自考综合英语(一)试题_全国2009年4月自考试卷

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I.用适当语法形式或词汇填空。从A、B、C和D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并将正确
 答案写在答题纸上。(本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分)
1. Until then, Jack’s sister ________ him an email for more than three months.
 A. hadn’t sent  B. hasn’t sent
 C. will not send  D. would not send
2. He found ________ to adapt himself to his new surroundings in the country.
 A. difficult  B. it difficult
 C. that difficult  D. that it difficult
3. The students are all for Tony’s proposal that the lecture ________.
 A. be put off  B. will be put off
 C. must put off  D. should put off
4. My teacher was supposed to ________ Shanghai for London last week.
 A. leave  B. have left
 C. leaving  D. having left
5. There was no reason for ________ the class meeting yesterday evening.
 A. not your attending  B. your not attending
 C. you not to attending  D. you to not attending
6. The doctor said that his brother had ________ at once.
 A. to operate  B. to be operated
 C. to operate on  D. to be operated on
7. ________ for your help, we’d never have been able to finish the work.
 A. It was not  B. Had it not been
 C. Hadn’t it been  D. If it had been not
 8. I was told that his first job was in a factory,________ worked the night shift.
 A. he just  B. and who
 C. where he  D. there he
 9. My new glasses cost me ________ the pair that I bought some years ago.
 A. three times as much as  B. as three times much as
 C. more than three times as  D. as three times more than
10. It was in a small town near New York ________ Dick and I saw him last Sunday.
 A. that  B. only
 C. there  D. which
11. A good idea ________ him that he should buy a used car with the money.
 A. hit  B. struck
 C. beat  D. caught
12. Because his Spanish was very limited, he could not ________ his ideas easily.
 A. put over  B. get across
 C. get over  D. put through
13. The news, though not wholly bad, was so ________ that I could no longer concentrate
 on my work.
 A. anxious  B. regretful
 C. disturbing  D. disastrous
14. Many trees and flowers have been planted in recent years. They will ________ the
 beauty of the city.
 A. raise  B. rise
 C. add to  D. add up
15. At the meeting, both sides exchanged views on a wide ________ of topics they were
 interested in.
 A. scope  B. range
 C. number  D. series
16. The earthquake put the telecommunication system in the region ________.
 A. out of tune  B. out of order
 C. out of work  D. out of action
17. ________ dieting, you ought to take as much exercise as possible.
 A. Instead of  B. Except for
 C. Apart from  D. In spite of
18. This young man could fix almost everything. He was ________ of a jack-of-all-trades.
 A. everything  B. nothing
 C. something  D. anything
19. ________ all the jobs available, she finally decided to take the one in a remote mountain village and work as a school teacher.
 A. Of  B. To
 C. On  D. In
20. You’d better set out an hour earlier for the airport to ________ possible delays on the way.
 A. deal in  B. allow for
 C. permit of  D. prepare for
II.认真阅读下面两篇短文，每篇短文后有五个问题。根据短文的内容从四个选项中选择一个最佳答案，并将正确答案写在答题纸上。(本大题共10小题。每小题2分，共20分)
Passage 1
Don Lucas grew up in poverty. His father died when Don was eight. His mother, with three small children and limited education, was on welfare and had no job prospects. She packed the three kids into an old car and set out from Indiana to California where she had obtained a job as a supermarket checker. Don enrolled in a high school in a tough part of town. He describes his town as the spot where drive-by shootings were invented. Few of his classmates ever went to college, and Don did not think about college until his senior year. He had been working from 4 to 9 pm daily at a gas station helping his family to make ends meet.
Don recalled, “One day this great-looking girl walked in. She said she had run out of gas and asked if I could help her. I told her I couldn’t leave the station, but I gave her a gas can. She came back later to return the can, driving her brother’s old car, a classic Ford 3-window coupe.”
Don and the girl, Sally, became friends. Sally planned to go to college and urged Don to do the same, “Had I not met her, maybe I would not have gone on.” But with Sally’s encouragement Don enrolled in a community college.
In his first semester he earned eighteen units of straight “F” grades. He had enrolled in a heavy load of courses, was working long hours, had to commute for two hours every day, and forgot to withdraw from some of his classes.
Despite this mistake, another college, closer to home, admitted him on probation. “I worked hard on my grades, took the college prep classes, went to summer school to keep up, and Sally made sure I attended my classes.”
“I had to get a job. The only real job I’d had to that point was working in gas stations. I knew cars pretty well, so I tried to get a job selling used cars.” He got the job and sold cars between and after classes. He enjoyed the work so much that after a year he got his own used-car dealer’s license. He and Sally began buying old cars, fixing them up inside and out, and selling them for a profit. Thus began Don Lucas Automobiles. Don is now founder and CEO of the Lucas Dealership Group, one of the top fifty multiple-franchise car dealerships in the country. He and Sally have been married for over fifty years.
21. The story tells us ________.
 A. why Lucas loves Sally
 B. how Lucas made old cars useful
 C. how Lucas has become successful
 D. why Lucas has remained poor all his life
22. In Paragraph 1, “tough part of town” refers to a(n) ________ place.
 A. quiet  B. clean
 C. dangerous  D. unpleasant
23. Don’s grades in the community college are ________.
 A. average  B. very good
 C. rather poor  D. remarkable
24. At the second college, Don ________.
 A. was studying diligently
 B. did better than his classmates
 C. didn’t go to school in summer
 D. made a mistake in choosing the courses
25. Don and Sally’s marriage turned out to be ________.
 A. so-so  B. stable
 C. unhappy  D. unsuccessful
Passage 2
Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some prevalent myths. At the top of the list is the notion that intelligence is measured by your ability to solve problems-to read, write and to compute. This vision of intelligence stresses formal education and bookish excellence as the true measures of self-fulfillment. It encourages a kind of intellectual prejudice that has brought with it some discouraging results. We have come to believe that someone who has more education, who is very good at some form of school discipline is “intelligent”. Yet mental hospitals are filled with patients who have graduation certificates. A true indicator of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day.
If you are happy, if you live every moment for everything that is worth, then you are an intelligent person. Problem solving is a useful help to your happiness, but if you know that