【导语】下面是小编精心整理的历年英语专八作文范文（共13篇），仅供参考，大家一起来看看吧。
篇1：英语专八作文
In my opinion, originality创意, 新奇is not important in language learning. The reason why I think so is that language learning does not need originality as a vital condition条件.
Originality is less important to an English learner. A case in point恰当的例子 is in pronunciation. Every English learner has to spend a long and boring period of time on a large amount of大量 training of pronunciation. During those days, what students do is to try their best to imitate teacher's pronunciations about English words and make the sound of them, and then repeat them time by time. To an English learner, the experience is of great use很有用 to improve his pronunciation. From this case we can see clearly the great importance of imitation or repetition rather than originality or creativity in the beginning of language learning.
Originality refers to creativity which amounts to changes, but there are many formed rules which cannot be changed in language, such as grammatical rules. We cannot create a new grammatical rule. It is the same that we cannot speak or write a language at will随意, 任意. If one who speaks English wants to make the other peopler understand him, he must speak it according to English grammar; otherwise nobody would understand him. Therefore, there is no originality in grammar learning of language.
I do not think originality is important in language learning. It does not follow that originality is useless. It is when one masters a language and learns to use it that originality could give him a great beneficial help.
篇2：英语专八作文
学会说不
Don't Hesitate to Say “No”
1.别人请求帮助时，在什么情况下我们会说“不”
2.为什么有些人在该说“不”的时候不说“不”
3.该说“不”时不说“不”的坏处
Don't Hesitate to Say “No”
To help those who are in need is always regarded as a traditional Chinese moral. However people have to know well what the need is before the help is offered. When the need is just for some minority's benefit and against most people's interests, or when it is immoral or unlawful, people should not hesitate to say No. Otherwise they will put themselves into trouble.
Unfortunately, there are so many such examples around us that people end up their leadership in jail or bury their glory in shame simply because they don't say “No” while they should. Some people are reluctant to say “No” in front of all kinds of briberies as they want to swamp their power for money. They can't resist the temptations of accumulating wealth in a fast but illegal way. For their own good and their friend's favor, these people would sacrifice millions of RMB Yuan for an unproportional commission and therefore stake there future on scales of law. Other people don't say No because of misinterpreted friendship and lack of sense of law. They never hesitate to do whatever their friends ask them to do. They believe they are helping their friends even when they are actually violating the law or local regulations. Such people will also be punished according to the degree of their misbehavior.
Therefore, to help is not always doing good. People should learn to say a No when the help might hurt other people's interests.
手机控
Addiction to Smartphones
Do you check your smartphone frequently? Do you feel distracted if your smartphone is not with you? When there’s no wifi or signal for your smartphone, will you get irritated? If you say yes, then you’ve got addiction to smartphones. Smartphone addiction is a phenomenon that causes a lot of troubles to people.
In the first place, it may cause some problems to your health, such as visual fatigue, cervical spondylosis, and even neurasthenia. A friend of mine suffers from a serious spine collapse due to her addiction to smartphones during pregnancy.
Secondly, if you keep playing with your phone when you are with your friends or family, you will spend less time talking to them. In fact, it is they who need and deserve to be cared for.
Lastly, an excessive reliance on smartphones may weaken your interpersonal skills. When you cannot find a place, you consult your GPS instead of consulting local people. You spare more time playing mobile games than playing real games with real people. As time passes, it’s possible that you may have difficulty in communicating with people.
Therefore, isn’t it better to get rid of smartphone addiction?
篇3：英语专八作文
While physical exercise is important, I do not believe that it is the school’s responsibility to provide physical training for its students.
That is something that everyone can take care of on his or her own.
Many students get plenty of physical exercise as part of their daily life or recreation. A student who bicycles ten miles to and from school does not need more exercise. A good physical education program must take a student’s outside activity into consideration. Otherwise, some students will spend valuable class hours repeating physical exercise.
If a school offers such activities, it also suggests that students will be graded on them. The range of possible physical activities is great: football, swimming, weight lifting, ballet, ballroom dance, yoga, skiing, horseback riding, and golf are just a few. However, the number of activities that a school could offer is small. Some students could get bad grades in physical education simply because the school could not provide an activity they enjoy or do well. This seems unfair. Research suggests that participation, not excellence, in these activities determines the physical benefits the body will get.
Another issue is economic. Many schools do not have the money to provide gry facilities, playing fields, and athletic equipment for their student. Other schools are located in cities where the kind of space just is not available. A few schools would rather keep money for academic purposes.
Schools can certainly encourage physical activity. They can provide space for activities, events, and classes for physical activities. They can encourage students to plan time away from academic studies to get some exercise. However, I think that providing exercise should not be the schools responsibility.
篇4：英语专八作文
Oscar Wilde said,“I can resist everything except temptation”. In China today, nothing is more tempting than stock market.Young,impressionable college students inevitably fall victims.The most tragic part of their story is that they never admit that they are tempted. They have “sound”reasons for their tenacity:
Some say, by getting involved in stock market, they can prepare their way for the post-graduation life. Still some say the ups and downs of the market will strengthen their will and help them face all possibilities in their life. Others say they can acquire economic and financial knowledge through watching the fluctuations of the stock market. Eye catching and sound as these reasons are, they actually are indicative of the fact that young people are far from being mature and know nothing about the cruelty of our share market as is pointed out in the media like Beijing News and ifeng. com.
First, the biggest capital for the young is not money but their youth in which they should concentrate on the most important things of the studies. They cannot afford to be distracted. Imagine, if a student plays the stock market game when it is time for class, how can he focus on his lessons? Secondly, buying and selling stocks can only get students into a messy life.They can be placed in financial and debts jeopardy. Once in debt, their campus life is ruined. Finally, as to some students' claim that they can learn finance through stock market. I think their ideas are naive and superficial. As we know, stock market is far from mirroring the truth of our Economic and Financial reality. We have heard so much fraudulence and deceptions in the trading. So stock market is a trap for students.
篇5：英语专八如何复习
第一是心态问题，我从不给自己太高的要求，给自己定的目标也不会很高，这样我便能以比较轻松的心态去复习。我那时只是想PASS，拿到八级证书，在每次做模拟题时如果结果能够超过60分我都会很满足很开心。
第二呢，我认为学习有个计划是很重要的，考八级时我也给自己制定了比较详细的计划，而且基本上按照自己的计划进行，效果不错。我首先是从我比较弱的听力入手的，从九月份开始我便有计划地练习听力，开始是每天听半小时左右，一个月以后每星期听一个小时左右，我那时是训练自己的听力基本能力，用的材料是《中级听力》，只是听大意，没有做题，直到考前两个月我才开始做八级听力真题或者模拟题，先听自己录的或买的带子，然后跟同学交换带子练习
除了听力，我大概在十月份开始就逐步练习八级的其他各种题型了，我感觉阅读是很重要的，如果阅读好了，对你的整体分数影响很大，因为这一部分能够拉分，好坏可以相差很远。我记得我开始把从图书馆借来南开大学那本《高级阅读》的题目全部做了一遍，严格按照八级考试时给阅读提供的时间来进行，训练阅读速度。除此之外，我还经常娱乐性地阅读一本为雅思考试设计的书，里面有几百篇短小的文章，这些文章涉及地理、科学、教育、文学、音乐、艺术等等，每篇文章后面都附有生词解释，但是没有题目。读这样的书可以拓宽自己的知识面，对做八级的阅读也是帮助不小的。而且这时阅读只是为了兴趣而不是为了做题，没什么压力，挺好的。
那时我们每个星期都会练习一篇改错，老师也每次都帮我们批改，我还做了一套专门练习改错的题，我忘记名字了，是复旦大学出的，一共有100道改错题，我每天做5道题，20天就做完了，难易适中，我觉得很不错。
至于写作，我是把常春藤的那本作文书认认真真看了两遍，里面有往年的题目，也有他自己出的题目，每个题目至少有一篇例文。我一般是先看完例文后自己打腹稿，很少写出来。最主要的是学习其中写作的技巧，比如语言的应用，结构的安排，论点的提出等等。如果你能够认真去研究去思考，久而久之，你会发觉不管来什么样的题目，你都能够很轻松地写出那篇作文，而且自己感觉良好。我们的老师给我们练习过几次写作，我每次都能得比较高的分数，我想跟我这种学习方法是有关的，可以说那时我已经基本读透了八级写作的技巧，所以能够以不变应万变。
翻译我是练习得比较少的，我开始是零零星星地把往年出现过翻译题目用心做了一遍，因为没有答案对照，我就跟自己的同学一起练习，做完几个同学逐字逐句地讨论怎样翻译比较合适，这样挺好的，在与别人的交流中学习。直到考前两个月，我才把常春藤的八级翻译那本书看了两遍，并且用心译的方式做了里面大部分题目。
英美文化知识那部分我基本上没怎么看书，因为以前我看过朱永涛编写的《英语国家文化与知识入门基础教程》，对这部分知识有一定了解，而且真正考试时这部分的题目还是很简单的，所以我只是在考前随便温习了一下。
刚才谈到的都是八级各个部分的练习，我在第一阶段确实是各个部分进行练习的，只是到了考前一个多月的时候，我才开始做整套的模拟题。很多同学很早就做了很多套了，但我是很坚持自己想法的人，没有随波逐流在基础还不够扎实的情况下就做大量的模拟题，事实证明我是正确的。在我做模拟题的时候，虽然成绩好坏也有起伏，但基本上不会太差，算是比较稳定。如果你没有打好个部分的基础就去做模拟题的话肯定感觉受打击很大，因为在那个阶段你不可能把模拟题做得很好，与其这样，不如先把各个部分都攻破了，再力求整体的突破。我一共做了大概十多套真题或者模拟题，一般是隔两三天做一套，按照考试时间来做模拟题挺累的，建议不要天天做，那样会受不了的。
第三点，我觉得学习的毅力非常重要。其实在刚开始的时候，很多同学都很努力，我那时做几份兼职比较忙，都是抽空去练习的，有些同学专门练习八级，花的时间和精力比我多得多。我想最能体现大家毅力的时候是在春节那段时间，我们那年是过完春节没多久就考试了，绝大部分同学都在那段时间彻底放松了，没有坚持下去。但我是真的坚持下来了，在寒假期间，除了跟同学聚了两次会，我几乎足不出户，每天都坚持按照自己的计划练习，跟同学聚会回来哪怕已经是凌晨一点多我也要看一个小时左右的书才能安心睡觉，甚至在年初一我都没有停止学习。那段时间确实坚持得挺辛苦的，我当时学习比较投入，没怎么感觉到辛苦，但考完八级后我有三个星期恢复不过来，非常累，什么都做不了，像个废人似的。我家人自我考完后就一直提心吊胆，每次打电话来都要问成绩出来没有，其实我早就告诉他们大概什么时候出成绩，我就奇怪他们怎么老问呢?后来我爸爸告诉我因为他们看到我寒假在家复习那段时间太辛苦了，怕万一考不好对我打击很大，他们真是多虑了：)。其实在考八级之前我的专业水平跟班上好几个同学不相上下的，但在八级考试之后，我跟他们的距离就明显拉开了，可见复习八级考试这个过程对我后来的学习影响有多大。
篇6：英语专八如何复习
阅读理解仍为四篇文章，总阅读时间相应增加15分钟，总计45分钟。阅读文章的选材同样也发生了变化，英语专业的学生要注意啦——剔除了原有的日常知识类文章，新增了文学和语言学文章的选材(和英语专业知识贴合更紧密哦~)。阅读理解另一较大变化是体裁的调整。专八阅读理解以后将不再考广告、说明书、图表，而重点考查社科、文化经济、文学、语言学以及人物传记等这些题材的记叙文、描写文、说明文、议论文等文体。这也提醒各位考生要熟悉这4种文体的行文方式，面对改革后的考试才能心中有数。选择题由原来的20道减至14道，并增加了8道分别基于4篇文章的简答题。新增简答题题干与选择题提问方式和角度基本一致，但要求用不超过10个单词的句子进行回答。在分值计算方面，预计选择题计1分一题，简答题计2分一题。
阅读题材剔除了日常知识，新增文学和语言学类，这意味着阅读文章的难度提高了。文学和语言学是英语专业高年级学生学习的内容，也是英语专业研究生重点涉足的领域。此类文章的文学词汇、语言学术语对于广大考生来说是一大考验，扎实的专业知识积累和储备有助于同学们从容应对此类文章。新增的8道简答题题型仍和选择题的题型一样，样题涉及细节题、主旨题、词义题、态度题、推理题，但因要求考生准确理解原文、提炼信息，自己组织语言(有字数限制)，故总体而言，阅读部分的难度提高了，同学们应给予足够的重视。
备考建议
针对简答题这一新题型的备考，教研君建议同学们可以从以下两方面入手：
一、素材选择
在练习的素材选择方面，有多种选择，一是以历年的阅读理解选择题练手，做题时先只看题目不看选项，在原文中定位到相关信息后，尝试用自己的语言进行表达，然后再从四个选项中做出选择，同时与正确选项进行对比，看看与自己的表述有何差异。一般来说，真题试题的选项比较精炼概括，符合简答题的答题要求，是考生可以参考模仿的样例。二是利用四、六级改革前快速阅读的题目。此类题目有3道主观简答题，要求考生用自己的语言表述，但给出了大量的题干信息，难度相对更低。考生可以以此作为基础练习。
二、解题方法
积极运用“抓题干关键词回原文定位”的解题方法，在获取原文相应信息后，找出关键信息进行整合，并用简洁的语言进行回答。在语言表达上，除了可以用个别词语回答的题，整合句子时需注意句式结构完整，注意不要遗漏谓语动词、形容词、名词等传达实意的词汇。如果整合的内容超过10个单词，则尝试对小部分词或短语进行同义替换，尽量避免使用从句而造成超过字数的情况。
篇7：专八作文及参考
Part IV. Writing
Advantages and Disadvantages of Studying Abroad.
Directions: Write an essay of about words to state your view.
In the first part of your essay you should present the advantages of studying abroad. In the second part you should put forth the disadvantages of studying abroad. And in the last part you should clearly state your views about whether you prefer to study abroad or to study in your own country.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
参考范文：
Some people believe that attending a college or university in a foreign country has many advantages. They think that attending a college or university abroad can help them learn more than they can from universities in their own country, especially when they go to a developed country where they can catch up with the pace of scientific and technical advance of the world from that country' s modern lab facilities. In addition, they can pick up the latest developments of the living language there more quickly, develop their ability of coping with the routine matters such as finding a part-time job, renting a house and helping with the house work, and learn many new things to widen their views and broaden their minds.
But some people don't agree to it. They think that attending a college or university in foreign country also has many disadvantages and the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. They hold that students studying in a foreign country will have more difficulties in both life and study. The most serious problem is the language barriers. They have to spend much time learning a foreign language and even if they have learned the language, they still can' t understand thoroughly what the foreigners and teachers say just because of the unfamiliar culture background and social cu
篇8：专八作文
例文一：
Do It, but with Love and Sincerity
The year witness target=_blank class=infotextkey>witnessed the birth and boom of an activity online and offline both at home and abroad: the ice bucket challenge. Originally designed to attract public attention to the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the practice has aroused a heated debate during its development. There exist opposing views on this matter. Proponents, represented by the ALS Association, claim that it is beneficial and praiseworthy, for it substantially increased donations for sufferers of the disease. Opponents, however, argue that it wastes water, does harm to one’s body and risks becoming a form of entertainment or commercial advertisement.
Personally, I deem that both sides have an element of truth in their arguments and the issue should not be addressed in a simple and crude way.
On the one hand, no one can deny the fact that the practice has benefited patients of ALS. Many people have not only donated money but also begun to learn about the disease and pay more attention to it.
On the other hand, however, the activity does seem to have deviated from its original purpose. As we have heeded, quite a number of the attendants got involved to attract eyeballs to themselves, rather than the disease. Most remain ignorant about the disease though bombarded by pictures of celebrities soaked in iced water that went viral online.
In the final analysis, I should say that the activity is a two-edged sword. But we should not give up eating for fear of being choked. The best policy, as I see it, is to take measures to avoid the harm done by it. For instance, a campaign should be launched at the same time to provide people with more knowledge about the disease, and encourage them to help those in need with love and integrity. Besides, the activity can well take a different form in drought-stricken regions.
例文二:
Problems Created by the opulatton Explosion
This sudden increase in the population of the developing countries has come at a difficult time. Even if their population had not grown so fast they would have been facing a desperate struggle to bring the standard of living of their people up to the point at which there was enough food, housing, education, medical care and employment for everyone to have a reasonable life.The poor countries are having to run faster and faster in their economic activity in order to stay in the same place, and the gap in wealth between rich and poor countries grows wider every year.
The most pressing problem created by the rapid increase in population is a shortage of food. More mouths have to be fed every year and yet a high proportion of the existing population are not getting enough of the right kind of food. Over the past two years the total amount of food has decreased, and of course the total amount of food per person has decreased even more sharply.
More and more of the babies born in developing countries have been surviving infancy, and now nearly half the people living in those countries are under the age of 15. The adults have to work harder than ever to provide for the needs of the children,who cannot contribute to the economy until they are older. There is a shortage of schools and teachers, and there are not enough hospitals, doctors and nurses. Farming land is becoming scarce,so country people are moving to the towns and cities in the hope of finding a better standard of living. But the cities have not been able to provide housing, and the newcomers live in crowded slums.Finally, there are too few jobs, and unemployment leads to further poverty.
例文三：
In a frantic society where efficiency is put great emphasis on, maybe it is high time we should take a breath and think about the bad consequences brought about by the head-spinning life. In the following excerpts, the author presents his opinion on the slow lifestyle versus the fast one. Read the excerpts carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should:1.summarize briefly the author’s opinion;2. give your comment. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Fast-free Living What Americans would do if they were serious about stopping to smell the flowers? Is the American lifestyle slowing down, in a response to national trauma and the onset of war? Judging from commentaries by cultural analysts and newspaper columnists, the answer is yes.
A Boston Globe editorial looked back on a hard year: “But it brought growth, too, and a deeper understanding of just how fragile life is, and how what we often take for granted―the kiss goodbye in the morning, the chat with a friend, the Saturday soccer game―is what matters most.” An observation from The Washington Post: “People seem to walk more slowly. They are off their brisk, self-important stride... Motorists are driving better. They lay off their horns. They don’t jump lights.” From The Dallas Morning News: “Americans are experiencing a sort of ‘cocooning of the heart’, cultural experts say. They’re using this time to reconnect with their families and friends.”
If Americans really were beginning to slow down, the contemporary simplicity movement would not be adding another meeting or two a month to our schedules. The antidote to a frenetic work life wouldn’t be something called “power leisure”.
The celebration of the new slowness may not reflect reality, but it surely does reflect some degree of yearning. Yet there may be a few bold steps we should take to get us on the path to fast-free living.
Backpacks. The task of slowing the country down must begin with efforts aimed at prevention. It should begin early, as an inspection of any schoolchild’s backpack will reveal. These encumbrances typically have a capacity of one and a half cubic feet and hold loads of forty pounds. The contents, unpacked and spread out like a GI’s battle kit, represent hyper-achievement in microcosm. A simple yet revolutionary reform would be to decree that the capacity of school backpacks be reduced by two thirds.
Drive-thru windows. The whole point of these amenities is speed, and without intervention drive-thru service will only get faster. According to The Futurist, McDonald’s will soon introduce e-mail billing at some of its drive-thru facilities in southern California. Other chains are experimenting with an E-Z Pass system, similar to the one used for bridge and highway tolls; a transponder in the car would permit purchases to be deducted automatically from prepaid accounts.
Electric light. Another issue related to biorhythms is the seemingly inexorable drift toward a 24/7 economy. The rule of thumb is that if anything can be done twenty-four hours a day, it will be; daycare centers and dentists’ offices are now open at midnight. Almost by definition, the maintenance of basic diurnal rhythms is essential to a humane way of life. Political arithmetic may forever doom a significant rise in the gasoline tax, but what about levying a ten-cent-a-watt tax on light bulbs? One happy consequence might be a shift back to daytime baseball.
Computer keyboards. Yes, computers have made many aspects of modern life more tolerable, enabling stupendous feats of calculation, storage, and management. But they are also an attractive nuisance, putting unimaginable amounts of sheer capability―to buy, to pry, to surf, to meddle―into the hands of people unaccustomed to its wise use. One way would be to decide that every computer must have two separate keyboards―one with all the vowels and the other with the consonants.
The measures outlined above would be a start. Should more impetus be needed, we could ban cup holders from cars, demand that breaking news be delivered only by mail, and add a ball and a strike to the standard at-bat. If Americans intend to take slowness seriously, they need to start picking up the pace.
Write your response on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.
篇9：专八作文
科技对学生学习的帮助
Model Essay(范文)：
Technology has greatly improved the way we getinformation. Students can now get more information,get it more quickly, and get it more conveniently.
The Internet and the World Wide Web has opened every major library and database tostudents around the world. Information comes not only in print form, but also in multimedia.You can get audio and video data. You can get information about event in the past as well asevents that unfold as you watch your computer monitor.
Information comes at the speed of the Internet, which is to say in nanoseconds. You cantype in a few key words in your search engine, and the engine will search the entire www to findinformation on your topic. You don't have to spend hours pouring over card catalogs in thelibrary and looking at the shelves. This research is done for you instantly on the Web.
It is certainly more convenient to sit at home and do research on your computer. Yourcomputer is open 24 hours a day, unlike a library or office, which has limited hours and limitedresources. You can do research in your pajamas while you eat breakfast. What could be moreconvenient?
Technology, especially the Internet, has certainly changed the quantity and quality of theinformation we get. The speed and convenience of a computer helps students learn more,more quickly.
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As is vividlydepicted by the drawing above, the job-hunting girl refuses a service post without any hesitation, complaining that she will never take a job of serving others. At the same time she is wondering why finding a promising job is so difficult in modern society.
This phenomenon can easily be found anywhere in our daily life, especially on campus. On the one hand, many job-seekers are reluctant to take jobs that they consider to be humble and trivial, because they have great ambitions and they only want to ride on the peak of success. On the other hand, wanting to gain more but pay less, both the jobless and graduating students aspire to seek a job that is well-paid, relaxed and comfortable. We should not look down upon service industry, the third industry, because it does provide us with many employment opportunities and positions.
Therefore, it is high time that we took effective measures to improve the current situation. For one thing, an education campaign should be launched to popularize the idea that “the longest journey starts with a single step” and to cultivate a down-to-earth attitude toward life. For another, the tendency of being lazy must be eradicated from the mind of the young. Only in this way can people realize their value of life better and can unemployment rate be reduced and thus can social harmony be achieved.
篇10：英语专八写作经典句型
用于驳斥的比较的常用句型1
1. In general， I don’t agree with...
2. In my opinion， this point of view doesn’t hold water.
3. The chief reason why...， is that...
4. There is no doubt that...
5. It is not true that...
6. It can be easily denied that...
7. We have no reason to believe that...
8. What is more serious is that...
9. But it is a pity that...
10. Besides， we should not neglect that...
11. But the problem is not so simple. Therefore....
12. Others may find this to be true， but I believe that...
用于驳斥的比较的常用句型2
1. Perhaps I will question why...
2. There is a certain amount of truth in this， but we still have a problem with regard to...
3. Though we are in basic agreement with...， but...
4. What seems to be the trouble is...
5. Yet differences will be found，that’s why I feel that...
6. It would be reasonable to take the view that...，but it would be foolish to claim that...
7. There is in fact no reason for us to believe that...
8. What these people fail to consider is that...
9. It is one thing to insist that...，it is quite another to show that...
10. Wonderful as A is， however，it has its own disadvantages too.
11. The advantages of B are much greater than A.
12. As advantage sounds ridiculous when B，s advantages are taken into consideration.
用于描写图表和数据的常用句型
1. It has increased by three times as compared with that of .
2. There is an increase of 20% in total this year.
3. It has been increased by a factor of 4 since 1995.
4. It would be expected to increase 5 times.
5. The table shows a three times increase over that of last year.
6. It was decreased twice than that of the year .
7. The total number was lowered by 10%.
8. It rose from 10 -15 percent of the total this year.
9. Compared with ，it fell from 15 to 10 percent.
10. The number is 5 times as much as that of 1995.
11. It has decreased almost two and half times， compared with...
篇11：英语专八改错练习题
英语专八改错练习题
One important outcome of the work on the expression of genes in developing embryos is sure to be knowledge that can help preventing birth defects. Just as promising (26) is the possibility of unraveling the complicated writing (27) of the brain. A mechanic gets valuable insight how an (28) automobile works by rebuilding car engines; similarly, neuroscientists can learn how the brain functions from (29) the way it is put together. The next step pursuing the (30) goal is to find out how the blueprint genes, the home box genes, control the expression of other genes that create the valves and piston of the working cerebral engine.
The protein encoded by the latter genes could change the (31) stickiness of the cell surface, the shape of the cell or its metabolism to create the characteristic peculiar to, say, neurons or neural-crest cell. Surface proteins may be the (32) mechanism, whereby similar programmed cells stick together to form specific structures; they might also sense (33)the local environment to help the cell decide what is to do.
Clarifying those mechanisms will engage the best talents in (34) embryology and molecular biology for some times to come. (35) What is perhaps the most intriguing question of all is if the brain is powerful enough to solve the puzzle of its own creation.
参考答案：
26.preventing 改为 prevent
27.complicated 改为 complexion
28.sight 后加 into
29.neuroscientist 改为 a neuroscientist
30.pursuing 后加 in
31.later 改为 latter
32.similar 改为 similarly
33.去掉 is
34.times 改为 time
35.if 改为 whether
篇12：英语专八模拟试题
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专八模拟试题(写作篇2)
It has recently been announced that a new restaurant may be built in your neighborhood. Do you support or oppose this plan? Why? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer. 参考范文:
I can see both advantages and disadvantages to having a new restaurant built in our neighborhood. I’m worried about traffic and how it will affect our neighborhood. However, I think that it will benefit local businesses and increase appreciation for our neighborhood. Overall, I think it is a good idea.
Traffic congestion is always a concern when you build something new. Our streets are narrow, with parking on both sides. More cars traveling through the neighborhood could cause a lot of congesting. Traffic means parking problems, too. Our neighborhood has very few garages attached to the houses. Most of us depend on finding a space to park on the street. If the new restaurant is built, we’ll be competing for those spaces with the restaurant’s patrons. Plus, if the restaurant offers wallet parking, it’ll be even worse. Valet parkers work in teams to grab every possible space available on the street.
I’m also concerned about the type of patrons this new restaurant will bring into our neighborhood. A family restaurant wouldn’t be a problem. However, if it’s going have a bar and dancing, then there could be problems. The restaurant would stay open later, and people leaving the restaurant might be drunk. Who wouldn’t worry about rowdy customers staggering around our neighborhood in the early morning hours, looking for their cars?
I have to admit, though, there are advantages to a new restaurant. Our neighborhood could certainly use the jobs the restaurant would provide. Not only that, the money neighborhood residents would earn there would likely be spent at other neighborhood businesses. This would give a boost to those businesses and make our neighborhood more prosperous. A new restaurant would also attract a lot of people to our neighborhood. They could see what a nice area this is to live. That might attract new residents to the neighborhood. That would be a good thing, because we’ve been losing residents to the suburbs the last couple of years.
There are a lot of details to consider, but all in all, I support the idea of this new restaurant in our neighborhood
篇13：英语专八考试常用短语
下面是英语专八考试当中常用的一些短语，一起来学习吧。
1. abide by(=be faithful to;obey)忠于;遵守
2. be absent from… 缺席，不在
3. absence of mind(=being absent-minded) 心不在焉
4. absorb(=take up the attention of)吸引…的注意力(被动语态)be absorbed in 全神贯注于…(近义短语：be engrossed in;be lost in;be rapt in;be concentrated on;be focused on;be centered on)
5. (be) abundant in(be rich in;be well supplied with) 富于，富有
6. access(to) (不可数名词) 能接近，进入，了解
7. by accident(=by chance， accidentally)偶然地，意外 Without accident(=safely) 安全地
8. of one's own accord(=without being asked;willingly;freely)自愿地，主动地
9. in accord with 与…一致 out of one's accord with 同…不一致
10. with one accord (=with everybody agreeing)一致地
11. in accordance with (=in agreement with) 依照，根据
12. on one's own account 1) 为了某人的缘故， 为了某人自己的利益 2) (=at one's own risk) 自行负责 3) (=by oneself)依靠自己 on account 赊账;on account of 因为;on no account不论什么原因也不;of …account 有…重要性
13. take…into account(=consider)把...考虑进去
14. give sb. an account of 说明， 解释 (理由)
15. account for (=give an explanation or reason for) 解释， 说明
16. on account of (=because of) 由于，因为
17. on no account(=in no case， for no reason)绝不要，无论如何不要(放句首时句子要倒装)
18. accuse…of…(=blame sb. for sth.;blame sth. on sb.;complain about) 指控，控告
19. be accustomed to (=be in the habit of，be used to)习惯于
20. be acquainted with(=to have knowledge of)了解;(=to have met socially ) 熟悉
21. act on 奉行，按照…行动;act as 扮演;act for 代理
22. adapt oneself to(=adjust oneself to) 使自己适应于
23. adapt…(for) (=make sth. suitable for a new need) 改编， 改写(以适应新的需要)
24. in addition (=besides) 此外， 又， 加之
25. in addition to(=as well as， besides， other than)除…外
26. adhere to (=abide by， conform to， comply with， cling to， insist on， pe rsist in， observe， opinion， belief ) 粘附;坚持， 遵循
27. adjacent(=next to， close to) 毗邻的， 临近的
28. adjust..(to) (=change slightly)调节;适应
29. admit of (=be capable of， leave room for) …的可能，留有…的余地
30. in advance (before in time) 预告， 事先
31. to advantage 有利的，使优点更加突出地
32. have an advantage over 胜过 have the advantage of 由于…处于有利条件 have the advantage of sb.知道某人所不知道的事
33. take advantage of (=make the best of， utilize， make use of， profit from， harness)利用
34. agree with 赞同(某人意见) agree to 同意
35. in agreement (with) 同意， 一致
36. ahead of 在…之前， 超过…;ahead of time 提前
37. in the air 1)不肯定， 不具体 2)在谣传中
38. above all (=especially， most important of all) 尤其是， 最重要的
39. in all (=counting everyone or everything， altogether) 总共， 总计
40. after all 毕竟，到底;(not) at all 一点也不;all at once(=suddenly)突然;once and for all 只此一次;above all 最重要的;first of all 首先;all in all 大体上说;be all in 累极了;all but 几乎
41. allow for (=take into consideration， take into account) 考虑到， 估计到
42. amount to (=to be equal to) 总计， 等于
43. answer for (undertake responsibility for， be liable for， take charge for) 对…负责
44. answer to (=conform to) 适合，符合
45. be anxious about 为…焦急不安;或anxious for
46. apologize to sb. for sth. 为…向…道歉
47. appeal to sb. for sth. 为某事向某人呼吁appeal to sb. 对某人有吸引力
48. apply to sb. for sth. 为…向…申请 ;apply for申请;apply to 适用
49. apply to 与…有关;适用
50. approve of (=consent to， be in favor of， favor， agree to， consider good， right) 赞成， approve vt. 批准
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