英语专八听力真题.docx
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英语专八听力真题
EST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2005)-GRADE EIGHT-
PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)
SECTION A MINI-LECTURE
In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You willhear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, takenotes on the important points. Your notes will not bemarked, but you will need them to complete agap-filling task after the mini-lecture. When thelecture is over, you will be given two minutes tocheck your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWERSHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.
Writing a Research Paper
I. Research Papers and Ordinary Essay
A. Similarity in
(1)__________:
e.g.—choosing a topic
—asking questions
—identifying the audience
B. Difference mainly in terms of
(2)___________
1. research papers:
printed sources
2. ordinary essay:
ideas in one's (3)___________
II. Types and Characteristics of Research Papers
A. Number of basic types:
two
B. Characteristics:
1. survey-type paper:
—to gather (4)___________
—to quote
—to (5)_____________
The writer should be (6)___________.
2. argumentative (research) paper:
a. The writer should do more, e.g.
—to interpret
—to question, etc.
b.(7)_________varies with the topic, e.g.
—to recommend an action, etc.
III. How to Choose a Topic for a Research Paper
In choosing a topic, it is important to (8)__________.
Question No.1:
your familiarity with the topic
Question No.2:
Availability of relevant information on the chosen topic
Question No.3:
Narrowing the topic down to (9)_________
Question No.4:
Asking questions about (10)___________
The questions help us to work out way into the topic and discover its possibilities.
SECTION B INTERVIEW
In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer thequestions 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 10seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen to the interview.
1. What is the purpose of Professor McKay's report?
A. To look into the mental health of old people.
B. To explain why people have negative views on old age.
C. To help correct some false beliefs about old age.
D. To identify the various problems of old age
2. Which of the following is NOT Professor McKay's view?
A. People change in old age a lot more than at the age of 21.
B. There are as many sick people in old age as in middle age.
C. We should not expect more physical illness among old people.
D. We should not expect to find old people unattractive as a group.
3. According to Professor McKay's report,
A. family love is gradually disappearing.
B. it is hard to comment on family feeling.
C. more children are indifferent to their parents.
D. family love remains as strong as ever.
4. Professor McKay is ________ towards the tendency of more parents living apart from theirchildren.
A. negative
B. positive
C. ambiguous
D. neutral
5. The only popular belief that Professor McKay is unable to provide evidence against is
A. old-age sickness.
B. loose family ties.
C. poor mental abilities.
D. difficulities in maths.
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer thequestions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your coloured answer sheet.
Question 6 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.
6. Scientists in Brazil have used frog skin to
A. eliminate bacteria.
B. treat burns.
C. Speed up recovery.
D. reduce treatment cost.
Question 7 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.
7. What is NOT a feature of the new karaoke machine?
A. It is featured by high technology.
B. It allows you to imitate famous singers.
C. It can automatically alter the tempo and tone of a song.
D. It can be placed in specially designed theme rooms.
Question 8 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.
8. China's Internet users had reached _________ by the end of June.
A.68 million
B.8.9 million
C.10 million
D.1.5 million
Question 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will begiven 20 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.
9. According to the WTO, Chinese exports rose _________ last year.
A.21%
B.10%
C.22%
D.4.73
10. According to the news, which trading nation in the top 10 has reported a 5 per cent fall inexports?
A. The UK.
B. The US.
C. Japan.
D. Germany.
Part 1, Listening Comprehension
Section A, Mini-Lecture
I think as seniors, you are often required by yourinstructors to do some library research on this topicor that. And, in the end, you have to write aresearch paper, right?
Then what is writing aresearch paper like?
How are we going to write one?
What are the steps in producing a research paper and what are the points we need to take careof?
In today’s lecture, I’ll try to answer these questions.
First of all, what is writing a research paper like?
We may start by comparing it to an ordinaryessay, a form of writing you are very familiar with. Writing a research paper is much like writingan essay. Both kinds of writing involve many of the same basic steps. That is, choosing atopic, asking questions to define and develop the topic, identifying the audience, getting rawmaterial to work with, outlining the paper, writing it, and, finally, revising it. These are the stepsshared between research paper writing and essay writing.
Is there any difference, you may ask. Yes. What makes a research paper different is that muchof your raw material comes not from your own head, but from printed sources:
mainly booksand periodicals in the library. Collecting raw material, that is reading books and taking notes, isvery much like the process of brainstorming at the prewriting stage of an ordinary essay.
Generally speaking, there are two basic types of research papers, and a paper may belong toeither type. It may be a survey of facts and opinions available on a given topic or ananalytical argument that uses those facts and opinions to prove a point. Your instructor maytell you which kind of paper you are expected to write. If not, you yourself should eventuallychoose between surveying and arguing. You will then have a definite way of managing yoursources.
Now, let’s take a look at how you are going to write a survey-type research paper or anargumentative research paper. In a survey-type research paper, you gather facts and avariety of opinions on a given topic. You make little attempt to interpret or evaluate whatyour sources say or to prove a particular point. Instead, through quotation, summary, andparaphrase, you try to provide a representative sampling of facts and opinions to give anobjective report on your topic. You explain the pros and cons of various attitudes or opinions,but you don’t side definitely with any one of them.
While in an argumentative research paper, you do considerably more. You do not simplyquote, paraphrase, and summarize as you do in a survey-type paper. You interpret,question, compare, and judge the statements you cite. You explain why one opinion is soundand another is not; why one fact is relevant and another is not; why one writer is correct andanother is mistaken. What’s more, your purpose may vary with your topic. You may try toexplain a situation to recommend a course of action, to reveal the solution to a problem, orto present and defend a particular interpretation of a historical event or a work of art. Butwhether the topic is space travel or trends in contemporary American literature, anargumentative research paper deals actively – I say it again, actively – with the statements itcites. It makes these statements work together in an argument that you create, that is, to anargument leading to a conclusion of your own.
In the next part of the lecture, I’d like to talk about one of the basic steps in writing Imentioned earlier in the lecture. That is how to choose a topic. Choosing a topic for a researchpaper is in some ways like choosing a topic for an ordinary essay, but there are somedifferences. As you think about your topic, ask yourself these questions:
Question number one:
Do you really want to know more about this topic?
This is the initialquestion you have to ask yourself, because research on any subject will keep you busy forweeks. You certainly do not wish to waste your time on something you have little interest in.You do it well only if you expect to learn something interesting or important in the process.
Question number tw Are you likely to find many sources of information on this topic?
Youcannot write a research paper without consulting a variety of sources. If only one source ornone at all is readily available, you should rethink your topic or choose another.
Question number three:
Can you cut the topic down to a manageable size?
Be reasonableand realistic about what you can do in a short period, say, two to four weeks. If your topic is“The American Revolution”, you’ll scarcely have time to make a list of books on your subject, letalone read and analyze them. So try to find something specific, such as “The Role of ThomasJefferson in the American Revolution” or “The Franco-American Alliance”
Question number four:
What questions can you ask about the topic itself?
Questions help youget the topic down to a manageable size, discover its possibilities, and find the goal of yourresearch, that is, the specific problem you want to investigate. Suppose you want to writeabout the issue of financing a college education – A topic not only current, but also directlylinked to the lives of most co
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