全国2008年1月高教自学考试英语（二）试题

Ⅰ.语法、词汇。用适当的词填空。从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个正确答案，并填在答题纸相应的位置上。（本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分）

Complete each of the following sentences with the most likely answer.(20 points)

1．Her devotion ______ the cause of education is a great encouragement to all of us.

A．to                      B．for

C．by                      D．in

2．Susan prides herself ______ her ability to remain calm when trouble suddenly happens.

A．of                           B．with

C．for                          D．on

3．After his illness, he was advised to ______ gardening as a hobby.

A．turn into                           B．take up

C．enter                               D．engage

4．I’m sorry I cannot see you immediately; but if you’d like to take a seat, I’ll be with you

______.

A．for a moment                       B．in a moment

C．for the moment                     D．at the moment

5．The shy girl felt ______ and uncomfortable when she couldn’t answer her teacher’s questions.

A．amazed                                   B．awkward

C．curious                                  D．amused

6．We had to ______ a lot of noise when the children were at home.

A．go in for                          B．hold on to

C．put up with                        D．keep pace

7．I’m terribly sorry to keep you ______ so long.

A．waiting                                     B．wait

C．to wait                                     D．from waiting

8．The tradition has been ______ since the ancient times.

A．passed by                           B．passed on

C．passed to                           D．passed down

9．It was difficult to ______ what was said over the loudspeaker in the square.

A．make off                                  B．make up

C．make out                                  D．make away

10．I always have a dictionary within arm’s ______.

A．touch                                         B．reach

C．range                                         D．distance

11．A man should be judged ______his deeds, not his words.

A．according to                               B．in

C．from                                       D．by

12．The criminal was ______ of committing theft.

A．accused                                     B．prevented

C．kept                                        D．separate

13．Mother and father were invited to the party, but ______ of them came.

A．either                              B．none

C．both                                D．neither

14．Her car ______ so she had to come by bus.

A．turn down                                B．fell in

C．broke down                               D．broke up

15．Wipe the dust ______ the furniture.

A．off                                    B．with

C．onto                                   D．out of

16．Although he lives quite a distance away from my home, ______ he pays me a visit.

A．then and now                               B．here and there

C．now and then                               D．when and then

17．Only in the spring ______ .

A．the flowers do bloom                   B．the flowers bloom

C．the flowers can bloom                  D．do the flowers bloom

18．The clock ______ three and we could go home now.

A．fight                                B．struck

C．ring                                 D．sounded

19．The farmer built fences to ______ the boundaries of his land.

A．mark                              B．signal

C．have                              D．make

20．When the class was over, we went back to our ______ dormitories.

A．complacent                       B．respectable

C．respective                      D．respectful

Ⅱ.完形填空。从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择一个正确答案，并填在答题纸相应的位置

上。（本大题共15小题，每小题1分，共15分）

Choose the most likely answers to complete the passage from the words given.(15 points)

My wife and I share most of the housework fairly equally. There are only a few jobs that only one of us does, and the rest are thought of as   21  duty. This situation  22   naturally rather than being the result of some    23   design. It is the result of our both having careers and  24   to the income of the household. If    25    of us, for some reason, stopped working outside the home, the    26    of responsibility would certainly change.

Since I began doing housework on an equal    27    what has    28    me is how easy it is. I do not mean that all the housework itself is easy; I mean that to take over tasks    29    regarded as “women’s work” was not as difficult a personal experience as I had expected. I thought, then ,that I would not only    30    curious attention from other people, but that I would have difficulty personally adjusting to    31    housework in a home in which my father never did any, and where I had never been obliged to do any either.

I was quite surprised, then, when not only   32   I not receive so much as a     33  

eyebrow when wheeling a baby carriage down the middle of my street, but I found myself enjoying these new tasks very much.    34    that I enjoy every aspect of child care, cooking, and cleaning. A few things about child care are    35    .But the whole experience made me curious about the experience of other men who had taken over housework as I had done . I wondered how they felt about it, whether they found it as much of an adventure as I did, if they learned about themselves as much as I had.

21. A. average                B. couple                    C. common                    D. double

22. A. arrived                B. developed               C. grew                         D. rose

23. A. awake                  B. aware                     C. conscious                  D. sensible

24. A. contributing         B. donating                 C. giving                       D. saving

25. A. all                       B. both                       C. either                        D. neither

26. A. division               B. form                      C. organization              D. pattern

27. A. basis                    B. founding                C. ground                      D. share

28. A. changed               B. hit                         C. struck                       D. taught

29. A. conventionally      B. historically             C. frequently                 D. wrongly

30. A. attract                  B. meet                      C. have                         D. hold

31. A. been doing           B. being doing            C. do                            D. doing

32. A. could                   B. did                        C. must                         D. need

33. A high                     B. knotted                  C. lifted                        D. questioning

34. A. Even                   B. Not                        C. So                            D. While

35. A. disgusting            B. extreme                  C. torturing                   D. unpleasant

Ⅲ.句子释义。从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择一个正确答案，并填在答题纸相应的位置上。（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）

Choose the closest paraphrased version for each of the sentences. (10 points)

36. I’d have given the rest of my life for a single gulp of water.

A. I’d like to have a big mouthful of water in order to save my life.

B. I’d rather not have a big mouthful of water in order to save my life.

C. A big mouthful of water is what I need to save my life.

D. I’d rather have a big mouthful of water at the expense of my life.

37. Does it pay to make sacrifices for children?

A. Is it profitable to make sacrifices for children?

B. Is it right to make sacrifices for children?

C. Is it worthwhile to make sacrifices for children?

D. Is it favorable to make sacrifices for children?

38. It makes me very humble to think of a guy like Scotty.

A. When I think of a great actor like Scotty, I feel ashamed of myself.

B. When I think of a great actor like Scotty, I know that I should learn to be modest.

C. Compared with a great actor like Scotty, I am so immature.

D. Compared with a great actor like Scotty, I am so unimportant.

39. My kind employer soon relieved me of the strain.

A. Before long ,my kind employer set me free from the great tension.

B. Before long, my kind employer dismissed me from the work.

C. Before long , my kind employer made me feel relaxed.

D. Before long, my kind employer made me feel comfortable.

40. It seems, nowadays, a matter of universal desire that poverty should be abolished.

A. Nowadays the world is confronting with serious problem of poverty.

B. Nowadays it seems that a large number of people are still living in poverty.

C. Nowadays many people express their desire that they will not live in poverty.

D. Nowadays people all over the world seem to have a common wish that we should do away with poverty.

41. Nowhere is thinking courtesy more important than in marriage.

A. People think courtesy is not important in marriage.

B. People think courtesy is important in marriage.

C. Thinking courtesy is less important in marriage than anywhere else.

D. Thinking courtesy is more important in marriage than anywhere else.

42. He could think of no answer but the truth.

A. He couldn’t think at all.

B. Except truth he couldn’t think of any answer.

C. He thought the answer was true.

D. He couldn’t think of any answer.

43. She had sunk into unconsciousness.

A. She had lost consciousness.

B. She had been knocked unconsciousness.

C. She had regained consciousness.

D. Someone had beaten her into unconsciousness.

44. But try to break it gently to Laura.

A. But try to make it known to Laura gently.

B. But do let Laura know it.

C. But Laura is the best one to know the fact.

D. But try to keep it a secret from Laura.

45. Seven days before the design is due, I’m still in a blocked state.

A. Seven days before the design is finished, I have almost exhausted myself to death.

B. Seven days before the design is finished, I’m still in a blocked state.

C. When there is only seven days left before the deadline, I still have many puzzles to solve.

D. When there is only seven days left before the deadline, I just lost my way.

Ⅳ.阅读理解。认真阅读下列两篇短文，每篇短文后有5个问题，根据课文内容从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择一个正确答案，并填在答题纸相应的位置上。（本大题共10小题，每小题1.5分，共15分）

Read the two passages and answer the questions. (15 points)

Passage 1
Chinese basketball players have never been so close to the NBA before, but questions remain about how they will adjust to life in the NBA if they go. Wang Zhizhi, the 2.16-metre center for the Bayi Rockets who was chosen by the Dallas Mavericks two years ago, has finally received permission from authorities to travel to Dallas to play for the rest of the NBA season after he finishes playing in the Chinese Basketball Associations finals on March 25th. If he has no problems with his visa, Wang will be the NBA’s first Asian player. Wang was chosen by the Mavericks in the second round of the 1999 draft, but the Rockets, an army-run club, refused to let him go. After negotiations between the Rockets and NBA representatives, the decision was made to allow Wang the chance to try his hand at American basketball, but only for a short period of time. He has to be back to play in the Ninth National Games in November in Guangzhou. Another center who has attracted attention from the NBA is Yao Ming, the 2.25-meter star who has led the Shanghai Sharks into the final fight with the Rockets this year. The 20-year-old’s NBA dreams might be harder to realize. Yao is the center of the Sharks and the club’s manager Bei Genyuan has said that he would allow Yao to go only at a proper time, for a proper team and under proper conditions. Yao hasn’t been chosen yet and it is unlikely that he will be any time soon. People in the Shark’s front office earlier told members of the press that “it is not proper for Yao to attend the draft this year” because he has to represent Shanghai in the Ninth National Games. Even if Wang and Yao make it to the promised land of basketball at last, analysts on both sides of the Pacific have said the NBA road will be a long one for both of them. Besides needing to work on their upper body strength, Wang and Yao will also have to adapt to the speed, techniques and above all, culture of the NBA.

46．Yao Ming has attracted attention from NBA because________.

A．he is 2.25 meters tall, who is the tallest basketball player in China

B．he is the center  of the Shanghai Sharks and has led Sharks into the final fight with the Rockets

C．he is regarded as the best basketball player in China

D．he is thought highly of in the international world

47．Yao Ming can play for NBA if ________.

A．there is no problem with his visa

B．NBA agrees to supply favorable conditions for him

C．time and conditions are proper

D．NBA can pay a large sum of money for Sharks

48．The underlined phrase “try his hand” in the passage probably means________.

A．初试身手                B．碰碰运气             C．成为一员                D．为其效劳

49．NBA chose Wang Zhizhi so that ________.

A．he can bring talent to the NBA

B．he can have a bright future

C．he can have a try at the NBA basketball

D．he can become world-famous

50．When Wang Zhizhi plays in NBA, he will have to adapt to many things of NBA except________.

A．rules of basketball

B．the speed

C．culture

D．techniques

Passage 2
Scattered through the seas of the world are billions of tons of small plants and animals called plankton (浮游生物). Most of these plants and animals are too small for the human eye to see. They drift about lazily with the currents, providing a basic food for many larger animals.

Plankton has been described as the equivalent (相等物) of the grasses that grow on the dry land continents, and the comparison is an appropriate one. In potential food value, however, plankton far outweighs that of the land grasses. One scientist has estimated that while grasses of the world produce about 49 billion tons of valuable carbohydrates (碳水化合物) each year, the sea’s plankton generates more than twice as much.

Despite its enormous food potential, little effort was made until recently to farm plankton as we farm grasses on land. Now, marine scientists have at last begun to study this possibility, especially as the sea’s resources loom even more important as a means of feeding an expanding world population.

No one yet has seriously suggested that “plankton-burgers” may soon become popular around the world. As a possible farmed supplementary food source, however, plankton is gaining considerable interest among marine scientists.

One type of plankton that seems to have great harvest possibilities is a tiny shrimp-like creature called krill (磷虾). Growing to two or three inches long, krill provide the major food for the giant blue whale, the largest animal ever to inhabit the Earth. Realizing that this whale may grow to 100 feet and weigh 150 tons at maturity, it is not surprising that each one devours more than one ton of krill daily.

Krill swim about just below the surface in huge schools sometimes miles wide, mainly in the cold Antarctic. Because of their pink color, they often appear as a solid reddish mass when viewed from a ship or from the air. Krill are very high in food value. A pound of these crustaceans contains about 460 calories―about the same as shrimp or lobster, to which they are related.

If the krill can feed such huge creatures as whales, many scientists reason, they must certainly be contenders as a new food source for humans.

51．Which of the following statements best describes the organization of the passage?

A．The author presents the advantages and disadvantages of plankton as a food source.

B．The author quotes public opinion to support the argument for farming plankton.

C．The author makes a general statement about plankton as a food source and then moves to a specific example.

D．The author introduces two kinds of sea food: plankton and krill

52．Which of the following is NOT true about plankton?

A．It refers to forms of organic life that drift in or float on the waters of oceans or rivers.

B．It refers to grasses and the like that grow at the bottom of the ocean.

C．It refers to small plants and animals that provide a basic food for many larger animals.

D．It is scattered through the seas of the world.

53．According to the passage, plankton is considered to be more valuable than land grasses, because_____.

A．it is more tasty

B．it produces more carbohydrates

C．it is easier to cultivate

D．The quality of it is much more than the land grass

54．Marine scientists have begun to study the possibility of farming plankton because_____.

A．they are encouraged by the former efforts made about it

B．the sea resources appear more important as a means of feeding an expanding world population

C．plankton can be fertilizers to grasses

D．It is easier to cultivate plankton than land grass

55．When the author mentions “plankton-burgers” in Paragraph 4, he wants_____.

A．to describe the appearance of one type of plankton

B．to illustrate how many planktons a whale consumes

C．to suggest plankton as a possible food source

D．to illustrate that the plankton is very delicious

Ⅴ.词形转换。将括号里提供的词转换成适当的词形填入答题纸上相应的位置。（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）

Complete each of the following sentences with a (compound) word derived from the one(s) given in brackets. (10 points)

56．Since the party is very informal, whether you wear the red dress or the blue dress is really_______.(important)

57．More than any other single_______, writing has transformed human consciousness.(invent)

58．When he refused to talk, the soldiers_______ to kill him. (threat)

59．Fishing and mountain-climbing are his favorite _______.(relax)

60．The policeman’s _______ was to discover the murderer. (assign)

61．This _______ exercise is a good test of your student’s competence. (challenge)

62．They have been through a lot together in their fifty years of _______. (marry)

63．The weather _______ greatly from morning till night in that area. (variable)

64．It’s just a casual occasion, so it’ll be all right if you dress_______. (formal)

65．In carrying out a successful lesson, a teacher needs the students’ _______. (cooperative)

Ⅵ.句子翻译。将下列句子译成英语，译文写在答题纸上相应的位置。如括号内有特定要求，请按要求答题。（本大题共5小题，每小题3分，共15分）

Translate the following sentences into English. (15 points)

66．在中国，城市家庭只允许生一个孩子。

67．随着劳动力市场的竞争日趋激烈，许多人不再把他们目前的工作看成是理所当然的了。

68．他从一生的经历中体会到，友谊和爱比金钱重要的多。

69．他感到他从工作中所得到的与所投入的不相称。

70．为了减少污染，他从不在等候的时间里让自己的汽车引擎开着。

Ⅶ.作文。根据所学的一篇课文，在答题纸相应的位置上写出150字左右的短文。（本大题要求写成短文形式，本大题15分）

Write a short composition of about 150 words based on one of the texts you have learned.

71. Topic:“Heroes inspire respect, celebrities inspire envy.”

   The text you should base your composition on is “Icons”.