2006年4月自考英语二试题及答案

2006年4月自考英语二试题及答案

第一篇：2006年4月自考英语二试题及答案

2006年4月自考英语

（二）试卷 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 ______te

ter

tely

test 10.I hope my boy friend will be handsome, strong

and ______ kind.A.above all B.in all

C.at all

D.after all 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 set 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 – ―Goods satisfactory, or money refunded.‖ He sold

all his goods at fixed prices and only for cash.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.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 his

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