2000年专业英语八级考试真题（2）
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SECTION D NOTE-TAKING AND GAP-FILLING? Fill each of gaps with ONE word. You may refer to your notes. Make sure the word you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable.? On Public Speaking When people are asked to give a speech in public for the first time, they? usually feel terrified no matter how well they speak in informal situations.? In fact, public speaking is the same as any other form of (1)___ 1.___? that people are usually engaged in. Public speaking is a way for a speaker to? (2)___ his thoughts with the audience. Moreover, the speaker is free 2.___? to decide on the (3)___ of his speech. 3.___? Two key points to achieve success in public speaking:? —(4)___ of the subject matter. 4.___? —good preparation of the speech.? To facilitate their understanding, inform your audience beforehand of the? (5)___ of your speech, and end it with a summary. 5.___? Other key points to bear in mind:? —be aware of your audience through eye contact.? —vary the speed of (6)___ 6.___? —use the microphone skillfully to (7)___ yourself in speech. 7.___? —be brief in speech; always try to make your message (8)___ 8.___? Example: the best remembered inaugural speeches of the US presidents are? the (9)___ ones. 9.___? Therefore, brevity is essential to the (10)___ of a speech. 10.___? 改错 Part Ⅱ Proofreading and Error Correction (15 min) The following passage contains TEN errors. Each line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way.? For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and wri te the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.? For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “∧” sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.? For an unnecessary word cross out the unnecessary word with a slash “/’ and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line. Example? When∧art museum wants a new exhibit, (1) an? it never／ buys things in finished form and hangs (2) never? them on the wall. When a natural history museum ? wants an exhibition, it must often build it. (3) exhibit? The grammatical words which play so large a part in English? grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different 1.___? from the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may? seem the most obvious is that grammatical words have“ less? meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them 2.___? “empty” words as opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. 3.___? But this is a rather misled way of expressing the distinction. 4.___? Although a word like the is not the name of something as man is,? it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a sharp 5.___? difference in meaning between “man is vile and” “the man is? vile”, yet the is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. 6.___? Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably among? themselves as the amount of meaning they have, even in the 7.___? lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been? “little words”. But size is by no mean a good criterion for 8.___? distinguishing the grammatical words of English, when we? consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. Apart 9.___? from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some? people say: we certainly do create a great number of obscurity 10.___? when we omit them. This is illustrated not only in the poetry of? Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.? 相关资料 |
