专八考试回忆
(2008-03-09 12:13:34)
又回到考场与同学们并肩作战，倍感亲切。
总体上，今年比去年难度有所降低。主要体现在听力和翻译。
听力：Section A: The Popularity of
English
Section B: conversation: new airport arguement
Section
C: news broadcast: welfare system;
The tapes of Apollo mission
阅读：1.new college-entrance system in South Korea
(增加学生压力等负面影响)
2.emergence of a new class of farmers
3.castells(Barcelona-Catalan)
4.bankruptcy
第四篇阅读考核到了修辞手法--暗喻（metaphor）
考试中有一题，词汇单项班上讲过：
The phenomenon that words having different meaning
have the same form is
called
A. hyponymy B.
synonymy C. polysemy
D. homonymy
1.The largest city in Canada is
A. vancouver
B. montreal
C. Toronto
D. Ottawa
2.According to the United States Constitution,the
legislative power is invested in
A. the
federal government
B. the
supreme court
C. the
cabinet
D. the
congress
3.Which of the following is the oldest sport in the
United States
A. baseball
B. tennis
C. basketball
D. American
football
4.The head of the executive branch in New Zealand
is
A. the
president
B. the governor general
C. the british
monarch
D. the prime
minister
5.The Canterbury Tales,a collection stories told by a
group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury is an important poetic
work by
A. William
Langland
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. William
Shakespeare
D. Alfred
Tennyson
6.Who wrote the American
A. Herman
Melville
B. Nathaniel
Hawthorne
C. Henry James
D. Theodore
Dreiser
7.All of the following are well-known female writers in
20th centery Britain except
A. George Eliot
B. Iris
Jean Murdoch
C. Doris
Lessing
D. Muriel
Spark
8.Which of the following is not a design feature of
human language
A. arbitrariness
B. displacement
C. duality
D. diachronicity
9.What type of sentence is “Mark likes fiction,but Tim
is interested in poetry”
A. a
simple sentence
B. a
coordinate sentence
C. a
complex sentence
D. none
of the above
10.The phenomenon that words having different meanings
have the same from is called
A. hyponymy
B. synonymy
C. polysemy
D. homonymy
汉译英：
我想，其实谁都有一个小小花园，这便是我们的内心的世界。人的智力需要开发，人的内心世界其实也是需要开发的。人和动物的区别，除了众所周知的诸多方面，恐怕还在于人有内心世界。心不过是人的一个重要脏器，而内心世界是一种景观。它是由外部世界不断地作用于内心而形成的。每个人都无比关注自己至亲至爱之人心脏的健损，以至于稍有微疾便惶惶不可终日。但并非每个人都关注自己及至亲至爱之人的内心世界的阴晴。
作文题目：What I have learned from my years at
university
在考试过程中，我非常遗憾的看到有少数同学缺席了考试。工作以后会有很多考试，希望同学们都不要轻言放弃，勇敢面对。
