2012年高等教育自学考试英语(二)考前密押试卷(2)

Having acknowledged receipt of the interview letter，you must prepare for the interview. Firms usually take a good deal of trouble over interviews，and there may be three or more people present，which can be a little frightening. Very often the personnel officer will begin by some words of welcome and an invitation to you to tell them a little about yourself. This is really inviting you to repeat the information you have already supplied on the application form，and which they have already read，but it does have some point. It will put you at your ease，because at least you know all about your own level of achievement and can speak about it confidently. It helps them assess your ability to communicate and your serf-esteem. Some people have too high an opinion of themselves，some take an unduly pessimistic view of their achievements，while others have a nicely balanced assessment of their own abilities.

食物短缺并不像你报道的那么严重。

我们提出了抗议，但没有效果。

 如果我们早点动身，现在就不会在雨中走了。

如果你束手无策，就听其自然好了。

Between labor and play______(stand)work.

她的社交活动妨碍她的学业。

______(increase)，new technology is making it easier for us to find alternative methods of testing.

______(win)the presidency，a candidate must receive at least 270 votes. an electoral majority.

He took his umbrella with him lest it______(rain).

 If you had been have yesterday，you______(see)his father.

Robots are programmed and______(engineer)to perform. industrial tasks without human intervention.

Many a student______(do)not like having to do their homework.

The most______(convince)evidence of black holes comes from research into binary star systems.

The new music was built out of materials already in______. (exist)：blues，rock'n'roll，folk music.

而且；此外 ad. f_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

 A decision is a choice______(make)from among alternative courses of action that are available.

遭遇；偶遇 v. e_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

农业的 a. a. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

适合的；恰当的 a. a_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

计算机化 v. c_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

年长的；(大学)高年纪的 a. s_ _ _ _ _

排除；消灭 v. e_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

使确信；使信服 v. c_ _ _ _ _ _ _

面对；遭遇 v. c_ _ _ _ _ _ _

追求；追赶 v. p_ _ _ _ _

剂量 n. d_ _ _

改变；改动 v. a_ _ _ _

描绘；描述 v.   p_ _ _ _ _ _

内部的；国内的 a. i_ _ _ _ _ _ _

穿透的；深刻的 a. p_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

不断增加地 ad. i_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

在性方面 ad. s_ _ _ _ _ _ _

含义；暗示 n. i_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

理事会；委员会 n. c_ _ _ _ _ _

The ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is______.

完成；成绩 n. a_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

If a boy or a girl has grown up in a home with sharing tasks and decisions，he or she will probably______.

According to the author，man's role in the American family is______.

Psychiatrists，psychologists，social workers and specialists on the family______.

Passage Three

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.

In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared to a greater or lesser extent，notions of superiority are hard to maintain. The pattern of sharing in tasks and in decisions makes for equality，and this in turn leads to further sharing. In such a home，the growing boy and girl learn to accept that equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized by cooperation rather than by the “battle of sexes”.

If the process goes too far and man's role is regarded as less important-and that has happened in some cases-we are as badly off as before. only in reverse. It is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. We are getting a little tired of “Momism” -but we don't want to exchange it for a “neo-Popism” . What we need，rather，is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. There are signs that psychiatrists，psychologists，social workers，and specialists on the family are becoming more aware of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receive all the credits-nor all the blame. We have almost given up saying that a woman's place is in the home. We are beginning，however，to analyze man's place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child. The family is a cooperative enterprise for which it is difficult to lay down rules，because each family needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems. Excessive authoritarianism has unhappy consequences，whether it wears skirts or trousers，and the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is pertinent(与……有关)not only to a healthy family but also to a healthy democracy.

 Sharing tasks and decisions in a family leads to______.

It can be inferred from the passage that all of the following are ways of producing new strains of influenza viruses EXCEPT______.

According to the passage，a great variety of influenza strains can appear when______.

New strains of viruses are transmitted to man by______.

What is known about the influenza virus?

Passage Two

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.

Scientists have established that influenza viruses taken from man can cause the disease in animals. In addition，man can catch the disease from animals. In fact，a great number of wild birds seem to carry the virus without showing any evidence of illness. Some scientists conclude that a large family of influenza viruses may have evolved in the bird kingdom，a group that has been on the earth 100 million years and is able to carry the virus without contracting the disease. These are even convincing evidence to show that virus strains are transmitted from place to place and from continent to continent by migrating birds.

It is known that two influenza viruses can recombine when both are present in an animal at the same time. The result of such recombinations is a great variety of strains constraining different H and N spikes. This raises the possibility that a human influenza virus can recombine with an influenza virus form. a lower animal to produce an entirely new spike.

Research is underway to determine if that is the way that major new strains come into being. Another possibility is that two animal influenza strains may recombine in a pig，for example，to produce a new strain which is transmitted to man.

According to the passage，which of the following statements is true?

Contemporary artists choose subjects______.

Comparing the painter who paints a gangrenous leg with the one who paints a lake in moonlight，we can draw the conclusion that______.

A painter chooses certain shapes and colors；out of the countless billions possible because he believes they______.

Passage One

Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.

Every artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. Not only does he want so say it well，but he wants it to be something which has not been said before. He hopes the public will listen and understand-he wants to teach them. and he wants them to learn from him. What visual artists like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to explain，because painters translate their experiences into shapes and colors，not words. They seem to feel that a certain selection of shapes and colors，out of the countless billions possible，is exceptionally interesting for them and worth showing to us. Without their work we should never have noticed these particular shapes and colors，or have felt the delight which they brought to the artist. Most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in motion and repose：their choices indicate that these aspects of the world are worth looking at，that they contain beautiful sights. Contemporary artists might say that they merely choose subjects that provide an interesting pattern，that there is nothing more in it. Yet even they do not choose entirely without reference to the character of their subjects. If one painter chooses to paint a gangrenous(生坏疽的)leg and another a lake in moonlight，each of them is directing our attention to a certain aspect of the world. Each painter is telling us something，showing us something，emphasizing something-all of which mean that，consciously or unconsciously，he is trying to teach us.

The American love of sports (11) to a pitch never before known. (12) the middle of the century we were practically without sports and even until some fifteen years ago there (13) very little enthusiasm aroused by sports (14) the fever that has within the past decade and a half swept over the country.

(15) the passionate fervor has been increasing，and the coming season promises to be the most enthusiastic of all.

(16) England the Romans brought their sports；then the Saxons and the Normans added others，and there were football matches and archery games.

In 1618 King James I issued a book of sports stating what sports were (17) after church service on Sundays；but intense anger was (18) among those who strictly observed the principles of the Bible，and in 1644 the Long Parliament ordered the book (19) by the public executioner，and all sports forbidden or strongly (20) .

In deciding whether to ______a course of action，they try to estimate its likely impact on the voters.

Daydreaming，science has discovered，is an ______relaxation technique.

The secretary was flied for ______her duty.

I was told ______Bill Gates was thirteen he began to play with computers.

His dog is chained in the day time，but is ______at night.

In England，Beatles were already ______as an extremely fine and highly individual rock group.

A Filipino maid was executed after being ______of murder.

Our space and time laws don't ______to objects in the area of a black hole.

 Oxbridge graduates make ______only two percent of the total number of students who graduate from British universities.

______are the possible courses of action from which choices can be made.