试卷详情
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专业八级-708
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[单项选择]Chinese is a__________ language.
A. intonation
B. tone
C. stress
D. pitch
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[单项选择]In__________, Duke William of Normandy conquered Britain and was crowned William I of England.
A. 1060
B. 1006
C. 1066
D. 1166
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[单项选择]Don Juan is written by__________.
A. George Byron
B. Percy Shelley
C. William Wordsworth
D. John Keats
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[单项选择]The separation of powers in the U. S. is among__________.
A. The President, the Congress and the House of Representatives
B. The Executive, the Senate and the Representative
C. The Senate, the Judicial and the Executive
D. The Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial
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[单项选择]The report issued by the National Education Commission on Time and Learning found that____________.
A. Japanese students study twice as much as U.S. students
B. U.S. high schools skimp on basic courses
C. German students spend 5.5 hours on academics daily
D. U.S. students are incomparable
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[单项选择]The author's age is probably__________.
A. 70
B. 40
C. mysterious
D. 55
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[单项选择]The author's tone in this passage is__________
A. solemn
B. gay
C. ironic
D. blasphemous
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[单项选择]Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage
A. Stereotypes give rise to prejudice against other cultural groups.
B. Misunderstanding occurs when members of different cultures communicate.
C. Cultural influences on the style of communication are generally very subtle.
D. Conflicts arising from cultural misunderstanding are serious.
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[单项选择]The writer thinks that__________.
A. communicative competence is more important than linguistic competence
B. for the learner to acquire competence is more important than to acquire capacity systems
C. presenting the learners with problems is more important than providing them with solutions
D. knowledge of communicative schemata is more important than linguistic knowledge
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[单项选择]In Par
A. A.4, the auther portrays himself as__________. a heavy smokerB. an austere personC. a rule followerD. a forgetful person
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[填空题]
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[简答题]The Kind of Life I Choose to Live
In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion with a summary.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.
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[单项选择]__________, one of Britain's largest ports, rose to worldwide fame in the 1960s as the birthplace of the Beetles.
A. Birmingham
B. Liverpool
C. London
D. Edinburgh
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[单项选择]The Commission believes that____________.
A. U.S. school should not be slaves to tradition
B. the school year should be curtailed
C. U.S. schools need more athletic programs
D. school reformer is improbable
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[单项选择]Which of the following is NOT true of the panel of the Council on Foreign Relations
A. There are 26 members on the panel.
B. Its base is in New York.
C. Its members are from Europe and the United States.
D. It is governmental.
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[单项选择]Which of the following is a minimal pair
A. pet, kid
B. put, pest
C. cave, shave
D. must, taste
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[单项选择]What is the general tone of the author in this passage
A. Objective.
B. Critical.
C. Pessimistic.
D. Dialectal.
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[单项选择]The best title for this passage would be__________
A. How to Get to Seventy
B. How to Tell a Funny Story
C. Smoking and Aging
D. My Funny Life
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[单项选择]Which of the following came into being as a non-religious American festival
A. Thanksgiving.
B. Christmas.
C. Easter.
D. Resurrection.
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[单项选择]In a structurally-oriented language course,__________.
A. language behaviour is conceived of as a matter of projecting knowledge
B. language is brought in to fit the schemata
C. language is never taught in association with situations
D. the focus is on the schemata
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[单项选择]By "we whistle past the rest home as well as the graveyard", it is meant that____________.
A. Europe is turning into a continent of the elders
B. demographic changes are frustrating
C. people tend to avoid unpleasant places
D. people are reluctant to tackle the problem of aging
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[单项选择]What does "it" in the first sentence of Par
A. A.2 refer to A panel.B. Europe.C. A blueprint.D. The Atlantic community.
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[简答题]在十二世纪及随后的几个世纪中,练金术在欧洲得到广泛的研究,并引起许多有学问的人的注意 .虽然他们制造金子的种种尝试注定了是要失败的,但是他们的工作却使许多新的化学知识和实验方法得以发展。然而后来欧洲的许多炼金术士却是十足的骗子,他们施展各种诡计诈骗那些信以主真的人因而练金术也就场名扫地。到了十六世纪前半期,炼金术士的目标已经由制造黄金为制造药物了。他们特别是要寻求一种名为“长生不老”的奇异物质。一种能治百病的灵丹妙药。而且有些人认为事实将证明这种灵丹妙药和"哲人之石"是同一物质。化学的这个阶段差不多一直延续到1700年。
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[简答题]"If there were none of this playing at generosity in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for, as now. Then there would not be wars because Pavel Ivanitch had insulted Mihail Ivanitch. But if there is war as now, let it be really war. And then the intensity of warfare would be something quite different. All these Westphalians and Hessians Napoleon is leading against us would not have come to fight us in Russia, and we should not have gone to war in Austria and in Prussia without knowing what for.War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war. We ought to accept it sternly and solemnly as a fearful necessity. It all comes to this: have done with lying, and if it’s war, then it’s war and not a game, or else warfare is simply the favourite pastime of the idle and frivolous... The military is the most honored calling. And what is war, what is needed for success in war, what
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[单项选择]In a functionally-oriented language course,__________.
A. language use is presented as matter of selecting ready-made solutions to fit into the right situational slots
B. how linguistic competence can be drawn upon as a communicative resource is not shown
C. situations are brought to a service the presentation of the language
D. the focus is on linguistic competence
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[单项选择]Why does the author think it necessary to heed the demographic changes in Europe and America
A. Because these changes are threatening the partnership between Europe and America.
B. Because these changes lead Europe to adopt its own economic and political policies.
C. Because these changes are more important than war and protectionism issues.
D. Because theses changes are domestic.
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[单项选择]Owing to cultural ethnocentrism, people may__________
A. think they are superior
B. think they are right
C. think they are critical
D. think they are different
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[单项选择]Although the author says "I am here to teach," his purpose is really
A. to deceive
B. to joke
C. to persuade
D. to smoke
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[单项选择]The writer is arguing in favor of__________
A. functionally oriented language courses
B. notionally oriented language courses
C. structurally oriented language courses
D. none of the above
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[单项选择]We can tell from the passage that American public schools____________.
A. are behind the times
B. need new time-keepers
C. have made no change at all in 100 years
D. need more social activities
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[单项选择]The character Falstaff, a fat soldier who hated to fight, is specially treated in__________
A. The Merry Wives of Windsor
B. Much Ado About Nothing
C. Henry IV
D. Henry V
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[单项选择]By comparing the culture to the director, the author purports to__________
A. stress the significance of culture
B. show the indispensable role of culture
C. describe the dominant effect of culture
D. illustrate the subtle influence of culture
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[单项选择]Which of the following writers was NOT characterized by employing the "stream of consciousness" technique
A. James Joyce
B. William Faulkner
C. John Steinbeck
D. Sherwood Anderson
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[单项选择]Of Human Bondage was written by__________.
A. William Somerset Maugham
B. Aldous Huxley
C. Charles Dickens
D. John Boynton Priestley