2008英语专业八级真题

　　PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)

　　There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. Mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet

　　31. The largest city in Canada is

　　A. Vancouver. B. Montreal. C. Toronto D. Ottawa.

　　32. According to the United States Constitution, the legislative power is invested in

　　A. the Federal Government. B. the Supreme Court.

　　C. the Cabinet. D. the Congress.

　　33. Which of the following is the oldest sport in the United States?

　　A. Baseball. B. Tennis. C. Basketball. D. American football.

　　34. The head of the executive branch in New Zealand is

　　A. the President. B. the Governor-General.

　　C. the British monarch, D. the Prime Minister.

　　35. The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by

　　A. William Langland. B. Geoffrey Chaucer.

　　C. William Shakespeare. D. Alfred Tennyson.

　　36. Who wrote The American?

　　A. Herman Melville. B. Nathaniel Hawthorne.

　　C. Henry James. D. Theodore Dreiser.

　　37. All of the following are well-known female writers in 20th -century Britain EXCEPT

　　A. George Eliot. B. Iris Jean Murdoch.

　　C. Doris Lessing. D. Muriel Spark.

　　38. Which of the following is NOT a design feature of human language?

　　A. Arbitrariness. B. Displacement.

　　C. Duality. D. Diachronicity.

　　39. What type of sentence is “Mark likes fiction, but Tim is interested in poetry.”?

　　A. A simple sentence. B. A coordinate sentence.

　　C. A complex sentence. D. None of the above.

　　40. The phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form is called

　　A. hyponymy. B. synonymy.

　　C. polysemy. D. homonymy.

　　PART IV PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN)

　　Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO as instructed.

　　PART V TRANSLATION (60 MIN)

　　SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

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

　　都市寸土千金，地价炒得越来越高，今后将更高。拥有一个小小花园的希望，对寻常之辈不啻是一种奢望，一种梦想。

　　我想，其实谁都有一个小小花园，这便是我们的内心世界。人的智力需要开发，人的内心世界也是需要开发的。人和动物的区别，除了众所周知的诸多方面，恐怕还在于人有内心世界。心不过是人的一个重要脏器，而内心世界是一种景观，它是由外部世界不断地作用于内心渐渐形成的。每个人都无比关注自己及至亲至爱之人心脏的渐损，以至于稍有微疾便惶惶不可终日。但并非每个人都关注自己及至亲至爱之人的内心世界的阴晴。

　　SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

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

　　But, as has been true in many other cases, when they were at last married, the most ideal of situations was found to have been changed to the most practical. Instead of having shared their original duties, and as school-boys would say, going halves, they discovered that the cares of life had been doubled. This led to some distressing moments for both our friends; they understood suddenly that instead of dwelling in heaven they were still upon earth, and had made themselves slaves to new laws and limitations. Instead of being freer and happier than ever before, they had assumed new responsibilities; they had established a new household, and must fulfill in some way or another the obligations of it. They looked back with affection to their engagement; they had been longing to have each other to themselves, apart from the world, but it seemed they never felt so keenly that they were still units in modern society.

　　PART VI WRITING (45 MIN)

　　In a few months’ time you are going to graduate from university. How do you think your college years have prepared you for your future life? Write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic:

　　What I have learned from my years at university

　　In the first part of your essay you should state dearly 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.

　　Mark will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Failure to follow the above instructions may result

　　in a loss of marks

　　Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.

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