TEXT D
25. The phrase "men's sureness of their sex role" in the first paragraph suggests that they
A. are confident in their ability to charm women.
B. take the initiative in courtship.
C. have a clear idea of what is considered "manly".
D. tend to be more immoral than women are.
26. The third paragraph does NOT claim that men
A. prevent women from taking up certain professions.
B. secretly admire women's intellect and resolution.
C. doubt whether women really mean to succeed in business.
D. forbid women to join certain clubs and societies.
27. The third paragraph
A. generally agrees with the first paragraph
B. has no connection with the first paragraph
C. repeats the argument of the second paragraph
D. contradicts the last paragraph
28. At the end of the last paragraph the author uses humorous exaggeration in order to
A. show that men are stronger than women
B. carry further the ideas of the earliest paragraphs
C. support the first sentence of the same paragraph
D. disown the ideas he is expressing
29. The usual idea of the cave man in the last paragraph
A. is based on the study of archaeology
B. illustrates how people expect men to behave
C. is dismissed by the author as an irrelevant joke
D. proves that the man, not woman, should be the wooer
30. The opening quotation from Margaret Mead sums up a relationship between man and woman which the author
A. approves of
B. argues is natural
C. completely rejects
D. expects to go on changing
PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)
31. ______ is the capital city of Canada.
A. Vancouver
B. Ottawa
C. Montreal
D. York
32. U.S. presidents normally serves a (an) _________term.
A. two-year
B. four-year
C. six-year
D. eight-year
33. Which of the following cities is NOT located in the Northeast, U.S.?
A. Huston.
B. Boston.
C. Baltimore.
D. Philadelphia.
34. ________ is the state church in England.
A. The Roman Catholic Church.
B. The Baptist Church
C. The Protestant Church
D. The Church of England
注：The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion.
35. The novel Emma is written by
A. Mary Shelley.
B. Charlotte Bront?.
C. Elizabeth C. Gaskell.
D. Jane Austen.
36. Which of following is NOT a romantic poet?
A. William Wordsworth.
B. George Elliot.
C. George G. Byron.
D. Percy B. Shelley.
37. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous for
A. his poems.
B. his plays.
C. his short stories.
D. his novels
注：O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910), He was famous for his short stories and a master of the surprise ending, O. Henry is remembered best for such enduring favorites as "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Ransom of Red Chief." The combination of humor and sentiment found in his stories is the basis of their universal appeal.
38. Syntax is the study of
A. language functions.
B. sentence structures.
C. textual organization.
D. word formation.
注：Definition of Syntax:
a. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences.
b. A publication, such as a book, that presents such rules.
c. The pattern of formation of sentences or phrases in a language.
d. Such a pattern in a particular sentence or discourse.
39. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language?
A. Arbitrariness. 任意性
B. Productivity. 豐富性
C. Cultural transmission. 文化傳播性
D. Finiteness. 局限性 ？
注：design feature: features that define our human languages,such as arbitrariness,duality,creativity,displacement,cultural transmission,etc.
相關內容請點擊查看：胡壯麟《語言學教程》課后答案
40. The speech act theory was first put forward by
A. John Searle.
B. John Austin.
C. Noam Chomsky.
D. M.A.K. Halliday.
注：John Langshaw Austin (March 28, 1911 - February 8, 1960) was a philosopher of language, who developed much of the current theory of speech acts. He was born in Lancaster and educated at Balliol College, Oxford. After serving in MI6 during World War II, Austin became White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford. He occupies a place in the British philosophy of language alongside Wittgenstein in staunchly advocating the examination of the way words are used in order to elucidate meaning.
【改錯】
The University as Business
A number of colleges and universities have announced steep
tuition increases for next year much steeper than the current,
very low, rate of inflation. They say the increases are needed because
of a loss in value of university endowments' heavily investing in common ___1
stock. I am skeptical. A business firm chooses the price that maximizes
its net revenues, irrespective fluctuations in income; and increasingly the ___2
outlook of universities in the United States is indistinguishable from those of ___3
business firms. The rise in tuitions mayreflect the fact economic uncertainty ___4
increases the demand for education. The biggest cost of being
in the school is foregoing income from a job (this isprimarily a factor in ___5
graduate and professional-school tuition); the poor one' s job prospects, ___6
the more sense it makes to reallocate time from the job market to education,
in order to make oneself more marketable. The ways which universities make themselves attractive to students ___7
include soft majors, student evaluations of teachers, giving students
a governance role, and eliminate required courses. ___8
Sky-high tuitions have caused universities to regard their students as
customers. Just as business firms sometimes collude to shorten the ___9
rigors of competition, universities collude to minimize the cost to them of the
athletes whom they recruit in order to stimulate alumni donations, so the best
athletes now often bypass higher education in order to obtain salaries earlier
from professional teams. And until they were stopped by the antitrust authorities,
the Ivy League schools colluded to limit competition for the best students, by
agreeing not to award scholarships on the basis of merit rather than purely
of need-just like business firms agreeing not to give discounts on their best ___10
customer.
PART V TRANSLATION （60 MIN）
提示：今年專八翻譯部分的選材均出自《散文佳作108篇(漢英?英漢對照)》
作者： 喬萍 翟淑蓉 宋洪瑋，建議大家熟讀此書。點擊查看該書簡介及文章目錄
SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH
Translate the following text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
提示：本文節(jié)選自文章《生命的三分之一》作者：馬南邨 該文原始出處為《燕山夜話》(北京出版社1980年版)。
初中語文自讀課本七年級上冊第8課 《短文兩篇》中也有此文。
一個人的生命究竟有多大意義，這有什么標準可以衡量嗎？提出一個絕對的標準當然很困難；但是，大體上看一個人對待生命的態(tài)度是否嚴肅認真，看他對待勞動、工作等等的態(tài)度如何，也就不難對這個人的存在意義做出適當?shù)墓烙嬃恕?br> 古來一切有成就的人，都很嚴肅地對待自己的生命，當他活著一天，總要盡量多勞動、多工作、多學習，不肯虛度年華，不讓時間白白地浪費掉。我國歷代的勞動人民及大政治家、大思想家等等都莫不如此。
部分譯文：Accomplished men of all ages treat their lives very seriously. As long as they are living, they always labor, work, and study as hard as possible, unwilling to spend time in vain, let alone waste even a single moment of their lives.
SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE
Translate the following underlined part of the text into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
提示：本文原文標題About Reading Books 作者：Virginia Woolf
2004年6月大學四級考前預測模擬試卷閱讀理解中有此文
It is simple enough to say that since books have classes fiction, biography,poetry—we should separate them and take from each what it is right that each should give us. Yet few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconception when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. Do not dictate to your author; try to become him. Be his fellowworker and accomplice.If you hang back, and reserve and criticize at first, you are preventing yourself from getting the fullest possible value from what you read. But if you open your mind as widely as possible, then signs and hints of almost imperceptible finess, from the twist and turn of the first sentences, will bring you into the presence of a human being unlike any other. Steep yourself in this, acquaint yourself with this, and soon you will find that your author is giving you, or attempting to give you, something far more definite.
談 讀 書
維吉尼亞?伍夫
既然書籍有不同的門類，如小說、傳記、詩歌等，我們就應該把它們區(qū)分開來，并從每種中汲取它應當給我們提供的正確的東西;這話說起來固然容易，然而，很少有人要求從書籍中得到它們所能提供的東西，通常我們總是三心二意地帶著模糊的觀念去看書：要求小說情節(jié)真實，要求詩歌內容虛構，要求傳記阿諛奉承，要求歷史能加深我們自己的偏見。如果我們讀書時能拋棄所有這些成見，那將是一個極可貴的開端。我們對作者不要指手劃腳，而應努力站在作者的立場上，設想自己在與作者共同創(chuàng)作。假如你退縮不前，有所保留并且一開始就批評指責，你就在妨礙自己從你所讀的書中得到最大的益處, 然而，如果你能盡量敞開思想，那么，書中開頭幾句迂回曲折的話里所包含的幾乎難以覺察的細微的跡象和暗示，就會把你引到一個與眾不同的人物的面前去。如果你深入下去，如果你去認識這個人物，你很快就會領悟作者正在給你或試圖給你某些明確得多的東西。倘若我們首先考慮怎樣讀小說，那么，一部小說中的三十二章就是企圖創(chuàng)造出象一座建筑物那樣既有一定的形式而各部分又受到控制的東西，不過詞句要比磚塊難以捉摸，閱讀的過程要比看一看更費時、更復雜。理解小說家創(chuàng)作工作的各項要素的捷徑也許并不是閱讀，而是寫作，而是親自試一試遣詞造句中的艱難險阻。那么，回想一下給你留下鮮明印象的某些事——比如，你怎樣在大街的拐角處從兩個正在交談著的人身邊走過，樹在搖曳、燈光在晃動，談話的語氣既喜又悲；這一瞬間似乎包含了一個完整的想象，一個整體的構思。
作者簡介
維吉尼亞?伍夫（1882-1941），英國小說家，在她的小說里，縮小作者作為敘述者或評論者的作用。她同時也是一位公認的評論家。
注釋
blur模糊;使模糊不清
banish 流放,放逐
preconception偏見
try to become him：應努力站在作者的立場上。become在這里用作及物動伺、解作"配合"、"適應"。
steep陡峭的
acquaint yourself with...，使（你）自己認識（了解）...
impalpable無形的
contained從容的
PART VI WRITING (45 MIN)
Interview is frequently used by employers as a means to recruit prospective employees. As a result, there have been many arguments for or against the interview as a selection procedure. What is your opinion? Write an essay of about 400 words to state your view.
In the first part of your writing you should state your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.