全国 2012 年 4 月高等教育自学考试综合英语(一)真题
课程代码:00794
请将答案填在答题纸相应位置上
I.语法和词汇。从 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出一个最佳答案,并填在答题纸相应的位置。
错选、多选或未选均无分。(本大题共 20 小题,每小题 1 分,共 20 分)
1. This camera is so easy to use; _____ a child could take good pictures with it.
A. yet
C. but
B. even
D. since
2. _____ of the figures seems correct. Would you check them carefully?
A. Neither
C. Either
3. He had hardly left the building _____ the bomb exploded.
A. than
C. when
B. Both
D. All
B. before
D. after
4. They have different views on the comment- _____ the daughter sees it as criticism,
the mother takes it as praise.
A. why
C. where
B. how
D. if
5. This plan probably won’t work either- but you must do _____ to help her.
A. a thing
C. things
B. something
D. nothing
6. I would rather you _____ this to him yourself. When I tried to speak to him last
time, he didn’t listen.
A. say
B. will say
C. said
D. would say
7. For most people, common cold is a mild illness _____ they will quickly recover.
A. over that
C. from that
B. over which
D. from which
8. We definitely are not the perfect couple, _____ we don’t pretend to be so.
A. and
C. for
B. or
D. because
9. Could you please tell me where _____ find Professor Smith? His wife has just called
his office.
A. I can
C. would I
B. can I
D. I would
10. Everything _____ very different if your father were alive.
A. is
B. will be
C. was
11. _____ would be wonderful to be able to meet the famous movie star in person.
D. would be
A. It
C. There
B. That
D. This
12. When I entered the room, I saw him _____ in a front seat staring at a picture
in a strange way.
A. to sit
C. sat
B. is sitting
D. sitting
13. Not only _____ about the food, but he also refused to pay for it.
A. he complained
B. did he complain
C. he had complained
D. he did complain
14. I am not very good _____ maths. Would you please work out the total cost of our
trip?
A. in
C. on
B. for
D. at
15. It took them a long time to _____ the fire because of the strong wind.
A. put off
C. put out
B. take off
D. take out
16. Things will settle down as time goes by. They’ll never be the same, _____.
A. instead
C. though
B. yet
D. too
17. I _____ her my bicycle last month, but she has not returned it yet.
A. borrowed
C. gave
18. — I swam a kilometer today.
— Well _____ ! You must be very fit.
A. made
C. worked
B. sent
D. lent
B. done
D. kept
19. Clearly it is with great _____ that he admitted his mistakes in public.
A. reward
C. request
B. response
D. reluctance
20. The man _____ laughing at the idea of an invasion bringing about democracy.
A. burst out
B. burst into
C. turned out
D. turned into
II.阅读理解。认真阅读下列两篇短文,根据短文的内容从 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出一
个最佳答案,并填在答题纸相应的位置上。错选、多选或未选均无分。(本大题共 10 小题,
每小题 2 分,共 20 分)
Passage 1
Shortly after the war, my brother and I were invited to spend a few days with an
uncle who had just returned from abroad. He had rented a cottage in the country,
although he rarely spent much time there. We understood the reason for this after
our arrival: the cottage had no comfortable furniture in it, many of the windows
were broken and the roof leaked, making the whole house damp.
On our first evening, we sat around the fire after supper listening to the stories
which our uncle had to tell of his many adventures in distant countries. I was so
tired after the long train journey that I would have preferred to go to bed; but
I could not bear to miss any of my uncle’s exciting tales.
He was just in the middle of describing a rather terrifying experience he had once
had when there was a loud crash from the bedroom above, the one where my brother
and I were going to sleep.
“It sounds as if the roof has fallen in!” exclaimed my uncle, with a loud laugh.
When we got to the top of the stairs and opened the bedroom door, we could see nothing
at first because of the thick clouds of dust which filled the room. When the dust
began to clear, a strange sight met our eyes. A large part of the ceiling had collapsed,
falling right on to the pillow of my bed. I was glad that I had stayed up late to
listen to my uncle’s stories, otherwise I should certainly have been seriously
injured, perhaps killed.
That night we all slept on the floor to the sitting room downstairs, not wishing
to risk our lives by sleeping under a roof which might at any moment collapse on
our heads. We left for London the very next morning and my uncle gave up his cottage
in the country. This was not the kind of adventure he cared for either!
21. The uncle seldom spent much time in the country cottage because ______.
A. the roof of the cottage was falling
bad condition
B. the cottage was in a
C. he was used to living abroad
in it
D. there was no furniture
22. The word “crash” (Line 2, Paragraph 3) most probably refers to ______.
A. a cry of terror
C. a sound of storm
B. a sudden ring
D. a sudden noise
23. When they opened the bedroom door, they could see nothing at first because ______.
A. it was completely dark inside
their eyes
C. something strange blinded them
in the air
B. dust was blown into
D. there was too much dust
24. The narrator felt glad that he had stayed up late because ______.
A. he did not miss the exciting stories
his uncle
B. he spent more time with
C. he had a lucky escape
sight
D. he saw a strange
25. Which of the following can best describe the narrator’s uncle?
A. Adventurous and good at storytelling.
jokes.
B. Humorous and good at making
C. Good-tempered and sensible.
Passage 2
D. Hospitable and wealthy.
You might ask, what is Chinglish, anyway? It depends on whom you ask. Chinese parents
raising their children in English-speaking countries will probably answer:
Chinglish is a useful mix of standard Chinese or Cantonese terms with day-to-day
English. It is indeed convenient to shorten a sentence such as “I don’t want to
go now because it is too hot and it will be hard to find a parking lot anyway” into
“Don’t go la, hot la, tai mafan la.” For the Chinese high-school teacher,
Chinglish is the students’ unsuccessful attempts to understand English in a Chinese
way, resulting in sentences such as “Please hurry to walk or we’ll be late” or
“She is very miserable and her heart broke.” However, the English-speaking
traveler more frequently comes across Chinglish in the form of public signs. No
matter how one looks at the phenomenon, one thing is clear: Chinglish is not a
language.
Chinglish might be found, according to some scholars, in Chinese Pidgin (混杂语)
English, which came to life in the eighteenth century when the British set up their
first trading posts in Guangzhou. The term came from the word “business” and served,
according to the great Yale China scholar Jonathan Spencer, “to keep the differing
communities in touch, by mixing words from Portuguese, Indian, English, and various
Chinese dialects, and spelling them according to Chinese grammar.” Some believe
that expressions like “Long time no see” or “No can do” appeared during that
time. Others refer to the late Qing-Dynasty Empress Dowager Cixi, who forced Chinese
villagers to live and work in the West in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Another possibility is the so-called Yangjingbang , a mix of English and Chinese
in the time of Lu Xun, China’s greatest twentieth-century writer. Very influential,
too, are the large numbers of people from China to the United States, who came from
the Gold Rush time to the last twenty-five years since the beginning of China’s
policy of Reform and Opening.
No matter which theory one prefers, two things are certain: first, Chinglish exists
because people move, and second, as a language phenomenon (现象), it is almost new.
Although most Chinglish expressions are widely regarded as mistakes, occasionally
some are found enjoyable. Such errors will not die, as they keep coming all the more
in our time, largely thanks to the Internet.
26. According to the passage, Chinglish is regarded as useful by ______.
A. some western scholars
B. English-speaking travelers
C. Chinese high-school teachers
D. Chinese parents in English-speaking countries
27. The second paragraph mainly discusses ______.
A. why Chinglish became popular
B. how Chinglish came into being
C. who invented the term “Chinglish”
D. where Chinglish was most popular
28. According to Jonathan Spencer, Pidgin English serves to ______.
A. force Chinese villagers to learn English
B. overcome language difficulties in business
C. help peoples communicate with each other
D. enlarge the vocabulary of the Chinese language
29. According to the passage, Yangjingbang (Line 11, Paragraph 2) is ______.
A. a kind of Chinglish
language
C. a mix of any two languages
time
B. an influential
D. a language in Lu Xun’s
30. The author’s attitude towards Chinglish can be described as ______.
A. critical
B. objective
C. emotional
III.用国际音标标出下列单词中划线字母或字母组合的读音,写在答题纸上的相应位置。(本
大题共 20 小题,每小题 0.5 分,共 10 分)(注意:使用新式或老式音标均可)
D. supportive
31. cough
33. Jewish
35. means
37. smoothly
39. flour
41. choke
43. flood
45. urge
47. store
49. orange
32. fasten
34. favourite
36. butcher
38. hunger
40. disease
42. luxury
44. amaze
46. blank
48. grades
50. growth
IV.完形填空。请将你的答案写在答题纸上的相应位置。(本大题共 20 小题,每小题 0.5
分,共 10 分)
A.从下列单词中选择恰当的词填空,每个词只能用一次。
develop
same
last
to
if
on
sense
read
made
unless
likely
tell
Friends play a very important part in everyone’s life. Friendship begins to
early in childhood. As you progress through school, new friends are
friends you make when you are a student usually
your development, your maturity and your
expression is “You can
Friendship is often based
friends are
friends like to do the
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. Those
a long time. Friends influence
of responsibility. A familiar
a lot about a person by knowing who his friends are.”
common interests. If you like sports, most of your
to be sporty. If you enjoy reading and shopping, most of your
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about any subject or problem. They are
True friends are those you can talk
most valuable, but difficult to find. You can consider yourself very lucky
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you have one true friend. This friend is ready to help you whenever necessary, knowing
that you would do the same for him or her.
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