2005年英语专业八级考试真题（附听力mp3及答案）

　　TEXT B

　　When former President Ronald Reagan fell and brokehis hip two weeks ago, he joined a group of morethan 350,000 elderly Americans who fracture theirhips each year. At 89 and suffering from advancedAlzheimer's disease, Reagan is in one of the highest-risk groups for this type of accident. The incidenceof hip fractures not only increases after age 50 butdoubles every five to six years as the risk of fallingincreases. Slipping and tumbling are not the onlycauses of hip fractures; weakened bones sometimes break spontaneously. But falling is themajor cause, representing 90% of all hip fractures. These... ...

　　17. The following are all specific measures to guard against injuries with the EXCEPTION of

　　A. removal of throw rugs.

　　B. easy access to devices

　　C. installation of grab bars

　　D. re-arrangement of furniture

　　18. In which paragraph does the author state his purpose of writing?

　　A. The third paragraph

　　B. The first paragraph

　　C. The last paragraph

　　D. The last but one paragraph

　　19. The main purpose of the passage is to

　　A. offer advice on how to prevent hip fractures

　　B. emphasize the importance of health precautions

　　C. discuss the seriousness of hip fractures.

　　D. identify the causes of hip fractures.

　　TEXT C

　　提示：原文同2003年专八英译汉翻译试题相同

　　In his classic novel, "The Pioneers", James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a land developer,take his cousin on a tour of the city he is building. He describes the broad streets, rows ofhouses, a teeming metropolis. But his cousin looks around bewildered. All she sees is a forest. "Where are the beauties and improvements which you were to show me?" she asks. He'sastonished she can't see them. "Where! Everywhere," he replies. For though they are not yetbuilt on earth, he has built them in his mind, and they as concrete to him as if they werealready constructed and finished.

　　Cooper was illustrating a distinctly American trait, future-mindedness: the ability to see thepresent from the vantage point of the future; the freedom to feel unencumbered by the pastand more emotionally attached to things to come. As Albert Einstein once said, "Life for theAmerican is always becoming, never being."... ...

　　20. The third paragraph examines America's future-mindedness from the _________perspective.

　　A. future

　　B. realistic

　　C. historical

　　D. present

　　21. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT brought about by future-mindedness?

　　A. Economic stagnation

　　B. Environmental destruction

　　C. High divorce rates

　　D. Neglect of history

　　22. The word "pooh-pooh" in the sixth paragraph means

　　A. appreciate

　　B. praise

　　C. shun

　　D. ridicule

　　23. According to the passage, people at present can forecast ________ of a new round offuture-mindedness.

　　A. the nature

　　B. the location

　　C. the variety

　　D. the features

　　24. The author predicts in the last paragraph that the study of future-mindedness will focus on

　　A. how it comes into being

　　B. how it functions

　　C. what it brings about

　　D. what it is related to.

　　TEXT D

　　25. The phrase "men's sureness of their sex role" in the first paragraph suggests that they

　　A. are confident in their ability to charm women.

　　B. take the initiative in courtship.

　　C. have a clear idea of what is considered "manly".

　　D. tend to be more immoral than women are.

　　26. The third paragraph does NOT claim that men

　　A. prevent women from taking up certain professions.

　　B. secretly admire women's intellect and resolution.

　　C. doubt whether women really mean to succeed in business.

　　D. forbid women to join certain clubs and societies.

　　27. The third paragraph

　　A. generally agrees with the first paragraph

　　B. has no connection with the first paragraph

　　C. repeats the argument of the second paragraph

　　D. contradicts the last paragraph

　　28. At the end of the last paragraph the author uses humorous exaggeration in order to

　　A. show that men are stronger than women

　　B. carry further the ideas of the earliest paragraphs

　　C. support the first sentence of the same paragraph

　　D. disown the ideas he is expressing

　　29. The usual idea of the cave man in the last paragraph

　　A. is based on the study of archaeology

　　B. illustrates how people expect men to behave

　　C. is dismissed by the author as an irrelevant joke

　　D. proves that the man, not woman, should be the wooer

　　30. The opening quotation from Margaret Mead sums up a relationship between man andwoman which the author

　　A. approves of

　　B. argues is natural

　　C. completely rejects

　　D. expects to go on changing

　　PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)

　　31. ______ is the capital city of Canada.

　　A. Vancouver

　　B. Ottawa

　　C. Montreal

　　D. York

　　32. U.S. presidents normally serves a (an) _________term.

　　A. two-year

　　B. four-year

　　C. six-year

　　D. eight-year

　　33. Which of the following cities is NOT located in the Northeast, U.S.?

　　A. Huston.

　　B. Boston.

　　C. Baltimore.

　　D. Philadelphia.

　　34. ________ is the state church in England.

　　A. The Roman Catholic Church.

　　B. The Baptist Church

　　C. The Protestant Church

　　D. The Church of England

　　注：The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and acts asthe mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion as well as a foundingmember of the Porvoo Communion.

　　35. The novel Emma is written by

　　A. Mary Shelley.

　　B. Charlotte Brontë.

　　C. Elizabeth C. Gaskell.

　　D. Jane Austen.

　　36. Which of following is NOT a romantic poet?

　　A. William Wordsworth.

　　B. George Elliot.

　　C. George G. Byron.

　　D. Percy B. Shelley.

　　37. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous for

　　A. his poems.

　　B. his plays.

　　C. his short stories.

　　D. his novels

　　注：O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910),He was famous for his short stories and a master of the surprise ending, O. Henry isremembered best for such enduring favorites as "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Ransom ofRed Chief." The combination of humor and sentiment found in his stories is the basis of theiruniversal appeal.

　　38. Syntax is the study of

　　A. language functions.

　　B. sentence structures.

　　C. textual organization.

　　D. word formation.

　　注：Definition of Syntax:

　　a. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combinedto form grammatical sentences.

　　b. A publication, such as a book, that presents such rules.

　　c. The pattern of formation of sentences or phrases in a language.

　　d. Such a pattern in a particular sentence or discourse.

　　39. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language?

　　A. Arbitrariness. 任意性

　　B. Productivity. 丰富性

　　C. Cultural transmission. 文化传播性

　　D. Finiteness. 局限性 ?

　　注：design feature: features that define our human languages, such as arbitrariness, duality,creativity, displacement, cultural transmission, etc.

　　40. The speech act theory was first put forward by

　　A. John Searle.

　　B. John Austin. √

　　C. Noam Chomsky.

　　D. M.A.K. Halliday.

　　注：John Langshaw Austin (March 28, 1911 - February 8, 1960) was a philosopher of language,who developed much of the current theory of speech acts. He was born in Lancaster andeducated at Balliol College, Oxford. After serving in MI6 during World War II, Austin becameWhite's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford. He occupies a place in the British philosophy oflanguage alongside Wittgenstein in staunchly advocating the examination of the way words areused in order to elucidate meaning.

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