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null英语专业八级考试 --目的、内容与要求英语专业八级考试 --目的、内容与要求邹申 上海外国语大学教授、博士生导师null目前参考院校： 类别： 综合性大学、理工院校、师范院 校、外语院校、其他院校 考生： 高校英语专业四年级学生 ；05 年考生达到10万左右。 null 通过： 60分为及格线； 60 – 69：合格证书 70 – 79：良好证书 80分以上：优秀证书 2005年40类考试成绩2005年40类考试成绩八级考试八级考试听力理解（修改前） Section A Talk (5 items) Section B Conversation (5 items) Section C News Broadcast (5 items) Section D Note-taking & Gap -filling (10 items) 考试时间：30 分钟 比重：25% 听力理解（修改后） Section A （答案可以1至3个单词） Mini-lecture (10 items) Section B Conversation (5 items) Section C News Broadcast (5 items) 考试时间：25分钟 比重：20% A gap may require more than ONE word.A gap may require more than ONE word. Question No.3: narrowing the topic down to (9)_____ (9)_____ Question No.4: asking questions about (10) ______ (10)_____ KEY: 9. manageable/realistic/moderate/reasonable size (如只写size不算对) 10. the topic Direct answer vs. indirect answerDirect answer vs. indirect answer Public speaking is a way for a speaker to share his thoughts with the audience. To facilitate their understanding, inform your audience beforehand of the outline of your speech. ( where you go ) Expansion of higher education in the post-war period. ( More and more students entered universities.) null改错（修改前） 10个语误 考试时间：15分钟 比重：10% 改错（修改后） 没有变动 Error Correction errors within a sentence vs. errors between sentencesError Correction errors within a sentence vs. errors between sentences The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different from the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may seem the most obvious is that grammatical words have “ less (1)_________ meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them (2)_________ “empty” words as opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. (3)_________ null阅读理解（修改前） Section A Careful Reading (15 items ) Section B Speed Reading (10 items) 考试时间：40分钟 比重：25% 阅读理解（修改后） Reading Comprehension (20 items) 考试时间：30分钟 比重：20% null人文知识（修改前） 没有人文知识（修改后） 10道英语专业知识 考试时间：10分钟 比重：10 % null_____ is the capital city of Canada. A.    Vancouver B.     Ottawa C.    Montreal D.    York nullWilliam Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous for A.    his poems. B.     his plays. C.    his short stories. D.    his novels. nullSyntax is the study of A.    language functions. B.     sentence structures. C.    textual organization. D.    word formation. null翻译（修改前） Section A Chinese to English Section B English to Chinese 考试时间：60分钟 比重：20% 翻译（修改后） 没有变动 CHINESE TO ENGLISHCHINESE TO ENGLISH在人际关系问题上我们不要太浪漫主义。人是很有趣的，往往在接触一个人时首先看到的都是他或她的优点。这一点颇像是在餐馆里用餐的。开始吃头盘或冷碟的时候，印象很好。吃头两个主菜时，也是赞不绝口。愈吃愈趋于冷静，吃完了这顿宴席，缺点就都找出来了。于是转喜为怒，转赞美为责备挑剔，转首肯为摇头。这是因为，第一，开始吃的时候你正处于饥饿状态，而饿了吃糠甜加蜜，饱了吃蜜也不甜。第二，你初到一个餐馆，开始举筷时有新鲜感，新盖的茅房三天香，这也可以叫做“陌生化效应”吧。Reference VersionReference Version We should not be too romantic in terms of interpersonal relations. Human beings are interesting in that when it is the first time you meet a person, you only notice his or her merits. This is quite like the experience of having dinner in a restaurant. Usually you have a very good impression when you are having the first course or the cold dishes. And you are full of praise when you are having the first two main courses. The more courses you have, the calmer you will become. At the end of the feast/dinner, you will have found all the demerits/shortcomings. Therefore, your delight turns into anger, your praise into complaint, and your approval into disapproval. The reasons for this change are: first, when you begin to eat you are hungry, and when you are hungry, husk seems to be sweeter than honey; whereas when you are full, honey does not taste sweet at all. ENGLISH TO CHINESEENGLISH TO CHINESE 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 of houses, 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’s astonished she can’t see them. “Where! Why everywhere,” he replies. For though they are not yet built on earth, he has built them in his mind, and they are as concrete to him as if they were already constructed and finished. Cooper was illustrating a distinctly American trait, future-mindedness: the ability to see the present from the vantage point of the future; the freedom to feel unencumbered by the past and more emotionally attached to things to come. As Albert Einstein once said, “Life for the American is always becoming, never being.” Reference versionReference version 作家詹姆斯•费尼莫尔•库柏在他的经典作品《拓荒者》中，安排让主人公，一位房产商，领着他的妹去游览一座他正在建造中的新城市容。他滔滔不绝地描绘着宽阔的街道、一排排的房屋和人气旺盛的都市。可是他的表妹环顾四周，一脸茫然状，因其四处触目所见，只是树木森林罢了。表妹不禁问道，“你带我看的美景造化都在哪儿呢？”房产商感到奇怪，为什么表妹对眼前之物视而不见呢？因此他诧异地答道，“在哪儿？岂不是到处都是！”在房产商看来，实物虽还未盖造起来，但构思早已烂熟于胸。因此对他来说，一切井然具体，仿佛都已建成竣工似的。 在这里，库伯向读者展示了美国人的一种思维特征，前瞻性。这是一种以有利未来的角度看待眼前事物发展的能力，也是一种超脱过去束缚、情系未来的自由。正如埃尔伯特•爱因斯坦昔日所言，“对美国人来说，生活总是进取，而非守成。” null写作（修改前） 命题作文 （300个字） 考试时间：60分钟 比重：20% 写作（修改后） 命题作文（400个字） 考试时间：45分钟 比重：20% TEM8 -- 2005 TEM8 -- 2005   Interview is frequently used by employers as a means to recruit prospective employees. As a result, there have been many arguments for or against the interview as a selection procedure. What is your opinion? Write an essay of about 400 words to state your view. null In the first part of your essay you should state clearly 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. 写作要求写作要求紧扣主题 层次分明 结构完整 语言 null修改前： 主观题：60% 客观题：40% 215分钟（分上、下午进行） 修改后： 主观题：60% 客观题：40% 185分钟（上午完成） 8级考试项目顺序8级考试项目顺序修改前： 听力理解 校对改错 阅读理解 翻译 写作修改后： 听力理解 阅读理解 人文知识 校对改错 翻译 写作