《新编高等学校英语专业八级考试指南》(修订版)由三大部分组成。 **部分为考试讲座。该部分按考试项目下分六个具体讲座(听力理解、阅读理解、人文知识、改错、翻译与写作)。讲座的内容包括教学大纲要求、考试大纲要求、考试注意事项。 第二部分为样题及题解。该部分包括十套样题,每套样题后附有详细的题解。样题根据2004年出版的《TEM8考试大纲》的基本精神与要求编制,难度与实际考题相仿。 第三部分为录音稿、答案及翻译参考译文。该部分包括书内十套样题的录音稿、答案及翻译参考译文,供使用者参考。 语言能力的提高是长期不懈努力的结果,不是靠走捷径即能实现的。我们编写《新编高等学校英语专业八级考试指南》的目的是帮助学生真正理解TEM8考试的作用和意义,纠正对考试的种种误解,从而把考试的准备过程从简单、机械的应试训练转变到提高、巩固语言能力上来,使TEM8考试成为促进英语教学,提高语言能力的新起点。

We work hard at something we love, we are slow to panic over the daily emergencies, and we are nimble at solving problems as they arise. Some hazards to completing a successful vintage are expected: rain just before harvesting can cause mold electricity unexpectedly interrupted during the cold fermentation of white wine can damage it a delayed payment from a major client when the money is needed.
There are outside influences that disrupt production and take patience, good will and perseverance. (For example) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms regulates every facet of the wine business. A winery's records are audited as often as two or three times a year and every label -- newly written for each year's vintage -- must be approved
(But) The greatest threat to the winery, and one that almost made us lose heart, came out of a lawyer's imagination. Our little winery was served notice that we were named in a lawsuit accusing us of endangering the public health by using lead foils on our bottles (it was the only material used until recently) "without warning consumers of a possible risk." There it was, our winery's name listed with the industry's giants
I must have asked a hundred times: "Who gets the money if the lawsuit is successful?" The answer was, and I never was able to assimilate it, the plaintiffs and their lawyers who filed the suit! Since the lawsuit was brought in behalf of consumers, it seemed to me that consumers must get something if it was proved that a lead foil was dangerous to them. We were told one of the two consumer claimants was an employee of the firm filing the suit!
There are attorneys who focus their careers on lawsuits like this. It is an immense danger to the small businessman. Cash reserves can be used up in the blink of an eye when in the company of lawyers. As long as it's possible for anyone to sue anybody for anything, we are all in danger. As long as the legal profession allows members to practice law dishonorably
…… 全国高等学校英语专业高年级阶段考试(TEM8)是由高等学校外语专业指导委员��主持实施的全国性考试。考试的目的是检查各校执行英语专业高年级教学大纲的情况.促进各校之间的合作与交流,以及为教育管理部门、教师和学生提供有关信息反馈。
2000年经教育部批准.《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》开始实施。2000版教学大纲对英语专业人才培养目标、课程没置、教学要求、教学原则等提出了新要求和新标准。为了贯彻执行2000版教学大纲,高等学校英语专业八级考试大纲修词‘小组已在2004年初完成对1997年出版的考试大纲的修订工作。高等学校英语专业八级考试大纲(2004版)已由上海外语教育出版社出版。
为了更好地反映新八级考试大纲的精神与要求,本书(修订版)对相关部分作了修订和改动。

**部分 考试讲座

听力理解讲座
一、教学大纲要求
二、考试大纲要求
三、考试注意事项

阅读理解讲座
一、教学大纲要求
二、考试大纲要求
三、考试注意事项
人文知识讲座
一、教学大纲要求
二、考试大纲要求
三、考试注意事项

改错讲座
一、教学大纲要求
二、考试大纲要求
三、考试注意事项

翻译讲座
一、教学大纲要求
二、考试大纲要求
三、考试注意事项

写作讲座
一、教学大纲要求
二、考试大纲要求
三、考试注意事项

第二部分 样题及题解
样题
题解
样题二
题解
样题三
题解
样题四
题解
样题五
题解
样题六
题解
样题七
题解
样题八
题解
样题九
题解
样题十
题解

第三部分 录音稿、答案及翻译参考译文
样题一
样题二
样题三
样题四
样题五
样题六
样题七
样题八
样题九
样题十
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