湖北省2008年自考秘书英语考试大纲

　　四、考试命题要求

　　1、考试形式

　　"秘书英语"课程考试形式为闭卷考试，考试时间为150分钟，评分采用百分制，60分为及格线。

　　2、试卷内容结构

　　教材8、11、13、17-24单元为重点内容，考核分值占60%，教材1、3-6、9、10为次重点内容，考核分值占30%，其余单元为一般考核，考核分值占10%。

　　3、试卷能力结构

　　能力考核分为"词汇、句式识记" 、" 篇章阅读理解" 、"英汉互译"和"综合应用写作"四个层次，各层次的试题在试卷中的分值比例为："词汇、句式识记"占30%左右 ，"篇章阅读理解"占20%左右，"英汉互译"占20%左右， "综合应用写作"占30%左右。

　　4、试卷的难度结构

　　试卷试题难度分为"容易" 、"中等便易" 、"中等偏难"和"难"四个程度，其相应的试题在试卷的分值中所占比例依次为30% 、30% 、25%和15%。

　　5、试卷的题型结构

　　本课程考试的试卷采用的题型有：词汇语法选择填空，阅读理解，单词识记，完形填空，英汉互译以及应用文写作。

　　五、题型示例

　　I. Choose the most appropriate word from the four choices to finish the following sentences.

　　Don't let the thought of ___________ something new frighten you.

　　A. meeting   B. seeing   C. hearing    D. tackling

　　II. Reading Comprehension

　　I

　　You're busy filling out the application form for a position you really need；let's assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn't it tempting to lie just a little，to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree？Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University？

　　More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers，for personnel officers，like most Americans，value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway，but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university. Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week.

　　Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms，then . If it turns out that an applicant is lying，most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them "impostors 骗子"； another refers to them as "special cases." one well-known West Coast school，in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all， says that these claims are made by "no such people."

　　To avoid outright （彻底的） lies，some job-seekers claim that they "attended" or "were associated with" a college or university. After carefully checking，a personnel officer may discover that "attending" means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that "being associated with" a college means that the job - seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century - that's when they began keeping records，anyhow.

　　If you don't want to lie or even stretch the truth，there are companies that will sell you a phony （假的）diploma. One company，with offices in New York and on the West Coast，will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from "Smoot State University." The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the "University of Purdue." As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University， the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.

　　1. The main idea of this passage is that ___________ .

　　A）employers are checking more closely on applicants now

　　B）lying about college degrees has become a widespread problem

　　C）college degrees can now be purchased easily

　　D）employers are no longer interested in college degrees

　　2. According to the passage， "special cases" refers to cases where ___________ .

　　A）students attend a school only part-time

　　B）students never attended a school they listed on their application

　　C）students purchase false degrees from commercial films

　　D）students attended a famous school

　　3. We can infer from the passage that ___________ .

　　A）performance is a better judge of ability that a college degree

　　B）experience is the best teacher

　　C）past work histories influence personnel officers more than degrees do

　　D）a degree from a famous school enables an applicant to gain advantage over others in job competition

　　4. This passage implies that ___________ .

　　A）buying a false degree is not moral

　　B）personnel officers only consider applicants from famous schools

　　C）most people lie on applications because they were dismissed from school

　　D）society should be greatly responsible for lying on applications

　　10. As used in the first. Line of the second paragraph， the word "utter" means ___________ .

　　A）address　　　 B）ultimate

　　C）thorough　　　D）decisive

　　III. Finish the words on the short lines below according the Chinese meaning ，the first letter has been given.

　　1. 定金            n. d ___________

　　IV. Insert the correct words or phrases in the following passage

ordered	file	surface	return	hold on
hear from	regret	cracked	replacement	complaint
representative	damaged	packing	scratched	place

　　Much to my   1   ， I write this to   2  a   3   against your bad delivery service of your company.

　　The Samsung tape recorder model number JB/4703 that I   4   from your company on Nov. 1，arrived yesterday. The serial number of the machine is 4703 -0641. I am sorry to  5  that the recorder has been badly  6  . There was no unusual damage to the  7  case， but when I opened it， I found that the lid of the recorder had been   8  and that the front  9  of the machine had been   10  .

　　Since there was such damage to the goods，I decided to  11  a complaint against the delivery service. Would you please let me know whether I should  12  the recorder to you for a or if you have an authorized service   13  here to which I should take it？I will  14  to this recorder until I  15  you.

　　V. Translation

　　Part one：Translate the following sentences into English .

　　1、我们确信你方所订之货物将如期达到你处

　　Part two ：Translate the following sentences into Chinese.

　　1. I purpose you reduce the quantity of the order into half.

　　VI. Writing

　　According to the information given below，write a business letter to place an order （no less than 90 words）。

　　（1） 货物：印花布（cotton prints）

　　（2） 规格、数量及价格：106cm ，blue ，350yards FOB Shanghai ，$25.00 per yards

　　（3） 包装：适合海运

　　（4） 装运：10月

　　（5） 付款方式：不可撤销即期信用证