2004年英语专业八级真题(4)

A. blankness

B. imagination

C. sadness

D. excitement

26. At the end of the story, there seems to be a sense of ________ between March

and the fox.

A. detachment B. anger

C. intimacy

D. conflict

27. The passage creates an overall impression of ________.

A. mystery B. horror

C. liveliness

D. contempt

TEXT D

The banners are packed, the tickets booked. The glitter and white overalls have

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been bought, the gas masks just fit and the mobile phones are ready. All that remains is to get to the parties.

This week will see a feast of pan European protests. It started on Bastille Day, last Saturday, with the French unions and immigrants on the streets and the first demonstrations in Britain and Germany about climate change. It will continue tomorrow and Thursday with environmental and peace rallies against President Bush. But the big one is in Genoa, on Friday and Saturday, where the G8 leaders will meet behind the lines of 18,000 heavily armed police.

Unlike Prague, Gothenburg, Cologne or Nice, Genoa is expected to be Europe's Seattle, the coming together of the disparate strands of resistance to corporate globalisation.

Neither the protesters nor the authorities know what will happen, but some things are predictable. Yes, there will be violence and yes, the mass media will focus on it. What should seriously concern the G8 is not so much the violence, the numbers in the streets or even that they themselves look like idiots hiding behind the barricades, but that the deep roots of a genuine new version of internationalism are growing.

For the first time in a generation, the international political and economic condition is in the dock. Moreover, the protesters are unlikely to go away, their confidence is growing rather than waning, their agendas are merging, the protests are spreading and drawing in all ages and concerns.

No single analysis has drawn all the strands of the debate together. In the mean time, the global protest \is developing its own language, texts, agendas, myths, heroes and villains. Just as the G8 leaders, world bodies and businesses talk increasingly from the same script, so the protesters' once disparate political and social analyses are converging. The long term project of governments and world bodies to globalise capital and development is being mirrored by the globalisation of protest.

But what happens next? Governments and world bodies are unsure which way to turn. However well they are policed, major protests reinforce the impression of indifferent elites, repression of debate, overreaction to dissent, injustice and unaccountable power.

Their options – apart from actually embracing the broad agenda being put to them – are to retreat behind even higher barricades, repress dissent further, abandon global meetings altogether or, more likely, meet only in places able to physically resist the masses.

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Brussels is considering building a super fortress for international meetings. Genoa may be the last of the European super protests.

28. According to the context, the word \at the end of the first paragraph

refers to ________.

A. the meeting of the G8 leaders

B. the protests on Bastille Day

C. the coming pan European protests

D. the big protest to be held in Genoa

29. According to the passage, economic globalisation is paralleled by ________.

A. the emerging differences in the global protest movement

B. the disappearing differences in the global protest movement

C. the growing European concern about globalisation

D. the increase in the number of protesters

30. According to the last paragraph, what is Brussels considering doing?

A. Meeting in places difficult to reach.

B. Further repressing dissent.

C. Accepting the protesters' agenda.

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D. Abandoning global meetings.

试卷二(120 min)

PART IV

SECTION A

Translation (60 min)

CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Translate the underlined part of the following text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.

在人际关系问题上我们不要太浪漫主义。人是很有趣的, 往往在接触一个人时首先看到的都是他或她的优点。这一点颇像是在餐馆里用餐的经验。开始吃头盘或冷碟的时候, 印象很好。吃头两个主菜时, 也是赞不绝口。愈吃愈趋于冷静, 吃完了这顿宴席, 缺点就都找出来了。于是转喜为怒, 转赞美为责备挑剔, 转首肯为摇头。这是因为, 第一, 开始吃的时候你正处于饥饿状态, 而饿了吃糠甜如蜜, 饱了吃蜜也不甜。第二, 你初到一个餐馆, 开始举筷时有新鲜感, 新盖的茅房三天香, 这也可以叫做\陌生化效应\吧。 SECTION B

ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Translate the underlined part of the following text into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.

For me the most interesting thing about a solitary life, and mine has been that for the last twenty years, is that it becomes increasingly rewarding. When I can wake up and watch the sun rise over the ocean, as I do most days, and know that I have an entire day ahead, uninterrupted, in which to write a few pages, take a walk with my dog, read and listen to music, I am flooded with happiness.

I'm lonely only when I am overtired, when I have worked too long without a break, when fro the time being I feel empty ad need filling up. And I am lonely sometimes when I come back home after a lecture trip, when I have seen a lot of

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people and talked a lot, and am full to the brim with experience that needs to be sorted out.

Then for a little while the house feels huge and empty, and I wonder where my self is hiding. It has to be recaptured slowly by watering the plants and perhaps, by looking again at each one as though it were a person.

It takes a while, as I watch the surf blowing up in fountains, but the moment comes when the worlds falls away, and the self emerges again from the deep unconscious, bringing back all I have recently experienced to be explored and slowly understood.

PART V

Writing (60 min)

It was reported in the press some time ago that a few second-and third-year students in a provincial university decided to try their hands at business in order to get prepared for the future. They opened six small shops near their university. Their teachers and classmates had different opinions about this phenomenon. Some thought that the students' business experience would help them adapt better to society after graduation, while others held a negative view, saying that running shops might occupy too much of the students' time and energy which should otherwise be devoted to their academic study. What do you think? Write a composition of about 300 words on the following topic:

Should University Students Go in for Business?

In the first part of your writing you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should brig what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

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