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全国2 0 1 3年1月高等教育自学考试
综合英语(二)试题
课程代码:00795
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1.答题前,考生务必将自己的考试课程名称、姓名、准考证号用黑字迹的签字笔或钢笔填写在答题纸规定的位置上。
2.每小题选出答案后,用2B铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动,用橡皮擦干净后,再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在试题卷上。
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 less is more英文理解
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
lls    B. says
C. compares    D. describes
ade    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 so
mething to live for.
A. We were all eager to drink that water.

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