综合英语(二)2011年10月真题试题及答案解析(00795)

Any dog owner will tell you that dogs are compassionate and can sense human emotions. But a new study suggests that dogs’ emotions are closer to ours than once thought. According to the study, along with the most basic emotions—anger, fear—dogs also feel
It has long been believed that animals like dogs ______.
A.do not have the sense of guilt
B.have a simple form of jealousy
C.do not have self-consciousness
D.have the feeling of compassion

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24: It can be inferred from the first journey that ______.

A.powerful people can overcome all difficulties
B.human beings are superior to everything in nature
C.the Motu had been taken as an enemy to fight against
D.the Motu had never been conquered by human beings

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25: Which of the following can best replace the word “penetrate” in Paragraph 10?

A.admire
B.understand
C.realize
D.appreciate

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26: Passage 1
By good fortune, I was able to raft (漂流) down the Motu River in New Zealand twice last year. The magnificent four-day journey traverses (穿过) one of the last wilderness areas in the North Island.The first expedition was led by “Buzz”, an American guide with a great deal of rafting experience and many stories to tell of mighty rivers such as the Colorado. With a leader like Buzz, there was no reason to fear any of the great rapids on the Motu.The first half day, in the gentle upper reaches, was spent developing teamwork and coordination. Strokes had to be mastered, and the discipline of following commands without question was strict. In the boiling fury of a rapid, there would be no room for any mistake. When Buzz bellowed (吼叫) above the roar of the water, an instant reaction was essential.We mastered the Motu. In every rapid we fought against the river and we overcame it. The screamed commands of Buzz were matched only by the fury of our paddles, as we took the raft exactly where Buzz wanted it to go.At the end of the journey, there was a great feeling of triumph. We proved that we were so superior and powerful that we had overcome the mystery and majesty of the Motu.The second time I went down the Motu, the experience I had gained should have been invaluable, but the guide on this journey was a Kiwi with a very soft voice. It seemed that it would not even be possible to hear his voice above the noise of the rapids.As we approached the first rapid, he never even raised his voice. He did not attempt to take command of us or the river. Gently and quietly he felt the mood of the river and watched every little whirlpool. There was no drama and no shouting. There was no contest to be won.We sped through each rapid with grace and beauty and, after a day, the river had become our friend, not our enemy. The quiet Kiwi was not our leader, but only the person whose sensitivity was more developed than our own. Laughter replaced the tension of achievement.Soon the quiet Kiwi was able to lean back and let all of us take turns as leader. A quiet nod was enough to draw attention to the things our lack of experience prevented us from seeing. If we made a mistake, then we laughed and it was the next person’s turn.We began to penetrate the mystery of the Motu, and like the quiet Kiwi, we listened to the river and we looked carefully for all those things we had not even noticed the first time.At the end of the journey, we had overcome nothing except ourselves. We did not want to leave behind our friend, the river. There was no contest, and so nothing had been won. Rather we had become one with the river.It is difficult to believe that the external circumstances of the two journeys were similar. The difference was in an attitude and a flame of mind. At the end of the first journey, it seemed that there could be no other way. Given the opportunity to choose a leader, everyone would have chosen someone like Buzz. At the end of the second journey, we had glimpsed a very different vision and we felt humble—and intensely happy.
In the first journey, the author ______.

A.felt puzzled at the mystery of the Motu
B.felt safe about the journey with the guide, Buzz
C.was quite reluctant to be under Buzz’s leadership
D.was quite depressed by Buzz’s dominant personality

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27: “If you think I’m going to raise a good-for-nothing, you ‘ve got another think coming.”

A.…you need to think it over carefully.
B.…you need someone else to help you.
C.…you’d better stop thinking that way.
D.…you have the right to think differently.

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28: It left me open-minded about prayer.

A.Prayer was no longer secret to me.
B.It made me prejudiced against prayers.
C.Prayer helped me become more understanding.
D.It caused me to believe prayers might be answered.

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29: Between French friends, ...lively disagreement and sharpness of argument are the breath of life.

A.To the French, the important part of a friendship is to argue heatedly.
B.French friends often disagree with each other and argue out of breath.
C.To the French, arguing heatedly is a very important activity in daily life.
D.French people won’t become lifelong friends until they argue vigorously.

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30: If disappointed, though, she wasted no energy on self-pity.

A.…she made no effort to hide her pity.
B.…she let her sorrow disappear naturally.
C.…she didn’t like other people to feel sorry for her.
D.…she didn’t spend time feeling sorry for herself.

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31: It is no use telling grown-up children not to make mistakes, both because they will not believe you, and because mistakes are an essential part of education.

A.…mistakes are great concerns of teachers.
B.…mistakes are the most valuable teachers.
C.…learning from one’s mistakes is important in education.
D.…avoiding making mistakes is not the purpose of education.

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32: Kaz Tanaka had wakened in a frightening new world—a world whose dominant sound was a silence broken only by the cries of the dying.

A.…a silent world where one could do nothing but make dying cries.
B.…a soundless world in which no one dared to break the dead silence.
C.…a silent world where one could only hear the moans from the dying.
D.…a soundless world in which the threat of death controlled everything

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33: I suspect that we are always faintly conscious of the fact that this is a smallish island, with the sea always round the comer.

A.I wonder if we have realized the smallness of this island compared to the sea.
B.I think we may not be fully aware it is easy to get to the sea on this small island.
C.I believe we have ignored the size of the small island and its location in the sea.
D.I guess we are insensitive to the fact that this small island is at the comer of the sea.

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34: We want every minute to count.

A.The minute is the basic unit of our lifetime.
B.Every minute should be precisely measured.
C.We want to make use of every minute effectively.
D.Everyone should be aware of the limit of his lifetime.

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35: Culture shock is caused by the anxiety that results from losing all our familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse.

A.that may lead people to misunderstand the unfamiliar behaviour.
B.that may make people feel lost in a completely new environment.
C.people have when they are not used to the new ways of communication.
D.people have when they do not know the rules and laws in a new place.

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36: This washwoman, small and thin as she was, possessed a strength that came from generations of peasant ancestors.

A.Unlike her peasant ancestors, this small thin washwoman was born strong.
B.This washwoman, like her peasant ancestors, was small and thin but strong.
C.With the strength from her peasant ancestors, the washwoman was still small and thin.
D.The washwoman was small and thin, but she inherited the strength of her peasant ancestors.

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