浙江2003年7月自学考试《综合英语(二)》试题

浙江省2003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 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%)
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
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.
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
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 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)