1、专八真题 2014 年TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2014)GRADE EIGHTPART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (35 MIN)SECTION A MINI-LECTUREIn this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need th
2、em to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE, using no more than three words in each gap. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are)
3、both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may refer to your notes while completing the task Use the blank sheet for note-taking.Now, listen to the mini-lecture.How to Reduce StressLife is full of things that cause us sress. Though we may not like stress, we have to live with it.I. Definiti
4、on of stressA. (1) reactioni.e.force exerted between two touching bodiesB. human reactioni.e. response to (2) on someonee.g. increase in breathing, heart rate, (3) ,or muscle tensionII. (4) ,A. positive stresswhere it occurs: Christmas, wedding, (5) B. negative stresswhere it occurs: test-taking sit
5、uations, friends deathIII. Ways to cope with stressA. recoginition of stress signals monitor for (6) of stress find ways to protect oneselfB. attention to body demand effect of (7) C. planning and acting appropriately reason for planning (8) of planningD. learning to (9) e.g. dlay caused by trafficE
6、. pacing activities manageable task (10) SECTION B INTERVIEWIn this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the intervie
7、w you will be given 10 seconds to answer 专八真题 2014 年each of the following five questions.Now listen to the interview.1. According to the interviewer, which of the following best indicates the relationship between choice and mobility?A. Better education greater mobilitymore choices.B. Better educatio
8、nmore choices greater mobility.C. Greater mobilitybetter educationmore choices.D. Greater mobilitymore choicesbetter education.2. According to the interview, which of the following details about the first poll is INCORRECT?A. Shorter work hours was least chosen for being most important.B. Chances fo
9、r advancement might have been favoured by young people.C. High income failed to come on top for being most important.D. Job security came second according to the poll results.3. According to the interviewee, which is the main difference between the first and the second poll?A. The type of respondent
10、s who were invited.B. The way in which the questions were designed.C. The content area of the questions.D. The number of poll questions.4. What can we learn from the respondents answers to items 2, 4 and 7 in the second poll?A. Recognition from colleagues should be given less importance.B. Workers a
11、re always willing and ready to learn more new skills.C. Psychological reward is more important than material one.D. Work will have to be made interesting to raise efficiency.5. According to the interviewee, which of the following can offer both psychological and monetary benefits?A. Contact with man
12、y people.B. Chances for advancement.C. Appreciation from coworkers.D. Chances to learn new skills.SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTIn this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.Question
13、s 6 and 7 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the news.6. According to the news item, “sleepboxes“ are designed to solve the problems ofA. airports.B. passengers.C. architects.D. companies.7. Which of the fo
14、llowing is NOT true with reference to the news?A. Sleepboxes can be rented for different lengths of time.B. Renters of normal height can stand up inside.C. Bedding can be automatically changed.D. Renters can take a shower inside the box.Question 8 is based on the following news. At the end of the ne
15、ws item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.Now listen to the news.专八真题 2014 年8. What is the news item mainly about?A. Londons preparations for the Notting Hill Carnival.B. Main features of the Notting Hill Carnival.C. Polices preventive measures for the carnival.D. Police participa
16、tion in the carnival.Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the news.9. The news item reports on a research finding aboutA. the Dutch famine and the Dutch women.B. early malnutrition and hear
17、t health.C. the causes of death during the famine.D. nutrition in childhood and adolescence.10. When did the research team carry out the study?A. At the end of World War II.B. Between 1944 and 1945.C. In the 1950s.D. In 2007. PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)TEXT AMy class at Harvard Business S
18、chool helps students understand what good management theory is and how it is built. In each session, we look at one company through the lenses of different theories, using them to explain how the company got into its situation and to examine what action will yield the needed results. On the last day
19、 of class, I asked my class to turn those theoretical lenses on themselves to find answers to two questions: First, How can I be sure Ill be happy in my career? Second, How can I be sure my relationships with my spouse and my family will become an enduring source of happiness? Here are some manageme
20、nt tools that can be used to help you lead a purposeful life. 1. Use Your Resources Wisely. Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent shape your lifes strategy. I have a bunch of businesses that compete for these resources: Im trying to have a rewarding relationship with
21、 my wife, raise great kids, contribute to my community, succeed in my career, and contribute to my church. And I have exactly the same problem that a corporation does. I have a limited amount of time, energy and talent. How much do I devote to each of these pursuits? Allocation choices can make your
22、 life turn out to very different from what you intended. Sometimes thats good: opportunities that you have never planned for emerge. But if you dont invest your resources wisely, the outcome can be bad. As I think about my former classmates who inadvertently invested in lives of hollow unhappiness,
23、I cant help believing that their troubles related right back to a short-term perspective. When people with a high need for achievement have an extra half hour of time or an extra ounce of energy, theyll unconsciously allocate it to activities that yield the most tangible accomplishments. Our careers
24、 provide the most concrete evidence that were moving forward. You ship a product, finish a design, complete a presentation, close a sale teach a class, publish a paper, get paid, get promoted. In contrast, investing time and energy in your relationships with your spouse and children typically doesnt
25、 offer the same immediate sense of achievement. Kids misbehave every day. Its really not until 20 years down the road that you can say, I raised a good son or a good daughter. You can neglect your relationship with your spouse and on a daily basis it doesnt seem as if thing are deteriorating. People
26、 who are driven to excel have this unconscious propensity to under invest in their families and overinvest in their careers, even though intimate and loving family relationships are the most powerful and enduring source of happiness. If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over
27、youll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification. If you look at personal lives through that lens, youll see that same stunning and sobering pattern: people allocating fewer and fewer resources to the things they would have once said mattered most. 2. Create A Famil
28、y Culture. Its one thing to see into the foggy future with a acuity and chart the course 专八真题 2014 年corrections a company must make. But its quite another to persuade employees to line up and work cooperatively to take the company in that new direction. When there is little agreement, you have to us
29、e power tools coercion, threats, punishments and so on, to secure cooperation. But if employees ways of working together succeed over and over, consensus begins to form. Ultimately, people dont even think about whether their way yields success. They embrace priorities and follow procedures by instin
30、ct and assumption rather than by explicit decision, which means that theyve created a culture. Culture, in compelling but unspoken ways, dictates the proven, acceptable methods by which member s of a group address recurrent problems. And culture defines the priority given to different types of probl
31、ems. It can be a powerful management tool. I use this model to address the question, How can I be my family becomes an enduring source of happiness? My students quickly see that the simplest way parents can elicit cooperation from children is to wield power tools. But there comes a point during the
32、teen years when power tools no longer work. At that point, parents start wishing they had begun working with their children at a very young age to build a culture in which children instinctively behave respectfully toward one another, obey their parents, and choose the right thing to do. Families ha
33、ve cultures, just a companies do. Those cultures can be built consciously. If you want your kids to have strong self-esteem and the confidence that they can solve hard problems, those qualities wont magically materialize in high school. You have to design them into familys culture and you have think
34、 about this very early on. Like employees, children build self-esteem by doing things that are hard and learning what works. 11. According to the author, the key to successful allocation of resources in your life depends on whether youA. can manage your time well B. have long-term planningC. are luc
35、ky enough to have new opportunities D. can solve both company and family problems12. What is the role of the statement Our careers provide the most concrete evidence that were moving forward with reference to the previous statement in the paragraph?A. To offer further explanation B. To provide a def
36、initionC. To present a contrast D. To illustrate career development13. According to the author, a common cause of failure in business and family relationships isA. lack of planning B. short-sightedness C. shortage of resources D. decision by instinct14. According to the author, when does culture beg
37、in to emergeA. When people decide what and how to do by instinctB. When people realize the importance of consensusC. When people as a group decide how to succeedD. When people use power tools to reach agreement15. One of the similarities between company culture and family culture is thatA. problem-s
38、olving ability is essential B. cooperation is the foundationC. respect and obedience are key elements D. culture needs to be nurturedText BIt was nearly bed-time and when they awoke next morning land would be in sight. Dr. Macphail lit his pipe and, leaning over the rail, searched the heavens for th
39、e Southern Cross. After two years at the front and a wound that had taken longer to heal than it should, he was glad to settle down quietly at Apia (阿皮亚，西萨摩亚首都) for twelve months at least, and he felt already better for the journey. Since some of the passengers were leaving the ship next day at Pago
40、-Pago they had had a little dance that evening and in his ears hammered still the harsh notes of the mechanical piano. But the deck was quiet at last. A little way off he saw his wife in a long chair talking with the Davidsons, and he strolled over to her. When he sat down under the light and took o
41、ff his hat you saw that he had very red hair, with a bald patch on the crown, and the red, freckled skin which accompanies red hair; he was a man of forty, thin, with a pinched face, precise and rather pedantic; and he spoke with a Scots accent in a very low, quiet voice.Between the Macphails and th
42、e Davidsons, who were missionaries, there had arisen the intimacy of shipboard, which is due to propinquity rather than to any community of taste. Their chief tie was the disapproval they shared of the men who spent their days and nights in the smoking-room playing poker or bridge and drinking. Mrs.
43、 Macphail was not a little flattered to think that she and her husband were the only 专八真题 2014 年people on board with whom the Davidsons were willing to associate, and even the doctor, shy but no fool, half unconsciously acknowledged the compliment. It was only because he was of an argumentative mind
44、 that in their cabin at night he permitted himself to carp (唠叨).Mrs. Davidson was saying she didnt know how theyd have got through the journey if it hadnt been for us, said Mrs. Macphail, as she neatly brushed out her transformation (假发). She said we were really the only people on the ship they care
45、d to know.I shouldnt have thought a missionary was such a big bug (要人、名士) that he could afford to put on frills (摆架子).Its not frills. I quite understand what she means. It wouldnt have been very nice for the Davidsons to have to mix with all that rough lot in the smoking-room.The founder of their re
46、ligion wasnt so exclusive, said Dr. Macphail with a chuckle.Ive asked you over and over again not to joke about religion, answered his wife. I shouldnt like to have a nature like yours, Alec. You never look for the best in people.He gave her a sidelong glance with his pale, blue eyes, but did not re
47、ply. After many years of married life he had learned that it was more conducive to peace to leave his wife with the last word. He was undressed before she was, and climbing into the upper bunk he settled down to read himself to sleep.When he came on deck next morning they were close to land. He look
48、ed at it with greedy eyes. There was a thin strip of silver beach rising quickly to hills covered to the top with luxuriant vegetation. The coconut trees, thick and green, came nearly to the waters edge, and among them you saw the grass houses of the Samoaris (萨摩亚人 ); and here and there, gleaming wh
49、ite, a little church. Mrs. Davidson came and stood beside him. She was dressed in black, and wore round her neck a gold chain, from which dangled a small cross. She was a little woman, with brown, dull hair very elaborately arranged, and she had prominent blue eyes behind invisible pince-nez (夹鼻眼镜). Her face was long, like a sheeps, but she gave no impression of foolishness, rather of extreme alertness; she had the quick movements of a bird. The most re
