全国自考综合英语(二)精选练习题及答案5

Topic: Describe the changes Barrett experienced and explain the reason based on the text“Take Over, Bos’n!”

Use the following outline: 

(1) The situation the sailors were in. 

(2) The conflict between Snyder, the captain, and Barrett, the third officer. 

(3) The role Barrett played. 

(4) The cause for Barrett’s change.

索贿或受贿者与行贿者被视为同等犯罪。(guilty)

手机可以让你自由接打电话，而不告知对方你的具体位置。

—个人如果没有生活目标，就可能丧失希望，自暴自弃。

当今世界各国联系如此紧密，我们不应当仅仅关注自己的国家和自己的文化。

经过三个月的投诉，我终于让百货商场经理退还了多收我的二十块钱。

Though she is getting on in years,she still has a_________fear of the dark. (child)

The____________elections dominated the news for several months.(president)

The earthquake-stricken area received_________help from its neighboring provinces, (time)

Upon graduation from university, he was assigned to work as Professor Stevenson’s ___________.(assist)

With the rapid economic development, there is an_________of job opportunities.(explode)

Anger is a momentary_____________, so control your passion or it will control you. (mad)

His wide experience has_________him to make a success of his job as a sports editor. ( able)

Although art criticism and art psychology are two ________ disciplines, they are related to aesthetics (美学).( dependent)

Mobile homes can be moved from place to place, but they are now usually designed for________living at one location. (round, year)

The world is getting warmer. The climate change could have _______ effects on our earth.(disaster)

Which might be a proper title for the essay?

Which of the following is the author likely to disagree with?

We can infer from the passage that the author cherishes______most in his adult life.

Passage 2

I still recall a scene from an otherwise totally forgettable movie I saw many years ago. A business executive in a suit and tie, carrying a briefcase, is walking home after a typically stressful day at the office. He passes a neighbour’s lawn where a group of small children are playing with a garden hose that someone has left running on the grass. 

The man watches the laughing and screaming children with a smile on his face. Then, after looking around to make sure no one is looking, he throws off his business suit, drops the briefcase, and rushes to join the fun. 

The man, s face is filled with joyful abandon as,wearing only shorts and vest;he turns his body to meet the full impact of the gushing hose. The next scene shows him back in his suit, continuing his way home and looking a littlesheepish, as he adjusts his features to assume, once more, the appearance of calm respectability. 

How often do we look back at the pure, spontaneous joys of childhood—to a time when joy was pure and full, unchecked by the feelings of guilt or concern for propriety? The thrill of a forbidden expedition to a pond or the delight of watching the matchstick flare up between one’s fingers. 

I remember that time when, as a small child, my eager little fingers touched the hong bao that I had been given by a visitor on the first day of the Chinese New Year, and felt—joy of joys! —the welcome flatness of paper money instead of the hardness of coins. 

I shouted for joy and called attention to my new wealth, unaware of my mother's embarrassment as she cast a quick glance at the visitor. Later, after the guest had left, she told me in a severe voice never to do such a “shameful” thing again. What would people think? 

Oh,for the return of lost innocence and the capacity for pure joy. Yet the truth is that no matter how endearing a child J s spontaneity of feelings and action, it would be unrealistic to allow these emotions to carry over to adult life. The business of living is a serious one, necessarily regulated by an array of customs, codes and norms to ensure the smooth function of day-to-day life：at home or at work,in the private or public domain. 

There are “dos and don’ts” related to polite,socially acceptable behaviour，that ensure we act in the correct way, use the proper forms of address, and express our feelings in ways that do not offend others. 

Yet the need for playfulness seems to be a permanent feature of the human condition. It is inseparable,even in the most serious adult. Sometimes,during parties and games,this force is allowed to break through the smooth surface of social respectability;for a few brief moments it is all right for adults to engage in horseplay. Witness the wild abandon with which party goers throw each other into the swimming pool, put on crazy masks and play silly games. The rest of the time we are required to be mature, disciplined adults carrying on the serious business of living. 

But, once again, for the return of lost innocence! The greatest loss of all, even greater than the loss of pure enjoyment, is the loss of a sense of wonder. This is the special gift of childhood：the ability to see the world with fresh eyes, treating the most ordinary objects and happenings with keen curiosity and fascination.

To reclaim the child’s sense of wonder, to be attentive to the marvels that surround us, whether these be the everyday beauties of nature,the warmth of human contact,or the extraordinary achievements of modem technology, is not only to save ourselves from the tiredness of living, but to enrich our lives with a special spiritual dimension. 

46. The author described the movie scene at the beginning in order to___.

The word “sheepish” in Paragraph 3 can be best replaced by__________.

When the writer received the application form. for a scholarship, she_______.

The lesson the writer learned from Hani’s story shows that success comes from________.

When the writer received the reply letter, she was sure that_______.

When Hani arrived at the writer5 s classroom, she________.

Passage 1 

The day I met Hani, she was a shy, seventeen-year-old girl standing alone in the parking lot of the international school in Indonesia, where I teach English. The school is expensive and does not accept Indonesian students. She walked up to me and asked if I could help her improve her English. 

 I could tell it took immense courage for the young Indonesian girl in worn clothing to approach me and ask for my help. 

“Why do you want to improve your English?” I asked her, fully expecting her to talk about finding a job in a local hotel. 

“l want to go to an American university, ”she said with quiet confidence. Her idealistic dream made me want to cry.

 I agreed to work with her after school each day on a volunteer basis. For the next several months, Hani woke each morning at five and caught the city bus to her public high school. During the one-hour ride, she studied for her regular classes and prepared the English lessons I had given her the day before. At four o9 clock in the afternoon, she arrived at my classroom, exhausted but ready to work. With each passing day, as Hani struggled with college-level English, I grew more fond of her. She worked harder than most of my wealthy students. 

Hani lived in a two-room house with her parents and two brothers. Her father was a worker and her mother was a maid.I learned that their combined yearly income was 750 U. S. dollars. It wasn’t enough to meet the expenses of even one month in an American university. Hani’ s enthusiasm was increasing with her language ability, but I was becoming more and more discouraged. 

One morning in December 1998, I received the announcement of a scholarship opportunity for a major American university. I tore open the envelope and studied the requirements. It wasn’t long before I realized that there was just no way for Hani to meet the qualifications. 

When Hani came into the classroom the next day, I told her of the scholarship. I also told her that I believed there was no way for her to apply. I encouraged her to be realistic.However, Hani remained firm. 

“Will you send in my name?” she asked.

 I didn’t have the heart to turn her down. I completed the application, filling in each blank with the painful truth about her academic life, but also with my praise of her courage and her perseverance. I sealed up the envelope and told Hani her chances for acceptance were next to none. 

In the weeks that followed, Hani increased her study of English, and I arranged for her to take the Test of English Fluency in Jakarta.The entire computerized test would be a challenge for someone who had never before touched a computer. For two weeks, we studied computer parts and how they worked.Then, just before Hani went to Jakarta, she received a letter from the scholarship association. What a cruel time for the rejection to arrive, I thought. Trying to prepare her for disappointment, I opened the letter and began to read it to her. She had been accepted. 

I leaped about the room excitedly. Hani stood by, smiling quietly. The image of her face at the moment came back to me again and again in the following week. I realized that I had learned something Hani had known from the beginning： It is not intelligence alone that brings success, but also the drive to succeed, the commitment to work hard and the courage to believe in yourself. 

41. When the writer learned about Hani’s dream, she wanted to cry because____________.

Like ties of kinship,ties of friendship are meant to be absolutely binding.

Even when you have doubts about people, act as if they are worthy of your best manners.

Too many young men thought life was all play. Those young men would not go far in this world.

As a scientist，she learned with sadness little in Nature is truly beyond the“tampering reach of man”.

She had wakened with a slight fever, just bothersome enough to keep her home from her job in a war plant.

“It’s no use having a dog without teeth,”91 they (British members of ICC) argue.

In other words, love comes into an imperfect world to make it livable.

Then the third grade note had opened the attack.

There was enough in them to get me hanged—if the Gestapo ever discovered them.

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What are the basic ingredients of good manners? Certainly a strong sense of justice is one;courtesy is often nothing more than a highly developed sense of fair play.

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It is imagination______makes the world colorful,full of vigor and vitality.

Those who have a strong love for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment. Why are men and women16to suffer cold and hardship, and to17on high mountains? This astonishment is caused, probably, by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity18men give their leisure. 

Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man-made rules, as there are for such games as golf and football. There are rules of a different kind which it would be dangerous to19，but it is this freedom from man-made rules20makes mountaineering interesting to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods. 

If we compare mountaineering with other more21sports, we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a “team game”. We should not be22in this. There are,23，no “matches” between “teams” of climbers, but when climbers are on a24linked by a rope on which their lives may25，there is obviously teamwork. 

The mountain climber knows that he may have to fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than man. He has to fight the forces of26This sport requires high physical and mental27. 

Those deserted buildings will be pulled down next month to make______for a new shopping center.

He went out to Long Beach to thank Mr. Brown, who had provided assistance while he was studying at college. Arrangements________beforehand, of course.

In no country other than Britain, it has been said,___experience four seasons in the course of a single day.

Research in the social science focuses on problems of individuals in contexts such as family, work setting, and society_________.

Her remarks left me wondering______she could have changed so suddenly.

—Of the two dictionaries, which one did you get? —I chose________.

When faced with green lights, the driver who wants to make a turn should _________way to the vehicle approaching from the opposite direction and going straight.

Mary could do _______but leave although she would have liked to stay and continue talking with him.

I still remember quite clearly the place__I first saw a gorgeous sunset.

In order to search for the escaped prisoner, the police have decided to_____whoever comes along the road.

The lab has recently been updated to________for more advanced courses.

I________read a great deal though I don’t have much time for books now.

_____sympathy and love for the disabled child, nurses and doctors of the hospital donated money for his operation.

Shoppers have a great_______toward impulsive buying.