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新题型 TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2021)
-GRADE EIGHT-
tim e LIMIT: 150 MIN
PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION [25 MIN]
SECTION A MINI-LECTURE
In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the mini-lecture ONCE ONLY.
While listening to the mini-lecture} 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 INTERVIEW
In this section you will hear ONE intetyiew. The interview will he 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 pausey 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 Part One of the interview. Questions 1 to 5 are based on Part One of the interview.
1. A. A publisher. B. A broadcaster. C. An anchorwoman. D. An academic.
2. A. During her childhood. B. During elementary school.
C. During high school. D. During nursery.
3. A. Historians. B. Writers and poets.
C. Professor of music. D. Professor of English.
4. A. The environment B. Academic work. C. Commercialization. D. Local history.
5〇A.Tohelpstudentstobetterrememberpoems. B. To facilitate the process of composing poems.
C. To activate one’s inner ear automatically. D. To better appreciate the poems.
Now, listen to Part Two of the interview. Questions 6 to 10 are based on Part Two of the interview.
6〇 A. Continuity between writing and social life was a gift.
B. Link between writing and social life was necessary.
C. She preferred to stay away from other poets.
D. She thought socializing experience helped a lot.
1. A. Its members could be anyone. B. Its members had to be poets.
C. It should be professional. D. It had a networking role.
8〇 A. To express stronger emotions. B. To allow for flexibility in expression.
C. To avoid readers' misunderstanding. D. To signal the end of a section.
9. A. It was innovative. B. It was emotional. C. It was different. D. It was ordinary.
10. A. Maureen^ teaching and writing experience. B. Maureen^ experience as a student and poet,
C. Maureen's views on socializing for poets. D. Maureen’s works of criticism and poems.
PART II READING COMPREHENSION [45 MIN]
SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
In 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.
专八2021 -1PASSAGE ONE
(1) The goillla is sometlilng of a paradox in the African scene. One thinks one knows him weli. For a
hundi'ed years or more he has been lolled, captured and imprisoned in zoos. His bones have been mounted
in natural history museums eveiywhere, and he has always exerted a strong fascination upon scientists and
romantics alike. He is t.he stereotyped monster of the horror films and the adventure books, and an obvious
(though not perhaps strictly scientific) link with our ancestral past.
(2) Yet the fact is we know very little about gorillas. No really satisfactory photograph has ever been
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