在线词典翻译2006年04月全国高等教育自学考试自考英语二试题

2021年1月26日发(作者：amused)


2006
年
4
月全国自考英语（二）试题


PART ONE (50 POINTS)

I
．
Vocabulary and Structure (10 points, 1point each)
1. It would be better to make a decision now, ______ leave it until next week.

A. other than B. rather than C. less than D. more than

2. We'll inform you as soon as tickets become ______.

A. valuable B. capable C. acceptable D. available

3. The foreign company has been______ running this factory for decades.

A. enormously B. effectively C. infinitely D. extremely

4. If you ______ my advice, you wouldn't be in such trouble now.

A. took B. takes C. has taken D. had taken

5. The meeting ______, we left the room quickly for dinner.

A. over B. was over C. is over D. been over

6. All the money ______, Frederick started looking for work.

A. having spent B. has been spent C. having been spent D. had been spent

7. ______ his talk when Mary ran out of the lecture hall.

A. Hardly had be begun B. Hardly he had begun

C. Hardly he has begun D. He hardly had begun

8. The two sisters are _____ in many ways, not only in appearance but also in temperament.

A. like B. likely C. alike D. lively

9. The purpose of the program is to provide training for employees so that they can work ______.

A. late B. later C. lately D. latest

10. I hope my boy friend will be handsome, strong and ______ kind.

A. above all B. in all C. at all D. after all
第
1
页





II. Cloze Test (10 points, 1 point each)

However careful one may be, he cannot possibly listen carefully to everything that he hears. There are 11 of reasons for this.
One of them is the overload of messages most of us 12 each day. In addition to the numerous hours we 13 hearing other
people speak, we may spend several hours listening to the radio or sitting in front of a television set. 14, it is impossible to
focus our attention completely on what is said; our mind might be 15 elsewhere. Preoccupation with our personal concerns
is 16 reason we don't always listen carefully. A romance 17 sour or a good grade on a test may take prominence in our mind
even
as
18
is
speaking
to
us.
Furthermore,
we
are
surrounded
by
all
kinds
of
noises
which
interfere
19
listening.
For
example, voices at a party or 20 of traffic may simply make it difficult for us to catch everything that is being said.

11. A. the number

B. a number


C. number


D. numbers

12. A. accept


B. obtain


C. receive


D. possess

13. A. put



B. consume


C. spend


D. spare

14. A. Besides


B. Whereas


C. Otherwise

D. Nevertheless

15. A. wondering


B. swinging


C. recycling


D. wandering

16. A. other



B. some


C. the other


D. another

17. A. gone



B. going


C. goes



D. went

18. A. anyone


B. everyone


C. someone


D. few

19. A. to



B. with



C. of



D. about

20. A. sound



B. noise


C. voice


D. scream


III. Reading Comprehension (30 points, 2 points each)

Passage One

Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.

Many
of
today's
most
trusted
sales
techniques
were
invented
over
a
century
ago
by
a
young
merchant
named
Eaton
in
Toronto. When he was young, Eaton worked briefly with his brothers in small-town stores. In 1869, he sep up his own shop
in downtown Toronto. He had many competitors, but he was also ambitious and had a plan for success. He offered a unique
style of trade, but as was expected, all the other shopkeepers laughed at him, believing he would eventually fail. However,
Eaton was not a man to be easily defeated; he came up with a brand new notion of business -
refunded.

With a sharp sense of what the public wanted, he went out of the way to meet their needs. His business grew rapidly. He set
up new branches and started mail order service that allowed people to buy from a list of his goods.

第
2
页



Eaton's list-advertisements of his day-was the first of its kind. It was distributed and read all over the country. It was the
only way to access good-quality goods at reasonable prices for people living far away from big cites. It became part of their
life.
They
even
called
it
The
Wishing
Book.
The
secret
of
the
list's
success
was
that
Eaton
gained
the
respect
of
this
customers; they trusted him for good prices and quality goods. Probably because he remembered his miserable early days in
Ireland, Eaton thought much of the welfare of his employees: better working conditions, shorter weekday hours than his
competitors and Saturday afternoons off in the summer. In all this, he was a leader.

21. The best description of Eaton is that ______.
A. he was the richest merchant in Toronto
B. he was a successful technical inventor
C. he introduced new sales practices
D. he changed people's ideas about businessmen

22. Eaton's success lay primarily in that ____.
A. he sold only good quality goods
B. he was the first person to provide good service
C. he treated his employees better than any of his competitors
D. he won respect from his customers

23. From the passage we can infer that ______.
A. Eaton invented the idea of the internet shopping
B. Eaton drove other businessmen to failure
C. Eaton never sold his goods on credit
D. Eaton was defeated by his rivals

24. The best title for this passage is _____.
A. Good Goods, of Money Refunded
B. Eaton, a Sales Inventor
C. Customers' Respect, a Secret of Success
D. Eaton's list, a Welcome Event in Sales History

25. Eaton's List was important to people on farms because it was a convenient way of getting _____.
A. good-quality goods at reasonable prices
B. goods at unreasonable prices
C. good-quality goods at unreasonable prices
D. poor-quality goods at reasonable prices

Passage Two

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.

The
threat
of
a
global
outbreak
(
疾病大爆发
)
of
bird
flu
makes
it
urgent
for
the
international
community
to
cooperate
effectively.
Wealthy
countries
will
have
to
provide
hundreds
of
millions
of
dollars
for
the
testing
and
production
of
medicines
necessary
for
treating
patients
suffering
from
bird
flu.
Developing
countries,
particularly
in
Southeast
Asia,
where the bird flu virus (
病毒
) has spread since 1997, must work out special programs so that farmers will not hide sighs of
possible outbreaks. In addition, the way such farm birds as chickens and ducks are traditionally raised and marketed in the
developing world should be changed; there should be more distance between the birds and their keepers. Countries should
deal with the disease with joint effort. If one country is inadequately prepared, it will be a threat to every other country.

第
3
页



The potential effects of a national outbreak of bird flu are enormous. Firstly, an outbreak may kill large numbers of people.
World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that an outbreak similar to the mild Hong Kong flu of 1968 could kill as many
as 7.4 millions people. If it were as dangerous as the 1918 Spanish flu, which killed 50 million, the number would be much
higher.
Secondly,
such
an
outbreak
may
cause
great
financial
damage.
The
latest
outbreak
of
bird
flu,
which
began
in
December 2003, has cost Southeast Asia more than $$10 billion and depressed its GDP by 1.5 percent. If a new outbreak of
bird flu were to last for a whole year, $$800 billion would be lost.

Despite the 124 human cases and 63 deaths from bird flu since December 2003, the virus remains mainly a disease animals.
However, the more animals that die of the disease, the more chances it has of spreading to people. Large numbers of dead or
dying
birds
mean
that
more
people
will
be
exposed
to the
virus
and
change
into
a
virus
with
new
characteristics.
If
the
international community works together efficiently, man can surely prevent such a virus and possibly save millions of lives.

26. Faced with the threat of a global outbreak of bird flu, the international community should ________.
A. establish new markets
B. work together effectively
C. stop birds from flying to other countries
D. raise fewer chickens and ducks

27. The second paragraph focuses on ______.
A. World Health Organization
B. flus in Hong Kong and Spain
C. the economy of Southeast Asia
D. possible effects of a bird flu outbreak

28. The number of people who have died of bird flu since 2003 is _______.
A. 63


B. 124



C. 7.4 million


D. 50 million

29. In the third paragraph, the author is mainly interested in _____.
A. stimulating financial growth

B. reducing economic damages
C. saving human lives



D. protecting bird species

30. The passage deals with all the following aspects bird flu EXCEPT _______.

A. the origin and history of bird flu
B. the importance of international cooperation
C. the possible dangers of a national outbreak
D. the significance of preventing it from spreading


Passage Three

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.

The
long
summer
holidays
are
finally
over
and
some
parents
are
pleased.

worry
more
about
their
safety
in
the
holidays,
potentially dangerous city, they are chatting to strangers in an internet chat room! Well, that's an extreme picture of the UK
today,
but
many
parents
are
worried
about
how
much
freedom
they
can
give
their
children
during
the
holidays
and
at
weekends.

第
4
页