专升本自考英语(二)历年真题试卷精选汇编
2000年（上）英语（一）试题
I. Vocabulary and Structure (10 points, 1 point for each) 从下列各句四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。1. Some people who are very intelligent and successful in their fields find language learning.
A. them
B. themselves
C. it
D. itself
the audience sees and hears them
difficult to succeed in
2. Television ads are short, but they are repeated over and over again many times.
A. in that
B. so that
C. as to
D. so asit is still very large.
D. therefore
3. The Atlantic Ocean is only half as big as the Pacific, A. but
B. and
C. so
4. No one has been able to prove that fish is A. some
B. so
better for the brain than many other kinds of food.C. as
D. any
in love.
5. Tomatoes were once called love apples and were supposed to make those who ate them A. fell
B. feel
C. fall
D. felt
6. Washing food down with water as a A. direction
B. substitute
for chewing is not a good habit.
C. possibility
D. resource
7. It is important to realize that the same technology A. as
B. that
C. what
helps us may also harm us.
D. when
8. Science began to develop rapidly when man laid A. out
B. down
his wrong beliefs and began to seek true explanations.
D. outside
C. aside
reading too slowly.C. more than
9. Remember, nothing hurts concentration A. rather than
B. as well as
D. instead of
10. More and more people are realizing that there is a A. correspondence
B. comparison
between heart disease and the way one lives.
D. consequence
C. connection
II. Cloze Test (10 points, 1 point for each)
下列短文中有十个空白，每个空白有四个选项。根据上下文要求选出最佳答案。
Fear and its companion pain are two of the most useful things that men and animals possess, if they are properly used. If fire did not hurt when it burnt, children would play with it 11 their hands were burnt away. 12 , if pain existed but fear did not, a child would burn itself again and again, because fear would not 13 it to
keep away from the fire that had burnt it before. Fear and pain are therefore two guards, 14 which men and animals might soon die out. In the first sentence we suggest that fear ought to be properly used. If, 15 , you never go out of your house 16 of the danger of being knocked down and killed in the street by a car, you are letting fear rule you too 17 . Even in your house you are not absolutely 18 : an airplane may crash on your house or you may get cancer! The important thing is not to let fear rule you, but 19 to use fear as your servant and guide. Fear will warn you of dangers; 20 you have to decide what action to take.
11. A. because 12. A. Generally13. A. warn14. A. with 15. A. after all16. A. regardless 17. A. little18. A. firm19. A. instead20. A. then
B. ifB. ProbablyB. requestB. withoutB. by chance
B. becauseB. moreB. calmB. betterB. otherwise
C. thoughC. SimilarlyC. manageC. forC. for example
C. in termsC. manyC. safeC. similarlyC. likewise
D. untilD. Consequently D. protectD. againstD. in fact
D. in frontD. much D. strongD. furtherD. even
III. Reading Comprehension (30 points, 2 points for each)
从下列每篇短文的问题后所给的四个选择项中选出一个最佳答案。Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
The problem of leisure is new. Until very recent times people worked each day to the limit of their strength. Of course there were always a privileged (有特权的)few who had leisure; but most men had to work 12, 14, or even 16 hours a day, six days a week. As late as 1840 the average factory worker labored 72 hours a week. \to sundown\hour week, people enjoy more leisure time. Hence, the wise use of leisure time has become an important problem for everyone, young or old. It is a particularly difficult problem for the sick, the aged, and those who have retired from earning a living. Those people have so much leisure that it is hard for them to find interesting and worthwhile ways to use it.
However short the work week becomes, work is still the most important part of life. We do not work to get leisure and the pleasures leisure brings us; rather, we use leisure wisely so that work itself can become awarding and enjoyable. The feeling of success at doing one's daily work—whether it is a job, maintaining a home, or going to school—depends largely on coming to it each day with fresh energy and active interest.
Leisure and recreation (消遣) go together, though they are not necessarily the same thing. \an obvious meaning. It is the kind of leisure activity that brings \speaks of making good use of leisure, he means choosing recreational activities which contribute to health, growth, and spirit.
21. The phrase \A. from beginning to endC. from morning to night
.
B. from birth to deathD. from time to time
.
22. How to spend leisure time wisely is not a particularly difficult problem for people A. who are very busy everydayC. who are aged and in good health
23. How does the author look at work and leisure?A. We work hard so that we can enjoy more leisure.
B. We enjoy leisure so that we can come back to work with fresh energy.C. Leisure can bring us a lot of pleasures that work can not.
D. The success of work has little to do with how we spend our leisure time.24. What is the relationship between leisure and recreation, according to the author?A. Leisure and recreation are closely related.B. Leisure and recreation are identical.
C. Recreation covers all kinds of leisure activities.D. Recreation does not belong to any leisure activity.25. From the passage we know that
.
B. who are sick in bedD. who have retired from work
A. leisure has been an old problem since ancient timesB. leisure can not be replaced as the most important part of life
C. our success in work is mostly determined by whether we use leisure wiselyD. good recreational activities contribute greatly to health, growth and spiritPassage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
Each nation has its own peculiar character which distinguishes it from others. But the peoples of the world have more points in common than points in which they differ. One type of person that is common in every country is the one who always tries to do as little as possible and to get as much as possible in return. His opposite, the man who is in the habit of doing more than is strictly necessary and who is ready to accept what is offered in return, is rare everywhere.
Both these types are usually unconscious of their character. The man who avoids effort is always talking about his \as he can is always full of excuses: if he has neglected to do something, it was because he had a headache, or the weather was too hot—or too cold—or because he was prevented by bad luck. At first, other people, such as his
专升本自考英语(二)历年真题试卷精选汇编
