全国2 0 1 3年1月高等教育自学考试 综合英语(二)试题
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Ⅰ.语法、词汇。从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个正确答案，并将“答题纸”的 相应代码涂黑。错涂、多涂或未涂均无分。(本大题共15小题，每小题1分，共15分)
1. ______ English, they have to study a second foreign language.
A. Except B. Except for
C. Besides D. Beside
2. Without trees our world ______ a much drier place.
A. is B. will be
C. would be D. must be
3.I would have gone with you, but I ______ too tired.
A. was B. had been
C. must be D. must have been
4. His father was an under-paid worker, ______ hard life turned him into a rebel.
A. whose B. which
C. of whose D. of which
5. The electricity was cut off while the film ______ .
A. was shown B. was to show
C. was showing D. was being shown
6.What ______ honest man he is.
A.a B./
C. the D. an
7. I’d like to have ______ with you sometime this week about your approaching examination.
A. a word B. some word
C. some words D. one word
8. Only in recent years ______ begun to realize that wild dogs, kept within bounds, often do more good than harm.
A. people have B. since people have
C. have people D. people who have
9. ______ makes mistakes must correct them.
A. What B. That
C. Whoever D. Whatever
10. It worried her a bit ______ her hair was turning gray.
A. while B. that
C. if D. for
11. Have you seen Henry lately? My boss wants to know ______ .
A. how he is getting along B. how is he getting along
C. what he is getting along D. what is he getting along
12.I don’t know how to get Susan to give up smoking, but I’m going to do it ______ .
A. in any case B. in no case
C. by some means D. by no means
13. Human beings ______ a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects.
A. oblige B.owe
C. thank D. gratitude
14. ______ , the worse I seem to feel.
A. When I take some medicine B. The more medicine I take
C. Taking more of the medicine D. The more medicine taken
15. He spoke so ______ that even his opponents were impressed by his words.
A. frankly B. clearly
C. convincingly D. loudly
Ⅱ.完形填空。从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个正确答案，并将“答题纸”的相应代码涂黑。错涂、多涂或未涂均无分。(本大题共1 5小题，每小题1分，共15分)
There is a workman in America who earns as much as a company director. He is Max Quarterman, a thirty-year-old plasterer(泥瓦匠).
Max lives in an upper middle-class housing estate. His 16 are mostly bank managers, business executives, airline pilots and the like, but Max’s seven-bedroom house— 17 $
80,000—is the largest in the area. 18 outside the house are Max’s $7000 sports car and his wife’s Morris Mini. 19 is a 150 color TV set and the family’s pride— a circular bath with gold-plated taps. There are also many labor—saving 20 and luxury(豪华) furniture.
How can a plasterer 21 all this? The answer, says Max, is hard work. In partnership with another plasterer, Max does contract plastering jobs for a firm. The owner of the firm 22
them as human machines, the best and quickest in the 23 , who can do as much in two days as any two-man team can in two weeks.
How do they 24 it? Not by working overtime. They work a normal eight-hour day, five days a week. The secret 25 in Max’s hod(桶) in which he carries the plaster(石膏) to the site of the job. Max’s is a superhod—it contains double the usual weight of plaster, and Max, a strong fellow, runs when he carries it. More time is thus 26 to get on with the plastering. Besides, 27 man wastes time smoking, and they 28 their lunch break to a 29 of an hour a day. Now Max earns over $800 a week which is four times the average weekly pay in America today, and if he gets as 30 as $150, it’s a disaster.
16. A. friends B. neighbors
C. relatives D. colleagues
17.A.worthy B. spending
C. costing D. worth
18. A. Stopped B. Stopping
C. Parked D. Parking
19.A.Indoors B. Outdoors
C. Nearby D. Inside
20. A. objects B. devices
C. articles D. materials
21.A.buy B. use
C. afford D. provide
22.A.tells B. says
C. compares D. describes
23.A.trade B. job
C. area D. walk
24.A. manage B. get
C. do D. finish
25.A. is B. lies
C. hides D. falls
26.A.left B. needed
C. spent D. kept
27.A. both B. either
C. neither D. each
28.A.have B. cut
C. miss D. spend
29.A.time B. period
C. limit D. total
30.A. much B. little
C. more D. less
Ⅲ.难句释义。从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个正确答案，并将“答题纸”的相应代码涂黑。错涂、多涂或未涂均无分。(本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分)
31. As long as we could look forward to getting a drink [of that water] later, there was something to live for.
A. We were all eager to drink that water.
B. We shouldn’t just live for a drink of water.
C. If we had drunk up the water, we would be dead.
D. We needed something to live for, and now it was the hope of getting a drink of that water.
32. If they [parents] give in, they feel regret and resentment over having been a pushover.
A. They make up their mind to be more strict.
B. They never regret that they have given in.
C. They feel upset that they haven’t been kind enough.
D. They are sorry and angry that they haven’t been firm enough.
33. What was a butterfly to do among bulls and bears?
A. It was absolutely impossible for a butterfly to win when competing with bulls and bears.
B. He was doomed to failure in the stock market because he was always expecting too much.
C. A person who couldn’t settle down on any job was sure to fail in the stock market.
D. As he didn’t have much money, he couldn’t be successful in the stock market.
34. Rapport to most of us (Americans) is less important than performance.
A. In the business world, most of us (Americans) consider establishing close relationship with others is more important than going to have performance with them.
B. Most of us (Americans) measure our potential business partners by what they have done instead of what they have said in their reports.
C. When we (Americans) do business with others, whether they are successful is most important; relationship doesn’t count.
D. In business dealings, most of us (Americans) pay more attention to the previous achievements of the other party than to their personal relationship with us.
35. Food was short: his vegetable garden became less a hobby than a necessity.
A. Due to lack of food, it was necessary for him to plant vegetables.
B. He used to plant vegetables as a hobby. Now because of lack of food, it became his necessary labor.
C. Planting vegetables was not his hobby, but he had to work in his garden.
D. Without enough food, he had to plant vegetables in his garden.
36. I can identify with you because I’m able to see myself in you and you in me.
A. I’m able to understand you for you look like me and I look like you.
B. I’m able to understand you for we can find ourselves in each other.
C. We bear some resemblance to each other so I can recognize you.
D. I can identify with you because I have extraordinary power and can see me in you and you in me.
37. Seven days before the design is due, I’m still deadlocked.
A. While the deadline is drawing near, I’m locked in a deadly trap.
B. While the deadline is drawing near, I meet with a difficult problem.
C. While the deadline is drawing near, I still have the problems unsolved.
D. While the deadline is drawing near, I develop a terrible case of bloodshot eyes.
38.“If you think I’m going to raise a good-for-nothing,” she said,“ you’ve got another think coming.”
A.“ If you think I’m going to bring up a useless person,” she said,“ you are completely wrong.”
B.“If you think I’m going to bring up a useless person,” she said,“ you should think about it carefully.”
C.“If you think I’m going to bring up a useless person,” she said,“ you are thinking something else.”
D.“You are wrong to think I’m going to bring up a useless person for you are very promising,” she said.
39. He could think of no answer but the truth.
A. He had to tell the real fact because he could not find other answers.
B. He had to tell the truth if he was asked.
C. He had to tell the truth if he could not answer.
D. He answered but that was not the real fact.
40. It would be a shallow kind of optimism to assume that the introduction of the art of inventing has been an immediate and unmixed blessing to mankind.
A. It would be a shallow kind of optimism to believe that the introduction of the art of inventing has directly benefited only mankind.
B. It would be a shallow kind of optimism to believe that the introduction of the art of inventing has benefited mankind directly.
C. It would be a shallow kind of optimism to think that the introduction of the art of inventing has blessed mankind immediately and blessed only mankind.
D. It would be a shadow kind of optimism to believe that the introduction of the art of inventing has benefited mankind immediately and brought them only benefit.
