2002年4月自考英语二试题及答案
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2002
年
4
月自考英
语（二）试卷
PART
ONE
第一部分
选择题（共
50
分）
Ⅰ
.Vocabulary and Structure
(10 points, 1 point for each item)
从下列各
句四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并将选项号填在答题纸的相应位置上。
s have shown _______ teenagers often
suffer form depression.
A. that
B. which
C. in which
D. in that
party has failed to ______ the
majority of voters that it is capable of governing
the country.
A. trust
B. credit
C. convince
D. believe
3._____ driving around all day looking
for somewhere to park, why don't you take a bus to
town?
A. In spite of
B. Rather than
C. In place of
D. Other than
kids are
_______ be hungry when they get
home
—
they always are.
A. obliged to
B. bound to
C. desired to
D. motivated
to
the
characteristics
that
distinguish
birds
____
other
animals
can
be
traced
to
prehistoric
times.
A. to
B. between
C. for
D. from
the city was _______,
everyone knew that total defeat was
certain.
A. cut off
B. cut down
C. cut across
D. cut out
we _______
everything ready by now, we should be having a
terrible time tomorrow.
A. hadn't got
B. didn't get
C.
wouldn't have got
D. wouldn’t
get
his composition there
were no other errors _______ a few misspelled
words.
A. beside
B. except
C. then
D. than
deciding
___
a
course
of
action,
the
candidates
tried
to
estimate
its
likely
impact
on
the
voters.
A. what to pursue
B. which
to pursue
C. whether to pursue
D. if to pursue
we have a focused subject, we should
not talk _______.
A. at once
B. at hand
C. at intervals
D. at random
Ⅱ
.Cloze Test (10 points, 1
point for each item)
下列短文中有十个空白，
每个空白有四个选项。
根据上下文要求选出最佳答案，
并将选项号
填在答题纸的相应位置上。
Economists
believe
that
job
earnings
influence
choice
of
occupation.
They
acknowledge
that
people place varying
emphasis __11__income, but point out that workers
tend to move from one
occupation to
another __12__changes in salaries. In 1931, H. F.
Clark, an economist, stated that
“proper
information
regarding
wages
if
sufficiently
__13__
upon
people,
will
lead
to
correct
choice
of
occupation
and
correct
__14__
of
people
in
an
occupation,
provided
barriers
to
occupations
have
been
removed.”
This
means
that
the
supply
and
demand
of
workers
have
__15__to do with wages,
__16__in turn influence people to choose certain
careers.. However, all
barriers
to
occupations
will
have
to
be
removed
__17__
career
choices
can
be
__18__
by
economics alone. There is
little question __19__economic factors have some
influence on choice
of an occupation.
But to picture them as the major or most important
reason __20__ against the
soundest of
folk wisdom:
“Man does not live by
bread alone.”
B. on
C.
into
D. for
e
B. other than
C. through
D.
because of
impress
B. to be impressed
C. impress
D.
impressed
B. amount
C. deal
D. quantity
B. much
C. lot
D. nothing
B. that
C. which
D. where
B. after
C.
until
D. when
ed
B. explained
C. expressed
D. exposed
B. which
C.
as
D. when
go
B. going
C. goes
D. go
Ⅲ
.Reading Comprehension (30
points, 2 points for each item)
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，
并将选项号填在答题纸的
相应位置上。
Passage One
Questions 21 to
25 are based on the following passage.
“No man is an island,” wrote the poet
John Donne several centuries ago. He was
a
cknowledging
one of our
most distinctive characteristics: the fact that we
are social animals whose behavior and
personalities are shaped by the groups
to which we belong.
Throughout life,
most of our daily activities are performed in the
company of others. Whether our
purpose
is working, playing, raising a family, learning,
or simply relaxing, we usually pursue it in
groups, even if the group is as small
as two or three people. Our need for human
contacts is not
merely
a
practical
one;
it
is
a
deep
psychological
need
as
well.
If
people
are
deprived
of
the
company of others for prolonged
periods, mental breakdown is the usual result.
Even the Geneva
Convention(
日
内瓦公约
), an international agreement that
regulates the treatment of prisoners of
war, recognizes this need. It regards
solitary(
孤独的
) imprisonment
for more than thirty day as a
cruel
form of torture(
折磨
).
In its strictest sense, a group is a
collection of people interacting together in an
orderly way on the
basis of shared
expectations about one another's behavior. As
result of this interaction, members
feel
a
common
sense
of
“belonging.”
They
distinguish
members
from
nonmembers
and
expect
certain kinds of behavior from
outsiders.
“No man is an island,” John
Donne means _____.
A. no one
can live on an island alone
B. a man is not surrounded by sea on
all sides
C. a man and an island are
irrelevant
D. no one can
live in isolation from other people
fact that we work or even play in groups
illustrates the point that ____.
A.
people are different from animals
B.
Donne recognized the group to which he belonged
C. human beings are social animals
D. human behavior and personalities are
formed by others
23.“Breakdown” as used
in Line 6, Paragraph 2 most probably denotes
____.
A. separation
B. collapse
C. analysis
D.
function
ing to the passage, what is
NOT a characteristic of group?
A. There
are at least two people in it.
B. The members share some common
grounds.
C. The members work for one
purpose.
D. The members interact
regularly with each other.
passage is
mainly about _______.
A. the importance
of human contacts
B.
patterns of human behavior
C. the
importance of human activities
D. patterns of human society
Passage Two
Questions 26 to
30 are based on the following passage.
The word health can be used in a number
of ways.
In
the past, health
was only
the absence of
disease
or
illness.
Today,
though,
health
has
a
broader
meaning.
Health
is
the
state
of
your
well-
being that includes how you feel physically,
mentally, and socially. Wellness is another term
that describes this broader view of
health. You can understand the need for a broader
definition if
you think about how
health in your life is different from health in
your grandparents' lives.
In 1900, the
main causes of death were diseases that were
spread by bacteria(
细菌
) and
viruses(
病
毒
).If
you had lived then, the danger of your dying from
pneumonia(
肺炎
) would have
been three
times greater than the
danger of your dying from cancer.
The
diseases that were most common in 1900 affected
people of all ages. It is not surprising, then
that around 1900, the emphasis of
health was on freedom from illness. Today many of
the diseases
that
were
common
in
1900
can
be
prevented
or
cured
by
improved
medicines
and
methods
of
sanitation(
卫生
).
Most
diseases
now
are
likely
to
occur
later
in
life.
You
as
a
teenager
will
probably not have to think about the
same threats to your health as your grandparents
did.
These improvements in health
conditions mean that not only can you now enjoy a
better life, but
you also have a
greater chance of having a longer life.
Controlling diseases has increased the life
expectancy
in
the
United
States.
Generally,
people
born
more
recently
have
higher
life
expectancies. Since 1900, the life
expectancy in the United States has increased by
more than 27
years. It has increased
from 47 years for those born in 1900 to 74 years
1981.
26. According to Paragraph 1,
health and wellness ______.
A. can be
used interchangeably on all occasions
B. are different in that the latter has
a broader sense
C. had the same meaning
in the past
D. both refer to the state
of your well-being
27. Which of the
following statements is true?
A.
Diseases caused by bacteria and viruses were
incurable in 1900.
B. Bacteria and
viruses are the main causes of death today.
C. Medicines for curing pneumonia were
not available in 1900.
D. Pneumonia
caused as many deaths in 1900 as cancer does
today.
28.
“Life expectancy”
in the last paragraph most probably means
____.
A. the kind of life
that a person may expect to live
B. the
mode of life that a group of people have lived
C. the length of time that a person or
an animal has lived
D. the length of
time that people may expect to live
29.
On an average, people in America who were born in
1900 ______.
A. had a life-span of 74
years
B. lived a shorter
but better life than those born later
C. lived to 47 years of age
D. lived 27 years longer
than those born in 1981
intended
readers of the passage are _______.
A.
teenagers
B. the diseased
C. adults
D.
aged people
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the
following passage.
Most Americans would
have a difficult time telling you, specifically,
what the values are which
Americans
live by. They have never given the matter any
thought.
Over the years
I
have introduced thousands of international
visitors to life in the United States.
This has caused me to try to look at
Americans through the eyes of foreign visitors; I
am confident
that the values listed in
this booklet describe most (but not all)
Americans, and that understanding
these
values can help you, the international visitor,
understand Americans.