2008年1月英语(二)试题及答案

2008年1月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试

英语(二) 试题及答案

(考试时间：1月12日8：30—11：00)

本试卷分为两部分，满分100分；考试时间150分钟。

第一部分为选择题，第二部分为非选择题，共9页。应考者必须在“答题卡”上按要求填涂和答题。不能答在试题纸上，否则答题无效。

PART ONE (50 POINTS)

I.V ocabulary and Structure (10 points, 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涂黑。

1. The lady_______little importance to the differences in their ages.

A. attacked

B. attached

C. attracted

D. attended

2. Her face hadn't________much over the years.

A. varied

B. transferred

C. ranged

D. altered

3. Does he have enough_________to manage this ever-changing situation?

A. profitability

B. disability

C. flexibility

D. possibility

4. The young man is extremely_______ to get married in haste.

A. reluctant

B. resistant

C. insistent

D. consistent

5. The government is determined to put an end_______the embarrassing situation.

A. from

B. to

C. in

D. with

6. She fulfilled her___________of conquering Mt. Qomolangman.

A. ambition

B. adoption

C. condition

D. conception

7. Tom has a great_________of hobbies: he likes swimming, singing and painting.

A. density

B. quality

C. entity

D. variety

8. The traffic was___________for more than thirty minutes, which made me late for class.

A. broken up

B. called up

C. made up

D. held up

9. Hunting as well as conversing with friends is his greatest________

A. involvement

B. engagement

C. enjoyment

D. disappointment

10. We should gradually reduce our country's__________on imported oil.

A. dependence

B. production

C. exportation

D. refinement

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

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，并在答题卡上将相应的字母涂黑。

In the past, man did not have to think about the protection of his environment.

There were few people on the earth, and natural resources seemed to be ___11_______

Today things are ___12_____ and the world has become too crowded. We are 13 our natural resources too quickly, and at the same time we are polluting our environment 14 dangerous chemicals. If we continue to do this, human life on the earth will not 15

People realize today that if too many fish are taken from the sea, there will soon be none 16 . Yet, with modem fishing methods, more and more fish are caught. We know that 17 too many trees are cut down, forests will disappear and 18 will grow on the land. Yet, we use bigger and more powerful 19 to cut down more and more trees.

We realize that if rivers are polluted with waste products from factories, fish 20 die.

However, in most countries wastes are still put into rivers or into the sea, and there are

few laws to stop this.

11. A. unlawful B. unlimited C. unjustified D. unlikely

12. A. different B. similar C. indifferent D. familiar

13. A. turning out B. calling off C. using up D. running over

14. A. by B. through C. in D. with

15. A. survive B. live C.. reserve D. relieve

16. A. to leave B. leave C.leaving D. left

17.A.if B. whether C. because D.although

18. A. anything B. something C. nothing D.everything

19. A. devices B. machines C. instruments D. means

20. A. can B. should C. will D. shall

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

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，并在答题

卡上将相应的字母涂黑。

Passage One,

Questions 21 to,25 are based on the following passage.

The term birdbrain is considered an offensive word, but some birds actually are

pretty clever. One African grey parrot in suburban Boston is said to have the cognitive

abilities of a five-year-old child. According to the study of Avian Learning Experiment,

Alex is a 29-year-old bird that's been trained most of his life by Irene Pepperberg, Ph. D,

a Harvard-educated professor now teaching at Brandeis University. Alex can identify 50

different objects, seven colors, five shapes, and the concepts of bigger, smaller, same

and different. And Pepperberg says, "Alex also knew what was appropriate to say."

Pepperberg insists that Alex makes reasoned decisions--meaning he possesses

language abilities once thought to separate humans from the rest of the animal kingdom.

During an experiment in 2004, researchers gave Alex different-colored blocks in sets of

two, three and six. When asked which color group had five blocks, Alex replied,

"None" .And he repeated the answer in duplicate tests. although Alex had previously

learned the term to describe the difference between two identically sized objects, he

apparently interpreted the concept of "none" as an absence of quantity all on his own.

"The important thing was not just that he understood a zero-like, cancel" says

Pepperberg, "but that he was able to take information from one area and apply it to

another. That's a lot like a high school student answering questions on a quiz show."

What Alex has achieved makes him outstanding. If you Google his name plus

African grey parrot, you'll get 207,000 hits, almost as many as another knowledgeable Alex--Jeopardy!

21. It is said that an African grey parrot in Boston is___________

A. as smart as a 29-year-old person

B. as clever as a five-year-old child

C. as bright as a high school student

D. as intelligent as a Harvard professor

22. The passage implies that Alex has no concept of

A. weight

B. color

C. shape

D. size

23. In Pepperberg's eyes, Alex has the same ability to________ as a human being.

A. build blocks

B. use language

C. increase sizes

D. describe shapes

24. Pepperberg thinks that Alex is different because he could___________

A. understand nothing about numbers

B. collect information to help Pepperberg

C. answer questions for a high-school student

D. apply what he has learned to another field

25. Alex is well-known because he is_____________

A. an African grey parrot

B. highly focused on the net

C. as knowledgeable as Jeopardy

D. a favorite bird of Pepperberg's

Passage Two

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.

I heard the noise first. A car, obviously out of control, was running straight toward me and my four-year-old son as we stood on the sidewalk waiting to cross the street. There was no time to do anything; it all happened in a second.

The vision of that big black car hitting the sidewalk a few feet from us will never be erased from my memory. I don't know how close the car came to us, because I turned away at the last second, but it was close. People stopped their cars and asked if we were okay.

"It didn't hit us," I remember saying. Then I bent down and hugged my son.

"Mom, that car nearly hit us," Scott said brightly, still holding the construction-paper cat he'd made at school. He has no idea what a ton of metal going 50 m.p.h, can do to 39 pounds of a little boy. Much of his world view comes from cartoons, especially Spider-Man, who he believes can fly down to help anyone out of danger.

I found myself walking to the car. A woman of about 60 sat inside, still holding the steering wheel. "Are you all right. I asked her. Translation: Did you just have a heart attack? Why did you just try to kill me and my little boy?

"Someone cut me off,"she started, lnterrupting her, I said we'd both better say our prayers that night. I didn't begin to get angry until later.

The woman who nearly killed us was in.a hurry. Very likely she was speeding to make the next traffic light at the crossroads. The driver she said cut her off was probably

in a hurry, too, trying to turn into traffic.

Nor am I blameless. We had stopped on the sidewalk because I wanted to shave two

minutes off my busy day by running across the street rather than walking the half block

to the light at the crossroads. Instead, I nearly shaved off two lives.

Just a week before, !. had returned from a trip to Japan, flying almost 60,000 miles

in six different planes. They. makes six takeoffs and landings, 12 opportunities be the

top story on the nightly news. To think I'd survived 16,000 miles of air flight, only to be

almost killed three blocks from home.

Today I resolve to slow down and think about the spring, the flowers and our

children our innocents, our contracts with the future.

26. The boy in the passage did not realize__________.

A. a car was passing by

B. danger was close to him

C. the Spider-man was nearby

D. a car was hitting the sidewalk

27. The mother was very angry___________.

A. in the accident

B. till the accident

C. later after the accident

D. throughout the accident

28. The passage indicates that___________

A. the mother should be held partially responsible for the accident

B. the woman should be held wholly responsible for the accident

C. the mother should be held solely responsible for the accident

D.the woman driver should be held fully responsible for the accident

29.he accident occurred __________away from the author's home.

A. fifty miles

B. a few feet

C. a half block

D. three blocks

30.The phrase "our innocents" in the last paragraph most probably refers to_______.

A. the spring

B. the future

C. the children

D. the flowers

Passage Three

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.

Darwin's great work, The Origin of Species, is now generally accepted as one of

the most important books ever written. But when it first came out in 1859, it was

bitterly criticized by scientists and laymen.

Much of the oppositions to The Origin of Species arose from Darwin's claim that

all living creatures, including man, are somehow related. Many people were outraged by

the suggestion that man shared a common ancestor with animals such as apes and monkeys. They attacked Darwin for saying that man has descended from the apes.

But Darwin never actually said this. He believed that modern men and modern

apes have both descended from the same ancestor. But at some time in pre-history,

millions of years ago, men and apes began to develop separately, and ever since have

continued to take on different characteristics, Today, more than 90 years after Darwin's

death, this is the opinion which scientists continue to hold.

In his works, Darwin described the possession of life from its earliest forms. First

came the invertebrates--creatures without a backbone. The invertebrates evolved into

fish; fish into amphibians; amphibians into reptiles, and reptiles into birds and mammals.

Fossil remains found after his death show that Darwin was right. Perhaps the most amazing fact about his theory is that he managed to work it out with the aid of only a

few fossil discoveries. Fossil remains were not the only information which we now possess but Darwin lacked. He did not know that apes have the same diseases as men;

nor that they and men have the same kind of blood. Nor did he know about the modem uses of radiation which enable scientists to tell the age of fossil remains and so estimate the speed at which evolution has taken place.

Lacking all this information, Darwin had to rely on other branches of science. One

of them was comparative anatomy (解剖学): the science which compares the physical make-up of different species. He observed that all vertebrates--amphibians, reptiles,

birds and mammals--possess forelimbs which are basically the same. The limbs may be used for swimming, flying, or walking, but they are all built on the same plan. They contain one bone in the upper arm, two bones in the forearm, several bones in the wrist, and five bones in the hand with finger joints attached.

Darwin marveled at this similarity between such widely differing species. "What can be more curious," he asked, "than the fact that the hand or a man formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of a horse, and the wings of a bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern?, From-the extraordinary fact, he drew the correct conclusion that different species share the same characteristics because they are descended from the same ancestor. Then, they took on the separate characteristics which helped them most in the straggle to survive in their own local environments.

31. Darwin was bitterly criticized by scientists and laymen because of________.

A. his close observation of fossils

B. his lack of convincing evidence

C. their oppositions to his research

D. their misunderstanding of his theory

32. Darwin's theory was created based on________.

A. a few fossil remains

B. a large body of fossil remains

C. a lot of help from his ancestor

D. a great deal of reference materials

33. Darwin tried to prove his theory with the help of__________.

A. blood types

B. evolution speed

C. modem medicine

D. comparative anatomy

34. According to anatomy, there are two bones___________.

A. in the left arm

B. in the fight arm

C. in the lower arm

D. in the upper arm

35. According to Darwin, different species are descended__________.

A, in the different pattern

B. from the same ancestor

C. in the same environment

D. with separate characteristics

PART TWO (50 POINTS)

III.Word Spelling (10 points, I point for two items)

将下列汉语单词译成英语。每个单词的词类、首字母及字母数目均已给出。

请将完整的单词写在答题卡上。

36．地带，地区n.z____ ___ ____

37．值得的，有价值的a．W____ ____ ___ ____ ____

38．美德；优点n.v____ ____ ____ ____ _____

39.着手做;承担vt．U___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

40．透明的，显然的a.t_ __ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ____ ___

41．支撑；供养vt．S___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

42．有目的的，蓄意的a.p__ ___ ___ ___ ____ ___ _____ __ ____ 43．胡乱的，任意的a.r___ ___ ___ ___ ___

44．结果，结局n.o ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

45．氧n．o___ ___ ___ ___ ___

46．垄断，专卖v．m___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

47．闪电n．l___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

48．法官，审判员n.j___ ___ ___ ___

49．想要，意指Vt．I___ ___ ___ ___ ___

50．习惯性的a.h___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

51.几何，几何学n．g___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

52．友好的，友谊的a.f___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

53.展览(会)n.e___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

54．剧本，戏剧n.d___ ___ ___ ___

55．掩蔽，庇护vt．S___ ___ ___ ___ ____

V. Word Form (10 points, I point for each item)

将括号中的各词变为适当的形式填入空白。答案写在答题卡上。

56. After__________ (repeat) attempts they finally succeeded.

57. This novel is reported ___________(transtate) into Chinese already.

58. If she hadn't taken some medicine this morning, her headache would be_________

(bad).

59. The scientist has devoted his whole life to__________(help) the poor.

60. They have the work__________(do) before tomorrow.

61. He lives in the same city with his brother, but they only see each other very__________

(occasion).

62. It is_________(use) to know the answer to such a silly question.

63. If he put ___________(he) in his parents' place, he would know why they were so

worried.

64. The young __________(politics) took over the leadership of the party.

65. In your daydream, picture yourself as a ___________(win) not as a loser.

VI. Translation from Chinese into English (IS points, 3 points for each item)

将下列各句译成英语并将答案写在答题卡上。

66．不同的管理者对同一问题的解决方法有所不同。

67．该书的作者从读者的批评中获益匪浅。

68．样品将按照要求立即寄出。

69．家庭是社会的基本单位。

70．从来没有哪个国家作出这样大的努力来发展经济。

VII. Translation from English into Chinese (15 points)

将下列短文译成汉语并将答案写在答题卡上。

There are two ways in which one can own a book. One is establishing the property

right by paying for it, just as you pay for clothes or furniture. But this act of purchase is

only the beginning of possession. The other is acquiring the full ownership, which

comes only when you have made it part of yourself, and the best way to make it part of

yourself is by writing on it. An illustration may make the point clear. You buy a

beefsteak and transfer it from the butcher's (肉铺) icebox to your own. But you do not

own the beefsteak in the most important sense until you consume it and get it into your

bloodstream. I am arguing that books, too, must be absorbed in your bloodstream to do

you any good.

2008年1月英语（二）试题答案

1-5：BDDAB 6-10：ADDCA 11-15：CACDA 16-20：DCCBC 21-25：BABDB 26-30：BCDDC

31-35：BADCB

36、zone 37、worthy 38、virtue 39、undertake 40、transparent 41、sustain

42、purposeful 43、random 44、outcome 45、oxygen

46、monopolize 47、lightning 48、judge 49、intend 50、habitual 51、geometry

52、friendly 53、exhibition 54、drama 55、shelter

56、repeating 57、to have been translated 58、worse 59、helping 60、to do

61、occasionally62、used 63、himself 64、politician 65、winner

66、The author of t he book learned a lot from the readers’ criticism

67、The different managers have the different methods towards the same problem.

68 、The sample will be immediately sent out as per request.

69、Family is the fundamental unit of the society.

一个人可以有两种方式拥有书籍。一种是攒钱买它，就像我们买衣服和家具。但这样的购买只是拥有书籍的初步阶段。另外一种是完全拥有，这来源于你认真读它并做笔记。一个说明图表就可以使问题很清楚。你买了牛排并把它

从肉铺的冰柜变成你自己的。直到你吃了它。才使它真正意义上属于你。我建议书籍也应该真正的吸收到你的血液中，才能给你带来好处。