2006年专业英语八级考试真题及答案

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2006 年专业英语八级考试真题及答案
Section A Mini-lecture
  Section B Interview
   In 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 in
  A. 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 BROADCAST
   In 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 to
  A. 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 to
  A. 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 is
  A. 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 EXCEPT
  A. switch.
  B. battery.
  C. speaker.
  D. built-in chip.
  【阅读理解】
  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 A
    The 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 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
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