1、 by highmore2002 年英语专业八级考试全真试卷 PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (40 MIN)In Sections A, B and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your coloured answer sheetSECTION A TALKQuestions I to 5 refer to t
2、he talk in this section. At the end of the talk you will be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen to the talk.1. Which of the following statements about offices is NOT true according to the talk?A. Offices throughout the world are basically alike.B. There are pri
3、marily two kinds of office layout.C. Office surroundings used to depend on company size.D. Office atmosphere influences workers performance.2. We can infer from the talk that harmonious work relations may have a direct impact on yourA. promotion.B. colleagues.C. management.D. union.3. Supposing you
4、were working in a small firm, which of the following would you do when you had some grievances?A. Request a formal special meeting with the boss.B. Draft a formal agenda for a special meeting.C. Contact a consultative committee first.D. Ask to see the boss for a talk immediately.4. According to the
5、talk, the union plays the following roles EXCEPTA. mediation.B. arbitration.C. negotiation.D. representation.5. Which topic is NOT covered in the talk?A. Role of the union.B. Work relations.C. Company structure.D. Office layout.SECTION B INTERVIEW by highmoreQuestions 6 to 10 are based on an intervi
6、ew. At the end of the interview you will be given 15seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen to the interview.6. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT about Davids personal background?A. He had excellent academic records at school and university.B. He was once on a
7、PHD programme at Yale University.C. He received professional training in acting.D. He came from a single-parent family.7. David is inclined to believe inA. aliens.B. UFOs.C. the TV character.D. government conspiracies.8. David thinks he is fit for the TV role because of hisA. professional training.B
8、. personality.C. life experience.D. appearance.9. From the interview, we know that at present David feelsA. a sense of frustration.B. haunted by the unknown thingsC. confident but moody.D. successful yet unsatisfied.10. How does David feel about the divorce of his parents?A. He feels a sense of ange
9、r.B. He has a sense of sadness.C. It helped him grow up.D. It left no effect on him.SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTQuestion 11 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15seconds to answer the question.Now listen to the news.11. What is the main idea of the news item?A.
10、 US concern over th6 forthcoming peace by highmoreB. Peace efforts by the Palestinian Authority.C. Recommendations by the Mitchell Commission.D. Bomb attacks aimed at Israeli civilians.Question 12 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer th
11、e question.Now listen to the news.12. Some voters will waste their ballots becauseA. they like neither candidate.B. they are all ill-informed.C. the candidates do not differ much.D. they do not want to vote twice.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you wi
12、ll be given15 seconds to answer each of the questions.Now listen to the news.13. According to the UN Human Development Report, which is the best place for women in the world?A. Canada.B. The US. C. Australia.D. Scandinavia. 14. _ is in the 12th place in overall ranking.A. BritainB. France C. Finland
13、D. Switzerland15. According to the UN report, the least developed country isA. Ethiopia.B. Mali.C. Sierra Leon.D. Central African Republic.SECTION D NOTE-TAKING AND GAP-FILLINGIn this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the import
14、ant points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a 15-minute gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE after the mini-lecture. by highmoreUse the blank sheet for note-taking.PART II PROOFREADING with his background, he had to be. He was married, by highmoreand that was mand
15、atory. The firm had never hired an unmarried lawyer, and it frowned heavily on divorce, as well as womanizing and drinking. Drug testing was in the contract. He had a degree in accounting, passed the CPA exam the first time he took it and wanted to be a tax lawyer, which of course was a requirement
16、with a tax firm. He was white, and the firm had never hired a black. They managed this by being secretive and clubbish and never soliciting job applications. Other firms solicited, and hired blacks. This firm recruited, and remained lily white. Plus, the firm was in Memphis, and the top blacks wante
17、d New York or Washington or Chicago. McDeere was a male, and there were no women in the firm. That mistake had been made in the mid-seventies when they recruited the number one grad from Harvard, who happened to be a she and a wizard at taxation. She lasted four turbulent years and was killed in a c
18、ar wreck.He looked good, on paper. He was their top choice. In fact, for this year there were no other prospects. The list was very short. It was McDeere, or no one.The managing partner, Royce McKnight, studied a dossier labeled “Mitchell Y. McDeere-Harvard.“ An inch thick with small print and a few
19、 photographs; it had been prepared by some ex-CIA agents in a private intelligence outfit in Bethesda. They were clients of the firm and each year did the investigating for no fee. It was easy work, they said, checking out unsuspecting law students. They learned, for instance, that he preferred to l
20、eave the Northeast, that he was holding three job offers, two in New York and one in Chicago, and that the highest offer was $76,000 and the lowest was $68,000. He was in demand. He had been given the opportunity to cheat on a securities exam during his second year. He declined, and made the highest
21、 grade in the class. Two months ago he had been offered cocaine at a law school party. He said no and left when everyone began snorting. He drank an occasional beer, but drinking was expensive and he had no money. He owed close to $23,000 in student loans. He was hungry. Royce McKnight flipped throu
22、gh the dossier and smiled. McDeere was their man.Lamar Quin was thirty-two and not yet a partner. He had been brought along to look young and act young and project a youthful image for Bendini, Lambert & Locke, which in fact was a young firm, since most of the partners retired in their late forties
23、or early fifties with money to bum. He would make partner in this firm. With a six-figure income guaranteed for the rest of his life, Lamar could enjoy the twelve-hundred-dollar tailored suits that hung so comfortably from his tall, athletic frame. He strolled nonchalantly across the thousand-dollar
24、-a-day suite and poured another cup of decaf. He checked his watch. He glanced at the two partners sitting at the small conference table near the windows.Precisely at two-thirty someone knocked on the door. Lamar looked at the parmers, who slid the resume and dossier into an open briefcase. All thre
25、e reached for their jackets. Immar buttoned his top button and opened the door.23. Which of the following is NOT the firms recruitment requirement?A. Marriage.B. Background.C. Relevant degree.D. Male.24. The details of the private investigation show that the firmA. was interested in his family by h
26、ighmoreB. intended to check out his other job offers.C. wanted to know something about his preference.D. was interested in any personal detail of the man.25. According to the passage, the main reason Lama Quin was there at the interview was thatA. his image could help impress McDereer.B. he would so
27、on become a partner himself.C. he was good at interviewing applicants.D. his background was similar to MeDereers.26. We get the impression from the passage that in job recruitment the firm was NOTA. selective.B. secretive.C. perfunctory.D. racially biased.TEXT DHarry Truman didnt think his successor
28、 had the right training to be president. “Poor Ike it wont be a bit like the Army,“ he said. “Hell sit there all day saying do this, do that, and nothing will happen.“ Truman was wrong about Ike. Dwight Eisenhower had led a fractious alliance you didnt tell Winston Churchill what to do- in a massive
29、, chaotic war. He was used to politics. But Trumans insight could well be applied to another, even more venerated Washington figure: the CEO-mined cabinet secretary. A 20-year bull market has convinced us all that CEOs are geniuses, so watch with astonishment the troubles of Donald Rumsfeld and Paul
30、 ONeill. Here are two highly regarded businessmen, obviously intelligent and well-informed, foundering in their jobs.Actually, we shouldnt be surprised. Rumsfeld and ONeill are not doing badly despite having been successful CEOs but because of it. The record of senior businessmen in government is on
31、e of almost unrelieved disappointment. In fact, with the exception of Robert Rubin, it is difficult to think of a CEO who had a successful career in government.Why is this? Well, first the CEO has to recognize that he is no longer the CEO. He is at best an adviser to the CEO, the president. But even
32、 the president is not really the CEO. No one is. Power in a corporation is concentrated and vertically structured. Power in Washington is diffuse and horizontally spread out. The secretary might think hes in charge of his agency. But the chairman of the congressional committee funding that agency fe
33、els the same. In his famous study “Presidential Power and the Modem Presidents,“ Richard Neustadt explains how little power the president actually has and concludes that the only lasting presidential power is “the power to persuade.“ Take Rumsfelds attempt to transform the cold-war military into one
34、 geared for the future. Its innovative but deeply threatening to almost everyone in Washington. The Defense secretary did not try to sell it to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Congress, the budget office or the White House. As a result, the idea is collapsing.Second, what power you have, you must use car
35、efully. For example, ONeills position as Treasury secretary is one with little formal authority. Unlike Finance ministers around the world, by highmoreTreasury does not control the budget. But it has symbolic power. The secretary is seen as the chief economic spokesman for the administration and, i
36、f he plays it right, the chief economic adviser for the president.ONeill has been publicly critical of the IMFs bailout packages for developing countries while at the same time approving such packages for Turkey, Argentina and Brazil. As a result, he has gotten the worst of both worlds. The bailouts
37、 continue, but their effect in holstering investor confidence is limited because the markets are rattled by his skepticism. Perhaps the government doesnt do bailouts well. But that leads to a third role: you cant just quit. Jack Welchs famous law for re-engineering General Electric was to be first o
38、r second in any given product category, or else get out of that business. But if the government isnt doing a particular job at peak level, it doesnt always have the option of relieving itself of that function. The Pentagon probably wastes a lot of money. But it cant get out of the national-security
39、business. The key to former Treasury secretary Rubins success may have been that he fully understood that business and government are, in his words, “necessarily and properly very different.“ In a recent speech he explained, “Business functions around one predominate organizing principle, profitabil
40、ity . Government, on the other hand, deals with a vast number of equally legitimate and often potentially competing objectives-for example, energy production versus environmental protection, or safety regulations versus productivity.“Rubins example shows that talented people can do well in governmen
41、t if they are willing to treat it as its own separate, serious endeavour. But having been bathed in a culture of adoration and flattery, its difficult for a CEO to believe he needs to listen and learn, particularly from those despised and poorly paid specimens, politicians, bureaucrats and the media
42、. And even if he knows it intellectually, he just cant live with it.27. For a CEO to be successful in government, he has toA. regard the president as the CEO.B. take absolute control of his department.C. exercise more power than the congressional committee.D. become acquainted with its power structu
43、re.28. In commenting on ONeills record as Treasury Secretary, the passage seems to indicate thatA. ONeill has failed to use his power well.B. ONeills policies were well received.C. ONeill has been consistent in his policies.D. ONeill is uncertain about the package hes approved.29. According to the p
44、assage, the differences between government and business lie in the following areas EXCEPTA. nature of activity.B. option of withdrawal.C. legitimacy of activity.D. power by highmore30. The author seems to suggest that CEO-turned government officialsA. are able to fit into their new roles.B. are unl
45、ikely to adapt to their new roles.C. can respond to new situations intelligently.D. may feel uncertain in their new posts.SECTION B SKIMMING AND SCANNING (10 MIN)In this section there are seven passages with ten multiple-choice questions. Skim or scan them as required and then mark your answers on y
46、our coloured answer sheetTEXT EFirst read the question.31. The passage is mainly concerned with_ in the U.S.A.A. travellingB. big citiesC. cybercafesD. inventionsNow go through TEXT E quickly to answer question 31.Planning to answer your e-mail while on holiday in New York? That may not be easy. The
47、 Internet may have been invented in the United States, but America is one of the least likely places where a traveller might find an Internet cafe. “Every major city in the world has more cybercafes than New York,“ says Joie Kelly, who runs CyberCafeG. The numbers seem to bear her out according to v
48、arious directories, London has more than 30, Paris 19, Istanbul 17, but New York has only 8. Other U.S. cities fare just as poorly: Los Angeles has about 11, Chicago has 4. “Here its quite hard work to find a cafe. I was surprised,“ says Michael Robson, a sportswriter from York, England, who was vis
49、ibly relieved to be checking his e-mail at CyberCafe near New Yorks Times Square.Why the lack of places to plug in? Americans enjoy one of the highest rates of Internet access from work and home in the world, and theyve never really taken to cafes. About 80 percent of CyberCafes clients, for instance, are tourists from ove
