2015年英语专八真题及答案
英语专八2015年真题

[D] We should give people opportunity schools.
3. [A] Doing what they have promised to schools.
[B] Creating opportunities for leading universities.
[C] Considering removing barriers for state school pupils.
[C] Most money is spent on schools, others for bureaucracy.
[D] Reducing opportunities for state school pupils.
4. [A] It increases from 1/8 to 1/3.
[B] It increases from 1/8 to 1/6.
[C] It increases from 1% to 4.5%.
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
2. [A] We should create more jobs for university students.
[B] We should encourage state school pupils to apply universities.
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(2015专八汉译英答案)茶花(camellia)的自然花期在12月至翌年4月,以红色系为主,另有黄色系与白色系等,花色艳丽。
本届花展充分展示了茶花的品种资源与科研水平,是近三年来本市规模最大的一届茶花展。
为了使广大植物爱好者有更多与茶花亲密接触的机会,本届茶花展的布展范围延伸至整个园区,为赏花游客带来便利。
此次茶花展历时2个月,展期内200多个茶花品种将陆续亮相。
Camellia’s flowering period starts from December and ends in the next April,and the colors of the flowers are bright and showy with red in majority, yellow, white and other colors in minority. It’s the city’s largest camellia show in recent three years, which fully displays camellia’s various species as well as human’s sci entific research level of it. In order to provide the majority of plant-lovers with more opportunities to closely appreciate the beauty of camellia, the area of the Camellia Show is extended to the whole garden so that it can bring more convenience for the visitors.The Camellia Show takes over two months, in which more than 200 various camellias will be presented successively.(英译汉)At its heart, psycholinguistic work consists of two questions. One is, What knowledge of language is neededfor us to use language? In a sense, we must know a language to use it, but we are not always fully aware of this knowledge.A distinction may be drawn between tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge. Tacit knowledge refers to the knowledge of how to perform various acts, whereas explicit knowledge refers to the knowledge of the processes or mechanisms used in these acts. We sometimes know how to do something without knowing how we do it. For instance, a baseball pitcher (投手) might know how to throw a baseball 90 miles an hour but might have little or no explicit knowledge of the muscle groups that are involved in this act. Similarly, we may distinguish between knowing how to speak and knowing what processes are involved in producing speech. Generally speaking, much of our linguistic knowledge is tacit rather than explicit.心理语言学的研究包括两个核心问题。
2015年英语专业八级真题及解析

SECTION B INTERVIEW
In this section you will hear ONE interview. The interview will be divided into TWO parts. At the end of each part, 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.
Now, listen to Part Two of the interview. Questions 6 to 10 are based on Part Two of the interview. 6. A. It means more funding from education authorities.
You have THIRTY seconds to preview the questions. Now listen to Part One of the interview. Questions 1 to 5 are based on Part One of the interview. 1. A. . Doing what they have promised to schools. B. Creating opportunities for leading universities. C. Considering removing barriers for state school pupils. D. Reducing opportunities for state school pupils. 2. A. Universities are not working hard to accept state school pupils. B. The number of state pupils applying to Oxford fails to increase. C. The government has lowered state pupils' expectations. D. Leading universities are rejecting state school pupils. 3. A. State schools discourage applying to Oxford. 、 B. State system in secondary education needs improvement. C. Oxford has a preference for private school students. D. Private school pupils work harder than state school pupils. 4. A. Encouraging state pupils to go to Oxbridge. B. Encouraging Oxbridge to recruit more students. C. Raising expectations in the state system. D. Getting more young people into universities. 5. A. The number of state school pupils going to elite universities. B. The government's deficient policy on college enrolment. C. The numbers of state school children enrolled in Oxbridge. D. State school pupils' expectations of going to leading universities.
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But sometimes we need to ask, as I should have asked for Plush, and this is particularly true in the aspect of a foreign language. If you are continually surrounded by speakers of the language you are learning, you can ask them directly, but often this opportunity does not exist for the learner of English. So dictionaries have been developed to mend the gap. 2014 改错There is widespread consensus among scholars that second languageacquisition (SLA) emerged as a distinct field of research from the late 1950s to early 1960s.There is a high level of agreement that the following questions (1) _____have possessed the most attention of researchers in this area: (2) _____l Is it possible to acquire an additional language in the same sense one acquires a firstlanguage? (3) ______________________________l What is the explanation for the fact adults have (4) _____more difficulty in acquiring additional languages than children have? l What motivates people to acquire additional language?l What is the role of the language teaching in the (5) _____acquisition of additional languages?l What social-cultural factors, if any, are relevant in studying the learning of additional languages?From a check of the literature of the field it is clear that all (6) _____the approaches adopted to study the phenomena of SLA so far have one thing in common:The perspective adopted to view the acquiring of an additional language is that of anindividual attempts to do (7) ___________________________________2. _______3. _______4. _______5. _______6. _______7. _______8. _______9. _______ 10. _______1. so. Whether one labels it “learning ”or “acquiring ”an additional language, it is an individual accomplishment or what is under (8) ________focus is the cognitive, psychological, and institutional status of anindividual. That is, the spotlight is on what mental capabilities areinvolving, what psychological factors play a role in the learning (9) ____or acquisition, and whether the target language is learnt in the classroom or acquired through social touch with native speakers. (10) _______________________2013 专八短文改错试题Psycho-linguistics is the name given to the study of the psychological processes involved in language. Psycholinguistics study understanding,production and remembering language, and hence are concerned with (1) ____listening, reading, speaking, writing, and memory for language.One reason why we take the language for granted is that it usually(2) _____happens so effortlessly, and most of time, so accurately. (3) ___________________________ Indeed, when you listen to someone to speaking, or looking at this page,(4) _____you normally cannot help but understand it. It is only in exceptional circumstances we might become aware of the complexity (5) _______________________________________________________________ involved: if we are searching for a word but cannot remember it; if a relative or colleague has had a stroke which has influenced (6) ______ their language; if we observe a child acquire language; if(7) _____we try to learn a second language ourselves as an adult; or if we are visually impaired or hearing-impaired or if we meet anyone else who is. As we shall see, all these examples of what might be called “ language in exceptional circumstances reveal a great deal about the processes evolved in speaking, listening, writing and reading. But given that language processes were normally so automatic, we also need to carry out careful experiments to get at what is happening.2012 年The central problem of translating has always been whether to translate literally or freely. The argumenthas been going since at least the first (1) _____________________________________________ thcentury B.C. Up to the beginning of the 19thcentury, many writersfavoured certain kind of “free ” translation: the spirit, not the letter; the (2) _______ sense not theword; the message rather the form; the matter not the manner. This is the often revolutionary slogan of writers who wanted the truth to be read and understood. Then in the turn of 19 century, when the study of cultural anthropology suggested that the linguistic barriers were insuperable and that the language was entirely the product of culture, the view translation was impossible gained some currency, and with it that, if was attempted at all, it must be as literal as possible. This view culminated the statement of the extreme “literalists ” Walter Benjamin and Vladimir Nobokov.The argument was theoretical: the purpose of the translation, the nature of the readership, the type of the text, was not discussed. Too often, writer, translator andreader were implicitly identified with each other. Now, the context has changed, and thebasic problem remains.(8) _____(9) _____ (10) _____ (3) ______ (4) ______ (5) ______ (6) ______(7) ______(8) ______(9) ______2011 年专八真题改错部分10From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew I should be a writer. Between the ages of aboutseventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the conscience that I was outraging my true nature and that soon orlater I should have to settle down and write books.I was the child of three, but there was a gap of five years on eitherside, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and otherreasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed2 __________3 __________4 _________disagreeing mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginative persons, and I think from the very start my literal ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of beingisolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words5____________6 ________7 _______and a power of facing in unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. Therefore, the volume of serious— i.e. seriouslyintended — writing which I produced all through my childhood andboyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem 8 _______ 9 _______10 _______at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation.2010 年专八真题改错部分So far as we can tell, all human languages are equallycomplete and perfect as instruments of communication: that is, every language appears to be well equipped as any other to say the things their speakers want to say.1 _______________2 _______________ There may or may not be appropriate to talk about primitive3 _______________peoples or cultures, but that is another matter. Certainly, not allgroups of people are equally competent in nuclear physics or psychology or the cultivation of rice . Whereas this is not the 4 ____________ fault of their language. The Eskimos , it is said, can speak about snow with further more precision and subtlety than we can in English,but this is not because the Eskimo language (one of those sometimes miscalled 'primitive') is inherently more precise and subtle than English. This example does not come to light a defect in English, a show of unexpected 'primitiveness'. The position is5 _____________6 _____________simply and obviously that the Eskimos and the English live in similar7 ___________ environments. The English language will be just as rich in terms 8 ___________ for different kinds of snow, presumably, if the environments in which Englishwas habitually used made such distinction as important. 9 ____________ Similarly, we have no reason to doubt that the Eskimo languagecould be as precise and subtle on the subject of motor manufacture2009 The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes from one school child to the next and illustrates the further difference (1) __________10between school lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore a verse, learnt in earlychildhood, is not usually passed on again when the little listener has grown up, and has children of their own, or even grandchildren. The period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmitting it may be something from twenty to seventy years. With the playground lore, therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on within the very hour it is learnt; and in the general, it passes between children of the same age, or nearly so, since it is uncommon for the difference in age between playmates to be more than five years. If ,therefore, a playground rhyme can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or even just for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitted over and over; very possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three hundred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live after so much handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the2008 年专八真题短文改错The desire to use language as a sign of national identity is a very natural one, and in result language has played a prominent part in national moves. Men have often felt the need to cultivate a given language to show that they are distinctive from another race whose hegemony they resent. At the time the United States split off from Britain, for example, there were proposals that independence should be linguistically accepted by the use of a different language from those of Britain. There was even one proposal that Americans should adopt Hebrew. Others favoured the adoption of Greek, though, as one man put it, things would certainly be simpler for Americans if they stuck on to English and made the British learn Greek. At the end, as everyone knows, the two countries adopted the practical and satisfactory solution of carrying with the same language as before.Since nearly two hundred years now, they have shown the world that political independence and national identity can be complete without sacrificing the enormous mutual advantages of a common language.customer.20151.looked 改成looking2. she 后面加had3. 去掉第二个a4. 去掉it5. polite 改成politely(2) _________(3) __________(4) ___________(5) _________(6) ___________(7) _________(8) __________(9) ___________(10) ______________ 1______ 2______ 3______ 4______ 5______ 6______ 7 ______ 8 ______ 9___ 10 ___7. specially 改成especially8. this 改成it9. continually 改成often10. mend 改成narrow20141. 把of 去掉。
2015年12月专八口语口译含参考答案

2015年12月专八口语口译含参考答案Speech of an international CEO at the provincial level forum in chinaDistinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen,It is a great honor to be invited to speak at this forum of international development. As one of the first international retail enterprises that have settled in this province, we have set up 4 joint ventures with a total investment of rmb 3.5 billion yuan, and moreover, we have opened over 20 large-scale supermarkets in the major cities, last year we launched a plan to support small and medium suppliers in the province aiming to bring solutions to the suppliers, including standard commercial operations, up to date marketing concepts and strong communications, we offer them free consultation, including the customers’ needs, lay-out of products, flow of funds, and market feed back. Meanwhile, we demand they produce high quality products, with our help, many small and medium suppliers have found new solutions and increased their sales, in addition, we have just started a new plan with our suppliers at a recent conference, this plan gain extensive applause from these suppliers,In this second half of the year, we will provide guarantee for suppliers who want to obtain loans or financing, helping them to overcome the shortage of funds due to the global financial crises, at present, we are negotiating with various commercial banks, trying to persuade them to expand better financial channels for our suppliers.On the 8th of this month, we organized the win win day for partners, the event had two topics, one was direct purchase and the other was medium and small food processing companies,both projects are essential for us in china, we hope professional trainings and business seminars and expect to help local suppliers to be more aware of food safety issues to complete the innovation of products and technology, and to provide more products which meet the market demand.After 12 years’ cooperation and development in china, we will as always go forward hand in hand with the development of this province, making more contributions to its prosperous market to have a harmonious commercial environment in china, and to this sustainable development of Chinese economy.中国国家旅游局官员在第六届丝绸之路国际大会开幕式上的致辞尊敬的各位来宾,女士们,先生们,上午好!很高兴与大家相聚在古老而美丽的敦煌,共同出席联合国旅游世界组织第六届丝绸之路国际大会,我谨代表中国国家旅游局对大会召开表示热烈祝贺,对远道而来的各位嘉宾表示诚挚欢迎。
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2015英语专业八级听力第一部分MINI-LECTURELISTENING COMPREHENSIONSECTION A MINI-LECTUREUnderstanding Academic LecturesListening to academic lectures is an important task fro university students.Then, how can we comprehend a lecture efficiently?I.Understand all (1) ______________A.wordsB.(2) ______________-stress-intonation-(3) ______________II. Adding informationA.lecturers: sharing information with audienceB.listeners: (4) ______________C.sources of information-knowledge of (5) ______________-(6) ______________ of the worldD. listening involving three steps:-hearing-(7) ______________-addingIII. (8) ______________A.reasons:-overcome noise-save timeB. (9) ______________-content-organizationIV. Evaluating while listeningA.helps to decide the (10) ______________ of notesB.helps to remember information答案:1. parts of meanings 2. sound/vocal features 3. rhythm 4. absorbing 5. subject 6. experience 7. reinterpreting 8. prediction 9. what to listen 10. Importance20152014ANSWER SHEET 1 (TEM8)PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION SECTION A MINI-LECTUREHow to Reduce StressLife is full of things that cause us stress. Though we may not like stress, we have to live with it.I. Definition of stress A. (1) reaction (1) physical i.e. force exerted between two touching bodies B. human reactioni.e. response to (2) on someone (2) a demand e.g. increase in breathing, heart rate, (3) (3) blood pressure or muscle tensionII. (4) (4) Category of stress A. positive stress—where it occurs: Christmas, wedding, (5) (5) a job B. negative stress—where it occurs: test-taking situations, friend’s death III. Ways to cope with stress A. recognition of stress signals—monitor for (6) of stress (6) signals —find ways to protect oneself B. attention to body demand—effect of (7) (7) exercise and nutrition C. planning and acting appropriately —reason for planning —(8) of planning (8) result D. learning to (9) (9) accept —e.g. delay caused by traffic E. pacing activities—manageable task —(10) (10) reasonable speed2013SECTION A MINI-LECTUREWhat Do Active Learners Do?There are difference between active learning and passive learning.Characteristics of active learners:I. reading with purposesA. before reading: setting goalsB. while reading: (1) ________II. (2) ______ and critical in thinkingi.e. information processing, e.g.-- connections between the known and the new information-- identification of (3) ______ concepts-- judgment on the value of (4) _____.III. active in listeningA. ways of note-taking: (5) _______.B. before note-taking: listening and thinkingIV. being able to get assistanceA. reason 1: knowing comprehension problems because of (6) ______.B. Reason 2: being able to predict study difficultiesV. being able to question informationA. question what they read or hearB. evaluate and (7) ______.VI. Last characteristicA. attitude toward responsibility-- active learners: accept-- passive learners: (8) _______B. attitude toward (9) ______-- active learners: evaluate and change behaviour-- passive learners: no change in approachRelationship between skill and will: will is more important in (10) ______.Lack of will leads to difficulty in college learning.参考答案:1. checking their understanding2. reflective on information3. incomprehensible4. what you read5. organized6. monitoring their understanding7. differentiate8. blame9. performance10. active learningSection A Mini-lecture或者1、checking understanding。
华研外语2015年英语专八interview答案

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2015年12月专八口语口译含参考答案第一篇:2015年12月专八口语口译含参考答案Speech of an international CEO at the provincial level forum in china Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen,It is a great honor to be invited to speak at this forum of international development.As one of the first international retail enterprises that have settled in this province, we have set up 4 joint ventures with a total investment of rmb 3.5 billion yuan, and moreover, we have opened over 20 large-scale supermarkets in the major cities, last year we launched a plan to support small and medium suppliers in the province aiming to bring solutions to the suppliers, including standard commercial operations, up to date marketing concepts and strong communications, we offer them free consultation, including the customers’ needs, lay-out of products, flow of funds, and market feed back.Meanwhile, we demand they produce high quality products, with our help, many small and medium suppliers have found new solutions and increased their sales, in addition, we have just started a new plan with our suppliers at a recent conference, this plan gain extensive applause from these suppliers,In this second half of the year, we will provide guarantee for suppliers who want to obtain loans or financing, helping them to overcome the shortage of funds due to the global financial crises, at present, we are negotiating with various commercial banks, trying to persuade them to expand better financial channels for our suppliers.On the 8th of this month, we organized the win win day for partners, the event had two topics, one was direct purchase and the other was medium and small food processing companies, both projects are essential for us in china, we hope professional trainings and businessseminars and expect to help local suppliers to be more aware of food safety issues to complete the innovation of products and technology, and to provide more products which meet the market demand.After 12 years’ cooperation and development in china, we will as always go forward hand in hand with the development of this province, making more contributions to its prosperous market to have a harmonious commercial environment in china, and to this sustainable development of Chinese economy.中国国家旅游局官员在第六届丝绸之路国际大会开幕式上的致辞尊敬的各位来宾,女士们,先生们,上午好!很高兴与大家相聚在古老而美丽的敦煌,共同出席联合国旅游世界组织第六届丝绸之路国际大会,我谨代表中国国家旅游局对大会召开表示热烈祝贺,对远道而来的各位嘉宾表示诚挚欢迎。
2015英语专八阅读理解练习题及答案

(Crime in Computer) New and bizarre crimes have come into being with the advent of computer anized crime to has been directly involved; the new technology offers it unlimited opportunities, such as data crimes, theft of services, property-related crimes, industrial sabotage, politically related sabotage, vandalism, crimes against the individual and financially related crimes… Theft of data, or data crime, has attracted the interest of organized criminal syndicates.This is usually the theft or copying of valuable computer grogram.An international market already exists for computerized data, and specialized fences are said to be playing a key role in this rapidly expanding criminal market.Buyers for stolen programs may range from a firm’s competitors to foreign nations. A competitor sabotages a company’s computer system to destroy or cripple the firm’s operational ability, thus neutralizing its competitive capability either in the private or the government sector.This computer sabotage may also be tied to an attempt by affluent investors to acquire the victim firm.With the growing reliance by firms on computers for their recordkeeping and daily operations, sabotage of their computers can result in internal havoc, after which the group interested in acquiring the firm can easily buy it at a substantially lower price.Criminal groups could also resort to sabotage if the company is a competitor of a business owned or controlled by organized crime. Politically motivated sabotage is on the increase; political extremist groups have sprouted on everycontinent.Sophisticated computer technology arms these groups with awesome powers and opens technologically advanced nations to their attack.Several attempts have already been made to destroy computer facility at an air force base.A university computer facility involved in national defence work suffered more than $2 million in damages as a result of a bombing. Computer vulnerability has been amply documented.One congressional study concluded that neither government nor private computer systems are adequately protected against anized criminal syndicates have shown their willingness to work with politically motivated groups.Investigators have uncovered evidence of cooperation between criminal groups and foreign governments in narcotics.Criminal groups have taken attempts in assassinating politicalleaders….Computers are used in hospital life-support system, in laboratories, and in major surgery.Criminals could easily turn these computers into tools of devastation.By sabotaging the computer of a life-support system, criminals could kill an individual as easily as they had used a gun.By manipulating a computer, they could guide awesome tools of terror against large urban centers.Cities and nations could become hostages.Homicide could take a now form.The computer may become the hit man of the twentieth century. The computer opens vast areas of crime to organized criminal groups, both national and international.It calls on them to pool their resources and increase their cooperative efforts, because many of these crimes are too complex for one group to handle, especially those requiting a vast network of fences.Although criminals have adapted to computer technology, law enforcement has not.Many still think in terms of traditional criminology. 1.How many kinds of crimes are mentioned in the passage? [A]7 [B]8 [C]9 [D]10 2.What is the purpose of a competitor to sabotage a company’s computer? [A]His purpose is to destroy or weaken the firm’s operational ability. [B]His purpose is to weaken firm’s competitive capability and get it. [C]His purpose is to buy the rival’s company at a relatively low price. [D]His purpose is to steal important data. 3.Which of the following can be labeled as a politically motivated sabotage of a computer system? [A]Sabotage of a university computer. [B]Sabotage of a hospital computer. [C]Sabotage of computer at a secret training base. [D]Sabotage of a factory computer. 4.What does the author mean by “Homicide could take a new form”? [A]There is no need to use a gun in killing a person. [B]Criminals can kill whoever they want by a computer. [C]The computer can replace any weapons. [D]The function of a computer is just like a gun. Vocabulary arre 奇怪的 2.vandalism 破坏,故意破坏⽂化,艺术的⾏为 3.cripple 使瘫痪,削弱 4.fence 贼市,脏品买卖处 5.neutralize 使成为⽆效 6.affluent 富裕的 7.recordkeeping 记录存贮 8.havoc 浩劫,⼤破坏 9.resort to 求助于,借助于 10.motivate 作为……的动机,激发 11.extremist 过激分⼦,极端主义分⼦ 12.sprout 萌发迅速发展 13.awesome 令⼈惊惧的,引起敬畏的 14.vulnerability 易受攻击,脆弱 15.devastation 劫持,破坏 16.hospital life-support system 医院的⽣命维持系统 17.hit man 职业凶⼿(杀⼿) 18.pool 集中(资⾦)合办,⼊股 19.criminology 犯罪学,刑事学 难句译注 anized crime to has been directly involved; the new technology offers it unlimited opportunities, such as data crimes, theft of services, property-related crimes, industrial sabotage, politically related sabotage, vandalism, crimes against the individual and financially related crimes… [结构简析] 句⼦很长,都是简单句,中间有分号隔开,后⾯是举例。
英语专八2015年真题

customer would inquire about my book, the volunteer would take them over to the shelf and point to it. Out of 20
such requests, six customers proceeded with the purchase.
[B] Because know what’s in the interest of their pupils.
[C] Because the government also wants the money to go to schools.
[D] Because schools are in a situation of lacking money.
The second option also involved going over to the shelf but, this time, removing the book and then subtly
holding onto it for just an extra moment before placing it in the customer's hands. Of the 20 people who were
[D] The central government only.
10. [A] Ask for clarification.
[B] Challenge the interviewee.
[C] Support the interviewee.
[D] Initiate topics.
PART Ⅱ READING COMPREHENSION(45 MIN)
专八听力minilecture真题及答案

2015英语专业八级听力第一部分MINI-LECTURELISTENING COMPREHENSIONSECTION A MINI-LECTUREUnderstanding Academic LecturesListening to academic lectures is an important task fro university students.Then, how can we comprehend a lecture efficientlyI.Understand all (1) ______________A.•s wordsC. (2) ________________-stress■intonation-(3) ______________II.Adding informationA.lecturers: sharing information with audieneeB.listeners: (4) _______________C・ sources of information-knowledge of (5) _______________>-(6) _______________ o f the worldD. listening involving three steps:-heari ng-(7) _______________-addi ngIII.(8) _____________A. reasons:・overcome noise-save timeB・⑼ ______________-con tent-orga nizationIV.Evaluating while listeningA. helps to decide the (10) ________________ of notesB・ helps to remember information答案:1. parts of meanings 2・ sound/vocal features 3・ rhythm 4. absorbing 5・ subject 6. experie nee 7. reinterpret ng 8. prediction 9・ what to liste n 10. Importa neeLife is full of things that cause us stress. Though we may not like stress, we have to live with it. I. Definition of stress A. (1) reaction ⑴physical ・ forcea deman d (4) Category of orstress A. —where it B ・ negative stress occurs: Christmas, wedding, (5) a job —find —(8)of planning(9) accept (10) reasonable20152014ANSWER SHEET 1(TEM8)PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION SECTION A MINI-LECTUREHow to Reduce Stressacting appropriately — reason for planning(8) resultD ・ I earning to (9)—・ delay caused by traffic E ・ pacing activities—manageable task—(10)speed2013SECTION A MINI-LECTURE What Do Active Learners Do)There are d if fere nee between active lear ning and passive lear ning. Characteristics of active learners:I. reading with purposesA.before reading: setting goalsB.while reading: (1) _______ll・(2) _____ and critical in thinking・ information processing,・-connections between the known and the new information-identification of (3) ________ concepts-judgment on the value of (4) _______ ・III.active in listeningA. ways of note-taking: (5) ________ ・B・ before note-taking: listening and thinkingIV.being able to get assistaneeA.reason 1: knowing comprehension problems because of (6) ________ ・B.Reason 2: being able to predict study difficultiesV.being able to question in formationA. question what they read or hearB・ evaluate and (7) _____ ・st characteristic(A.attitude toward responsibility-active learners: accept-passive learners: (8) ________B.attitude toward (9) ______■- active learners: evaluate and change behaviour-passive learners: no change in approachRelationship between skill and will: will is more important in (10) ________ ・Lack of will leads to difficulty in college learning.参考答案:checking their understanding2.reflective on information3・ incomprehensible4.what you readanized6.monitoring their understanding7.differentiate8.blame9.performs nee10.active learningSection A Mini-lecture或者lx checking understanding“2、reflective3、p uzzling/confusing4、w hat is read5、c omprehe nsive a nd orga nized6、c onstant understanding monitoringHowevec there are differences in daily life observation and research observation.Differe nces・■一daily life observation8: have more-casual-(1) ________-dependence on memory -一-research observe 廿on -(2) __________一 careful record keepingB ・ Ways to select samples in research -一-time sampling-systematic:・ fixed intervals every hour I-random: fixed intervals but (3) _________Systematic sampling and random sampling are often used in combination. —(4)一 definition: selection of different locations-reason: humans' or animals' behaviour (5) _________ a cross circumstances -(6) _______ : more objective observations C. Ways to record behaviour (7) _______ -一・ observa 廿on with intervention-participant observation: researcher as observer and participant -field experiment: research (8) _________ o ver conditions)・■一 observation without intervention-purpose: describing behaviour (9) ________ -(10) _______ : no intervention -researcher: a passive recorder1: rarely formal records 2: systematic objective manner 3: variable 4: situation sampling5: vary6: advantage 7: as it occurscontrol 9: in natural setting 10: method Interview2011Classifications of CulturesAccording to Edward Hall, different cultures result in different ideas about the world ・ Hall is an anthropologist ・ He is interested in relations between cultures. I. High-c on text culture A. feature-con text: more important than the message -meaning: (1) __________・ more attention paid to (2) __________ t han to the message itselfB・ examples-personal space-pref ere nee for (3) _________i-less respect for privacy / personal space-attention to (4) ____________-concept of time-belief in (5) ____________ interpretation of time・n o concern for punctuality-no control over timeII.Low-context cultureA.feature-message: separate from con text-meaning: (6) ___________B・ examples-personal space-desire / respect for individuality / privacy-less attention to body Ianguage-more concern for (7) ____________-attitude toward time-concept of time: (8) ____________-dislike of (9)_______________-time seen as commodityIII.Conclusion/Awareness of different cultural assumptions-re leva nee in work and life・b usiness, negotiation, etc.-(10) _____________ in successful communicationapart from the message is happening Ianguage itself message itselfmeans everything2.and significanee2・ the con text 或what is doing 3・ closeness to people 4. body language 5. polychronic 6・ in itself7・ personal space 8・ monochrome 9. Iateness10.multicultural situation2010Paralinguistic Features of LanguageIn face-to-face communication speakers often alter their tomes of voice or change their physical postures in order to convey messages・ These means are called paralinguistic features of language, which fall into two categories.whisper ing: need for2. breathiness: deep emotion ⑵ __________First category: vocal paralinguistic features(1) __________ : to express attitude or intention Examples3. (2) _______ : unimportance4. nasality:anxiety5. extra lip ・rounding: greater intimacySecond category: physical paralinguistic features facial expressions⑶ ______----smiling: signal of pleasure or welcome less common expressions----eye brow raising: surprise or interest ----lip biting: (4) _________ gesture gestures are related to culture ・ British culture----shrugging shoulders: (5) __________ ----scratching head: puzzlement other cultures ----placing hand upon heart:(6) _________ ----pointing at nose: secret proximity, posture and echoingproximity: physical distance between speakers ----closeness: intimacy or threat----(7) _______ : formality or absenee of interest (7)Proximity is person-,culture ・ and (8) -specific ・ (8)posture----hunched shoulders or a hanging head: to indicate(9) ________ (9) ________ ----direct level eye contact: to express an open or challenging attitude echoi ng ----definition: imitation of similar posture ----(10) ______ : aid in communication (10) ___________----conscious imitation: mockery1 tones of voice2 huskiness3 universal signaL4 thought or uncertainty5 indifference6 honesty7 distanee 。
专八听力minilecture真题及答案

2015英语专业八级听力第一部分MINI-LECTURELISTENING COMPREHENSIONSECTION A MINI-LECTUREUnderstanding Academic LecturesListening to academic lectures is an important task fro university students. Then, how can we comprehend a lecture efficiently?I.Understand all (1) ______________A.wordsB.(2) ______________-stress-intonation-(3) ______________II. Adding informationA.lecturers: sharing information with audienceB.listeners: (4) ______________C.sources of information-knowledge of (5) ______________-(6) ______________ of the worldD. listening involving three steps:-hearing-(7) ______________-addingIII. (8) ______________A.reasons:-overcome noise-save timeB. (9) ______________-content-organizationIV. Evaluating while listeningA.helps to decide the (10) ______________ of notesB.helps to remember information答案:1. parts of meanings 2. sound/vocal features 3. rhythm 4. absorbing 5. subject 6. experience 7. reinterpreting 8. prediction 9. what to listen 10. Importance20152014ANSWER SHEET 1 (TEM8)PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION SECTION A MINI-LECTUREHow to Reduce StressLife is full of things that cause us stress. Though we may not like stress, we haveto live with it. I. Definition of stress A. (1) reaction (1)physical . force exerted between two touching bodies B. human reaction. response to (2) on someone (2) a demand .increase in breathing, heart rate, (3) (3) blood pressureor muscle tensionII. (4) (4) Category of stress A.positive stress—where it occurs: Christmas, wedding, (5) (5) a jobB. negative stress—where it occurs: test-taking situations, friend’s death III. Ways tocope with stress A. recognition of stress signals—monitor for (6) of stress (6) signals —find ways to protect oneself B. attention to body demand—effect of (7) (7) exercise and nutrition C.planning and acting appropriately —reason for planning —(8)of planning (8) result D. learning to (9) (9) accept —. delay caused by traffic E. pacing activities—manageable task —(10) (10) reasonablespeed2013SECTION A MINI-LECTUREWhat Do Active Learners Do?There are difference between active learning and passive learning.Characteristics of active learners:I. reading with purposesA. before reading: setting goalsB. while reading: (1) ________II. (2) ______ and critical in thinking. information processing, .-- connections between the known and the new information-- identification of (3) ______ concepts-- judgment on the value of (4) _____.III. active in listeningA. ways of note-taking: (5) _______.B. before note-taking: listening and thinkingIV. being able to get assistanceA. reason 1: knowing comprehension problems because of (6) ______.B. Reason 2: being able to predict study difficultiesV. being able to question informationA. question what they read or hearB. evaluate and (7) ______.VI. Last characteristicA. attitude toward responsibility-- active learners: accept-- passive learners: (8) _______B. attitude toward (9) ______-- active learners: evaluate and change behaviour-- passive learners: no change in approachRelationship between skill and will: will is more important in (10) ______.Lack of will leads to difficulty in college learning.参考答案:1. checking their understanding2. reflective on information3. incomprehensible4. what you read5. organized6. monitoring their understanding7. differentiate8. blame9. performance10. active learningSection A Mini-lecture或者1、checking understanding。
最新【星火英语版】专八考试参考答案(写作+翻译)

最新【星火英语版】专八考试参考答案(写作+翻译)【星火英语版】2015年英语专业八级真题参考答案(翻译+写作部分)Section A Chinese to English原文呈现参考译文茶花(camellia)的自然花期在12月至翌年4月,以红色系为主,另有黄色系和白色系等,花色艳丽。
本届花展充分展示了茶花的品种资源和科研水平,是近三年来本市规模最大的一届茶花展。
为了使广大植物爱好者有更多与茶花亲密接触的机会,本届茶花展的布展范围延伸至整个园区,为赏花游客带来便利。
此次茶花展历时2个月,展期内200多个茶花品种将陆续亮相。
Camellia’s flowering period starts from December and ends in the next April,and the colors of the flowers are bright and showy with red in majority, yellow, white and other colors in minority. It’s the city’s largest camellia show in recent three years, which fully displays camellia’s various species as well as human’s scientific research level of it. In order t o provide the majority of plant-lovers with more opportunities to closely appreciate the beauty of camellia, the area of the Camellia Show is extended to the whole garden so that it can bring more convenience for the visitors.The Camellia Show takes over two months, in which more than 200 various camellias will be presented successively.Section B English to Chinese原文呈现参考译文At its heart, psycholinguistic work consists of two questions. One is, What knowledge of language is needed for us to uselanguage? In a sense, we must know a language to use it, but we are not always fully aware of this knowledge. A distinction may be drawn between tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge. Tacit knowledge refers to the knowledge of how to perform various acts, whereas explicit knowledge refers to the knowledge of the processes or mechanisms used in these acts. We sometimes know how to do something without knowing how we do it. For instance, a baseball pitcher (投手) might know how to throw a baseball 90 miles an hour but might have little or no explicit knowledge of the muscle groups that are involved in this act. Similarly, we may distinguish between knowing how to speak and knowing what processes are involved in producing speech. Generally speaking, much of our linguistic knowledge is tacit rather than explicit.心理语言学的研究包括两个核心问题。
2000-2015年专八翻译真题与答案

2000年英语专业八级考试--翻译部分参考译文中国科技馆的诞生来之不易。
与国际著名科技馆和其他博物馆相比,它先天有些不足,后天也常缺乏营养,但是它成长的步伐却是坚实而有力的。
它在国际上已被公认为后起之秀。
世界上第一代博物馆属于自然博物馆,它是通过化石、标本等向人们介绍地球和各种生物的演化历史。
第二代属于工业技术博物馆,它所展示的是工业文明带来的各种阶段性结果。
这两代博物馆虽然起到了传播科学知识的作用,但是,它们把参观者当成了被动的旁观者。
世界上第三代博物馆是充满全新理念的博物馆。
在这里,观众可以自己去动手操作,自己细心体察。
这样,他们可以更贴近先进的科学技术,去探索科学技术的奥妙。
中国科技馆正是这样的博物馆!它汲取了国际上一些著名博物馆的长处,设计制作了力学、光学、电学、热学、声学、生物学等展品,展示了科学的原理和先进的科技成果。
参考译文The first generation of museums are what might be called natural museums which, by means of fossils, specimens and other objects, introduced to people the evolutionary history of the Earth and various kinds of organisms. The second generation are those of industrial technologies which presented the fruits achieved by industrial civilization at different stages of industrialization. Despite the fact that those two generations of museums helped to disseminate / propagate / spread scientific knowledge, they nevertheless treated visitors merely as passive viewers.The third generation of museums in the world are those replete with / full of wholly novel concepts / notions / ideas. In those museums, visitors are allowed to operate the exhibits with their own hands, to observe and to experience carefully. By getting closer to the advanced science and technologies in this way, people can probe into their secret mysteries.The China Museum of Science and Technology is precisely one of such museums. It has incorporated some of the most fascinating features of those museums with international reputation. Having designed and created exhibits in mechanics, optics, electrical science, thermology, acoustics, and biology, those exhibits demonstrate scientific principles and present the most advanced scientific and technological achievements.2001年英语专业八级考试--翻译部分参考译文C-E 乔羽的歌大家都熟悉。
2008-2015专八改错真题与答案

2000 年 -2015年专八短文改错试题2015 年 3 月 21 日专业八级考试改错When I was in my early teens, I was taken to a spectacular showon ice by the mother of a friend. Looked round a the luxury of the 1. ______rink, my friend ’s mother remarked on the “plush ”seats we had beengiven. I did not know what she meant, and being proud of my 2. ______ vocabulary, I tried to infer its meaning from the context. “Plush”was clearly intended as a complimentary, a positive evaluation; that 3. ______much I could tell it from the tone of voice and the context. So I 4. ______started to use the word. Yes, I replied, they certainly are plush, andso are the ice rink and the costumes of the skaters, aren’tthey? Myfriend ’s mother was very polite to correct me, but I could tell from her 5. ______ expression that I had not got the word quite right.Often we can indeed infer from the context what a word roughlymeans, and that is in fact the way which we usually acquire both 6. ______new words and new meanings for familiar words, specially in our7. ______own first language. But sometimes we need to ask, as I should haveasked for Plush, and this is particularly true in the8. ______ aspect of a foreign language. If you are continually surrounded by9. ______ speakers of the language you are learning, you can ask them directly,but often this opportunity does not exist for the learner of English.So dictionaries have been developed to mend the gap.10. ______2014 改错There is widespread consensus among scholars that second language acquisition (SLA) emerged as a distinct field of research from the late 1950s to early 1960s.There is a high level of agreement that the following questions (1) ______have possessed the most attention of researchers in this area: (2) ______l Is it possible to acquire an additional language in thesame sense one acquires a first language? (3) ______l What is the explanation for the fact adults have (4) ______more difficulty in acquiring additional languages than children have?l What motivates people to acquire additional language?l What is the role of the language teaching in the (5) ______acquisition of additional languages?l What social-cultural factors, if any, are relevant in studyingthe learning of additional languages?From a check of the literature of the field it is clear that all (6) ______the approaches adopted to study the phenomena of SLA so far haveone thing in common: The perspective adopted to view the acquiringof an additional language is that of an individual attempts to do (7) ______so. Whether one labels it “learning ” or “acquiring ” an additional language, it isan individual accomplishment or what is under (8) ______focus is the cognitive, psychological, and institutional status of anindividual. That is, the spotlight is on what mental capabilities areinvolving, what psychological factors play a role in the learning (9) ______or acquisition, and whether the target language is learnt in theclassroom or acquired through social touch with native speakers. (10) ______2013 专八短文改错试题.Psycho-linguistics is the name given to the study of the psychological processesinvolved in language. Psycholinguistics study understanding,production and remembering language, and hence are concerned with(1) _____listening, reading, speaking, writing, and memory for language.One reason why we take the language for granted is that it usually(2) ______happens so effortlessly, and most of time, so accurately.(3) ______Indeed, when you listen to someone to speaking, or looking at this page,(4) ______you normally cannot help but understand it. It is only in exceptionalcircumstances we might become aware of the complexity(5) ______involved: if we are searching for a word but cannot remember it;if a relative or colleague has had a stroke which has influenced(6) ______their language; if we observe a child acquire language; if(7) ______we try to learn a second language ourselves as an adult; orif we are visually impaired or hearing-impaired or if we meetanyone else who is. As we shall see, all these examples(8) ______of what might be called “language in exceptional circumstances ”reveal a great deal about the processes evolved in speaking,(9) ______listening, writing and reading. But given that language processeswere normally so automatic, we also need to carry out careful(10) ______experiments to get at what is happening.2012 年The central problem of translating has always been whether to translate literally or freely. The argument has been going since at least the first(1) ______century B.C. Up to the beginning of the 19 th century, many writersfavoured certain kind of“free”translation: the spirit, not the letter; the(2) _______sense not the word; the message rather the form; the matter not(3) _______the manner. This is the often revolutionary slogan of writers who(4) _______wanted the truth to be read and understood. Then in the turn of 19 th(5) _______century, when the study of cultural anthropology suggested thatthe linguistic barriers were insuperable and that the language(6) _______was entirely the product of culture, the view translation was impossible(7) _______gained some currency, and with it that, if was attempted at all, it must be as(8) _______literal as possible. This view culminated the statement of the(9) _______extreme “literalists ”Walter Benjamin and Vladimir Nobokov.The argument was theoretical: the purpose of the translation, thenature of the readership, the type of the text, was not discussed. Toooften, writer, translator and reader were implicitly identified witheach other. Now, the context has changed, and the basic problem remains.(10) _____2011 年专八真题改错部分From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knewthat when I grew I should be a writer. Between the ages of about1__________ seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did sowith the conscience that I was outraging my true nature and that soon or later I should have to settle down and write books.I was the child of three, but there was a gap of five years 2___________ 3___________ 4__________on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For thisand other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developeddisagreeing mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my5_____________ schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories andholding conversations with imaginative persons, and I think from the very start my literal ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of 6_________ 7________being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with wordsand a power of facing in unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. Therefore, the volume of serious — i.e. seriously8________ 9________ 10________intended — writing which I produced all through my childhood andboyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poemat the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation.2010 年专八真题改错部分So far as we can tell, all human languages are equallycomplete and perfect as instruments of communication: that is,every language appears to be well equipped as any other to say1________________ the things their speakers want to say.2________________ There may or may not be appropriate to talk about primitive3________________ peoples or cultures, but that is another matter. Certainly, not allgroups of people are equally competent in nuclear physics orpsychology or the cultivation of rice . Whereas this is not the4_____________fault of their language. The Eskimos , it is said, can speak aboutsnow with further more precision and subtlety than we can in5______________ English, but this is not because the Eskimo language (one of thosesometimes miscalled 'primitive') is inherently more precise andsubtle than English. This example does not come to light a defect6______________in English, a show of unexpected 'primitiveness'. The position issimply and obviously that the Eskimos and the English live in similar7____________ environments. The English language will be just as rich in terms8____________for different kinds of snow, presumably, if the environments in whichEnglishwas habitually used made such distinction as important.9_____________ Similarly, we have no reason to doubt that the Eskimo languagecould be as precise and subtle on the subject of motor manufactureor cricket if these topics formed the part of the Eskimos' life.10____________2009The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passesfrom one school child to the next and illustrates the further difference(1)___________between school lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore a verse,learnt in early childhood, is not usually passed on again when the(2)___________ little listener has grown up, and has children of their own, or even(3)____________ grandchildren. The period between learning a nursery rhyme andtransmitting it may be something from twenty to seventy years. With(4)_____________ the playground lore, therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed(5)___________ on within the very hour it is learnt; and in the general, it passes(6)_____________ between children of the same age, or nearly so, since it is uncommonfor the difference in age between playmates to be more than fiveyears. If ,therefore, a playground rhyme can be shown to have beencurrently for a hundred years, or even just for fifty, it follows that it(7)__________has been retransmitted over and over; very possibly it has passed(8)___________ along a chain of two or three hundred young hearers and tellers, andthe wonder is that it remains live after so much handling,(9)____________ to let alone that it bears resemblance to the(10)____________2008 年专八真题短文改错The desire to use language as a sign of national identity is avery natural one, and in result language has played a prominent____1____part in national moves. Men have often felt the need to cultivate____2____a given language to show that they are distinctive from another____3____race whose hegemony they resent. At the time the United States____4____split off from Britain, for example, there were proposals thatindependence should be linguistically accepted by the use of a____5____different language from those of Britain. There was even one____6____proposal that Americans should adopt Hebrew. Others favouredthe adoption of Greek, though, as one man put it, things wouldcertainly be simpler for Americans if they stuck on to English____7____and made the British learn Greek. At the end, as everyone____8____knows, the two countries adopted the practical and satisfactorysolution of carrying with the same language as before.____9____Since nearly two hundred years now, they have shown the world____10____that political independence and national identity can be completewithout sacrificing the enormous mutual advantages of acommon language.customer.20151.looked 改成 looking2.she 后面加 had3.去掉第二个a4.去掉 it5.polite 改成 politely6.which 改成 that7.specially 改成 especially8.this 改成 it9.continually 改成 often10.mend 改成 narrow20141.把 of 去掉。
2015年专业八级真题超详解

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS(2015)SECTION A MINI-LECTUREIn this section you will hear a mini-lecture.You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY.While listening,take notes on the important points.Your notes will not be marked,but you will need 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 SHEETONE,using no more than three words in each gap.Make sure the word(s)you fill in is(are)both grammatically and semantically acceptable.You may refer to your notes while completing the e the blank sheet for note-taking.Now,listen to the mini-lecture.Understanding Academic LecturesListening to academic lectures is an important task for university students.Then, how can we comprehend a lecture efficiently?I.Understanding all(1)____A.wordsB.(2)____-stress-intonation-(3)____II.Adding informationA.lecturers:sharing information with audienceB.listeners:(4)____C.sources of information-knowledge of(5)____-(6)____of the worldD.listening involving three steps:-hearing-(7)____-addingIII.(8)____A.reasons:-overcome noise-save timeB.(9)____-content-organizationIV.Evaluating while listeningA.helps to decide the(10)____of notesB.helps to remember information1.____正确答案:parts of meanings本题解析:本讲座介绍了理解学术讲座的方法。
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2015年英语专八真题及答案
2015英语专八听力答案 Section A Mini-lecture 1. parts of language 2. other features 3. rhythm 4. having the ability 5. a particular subject 6. knowledge or experience 7. reinterpreting 8. predicting/making predictions 9. types of predictions 10. contents Section B Interview 1. Theresa thinks that the present government is ________. [A] doing what they have promised to schools [B] creating opportunities for leading universities [C] considering removing barriers for state school pupils [D] reducing opportunities for state school pupils 2. What does Theresa see as a problem in secondary schools now? [A] Universities are not working hard to accept state school pupils. [B] The number of state pupils applying to Oxford fails to increase. [C] The government has lowered state pupils’ expectations. [D] Leading universities are rejecting state school pupils. 3. In Theresa’s view, school freedom means that schools should ____. [A] be given more funding from education authorities [B] be given all the money and decide how to spend it [C] be granted greater power to run themselves [D] be given more opportunities and choices 4. According to Theresa, who decides or decide money for schools at the present?
[A] Local education authorities and the central government. [B] Local education authorities and secondary schools together. [C] Local education authorities only. [D] The central government only. 5. Throughout the talk, the interviewer does all the following EXCEPT ____.
[A] asking for clarification [B] challenging the interviewee [C] supporting the interviewee [D] initiating topics Section C News Broadcast News Item 1 6. What is the main idea of the news item? [A] Fewer people watch TV once a week. [B] Smartphones and tablets have replaced TV. [C] New technology has led to more family time. [D] Bigger TV sets have attracted more people. News Item 2 7. How many lawmakers voted for the marijuana legalization bill? [A] 50. [B] 12. [C] 46. [D] 18. 8. The passing of the bill means that marijuana can be________. [A] bought by people under 18 [B] made available to drug addicts [C] provided by the government [D] bought in drug stores News Item 3 9. What did the review of global data reveal? [A]Diarrhea is a common disease. [B]Good sanitation led to increase in height. [C]There were many problems of poor sanitation. [D] African children live in worse sanitary conditions. 10. The purpose of Dr. Alan Dangour’s study was most likely to ________. [A] examine links between sanitation and death from illness [B] look into factors affecting the growth of children [C] investigate how to tackle symptoms like diarrhea [D] review and compare conditions in different countries
2015专八阅读理解答案 PartⅡ Reading Comprehension Text A 11. According to the author, shoppers are returning their purchases for all the following reasons EXCEPT that ____.
[A] they are unsatisfied with the quality of the purchase [B]they eventually find the purchase too expensive [C] they change their mind out of uncertainty [D] they regret making the purchase without forethought 12. What is the purpose of the experiment in the bookstore? [A] To see which promotion method is preferred by customers. [B]To find out the strengths and weaknesses of both methods. [C] To try to set up a new retailer-customer relationship. [D] To see the effect of an approach on customers' decisions. 13. Why does the author cite the study by Bangor University and the Royal Mail Service? [A]To compare similar responses in different settings. [B] To provide further evidence for his own observation. [C] To offer a scientific account of the brain's functions. [D] To describe emotional responses in online shopping. 14. What can be inferred from the last paragraph? [A]Real satisfaction depends on factors other than the computer. [B] Despite online shopping we still attach importance to gift buying. [C] Some people are still uncertain about the digital age. [D] Online shopping offers real satisfaction to shoppers. Text B 15. In the first paragraph, the author suggests that____. [A]a person can either have a high IQ or a low EQ [B]her professor brother cares too much about IQ [C]we need examples of how to follow one's heart [D]she prefers dogs that are clever and loyal 16. According to the passage, all the following are Twist's characteristics EXCEPT____.
[A]resignation [B]patience [C]forgiveness [D]tenacity 17. According to the context, the meaning of the word "square"is closest to____.