2009年4月自考全国英语(一)真题答案

全国自考2009年4月英语语法试题及参考答案一、单项选择题1-5、C DCAA 6-10、DBCCC 11-15、BCBBB 16-20、BBAAD二、选择填空题Fill in each of the blanks with one of the items given.21. were, was, had, animal, animalsSmall amounts of land was used for keeping animals.22. has, have, its, their, theirsThe committee has reached its decision.23. more, more of, most, as, like, than Bill is more of a fool than John.24. qualified, a teacher; qualifying, teachers; qualify, teachingSusan is a teacher as qualified as Mary.25. be, is, was, are, were, will be, shall bea. That the man kissed his love in the street on the Valentine Day will be a hot topic for tonight's TV show.b. Neither his voice nor his donation to the funding organization shall be forgotten in the days to come.26. have, has, had, will have, shall havea. She is the only one of the factory who has been laid up.b. This is the only family in the community who has different opinions while making up the mind.27. be, is, was, are, were, will be, shall be, has, have, hada. She is one of the girls who have been to the Sentosa Beaches.b. This is the only one of the houses which was newly built up in this area.28. physics, gentry, binoculars, bronchitis, bacteria, stimulusa. Singular only: physics, stimulus, bronchitisb. Plural only: binoculars, bacteria, gentry三、填空题29、anywhere30、none31、nowhere32、never33、is carried34、thought35、has lost36、questioning37、realizing38、at39、to40、of41、for42、that43、where44、it45、which46、who47、older48、beautiful red real silk四、改错题Correct one error in each of the following sentences.49. Don't use your plate as ashtray. →…as an ashtray.50. Julie spent the all of the summer at home. →Julie spent the whole summer…51. Whole London was talking about her affairs. →The whole London…52. Both of children have gone to bed. →Both children…53. Have you heard this new idea of the boss? →Have you heard of…54. She's got a parrot on the shoulder. →…on her shoulder.55. —"Can you come on Monday or Tuesday?"—"I'm afraid either day is possible." →"I'm afraid neither day is possible."56. She got married at St. Joseph. →…in St. Joseph.五、改句Rewrite the following sentences as required.A. Turning the following imperative into the YES-NO question form:57. Bring me some paper please.→Would you please bring me some paper?B. Using a modal auxiliary:58. It is not even barely possible that he made that mistake.→He could not have made that mistake.C. Using the nonfinite verb form:59. When the reports arrived, we began to assess them.→Reports having arrived, …D. Using extraposition:60. To see all the high school kids standing on one foot outside school property and puffing away furtively and defiantly on their cigarettes breaks my heart.→It breaks my heart to see …E. Using passive voice:61. All the students who are applying for the government loan must observe this rule.→This rule must be observed by all the students…F. Combining the two sentences by using subjunctive mood:62. She has little knowledge about the country. But she talked in a way that made people believe the country.→She talked as if she had much knowledge about the country.G. Combining the two sentences by using a conjunct:63. He tried many companies. They all rejected his application.→…but …64. It rained heavily last night. All the flowers are gone.→…and…H. Combining the two sentences by using a relative clause:65. Philip bought an English-Chinese dictionary last week. He found it very useful.→Philip found the English-Chinese dictionary that he bought last week very useful.66. Heavy storms occurred in the area this summer. It caused serious damage to the crops.→The heavy storms that occurred in the area this summer caused serious damage to the crops.I. Rewrite the following sentences using whatever cohesive device is appropriate:67. If you travel often, keep a collection of necessities pre-packed. Keeping a collection of necessities pre-packed will give you time to pare the nonessentials.→…that will give you…68. I inherited these skills from my father. Those skills have been put to the test.→…They have been…69. I learned to pack light early in life. I had to pack light early in life.→…I had to do it …六、名词解释Define the following terms with examples.70. Predicative modal auxiliaryModal auxiliary which is in a use indicating speaker's assumption or assessment of probability. eg. Even in summer it can be very cold here.71. anaphoric referenceAnaphoric reference is used to retreive information from the foregoing context. eg. I have read that book. It is not very interesting七、简答题Answer the following questions.72. What is the system of two tenses and two aspects?Answer: Two tenses are past tense and present tense; two aspects are perfect aspect and progressive aspect.73. What are the senses conveyed in the premodifying-ed participles?Answer: If the verb is transitive, its premodifying-ed participle convey the sense of passiveness or completeness or both; if the verb is intrnasitive, its premodifying-ed participle convey only the sense of completeness.74. What is given information and what is new information?Answer: The given information is what is assumed to be familiar to the receiver, while the new information is what is assumed to be unfamiliar to the receiver.。

2009年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（含答案）英语一、本试卷分第l卷(选择题)和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分。

第I卷1至14页，第II卷15至16页。

考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

满分150分，考试用时120分钟。

第Ⅱ卷(选择题，共115分)注意事项：1．答题前，考生务必用黑色碳素笔将自己的姓名、准考证号、考场号、座位号在答题卡上填写清楚，并认真核准条形码上的准考证号、姓名、考场号、座位号及科目，在规定的位置贴好条形码。

2．每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。

如需改动，用橡皮擦擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。

答在试卷上的答案无效。

第一部分听力(共两节，满分30分)做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。

录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节(共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)听下面5段对话。

每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。

听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下--4,题。

每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What do the speakers need to buy?A. A fridge.B. A dinner table.C. A few chairs.2. Where are the speakers?A. In a restaurant.B. In a hotel.C. In a school.3. What does the woman mean?A. Cathy will be at the party.B. Cathy is too busy to come.C. Cathy is going to be invited.4. Why does the woman plan to go to town?A. To pay her bills in the bank.B. To buy books in a bookstore.C. To get some money from the bank.5. What is the woman trying to do?A. Finish some writing.B. Print an article.C. Find a newspaper.第二节(共l5小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)听下面5段对话。

全国2009年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题I．Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.1．In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______.A．getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB. getting control of the parliament and governmentC．introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD．recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church2．The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______. A．SurreyB. WyattC．SidneyD．Shakespeare3．As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typicalexample of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.A．The Tempest 暴风雨B. The Winter's Tale冬天的故事C．Cymbeline 辛白林D．The Rape of Lucrece 露易丝受辱记4．John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literarure since Beowulf. A．AreopagiticaB. Paradise LostC．LycidasD．Samson Agonistes5．The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT ______.A．self - esteem 自尊B. self – reliance自力更生C．self - restraint 自制D．hard work6．“Graveyard School”writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPTA．James ThomsonB. William CollinsC．William CowperD．Thomas Jackson7．The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swift's ______.A．A Modest ProposalB. A Tale of a TubC．Gulliver's TravelsD．The Battle of the Books8．As a representative of the Enlightenment,______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A．John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC．Alexander PopeD．Jonathan Swift9．For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,______ has been regarded by some as “Father of the EnglishA．Daniel DefoeB. Henry FieldingC．Jonathan SwiftD．Samuel Richardson10．Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct?A．It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C．Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural. D．Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance．11．“Byronic hero”is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.A. being proudB. being of humble 卑微的originC. being rebelliousD．being mysterious12．Robert Browning created ______ by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.A．the verse novelB. the blank verseC．the heroic coupletD．the dramatic poetry13．Charles Dickens' novel ______ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the nineteenth- century London.A．The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC．David CopperfieldD．Nicholas Nickleby14．Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards ______, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.A．self - relianceB. self - realizationC．self - esteemD．self - consciousness15．The symbolic meaning of “Book”in Robert Browning's long poem The Ring and the Book is ______.A．the common senseB. the hard truthC．the comprehensive knowledgeD．the dead truth16．Thomas Hardy's pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a ______ writer.A．realisticB. naturalisticC．romanticD．stylistic17．After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends of modernism EXCEPT ______.A．expressionismB. surrealismC．stream of consciousnessD．black humour18．The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are thethree trilogies of ______.A．Galsworthy's Forsyte novelsB. Hardy' s Wessex novelsC．Greene's Catholic novelsD．Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels19．In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared “______”who demonstrated a particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest．against the outmoded social and political values in their society.A．The Beat GenerationB. The Lost GenerationC．The Angry Young MenD．Black Mountain Poets20.The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels EXCEPT ______.A. PilgrimageB. UlyssesC. Mrs.DallowayD．A Passage to Inida21．The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20thcentury was ______.A．W.B.YeatsB. Lady GregoryC．J.M.SyngeD．John Galworthy22．T.S.Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.A．Murder in the CathedralB. The Cocktail PartyC．The Family ReunionD．The Waste Land23．The American writer ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist In-truder in the Dust in 1950.A．Ernest HemingwayB. Gertrude SteinC．William Faulkner D. T.S．Eliot24．Hemingway's second big success is ______ , which wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1920s, in order to tell us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse.A．For Whom the Bell TollsB. A Farewell to ArmsC．The Sun Also RisesD．The Old Man and the Sea25．With the publication of ______ , Dreiser was launching himself upon a long career that would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism. A．Sister CarrieB. The TitanC．The GeniusD．The Stoic26．Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th -century “stream -of-consciousness”novels and the founder of ______. A．neoclassicismB. psychological心理的realismC．psychoanalytical精神分析criticismD．surrealism27．In 1849, Herman Melville published ______ ,a semi-autobiographical novel, con- cerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.A．OmooB. MardiC．RedburnD．Typee28．As a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,______ marks the climax of Mark Twain's literary activity.A．The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. Life on the MississippiC．The Gilded AgeD．Roughing It29．Realism was a reaction against ______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self- creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A．RomanticismB. RationalismC．Post-modernismD．Cynicism30．When World War II broke out,______ began working for the Italian government, engaged in some radio broadcasts of anti- Semitism and pro-Fascism.A．Ezra Pound B. T.S．EliotC．Henry James D．Robert Frost31．In 1915 ______ became a naturalized British citizen, largely in protest against America's failure to join England in the First World War. A．Henry James B. T.S.EliotC．W.D.Howells D．Ezra Pound32．What Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “______ ,”that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. A．blank verseB. free rhythmC．balanced structureD．free verse33．The American woman poet ______ wanted to live simply as a complete independent being, and so she did, as a spinster.A．Emily ShawB. Anna DickinsonC．Emily DickinsonD．Anne Bret34．The Birthmark drives home symbolically ______ point that evil is a man's birthmark, something he was born with.A．Whitman'sB. Melville'sC．Hawthorne'sD．Emerson's35．The Financier ,The Titan and The Stoic written by ______ are called his “Trilogy of Desire”.A．Henry JamesB. Theodore DreiserC．Mark TwainD．Herman Melville36．Disregarding grammar and punctuation,______ always used “i”instead of “I”in his poems to show his protest against self-importance. A．Wallace StevensB. Ezra PoundC．Robert FrostD．E.E.Cummings37．Though Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in ______ , he wrote many poems that investigate the basic themes of man's life in his long poetic career.A．the westB. the southC．New EnglandD．Alaska38．Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of ______ with a double vision.A．the Gilded AgeB. the Rational AgeC．the Jazz AgeD．the Magic Age39．In the American Romantic writings,______ came to function almost as a dramatic character that symbolized moral law.A．fireB. waterC．treesD．wilderness40．The desire for an escape from society and a return to ______ became a permanent convention of the American literature.A．the family lifeB. natureC．the ancient timeD．fantasy of loveII．Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English．Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41．Wherefore feed and clothe and saveFrom the cradle to the graveThose ungrateful drones who wouldDrain your sweat- nay, drink your blood?Questions:A．Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken. from percy shelley’s “men of England”B.What figure of speech is used in Line 2?metonymyC．Whom does “drones”refer to?Here “drones” refers to the parasitic class in human socity.42．The following quotation is from one of the poems by T．S．Eliot: No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or twoAdvise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous,Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;Questions:A．Identify the title of the poem from which the quoted part is taken．The love song of J.Alfred PrufrockB.Who's the speaker of the quoted lines?J.Alfred PrufrockC．What does the first line show about the speaker?Prufrock is conscious of the fact that he is like hamlet in some respect. But he is sensible enough that he cant be compared with hamlet. 43．There was a child went forth every day,And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day,Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.Questions:A．Identify the poet. Walt WhitmanB.From which poem and which collection of the poet are these lines taken?“ there was a child went forth” from “ leaves of grass”C.What does the poet describe in the poem?The poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him and improved himself accordingly. In the poem, Whitman’s own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young, growing American.44．I heard a Fly buzz- when I died-The Stillness in the RoomWas like the Stillness in the Air-Between the Heaves of Storm-The Eyes around- had wrung them dry-And Breaths were gathering firmFor that last Onset- when the KingBe witnessed - in the Room-Questions:A．Identify the poet. Emily DickinsonB.What does “the King” refer to?The god of deathC．What moment is the poem trying to describe?The poem is trying to describe the moment of death.III．Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English．Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45．List at least two leading neoclassicists in England．What did Neoclassicists celebrate in literary creation?A. Alexander pope, John Dryden, Samuel JohndonB. they believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity. They seek proportion, unity, harmony and grace in literacy expression, in an effort to delight, instruct and correct human beings. Thus a polite, elegant, witty and intellectual art developed. 46．Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age．Why is Jane Eyre such a successful novel?A. it is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing socity.B. it is an intense moral fable.C. the success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine.47．Who are the three dominant figures of the American Age of Realism and what are the differences in their understanding of the “truth”?A. William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James.B. Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the“life”of the Ameicans. Howells focused his discussion on the rising middle class and the way they lived: Mark Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories; Henry James had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “ inner world” of man. 48．What's Dreiser' s naturalistic belief? Please discuss the question with Carrie, a character in Sister Carrie as an example.A. Dreiser believes that while men are controlled and conditioned by heredity, instinct and chance, a few extraordinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fate wordlessly and instead strive, unsuccessfully, to find meaning and purpose for their existence.B. Carrie, as one of such, senses that she is merely a cipher in an uncaring world yet seeks to grasp the mysteries of life and thereby satisfies her desires for social status and material comfort, but in spite of her success, she is lonely and dissatisfied.IV．Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49．Briefly discuss William Shakespeare's artistic achievements in characterization, plot construction and language.A. shakespeare’s major characters are neither merely individual ones nor type ones; they represent certain types; they are individuals representingcertain types. By employing a psychoanalytical approach, Shakespeare succeeds in exploring the characters’inner world. Shakespeare also portrays his characters in pairs. Contrasts are frequently used to bring vividness to his characters.B. Shakespeare seldom invents his own plot; instead, he borrows them from old plays or storybook, fron ancient Greek or Roman sources. In order to make the play more lively and compact, he would shorten the time and intensify the story. There are usually several clues running through the play, thus providing the story with the suspense and apprehension.C. Shakespeare can write skillfully in different poetic forms, such as the sonnet, the blank verse and the rhymed couplet. He has an amazing wealth of vocabulary and idiom. His coinage of new words and distortion of the meaning of the old words also creates striking effects on the readers.50．Briefly discuss Mark Twain's art of fiction in terms of the setting,the language, and the characters, etc.,based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.A. Mark Twain uses the Mississippi V ally as his fictional kingdom, Writing about the landscape and people, the customs and the dialects of one particular region, and is therefore known as a local colorist.B. he creates life-like characters, especially the conventional HuckleberryFinn, who runs away from civilization and stands opposite to conventional morality.C. He uses a simple, direct vernacular language, totally different from any previous literary language. It is the kind of colloquial language belonging to the lower class, the living local American English.D. he has created a special humor to satirize social injustices and the decayed convention.。

2009年4月北京地区成人本科学士学位英语统一考试试题及答案(A)Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)第一篇文章主要是讲关于十几岁年轻人的一些问题。

Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by som e questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marke d A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding le tter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Passage 1 Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:I hear many parents complain that their teenage children are rebelling. I wish it were so.At your age you ought to be growing away from your parents. You should be learning to stan d on your own feet. But take a good look at the present rebellion. It seems that teenagers are all taking the same way of showing that they disagree with their parents. Instead of striking ou t boldly on their own, most of them are holding one another's hands for reassurance (放心).They claim they want to dress as they please. But they all wear the same clothes. They set off in new directions in music. But they all end up listening to the same record. Their reason for thinking or acting in such a way is that the crowd is doing it. They have come out of th eir cocoon (茧) into a larger cocoon.(76) It has become harder and harder for a teenager to stand up against the popularity wave and to go his or her own way. Industry has firmly carved out a market for teenagers. These days every teenager can learn from the advertisements what a teenager should have and be. Thi s is a great barrier for the teenager who wants to find his or her own path.But the barrier is worth climbing over. The path is worth following. You may want to liste n to classical music instead of going to a party. You may want to collect rocks when everyone else is collecting records. You may have some thoughts that you don't care to share at once with your classmates. Well, go to it. Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come—with the people who respect you for who you are. That's the only kind of popularity that really counts.1. The author's purpose in writing this passage is to tell______.【答案】B第1题目问的是作者写这篇文章的目的是干什么的。

全国2009年4月自学考试英语翻译试题Ⅰ. Multiple Choice (30 points, 2 points for each)A. Directions: This part consists of ten sentences, each followed by four different versions marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the closest equivalent of the original in terms of meaning and expressiveness.(Please write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.)1. If machines really thought as men do, there would be no more reason to fear them than to fear men.A. 如果机器真的像人一样思维，那么怕它们的理由就没有比怕人的理由多。

B. 如果机器真的像人一样思维，那么就没有理由怕它们，正如没有理由怕人一样。

C. 如果机器真的像人一样思维，那么怕人的理由就没有比怕它们的理由多。

D. 如果机器真的像人一样思维，那么就没有理由怕人，正如没有理由怕它们一样。

2. James Bringley of Straffordshire started his self-made career in 1733 by working at mill wheels, at the age of 17, having been born poor in a village.A. 1733年，斯塔福郡的詹姆斯·布林德雷就在磨坊工作。

因为他出身于一个贫困的农村家庭，17岁那年，他便开始了自我奋斗的历程。

英语阅读(一)试题_全国2009年4月自考试卷英语阅读(一)试题_全国2009年4月自考试卷I. CAREFUL READINGRead the following passages carefully. Decide on the best answer and write the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points, 2 points each)Passage 1Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.Some people believe that international sport creates goodwill between nations and that, if countries play games together, they will learn to live together. Others say that the opposite is true: international contests encourage false national pride and lead to misunderstanding and hatred. There is probably some truth in both arguments, but in recent years the Olympic Games have done little to support the view that sport encourages international brotherhood. Apart from tragic incidents involving the murder of athletes, the Games were also ruined by lesser incidents caused principally by international contests.One country received its second-place medals with visible indignation after a hockey final. There had been noisy scenes atthe end of the hockey match, the losers objecting to the final decision. They were convinced that one of their goals should not have been disallowed and that their opponents’ victory was u nfair. Their manager was in a rage when he said: “This wasn’t hockey. Hockey and the International Hockey Federation are finished.” The president of the Federation said later that such behavior could result in the suspension of the team for at least three years.The American basketball team announced that they would not yield first place to Russia, after a disputable end to their contest. The game had ended in disturbance. It was thought at first that the United States had won by a single point, but it was announced that there were still three seconds to play. A Russian player then threw the ball from one end of the court to the other, and another player popped it into the basket. It was the first time the U.S.A had ever lost an Olympic basketball match.A judging panel debated the matter for four and a half hours without changing the original decision. The American players then voted not to receive the silver medals.Incidents of this kind will continue as long as sport is played competitively rather than for the love of the game. The suggestion that athletes should compete as individuals, or onnon-national teams, might be too much to hope for, but in the present organization of the Olympics there is far too much that encourages aggressive patriotism.1. The author cites two examples in the passage to show that _______.A. athletes should compete as individualsB. sports encourage aggressive patriotismC. athletes should compete on national teamsD. sports encourage international brotherhood2. The American basketball players eventually _______.A. had to agree with the judging panelB. had to yield the first place to RussiaC. decided not to receive the silver medalsD. decided to protest against the unfair decision3. The word “indignation” (para. 2) is cl osest in meaning to _______.A. rageB. pleasureC. miseryD. temper4. It can be inferred from the passage that the suggestion mentioned in the last paragraph is ______.A. modestB. realisticC. impracticalD. unreasonable5. The author’s attitude toward the present organization of the Olympics is _______.A. positiveB. negativeC. impartialD. satiricalPassage 2Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage.Since the Second World War, there has been an obvious trend, especially among the growing group of college students, toward early marriage. Many youths begin dating in the first stages of adolescence, “go steady” through high school, and marry before their formal education has been completed. In some quarters, there is much shaking of graying heads over the ways of rebellious youth. However, emotional maturity does not grow with age; it does not arrive automatically at twenty-one or twenty-five. Some achieve it surprisingly early, while others never do, even in three-score years and ten.Many students are marrying as an escape, not only from an unsatisfying home life, but also from their own personal problems of isolation and loneliness. However, any marriage entered into as an escape cannot prove entirely successful. The sad fact is that ma rriage seldom solves one’s problems; more often, it merely worsens them. Furthermore, it is doubtfulwhether the home is capable of carrying all that the young are seeking to put into it; one might say that they are abandoning one idol only to worship another. Young people correctly understand that their parents are wrong in believing that success is the ultimate good, but they themselves are wrong in believing that they have found the true center of life’s meaning. Their expectations of marriage are essentially unrealistic and therefore incapable of fulfillment. They want too much, and tragic disillusionment is often bound to follow.Shall we, then, join the chorus of those against early marriages? One cannot generalize: all early marriages are not bad any more than all later ones are good. Satisfactory marriages are determined not by how old one is, but by the emotional maturity of the partners. Therefore, each case must be judged on its own merits. If the early marriage is not an escape, if it is entered into with relatively few illusions or false expectations, and if it is economically feasible, why not? Good marriages can be made from sixteen to sixty, and so can bad ones.6. The phrase “go steady” (para. 1) can be replaced by _______.A. break up very oftenB. keep changing partnersC. maintain the relationshipD. believe in early marriages7. The phrase “shaking of graying heads” (para. 1) refers to_______.A. the anger of parentsB. the disapproval of old peopleC. the radical behaviors of the youngD. the unruly manners of young lovers8. Besides escaping from unsatisfying home life, young people also marry early _______.A. for personal developmentB. for financial supportC. to get rid of their lonelinessD. to stay away from their parents9. According to the author, marriage more often than not _______.A. ends up in divorceB. leads to tragediesC. proves to be successfulD. worsens one’s problems10. The author argues that _______.A. older people suspect early marriagesB. early marriages should not be encouragedC. early marriages are not always unsuccessfulD. older people are wrong about early marriagesPassage 3Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.A guest at the Holiday Inn on Union Square in San Francisco isattempting to turn on the radio in his room. Not matter which button he pushes, the radio will not play. Finally, the guest reports a defective (有毛病的) radio. A hotel employee soon arrives at the guest’s room with a new radio, a box of chocolates, and flowers. As for the radio already in the room, the employee turns it on without difficulty and quickly reassures the guest that the radio is tricky to operate. The employee shows the guest how to work the radio and pleasantly exits the room, leaving the radios, the chocolates and the flowers.An elderly woman is in her favorite food store, Ukrop’s Super Market of Richmond, Virginia. She picks up a large pineapple from the display case, holds it for several moments, and then returns it with obvious reluctance. Ukrop’s pres ident, James Ukrop, witnesses this scene and asks the customer if she would like to buy half of the pineapple, indicating that the store would be glad to cut it in half. The customer accepts and states how she looks forward to visiting Ukrop’s because the staff is so friendly and makes her feel so welcome.Night after night, in Aurora, Colorado, police officers answer calls for break-ins of cars parked outside a local dance hall. One officer notes that the burglaries usually involve purses offemale customers who say they lock their handbags in their cars, fearing the bags would be stolen from unattended tables during dances. The officer then persuades the dance hall owner to install lockers and the burglary calls drop from dozens each month to two in four months.These three stories emphasize our central argument, that is, the essence of services marketing is service. Service quality is the foundation of services marketing, for the core product being marketed is a performance. The performance is the product; the performance is what customers buy. A strong service concept gives companies the opportunity to compete for customers; a strong performance of the service concept builds competitiveness by earning customers’ confidence and reinforcing branding, advertising, selling, and pricing.11. The radio in the guest’s room at the Holiday Inn does not work because _______.A. there are too many buttons on itB. there is something wrong with itC. it takes a technician to operate itD. the guest has not operated it properly12. It can be inferred from the second paragraph that _______.A. the lady doesn’t like the pineapple at firstB. the lady loves the way the pineapple is arrangedC. it is natural for the shop to cut the pineapple in halfD. the shop usually does not sell part of an item to a customer13. The third story in the passage shows _______.A. the significance of serviceB. the high crime rates in AuroraC. the importance of police workD. the carelessness of women dancers14. In a service business, the product being marketed is _______.A. a brandB. a personC. a promiseD. a performance15. The author sets forth the argument of the passage by _______.A. finding causesB. giving examplesC. defining a termD. providing comparisonsPassage 4Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage. Blaming the media for violence is misguided. To better understand the issue of violence and society, it is helpful to examine its historical roots. Certainly not all tribal societies were violent. For example, many native tribes in the Americansouthwest were entirely peaceful. However, for most tribal people throughout most of the world, war and violence have always been part of life. One of our oldest books, the Old Testament, tells of constant tribal wars among the peoples of the Middle East. Likewise, ancient texts such as the Greek Iliad, the Indian Bhagavad-Gita and the Nordic Beowulf all tell tales of war and violence. Certainly the peoples of ancient Babylonia, Greece, India, and Scandinavia were not influenced by the media, yet most of the earliest human records indicate that violence has been an ever-present part of human life. Since violence was with us long before modern media, it seems unlikely that controlling the media now would have much impact on stopping human violence.A comparison of violence in nations around the world indicates that there is no relationship between media violence and real violence. In the United States, in 1996, there were 9,390 gun-related deaths. In the same year, Japan had 15 gun-related deaths. Yet the level of violence on television in Japan is higher than that in the U.S. Japanese TV often depicts graphic violence that would not be allowed on U.S. television, and Japanese movie-goers see the same major Hollywood films that Americans see, but street crime is so rare in Tokyo thatmost people do not worry about it. In contrast, in American cities, people in general, and women in particular, are afraid to walk alone at night. Security is an ever-present concern in the U.S., where citizens limit their lives in numerous ways to reduce the chances of joining the 11,000 people who are killed by guns in America each year. However, the number of murders in the U.S. is small compared to Columbia, where, for example, 23,000 people were murdered in 1999. Columbians have much less exposure to media violence than either Americans or Japanese; they have fewer TV stations and watch fewer films. Indeed, those committing murders in Columbia are often people from the countryside who have the least exposure to the media. Thus people who are not exposed to the media are often more likely to commit violent crimes than those exposed to it. Since Canada borders the U.S., Canadians receive the same TV and radio programs that Americans receive, yet gun violence in Canada is nearly one hundred times lower than that in the U.S. Clearly there is no significant relationship between media violence and real-life violence. We need to look elsewhere for solutions to real-life violence.16. The author cites the examples of ancient texts in the first paragraph to show that _______.A. ancient texts are just as violent as modern mediaB. ancient societies could be both peaceful and violentC. violence came into being long before modern media didD. there is more violence in ancient, works than in the media17. The author uses Japanese, Columbian and Canadian examples to show that real-life violence and media violence _______.A. are not relatedB. are not seriousC. affect each otherD. are directly related18. It can be inferred from the second paragraph that the safest country is _______.A. JapanB. CanadaC. ColumbiaD. the U.S.19. The phrase “reduces the chances of joining...” (para. 2) may be replaced by _______.A. refuses to take part inB. adds to the number ofC. avoids becoming one ofD. decreases the number of20. According to the passage, those who are the least exposed to media violence are citizens of _______.A. JapanB. the U.S.C. CanadaD. ColumbiaII. SPEED READINGSkim or scan the following passages, and then decide on the best answer and write the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points, I point each)Passage 5Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.Laura House remembers the day with embarrassment. “Mom and I were on our way home after dinner when we stopped at an intersection,” she says. “When the light changed, the guy ahead of us was looking at a map of something and didn’t move right away. I leaned on my horn and automatically yelled. I didn’t even think about what I was doing. Mom’s jaw just dropped. She said, ‘Well, I guess you’ve been living in the city too long.’ That’s when I realized that my anger was out of control.”According to Carol Tavris, author of Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion, the keys to dealing with anger are common sense and patience. She points out that almost no situation is improved by an angry outburst. Shouting, fuming, or leaning on the car horn won’t make traffic begin to flow, make the screen unlock or make keys appear. Patience, on the other hand, is a highly practical virtue. People who take the time to cool down before responding to an anger-producing situation are far less likely tosay or do something they will regret later.Anger-management therapist Doris Wilde agrees. “L ike any feeling, anger lasts only about three seconds,” she says. “What keeps it going is your own negative thinking.” As long as you focus on the idiot who cut you off on the expressway, you’ll stay angry. But if you let the incident go, your anger will go with it. “Once you come to understand that you’re driving your own anger with your thoughts,” adds Wilde, “you can stop it.” Experts who have studied anger also encourage people to cultivate activities that effectively release their anger. For some peo ple, it’s reading newspapers or watching TV, while others need more active outlets (发泄渠道), such as taking a walk, hitting golf balls, or working out with a punching bag. People who succeed in calming their anger also enjoy the satisfaction of having dealt positively with their frustrations.For Laura House, her experience in the car with her mother was a wake-up call. “Once I saw what I was doing, it really wasn’t that hard to develop different habits. I simply decided I was going to treat other people the way I would want to be treated. I’m a calmer, happier person now,” she reports.21. The writer begins the passage by _______.A. giving an exampleB. making a comparisonC. looking into causesD. quoting a famous person22. According to Carol Tavris, anger can be handled effectively ________.A. by remaining silentB. by listening to musicC. through games and exercisesD. through common sense and patience23. Doris Wilde believes that people stay angry ______.A. when traffic on the expressway is heavyB. when anger-causing incidents are seriousC. because it takes time for them to calm downD. because they fail to look at things positively24. The sentence “if you let the incident go, your anger will go with it” (para. 3) tells us that ______.A. anger depends on how serious the situation isB. people get carried away by unpleasant incidentsC. anger disappears when people ignore the incidentD. people won’t be angry without anger-causing incidents25. The passage mainly deals with ______.A. types of angerB. effects of angerC. causes of angerD. management of angerPassage 6Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.Alcatraz Island, sometimes referred to as the Rock, is a small island located in the middle of San Francisco Bay in California. It served as a lighthouse, then a military fortification (要塞), then a military prison followed by a federal prison until 1963. It became a national recreation area in 1972. Today, the island is a historic site operated by the National Park Service as part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and is open to tourists. The first Spaniard to discover the island was Juan Manuel de Ayala in 1775, and the earliest recorded owner of the island of Alcatraz is Julian Workman, to whom it was given by Mexican governor Pio Pico in June 1846 with the understanding that the former would build a lighthouse on it. Later that same year John C. Fremont bought the island for $5,000 in the name of the United States government. When California became part of the United States in 1848, the U.S. Army used the island as a military camp for the protection of San Francisco Bay. Later, the army decided to turn it into the site of detention (拘禁), a task for which it was well suited because of its isolation. In 1867 a brick jailhouse was built, and in 1868 Alcatraz was officially designated a long-term detention facility for military prisoners. On March 21, 1907, Alcatraz was officially designated as the Western US Military Prison.Due to its isolation from the outside by the cold, strong, dangerous currents of the waters of San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz was used to house Civil War prisoners as early as 1861. In 1898, the Spanish-American war would increase the prison population from 26 to over 450. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, civilian prisoners were transferred to Alcatraz for safe confinement. By 1912 there was a large cellhouse, and in the 1920s a large 3-story structure was nearly at full capacity. The island became a federal prison in August 1934. During the 29 years it was in use, the jail held such notable criminals as A1 Capone, Robert Franklin Stroud (the Birdman of Alcatraz), James Bulger and Alvin Katpis, who served more time at Alcatraz than any other inmate. It also provided housing for the Bureau of Prison staff and their families, and no prisoner had ever successfully escaped from the island.26. Alcatraz Island was first used as ______.A. a lighthouseB. a federal prisonC. a military prisonD. a military fortification27. The first owner of Alcatraz Island is ______.A. Pio PicoB. Julian WorkmanC. John C. FremontD. Juan Manuel de Ayala28. Alcatraz Island began to house civilian prisoners in ______.A. 1867B. 1898C. 1906D. 190729. The U.S. Army first used Alcatraz Island as ______.A. a military campB. a national parkC. a civilian prisonD. a military prison30. Alcatraz Island served as a federal prison between ______.A. 1898 and 1912B. 1907 and 1934C. 1912 and 1934D. 1934 and 1963III. DISCOURSE CLOZEThe following is taken from the textbook. Read the passage and fill in the numbered spaces (there are more suggested answers than necessary). Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points, 1 point each)My topic is the Constitution of the United States. Every year thousands of tourists visit the National Archives in Washington D. C., to view the original document, which is on permanent display. (31) ______. I shall deal with the background of the Constitution, the great Convention of 1787 that produced it, some of its leading principles and provisions, and the means by which (32) ______.In 1775 the thirteen British colonies that were to become the United States stretched along the Atlantic Coast of NorthAmerica. (33) ______. Over the years the colonies had developed greatly. In 1775 they had a population of more than two millions. They enjoyed a large measure of self-government. Each colony had its own legislature (34) ______. Each colony was separate from the others. They had in common a British cultural and political heritage, and all were subjectto laws passed by Parliament and owed allegiance to the British Crown.(35) ______. The American Revolution came because the colonies had grown stronger and were in less need of British support, because the people in them were less like Europeans than their ancestors had been, (36) ______. Beginning in 1775 the Revolution continued for several years. With the aid of France the colonies won the war, and in 1783 Great Britain signed a treaty recognizing their independence. (37) ______. Before the war ended, these thirteen states realized that they would need to work together in peacetime (38) ______. In 1782 they put into effect a plan for unity under a federal system. This meant that each of the states would remain independent in many ways but would join with the others in a government that would be able to do things (39) ______. Unfortunately this plan did not provide for a federal government strong enough toenable it to do what needed to be done. This became clear after a few years of experience. In 1786 a call went out to all the states inviting them to send delegates to a meeting (40) ______. This meeting was the Constitutional Convention, a great turning point in American History.(From The Constitution of the United States)A. that individual states could not do by themselves with successB. The first had been established in 1607, the last in 1732C. to be sent to the thirteen states for approvalD. composed of two houses and modeled after the British ParliamentE. and because to the colonists it seemed that the British government meant to assume more and more control over them and to restrict their libertiesF. This is the() document that has shaped our national life for more than 180 yearsG. to be held in Philadelphia in the spring of 1787H. Meanwhile the thirteen new states had created the United States of AmericaI. no more important meeting has been held in AmericaJ. it has been adapted over so long a time to the needs of achanging societyK. as they had been forced to do in wartimeL. Then came a revolt against British ruleIV. WORD FORMATIONSComplete each of the following sentences with the proper form of the word in the bracket. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points, 1 point each )41. (child) Much of my early ______ was spent with my aunt in the countryside.42. (confuse) The tourists made their way through the noise and _____ of the marketplaceto their hotel.43. (simple) We think it necessary to ______ the procedure of application.44. (private) In the U.S., where there are millions and millions of ________ ownedautomobiles, it is not easy to go downtown in the rush hour. 45.(honest) Judy answered all the interviewers’ questions with ______ and courage.46. (arrive) We enjoyed the golden autumn, but the ______ of winter made many of usfeel depressed.47. (promote) Young males in particular tend to be keener on high pay and ______ thanolder people.48. (ignore) I didn’t like to ask him to explain more clearly, for I didn’t want to appear______.49. (fashion) My mother disliked my new hat, though it was the latest style worn by______ women in Paris.50. (rich) The professor emphasized that the goal of the course is to ______ ourunderstanding of other cultures.V. GAP FILLINGThe following is taken from the textbook. Fill in the numbered gaps with the correct form of the words or phrases in the box (there are more words than necessary). Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points, 1 point each)make，similar to，avoid，bring，tell，unless，until，which，contrary to，from，aware of, proneTo avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are (51) ______, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple ruleswill keep you, not from all errors, but (52) ______ silly errors.If the matter is one that can be settled by observation, make the observation yourself. Aristotle could have (53) ______. the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. He did not do so because he thought he knew. Thinking that you know when in fact you don’t is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone. I believe myself that hedgehogs eat black beetles, because I have been (54) ______ that they do; but if I were writing a book on the habits of hedgehogs, I should not commit myself (55) ______I had seen one enjoying this unappetizing diet. Aristotle, however, was less cautious. Ancient and medieval authors knew all about unicorns and salamanders; not one of them thought it necessary to avoid dogmatic statements about them because he had never seen one of them.Many matters, however, are less easily (56) ______ to the test of experience. If, like most of mankind, you have passionate convictions on many such matters, there are ways in which you can make yourself (57) ______ your own bias. If an opinion (58) ______ your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking asyou do. If someone maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the equator, you feel pity rather than anger, (59) ______ you know so little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your own contrary conviction. The most savage controversies are those about matters as to (60) ______ there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in the theology there is only opinion.(From How to Avoid the Foolish Opinions)VI. SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONSThe following questions are based on Passage Four in this test paper. Read the passage carefully again and answer the questions briefly by referring back to Passage Four. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points, 5 points each) 61. Why does the author examine the historical roots of violence in the first paragraph?62. According to the author, what is the relationship between media violence and real-life violence?VII. TRANSLATIONThe following excerpt is taken from the textbook. Read the paragraph carefully and translate into Chinese each of the numbered and underlined parts. Write your answers on theANSWER SHEET. (10 points, 2 points each)(63) In your quest for success, enthusiasm means that you believe deeply in what the company is doing. You also believe that your job is important and contributes to the cause. It means that you’re willing to work your butt off (努力做事) to achieve the company’s goals. (64) Real enthusiasm is when you leap out of bed in the morning and attack your day full of energy. (65) You have zeal for the work you do and the people you work with. This pushes you to improve and become a better person. Enthusiasm means that you are stimulated by your work，and are able to find new challenges and keep growing professionally. (66)Furthermore, most jobs have some elements that are less fun and more difficult to carry out. This is where passion really comes into play. (67) When you love what you do, it isn’t too difficult to get mentally prepared and get the job done. The hard part is performing equally well in those less interesting tasks.(From Enthusiasm Leads to Success)。

2009年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英语（二）试卷PART ONE （50 POINTS）ⅠVocabulary and Structure (10 pionts, 1 point for each item)从下列各句四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并在答题卡上将相应的字母涂黑。

1.We _______go out to restaurants , but mostly we eat at home.A. occasionallyB. relativelyC. continuallyD. absolutely2. This is the first time that a woman has been _______to the post.A. grantedB. praisedC. pointedD. appointed3. If payment is not received, legal action will be our only _______.A. aggressionB. advantageC. alternativeD. ambition4. Don’t trust everything _______A. whichB. thatC. asD. what5. The conclusion from the study is not definite; it is just_______.A. tentativeB. validC. technicalD. thorough6. She _______everything else and concentrated on the task before her.A. set offB. set backC. set asideD. set up7. When you_______know Bob better, you will like him.A. go toB. got toC. went toD. get to8. I’ve got the order from the boss that the work_______finished before 5 p.m today.A. would beB. beC. will have beenD. could be9. _______Tom has done really amazed everyone in this class.A. WhatB. WhichC. ThatD. Who10. It is not decided_______the conference will be help.A. whatB. whichC. whenD. thatⅡCloze Test (10 points, 1 piont for each item)下列短文中有十个空白，每个空白有四个选项。

全国2009年1月高等教育自学考试综合英语(一)试题课程代码：00794请将答案填在答题纸相应位置上Ⅰ．语法和词汇。

从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

错选、多选或未选均无分。

(本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分)1. Darkness doesn’t trouble cats, for they can see______.A. in darkB. in the darkC. in a darknessD. in darkness2.______ work has been done to improve people’s living standard.A. ManyB. A great manyC. A large number ofD. A great deal of3. All the reference books should be made ______ to the teachers and students in our university.A. concernedB. availableC. relatedD. flexible4. “Good-bye, Mr. Wang. I’m pleased ______ you.”A. to meetB. meetingC. to have been meetingD. to be met5. We tried to _____ the nervous old lady that flying was safe.A. secureB. ensureC. assureD. certify6. You can’t hear what I’m saying ______ you stop talking.A. only ifB. unlessC. lestD. except that7. Mr. Holmes called at many schools ______ he lived to ask them to accept his son, but he was refused everywhere for being a black.A. thatB. around whereC. near whichD. which8. My wallet is nowhere to be found. I _____ when I was on the bus.A. must stop itB. should have drooped itC. must have dropped itD. had dropped it9. ______ , we should be glad.A. They arrive tomorrowB. Were they arriving tomorrowC. They were to arrive tomorrowD. Were they to arrive tomorrow10. _____ the places I have been to, I enjoyed the restaurant here the most.A. From allB. All ofC. Of allD. All11. The quality of this kind of computer is _______ to that of imported computers.A. worseB. inferiorC. indifferentD. much better12. I f you don’t go, I shall not ______.A. eitherB. tooC. alsoD. yet13. Before joining the army, he spent a lot of time in the village ______ he belonged.A. to whichB. whichC. to whereD. at which14. There was nothing they could do ______.A. but to waitB. only to waitC. but waitD. unless they waited15. If Dorothy had not been badly hurt in a car accident, _______ in last month’s Olympic Games.A. she would participateB. she might participateC. she would have participatedD. she must have participated16. Not only ______ be interesting to us, but also its language will help us in composition.A. the novel willB. will the novelC. is the novelD. the novel is17.The company is small but promising. ______, I’ll take the job.A. In some casesB. In that caseC. In caseD. In any case18, To make up an objective test, the teacher writes a series of questions, ______ has only one correct answer.A. some of whichB. whichC. each of whichD. that19. ______ as it was at such a time, his work attracted much attention.A. Being publishedB. PublishedC. PublishingD. To be published20. The committee is totally opposed ______ any changes being made in the plans.A. ofB. onC. toD. againstII．阅读理解。