自考英语试题含参考答案Word格式.docx

1、BandCsoDtherefore4.No one has been able to prove that fish is _ better for the brain than many other kinds of food.AsomeBsoCasDany5. Tomatoes were once called love apples and were supposed to make those who ate them _in love.AfellBfeelCfallDfelt6.Washing food down with water as a _for chewing is not

2、 a good habit.AdirectionBsubstituteCpossibilityDresource7. It is important to realize that the same technology _helps us may also harm us.AasBthatCwhatDwhen8.Science began to develop rapidly when man laid _his wrong beliefs and began to seek true explanations.AoutBdownCasideDoutside9.Remember,nothin

3、g hurts concentration _reading too slowly.Arather thanBas well ascmore thanDinstead of10. More and more people are realizing that there is a _between heart disease and the way one lives.AcorrespondenceBcomparisonCconnectionDconsequenceII. Cloze Test （10 points,1point for each）下列短文有十个空白，每个空白有四个选项。根据上

4、下文要求选出最佳答案，并在答题纸上将相应的字母涂黑。Fear and its companion pain are two of the most useful things that men and animals possess, if they are properly used. If fire did not hurt when it burnt, children would play with it _11_their hands were burnt away, _12_,if pain existed but fear did not, a child would burn

5、itself again and again, because fear would not _13_it to keep away from the fire that had burnt it before. Fear and pain are there fore two guards _14_which men and animals might soon die out.In the first sentence we suggest that fear ought to be properly used. If ,_15_,you never go out of your hous

6、e _16_of the danger of being knocked down and killed in the street by a car, you are letting fear rule you too _17_.Even in your house you are not absolutely _18_:an airplane may crash on your house or you may get cancer!The important thing is not to let fear rule you, but _19_to use fear as your se

7、rvant and guide. Fear will warn you of dangers; _20_you have to decide what action to take.11.abecausebif cthough duntil12.aGenerallybProbablycSimilarly dConsequently13.awarn brequest cmanagedprotect14.awith bwithout cfor dagainst15.aafter allbby chance cfor example din fact16.aregardless bbecause c

8、in termsdin front17.alittle bmore cmany dmuch18.afirm bcalm csafe dstrong19.ainsteadbbetter csimilarly dfurther20.athen botherwise clikewisedevenIII. Reading comprehension （30 points, 2 points for each）从下列每篇短文的问题后所给的四个选择项中选出一个最佳答案，并在答题纸上将相应的字母涂黑。Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the followi

9、ng passage.The problem of leisure is new. Until very recent times people worked each day to the limit of their strength. Of course there were always a privileged （有特权的）few who had leisure; but most men had to work 12, 14, or even 16 hours a day, six days a week. As late as 1840 the average factory w

10、orker labored 72 hours a week. Sunup to sundown was the farmers day, or as another phrase puts it, from can to cant.Today, working less than a 40-hour week, people enjoy more leisure time. Hence, the wise use of leisure time has become an important problem for everyone, young or old. It is a particu

11、larly difficult problem for the sick, the aged, and those who have retired from earning a living. Those people have so much leisure that it is hard for them to find interesting and worthwhile ways to use it.However short the work week becomes, work is still the most important part of life. We do not

12、 work to get leisure and the pleasures leisure brings us; rather, we use leisure wisely so that work itself can become awarding and enjoyable. The feeling of success at doing ones daily work-whether it is a job, maintaining a home, or going to school-depends largely on coming to it each day with fre

13、sh energy and active interest.Leisure and recreation （消遗）go together, though they are not necessarily the same thing. Recreation has and obvious meaning. It is the kind of leisure activity that brings re-creation of strength and spirit. When one speaks of making good use of leisure, he means choosin

14、g recreational activities which contribute to health, growth, and spirit.21. The phrase t in Paragraph 1 means _.afrom beginning to endbfrom birth to deathcfrom morning to nightdfrom time to time22.How to spend leisure time wisely is not a particularly difficult problem for people _.awho are very bu

15、sy everydaybwho are sick in bedcwho are aged and in good healthdwho have retired from work23.How does the author look at work and leisure?aWe work hard so that we can enjoy more leisure.bWe enjoy leisure so that we can come back to work with fresh energy.cLeisure can bring us a lot of pleasures that

16、 work can not.dThe success of work has little to do with how we spend our leisure time.24. What is the relationship between leisure and recreation, according to the author?aLeisure and recreation are closely related.bLeisure and recreation are identical.cRecreation covers all kinds of leisure activi

17、ties.dRecreation does not belong to any leisure activity.25. From the passage we know that _.aleisure has been an old problem since ancient timesbleisure can not be replaced as the most important part of lifecour success in work is mostly determined by whether we use leisure wiselydgood recreational

18、 activities contribute greatly to health, growth and spiritPassage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.Each nation has its own peculiar character which distinguishes it from others. But the peoples of the world have more points in common than points in which they differ. One typ

19、e of person that is common in every country is the one who always tries to do as little as possible and to get as much as possible in return. His opposite, the man who is in the habit of doing more than is strictly necessary and who is ready to accept what is offered in return, is rare everywhere.Bo

20、th these types are usually unconscious of their character. The man who avoids effort is always talking about his rights: he appears to think that society owes him a pleasant, easy life. The man who is always doing more than his share talks of duties he feels that the individual is in debt to society

21、, and not society to the individual. As a result of their views, neither of these men thinks that he behaves at all strangely.The man who tries to do as little as he can is always full of excuses: if he has neglected to do something, it was because he had a headache, or the weather was too hot -or t

22、oo cold- or because he was prevented by bad luck. At first, other people, such as his friends and his employer, generously accept his stories; but soon they realize what kind of person he is .In the long run he deceives only himself. When his friends become cool towards him and he fails to make prog

23、ress in his job, he is surprised and hurt. He blames everyone and everything except himself. He feels that society is failing in its duties towards him, and that he is being unjustly treated.26.The central idea of Paragraph 1 is that _.aeach nation is peculiar enough to enable us to distinguish it f

24、rom othersbthe peoples of the world are as alike as they are differentcthe peoples of the world have more similarities than differencesdthose who do more than is strictly necessary are common in every country27. According to Paragraph 1, the man who does more than is required _.ais ready to accept w

25、hat the society offers himbexpects nothing in return for his workcfeels that he is under heavy debtdthinks this makes his life easy28.Those who try to do as little as possible _.aenvy others good luckbare good story-tellerscsupply false reasons for their lack of responsibilitydthink that their oppos

26、ites owe them a pleasant life29. The phrase in the long run（Paragraph 3）is closest in meaning to _.ain practicebin the endcin effectdin no time30.It can be inferred from the passage that people who cheat _.awill be unjustly treatedbwill cheat only themselves eventuallycwill change their behaviordwil

27、l get surprised by their own storiesPassage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.The government may control prices when where is a problem such as rapidly increasing rents or a rise in the cost of living. When the government controls prices, there is no longer a normal relation

28、ship between the price of a product and the quantity consumers will buy. Government controls may help in an emergency （紧急情况）。However, some economists believe that controls can have negative effects over a long period of time.In cities with rent control, the city government sets the maximum rent that a landlord （房主）can charge for an apartment. Supporters of rent control argue that it protects people who are living in apartments. Their rent cannot increase; therefore, they are not in danger of losing their homes. However, the critics （批评者） say that after a long time, rent control m