根据全国各大院校2013年英语专业八级考试(TEM-8)报名统测通知，2013年英语专业八级考试时间为：2013年3月23日。

　　英语专八听力分四个部分Talk, Conversation or Interview, News Broadcast和Note-taking and Gap-filling，其中News Broadcast中会出现时政新闻，下面是今年常用的时政词汇，很可能在考试中出现，请广大考生留意。

　　政治类

　　按照客观规律和科学规律办事 act in compliance with objective and scientific laws

　　八个坚持、八个反对 eight do’s and eight don’ts

　　八项主张 eight-point proposal

　　保持昂扬向上的精神状态 be filled with an enterprising spirit

　　保证中央的政令畅通 ensure the Central Committee’s decisions are carried out without fail

　　标本兼治 address both the symptoms and root causes

　　不确定因素 uncertainties

　　参政议政 participation in and deliberation of state affairs

　　长期共存、互相监督、肝胆相照、荣辱与共 long-term coexistence, mutual supervision, treating each other with all sincerity and sharing weal and woe

　　长治久安 maintain prolonged stability

　　崇尚科学 respect and promote science

　　传播先进文化 spread advanced culture

　　传统安全威胁 traditional threats to security

　　从严治军 the army must be strict with itself

　　党的领导方式 the Party's style of leadership

　　党的民族政策 the Party's policy toward ethnic minorities

　　党的侨务政策 the Party's policy toward overseas Chinese affairs

　　党的宗教信仰自由政策 the Party's policy toward the freedom of religious belief

　　党风廉政建设责任制 responsibility system for improving the Party's work style and building clean government

　　党内情况通报制度、情况反映制度和重大决策征求意见制度 inner-Party information sharing and reporting systems and the system of soliciting opinions concerning major policy decisions

　　党要管党、从严治党 the Party exercises self-discipline and is strict with its members

　　党员管理工作 management of Party membership

　　党政机关 Party and government organs

　　党政领导干部职务任期制、辞职制和用人失察失误责任追究制 the system of fixed tenures, the system of resignation and the system of accountability for neglect of supervisory duty or the use of the wrong person with regard to leading cadres of the Party and government

　　党总揽全局、协调各方的原则 principle that the Party commands the overall situation and coordinates the efforts of all quarters

　　电子政务 e-government

　　独立负责、步调一致地开展工作 assume one’s responsibilities independently and make concerted efforts in one’s work

　　独立公正地行使审判权和检察权 exercise adjudicative and procuratorial powers independently and impartially

　　多重多头执法 duplicate law enforcement

　　多重多头执法 duplicate law enforcement

　　发展民主团结、生动活泼、安定和谐的政治局面 develop the political situation characterized by democracy, solidarity, liveliness, stability and harmony

　　发展平等团结互助的社会主义民族关系 enhance socialist ethnic relations of equality, solidarity and mutual assistance