2006英语专业八级真题

　　PART III General Knowledge (10 min)

　　31. The Presidents during the American Civil War was ________.

　　A. Andrew Jackson. B. Abraham Lincoln.

　　C. Thomas Jefferson. D. George Washington.

　　32. The capital of New Zealand is ________.

　　A. Christchurch. B. Auckland. C. Wellington. D. Hamilton.

　　33. Who were the natives of Australia before the arrival of the British settlers?

　　A. The Aborigines. B. The Maori. C. The Indians. D. The Eskimos.

　　34. The Prime Minister in Britain is head of ________.

　　A. the Shadow Cabinet B. the Parliament

　　C. the Opposition D. the Cabinet

　　35. Which of the following writers is a poet of the 20th century?

　　A. T. S. Eliot. B. D. H. Lawrence. C. Theodore Dreiser. D. James Joyce.

　　36. The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is written by ________.

　　A. Scott Fitzgerald. B. William Faulkner.

　　C. Eugene O'Neil. D. Ernest Hemingway.

　　37. ________ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteen lines.

　　A. Free verse. B. Sonnet. C. Ode. D. Epigram.

　　38. What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is the notion of ________.

　　A. reference B. meaning C. antonym D. context

　　39. The words "kid, child, offspring" are examples of ________.

　　A. dialectal synonyms B. stylistic synonyms

　　C. emotive synonyms D. collocational synonyms

　　40. The distinction between parole and langue was made by ________.

　　A. Halliday. B. Chomsky. C. Bloomfield. D. Saussure.

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　　Part V Translation (60 min)

　　SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

　　中国民族自古以来从不把人看作高于一切, 在哲学文艺方面的表现都反映出人在自然界中与万物占着一个比例较为恰当的地位, 而非绝对统治万物的主宰。因此我们的苦闷, 基本上比西方人为少为小;因为苦闷的强弱原是随欲望与野心的大小而转移的。农业社会的人比工业社会的人享受差得多;因此欲望也小得多。况中国古代素来以不滞于物, 不为物役为最主要的人生哲学。并非我们没有守财奴, 但比起莫利哀与巴尔扎克笔下的守财奴与野心家来, 就小巫见大巫了。中国民族多数是性情中正和平、淡泊、朴实、比西方人容易满足。

　　On May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill, the newly appointed British Prime Minister, gave his first speech to Parliament. He was preparing the people for a long battle against Nazi aggression, at a time when England's survival was still in doubt.

　　"… I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering.

　　You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime.

　　You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs – victory in spite of all terrors – for without victory there is no survival.

　　Let that be realized. No survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge, the impulse of the ages, that mankind shall move forward toward his goal.

　　I take up my task in buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. I feel entitled at this juncture, at this time, to claim the aid of all and to say, 'Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength'."

　　PART VI WRITING (45 MIN)

　　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

　　In the first part of your writing you should state 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. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay.

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