

　　SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

　　【参考译文】

　　We shouldn't be too romantic about human relationships. Human beings are funny. Usually,when they meet a person they will first notice his or her merits. It's just like the experience ofdinning in a restaurant. The starter or cold dish will leave you a very good impression. You willbe full of praise while eating the first two main courses. The more you eat, the calmer you willbecome. At the end of the dinner all the shortcomings come out. Then happiness turns toanger, praise to scolding and nit?picking, and heading?nodding to head?shaking. This isbecause: first, you are hungry when you begin eating. When you are hungry, the bran tastesas sweet as honey; when you are full, even the honey tastes insipid. ?

　　SECTION B English to Chinese

　　只有在我过于劳累，在我长时间无间断地工作，在我感到内心空虚，需要填补的时候，我才寂寞。而有时在我巡回演讲后回家时，在我见了许多人，讲了许多话，且经历多得需要清理时，我才寂寞。

　　于是有那么一小会儿感觉房子又大又空，我都不知道我的自我藏在哪儿了。于是我会给植物浇浇水，或者将它们再挨个儿瞅瞅，好像它们是人一样。这样我才慢慢地重新找回自我。

　　好大一会儿，我看着水浪从喷泉中喷涌而出，但只有当世界在我身边逐渐消逝时，那一时刻才会到来，自我又从内心深处的无意识中冒出来，带来我最近的种种经历，让我探究，慢慢领会。

　　PART Ⅴ WRITING

　　【参考范文】

　　Should University Students Go in for Business

　　Nowadays, you may encounter students who are selling stationery or newspapers when youare walking on campus. Some of them have even opened different types of small shops. Theyassume that in this way they may accumulate some social experiences and get well preparedfor their future jobs. However, they can hardly achieve that purpose. What's even worse isthat they will waste a lot of time they could have used for study. Therefore, in my opinion,university students should not go in for business because of the following two reasons.?

　　Firstly, university students usually have a heavy task of theoretical study. They have a lot ofcourses to take, a pile of books to read, and all types of homework to finish. These tasks areessential for them to build up a profound and theoretical foundation. After all, universityera is the best time when a student can learn theoretical knowledge. They have many years topractice it later, but if they miss the chance to master it systematically, they will certainly regretwasting their best years. Doing business will take them too much time when they can spend onphysical exercises, on books and on activities which will make them better people in the future.No matter whether the business turns out successful or ends up a failure, it will eventuallydistract students from their academic study. So in the end the students will lose much morethan what they earn.?

　　Secondly, a complete social service network has been established on campus, and

　　the students usually have no chance to compete with the supermarkets which offered muchbetter service and commodities of high quality. These supermarkets sell

　　goods ranging from pens, paper to quilts, from biscuits to cooked meals. You can almost buywhatever you will use in daily life there. Besides, these things are usually cheap. What type ofshops the students can run? Most of them do the same business as the supermarkets. Whattype of goods they offer? Nothing better than those in the supermarkets. As a result, thebusiness run by the students usually end in bankruptcy. Except bitter experiences, they earnnothing.

　　In a word, if university students go in for business, they will inevitably lose not only energy butalso time. Therefore, the school authority should forbid the students to run business, andteachers should try their best to persuade the students not to take the risk so early.

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