浙江7月自考综合英语(二)试题及答案解析

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浙江省2018年7月高等教育自学考试
综合英语(二)试题
课程代码：00795
Ⅰ.Complete the sentences with the best choice. Write your right letter on the Answer
Sheet:(10%)
was cold and hungry but he couldn’t make a fire as his only ( ) lost.
A. box of matches were B. box of match was
C. box of matches was D. boxes of matches were
young man ( ) clever but dishonest.
A. thought to be B. was thought to be
C. was thought as D. was thought being
’t worry. This question is of the ( ) importance of all.
A. less B. little
C. least D. best
obviously had no ( ) of doing any work that day, although it was only a week before
the entrance examination.
A. willingness B. intention
C. ambition D. desire
directors have a meeting every Friday,( ) there is nothing to discuss.
A. if B. unless
C. for D. because
the room ( ) with three legs and a few broken chairs.
A. could only be found a table B. could only a table be found
C. a table could only be found D. only could be a table found
yed to see his long-lost friends, Jimmy ( ) a toast to the health of them all.
A. suggest B. spoke
C. raised D. proposed
8.( ) their terms, we would go bankrupt.
A. If we accept B. If we should accept
C. If we had accepted D. If we are to accept
one was absent from the meeting,( )?
A. was she B. weren’t she
C. were they D. weren’t they
didn’t have time to go to the concert last night because she was busy ( ) for her exam.
A. preparing B. to prepare
C. to be prepared D. being prepared


Ⅱ.Complete the sentences with a word derived from the one in bracket. Write answers on the
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Answer Sheet:(5%)
ly hundreds of comparisons were made before I became ______ of them.(awareness)
g made no noticeable difference to my back and the sun remained ______.(hide)
if I give him the brights, he’ll be ______,stupid and blind.(courtesy).
4.I told the police about the ______ of the TV set.(thief)
ing to the newspaper, more than 50 workers were thrown into ______ when the factory
closed last month.(employ)
Ⅲ.Choose the correct paraphrasing of the underlined part of the following sentences, then
write your right letter on the Answer Sheet:(10%)
it pay to make sacrifices for children?
A. Is it important to B. Is it up to us
C. Is it indispensable to D. Is it worthwhile to
answers can be a gateway to read insights.
A. be the way of finding the secrets of things.
B. be access to mythical matters.
C. be an entrance to the inside of the building.
D. make you have a deep understanding of things.
overindulging children with material things does little to lessen parental guilt...
A. helps little to make the parent feel less guilty
B. will be useful to get away with parental guilt
C. does nothing to the crimes by the parents
D .is easy for parents to feel comfortable
the subject of the bomb came up, he resisted blaming anyone.
A. appeared B. was mentioned
C. happened D. was considered
is a great deal to be said for the suburb.
A. There is no problem in discussing the matter of suburb.
B. There is no room for depicting the suburb.
C. It’s worthwhile to give a detailed description about the suburb.
D. It is worth describing the suburb briefly.
Ⅳ.Put suitable prepositions or adverbs in the blanks on the Answer Sheet:(10%)
1.I saw something dark moving ______ my directions.
requires great efforts ______ our part to complete the project on time.
’t believe in him so easily. Think about what is ______ his smile.
has all the makings of a great tennis player except ______ his height.
you’ve said is ______ no interest to me at all.
thought for a while and then came up ______ a good idea.
edition of the book is hard to come ______ nowadays. Where did you pick it up?
who works ______ great pressure is likely to make mistakes.
9.I feel ______ swimming today. Would you like to go with me?
10.I hope these new regulations will put a stop ______ drunk driving.
Ⅴ.Cloze:(20%)
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Complete the passage by putting in the blanks the corrtect choice. Write your right letter
on the Answer Sheet:
Nobody likes insects. They are ___1 and sometimes dangerous. Some of them bite us and
give us __2__;others bite us and give us big red 3___.Some do not bite,___4___ they just fly
round our heads or crawl round our houses and gardens. And we do not like any of them—___5___
those lovely butterflies.
But insects are interesting. First, they are very ___6___ animals. Three hundred and twenty
million years age no men or other ___7___ in the world but there were ,___8___
every square mile of land there are millions of them flying and crawling ___9___.Second,insects
are very ___10___ to their habitat, to their food and to the weather, now there are about a million
different ___11___ in the world.___12___ do people use insecticides?
Not many insects ___13___ us. In many cases we do not see the insects and we do not think
much about them. The ___14___ is that insects eat so much of man’s food,___15___ there are so
many billions of them.
We must use insecticides to ___16___ them.
An insecticide is simply a special chemical ___17___ with some poisonous elements. Farmers
___18___ their crops very often and the insects die quickly. Of course some poisonous chemicals
may ___19___ on the crops or in the ___20___,and that is also dangerous.
Decide which of the following would best complete the passage if inserted in the blanks:
1. A. annoying B. disgusted C. troubling D. wicked
2. A. diseases B. tumors C. ulcers D. wounds
3. A. places B. points C. specks D. spots
4. A. and B. because C. but D. or
5. A. besides B. except C. except for D. let alone
6. A. old B. small C. weak D. young
7. A. amphibians B. birds C. mammals D. reptiles
8. A. in B. on C. throughout D. with
9. A. about B. above C. over D. up
10. A. adaptable B. agreeable C. suitable D. variable
11. A. models B. samples C. species D. specimens
12. A. How B. When C. Where D. Why
13. A. hurt B. pierce C. pin D. wound
14. A. condition B. difference C. method D. reason
15. A. and B. due to C. owing to D. so that
16. A. get hold of B. get rid of C. put an end to D. take care of
17. A. component B. compound C. material D. medicine
18. A. cover B. disinfect C. splash D. spray
19. A. drop B. evaporate C. leave D. stay
20. A. clay B. dirt C. mud D. soil
Ⅵ.Read the following passages and complete the statements or answer the questions with the
correct choice. Write your right letter on the Answer Sheet:(20%)
Passage 1
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Public goods are those commodities whose enjoyment nobody can be effectively excluded.
Everybody is free to enjoy the benefits of these commodities and one person’s use does not reduce
the possibilities of anybody else’s enjoying the same good.
Examples of public goods are not as rare as one might expect. A flood control dam is a public
good. Once the dam is built, all persons living in the area will benefit—irrespective of(不考虑)their
own contribution to the construction cost of the dam. The same holds true for highway signs or aids
navigation(航海).Once a lighthouse is built, no ship of any nationality can be effectively excluded
from use of the lighthouse for navigational purposes. National defense is another example. Even a
person who voted against military costs or did not pay any taxes will benefit from the protection
afforded.
It is no easy task to determine the social costs and social benefits associated with a pubilc
good. There is no practicable way of charging drivers for looking at highway signs, sailors for
watching a lighthouse and citizens for the security provided to them through national defense.
Because the market does not provide the necessary signals, economic study is to be replaced by the
impersonal judgment of the marketplace.
does the passage mainly discuss?
A. A specific group of commodities.
B. The economic structure of the marketplace.
C. Mechanisms for safer navigation.
D. The advantage of lowering taxes.
of the following would NOT be an example of a public good as described in the passage?
A.A stoplight. B.A bridge.
C.A fire truck. D.A taxicab.
Paragraph 2,the word “holds”(Para. 2,Line 3)could best be replaced by which of the
following?
A. has B. is
C. grasps D. carries
ing to the passage, finding out the social costs of a public good is a _________.
A. matter of personal judgment
B. daily administrative duty
C. difficult procedure
D. citizen’s responsibility
of the following statements best describes the organization of the first two paragraphs?
A. A general concept is defined and then examples are given.
B. Several generalizations are presented from which various conclusions are drawn.
C. Persuasive language is used to argue against a popular idea.
D. Suggestions for the application of an economic concept are offered.
Passage 2
At the bottom of the world lies a mighty continent still wrapped in the Ice Age and, until
recent times, unknown to man. It is a great landmass with mountain ranges whose extent and
elevation are still uncertain. Much of the continent is a complete blank on our maps. Man has
explored, on foot, less than one percent of its area.
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Antarctica differs fundamentally from the Arctic regions. The Arcitc is an ocean, covered with
drifting packed ice and hemmed in by the landmasses of Europe, Asia, and North America. The
Antarctic is a continent almost as large as Europe and Australia combined, centered roughly on the
South Pole and surrounded by the most unobstructed water areas of the world—the Atlantic, Pacific,
and Indian Oceans.
The continental ice sheet is more than two miles high in its center; thus, the air over the
Antarctic is far more iced than it is over the Arctic regions. This cold air current from the land is so
forceful that it makes the nearby seas the stormiest in the world and makes unlivable those regions
whose counterparts(配对物) at the opposite end of the globe are livable. Thus, more than million
persons live within 2,000 miles of the North Pole in an area that includes most of Alaska, Siberia,
and Scandinavia—a region rich in forest and mining industries. Apart from a handful of weather
stations, within the same distance of the South Pole there is not a single tree, industry or settlement.
best title for this selection would be ______.
A. Iceland B. Land of Opportunity
C. Utopia at Last D. The Unknown Continent
the time this article was written, our knowledge of Antarctica was ______.
A. very limited B. vast
C. fairly rich D. nonexistent
tica is bordered by the ______.
A. Pacific Ocean B. Indian Ocean
C. Atlantic Ocean D. All three
Antarctic is made uninhabitable primarily by ______.
A. ice B. calm seas
C. cold air D. lack of knowledge about the continent
ing to this article ______.
A. 2,000 people live on the Antarctic Continent
B. a million people live within 2,000 miles of the South Pole
C. weather conditions within a 2,000 miles radius of the South Pole make settlements impractical
D. only a handful of natives inhabit Antarctica
Passage 3
If there is any single element that makes for success in living, it is the ability to profit by
defeat. Every success I know has been achieved because the person was able to study defeat and
actually profit by it in his next task. Confuse defeat with failure, and you are sure indeed to fail. For
it isn’t defeat that makes you fail; it is your own refusal to see in defeat the guide and
encouragement to success.
Defeats are nothing to be ashamed of. They are daily incidents in the life of every man who
achieves success. But defeat is a dead loss unless you do face it without humiliation, study it and
learn why you failed. Defeat, in other words, can help to heal its own cause. Not only does defeat
prepare us for success, but nothing can arouse(唤起) within use such a compelling desire to
succeed. If you let a baby grasp a rod and try to pull it away, he will cling more and more tightly
until his whole weight is suspended(悬挂).It is this same reaction that should give you new and
greater strength every time you are defeated. If you use the power which defeat gives, you can
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accomplish with it far more than you are capable of.
does the author know?
A. It’s not mentioned in the passage.
B .He knows every success in life.
C. He knows at least several cases of success.
D. He knows every success that has been achieved by man.
person who was able to analyze defeat is likely ______.
A. to achieve success
B. to be a successor
C. to be ashamed of his defeat
D. to let a baby grasp a rod
author ______.
A. advises you to confuse defeat with failure
B. wants you to mistake defeat for failure
C. orders you to confuse defeat with failure
D. warns you not to confuse defeat with failure
is valuable ______.
A. in that it provides the guide and encouragement to success
B. because it forces you to face it without humiliation
C. because it makes you fail
D. because of your own refusal to see in it the guide and encouragement to success
does the author advice one to do with the power which defeat gives?
One should ______.
A. make unfair use of it B. turn it to practical account
C. explore it D. explain it

Passage 4
Dorothea Dix left home at an early age of her own free will to live with her grandmother.
At fourteen, Dorothea was teaching school at Worcester, Massachusetts. A short time after she
had begun teaching, she established a school for young girls in her grandparents’ home. Stress was
placed on moral character at Dorothea’s school, which she conducted until she was thirty-three.
She was forced to give up teaching at her grandparents’ home, however, when she became ill.
A few year of inactivity followed.
In 1841 Dorothea began to teach again, accepting a Sunday school class in the East Cambridge,
Massachusetts’ jail. Here, she first came upon insane people locked up together with criminals.
In those days insane people were treated even worse than criminals. There were only a few
asylums(疯人院) in the entire country. Therefore jails, poor houses, and houses of correction were
used to confine the insane.
Dorothea Dix made a careful investigation of the inhuman treatment of the insane. It was
considered unfit for a woman to devote herself to such work at this time. But this did not stop
Dorothea Dix in her efforts to provide proper medical care for the insane.
Gradually, because of her investigations, conditions were improved. More than thirty mental
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institutions were founded or reestablished in the United States because of her efforts. Dorothea also
extended her investigations to England and to other parts of Europe.
During the Civil War, Dorothea served as superintendent(主管) of women hospital nurses in
the Union army. When the war was over, she returned to her work of improving conditions for
insane people.
of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. The Treatment of Mental Illness.
B. The Life of a Young English Woman
C. An American Humanitarian
D. Social Problems of the Nineteenth Century
word “stress” in Line 3 could best be replaced by?
A. Emphasis B. Strain
C. Relative loudness D. Physical pressure
did Dorothea Dix first become aware of the mistreatment of insane people?
A. She taught Sunday school in a jail
B. She worked in an insane asylum as a young woman.
C. Her grandmother treated the mentally ill.
D. She was asked to investigate the problem.
of the following statements about Dorothea Dix is best supported by the passage?
A. She spent time studying criminal law.
B. Many people believed that her work was improper.
C. She considered most criminals mentally unstable.
D. Her grandmother was a teacher.
author implies that Dorothea Dix’s work with the insane was interrupted because of ______.
A. an illness B. her trip to England
C. the Civil War D. her grandmother’s death
Ⅶ.Translate the following into English with words or phrases given in brackets, and then
write your sentences on the Answer Sheet:(25%)
1.他出生于两条河流交汇处的一个小镇。(meet)
2.中国代表团坚持两国的争端应该通过谈判解决。(settle)
3.第一次去迪斯尼乐园时，孩子们充满了好奇。(burst with)
4.昨天乔治的车胎要是没有爆的话，他肯定能按时参加会议。(using subjective mood)
5.那位失明的老人把他的狗称作他的眼珠。(refer to)
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