全国 2012 年 7 月高等教育自学考试综合英语(一)真题
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I.语法和词汇。从 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出一个最佳答案,并将所选答案的字母填写
在答题纸上。(本大题共 20 小题,每小题 1 分,共 20 分)
1. Do you have any clothes ______ today?
A. to wash
C. for to wash
B. be washing
D. washing
2. To answer correctly is more important than ______.
A. answered quickly
B. a quick answer
C. quickly answered
D. to answer quickly
3. Young ______ he was, he was the best candidate for the job.
A. although
C. if
4. ______ I said this, I felt sorry.
A. While
C. The moment
5. Don’t tell the boss about it, ______?
A. will you
C. do you
B. as
D. since
B. At the moment
D. The moment as
B. won’t you
D. don't you
6. I passed the exam with luck, but it was a long time ______ I told my friends about
it.
A. before
B. since
C. after
D. as
7. It ______ until dusk that he realized that it was too late to return home.
A. was
C. weren’t
8. Do you remember ______ Tom about this before?
A. to tell
C. telling
B. wasn’t
D. were
B. to have told
D. tell
9. I don’t mind _______ by bus, but I hate standing in queues.
A. to travel
C. traveling
10. Look, ______.
A. there he goes
C. he goes there
B. traveled
D. having traveled
B. there goes he
D. he there goes
11. Mr. Smith didn’t know ______.
A. where his wife was
B. where was his wife
C. where went his wife
D. where his wife go
12. As ______ matter of fact, there was ______ exploration in ______ last house I
visited.
A. a, an, the
C. a, the, the
B. the, an, a
D. the, an, the
13. The Yangtze River is not ______ than the Yellow River.
A. much longer
C. longest
B. more longer
D. less longer
14. Physics ______ a useful subject.
A. is
C. was
B. are
D. were
15. The manager ______ him with responsibility for running the shop.
A. made
C. told
B. left
D. let
16. When the man ______ to now and again, he repeatedly called for his son.
A. woke
C. went
17. It’s no use ______ to him again. He won’t agree.
A. talking
C. talk
18. ______ to remind him, the church clock struck seven.
A. As if
C. Only if
B. recovered
D. came
B. to talk
D. to have talked
B. Even though
D. So that
19. He stayed in the countryside for quite ______.
A. some time
C. sometimes
B. sometime
D. some times
20. They have arranged ______ the writer to meet a number of his readers.
A. at
C. to
B. in
D. for
Ⅱ.阅读理解。认真阅读下列两篇短文,每篇短文后有 5 个问题,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.并将所选答案的字母填写在答题纸上。(本大题 共 10
小题,每小题 2 分,共 20 分)
Passage One
In the United States, it is not customary to telephone someone very early in the
morning. If you telephone him early in the day, while he is shaving or having
breakfast, the time of the call shows that the matter is very important and requires
immediate attention. The same meaning is attached to telephone calls made after 11:00
p.m. If someone receives a call during sleeping hours, he assumes it’s a matter
of life and death. The time chosen for the call communicates its importance.
In social life, time plays a very important part. In the U. S. A. guests tend to
feel they are not highly regarded if the invitation to a dinner party is extended
(发送) only three or four days before the party date.
But it is not true in all countries. In other areas of the world it may be considered
foolish to make an appointment too far in advance because plans which are made for
a date more than a week away tend to be forgotten. The meaning of time differs in
different parts of the world. Thus, misunderstandings arise between people from
cultures that treat time differently; promptness (准时) is valued highly in American
life, for example. If people are not prompt, they may be regarded as impolite or
not fully responsible. In the U. S. no one would think of keeping a business friend
waiting for an hour; it would be too impolite. A person who is 5 minutes late is
expected to make a short apology.
21. “The same meaning is attached to telephone calls made after 11:00p.m.” Here
“attached” means ______.
A. taken
C. given
B. told
D. bought
22. Supposing one wants to make a telephone call at midnight, this would mean ______.
A. the matter is less important
B. the matter is somewhat important
C. the matter is not important
D. it is a matter of life and death
23. According to this passage, time plays an important role in ______.
A. social life
B. private life
C. communications
D. transmission
24. The best title for this passage is ______.
A.“The Voices of Time”
B.“The Saving of Time”
C.“The Importance of an Announcement”
D.“Time and Tide Wait for No Man”
25.According to the passage,the author of the article may agree with which of the
follow statements?
A.It is appropriate to send your invitation cards three or four days before the
party date
in the U.S.
B.It may be appropriate to send your invitation cards three or four days before
the party date in some cultures.
C.It is best for one to make telephone calls at night because it costs much less.
D.If one is less than 5 minutes late,he has to make a short apology.
Passage Two
How we look and how we appear to others probably worries us more when are in our
teens or early twenties than at any other time in our life.Few of us are content
to accept ourselves as we are,and few are brave enough to ignore the trends of
fashion.
Most fashion magazines or TV advertisements try to persuade us that we should dress
in a certain way or behave in a certain manner.If we do,they tell us,we will be
able to meet new people with confidence and deal with every situation confidently
and without embarrassment (窘迫).
Changing fashion,of course,does not apply just to dress.A barber today does not
boy’s hair in the same way as he used to,and girls do not make up in the
cut a
same way as their mothers and grandmothers did.The advertisers show us the latest
fashionable styles and we are constantly under pressure to follow the fashion in
case our friends think we are odd or dull.
What causes fashions to change? Sometimes convenience or practical necessity(需
求)or just the fancy of an influential person can establish a fashion.Take hats
for example.In cold climates,early buildings were cold inside,so people wore hats
indoors as well as outside.In recent times,the late President Kennedy caused a
depression in the American hat industry by not wearing hats:more American men
followed his example.
There is also a cyclical(周期循环的)pattern in fashion.In the 1920s in Europe and
America,short skirts became fashionable.After Word War Two,they dropped to ankle
length. Then they got shorter and shorter until the miniskirt was in fashion.After
a few more years,skirts became longer again.
Today, society is much freer and easier than it used to be.It is no longer necessary
to dress like everyone else.Within reason,you can dress as you like or do your
hair the way you like instead of the way you should because it is the fashion.The
popularity of jeans and the “untidy” look seems to be a reaction against the
increasingly expensive fashion of me top fashion houses.
At the same time, appearance is still important in certain circumstances and then
we must choose our clothes carefully. It would be foolish to go to an interview for
a job in a law firm wearing jeans and a sweater; and it would be discourteous (无
礼貌的) to visit some distinguished scholar looking as if we were going to the beach
or a night club. However, you need never feel depressed if you don’t look like the
latest fashion photo. Look around you and you’ll see that no one else does either!
26. The author thinks that people are ______.
A. satisfied with their appearance
B. concerned about appearance in old age
C. far from neglecting what is in fashion
D. reluctant to follow the trends in fashion
27. Fashion magazines and TV advertisements seem to link fashion to ______.
A. confidence in life
B. personal dress
C. individual hair style
D. personal future
28. Causes of fashions are ______.
A. uniform
B. easy
C. unknown
D. often inexplicable (无法解释)
29. Present-day society is much freer and easier because it emphasizes ______。
A. uniformity
B. formality
C. informality
D. individuality
30. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
A. Care about appearance in informal situations.
B. Care about appearance in formal situations.
C. Ignoring appearance in informal situations.
D. Ignoring appearance in all situations.
III.标音。用国际音标标出下列单词中划线字母或字母组合的读音。(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)
31.dying
33. major
35. tumor
37. deny
39. pace
41. point
32.knife
34. lump
36. fully
38. rarely
40. work
42. sheer
43. drive
45. drag
47. frown
49. watch
44. act
46. bean
48. stove
50. emotional
IV.完形填空。(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。
sense
disappointed
recently
sort
popular
success
so
large
laughing
except
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Geoffrey Hampden has a
reception. This is the
of humor—everybody, that is,
circle of friends and is very
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at parties.
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his
Everybody admires him for his
one of Geoffrey’s closed friends asked him
six-year-old daughter, Jenny.
to make a speech at a wedding
of thing that Geoffrey
loves. He prepared the speech carefully and went to the wedding with Jenny. He had
included a large number of funny stories in the speech and, of course, it was a great
. As soon as he had finished, Jenny told him she wanted to go home. Geoffrey
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was a little
.by this but he did as his daughter asked. On the way home, he
asked Jenny if she had enjoyed the speech. To his surprise, she said she hadn’t.
Geoffrey asked her why this was
and she told him that she did not like to
see so many people
at him.
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56
59
58
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B.根据课文的内容在每个空白处填入一个恰当的词。
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63
you. 62
you. So you must become the
you don't make
Time is dangerous. If you don't control it, it will
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of time,
it work for you, it will work
not its servant. As a first-year college student, time management will be your number
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.
it is to go on wasting time. If you seriously
The
wish to get the
out of college you must put the time message into practice.
V.根据所学课文内容完成下列句子。 (本大题共 10 小题,每小题 2 分,共 20 分)
problem. Time is valuable.
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time is a bad habit. It is like a
time you waste, the
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71. The director told Sidney Poitier to get off the stage because ________.
72. When the Marine knew the dying man was not his father, he ________.
73. The dictionary can not be regarded as always authority because ________.