7月浙江自考高级英语试题及答案解析

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浙江省2018年7月自学考试高级英语试题
课程代码：10005
Part ⅠVocabulary(20%)
Section A (20×0.5%=10%)
Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are
four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence.
1. He had to sell his home to pay his legal fees and was ______ to parking cars for money.
( )
A. reduced
C. agreed
B. introduced
D. expected
2. Our vacation is ______ and we still can’t decide where to go. ( )
A. going
C. flying
B. approaching
D. keeping
3. From the ______ way he behaves towards others you can tell that he was well raised in his
family. ( )
A. respectful
C. respectable
B. respected
D. respective
4. Though people all over the world have friends and enjoying friendship, the ______ of what a
real friendship is may take quite varied forms in different cultures. ( )
A. exception
C. acceptation
B. assumption
D. conception
5. I have only had a ______ acquaintance with this Mr. Johnson you are talking about, so I am in
no place to make judgment on his personality. ( )
A. intimate
C. legitimate
B. hasty
D. simple
6. A forgiving person will not pay ______ someone who has done him wrong either intentionally
or accidentally.( )
A. for

B. back
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C. off D. clear
7. She knew David was not good with words, and was rather touched by his clumsy attempt to
comfort her. ( )
A. stupid
C. unskillful
B. childish
D. useless
8. Modern educationists recommend the teaching methods that ______ students in the learning
process. ( )
A. absorb
C. mix
B. participate
D. involve
9. The very evening she couldn’t wait to show the ring to her close friends and tell them that she
______ to Graham. ( )
A. was engaging
C. engaged
B. was engaged
D. would engage
10. Although Asian countries are generally more ______ in social customs than Western countries,
there have been several notable examples of women leaders in both China and India. ( )
A. conservative
C. comprehensible
B. confidential
D. consistent
11. Black people had to use separate bathrooms, train cars, churches, and restaurants: this act of
______ was accepted without much question in the past.( )
A. segregation
C. discrimination
B. separation
D. differentiation
12. The revolutionist devoted his whole life to the ______ of freedom and happiness of his people.
( )
A. perform
C. projection
B. prophet
D. pursuit
13. Just composing the sentences is not all there is in an invitation, you also have to think about
the ______: the color, the picture, the size and style of the letters, etc. ( )
A. format
C. information
B. formation
D. conformation
14. The manager gave her his ______ that her complaint would be investigated. ( )
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A. assurance
C. sanction
B. assumption
D. insurance
15. The course has four main ______: business law, finance, computing and management skills.
( )
A. commissions
C. compositions
B. components
D. compromises
16. Greg has been a(n) ______ child and missed most of the fun in childhood. ( )
A. ill
C. sickly
B. healthy
D. lively
17. By 3 o’clock the next morning the roaring storm ______ down and the sea resumed its
generous and peaceful scene. ( )
A. died
C. flatted
B. lay
D. went
18. The hardest things to get in a car accident, a ship ______, or an air crash, are the names of the
saved, or the dead and injured.( )
A. wreck
C. wrap
B. wrist
D. wrench
19. A three-day tour isn’t sufficient for a thorough appreciation of Angkor, but it will give you a
______ of this magnificent work of wonder. ( )
A. limp
C. skip
B. slip
D. glimpse
20. Due to different beliefs held by feminists, religion conservatives and other groups of people,
abortion remains a ______ issue in North America. ( )
A. controversial
C. compulsory
Section B (20×0.5%=10%)
Directions: There are 20 sentences in this section. In each sentence there is a word or a
phrase underlined. Below each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.
Choose the answer that can replace the underlined part of each sentence without changing
the original meaning.
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21. It hasn’t rained in this area for an extremely long time and all the plants in the field are crying
for water. ( )
A. requesting
C. in big supply of
B. depending
D. in great need of
22. When asked what he was going to do about the fund problem, he gave a vague answer.
( )
A. implicit
C. efficient
B. explicit
D. infinite
23. The article gives its readers a real insight into the causes of the present economic
crisis.( )
A. perception
C. interpretation
B. conception
D. deception
24. To everyone’s surprise, the main force of opposition has come from a group of property
owners whom have been assumed to be in line with the proposal. ( )
A. resistance
C. consistence
B. insistence
D. assistance
25. We spoke in whispers in case that we might wake the baby. ( )
A. in fear
C. for fear
B. of fear
D. with fear
26. Jack had been very excited about going on the jungle trip, but at the last moment he lost
courage to do it. ( )
A. lost his heart
C. lost his nerves
B. lost his mind
D. lost his attentions
27. Though never touched a brush until in his mid thirties, Leon became a quite outstanding
painter by the time he was forty years old.( )
A. outrageous
C. distinguished
B. assertive
D. characteristic
28. Clothing means totally different things to men and women: a perfect fine dress could be out of
fashion within a few months but a suit could stay in style forever. ( )
A. out of time

B. out of days
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C. out of date D. out of taste
29. The whole argument comes down to the question if it is fair to regulate the industries in
developing countries the same way as the more developed countries when it comes to
environmental issues. ( )
A. ends up with
C. stands for
B. means in essence
D. corresponds to
30. At the sound of music the crowd instantly breaks down into couples and started to dance.
( )
A. derives
C. devises
B. divides
D. derides
31. What freshmen have to understand is that the acceptance to one of the best universities is not
an end but a start: now they must do as best as they can with their university education.
( )
A. think the best of
C. get the best of
B. do the best of
D. make the best of
32. Right now is not a good time to ask the mayor for help in the project, as he has his mind fixed
on the kindergarten teachers’ strike which has been going on for two weeks. ( )
A. is disturbed by
C. is concerned with
B. is motivated by
D. is preoccupied with
33. Marie Curie’s whole life was devoted to the discovery and research of radioactive elements.
( )
A. debated
C. decided
B. dedicated
D. delegated
34. No one should be allowed into that building until it is assured that it is clear of bombs.
( )
A. obvious in
C. in touch with
B. aware of
D. free from
35. The wisest thing to do is to cut off all his financial supply right off. ( )
A. completely
C. accordingly

B. definitely
D. immediately
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36. A better marketing strategy need to be made and carried out if we want to produce more profit
the next sales season. ( )
A. bring up
C. bring about
B. bring forth
D. bring to
37. The second half of the coming chapter is in relation to the effect of currency control on
national economy. ( )
A. with regard to
C. of limit to
B. in relative to
D. on level to
38. For ten years a group of American scientists have been on the track of a new kind of energy
resource which has the promise to solve the energy crisis facing the country. ( )
A. looking for
C. improving
B. inventing
D. polishing
39. When you walk into an exam room with only a few hours’ preparation done the night before,
failure is almost unavoidable. ( )
A. indispensable
C. unpredictable
B. inevitable
D. incomprehensible
40. His theory sounds logical, but then how can we know if it will work without testing it?
( )
A. at that moment
C. on the other hand
Part II: Cloze (20×0.5%=10%)
Directions: In the following passage there are 20 blanks. For each blank there are four
choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE that best fits into the passage.
When women do become managers, do they bring a different style and different skills to the
job? Are they better, or worse, managers than men? Are women more highly-motivated and
41 than male managers? Some research 42 the idea that women bring different
attitudes and skills to management jobs, such as greater 43 and emphasis on affiliation(亲和
性) and attachment, and a 44 to bring emotional factors to bear in making workplace
45 . These differences are 46 to carry advantages for companies, 47 they expand
the range of techniques that can be used to 48 the company manage its workforce 49 .
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A study commissioned by the international Women’s Forum 50 a management style
used by some women managers (and also by some men) that 51 from the command and
control style 52 used by male managers. Using this “interactive leadership” approach,
“women 53 participation, share power and information, 54 other people’s self-worth,
and get others excited about their work. All these 55 reflect their belief that allowing
56 to contribute and to feel 57 and important is a win-win 58 —good for the
employees and the organization.” The study’s director 59 that “interactive leadership may
emerge into the management style of choice for many 60 .”
( )41. A. committed
( )42. A. despises
( )43. A. coherence
( )44. A. sensitivity
( )45. A. decisions
( )46. A. seen
( )47. A. because
( )48. A. direct
( )49. A. effectively
B. confronted
B. supports
B. correlation
B. willingness
B. detachments
B. revised
B. whereas
B. enable
B. evidently
C. confined
C. opposes
C. combination
C. virtue
C. descriptions
C. detected
C. nonetheless
C. help
C. precisely
C. located
C. differs
C. inherently
C. encourage
C. degrade
C. researches
C. managers
C. thoughtful
C. situation
C. diagnosed
D. commanded
D. argues
D. cooperativeness
D. loyalty
D. discriminations
D. disclosed
D. therefore
D. support
D. aggressively
D. invented
D. deteriorates
D. occasionally
D. disapprove
D. enhance
D. subjects
D. everyone
D. faithful
D. position
D. proclaimed
( )50. A. constructed B. identified
( )51. A. discerns B. detaches
( )52. A. traditionally B. conditionally
( )53. A. engage
( )54. A. enlarge
( )55. A. things
( )56. A. men
( )57. A. tasteful
B. dismiss
B. ignore
B. themes
B. women
B. powerful
( )58. A. circumstance B. status
( )59. A. defied
( )60. A. facilities
B. predicted
B. communities C. organizations D. communications
Part Ⅲ: Reading Comprehension (20×2%=40%)
Directions: There are four passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions
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or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.
Read each passage carefully and decide on the best choice.
(1)
Computer people talk a lot about the need for other people to become “computer-literate”, in
other words, to learn to understand computers and what makes them tick. Not all experts agree,
however, that is a good idea.
One pioneer, in particular, who disagrees, is David Tebbutt, the founder of Computertown
UK. Although many people see this as a successful attempt to bring people closer to the computer,
David does not see it that way. He says that Computertown UK was formed for just the opposite
reason, to bring computers to the people and make them “people-literate”.
David first got the idea when he visited one of America’s best-known computer “guru”
figure, Bob Albrecht，in the small university town of Palo Alto in Northern California. Albrecht
had started a project called Computertown USA in the local library, and the local children used to
call round every Wednesday to borrow some time on the computers there, instead of borrowing
library books. Albrecht was always on hand to answer any questions and to help the children
discover about computers in their own way.
Over here, in Britain，Computertowns have taken off in a big way，and there are now about 40
scattered over the country. David Tebbutt thinks they are most successful when tied to a computer
club. He insists there is a vast and important difference between the two, although they
complement each other. The clubs cater for the enthusiasts, with some computer knowledge
already, who get together and eventually form an expert computer group. This frightens away
non-experts, who are happier going to Computertowns where there are computers available for
them to experiment on, with experts available to encourage them and answer any questions; they
are not told what to do, they find out.
David Tebbutt finds it interesting to see the two different approaches working side by side.
The computer experts have to learn not to tell people about computers, but have to be able to
explain the answers to the questions that people really want to know. In some Computertowns
there are question sessions, rather like radio phone-ins, where the experts listen to a lot of
questions and then try to work out some structure to answer them. People are not having to learn
computer jargons, but the experts are having to translate computer mysteries into easily
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understood terms; the computers are becoming “people-literate”.
61. According to David Tebbutt, the purpose of Computertown UK is to ______.( )
A. train people to understand how computers work
B. make more computers available to people
C. enable more people to fix computers themselves
D. help people find out more about computers
62. What does “people-literate” most probably mean?( )
A. Being able to understand computers.
B. Knowing the answers to the questions people have about computers.
C. Being easy for people to understand and use.
D. Being ready to teach people about computers.
63. We learn from the passage that Computertown USA was a ______.( )
A. town
C. library
B. project
D. school
64. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?( )
A. Computertowns in the UK have become popular.
B. Computertowns and clubs cater for different people.
C. Computertowns are more successful than clubs.
D. It’s better that computertowns and clubs work together.
65. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of computertowns?( )
A. Experts give lectures and talks on computers.
B. Experts are on hand to answer people’s questions.
C. People are left to discover computers on their own.
D. There are computers around for people to practise on.
(2)
I had an experience some years ago which taught me something about the ways in which
people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I had to officiate(主持)
at two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both had died “full
of years,” as the Bible would say; both yielded to the normal wearing out of the body after a long
and full life. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence (吊唁) calls on the
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two families on the same afternoon.
At the first home, the son of the deceased (已故的) woman said to me, “If only I had sent
my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It’s my
fault that she died.” At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, “If only I
hadn’t insisted on my mother’s going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride,
the abrupt change of climate, was more than she could take. It’s my fault that she’s dead.”
When things don’t turn out as we would like them to, it is very tempting to assume that had
we done things differently, the story would have had a happier ending. Priests know that any time
there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out
badly, they believe that the opposite course-keeping Mother at home, postponing the operation —
would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse?
There seem to be two elements involved in our readiness to feel guilt. The first is our
pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a
reason for everything that happens. That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they
really exist and where they exist only in our minds.
The second element is the notion that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad
things that happen. It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to
believing that every disaster is our fault. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood.
Psychologists speak of the infantile myth of omnipotence (万能). A baby comes to think that the
world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the
morning and summons the rest of the world to its tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to
him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we
do not completely outgrow that infantile notion that our wishes cause things to happen.
66. What is said about the two deceased elderly women?( )
A. They lived out a natural life.
B. They died due to lack of care by family members.
C. They died of exhaustion after the long plane ride.
D. They weren’t accustomed to the change in weather.
67. The author had to conduct the two women’s funerals probably because ______.( )
A. he had great sympathy for the deceased

B. he wanted to console the two families
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C. he was priest of the local church D. he was an official from the community
68. People feel guilty for the deaths of their loved ones because ______.( )
A. they believe that they were responsible
B. they had neglected the natural course of events
C. they couldn’t find a better way to express their grief
D. they didn’t know things often turn out in the opposite direction
69. In the context of the passage, “... the world makes sense” (Line 2, Para, 4) probably means
that ______.( )
A. we have to be sensible in order to understand the world
B. everything in the world is predetermined
C. there’s an explanation for everything in the world
D. the world can be interpreted in different ways
70. People have been made to believe since infancy that ______.( )
A. every story should have a happy ending
B. their wishes are the cause of everything that happens
C. life and death is an unsolved mystery
D. everybody is at their command
(3)
Londoners are great readers. They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and even
of books—especially paperbacks, which are still comparatively cheap in spite of ever-increasing
rises in the costs of printing. They still continue to buy “proper” books, too, printed on good
paper and bound between hard covers.
There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in book-selling. Perhaps
the best known of these is Charing Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here bookshops of all
sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which boasts of being “the biggest
bookshop in the world” to the tiny dusty little places which seem to have been left over from
Dickens’ time. Some of these shops stock, or will obtain, any kind of book, but many of them
specialize in second-hand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on philosophy, politics
or any other of the numberless subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area
specializes solely in books about ballet!
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Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Charing Cross
Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand volume, the collectors must venture
off the beaten track, to Farringdon Road, for example, in the East Central district of London. Here
there is nothing so grandiose(壮观的) as bookshops. Instead, the booksellers come along each
morning and tip out their sacks of books on to small barrows which line the gutters. And the
collectors, some professional and some amateur, who have been waiting for them, plunge upon
the dusty cascade. In places like this one can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old
volume that may be worth many pounds.
Both Charing Cross Road and Farringdon Road are well- known haunts of the book buyer.
Yet all over London there are bookshops, in places not so well known, where the wares are
equally varied and exciting. It is in the sympathetic atmosphere of such shops that the ardent book
buyer feels most at home. In these shops, even the lifelong book-browser is frequently rewarded
by the accidental discovery of previously unknown delights. One could, in fact, easily spend a
lifetime exploring London’s bookshops. There are many less pleasant ways of spending time!
71. In the bookshops of Charing Cross Road you can get______.( )
A. new books of any kind
C. second-hand books on various subjects
72. The book-browser ______. ( )
A. never gets tired of exploring London’s bookshops
B. has many other pleasant ways of spending time
C. always stays at home reading
D. goes to bookshops to kill time every day
73. According to the passage the best-known bookshops are ______.( )
A. in the East Central district
C. in the outskirt of the city
74. This passage tells us that ______.( )
A. Londoners have plenty of time to read books
B. Londoners are rich enough to buy various books
C. Londoners enjoy collecting and reading books
D. Londoners prefer second-hand books.
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D. both A and C
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75. Where in London can a book collector most likely get a valuable book at a good
price?( )
A. Charing Cross Road
C. Bookstores all over London
B. Farringdon Road
D. No place in London
(4)
Most English holidays have a religious origin. Easter is originally the day to
commemorate(纪念) the Resurrection(复活) of Jesus Christ. But now for most people, Easter is a
secular spring holiday, when everyone hopes to enjoy fine weather, when the days are lengthening
fast, when trees are already in bud and leaf, and spring flowers appear, the most welcome of the
year —— violets and primroses, daffodils and narcissi. For children, Easter means, more than
anything else, Easter eggs or chocolate eggs!
Real, natural eggs do not belong of course to single season of the year. They are eaten all the
year round (Duck eggs are a rarity in England, and the eggs of smaller birds are rarer still, a
luxury for the very rich and privileged). Eggs are everyday food —— inexpensive, nutritious,
and especially good for breakfast. Their association with spring, when hens begin to lay after the
winter, is older than the manufacture of chocolate eggs. In some places, real eggs are used in an
Easter game called “eggrolling.” They are first hardboiled and then given to competitors to roll
down a slope. The winner is the person whose egg gets to the bottom first. In some families, the
breakfast eggs on Easter Sunday morning are boiled in several pans, each containing a different
vegetable dye, so that when they are served the shells are no longer white or pale brown in color,
but yellow or pink, blue or green. The dyes do not penetrate the shell of course.
Most British children would be very disappointed if these were the only eggs they had at
Easter. Chocolate Easter eggs are displayed in confectioners’(糖果店) shops as soon as Christmas
is over. The smallest and simplest are inexpensive enough for children to buy with pocket money.
These are of two sorts. Very small ones, perhaps a little longer than an inch in length, are coated
thinly with chocolate on the outside and filled with a sweet, soft paste, called fondant. They are
wrapped in colored foil in a variety of patterns. Slightly larger eggs, a little bigger, as a rule, than
a duck’s egg, are hollow. There is nothing inside at all —— just a wrapped chocolate shell. You
break the shell and eat the jagged, irregular pieces.
76. Easter is originally the day to ______.( )
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A. mark the beginning of the spring
C. sell chocolate eggs
B. remember the rebirth of Jesus Christ
D. be enjoyed only by British children
77. You cannot eat ______ all the year round.( )
A. real natural eggs
C. the eggs of smaller birds
B. duck eggs
D. Both A and C
78. How do the Easter eggs become colorful?( )
A. The eggs are cooked with different vegetables.
B. The eggs are painted with different colors.
C. The eggs are boiled with different dyes.
D. The eggs are laid by different colored hens.
79. Confectionery begins to sell Easter sweets ______.( )
A. when Easter starts
C. in spring
B. as soon as Christmas is over
D. all the year round
80. What do the jagged pieces refer to?( )
A. They refer to the chocolate shells of large eggs.
B. They refer to the duck eggs.
C. They refer to the sweet, soft pastes.
D. They refer to varieties of patterns.
Part Ⅳ: Translation (15%)
Section A (2×3%=6%)
Directions: Translate the two underlined sentences in the second passage into Chinese.
81. There seem to be two elements involved in our readiness to feel guilt. The first is our pressing
need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason
for everything that happens
82. A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything
happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the world to its tasks. He
cries, and someone comes to attend to him.
Section B (3×3%=9%)
Directions: Translate the following three sentences into English.
83. 早年成功固然甜蜜，但晚年的成功往往更有滋味。
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84. 科学家们非常重视诚实，主要是因为诚实对他们的事业至关重要。
85. 每六个月，市场调研组花一整天时间来评估其方针和策略。
Part V Writing (15%)
86. Directions: Suppose a friend came to visit you and you took him to a good restaurant in
the city, but you had a very bad experience there and was very disappointed and angry.
So you decided to write a complaint letter to the manager of that restaurant. The letter
should be about 150 words, and you should explain who you are, why you are unhappy
with the service of the restaurant and what you expect the manager to do. Be sure to
follow the traditional form of a letter.
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