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2019专八真题TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2019)-GRADE EIGHT-TIME LIMIT: 150 MIN PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (25 MIN] SECTION A MINI-LECTUREIn this section you will hear a mini-lecture、 You will hear the mini-lecture ONCE ONLY、 While listening tothe mini-lecture, please complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap、 Make sure what you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable、You may use the blank sheet for note-taking、You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task、Now, listen to the mini-lecture、 When it is over, you will be given THREE minutes to check your work、SECTION B INTERVIEWIn this section you will hear TWO interviews、 At the end of each interview, five questions will be asked about what was said、Both the interviews and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY、After each question there will be a ten-second pause During the pause, you should read the four choices of A, B, C and D, and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWERSHEET TWO、You have THIRTY seconds to preview the choices、Now, listen to the first interview、 Questions 1 to 5 are based on the first interview、1、A、Environmental issues、B、Endangered species、C、Global warming、D、Conservation、2、A、 It is thoroughly proved、B、it is definitely very serious、C、It is just a temporary variation、D、It is changing our ways of living、3、A、 Protection of endangered animals* habitats、B、Negative human impact on the environment、C、Frequent abnormal phenomena on the earth、D、The woman’s indifferent attitude to the earth、4、A、 Nature should take its course、B、People take things for granted、C、Humans are damaging the earth、D、Animals should stay away from zoos、5、A、 Objective、B、Pessimistic、C、Skeptical、D、Subjective、Now, listen to the second interview、 Questions 6 to 10 are based on the second interview、6、A、Teachers’ resistance to change、B、Students’ inadequate ability to read、C、Teachers’ misunderstandi ng o f such literacy、D、Students ’ indifference to the new method、7、A、Abilities to complete challenging tasks、B.Abilities to learn subject matter knowledge、C.Abilities to perform better in schoolwork、D.Abilities to perform disciplinary work、8、A、 Recalling specific information、B、Understanding particular details、C、Examining sources of information、D、Retelling a historical event、9、A、Engaging literacy and disciplinary experts in the program、B、Helping teachers understand what disciplinary literacy is、C、Teaching disciplinary discourse practices by literacy teachers、D、Designing learning strategies with experts from both sides、10、A、 To argue for a case、B、To discuss a dispute、C、T o explain a problem、D、To present details、PART II READING COMPREHENSION [45 MIN] SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONSIn this section there are three passages followed by fourteen multiple choice questions、 For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D、 Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO、PASSAGE ONE(1)When it came to concealing his troubles, Tommy Wilhelm was not less capable than die next fellow、 So at least he thought, and there was a certain amount of evidence to back him up、 He had once been an actor^ no, not quite, an extra — and he knew what acting should be、 Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels、 He came from the twenty-third floor down to the lobby on the mezzanine to collect his mail before breakfast, and he believed^ he hoped — that he looked passably well: doing all right、It was a matter of sheer hope, because there was not much that he could add to his presenteffort、On the fourteenth floor he looked for his father to enter the elevator; they often met at this hour, on the way to breakfast、If he worried about his appearance it was mainly for his old father’s sake、 But there was no stop on the fourteenth, and the elevator sank and sank、 Then the smooth door opened and the great dark-red uneven carpet that covered the lobby billowed toward Wilhelm’s feet、 In the foreground the lobby was dark, sleepy、 French drapes like sails kept out the sun, but three high, narrow windows were open, and in the blue air Wilhelm saw a pigeon about to light on the great chain that supported the marquee of the movie house directly underneath the lobby、 For one moment he heard the wings beating strongly、(2)Most of the guests at the Hotel Gloriana were past the age of retirement、 Along Broadway in the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties, a great part of New York’s vast population of old men and women lives、 Unless the weather is too cold or wet they fill the benches about the tiny railed parks and alongthe subway gratings from Verdi Square to Columbia University, they crowd the shops and cafeterias, the dime stores, the tearooms, the bakeries, the beauty parlors, the reading rooms and club rooms、Among these old people at the Gloriana, Wilhelm felt out ofplace、He was comparatively young, in his middle forties, large and blond, with big shoulders; his back was heavy and strong, if already a little stooped or thickened、After breakfast the old guests sat down on the green leather armchairs and sofas in the lobby and began to gossip and look into the、papers; they had nothing to do but wait out the day、But Wilhelm was used to an active life and liked to go out energetically in the morning、And for several months, because he had no position, he had keptup his morale by rising early; he was shaved and in the lobby by eight o'clock、He bought the paper and some cigars and drank a Coca-Cola or two before he went in tobreakfast with his father、 After breakfast 一 out, out, out to attend to business、 The getting out had in itselfbecome the chief business、But he had realized that he could not keep this up much longer, and today he was afraid、He was aware that his routine was about to break up and he sensed that a huge trouble long presaged (预感)but till now formless was due、 Before evening, he'd know、(3)Nevertheless he followed his daily course and crossed the lobby、(4)Rubin, the man at the newsstand, had poor eyes、 They may not have been actually weak but they were poor in expression, with lacy lids that furled down at the comers、 He dressed well、It didn't seem necessary 一he was behind the counter most of the time — but he dressed very well、 He had on a rich brown suit; the cuffs embarrassed the hairs on his small hands、He wore a Countess Mara painted necktie、 As Wilhelm approached, Rubin did not see him; he was looking out dreamily at the Hotel Ansonia, which was visible from his comer, several blocks away、 The Ansonia, the neighborhood^ great landmark, was built by Stanford White、 It looks like a baroque palace from Prague or Munich enlarged a hundred times, with towers, domes, huge swells and bubbles of metal gone green from exposure, iron fretwork and festoons、Black television antennae are densely planted on its round summits、 Under the changes of weather it may look like marble or like sea water, black as slate in the fog, white as tufa in sunlight、 This morning it looked like the image of itself reflected in deep water, white and cumulous above, withcavernous distortions underneath、Together, the two men gazed at it、(5)Then Rubin 、said，“Your dad is in to breakfast already, the old gentleman、”“Oh，yes? Ahead of me today?”‘nat’s a real knocked-out shirt you got on，’’ said Rubin、“Where’s it from，Saks?”“No, it’s a Jack Fagman — Chicago、”(6)Even when his spirits were low, Wilhelm could still wrinkle his forehead in a pleasing way、Some of the slow，silent movements of his face were very attractive、 He went back a step, as if to stand away from himself and get a better look at his shirt、His glance was comic, a comment upon his untidiness、 He liked to wear good clothes, but once he had put it on each article appeared to go its own way、 Wilhelm, laughing，panted a little; his teeth were small; his cheeks when he laughed and puffed grew round, and he looked much younger than his years、 In the old days when he was a college freshman and wore a beanie (无檐小帽）on his large blonde head his father used to say that，big as he was，he could charm a bird out ofa tree、 Wilhelm had great charm still、(7)“I like this dove-gray color,” he said in his sociable，good-natured way、“It isn’t washable、 Youhave to send it to the cleaner、 It never smells as good as washed、 But it，s a nice shirt、 It cost sixteen, eighteen bucks、*'11、Wilhelm hoped he looked all right on his way to the lobby because he wanted to _ 、A.leave a good impressionB.give his father a surpriseC.show his acting potentialD.disguise his low spirit12、Wilhelm had something in common with the old guests in that they all 、A.lived a luxurious lifeB.liked to sC.idled their time awayD.liked to get up early13、How did Wilhelm feel when he was crossing the lobby (Para、 2)?A.He felt something ominous was coming、B.He was worried that his father was late、C.He was feeling at ease among the old、D.He was excited about a possible job offer、14、Which part of Rubin’s clothes made him look particularly awkward (Para、 4)?A.The necktie、B.The cuffs、C.The suit、D.The shirt、15、What can we learn from the author’s description of Wilhelm’s clothes?A.His shirt made him look better、B.He cared much about his clothes、C.He looked like a comedian in his shirt、D.The clothes he wore never quite matched、PASSAGE TWO(1)By the 1840s New York was the leading commercial city of the United States、 It had long since outpaced Philadelphia as the largest city in the country, and even though Boston continuedto be venerated as the cultural capital of the nation, its image had become somewhat languid; it had not kept upwith the implications of the newly industrialized economy, of a diversified ethnic population, or of the rapidly rising middle class、New York was the place where the “new” Ame rica was coming into being, so it is hardly surprising that the modem newspaper had its birth there、(2)The penny paper had found its first success in New York、By the mid-1830s Ben Day s Sun was drawing readers from all walks of life、On the other hand, the Sun was a scanty sheet providing little more than minor diversions; few today would call it a newspaper at all、 Day himself was an editor of limited vision, and he did not possess the ability or the imagination to climb the slopes to loftier heights、If real newspapers were to emerge from the public's demand for more and better coverage, it would have to come from a youthful generation of editors for whom journalism was a totally absorbing profession, an exacting vocational ideal rather than a mere offshoot of job printing、(3)By the 1840s two giants burst into the field, editors who would revolutionize journalism, would bring the newspaper into the modem age, and show how it could be influential in the national life、These two giants, neither of whom has been treated kindly by history, were James Gordon Bennett and Horace Greeley、Bennett founded his New York Herald in 1835, less than two years after the appearance of the Sun、Horace Greeley founded his Tribune in 1841、Bennett and Greeley were the most innovative editors in New York until after the Civil War、Their newspapers were the leading American papers of the day, although for completely different reasons、The two men despised each other, although not in the ways that newspapereditors had despised one another a few years before、 Neither was a political hack bonded to a political party、Greeley fancied himself a public intellectual、He had strong political views, and he wanted to run for office himself, but party factotum he could never be; he bristled with ideals and causes of his own devising、Officially he was a Whig (and later a Republican), but he seldom gave comfort to his chosen party、Bennett, on the other hand, had long since cut his political ties, and although his paper covered local and national politics fully and he went after politicians with hammer and tongs, Bennett was a cynic, a distruster of all settled values、 He did not regard himself as an intellectual, although in fact he was better educated than Greeley、He thought himself only a hard-boiled newspaperman、Greeley was interested in ideas and in what was happening to the country、Bennett was only interested in his newspaper、 He wanted to find out what the news was, what people wanted to read、 And when he found out he gave it to them、(4)As different as Bennett and Greeley were from each other they were also curiously alike、 Both stood outside the circle of polite society, even when they became prosperous, and in Bennett’s case, wealthy、Both were incurable eccentrics、Neither was a gentleman、 Neither conjured up the picture of a successful editor、Greeley was unkempt, always looking like an unmade bed、 Even when he was nationally famous in the 1850s he resembled a clerk in a third-rate brokerage house, with slips of paper —marked-up proofs perhaps —hanging out of his pockets or stuck in his hat、He became fat, was always nearsighted, always peering over spectacles、He spoke in a high-pitched whine Not a few people suggested that he looked exactly like the ill ustrations of Charles Dickens’s Mr、Pickwick、Greeley provided a humorous description of himself, written under the pretense that it had been the work of his long-time adversary James Fenimore Cooper、 The editor was, according to the description, a half-bald, long-legged, slouching individual “so rocking in gait that he walks down both sides of the street at once、”(5)The appearance of Bennett was somewhat different but hardly more reassuring、 A shrewd, wiry Scotsman, who seemed to repel intimacy, Bennett looked around at the world with a squinty glare of suspicion、 His eyes did not focus right、 They seemed to fix themselves on nothing and everything at the same time、He was as solitary as an oyster, the classic loner、He seldom made close friendships and few people trusted him, although nobody who had dealings with him, however brief, doubted his abilities、He, too, could have come out of a book of Dickensian eccentrics, although perhaps Ebenezer Scrooge or Thomas Gradgrind comes to mind rather than the kindly old Mr、Pickwick、Greeley was laughed at but admired; Bennett was seldom laughed at but never admired; on the other hand, he had a hard professional competence and an encyclopedic knowledge of his adopted country, an in-depth learning uncorrupted by vague idealisms、All of this perfectly suited him for the journalism of this confusing age、(6)Both Greeley and Bennett had served long, humiliating and disappointing apprenticeships in the newspaper business、They took a long time getting to the top, the only reward for the long years of waiting being that when they had their own newspapers, both knew what they wanted and firmly set about getting it、 When Greeley founded the Tribune in 1841 he had the strong support of the Whig party and had already had a shortperiod of modest success as an editor、 Bennett, older by sixteen years, found solid commercial success first, but he had no one behind him except himself when he started up the Herald in 1835 in a dingy cellar room at 20 Wall Street、 Fortunately this turned out to be quite enough、16、Which of the following is NOT the author’s opinion on Ben Day and his Sun (Para、 2)7A.Sun had once been a popular newspaper、B.Sun failed to be a high-quality newspaper、C.Ben Day lacked innovation and imagination、D.Ben Day had striven for better coverage、17、Which of the following statements is CORRECT about Greeley’s or Bennett’s political stance (Para、 3)7Greeley and Bennett were both strong supporters of their party、Greeley, as a Whig member, believed in his party’s ideals、Bennett, as an independent, loathed established values、Greeley and Bennett possessed different political values、18、Which of the following figures of speech was used to describe Greele y’s manner of walking (Para、 4)?A.Exaggeration、B.Paradox、C.Analogy、D.Personification、19、In Para、 5 Bennett was depicted as a man whoA.had stronger capabilities than GreeleyB.possessed a great aptitude for journalismC.was in pursuit of idealism in journalismD.was knowledgeable about his home country20、How was Greeley different from Bennett according toPara、 6?A.He had achieved business success first、B.He started his career earlier than Bennett、C.He got initial support from a political party、D.He had a more humiliating apprenticeship、PASSAGE THREE(1)Why make a film about Ned Kelly? More ingenious crimes than those committed by the reckless Australian bandit are reported every day、What is there in Ned Kelly to justify dragging the mesmeric Mick Jagger so far into the Australian bush and away from his natural haunts? The answer is that the film makers know we always fall for a bandit, and Jagger is set to do for bold Ned Kelly what Brando once did for the arrogant Emiliano Zapata、(2) A bandit inhabits a special realm of legend where his deeds are embroidered by others; where his death rather than his life is considered beyond belief; where the men who bring him to “justice” are afflicted with doubts about their role、(3)The bandits had a role to play as definite as that of the authorities who condemned them、 These were men in conflict with authority, and, in the absence of strong law or the idea of loyal opposition, they took to the hills、Even there, however, many of them obeyed certain unwritten rules(4)These robbers, who claimed to be something more than mere thieves, had in common, firstly, a sense of loyalty and identity with the peasants they came from、They didn't steal the peasant’s harvest; they did steal the lord’s、(5)And certain char acteristics seem to apply to “social bandits’’ whether they were in Sicily or Peru、They were generally young men under the age of marriage, predictably thebest age for dissidence、Some were simply the surplus male population who had to look for another source of income; others were runaway serfs or ex-soldiers; a minority, though the most interesting, were outstanding men who were unwilling to accept the meek and passive role of peasant、(6)They usually operated in bands between ten and twenty strong and relied for survival on difficult terrain and bad transport、And bandits prospered best where authority was merely local — over the next hill and they were free、Unlike the general run of peasantry they had a taste for flamboyant dress and gesture; but they usu ally shared the peasants’ religious beliefs and superstitions、(7)The first sign of a man caught up in the Robin Hood syndrome was when he started out, forced into outlawry as a victim of injustice; and when h e then set out to “right wrongs”, first his ow n and then other people’s、The classic bandit then “takes from the rich and gives to the poor” in conformity with his own sense of social injustice; he never kills except in self-defense or justifiable revenge; he stays within his community and even returns to it if he can to take up an honorable place; his people admire and help to protect him; he dies through the treason of one of them; he behaves as if invisible and invulnerable; he is a “loyalist”, never the enemy of the king but only of the local oppressors、(8)None of die bandits lived up fully to this image of the “noble robber” and for many the claim of larger motives was often a delusion、(9)Yet amazingly, many of these violent men did behave at least half the time in accordance with this idealist pattern、Pancho Villa in Mexico and Salvatore Giuliano in Italy began theircareers harshly victimized、Many of their charitable acts later became legends、(10)Far from being defeated in death, bandits’ reputation for invincibility was often strengthened by the manner of their dying、The “dirty little coward” who shot Jesse James in the back is in every ballad about him, and the implication is that nothing else could have brought Jesse down、Even when the police claimed the credit, as they tried to do at first with Giuliano’s death, the local people refused to believe it、And not just the bandit’s vitality prompts the people to refuse to believe that their hero has died; his death would be in some way the death of hope、(11)For the traditional ‘‘noble robber” repre sents an extremely primitive form of social protest, perhaps the most primitive there is、He is an Individual who refuses to bend his back, that is all、 Most protesters will eventually be bought over and persuaded to come to terms with the official power、 That is why the few who do not, or who are believed to have remained uncontaminated, have so great and passionate a burden of admiration and longing laid upon them、 They cannot abolish oppression、 But they do prove that justice is possible, that poor men need not be humble, helpless and meek、(12)The bandit in the real world is rooted in peasant society and when its simple agricultural system is left behind so is he、But the tales and legends, the books and films continue to appear for an audience that is neither peasant nor bandit、 In some ways the characters and deeds of the great bandits could so readily be the stuff of grand opera - Don Jose in “Carmen” is based on the Andalusian bandit El Empranillo、 But they are perhaps more at home in folk songs, in popular tales and the ritual dramas offilms、 When we sit in the darkness of the cinema to watch the bold deeds of Ned Kelly we are caught up in admiration for their strong individuality, their simple gesture of protest, their passion for justice and their confidence that they cannot be beaten、 This sustains us nearly as much as it did the almost hopeless people from whom they sprang、21、Which of the following words is NOT intended to suggest approval of bandits?A.Bold (Para、 1)、B.Claimed (Para、 4)、C.Legend (Para、 2)、D.Loyalty (Para、 4)、22、Of the following reasons which is the LEAST likely one for becoming bandits?A.They liked theatrical clothes and behavior、B.They wanted to help the poor country folk、C.They were unwilling to accept injustice、D.They had very few careers open to them、23、、、、、began their careers harshly victimized” (Para、9) means that they 、A.had received excessive ill-treatmentB.were severely punished for their crimesC.took to violence through a sense of injusticeD.were misunderstood by their parents and friends24、What has made bandits suitable as film heroes is that they 、A.are sure they are invincibleB.possess a theatrical qualityC.retain the virtues of a peasant societyD.protest against injustice and inequalitySECTION B SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONSIn this section there are eight short answer questions based on the passages in Section A、Answer each question in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS in the space provided on ANSWER SHEET TWO、PASSAGE ONEIn and there was a certain amount of evidence to back him up (Para、1)”, what does “evidence” refer to?What is Wilhelm’s characteristic that has never changed all those years a ccording to Para、 6? PASSAGE TWOSummarize in your own words the meaning of the italicized part in the last sentence of Para、 2、What does but he seldom gave comfort to his chosen party” mean according to the context (Para、 3)?What is the similarity between Bennett and Greeley according to Paras、 4 and 5?PASSAGE THREEWrite down TWO features of the idealist pattern、(Para 9)Wha t does “hope” mean according to the context? (Para 10)What does “He is an indivi dual who refuses to bend his back” mean? (Para 11)PART III LANGUAGE USAGE [15 MIN]The passage contains TEN errors、Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error、 In each case, only ONE word is involved、 You should proof-read the passage and correct it in the following way:PART IV TRANSLATION [20 MIN]Translate the following text from Chinese into English、Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE、白洋淀曾有" 北国江南" 得说法，但村舍得形制自具特色，与江南截然不同。

2019英语专业八级真题及答案

2019英语专业八级真题及答案PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION(35MIN)SECTION A MINI-LECTUREIn this section you sill 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 them 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. Use the blank sheet for note-taking. SECTION B INTERVIEWIn this section 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 sheet. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen to the interview.1. Which of the following statements is TRUE about Miss Green’s university days?A. She felt bored.B. She felt lonely.C. She cherished them.D. The subject was easy.2. Which of the following is NOT part of her job with the Department of Employment?A. Doing surveys at workplace.B. Analyzing survey results.C. Designing questionnaires.D. Taking a psychology course.3. According to Miss Green, the main difference between the Department of Employment and the advertising agency lies inA. the nature of work.B. office decoration.C. office location.D. work procedures.4. Why did Miss green want to leave the advertising agency?A. She felt unhappy inside the company.B. She felt work there too demanding.C. She was denied promotion in the company.D. She longed for new opportunities.5. How did Miss Green react to a heavier workload in the new job?A. She was willing and ready.B. She sounded mildly eager.C. She a bit surprised.D. She sounded very reluctant.SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTIn this section 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 sheet. Questions 6 and 7 based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the two questions.Now listen to the news.6. The man stole the aircraft mainly because he wanted toA. destroy the European Central Bank.B. have an interview with a TV station.C. circle skyscrapers in downtown Frankfurt.D. remember the death of a US astronaut.7. Which of the following statements about the man is TRUE?A. He was a 31-year-old student from Frankfurt.B. He was piloting a two-seat helicopter he had stolen.C. He had talked to air traffic controllers by radio.D. He threatened to land on the European Central Bank.Question 8 is based on the following news. At the end of thenews item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.8. The news is mainly about the city government’s plan toA. expand and improve the existing subway system.B. build underground malls and parking lots.C. prevent further land subsidence.D. promote advanced technology.Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the two questions.Now listen to the news.9. According to the news, what makes this credit card different from conventional ones isA. that it can hear the owner’s voice.B. that it can remember a password.C. that it can identify the owner’s voice.D. that it can remember the owner’s PIN.10. The newly developed credit card is said to said to have all the following EXCEPTA. switch.B. battery.C. speaker.D. built-in chip.参考答案：Section A Mini-lecture1.the author2.other works3.literary trends4.grammar,diction or uses of image5.cultural codes6.cultural7.the reader8.social9.reader competency10. social sructure,traditions of writing or political cultural influences,etc.Section B Interview1-5 CDDDASection C News Broadcast6-10 DCBCAPART II READING COMPREHENSION(30MIN)In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice questions.Read the passages and then mark your answers on your colouredanswer sheet.TEXT AThe University in transformation, edited by Australian futurists Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley, presents some 20 highly varied outlooks on tomorrow’s universities by writers representing both Western and mon-Western perspectives. Their essays raise a broad range of issues, questioning nearly every key assumption we have about higher education today.The most widely discussed alternative to the traditional campus is the Internet University - a voluntary community to scholars/teachers physically scattered throughout a country or around the world but all linked in cyberspace. A computerized university could have many advantages, such as easy scheduling, efficient delivery of lectures to thousands or even millions of students at once, and ready access for students everywhere to the resources of all the world’s great libraries.Yet the Internet University poses dangers, too. For example, a line of franchised courseware, produced by a few superstar teachers, marketed under the brand name of a famous institution, and heavily advertised, might eventually come to dominate the global education market, warns sociology professor Peter Manicas of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Besides enforcinga rigidly standardized curriculum, such a “college education in a box” could undersell the offerings of many traditional brick and mortar institutions, effectively driving then out of business and throwing thousands of career academics out of work, note Australian communications professors David Rooney and Greg Hearn.On the other hand, while global connectivity seems highly likely to play some significant role in future higher education, that does not mean greater uniformity in course content - or other dangers - will necessarily follow. Counter-movements are also at work.Many in academia, including scholars contributing to this volume, are questioning the fundamental mission of university education. What if, for instance, instead of receiving primarily technical training and building their individual careers, university students and professors could focus their learning and research efforts on existing problems in their local communities and the world? Feminist scholar Ivana Milojevic dares to dream what a university might become “if we believed that child-care workers and teachers in early childhood education should be one of the highest (rather than lowest) paid professionals?”Co-editor Jennifer Gidley shows how tomorrow’s university faculty, instead of giving lectures and conducting independent research, may take on three new roles. Some would act as brokers, assembling customized degree-credit programmes for individual students by mixing and matching the best course offerings available from institutions all around the world. A second group, mentors, would function much like today’s faculty advisers, but are likely to be working with many more students outside their own academic specialty. This would require them to constantly be learning from their students as well as instructing them.A third new role for faculty, and in Gidley’s view the most challenging and rewarding of all, would be as meaning-makers: charismatic sages and practitioners leading groups of students/colleagues in collaborative efforts to find spiritual as well as rational and technological solutions to specific real-world problems.Moreover, there seems little reason to suppose that any one form of university must necessarily drive out all other options. Students may be “enrolled” in courses offered at virtual campuses on the Internet, between -or even during - sessions at a real-world problem-focused institution.As co-editor Sohail Inayatullah points out in his introduction, no future is inevitable, and the very act of imagining and thinking through alternative possibilities can directly affect how thoughtfully, creatively and urgently even a dominant technology is adapted and applied. Even in academia, the future belongs to those who care enough to work their visions into practical, sustainable realities.11. When the book reviewer discusses the Internet University,A. he is in favour of it.B. his view is balanced.C. he is slightly critical of it.D. he is strongly critical of it.12. Which of the following is NOT seen as a potential danger of the Internet University?A. Internet-based courses may be less costly than traditional ones.B. Teachers in traditional institutions may lose their jobs.C. internet-based courseware may lack variety in course content.D. The Internet University may produce teachers with a lot of publicity.13. According to the review, what is the fundamental mission of traditional university education?A. Knowledge learning and career building.B. Learning how to solve existing social problems.C. Researching into solutions to current world problems.D. Combining research efforts of teachers and students in learning.14. Judging from the Three new roles envisioned for tomorrow’s university faculty, university teachersA, are required to conduct more independent research.B. are required to offer more course to their students……C. are supposed to assume more demanding duties.D. are supposed to supervise more students in their specialty.15. Which category of writing does the review belong to?A. Narration.B. DescriptionC. persuasionD. Exposition.TEXT BEvery street had a story, every building a memory, Those blessed with wonderful childhoods can drive the streets oftheir hometowns and happily roll back the years. The rest are pulled home by duty and leave as soon as possible. After Ray Atlee had been in Clanton (his hometown) for fifteen minutes he was anxious to get out.The town had changed, but then it hadn’t. On the highways leading in, the cheap metal buildings and mobile homes were gathering as tightly as possible next to the roads for maximum visibility. This town had no zoning whatsoever. A landowner could build anything wiih no permit no inspection, no notice to adjoining landowners. nothing. Only hog farms and nuclear reactors required approvals and paperwork. The result was a slash-and-build clutter that got uglier by the year.But in the older sections, nearer the square, the town had not changed at all The long shaded streets were as clean and neat as when Kay roamed them on his bike. Most of the houses were still owned by people he knew, or if those folks had passed on the new owners kept the lawns clipped and the shutters painted. Only a few were being neglected. A handful had been abandoned.This deep in Bible country, it was still an unwritten rule in the town that little was done on Sundays except go to church, sit on porches, visit neighbours, rest and relax the way Godintended.It was cloudy, quite cool for May, and as he toured his old turf, killing time until the appointed hour for the family meeting, he tried to dwell on the good memories from Clanton. There was Dizzy Dean Park where he had played little League for the Pirates, and (here was the public pool he’d swum in every summer except 1969 when the city closed it rather than admit black children. There were the churches - Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian - facing each other at the intersection of Second and Elm like wary sentries, their steeples competing for height. They were empty now, hut in an hour or so the more faithful would gather for evening services.The square was as lifeless as the streets leading to it. With eight thousand people, Clanton was just large enough to have attracted the discount stores that had wiped out so many small towns. But here the people had been faithful to their downtown merchants, and there wasn’t s single empty or boarded-up building around the square - no small miracle. The retail shops were mixed in with the banks and law offices and cafes, all closed for the Sabbath.He inched through the cemetery and surveyed the Atlee section in the old part, where the tombstones were grander. Someof his ancestors had built monuments for their dead. Ray had always assumed that the family money he’d never seen must have been buried in those graves. He parked and walked to his mother’s grave, something he hadn’t done in years. She was buried among the Atlees, at the far edge of the family plot because she had barely belonged.Soon, in less than an hour, he would be sitting in his father’s study, sipping bad instant tea and receiving instructions on exactly how his father would be laid to rest. Many orders were about to be give, many decrees and directions, because his father(who used to be a judge) was a great man and cared deeply about how he was to be remembered.Moving again, Ray passed the water tower he’d climbed twice, the second time with the police waiting below. He grimaced at his old high school, a place he’d never visited since he’d left it. Behind it was the football field where his brother Forrest had romped over opponents and almost became famous before getting bounced off the team.It was twenty minutes before five, Sunday, May 7. Time for the family meeting.16. From the first paragraph, we get the impression thatA. Ray cherished his childhood memories.B. Ray had something urgent to take care of.C. Ray may not have a happy childhood.D. Ray cannot remember his childhood days.17. Which of the following adjectives does NOT describe Ray’s hometown?A. Lifeless.B. Religious.C. Traditional.D. Quiet.18. Form the passage we can infer that the relationship between Ray and his parents wasA. close.B. remote.C. tense.D. impossible to tell.19. It can be inferred from the passage that Ray’s father was all EXCEPTA. considerate.B. punctual.C. thrifty.D. dominant.TEXT CCampaigning on the Indian frontier is an experience by itself. Neither the landscape nor the people find their counterparts in any other portion of the globe. Valley walls rise steeply five or six thousand feet on every side. The columns crawl through a maze of giant corridors down which fierce snow-fed torrents foam under skies of brass. Amid these scenes of savage brilliancy there dwells a race whose qualities seem to harmonize with their environment. Except at harvest-time, when self-preservation requires a temporary truce, the Pathan tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian. Every large house is a real feudal fortress made, it is true, only of sun-baked clay, but with battlements, turrets, loopholes, drawbridges, etc. complete. Every village has its defence. Every family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud. The numerous tribes and combinations of tribes all have their accounts to settle with one another. Nothing is ever forgotten, and very few debts are left unpaid. For the purposes of social life, in addition to the convention about harvest-time, a most elaborate code of honour has been established and is on the whole faithfully observed. A man who knew it and observed it faultlessly might pass unarmed from oneend of the frontier to another. The slightest technical slip would, however, be fatal. The life of the Pathan is thus full of interest; and his valleys, nourished alike by endless sunshine and abundant water, are fertile enough to yield with little labour the modest material requirements of a sparse population.Into this happy world the nineteenth century brought two new facts: the rifle and the British Government. The first was an enormous luxury and blessing; the second, an unmitigated nuisance. The convenience of the rifle was nowhere more appreciated than in the Indian highlands. A weapon which would kill with accuracy at fifteen hundred yards opened a whole new vista of delights to every family or clan which could acquire it. One could actually remain in one’s own house and fire at one’s neighbour nearly a mile away. One could lie in wait on some high crag, and at hitherto unheard-of ranges hit a horseman far below. Even villages could fire at each other without the trouble of going far from home. Fabulous prices were therefore offered for these glorious products of science. Rifle-thieves scoured all India to reinforce the efforts of the honest smuggler. A steady flow of the coveted weapons spread its genial influence throughout the frontier, and the respect which thePathan tribesmen entertained for Christian civilization was vastly enhanced.The action of the British Government on the other hand was entirely unsatisfactory. The great organizing, advancing, absorbing power to the southward seemed to be little better than a monstrous spoil-sport. If the Pathan made forays into the plains, not only were they driven back (which after all was no more than fair), but a whole series of subsequent interferences took place, followed at intervals by expeditions which toiled laboriously through the valleys, scolding the tribesmen and exacting fines for any damage which they had done. No one would have minded these expeditions if they had simply come, had a fight and then gone away again. In many cases this was their practice under what was called the “butcher and bolt policy”to which the Government of India long adhered. But towards the end of the nineteenth century these intruders began to make roads through many of the valleys, and in particular the great road to Chitral. They sought to ensure the safety of these roads by threats, by forts and by subsidies. There was no objection to the last method so far as it went. But the whole of this tendency to road-making was regarded by the Pathans with profound distaste. All along the road people were expected tokeep quiet, not to shoot one another, and above all not to shoot at travellers along the road. It was too much to ask, and a whole series of quarrels took their origin from this source.20. The word debts in “very few debts are left unpaid” in the first paragraph meansA． loans. B． accounts C．killings D．bargains.21. Which of the following is NOT one of the geographical facts about the Indian frontier?A. Melting snows.B. Large population.C. Steep hillsides.D. Fertile valleys.22. According to the passage, the Pathans welcomedA. the introduction of the rifle.B. the spread of British rule.C. the extension of luxuriesD. the spread of trade.23. Building roads by the BritishA. put an end to a whole series of quarrels.B. prevented the Pathans from earning on feuds.C. lessened the subsidies paid to the Pathans.D. gave the Pathans a much quieter life.24. A suitable title for the passage would beA. Campaigning on the Indian frontier.B. Why the Pathans resented the British rule.C. The popularity of rifles among the Pathans.D. The Pathans at war.TEXT D“Museum” is a slippery word. It first meant (in Greek) anything consecrated to the Muses: a hill, a shrine, a garden, a festival or even a textbook. Both Plato’s Academy and Aristotle’s Lyceum had a mouseion, a muses’ shrine. Although the Greeks already collected detached works of art, many temples - notably that of Hera at Olympia (before which the Olympic flame is still lit) - had collections of objects, some of which were works of art by well-known masters, while paintings and sculptures in the Alexandrian Museum were incidental to its main purpose.The Romans also collected and exhibited art from disbanded temples, as well as mineral specimens, exotic plants, animals; and they plundered sculptures and paintings (mostly Greek) for exhibition. Meanwhile, the Greek word had slipped into Latin by transliteration (though not to signify picture galleries, which were called pinacothecae) and museum still more or less meant “Muses’ shrine”.The inspirational collections of precious and semi-preciousobjects were kept in larger churches and monasteries - which focused on the gold-enshrined, bejewelled relics of saints and martyrs. Princes, and later merchants, had similar collections, which became the deposits of natural curiosities: large lumps of amber or coral, irregular pearls, unicorn horns, ostrich eggs, fossil bones and so on. They also included coins and gems - often antique engraved ones - as well as, increasingly, paintings and sculptures. As they multiplied and expanded, to supplement them, the skill of the fakers grew increasingly refined.At the same time, visitors could admire the very grandest paintings and sculptures in the churches, palaces and castles; they were not “collected” either, but “site-specific”, and were considered an integral part both of the fabric of the buildings and of the way of life which went on inside them - and most of the buildings were public ones. However, during the revival of antiquity in the fifteenth century, fragments of antique sculpture were given higher status than the work of any contemporary, so that displays of antiquities would inspire artists to imitation, or even better, to emulation; and so could be considered Muses’ shrines in the former sense. The Medici garden near San Marco in Florence, the Belvedere and the Capitolin Rome were the most famous of such early “inspirational”collections. Soon they multiplied, and, gradually, exemplary “modern” works wereIn the seventeenth century, scientific and prestige collecting became so widespread that three or four collectors independently published directories to museums all over the known world. But it was the age of revolutions and industry which produced the next sharp shift in the way the institution was perceived: the fury against royal and church monuments prompted antiquarians to shelter them in asylum-galleries, of which the Musee des Monuments Francais was the most famous. Then, in the first half of the nineteenth century, museum funding took off, allied to the rise of new wealth: London acquired the National Gallery and the British Museum, the Louvre was organized, the Museum-Insel was begun in Berlin, and the Munich galleries were built. In Vienna, the huge Kunsthistorisches and Naturhistorisches Museums took over much of the imperial treasure. Meanwhile, the decline of craftsmanship (and of public taste with it) inspired the creation of “improving”collections. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London was the most famous, as well as perhaps the largest of them.25.The sentence “Museum is a slippery word” in the firstparagraph means thatA. the meaning of the word didn’t change until after the 15th century.B. the meaning of the word had changed over the years.C. the Greeks held different concepts from the Romans.D. princes and merchants added paintings to their collections.26.The idea that museum could mean a mountain or an object originates fromA. the Romans.B. Florence.C. Olympia.D. Greek.27. “……the skill of the fakers grew increasingly refined” in the third paragraph means thatA. there was a great demand for fakers.B. fakers grew rapidly in number.C. fakers became more skillful.D. fakers became more polite.28. Painting and sculptures on display in churches in the 15th century wereA. collected from elsewhere.B. made part of the buildings.C. donated by people.D. bought by churches.29. Modern museums came into existence in order toA. protect royal and church treasures.B. improve existing collections.C. stimulate public interest.D. raise more funds.30. Which is the main idea of the passage?A. Collection and collectors.B. The evolution of museums.C. Modern museums and their functions.D. The birth of museums.11-15 BAACD 16-20 CDBAC 21-25BABAB 26-30 DCBABPART III. 人文知识There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section.Choose the best answers to each question.Mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet.31.The Presidents during the American Civil War wasA. Andrew JacksonB. Abraham LincolnC. Thomas JeffersonD. George Washington32.The capital of New Zealand isA.ChristchurchB.AucklandC.WellingtonD.Hamilton33.Who were the natives of Austrilia before the arrival of the British settlers?A.The AboriginesB.The MaoriC.The IndiansD.The Eskimos34.The Prime Minister in Britain is head ofA.the Shadow CabinetB.the ParliamentC.the OppositionD.the Cabinet35.Which of the following writers is a poet of the 20th century?A.T.S.EliotwrenceC.Theodore DreiserD.James Joyce36.The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is written byA.Scott FitzgeraldB.William FaulknerC.Eugene O’NeilD.Ernest Hemingway37._____ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteen linesA.Free verseB.SonnetC.OdeD.Epigram38.What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is the notion ofA.referenceB.meaningC.antonymyD.context39.The words”kid,child,offspring” are examples ofA.dialectal synonymsB.stylistic synonymsC.emotive synonymsD.collocational synonyms40.The distinction between parole and langue was made byA.HalliayB.ChomskyC.BloomfieldD.Saussure参考答案: 31-35BCADA 36-40 DBDBDPART IV 改错参考答案1. agreeing-agreed2. in which 可有可无3. in his disposal- at his disposal4.enables-enable5.the other English speakers-other English speakers6.old-older7.seen-understood8.take it for granted- take for granted9.or-and10. the most striking of human achievementsV. 汉译英及参考译文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。

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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2019)-GRADE EIGHT-TIME LIMIT: 150 MIN PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (25 MIN]SECTION A MINI-LECTUREIn this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the mini-lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the mini-lecture, please complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure what you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for note-taking.You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.Now, listen to the mini-lecture. When it is over, you will be given THREE minutes to check your work. SECTION B INTERVIEWIn this section you will hear TWO interviews. At the end of each interview, five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the interviews and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the four choices of A, B, C and D, and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.You have THIRTY seconds to preview the choices.Now, listen to the first interview. Questions 1 to 5 are based on the first interview.1. A. Environmental issues.B. Endangered species.C. Global warming.D. Conservation.2. A. It is thoroughly proved.B. ft is definitely very serious.C. It is just a temporary variation.D. It is changing our ways of living.3. A. Protection of endangered animals* habitats.B. Negative human impact on the environment.C. Frequent abnormal phenomena on the earth.D. The woman’s indifferent attitude to the earth.4. A. Nature should take its course.B. People take things for granted.C. Humans are damaging the earth.D. Animals should stay away from zoos.5. A. Objective.B. Pessimistic.C. Skeptical.D. Subjective.Now, listen to the second interview. Questions 6 to 10 are based on the second interview.6. A. Teachers’ resistance to change.B. Students’ inadequate ability to read.C. Teachers’ misunderstanding of such literacy.D. Students ’ indifference to the new method.7. A. Abilities to complete challenging tasks.B. Abilities to learn subject matter knowledge.C. Abilities to perform better in schoolwork.D.Abilities to perform disciplinary work.8. A. Recalling specific information.B. Understanding particular details.C. Examining sources of information.D.Retelling a historical event.9. A. Engaging literacy and disciplinary experts in the program.B. Helping teachers understand what disciplinary literacy is.C. Teaching disciplinary discourse practices by literacy teachers.D. Designing learning strategies with experts from both sides.10. A. To argue for a case.B. To discuss a dispute.C. To explain a problem.D. To present details.PART II READING COMPREHENSION [45 MIN]SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONSIn this section there are three passages followed by fourteen multiple choice questions. For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.PASSAGE ONE(1) When it came to concealing his troubles, Tommy Wilhelm was not less capable than die next fellow. So at least he thought, and there was a certain amount of evidence to back him up. He had once been an actor^ no, not quite, an extra — and he knew what acting should be. Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels. He came from the twenty-third floor down to the lobby on the mezzanine to collect his mail before breakfast, and he believed^ he hoped — that he looked passably well: doing all right. It was a matter of sheer hope, because there was not much that he could add to his present effort. On the fourteenth floor he looked for his father to enter the elevator; they often met at this hour, on the way to breakfast. If he worried about his appearanc e it was mainly for his old father’s sake. But there was no stop on the fourteenth, and the elevator sank and sank. Then the smooth door opened and the great dark-red uneven carpet that covered the lobby billowed toward Wilhelm’s feet. In the foreground th e lobby was dark, sleepy. French drapes like sails kept out the sun, but three high, narrow windows were open, and in the blue air Wilhelm saw a pigeon about to light on the great chain that supported the marquee of the movie house directly underneath the lobby. For one moment he heard the wings beating strongly.(2) Most of the guests at the Hotel Gloriana were past the age of retirement. Along Broadway in the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties, a great part of New York’s vast population of old men and women lives. Unless the weather is too cold or wet they fill the benches about the tiny railed parks and along the subway gratings from Verdi Square to Columbia University, they crowd the shops and cafeterias, the dime stores, the tearooms, the bakeries, the beauty parlors, the reading rooms and club rooms. Among these old people at the Gloriana, Wilhelm felt out ofplace. He was comparatively young, in his middle forties, large and blond, with big shoulders; his back was heavy and strong, if already a little stooped or thickened. After breakfast the old guests sat down on the green leather armchairs and sofas in the lobby and began to gossip and look into the.papers; they had nothing to do but wait out the day. But Wilhelm was used to an active life and liked to go out energetically in the morning. And for several months, because he had no position, he had kept up his morale by rising early; he was shaved and in the lobby by eight o'clock. He bought the paper and some cigars and drank a Coca-Cola or two before he went in to breakfast with his father. After breakfast 一 out, out, out to attend to business. The getting out had in itself become the chief business. But he had realized that he could not keep this up much longer, and today he was afraid. He was aware that his routine was about to break up and he sensed that a huge trouble long presaged (预感)but till now formless was due. Before evening, he'd know.(3) Nevertheless he followed his daily course and crossed the lobby.(4) Rubin, the man at the newsstand, had poor eyes. They may not have been actually weak but they were poor in expression, with lacy lids that furled down at the comers. He dressed well. It didn't seem necessary 一 he was behind the counter most of the time — but he dressed very well. He had on a rich brown suit; the cuffs embarrassed the hairs on his small hands. He wore a Countess Mara painted necktie. As Wilhelm approached, Rubin did not see him; he was looking out dreamily at the Hotel Ansonia, which was visible from his comer, several blocks away. The Ansonia, the neighborhood^ great landmark, was built by Stanford White. It looks like a baroque palace from Prague or Munich enlarged a hundred times, with towers, domes, huge swells and bubbles of metal gone green from exposure, iron fretwork and festoons. Black television antennae are densely planted on its round summits. Under the changes of weather it may look like marble or like sea water, black as slate in the fog, white as tufa in sunlight. This morning it looked like the image of itself reflected in deep water, white and cumulous above, with cavernous distortions underneath. Together, the two men gazed at it.(5) Then Rubin .said，“Your dad is in to breakfast already, the old gentleman.”“Oh，yes? Ahead of me today?”‘nat’s a real knocked-out shirt you got on，’’ said Rubin. “Where’s it from，Saks?”“No, it’s a Jack Fagman —Chicago.”(6) Even when his spirits were low, Wilhelm could still wrinkle his forehead in a pleasing way. Some of the slow，silent movements of his face were very attractive. He went back a step, as if to stand away from himself and get a better look at his shirt. His glance was comic, a comment upon his untidiness. He liked to wear good clothes, but once he had put it on each article appeared to go its own way. Wilhelm, laughing，panted a little; his teeth were small; his cheeks when he laughed and puffed grew round, and he looked much younger than his years. In the old days when he was a college freshman and wore a beanie (无檐小帽）on his large blonde head his father used to say that，big as he was，he could charm a bird out of a tree. Wilhelm had great charm still.(7) “I like this dove-gray color,” he said in his sociable，good-natured way. “It isn’t washable. You have to send it to the cleaner. It never smells as good as washed. But it，s a nice shirt. It cost sixteen, eighteen bucks.*'11. Wilhelm hoped he looked all right on his way to the lobby because he wanted to _ ____ .A. leave a good impressionB. give his father a surpriseC. show his acting potentialD. disguise his low spirit12. Wilhelm had something in common with the old guests in that they all ________ .A. lived a luxurious lifeB. liked to swap gossipsC. idled their time awayD. liked to get up early13. How did Wilhelm feel when he was crossing the lobby (Para. 2)?A. He felt something ominous was coming.B. He was worried that his father was late.C. He was feeling at ease among the old.D. He was excited about a possible job offer.14. Which part of Rubin’s clothes made him look particularly awkward (Para. 4)?A. The necktie.B. The cuffs.C. The suit.D. The shirt.15. What can we learn from the author’s description of Wilhelm’s clothes?A. His shirt made him look better.B. He cared much about his clothes.C. He looked like a comedian in his shirt.D. The clothes he wore never quite matched.PASSAGE TWO(1) By the 1840s New York was the leading commercial city of the United States. It had long since outpaced Philadelphia as the largest city in the country, and even though Boston continued to be venerated as the cultural capital of the nation, its image had become somewhat languid; it had not kept up with the implications of the newly industrialized economy, of a diversified ethnic population, or of the rapidly rising middle class. New York was the place where the “new” America was coming into being, so it is hardly surprising that the modem newspaper had its birth there.(2) The penny paper had found its first success in New York. By the mid-1830s Ben Day s Sunwas drawing readers from all walks of life. On the other hand, the Sun was a scanty sheet providing little more than minor diversions; few today would call it a newspaper at all. Day himself was an editor of limited vision, and he did not possess the ability or the imagination to climb the slopes to loftier heights. If real newspapers were to emerge from the public's demand for more and better coverage, it would have to come from a youthful generation of editors for whom journalism was a totally absorbing profession, an exacting vocational ideal rather than a mere offshoot of job printing.(3) By the 1840s two giants burst into the field, editors who would revolutionize journalism, would bring the newspaper into the modem age, and show how it could be influential in the national life. These two giants, neither of whom has been treated kindly by history, were James Gordon Bennett and Horace Greeley. Bennett founded his New York Herald in 1835, less than two years after the appearance of the Sun. Horace Greeley founded his Tribune in 1841. Bennett and Greeley were the most innovative editors in New York until after the Civil War. Their newspapers were the leading American papers of the day, although for completely different reasons. The two men despised each other, although not in the ways that newspaper editors had despised one another a few years before. Neither was a political hack bonded to a political party. Greeley fancied himself a public intellectual. He had strong political views, and he wanted to run for office himself, but party factotum he could never be; he bristled with ideals and causes of his own devising. Officially he was a Whig (and later a Republican), but he seldom gave comfort to his chosen party. Bennett, on the other hand, had long since cut his political ties, and although his paper covered local and national politics fully and he went after politicians with hammer and tongs, Bennett was a cynic, a distruster of all settled values. He did not regard himself as an intellectual, although in fact he was better educated than Greeley. He thought himself only a hard-boiled newspaperman. Greeley was interested in ideas and in what was happening to the country. Bennett was only interested in his newspaper. He wanted to find out what the news was, what people wanted to read. And when he found out he gave it to them.(4) As different as Bennett and Greeley were from each other they were also curiously alike. Both stood outside the circle of polite society, even when they became prosperous, and in Bennett’s case, wealthy. Both were incurable eccentrics. Neither was a gentleman. Neither conjured up the picture of a successful editor. Greeley was unkempt, always looking like an unmade bed. Even when he was nationally famous in the 1850s he resembled a clerk in a third-rate brokerage house, with slips of paper —marked-up proofs perhaps — hanging out of his pockets or stuck in his hat. He became fat, was always nearsighted, always peering over spectacles. He spoke in a high-pitched whine Not a few people suggested that he lookedexactly like the illustrations of Charles Dickens’s Mr. Pickwick. G reeley provided a humorous description of himself, written under the pretense that it had been the work of his long-time adversary James Fenimore Cooper. The editor was, according to the description, a half-bald, long-legged, slouching individual “so rocki ng in gait that he walks down both sides ofthe street at once.”(5) The appearance of Bennett was somewhat different but hardly more reassuring. A shrewd, wiry Scotsman, who seemed to repel intimacy, Bennett looked around atthe world with a squinty glare of suspicion. His eyes did not focus right. They seemed to fix themselves on nothing and everything at the same time. He was as solitary as an oyster, the classic loner. He seldom made close friendships and few people trusted him, although nobody who had dealings with him, however brief, doubted his abilities. He, too, could have come out of a book of Dickensian eccentrics, although perhaps Ebenezer Scrooge or Thomas Gradgrind comes to mind rather than the kindly old Mr. Pickwick. Greeley was laughed at but admired; Bennett was seldom laughed at but never admired; on the other hand, he had a hard professional competence and an encyclopedic knowledge of his adopted country, an in-depth learning uncorrupted by vague idealisms. All of this perfectly suited him for the journalism of this confusing age.(6) Both Greeley and Bennett had served long, humiliating and disappointing apprenticeships in the newspaper business. They took a long time getting to the top, the only reward for the long years of waiting being that when they had their own newspapers, both knew what they wanted and firmly set about getting it. When Greeley founded the Tribune in 1841 he had the strong support of the Whig party and had already had a short period of modest success as an editor. Bennett, older by sixteen years, found solid commercial success first, but he had no one behind him except himself when he started up the Herald in 1835 in a dingy cellar room at 20 Wall Street. Fortunately this turned out to be quite enough.16. Which of the following is NOT the author’s opinion on Ben Day and his Sun (Para. 2)7A. Sun had once been a popular newspaper.B. Sun failed to be a high-quality newspaper.C. Ben Day lacked innovation and imagination.D. Ben Day had striven for better coverage.17. Which of the following statements is CORRECT about Greeley’s or Bennett’s politicalstance (Para. 3)7A. Greeley and Bennett were both strong supporters of their party.B. Greeley, as a Whig member, believed in his party’s ideals.C. Bennett, as an independent, loathed established values.D. Greeley and Bennett possessed different political values.18. Which of the following figures of speech was used to describe Greeley’s manner of walking (Para. 4)?A. Exaggeration.B. Paradox.C. Analogy.D. Personification.19. In Para. 5 Bennett was depicted as a man who _____________A. had stronger capabilities than GreeleyB. possessed a great aptitude for journalismC. was in pursuit of idealism in journalismD. was knowledgeable about his home country20. How was Greeley different from Bennett according to Para. 6?A. He had achieved business success first.B. He started his career earlier than Bennett.C. He got initial support from a political party.D. He had a more humiliating apprenticeship.PASSAGE THREE(1) Why make a film about Ned Kelly? More ingenious crimes than those committed by the reckless Australian bandit are reported every day. What is there in Ned Kelly to justify dragging the mesmeric Mick Jagger so far into the Australian bush and away from his natural haunts? The answer is that the film makers know we always fall for a bandit, and Jagger is set to do for bold Ned Kelly what Brando once did for the arrogant Emiliano Zapata.(2) A bandit inhabits a special realm of legend where his deeds are embroidered by others; where his death rather than his life is considered beyond belief; where the men who bring him to “justice” are afflicted with doubts about their role.(3) The bandits had a role to play as definite as that of the authorities who condemned them. Thesewere men in conflict with authority, and, in the absence of strong law or the idea of loyal opposition, they took to the hills. Even there, however, many of them obeyed certain unwritten rules.(4)These robbers, who claimed to be something more than mere thieves, had in common, firstly, a sense of loyalty and identity with the peasants they came from. They didn't steal the peasant’s harvest; they did steal the lord’s.(5) And certain characteristics seem to apply to “social bandits’’ whether they were in Sicily or Peru. They were generally young men under the age of marriage, predictably the best age for dissidence. Some were simply the surplus male population who had to look for another source of income; others were runaway serfs or ex-soldiers; a minority, though the most interesting, were outstanding men who were unwilling to accept the meek and passive role of peasant.(6) They usually operated in bands between ten and twenty strong and relied for survival on difficult terrain and bad transport. And bandits prospered best where authority was merely local — over the next hill and they were free. Unlike the general run of peasantry they had a taste for flamboyant dress and gesture; but they usually shared the peasants’ religious beliefs and superstitions.(7) The first sign of a man caught up in the Robin Hood syndrome was when he started out, forced into outlawry as a victim o f injustice; and when he then set out to “right wrongs”, first his own and then other people’s. The classic bandit then “takes from the rich and gives to the poor” in conformity with his own sense of social injustice; he never kills except in self-defense or justifiable revenge; he stays within his community and even returns to it if he can to take up an honorable place; his people admire and help to protect him; he dies through the treason of one of them; he behaves as if invisible and invulnerable; he is a “loyalist”, never the enemy of the king but only of the local oppressors.(8) None of die bandits lived up fully to this image of the “noble robber” and for many the claim of larger motives was often a delusion.(9) Yet amazingly, many of these violent men did behave at least half the time in accordance with this idealist pattern. Pancho Villa in Mexico and Salvatore Giuliano in Italy began their careers harshly victimized. Many of their charitable acts later became legends.(10) Far from being defeated i n death, bandits’ reputation for invincibility was often strengthened by the manner of their dying. The “dirty little coward” who shot Jesse James in the back is in every ballad about him, and the implication is that nothing else could have brought Jesse down. Even when the police claimed the credit, as they tried to do at first with Giuliano’s death, the local people refused to believe it. And not just the bandit’s vitality prompts the people to refuse to believe that their hero has died; his death would b e in some way the death of hope.(11) For the traditional ‘‘noble robber” represents an extremely primitive form of social protest, perhaps the most primitive there is. He is an Individual who refuses to bend his back, that is all. Most protesters will eventually be bought over and persuaded to come to terms with the official power. That is why the few who do not, or who are believed to have remained uncontaminated, have so great and passionate a burden of admiration and longing laid upon them. They cannot abolish oppression. But they do prove that justice is possible, that poor men need not be humble, helpless and meek.(12) The bandit in the real world is rooted in peasant society and when its simple agricultural system is left behind so is he. But the tales and legends, the books and films continue to appear for an audience that is neither peasant nor bandit. In some ways the characters and deeds of the great bandits could so readily be the stuff of grand opera - Don Jose in “Carmen” is based on the Andalusian bandit El Empranillo. But they are perhaps more at home in folk songs, in popular tales and the ritual dramas of films. When we sit in the darkness of the cinema to watch the bold deeds of Ned Kelly we are caught up in admiration for their strong individuality, their simple gesture of protest, their passion for justice and their confidence that they cannot be beaten. This sustains us nearly as much as it did the almost hopeless people from whom they sprang.21. Which of the following words is NOT intended to suggest approval of bandits?A. Bold (Para. 1).B. Claimed (Para. 4).C. Legend (Para. 2).D. Loyalty (Para. 4).22. Of the following reasons which is the LEAST likely one for becoming bandits?A. They liked theatrical clothes and behavior.B. They wanted to help the poor country folk.C. They were unwilling to accept injustice.D. They had very few careers open to them.23. ... began their careers harshly victimized” (Para. 9) means that they_____________ .A.had received excessive ill-treatmentB. were severely punished for their crimesC. took to violence through a sense of injusticeD. were misunderstood by their parents and friends24. What has made bandits suitable as film heroes is that they ___________ .A. are sure they are invincibleB. possess a theatrical qualityC. retain the virtues of a peasant societyD. protest against injustice and inequalitySECTION B SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONSIn this section there are eight short answer questions based on the passages in Section A. Answer each question in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS in the space provided on ANSWER SHEET TWO.PASSAGE ONE25. In and there was a certain amount of evidence to back him up (Para. 1)”, what does “evidence” refer to?26. What is Wilhelm’s characteristic that has never changed all those years according to Para. 6? PASSAGE TWO27. Summarize in your own words the meaning of the italicized part in the last sentence of Para. 2.28. What does but he seldom gave comfort to his chosen party” mean according to the context (Para. 3)?29. What is the similarity between Bennett and Greeley according to Paras. 4 and 5?11PASSAGE THREE30. Write down TWO features of the idealist petten* (ptr* 9)31. Whet does “hope” mean according to the context (Part.*0- * hi* back mean (Para. 11)7 32. What does “He is an individual who refuse* to12FAfn MIIB sms? Thf pmm#rumMfhTUNrmrrt Bath indkmfi a mmmmm oss jr … j. path taw, mty ONE word in involved You should proofread dm p o t t a g e a n d ::nw- a m da fotUtwing wayf'tir i wtwig word, undertint the wrong word md wide dre correct me ■ At faintprovided K the end of the Hoe.For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a ~A m a g p and write Ae word you believeto be massing in the blank provided at Ac tad of die line, For an imneoesfiarv word, cross die unnecessary word with a slash and put the wont in Ae blank providedat Ae end of die line.Exampletj _____ ML_ (2) never (3) exhibit When A art museum wants a new exhibit, it never buysthings in finished form and hangs them on the wall. When a natural history museum wants an exhibition, itmust often build it. Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET THREE as instructed.13PART IV TRANSLATION t [20 MIN]Translate the following text from Chinese into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.白洋淀曾有"北国扛南"的说法，但村舍的形制自具特色，与江南截然不同。

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【2019年8级测试英译汉】Possession for its own sake or in competition with the rest of the neighborhood would have been Thoreau’s idea of the low levels1. The active discipline of heightening one’s perception of what is enduring in nature would have been his idea of the high2. What he saved from the low was time and effort he could spend on the high. Thoreau certainly disapproved of starvation, but he would put into feeding himself only as much effort as would keep him functioning for more important efforts.Effort is the gist of it3. There is no happiness except as we take on life-engaging difficulties. Short of the impossible, as Yeats put it, the satisfaction we get from a lifetime depends on how high we choose our difficulties4. Robert Frost was thinking in something like the same terms when he spoke of “The pleasure of taking pains”5. The mortal flaw in the advertised version of happiness is in the fact that it purports to be effortless6.We demand difficulty even in our games. We demand it because without difficulty there can be no game. A game is a way of making something hard of the fun of it. The rules of the game are an arbitrary imposition of difficulty7. When someone ruins the fun, he always does so by refusing to play by the rules. It is easier to win at chess if you are free, at your pleasure, to change the wholly arbitrary rules, but the fun is in winning within the rules. No difficulty, no fun.【概述】这是一篇说理性的议论文，文章评论美国19世纪哲学家、思想家、作家亨利·大卫·梭罗对人生幸福的看法。

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英语专业八级考试翻译部分历届试题及参考答案1995年英语专业八级考试--翻译部分参考译文C-E原文：简.奥斯丁的小说都是三五户人家居家度日，婚恋嫁娶的小事。

因此不少中国读者不理解她何以在西方享有那么高的声誉。

但一部小说开掘得深不深，艺术和思想是否有过人之处，的确不在题材大小。

有人把奥斯丁的作品比作越咀嚼越有味道的橄榄。

这不仅因为她的语言精彩，并曾对小说艺术的发展有创造性的贡献，也因为她的轻快活泼的叙述实际上并不那么浅白，那么透明。

史密斯夫人说过，女作家常常试图修正现存的价值秩序，改变人们对“重要”和“不重要”的看法。

也许奥斯丁的小说能教我们学会转换眼光和角度，明察到“小事”的叙述所涉及的那些不小的问题。

参考译文：However, subject matter is indeed not the decisive factor by which we judge a novel of its depth as well as (of ) its artistic appeal and ideological content (or: as to whether a novel digs deep or not or whether it excels in artistic appeal and ideological content). Some people compare Austen’s works to olives: the more you chew them, the more tasty (the tastier) they become. This comparison is based not only on (This is not only because of ) her expressive language and her creative contribution to the development of novel writing as an art, but also on (because of ) the fact that what hides behind her light and lively narrative is something implicit and opaque (not so explicit and transparent). Mrs. Smith once observed, women writers often sought (made attempts) to rectify the existing value concepts (orders) by changing people’s opinions on what is “important”and what is not.E-C原文I, by comparison, living in my overpriced city apartment, walking to work past putrid sacks of street garbage, paying usurious taxes to local and state governments I generally abhor, I am rated middle class. This causes me to wonder, do the measurement make sense? Are we measuring only that which is easily measured--- the numbers on the money chart --- and ignoring values more central to the good life?For my sons there is of course the rural bounty of fresh-grown vegetables, line-caught fish and the shared riches of neighbours’orchards and gardens. There is the unpaid baby-sitter for whose children my daughter-in-law baby-sits in return, and neighbours who barter their skills and labour. But more than that, how do you measure serenity? Sense if self?I don’t want to idealize life in small places. There are times when the outside world intrudes brutally, as when the cost of gasoline goes up or developers cast their eyes on untouched farmland. There are cruelties, there is intolerance, there are all the many vices and meannesses in small places that exist in large cities. Furthermore, it is harder to ignore them when they cannot be banished psychologically to another part of town or excused as the whims of alien groups --- when they have to be acknowledged as “part of us.”Nor do I want to belittle the opportunities for small decencies in cities --- the eruptions of one-stranger-to-another caring that always surprise and delight. But these are,sadly,more exceptions than rules and are often overwhelmed by the awful corruptions and dangers that surround us.参考译文：对我的几个儿子来说，乡村当然有充足的新鲜蔬菜，垂钓来的鱼，邻里菜园和果园里可供分享的丰盛瓜果。

2019年英语专业八级翻译系列：汉译英--哲学类1

2019年英语专业八级翻译系列：汉译英--哲学类1一个人生活在世上，就好像水泥搅拌器里的石子一样，运转起来之后，身不由己。

使我们感觉到，不是某一个人的问题，而是社会问题，而是文化问题。

耶稣临死的时候说：“宽容他们！他们做的他们不知道。

”年轻时候读这句话，觉得稀松平常，长大之后，也觉得这句话没有力量。

但是到了我现在这个年龄，才发现这句话多么深奥，多么痛心。

使我想到我们中国人，成了今天这个样子，我们的丑陋，来自于我们不知道我们丑陋。

我到爱荷华，我们夫妇的经费是由爱荷华大学出一半，再由私人捐助一半，捐助一半的是爱荷华燕京饭店老板，一位从没有回过中国的中国人裴竹章先生，我们从前没见过面，捐了一个这么大的数目，使我感动。

他和我谈话，他说：“我在没有看你的书之前，我觉得中国人了不起，看了你的书之后，才觉得不是那么一回事，所以说，我想请你当面指教。

”背景介绍《丑陋的中国人》是台湾作家柏杨先生的作品，其实是一部他在各地以《丑陋的中国人》为题演讲的合集。

作者指出中国传统文化有一种滤过性疾病，这种疾病使我们的子子孙孙受感染，到今天也不能痊愈。

这篇杂文虽不如鲁迅先生的杂文来得犀利，但是更为深刻，翻译时要注意用词。

难点解析1. “一个人生活在世上……”：这里“一个人生活在世上” ，无需译成“when people live in this world”, 只需要翻译成“life is like...”，这样更显简练。

2. 运转起来之后：这里用“toss”更好，因为是在水泥搅拌器里，“toss”更能体现出搅拌的意味。

3. 身不由己：这里的意思是身处社会中，人失去对自己的控制，所以用“loses control of its own existence”更为贴切。

4. “使我们感觉到，不是某一个人的问题，而是社会问题，而是文化问题。

”：在这句话的翻译中，作者增译“I could cite similar analogies”以此作为强调。

2019年专业英语八级真题试卷(题后含答案及解析)

2019年专业英语八级真题试卷(题后含答案及解析)题型有： 1. LISTENING COMPREHENSION 2. READING COMPREHENSION 3. LANGUAGE USAGE 4. TRANSLATION 5. WRITINGPART I LISTENING COMPREHENSIONSECTION A MINI-LECTUREIn this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the mini-lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the mini-lecture, please complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for note-taking.You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.听力原文：Body Language and Mind Good morning, everyone. In today’s lecture, I’d like to focus on how our body language reveals who we are. We’re really fascinated with body language and particularly interested in other people’s body language. You know, we’re sometimes interested in an awkward interaction, or a smile, or a contemptuous glance, or maybe a very awkward wink or handshake. So what kind of body language am I talking about? [1] I’m interested in power dynamics, that is, the nonverbal expressions of power and dominance. And what are nonverbal expressions of power and dominance? Well, this is what they are.[2] In the animal kingdom, nonverbal expressions of power and dominance are about expanding. So you make yourself big, you stretch out, you take up space, and you’re basically opening up. And, and humans do the same thing. So they do this when they’re feeling powerful in the moment. And this one is especially interesting because it really shows us how universal and old these expressions of power are. For example, when athletes cross the finish line and they’ve won, it doesn’t matter if they’ve never seen anyone do it. They do this. So the arms are up in the V sign, the chin is slightly lifted. [3] But what do we do when we feel powerless? We do exactly the opposite. We close up. We make ourselves small. We don’t want to bump into the person next to us. And this is what happens when you put together high and low power. [4] So what we tend to do when it comes to power is that we complement the other’s nonverbals. What I mean is if someone is being really powerful with us, we tend to make ourselves smaller. We don’t mirror them. We do the opposite. I’m watching this behavior in the classroom, and guess what I have noticed? [5] I noticed that MBA students really exhibit the full range of power non verbals. They get right into the middle of the room before class even starts, like they really want to occupy space. When they sit down, they’re sort of spread out. They raise their hands high. You have other people who are virtually collapsing when they come in. As soon as they, I mean other people, come in, you see it. You see it on their faces and their bodies, and they sit with their chairs and they make themselves tiny, and they will not fully stretch their arms when they raise their hands. I also noticed another interesting thing about this. [6]It seems women are much more likely to do this kind of thing than men. I mean, women are more likely to make themselves small. Women feel chronically less powerful than men, so this is not surprising. The second question concerns our minds. [7] We know that our minds change our bodies, but is it also true that our bodies change our minds? And when I say minds, in the case of the powerful, what do I mean? I’m talking about thoughts and feelings and the sort of physiological things that make up our thoughts and feelings, and in my case, that’s hormones. I look at hormones. So what do the minds of the powerful versus the powerless look like? [8] Powerful people tend to be, not surprisingly, more assertive and more confident, more optimistic. They actually feel that they’re going to win even at games of chance. They also tend to be able to think more abstractly. They take more risks. [9] So there are a lot of differences between powerful and powerless people. Physiologically, there are also differences on two key hormones: one is dominance hormone, and the other is stress hormone. What we find is that powerful and effective leaders have high dominance hormone and low stress hormone. What does that mean? That means power is also about how you react to stress. Once, we did an experiment. We decided to bring people into the lab and run that little experiment. These people adopted, for two minutes, either high-power poses or low-power poses. We for two minutes say, “You need to do this or this. “And we also want them to be feeling power. [10] So after two minutes, we will ask them, “How powerful do you feel?” on a series of items, and then we give them an opportunity to gamble. Before and after the experiment, we take their samples of saliva for a hormone test. That’s the whole experiment. And this is what we have found. Risk tolerance, which is gambling, what we find is that when you’re in the high-power pose condition, 86% of you will gamble. When you’re in the low-power pose condition, it’s down to only 60% , and that’s a pretty significant difference. [11] Here’s what we find on dominance hormone. From their baseline when they come in, high-power people experience about a 20% increase, and low-power people experience about a 10% decrease. So again, two minutes, and you get these changes. [12] Concerning stress hormone, high-power people experience about a 25% decrease, and the low-power people experience about a 15% increase. [13] Once again, two minutes lead to these hormonal changes that configure your brain to basically be either assertive, confident, or really stress-reactive, and, you know, feeling sort of shut down. And we’ve all had that feeling, right? So it seems that our nonverbals do govern how we think and feel about ourselves. Also, our bodies change our minds. So, power posing for a few minutes really changes your life in meaningful ways. [14] When I tell people about this, that our bodies change our minds and our minds can change our behavior, and our behavior can change our outcomes, they say to me, “I don’t believe that. It feels fake. “ Right? So I said, “Fake it till you make it. “ I’m going to leave you with this. Before you go into the next stressful evaluative situation, for example, a job interview, for two minutes, try doing this, in the elevator, or at your desk behind closed doors, and say to yourself, “That’s what I want to do. “ [15] Configure your brain to do the best in that situation. Get your dominance hormone up and get your stress hormone down. Don’t leave that situation feeling like, oh, I didn’t show them who I am. Leave thatsituation feeling like, oh, I really managed to say who I am and show who I am. To sum up, today, we talked about the nonverbal expressions of power and dominance and the strong effects of the change of behavior. I suggest you try power posing which is simple but will significantly change the outcomes of your life. OK. Next time, we are going to discuss the social functions of body language.Body Language and Mind Introduction Body language reveals who we are. Nonverbal expressions of 【T1】______ 【T1】______ - feeling powerful: 【T2】______ 【T2】______ —e. g. athletes with arms up in a V sign - feeling powerless: 【T3】______ 【T3】______ —e. g. refusing to bump into the person nearby - people’s behavior tends to become 【T4】______ 【T4】______ in a high- and low-power situation. —people don’t mirror each other. - MBA students exhibit the full range of power nonverbals. —e. g. students with power have strong desire for 【T5】______. 【T5】______ - power nonverbals are also related to 【T6】______. 【T6】______ Relationship between 【T7】______ 【T7】______ - the powerful are more 【T8】______. 【T8】______ - hormones differ with 【T9】______. 【T9】______ - an experiment: —procedure: —adopting high- or low-power poses and completing items —being given 【T10】______ 【T10】______ —having saliva tested —results: —【T11】______: much higher with high-power people 【T11】______ —an increase in 【T12】______in low-power people 【T12】______ —hormonal changes: making brain 【T13】______ 【T13】______ Conclusion - Behavior can 【T14】______. 【T14】______ - Before getting into stressful situations —get your brain ready to 【T15】______ 【T15】______1．【T1】正确答案：power and dominance解析：细节辨认题。

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2. 翻译应准确、流畅，符合汉语表达习惯。

3. 注意保持原文的语境和语义。

二、翻译试题（汉译英）原文：随着全球化的深入发展，跨国公司在世界经济中扮演着越来越重要的角色。

它们不仅促进了国际贸易和投资，还推动了技术交流和文化交流。

要求：1. 将上述中文原文翻译成英文。

2. 翻译应准确、自然，符合英语表达习惯。

3. 注意使用恰当的词汇和句式。

三、参考答案（一）英译汉参考答案：在过去的几十年里，科技的快速发展给我们的生活带来了显著的变化。

互联网和智能手机的出现改变了我们的交流、工作和学习方式。

然而，这种进步也导致了一些意料之外的后果，比如面对面交流的减少和错误信息的泛滥。

（二）汉译英参考答案：With the deepening development of globalization,multinational companies are playing an increasingly important role in the world economy. They not only promoteinternational trade and investment but also drive the exchange of technology and culture.四、评分标准1. 翻译准确性：译文应忠实原文，不得有遗漏或添加。

2019年英语专业八级翻译专项练习试题及答案4

2019年英语专业八级翻译专项练习试题及答案4The secret of being a saintOnce upon a time there lived in a country a do-gooder. The king was very appreciative of his deeds and decided to honour him as a saint by a decree. On the saint's eightieth birthday, the king was invited to his birthday celerbration. He brought with him a painter so as to do a picture of the kindly saintas a paragon for his countrymen.When the feast is over all the guests were asked to have a look at the picture. To their great surprise, when thepicture was shown, what they saw was not a kind but aruthless and cruel look. The king was very angry at seeingthis and ordered his men to beat the painter.Upon hearing the noise, the saint rushed to the scene tohave a look at the picture. After viewing it, the saint knelt down and said, "your majesty, the person in the picture is none other than me." Why?" said the king, dumbfounded. "This has been the very person whom I have never wanted to be."In this world, there are no naturally born saints; onlythose who can do self-criticism and sel-examination, can become saints.参考译文：成为圣者的秘诀从前，在一个国家里，有一位做了无数善事的善心者。

专八翻译英译汉

The bird,however hard the frost may be,flies briskly to his customary roosting-place,and,with beak tucked into his wing,falls asleep.尽管天气是如此的寒冷，鸟儿还是矫捷地飞上一惯栖息的地方，把喙埋在翅膀下面，慢慢沉入梦乡He has no apprehensions;only the hot blood grows colder and colder,the pulse feebler as he sleeps,and at midnight,or in the early morning,he drops from his perch---death.它没有丝毫的恐惧；睡梦中，只有滚烫的血液变得越来越冷；有力的脉搏也越来越微弱．在深夜或者第二天一大早，它便从栖身的考(试^大树枝上跌落下来，死掉了。

Y esterday he lived and moved,responsive to a thousand external influences,昨天它还活蹦乱跳，回应外界无数刺激。

reflecting earth and sky in his small brilliant brain as in a looking-glass;also he had a various language,the inherited knowledge of his race,the faculty of flight,by means of which he could shoot,meteor-like,across the sky,and pass swiftly from place to place;它那奇异的小脑袋宛如明镜一般，映照着天地；它还会种种不同的语言，这是它们种族遗传下来的知识；还有飞行的技能，凭此它能流星般划过天空，迅速地从一个地方飞到另一个地方；and with it such perfect control over all his organs,such marvelous certitude in all his motions,as to be able to drop himself plumb down from the tallest tree-top,or out of the void air,on to a slender spray,and scarcely cause its leaves to tremble.它能如此完美地控制每一个器官，且每个动作都如此惊人地平稳，以致于它可以从最高的树顶垂直飞下，从空旷的空中飞落到细小的树枝上而几乎不让树叶抖动Now,on this morning,he lies stiff and motionless;if you were to take him up and drop him from your hand,he would fall to the ground like a stone or a lump of clay-而现在，在这个清晨，它僵硬地躺在那儿,一动不动；假如你把它捡起来，抛向空中，它就会像石头或者泥巴那样掉落在地------so easy and swift is the passage from life to death in wild nature!But he was never miserable在野生自然界中，由生到死是多么容易多么迅速的一个过程呀！但那鸟却永远不会觉得悲痛。

2019年英语专业八级翻译专项练习试题及答案3

2019年英语专业八级翻译专项练习试题及答案3两只老虎有两只老虎，一只在笼子里，一只在野地里。

在笼子里的老虎三餐无忧，在外面的老虎自由自在。

笼子里的老虎总是羡慕外面老虎的自由，外面的老虎却羡慕笼子里的老虎安逸。

一日，一只老虎对另一只老虎说：“咱们换一换。

”另一只老虎同意了。

于是笼子里的老虎走进了大自然，野地里的老虎走进了笼子。

但不久，两只老虎都死了。

一仅仅饥饿而死，一仅仅忧郁而死。

很多时候，人们往往对自己的幸福熟视无睹，而觉得别人的幸福很耀眼，却想不到别人的幸福也许对自己不合适。

参考译文：Two TigersThere were two tigers; one lived in a cage and the other in the wild. The caged one didn't have to worry about his meal while the one outside was unrestrained.The caged tiger was always envious of the freedom of the one in the wild, while the other one envied the caged one for his ease. One day, one tiger said to the other： "let's change places". The other one agreeded.There upon the caged one went back to nature while the other came into the cage. But before long both died, one of starvation, and the other, melancholy.Sometimes one is not conscious of his own happiness and always thinks the grass is always greener on the other sideof the fence, but not think over that one man's meat is another man's poison.。

【专八】专八翻译练习汉译英50篇与参考译文

126专八翻译练习汉译英50篇及参考译文Translate the underlined part of the text into English.1．在兽类中我最爱虎，在虎的故事中我最爱下面的一个。

深山中有一所古庙，几个和尚在那里过着单调的修行生活。

同他们做朋友的，除了有时上山来的少数乡下人外，就是几只猛虎。

虎不惊扰僧人，却替他们守护庙宇。

作为报酬，和尚把一些可吃的东西放在庙门前。

每天傍晚，夕阳染红小半个天空，虎们成群地走到庙门口，吃了东西，跳跃而去。

庙门大开，僧人们安然在庙内做他们的日课，也没有谁出去看虎怎样吃东西，即使偶尔有一二和尚立在门前，虎们亦视为平常的事情，把他们看做熟人，不去惊动，却斯斯文文地吃完走开。

如果看不见僧人，虎就发出几声长啸，随着几阵风飞腾而去。

2．光绪二十六年，八国联军攻占北京。

慈禧太后弃城而走，一直逃到西安。

和谈开始后，她并未马上返回北京。

起初，外国列强的要求里面有一项是让慈禧太后退位，由光绪帝重新执掌朝廷。

不过，在与李鸿章多次会谈后，他们放弃了这一要求。

第二年正式签署和约，随后过了一个月慈禧才终于从西安动身。

她对外国人万分惧怕，正像她对国人无比傲慢一样。

她在河南停留了很长一段时间，到了保定又逗留多日，好不容易才回到北京。

据野史记载，在这漫长的旅途中还发生了一件趣事。

一位地方官员送给慈禧一只猴子，她颇为高兴，竟下旨给那只猴子穿黄马褂。

后来太监报告说，有的官员发出了“人不如猴”的感慨，慈禧这才发现自己的决定有些荒唐，于是又下旨给随行官员每人一件黄马褂。

得到这殊荣之后，大家真不知道该感谢慈禧还是感谢那只猴子。

3. 中国对香港的政策是“一国两制”，这个原则不仅对香港经济发展有利，而且和中国本身的利益也是一致的。

我们不想使香港政府在过渡时期无法正常行使其职能，恰恰相反，我们希望它能有效地管理香港的事务，中英联合声明和建造新机场的谅解备忘录就是最好的保证。

至于1997年以后的，全国人民大会已通过了《中华人民共和国香港特别行政区基本法》。

2019年英语专八考试翻译专项测验3

2019年英语专八考试翻译专项测验3The next day, when their mended carriage had come up to fetch them, and they were just starting to drive away from the inn, the Conte's old servant appeared with the rose-cutting neatly wrapped up, and the compliments and wishes for a buon viaggio from her master. The town collected to see them depart, and the children ran after their carriage through the gate of the little city. They heard a rush of feet behind them for a few moments, but soon they were far down towards the valley; the little town with all its noise and life was high above them on its mountain peak.She had planted the rose at home, where it had grown and flourished in a wonderful manner; and every June the great mass of leaves and shoots still broke out into a passionate splendour of scent and crimson colour, as if in its root and fibres there still burnt the anger and thwarted desire ofthat Italian lover. Of course the old Conte must have died many years ago; she had forgotten his name, and had even forgotten the name of the mountain city that she had stayed in, after first seeing it twinkling at dawn in the sky, like a nest of stars.参考译文：次日，他们的马车修好了,上山来接他们。

2019年英语专业八级TEM-8考试真题和答案解析

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS(2019)-GRADE EIGHT-TIME LIMIT:150MIN PARTⅠLISTENING COMPREHENSION（25MIN）SECTION A MINI-LECTUREIn this section you will hear a mini-lecture.You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY.While listening to the mini-lecture,please complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap.Make sure what you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for note-taking.You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.Now,listen to the mini-lecture.When it is over,you will be given THREE minutes to check your work.SECTION B INTERVIEWIn this section you will hear TWO interview.At the end of each interview,five questions will be asked about what was said.Both the interview and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY.After each question there will be a ten-second pause.During the pause,you should read the four choices of[A],[B],[C],and[D],and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.You have THIRTY seconds to preview the choices.Now,listen to the first interview.Questions1to5are based on first interview.1.A.Environmental issues. B.Endangered species.C.Global warming.D.Conservation.2.A.It is thoroughly proved. B.It is definitely very serious.C.It is just a temporary variation.D.It is changing our ways of living.3.A.Protection of endangered animals’habitats. B.Negative human impact on the environment.C.Frequent abnormal phenomena on the earth.D.The woman’s indifferent attitude to the earth.4.A.Nature should take its course. B.People take things for granted.C.Human are damaging the earth.D.Animals should stay away from zoos.5.A.Objective. B.Pessimistic. C.Skeptical. D.Subjective.Now,listen to the second interview.Questions6to10are based on the second interview.6.A.Teachers’resistance to change. B.Students’inadequate ability to read.C.Teachers’misunderstanding of such literacy.D.Students’indifference to the new method.7.A.Abilities to complete challenging tasks. B.Abilities to learn subject matter knowledge.C.Abilities to perform better in schoolwork.D.Abilities to perform disciplinary work.8.A.Recalling specific information. B.Understanding particular details.C.Examining sources of information.D.Retelling a historical event.9.A.Engaging literacy and disciplinary experts in the program.B.Helping teachers understand what disciplinary literacy is.C.Teaching disciplinary discourse practices by literacy teachers.D.Designing learning strategies with experts from both sides.10.A.To argue for a case. B.To discuss a dispute.C.To explain a problem.D.To present details.PARTⅡREADING COMPREHENSION（45MIN）SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONSIn this section there are several passages followed by fourteen multiple choice questions.For each multiple choice question,there are four suggested answers marked[A],[B],[C]and[D].Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.PASSAGE ONE(1)When it came to concealing his troubles,Tommy Wilhelm was not less capable than the next fellow.So at least he thought,and there was a certain amount of evidence to back him up.He had once been an actor—no,not quite,an extra—and he knew what acting should be.Also,he was smoking a cigar,and when a man is smoking a cigar,wearing a hat,he has an advantage;it is harder to find out how he feels.He came from the twenty-third floor down to the lobby on the mezzanine to collect his mail before breakfast,and he believed—he hoped—that he looked passably well:doing all right.It was a matter of sheer hope,because there was not much that he could add to his present effort.On the fourteenth floor he looked for his father to enter the elevator;they often met at this hour, on the way to breakfast.If he worried about his appearance it was mainly for his old father’s sake.But there was no stop on the fourteenth,and the elevator sank and sank.Then the smooth door opened and the great dark-red uneven carpet that covered the lobby billowed toward Wilhelm’s feet.In the foreground the lobby was dark,sleepy.French drapes like sails kept out the sun,but three high,narrow windows were open,and in the blue air Wilhelm saw a pigeon about to light on the great chain that supported the marquee of the movie house directly underneath the lobby.For one moment he heard the wings beating strongly.(2)Most of the guests at the Hotel Gloriana were past the age of retirement.Along Broadway in the Seventies, Eighties,and Nineties,a great part of New York’s vast population of old men and women lives.Unless the weather is too cold or wet they fill the benches about the tiny railed parks and along the subway gratings from Verdi Square to Columbia University,they crowd the shops and cafeterias,the dime stores,the tearooms,the bakeries,the beauty parlors,the reading rooms and club rooms.Among these old people at the Gloriana,Wilhelm felt out of place.He was comparatively young,in his middle forties,large and blond，with big shoulders；his back was heavy and strong，if already a little stooped or thickened.After breakfast the old guests sat down on the green leather armchairs and sofas in the lobby and began to gossip and look into the papers；they had nothing to do but wait out the day.But Wilhelm was used to an active life and liked to go out energetically in the morning.And for several months，because he had no position，he had kept up his morale by rising early；he was shaved and in the lobby by eight o’clock.He bought the paper and some cigars and drank a Coca-Cola or two before he went in to breakfast with his father.After breakfast—out，out，out to attend to business.The getting out had in itself become the chief business.But he had realized that he could not keep this up much longer，and today he was afraid.He was aware that his routine was about to break up and he sensed that a huge trouble long presaged（预感）but till now formless was due.Before evening，he’d know.（3）Nevertheless he followed his daily course and crossed the lobby.（4）Rubin，the man at the newsstand，had poor eyes.They may not have been actually weak but they were poor in expression，with lacy lids that furled down at the corners.He dressed well.It didn’t seem necessary—he was behind the counter most of the time—but he dressed very well.He had on a rich brown suit；the cuffs embarrassed the hairs on his small hands.He wore a Countess Mara painted necktie.As Wilhelm approached，Rubin did not see him；he was looking out dreamily at the Hotel Ansonia，which was visible from his corner，several blocks away.The Ansonia，the neighborhood’s great landmark，was built by Stanford White.It looks like a baroque palace from Prague or Munich enlarged a hundred times，with towers，domes，huge swells and bubbles of metal gone green from exposure,iron fretwork and festoons.Black television antennae are densely planted on its round summits.Under the changes of weather it may look like marble or like sea water，black as slate in the fog，white as tufa in sunlight.This morning it looked like the image of itself reflected in deep water，white and cumulous above，with cavernous distortions underneath.Together，the two men gazed at it.（5）Then Rubin said,“Your dad is in to breakfast already，the old gentleman.”“Oh，yes？Ahead of me today？”“That’s a real knocked-out shirt you got on,”said Rubin.“Where’s it from，Saks？”“No，it’s a Jack Fagman—Chicago.”（6）Even when his spirits were low，Wilhelm could still wrinkle his forehead in a pleasing way.Some of the slow，silent movements of his face were very attractive.He went back a step，as if to stand away from himself and get a better look at his shirt.His glance was comic，a comment upon his untidiness.He liked to wear good clothes，but once he had put it on each article appeared to go its own way.Wilhelm，laughing，panted a little；his teeth were small；his cheeks when he laughed and puffed grew round，and he looked much younger than his years.In the old days when he was a college freshman and wore a beanie（无檐小帽）on his large blonde head his father used to say that，big as he was，he could charm a bird out of a tree.Wilhelm had great charm still.（7）“Ilike this dove-gray color,”he said in his sociable，good-natured way.“It isn’t washable.You have to send it to the cleaner.It never smells as good as washed.But it’s a nice shirt.It cost sixteen，eighteen bucks.”11.Wilhelm hoped he looked all right o his way to the lobby because he wanted to________.A.leave a good impressionB.give his father a surpriseC.show his acting potentialD.disguise his low spirit12.Wilhelm had something in common with the old guests in that they all________.A.lived a luxurious lifeB.liked to swap gossipsC.idled their time awayD.liked to get up early13.How did Wilhelm feel when he was crossing the lobby(Para.2)?A.He felt something ominous was coming.B.He was worried that his father was late.C.He was feeling at ease among the old.D.He was excited about a possible job offer.14.Which part of Rubin’s clothes made him look particularly awkward?(Para.4)?A.The necktie.B.The cuffs.C.The suit.D.The shirt.15.What can we learn from the author’s description of Wilhelm’s clothes?A.His shirt made him look better.B.He cared much about his clothes.C.He looked like a comedian in his shirt.D.The clothes he wore never quite matched.PASSAGE TWO(1)By the1840s New York was the leading commercial city of the United States.It had long since outpaced Philadelphia as the largest city in the country,and even though Boston continued to be venerated as the cultural capital of the nation,its image had become somewhat languid;it had not kept up with the implications of the newly industrialized economy,of a diversified ethnic population,or of the rapidly rising middle class.New York was the place where the“new”America was coming into being,so it is hardly surprising that the modern newspaper had its birth there.(2)The penny paper had found its first success in New York.By the mid-1830s Ben Day’s Sun was drawing readers from all walks of life.On the other hand,the Sun was a skimpy sheet providing little more than minor diversions;few today would call it a newspaper at all.Day himself was an editor of limited vision,and he did not possess the ability or the imagination to climb the slopes to loftier heights.If real newspapers were to emerge from the public's demand for more and better coverage,it would have to come from a youthful generation of editors for whom journalism was a totally absorbing profession,an exacting vocational ideal rather than a mere offshoot of job printing.(3)By the1840s two giants burst into the field,editors who would revolutionize journalism,would bring the newspaper into the modern age,and show how it could be influential in the national life.These two giants,neither of whom has been treated kindly by history,were James Gordon Bennett and Horace Greeley.Bennett founded hisNew York Herald in1835,less than two years after the appearance of the Sun.Horace Greeley founded his Tribune in1841.Bennett and Greeley were the most innovative editors in New York until after the Civil War.Their newspapers were the leading American papers of the day,although for completely different reasons.The two men despised each other,although not in the ways that newspaper editors had despised one another a few years before. Neither was a political hack bonded to a political party.Greeley fancied himself a public intellectual.He had strong political views,and he wanted to run for office himself,but party factotum he could never be;he bristled with ideals and causes of his own devising.Officially he was a Whig(and later a Republican),but he seldom gave comfort to his chosen party.Bennett,on the other hand,had long since cut his political ties,and although his paper covered local and national politics fully and he went after politicians with hammer and tongs,Bennett was a cynic,a distruster of all settled values.He did not regard himself as an intellectual,although in fact he was better educated than Greeley.He thought himself only a hard-boiled newspaperman.Greeley was interested in ideas and in what was happening to the country.Bennett was only interested in his newspaper.He wanted to find out what the news was,what people wanted to read.And when he found out he gave it to them.（4）As different as Bennett and Greeley were from each other they were also curiously alike.Both stood outside the circle of polite society，even when they became prosperous，and in Bennett’s case，wealthy.Both were incurable eccentrics.Neither was a gentleman.Neither conjured up the picture of a successful editor.Greeley was unkempt，always looking like an unmade bed.Even when he was nationally famous in the1850s he resembled a clerk in a third-rate brokerage house，with slips of paper—marked-up proofs perhaps—hanging out of his pockets or stuck in his hat.He became fat，was always nearsighted，always peering over spectacles.He spoke in a high-pitched whine（哀号）.Not a few people suggested that he looked exactly like the illustrations of Charles Dickens’s Mr.Pickwick.Greeley provided a humorous description of himself，written under the pretense that it had been the work of his long-time adversary James Fenimore Cooper.The editor was，according to the description，a half-bald，long-legged，slouching individual“so rocking in gait（步态）that he walks down both sides of the street at once.”（5）The appearance of Bennett was somewhat different but hardly more reassuring.A shrewd，wiry（瘦而结实的）Scotsman，who seemed to repel intimacy，Bennett looked around at the world with a squinty glare of suspicion.His eyes did not focus right.They seemed to fix themselves on nothing and everything at the same time. He was as solitary as an oyster，the classic loner.He seldom made close friendships and few people trusted him，although nobody who had dealings with him，however brief，doubted his abilities.He，too，could have come out of a book of Dickensian eccentrics，although perhaps Ebenezer Scrooge or Thomas Gradgrind comes to mind rather than the kindly old Mr.Pickwick.Greeley was laughed at but admired；Bennett was seldom laughed at but never admired；on the other hand，he had a hard professional competence and an encyclopedic knowledge of his adopted country，an in-depth learning uncorrupted by vague idealisms.All of this perfectly suited him for the journalism of this confusing age.（6）Both Greeley and Bennett had served long，humiliating and disappointing apprenticeships in the newspaper business.They took a long time getting to the top，the only reward for the long years of waiting being that when they had their own newspapers，both knew what they wanted and firmly set about getting it.When Greeley founded the Tribune in1841he had the strong support of the Whig party and had already had a short period of modest success as an editor.Bennett，older by sixteen years，found solid commercial success first，but he had no one behind him except himself when he started up the Herald in1835in a dingy cellar room at20Wall Street.Fortunately this turned out to be quite enough.16.Which of the following is NOT the author’s opinion on Ben Day and his Sun(Para.2)?A.Sun had once been a popular newspaper.B.Sun failed to be a high-quality newspaper.C.Ben Day lacked innovation and imagination.D.Ben Day has striven for better coverage.17.Which of the following statements is CORRECT about Greeley’s or Bennett’s political stance(Para.3)?A.Greeley and Bennett were both strong supporters of their party.B.Greeley,as a Whig member,believed in his party’s idealsC.Bennett,as an independent,loathed established values.D.Greeley and Bennett possessed different political values.18.Which of the following figures of speech was used to describe Greeley’s manner of walking（Para.4）？A.Exaggeration.B.Paradox.C.Analogy.D.Personification.19.In Para.5Bennett was depicted as a man who________.A.had stronger capabilities than GreeleyB.possessed a great aptitude for journalismC.was in pursuit of idealism in journalismD.was knowledgeable about his home country20.How was Greeley different from Bennett according to Para.6？A.He had achieved business success first.B.He started his career earlier than Bennett.C.He got initial support from a political party.D.He had a more humiliating apprenticeship.PASSAGE THREE(1)Why make a film about Ned Kelly?More ingenious crimes than those committed by the reckless Australian bandit are reported every day.What is there in Ned Kelly to justify dragging the mesmeric Mick Jagger so far into the Australian bush and away from his natural haunts?The answer is that the film makers know we always fall for a bandit,and Jagger is set to do for bold Ned Kelly what Brando once did for the arrogant Emiliano Zapata.(2)A bandit inhabits a special realm of legend where his deeds are embroidered by others;where his death rather than his life is considered beyond belief;where the men who bring him to“justice”are afflicted with doubts about their role.(3)The bandits had a role to play as definite as that of the authorities who condemned them.These were men in conflict with authority,and,in the absence of strong law or the idea of loyal opposition,they took to the hills. Even there,however,many of them obeyed certain unwritten rules.(4)These robbers,who claimed to be something more than mere thieves,had in common,firstly,a sense of loyalty and identity with the peasants they came from.They didn’t steal the peasant’s harvest;they did steal the lord’s.(5)And certain characteristics seem to apply to“social bandits”whether they were in Sicily or Peru.They were generally young men under the age of marriage,predictably the best age for dissidence.Some were simply the surplus male population who had to look for another source of income;others were runaway serfs or ex-soldiers;a minority,though the most interesting,were outstanding men who were unwilling to accept the meek and passive role of peasant.(6)They usually operated in bands between ten and twenty strong and relied for survival on difficult terrain and bad transport.And bandits prospered best where authority was merely local—over the next hill and they were free.Unlike the general run of peasantry they had a taste for flamboyant dress and gesture;but they usually shared the peasants'religious beliefs and superstitions.(7)The first sign of a man caught up in the Robin Hood syndrome was when he started out,forced into outlawry as a victim of injustice;and when he then set out to“right wrongs”,first his own and then other people’s. The classic bandit then“takes from the rich and gives to the poor”in conformity with his own sense of social injustice;he never kills except in self-defense or justifiable revenge;he stays within his community and even returns to it if he can to take up an honorable place;his people admire and help to protect him;he dies through the treason of one of them;he behaves as if invisible and invulnerable;he is a“loyalist”,never the enemy of the king but only of the local oppressors.(8)None of the bandits lived up fully to this image of the“noble robber”and for many the claim of larger motives was often a delusion.(9)Yet amazingly,many of these violent men did behave at least half the time in accordance with this idealist pattern.Pancho Villa in Mexico and Salvatore Giuliano in Italy began their careers harshly victimized.Many oftheir charitable acts later became legends.(10)Far from being defeated in death,bandits’reputation for invincibility was often strengthened by the manner of their dying.The“dirty little coward”who shot Jesse James in the back is in every ballad about him,and the implication is that nothing else could have brought Jesse down.Even when the police claimed the credit,as they tried to do at first with Giuliano’s death,the local people refused to believe it.And not just the bandit’s vitality prompts the people to refuse to believe that their hero has died;his death would be in some way the death of hope.(11)For the traditional“noble robber”represents an extremely primitive form of social protest,perhaps the most primitive there is.He is an individual who refuses to bend his back,that is all.Most protesters will eventually be bought over and persuaded to come to terms with the official power.That is why the few who do not,or who are believed to have remained uncontaminated,have so great and passionate a burden of admiration and longing laid upon them.They cannot abolish oppression.But they do prove that justice is possible,that poor men need not be humble,helpless and meek.(12)The bandit in the real world is rooted in peasant society and when its simple agricultural system is left behind so is he.But the tales and legends,the books and films continue to appear for an audience that is neither peasant nor bandit.In some ways the characters and deeds of the great bandits could so readily be the stuff of grand opera—Don Jose in“Carmen”is based on the Andalusian bandit El Empranillo.But they are perhaps more at home in folk songs,in popular tales and the ritual dramas of films.When we sit in the darkness of the cinema to watch the bold deeds of Ned Kelly we are caught up in admiration for their strong individuality,their simple gesture of protest,their passion for justice and their confidence that they cannot be beaten.This sustains us nearly as much as it did the almost hopeless people from whom they sprang.21.Which of the following words is NOT intended to suggest the approval of bandits?A.Bold(Para.1).B.Claimed(Para.4).C.Legend(Para.2)D.Loyalty(Para.4).22.Of the following reasons which is the LEAST likely one for becoming bandits?A.They liked theatrical clothes and behavior.B.They wanted to help the poor country folk.C.They were unwilling to accept injustice.D.They had very few careers open to them.23.“...began their careers harshly victimized”(Para.9)means that they________.A.had received excessive ill-treatmentB.were severely punished for their crimesC.took to violence through a sense of injusticeD.were misunderstood by their parents and friends24.What has made bandits suitable as film heroes is that they________.A.are sure they are invincibleB.possess a theatrical qualityC.retain the virtues of a peasant societyD.protest against injustice and inequalitySECTION B SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONSIn this section there are eight short answer questions based on the passages in Section A.Answer each question in NO MORE THAN WORDS in the space provided on ANSWER SHEET TWO.PASSAGE ONE25.In“...,and there was a certain amount of evidence to back him up(Para.1)”,what does“evidence”refer to?26.What is Wilhelm’s characteristic that has never changed all those years according to Para.6?PASSAGE TWO27.Summarize in your own words the meaning of the italicized part in the last sentence of Para.2.28.What does“...,bur he seldom gave comfort to his chosen party”mean according to the context(Para.3)?29.What is the similarity between Bennett and Greeley according to Paras.4and5?PASSAGE THREE30.Write down TWO features of the idealist pattern(Para.9).31.What does“hope”mean according to the context(Para.10)?32.What does“He is an individual who refuses to bend his back”mean(Para.11)?PARTⅢLANGUAGE USAGE（15MIN）The passage contains TEN errors.Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error.In each case, only ONE word is involved.You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way: For a wrong word，underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blankprovided at the end of the line．For a missing word．mark the position of the missing word with a“∧”sign and write theword you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end ofthe line．For an unnecessary word，cross the unnecessary word with a slash“／”and put the word in theblank provided at the end of the line．Example__________ When∧art museum wants a new exhibit，(1)an__________ it never buys things in finished form and hangs(2)never them on the wall．When a natural history museum__________ wants an exhibition,it must often build it．(3)exhibit Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET THREE as instructed.PARTⅣTRANSLATION（20MIN）Translate the underlined part of the following text into English.Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.白洋淀曾有“北国江南”的说法，但村舍的形制自具特色，与江南截然不同。

2019年专业英语八级考试翻译每日练习5

2019年专业英语八级考试翻译每日练习5中文原文：它本身不用说，已经是望帝的化身了。

有时又被认为薄命的佳人，忧国的志士；声是满腹乡思，血是遍山踯躅；可怜、哀惋、纯洁、至诚……在人们的心目中成了爱的象征。

这爱的象征似乎已经成为了民族的感情。

而且，这种感情还超越了民族的范围，东方诸国大都受了感染。

不过，这实在是名不符实的一个的例证。

参考译文：To begin with, she is the incarnation of the legendary king of ancient Sichuan named Wang Di．She has come to be known sometimes as a beauty with misfortune and sometimes as a patriot concerned over the fate of the nation. Her call is full of longings for home; she loiters about the mountains crying and spitting up blood, She is pathetic, sad, pure and sincere…She is in the eyes of all a symbol of love, which seems to have become a national feeling. And this feeling has gone beyond the national boundary to affect most of the eastern countries. Nevertheless, all that is a typical instance of undeserved reputation.。

专业英语八级考试翻译真题及参考

专业英语八级考试翻译真题及参照答案1.英译汉I thought that it was a Sunday morning in May;that it was Easter Sunday，and as yet very early in the morning.I was standing，as it seemed to me，at the door of my own cottage.Right before me lay the very scene which could really be commanded from that situation，but exalted, as was usual，and solemnized by the power of dreams. There were the same mountains，and the same lovely valley at their feet; but the mountains were raised to more than Alpine height，and there was interspaced far larger between them of savannahs and forest lawns;the hedges were rich with white roses;and no living creature was to be seen, excepting that in the green churchyard there were cattle tranquilly reposing upon the verdant graves，and particularly round about the grave of a child whom I had once tenderly loved， just as I had really seen them，a little before sunrise，in the same summer when that child died.我想那是五月的一个周日的清早;那天是复生节，一个大清早上。

2019英语专业八级真题及答案

2019英语专业八级真题及答案PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION(35MIN)SECTION A MINI-LECTUREIn this section you sill 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 them 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. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.SECTION B INTERVIEWIn this section 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 sheet.Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen to the interview.1. Which of the following statements is TRUE about Miss Green’s university days?A. She felt bored.B. She felt lonely.D. The subject was easy.2. Which of the following is NOT part of her job with the Department of Employment?A. Doing surveys at workplace.B. Analyzing survey results.C. Designing questionnaires.D. Taking a psychology course.3. According to Miss Green, the main difference between the Department of Employment and the advertising agency lies inA. the nature of work.B. office decoration.C. office location.D. work procedures.4. Why did Miss green want to leave the advertising agency?A. She felt unhappy inside the company.B. She felt work there too demanding.C. She was denied promotion in the company.D. She longed for new opportunities.5. How did Miss Green react to a heavier workload in the new job?A. She was willing and ready.B. She sounded mildly eager.D. She sounded very reluctant.SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTIn this section 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 sheet.Questions 6 and 7 based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the two questions.Now listen to the news.6. The man stole the aircraft mainly because he wanted toA. destroy the European Central Bank.B. have an interview with a TV station.C. circle skyscrapers in downtown Frankfurt.D. remember the death of a US astronaut.7. Which of the following statements about the man is TRUE?A. He was a 31-year-old student from Frankfurt.B. He was piloting a two-seat helicopter he had stolen.C. He had talked to air traffic controllers by radio.D. He threatened to land on the European Central Bank.Question 8 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.Now listen to the news.8. The news is mainly about the city government’s plan toA. expand and improve the existing subway system.B. build underground malls and parking lots.C. prevent further land subsidence.D. promote advanced technology.Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the two questions.Now listen to the news.9. According to the news, what makes this credit card different from conventional ones isA. that it can hear the owner’s voice.B. that it can remember a password.C. that it can identify the owner’s voice.D. that it can remember the owner’s PIN.10. The newly developed credit card is said to said to have all the following EXCEPTA. switch.B. battery.C. speaker.D. built-in chip.参考答案：Section A Mini-lecture1.the author2.other works3.literary trends4.grammar,diction or uses of image5.cultural codes6.cultural7.the reader8.social9.reader competency10. social sructure,traditions of writing or political cultural influences,etc.Section B Interview1-5 CDDDASection C News Broadcast6-10 DCBCAPART II READING COMPREHENSION(30MIN)In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice questions.Read the passages and then mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet.TEXT AThe University in transformation, edited by Australian futurists Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley, presents some 20 highly varied outlooks on tomorrow’s universities by writers representing both Western and mon-Western perspectives. Their essays raise a broad range of issues, questioning nearly every key assumption we have about higher education today.The most widely discussed alternative to the traditional campus is the Internet University - a voluntary community to scholars/teachers physically scattered throughout a country or around the world but all linked in cyberspace. A computerized university could have many advantages, such as easy scheduling, efficient delivery of lectures to thousands or even millions of students at once, and ready access for students everywhere to the resources of all the world’s great libraries.Yet the Internet University poses dangers, too. For example, a line of franchised courseware, produced by a few superstar teachers, marketed under the brand name of a famous institution, and heavily advertised, might eventually come to dominate the global education market, warns sociology professor Peter Manicas of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Besides enforcing a rigidly standardized curriculum, such a “college education in a box” could undersell the offerings of many traditional brick and mortar institutions, effectively driving then out of business andthrowing thousands of career academics out of work, note Australian communications professors David Rooney and Greg Hearn.On the other hand, while global connectivity seems highly likely to play some significant role in future higher education, that does not mean greater uniformity in course content - or other dangers - will necessarily follow. Counter-movements are also at work.Many in academia, including scholars contributing to this volume, are questioning the fundamental mission of university education. What if, for instance, instead of receiving primarily technical training and building their individual careers, university students and professors could focus their learning and research efforts on existing problems in their local communities and the world? Feminist scholar Ivana Milojevic dares to dream what a university might become “if we believed that child-care workers and teachers in early childhood education should be one of the highest (rather than lowest) paid professionals?”Co-editor Jennifer Gidley shows how tomorrow’s university faculty, instead of giving lectures and conducting independent research, may take on three new roles. Some would act as brokers, assembling customized degree-credit programmes for individual students by mixing and matching the best course offerings available from institutions all around the world. A second group, mentors, would function much like today’s faculty advisers, but are likely to be working with many more studentsoutside their own academic specialty. This would require them to constantly be learning from their students as well as instructing them.A third new role for faculty, and in Gidley’s view the most challenging and rewarding of all, would be as meaning-makers: charismatic sages and practitioners leading groups of students/colleagues in collaborative efforts to find spiritual as well as rational and technological solutions to specific real-world problems.Moreover, there seems little reason to suppose that any one form of university must necessarily drive out all other options. Students may be “enrolled” in courses offered at virtual campuses on the Internet, between -or even during - sessions at a real-world problem-focused institution.As co-editor Sohail Inayatullah points out in his introduction, no future is inevitable, and the very act of imagining and thinking through alternative possibilities can directly affect how thoughtfully, creatively and urgently even a dominant technology is adapted and applied. Even in academia, the future belongs to those who care enough to work their visions into practical, sustainable realities.11. When the book reviewer discusses the Internet University,A. he is in favour of it.B. his view is balanced.C. he is slightly critical of it.D. he is strongly critical of it.12. Which of the following is NOT seen as a potential danger of the Internet University?A. Internet-based courses may be less costly than traditional ones.B. Teachers in traditional institutions may lose their jobs.C. internet-based courseware may lack variety in course content.D. The Internet University may produce teachers with a lot of publicity.13. According to the review, what is the fundamental mission of traditional university education?A. Knowledge learning and career building.B. Learning how to solve existing social problems.C. Researching into solutions to current world problems.D. Combining research efforts of teachers and students in learning.14. Judging from the Three new roles envisioned for tomorrow’s university faculty, university teachersA, are required to conduct more independent research.B. are required to offer more course to their students……C. are supposed to assume more demanding duties.D. are supposed to supervise more students in their specialty.15. Which category of writing does the review belong to?A. Narration.B. DescriptionC. persuasionD. Exposition.TEXT BEvery street had a story, every building a memory, Those blessed with wonderful childhoods can drive the streets of their hometowns and happily roll back the years. The rest are pulled home by duty and leave as soon as possible. After Ray Atlee had been in Clanton (his hometown) for fifteen minutes he was anxious to get out.The town had changed, but then it hadn’t. On the highways leading in, the cheap metal buildings and mobile homes were gathering as tightly as possible next to the roads for maximum visibility. This town had no zoning whatsoever. A landowner could build anything wiih no permit no inspection, no notice to adjoining landowners. nothing. Only hog farms and nuclear reactors required approvals and paperwork. The result was a slash-and-build clutter that got uglier by the year.But in the older sections, nearer the square, the town had not changed at all The long shaded streets were as clean and neat as when Kay roamed them on his bike. Most of the houses were still owned by people he knew, or if those folks had passed on the new owners kept the lawns clipped and the shutters painted. Only a few were being neglected. A handful had been abandoned.This deep in Bible country, it was still an unwritten rule in the townthat little was done on Sundays except go to church, sit on porches, visit neighbours, rest and relax the way God intended.It was cloudy, quite cool for May, and as he toured his old turf, killing time until the appointed hour for the family meeting, he tried to dwell on the good memories from Clanton. There was Dizzy Dean Park where he had played little League for the Pirates, and (here was the public pool he’d swum in every summer except 1969 when the city cl osed it rather than admit black children. There were the churches - Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian - facing each other at the intersection of Second and Elm like wary sentries, their steeples competing for height. They were empty now, hut in an hour or so the more faithful would gather for evening services.The square was as lifeless as the streets leading to it. With eight thousand people, Clanton was just large enough to have attracted the discount stores that had wiped out so many small towns. But here the people had been faithful to their downtown merchants, and there wasn’t s single empty or boarded-up building around the square - no small miracle. The retail shops were mixed in with the banks and law offices and cafes, all closed for the Sabbath.He inched through the cemetery and surveyed the Atlee section in the old part, where the tombstones were grander. Some of his ancestors had built monuments for their dead. Ray had always assumed that the familymoney he’d never seen must have been buried in those graves. He parked and walked to his mother’s grave, something he hadn’t done in years. She was buried among the Atlees, at the far edge of the family plot because she had barely belonged.Soon, in less than an hour, he would be sitting in his father’s study, sipping bad instant tea and receiving instructions on exactly how his father would be laid to rest. Many orders were about to be give, many decrees and directions, because his father(who used to be a judge) was a great man and cared deeply about how he was to be remembered.Moving again, Ray passed the water tower he’d climbed twice, the second time with the police waiting below. He grimaced at his old high school, a place he’d never visited since he’d left it. Behind it was the football field where his brother Forrest had romped over opponents and almost became famous before getting bounced off the team.It was twenty minutes before five, Sunday, May 7. Time for the family meeting.16. From the first paragraph, we get the impression thatA. Ray cherished his childhood memories.B. Ray had something urgent to take care of.C. Ray may not have a happy childhood.D. Ray cannot remember his childhood days.17. Which of the following adjectives does NOT desc ribe Ray’shometown?A. Lifeless.B. Religious.C. Traditional.D. Quiet.18. Form the passage we can infer that the relationship between Ray and his parents wasA. close.B. remote.C. tense.D. impossible to tell.19. It can be inferred from the passage that Ray’s father was all EXCEPTA. considerate.B. punctual.C. thrifty.D. dominant.TEXT CCampaigning on the Indian frontier is an experience by itself. Neither the landscape nor the people find their counterparts in any other portion of the globe. Valley walls rise steeply five or six thousand feet on every side. The columns crawl through a maze of giant corridors down whichfierce snow-fed torrents foam under skies of brass. Amid these scenes of savage brilliancy there dwells a race whose qualities seem to harmonize with their environment. Except at harvest-time, when self-preservation requires a temporary truce, the Pathan tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian. Every large house is a real feudal fortress made, it is true, only of sun-baked clay, but with battlements, turrets, loopholes, drawbridges, etc. complete. Every village has its defence. Every family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud. The numerous tribes and combinations of tribes all have their accounts to settle with one another. Nothing is ever forgotten, and very few debts are left unpaid. For the purposes of social life, in addition to the convention about harvest-time, a most elaborate code of honour has been established and is on the whole faithfully observed. A man who knew it and observed it faultlessly might pass unarmed from one end of the frontier to another. The slightest technical slip would, however, be fatal. The life of the Pathan is thus full of interest; and his valleys, nourished alike by endless sunshine and abundant water, are fertile enough to yield with little labour the modest material requirements of a sparse population.Into this happy world the nineteenth century brought two new facts: the rifle and the British Government. The first was an enormous luxury and blessing; the second, an unmitigated nuisance. The convenience ofthe rifle was nowhere more appreciated than in the Indian highlands. A weapon which would kill with accuracy at fifteen hundred yards opened a whole new vista of delights to every family or clan which could acquire it. One could actually remain in one’s own house and fire at one’s neighbour nearly a mile away. One could lie in wait on some high crag, and at hitherto unheard-of ranges hit a horseman far below. Even villages could fire at each other without the trouble of going far from home. Fabulous prices were therefore offered for these glorious products of science. Rifle-thieves scoured all India to reinforce the efforts of the honest smuggler. A steady flow of the coveted weapons spread its genial influence throughout the frontier, and the respect which the Pathan tribesmen entertained for Christian civilization was vastly enhanced.The action of the British Government on the other hand was entirely unsatisfactory. The great organizing, advancing, absorbing power to the southward seemed to be little better than a monstrous spoil-sport. If the Pathan made forays into the plains, not only were they driven back (which after all was no more than fair), but a whole series of subsequent interferences took place, followed at intervals by expeditions which toiled laboriously through the valleys, scolding the tribesmen and exacting fines for any damage which they had done. No one would have minded these expeditions if they had simply come, had a fight and then gone away again. In many cases this was their practice under what was called the“butcher and bolt policy” to which the Government of India long adhered. But towards the end of the nineteenth century these intruders began to make roads through many of the valleys, and in particular the great road to Chitral. They sought to ensure the safety of these roads by threats, by forts and by subsidies. There was no objection to the last method so far as it went. But the whole of this tendency to road-making was regarded by the Pathans with profound distaste. All along the road people were expected to keep quiet, not to shoot one another, and above all not to shoot at travellers along the road. It was too much to ask, and a whole series of quarrels took their origin from this source.20. The word debts in “very few debts are left unpaid” in the first paragraph meansA．loans. B．accounts C．killings D．bargains.21. Which of the following is NOT one of the geographical facts about the Indian frontier?A. Melting snows.B. Large population.C. Steep hillsides.D. Fertile valleys.22. According to the passage, the Pathans welcomedA. the introduction of the rifle.B. the spread of British rule.C. the extension of luxuriesD. the spread of trade.23. Building roads by the BritishA. put an end to a whole series of quarrels.B. prevented the Pathans from earning on feuds.C. lessened the subsidies paid to the Pathans.D. gave the Pathans a much quieter life.24. A suitable title for the passage would beA. Campaigning on the Indian frontier.B. Why the Pathans resented the British rule.C. The popularity of rifles among the Pathans.D. The Pathans at war.TEXT D“Museum” is a slippery word. It first meant (in Greek) anything consecrated to the Muses: a hill, a shrine, a garden, a festival or even a textbook. Both Plato’s Academy and Aristotle’s Lyceum had a mouseion, a muses’ shrine. Although the Greeks already collected detached works of art, many temples - notably that of Hera at Olympia (before which the Olympic flame is still lit) - had collections of objects, some of which were works of art by well-known masters, while paintings and sculptures in the Alexandrian Museum were incidental to its main purpose.The Romans also collected and exhibited art from disbanded temples, as well as mineral specimens, exotic plants, animals; and they plundered sculptures and paintings (mostly Greek) for exhibition. Meanwhile, theGreek word had slipped into Latin by transliteration (though not to signify picture galleries, which were called pinacothecae) and museum still more or less meant “Muses’ shrine”.The inspirational collections of precious and semi-precious objects were kept in larger churches and monasteries - which focused on the gold-enshrined, bejewelled relics of saints and martyrs. Princes, and later merchants, had similar collections, which became the deposits of natural curiosities: large lumps of amber or coral, irregular pearls, unicorn horns, ostrich eggs, fossil bones and so on. They also included coins and gems - often antique engraved ones - as well as, increasingly, paintings and sculptures. As they multiplied and expanded, to supplement them, the skill of the fakers grew increasingly refined.At the same time, visitors could admire the very grandest paintings and sculptures in the churches, palaces and castles; they were not “collected” either, but “site-specific”, and were considered an integral part both of the fabric of the buildings and of the way of life which went on inside them - and most of the buildings were public ones. However, during the revival of antiquity in the fifteenth century, fragments of antique sculpture were given higher status than the work of any contemporary, so that displays of antiquities would inspire artists to imitation, or even better, to emulati on; and so could be considered Muses’ shrines in the former sense. The Medici garden near San Marco inFlorence, the Belvedere and the Capitol in Rome were the most famous of such early “inspirational” collections. Soon they multiplied, and, gradually, exe mplary “modern” works wereIn the seventeenth century, scientific and prestige collecting became so widespread that three or four collectors independently published directories to museums all over the known world. But it was the age of revolutions and industry which produced the next sharp shift in the way the institution was perceived: the fury against royal and church monuments prompted antiquarians to shelter them in asylum-galleries, of which the Musee des Monuments Francais was the most famous. Then, in the first half of the nineteenth century, museum funding took off, allied to the rise of new wealth: London acquired the National Gallery and the British Museum, the Louvre was organized, the Museum-Insel was begun in Berlin, and the Munich galleries were built. In Vienna, the huge Kunsthistorisches and Naturhistorisches Museums took over much of the imperial treasure. Meanwhile, the decline of craftsmanship (and of public taste with it) inspired the creation of “improving” collections. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London was the most famous, as well as perhaps the largest of them.25.The sentence “Museum is a slippery word” in the first paragraph means thatA. the meaning of the word didn’t change until after the 15th century.B. the meaning of the word had changed over the years.C. the Greeks held different concepts from the Romans.D. princes and merchants added paintings to their collections.26.The idea that museum could mean a mountain or an object originates fromA. the Romans.B. Florence.C. Olympia.D. Greek.27. “…… the skill of the fakers grew increasingly refined” in the third paragraph means thatA. there was a great demand for fakers.B. fakers grew rapidly in number.C. fakers became more skillful.D. fakers became more polite.28. Painting and sculptures on display in churches in the 15th century wereA. collected from elsewhere.B. made part of the buildings.C. donated by people.D. bought by churches.29. Modern museums came into existence in order toA. protect royal and church treasures.B. improve existing collections.C. stimulate public interest.D. raise more funds.30. Which is the main idea of the passage?A. Collection and collectors.B. The evolution of museums.C. Modern museums and their functions.D. The birth of museums.11-15 BAACD 16-20 CDBAC 21-25BABAB 26-30 DCBABPART III. 人文知识There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section.Choose the best answers to each question.Mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet.31.The Presidents during the American Civil War wasA. Andrew JacksonB. Abraham LincolnC. Thomas JeffersonD. George Washington32.The capital of New Zealand isA.ChristchurchB.AucklandC.WellingtonD.Hamilton33.Who were the natives of Austrilia before the arrival of the Britishsettlers?A.The AboriginesB.The MaoriC.The IndiansD.The Eskimos34.The Prime Minister in Britain is head ofA.the Shadow CabinetB.the ParliamentC.the OppositionD.the Cabinet35.Which of the following writers is a poet of the 20th century?A.T.S.EliotwrenceC.Theodore DreiserD.James Joyce36.The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is written byA.Scott FitzgeraldB.William FaulknerC.Eugene O’NeilD.Ernest Hemingway37._____ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteen linesA.Free verseB.SonnetC.OdeD.Epigram38.What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is the notion ofA.referenceB.meaningC.antonymyD.context39.The words”kid,child,offspring” are examples ofA.dialectal synonymsB.stylistic synonymsC.emotive synonymsD.collocational synonyms40.The distinction between parole and langue was made byA.HalliayB.ChomskyC.BloomfieldD.Saussure参考答案: 31-35BCADA 36-40 DBDBDPART IV 改错参考答案1. agreeing-agreed2. in which 可有可无3. in his disposal- at his disposal4.enables-enable5.the other English speakers-other English speakers6.old-older7.seen-understood8.take it for granted- take for granted9.or-and10. the most striking of human achievementsV. 汉译英及参考译文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。

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2019专八真题-中译英译文
原文
白洋淀曾有“北国江南”的说法，但村舍的形制自具特色，与江南截然不同。

南方多雨，屋顶是坡顶；这里的村舍则不同，屋顶是晒粮食的地方，而且历史上淀里每逢水大洪灾，村民就得把屋里的东西搬到屋顶上。

房屋彼此挨得很近，有些屋顶几乎相连。

（节选自冯骥才《白洋淀之忧》）
译文仅供参考
Baiyangdian was once known as “Northern Jiangnan”. The southern type of water town in the North is quite different from the village houses in the south of China. The design and constructions of the cottage here have their distinctive features. Village houses in the south have sloping roofs to stand the rainy weather, while the cottages here have flat roofs to dry the harvest in the sun. What’s more, every time the water flooded, the villagers had to move belongings in the room onto the roof. These cottages are so close to each other and some are almost connected.。

2019专八真题汉译英