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??2009年10月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试
英语(二）???试卷
课程代码00015
本试卷共8页，满分100分，考试时间150分钟。
i. vocabulary and structure (10 points,1 point each)从下列各句四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并在答题纸上将相应的字母涂黑。
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1. the traffic was held up for more than thirty minutes,___caused me to?arrive late.
a.it
b.that
c.what
d.which
2.__he has many friends, he is often feeling lonely.
a.as
b.when
c.while
d.since
3.poor speaker of english though he was at the time,he still managed to makehimsclf__▁.
a.understand
b.understood
c.understanding
d.to understand
4.there are many sales this season,during which stores will lower their?___prices.
b. general
a.normal
c.ordinary
d.usual
5.as for family education,parents are encouraged to rely on___rather than punishment.
a. criticism
b.intimidation
c. persuasion
d.scolding
6.scientists doubt whether it’s__to regulate one’s biological clock by drinking.
a.feasible
b.incredible
c.fashionable
d.valuable
7.you’d better leave things ___if you don’t know how to deal with them.
a.lonely
b.only
c.lone
d.alone
8.the room was quiet,____the occasional coughing from my throat.
a. in case
b.except for
c.by far
d.instead of
9.so far scientists have only acquired_____understanding of the physical?processes that cause earthquakes.
a. a partial
b. a changeable
c.an original
d.an individual
10.the profit-sharing plan is designed to ____ the staff to work hard.
a.calculate
b.demonstrate
c.speculate
d.motivate
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ii. cloze test (10 points,1 point each)
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，并在答题纸上将相应的字母涂黑。
shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a?woman. a man goes shopping?11?he needs something. his purpose is settled and decided?12. he knows what he wants and his objective is to find it and?13?it; the price is a secondary?14?. most men?15?walk into a shop and ask the salesman?16?what they want. if the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly?17?it, and the business of trying it on proceeds 18 . all being well, the?19?can be and often is completed in less than five minutes,with hardly any bargain and to their satisfaction.for a man,slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants,?20?does not have exactly what he wants. in that case the salesman,as the name implies, tries to sell the customer something else.
11. a.although? ? ? ?b.before???????c.unless? ? ? ? ? ?d.because
12. a.in advance? ? b.in addition?????c.in contrast? ???d.in returm
13. a.book? ? ? ??b.order???????????c.buy? ? ? ??d. take
14.a.transaction? ??b.consideration??c.regulation? ?d.possession
15. a.simply? ? ? b.necessarily?c.rcluctantly? ? ? d.inevitably
16. a.of? ? ? ????b.with????????c.for? ? ? ? ? ?d.at
17. a.leaves? ? ? b.makes?????????c.prevents? ? ? ? ?d.produces
18. a.at once? ? ? b.at first????c.at best? ? ? ? ? ? d.at least
19. a.sale? ? ? b.deal????????c.payment? ? ? ? ? d.request
20. a.and? ? ? ?b.or??????????c.but? ? ? ? ? ? ?d.as
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ⅲ. reading comprehension (30 points,2 points 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 one
questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
? my husband christopher was once a financial planner.even though he?couldn’t balance our budget,his clients trusted him completely and he made them feel secure.in exchange they paid him very well.we had a nice life then.at that time,my yoga studio(瑜伽馆）was just starting to make a profit,and i had recently decorated it.at last,i was in control of my working life and poured my heart and soul into making it succeed.
? when we first met,i fell hard for christopher right away,although i wouldn’t call it love.i’d never been with a man who was prettier than i was,but after a while i got used to this, and it didn’t bother me so much. i was recovering from a broken heart and needed something to help me move on.if it wasn’t love,it was good enough, and when he asked me to marry him i jumped at the chance,knowing that it might be my last.
things started out so well.i was working steadily and christopher was?patientiy climbing up the ladder in his department.then,without any warning,one gray winter afternoon in year five,he just upped and left his desk at the bank,handed in his resignation,and came home and told me he wanted to start an interior design business.
? he has always loved mixing and matching,and has a real eye for color,texture,and shape,but the idea of turning a hobby into a business wasn’t something we had ever discussed.i thought the stress of his job was becoming too much and perhaps he would take a few months off over the spring and summer to relax and get the idea out of his system. i didn’t believe he could be serious.but once he had a few clients,he began to draw up plans,ordering catalogues and turning our empty workshop into a kind of makeshift studio with all of his sketches pinned to the wall.after spending a lot of time and money on all of this preparation, and really doing quite a nice job of it, he called each client in turn and apologized, saying he wouldn’t be able to design their living spaces after all.
21. as a financial planner,christopher______.
a. paid his clients very well
b. was trusted by his clients
c. was making his yoga stdio profitable
d. could make his family’s budget balanced
22.the woman in the passage____
a. fell in love with christopher at first sight
b. managed a yoga studio with her husband
c.felt really uncomfortable with a smart man
d. married christopher because of a broken heart
23.his wife thought christopher suddenly quit his job because he_____.
a. couldn’t wait to get promoted
b. had experience in interior design
c. wanted to do something he enjoyed
d. couldn’t bear the pressure from his job
24.the woman___her husband’s decision.
a. was supportive of
b. was indifferent to
c. was satisfied with
d. was negative about
25.it can be inferred from the last paragraph that christopher___
a. was more likely to change his mind
b. would return to his office in the bank
c. made a big success in interior design
d. was not well-prepared for his business
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passage two
questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
?? in a quict,darkened lecture roorn,you begin a frustrating fight against fatigue.
the overhead projector hums, and you cannot concentrate on the siides. you stop absorbing information and become absent-minded.the professor lost you a long time ago.you are bored.
? virtually everyone gets bored once in a while. most of us chalk it up to a dull environment. "the most common way to define boredom in western culture is "having nothing to do,’"says psychologist stephen vodanovich of the university of?west florida. and indeed, early research into the effects of boredom focused on people forced to perform dull tasks,such as working a factory assembly line.
? but boredom is not merely an natural property of the circumstances,?researchers say.? rather this perception is subjective and rooted in aspects of consciousness. levels of boredom vary among people: some individuals are far less liable to boredom than others--and some,such as extroverts(性格外向者),are more likely to have this feeling.
? thus, a new generation of scientists is coping with the psychological?interpretations of this most tedious of human emotions--and they have found that it is more complicated than is commonly known.researchers say that boredom is not a unified concept but rather comes in several flavors. level of attention,an aspect of conscious awareness,plays an important role in boredonm,such that?improving a person’s ability to focus may therefore decrease boredom. emotional factors can also contribute to boredom. people who are poor in understanding their own feelings and those who become sucked in and distracted by their moods are more easily bored, for example.
? staying away from tedium is not easy.people who are liable to boredom are more likely to suffer from ills such as depression and drug addiction; they also tend to be socially awkward and poor performers at school or work.
26.the purpose of the first paragraph is to___，
a.illustrate why people are less able to focus
b.show how boring a lecture in a dark room is
c.tell people how fatigue affects concentration
d. describe a situation where people can get bored
27. it can be concluded from para.2 that ___
a.doing nothing leads people to get bored casily
b. western people pay little attention to boredom
c. boredom only affects the assembly line worker
d. people are liable to get bored in a dull situation
28. researchers hold that boredom results from ___
a. natural surroundings
b. various kinds of factors
d.subjective perceptions
c.sensitive personalities
29.improvement of people’s ability to focus may____.
a.affect their moods
b.distract their minds
c. reduce their boredom
d. increase their depression
30. the passage mainly involves
a. effects of boredom on people’s life and work
b. various ways to conquer the feeling of boredom
c.studies of possib!e reasons why peopie get bored
d. the importance of scientific research into boredom
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passage three
questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
? storytelling is one of the few human features that are truly universal across?culture and through all of known history.anthropoiogists find evidence of?folktales everywhere in ancient cultures, written in sanskrit,latin, greek,chinese,egyptian and sumerian.people in societies of all types weave stories,from oral storyteliers in hunter-gatherer tribes to the millions of writers bringing?out books, television shows and movies. and when a characteristic behavior?shows up in so many different societies, researchers pay attention: its roots may?tell us something about our evolutionary past.
? to study storytelling, scientists must first define what constitutes a story, and?that can prove tricky.because there are so many diverse forms,scholars often?define story structure,known as narrative, by explaining what it is not.exposition?contrasts with narrative by being a simple, straightforward explanation,such as a?list of facts or an encyclopedia entry. another standard approach defines narrative?as a series of causally linked events that unfold over time.a third definition draws?on the typical narrative’s subject matter: the interactions of intentional?agents-—characters with minds—who possess various motivations.
however narrative is defined, people know it when they feel it.whether?fiction or nonfiction,a narrative engages its audience through psychological?realisin-—recognizable emotions and believable interactions among characters.
? "everyone has a natural detector for psychological realism,"says raymond a.mar,assistant professor of psychology at york university in toronto."we can tell?when something rings false." but the best stories--those retold through?generations and translated into other languages-do more than simply present a?believable picture.these tales attract their audience,whose emotions can be?closely tied to those of the story’s characters.such immersion(沉浸)is a state?psychologists call “narrative transport."researchers have only begun figuring out?the relations among the variables that can initiate narrative transport.
31. the passage indicates that storytelling_____.
a.is becoming less and less popular in modern societies
b.attracts researchers’attention all through human history
c.is the best way to show the evolutionary past of human beings
d.is a common cultural phenomenon all through the known history
32.the phrase “a characteristic behavior"in para. i refers to____.
a. telling stories
b.writing books
c.studying folktales
d. producing movies
33. exposition is characterized by______.
a. believable pictures
b. diverse subject matters
c. a simple and direct explanation
d. a number of causally linked events
34. how many approaches are mentioned to define a narrative?
a.one.
b.two.
c.three.
d.four.
35. the best stories attract their audicnce because they_______.
a. present a believable picture
b. express the audience’s emotions
c. are translated into other languages
d. are retold from generation to generation
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iv. word spelling (10 points,1 point for two words)将下列汉语单词译成英语。每个单词的词类、首字母及字母数目均已给出。请将完整的单词写在答题纸上。
36.能力，能耐n.a____
37.吹嘘，自夸vb_____
38.取消，删除vc_____
39.危险的，不安全的 a.d_____
40.过多的，过分的a.e_____
41.设备；便利n.f_____
42.喂草，放牧v.g____
43.几乎不.几乎没有 ad. h____
44.包括，包含vi____
45.律师n.l_____
46.较大的，主要的a.m____
47.国家的，民族的a.n____
48.操作，经营 n.o____
49.透入，渗入v.p____
50.拒绝，谢绝v.r____
51.幸存，存活n.s____
52．技术员n.t_
___
53.在楼上，往楼上 ad. u___
54.老兵，老手n.v___
55.获胜者，优胜者 n.w_____
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v. word form(10 points,1 point each)
将括号中的各词变为适当的形式填入空白。答案写在答题纸上。
56.it was____(care)of her to leave her purse lying on the desk.
57.the____(frighten) child gripped his mother’s hands tightly.
58. it might be possible to convert____(explode) energy into heat.
59.tom shouted at his wife,“you____(find) fault with me.”
60.jack has exerted all his____(strong) to attain his goal.
61.the surface of the earth____(cover) by masses of land and larger areas of water.
62. tom was the only one of the lookers-on who___(be) willing to help.
63. unless there’s a storm,we shall set off on our journey tomorrow as____(plan).
64.the young man was so tired that he fell____(sleep) the moment his head?touched the pillow.
65.i would rather he____(paint) the wall white next time.
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vi. translation from chinese into english (15 points,3 points each)将下列各句译成英语并将答案写在答题纸上。
66.电脑能帮助解决科学研究中的许多问题。
67.好书的产生是努力工作的结果。
68.问题在于她是否能自己克服这些困难。
69.每个听到那条消息的人部兴奋得跳了起来。
70.你只要不灰心，一定会成功的。
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vii. transiation from english into chinese (15 points)将下列短文译成汉语并将答案写在答题纸上.
everyone agrees that children’s language learning begins with listening.
however,individual children vary greatly in the amount of listening they do?before they start speaking,and late starters are often long listeners. most children?will ‘obey’spoken instructions some time before they can speak.before they can?speak,many children also ask questions by gestures and noises.it is agreed that?they enjoy making noises,and that during the first few months one or two noises?are considered as a particular indication of delight, distress, sociability, and so on.
but since three noises cannot be said to show the baby’s intention to communicatc,they can bardly be regarded as carly forms of language.it is agreed,too,that from?about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment,and by six months theyare able to add new sounds to their ‘speech’.this self-imitation leads on to?intentional imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people.
can these imitations be considered as speech?
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