2012年4月全国自主考试综合英语(一)真题及答案

他现在不能决定是继续上学还是找一份工作。

要是没有你的帮助，我想不出这么好的主意。

只确立目标而没有行动是没有用的。

那时由于没有文化，他被自己的孩子看不起。

在老师和同学的鼓励下，他成功地作了第一次演讲。

我不想去参加约翰的生日聚会，因为我和他的兄弟们在一起感到不自在。

他没想到这家公司会遇到麻烦。

在回家的路上，他遇见了十年未见的老朋友。

战争爆发时我们还在上大学。

不要松开绳子，否则你会掉到河里。

The author of “In the Laboratory” learned a lot from Professor Agassiz’s lesson which influenced _____.

The author of “The Time Message” suggests that Sunday is a good day for study while Saturday is the day for ______.

According to “The English Character”, one of the most elementary roles of life for the English is “never hit a man when he is down”- in other words,_____.

According to Dr. Applebaum in “Unreality of TV”, if you ask a taxi driver to follow a car in real life, he won’t do it because that means _____.

In “The Mystery of the Silver Box”, Mr. Grayson turned to the detective for help because he wanted to know _____.

The author of “Another School Year-What For?” believes that students go to universities for _____.

The man in “Little Things Are Big” finally makes a promise that when faced with a situation like that again he is going to _____.

According to “How Dictionaries Are Made”, the writer of a dictionary is _____, not a lawgiver.

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In “Night Watch”, the author concludes that the wrong Marine proved in a very human way that there are people who care _____.

According to the author of “Happiness”, long-term happiness is a process of moving towards worthwhile goals and contributing towards _____.

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B. 根据课文的内容在每个空白处填入一个恰当的词。

For many, the ultimate deposit to the Emotional Bank Account comes in forgiving.

When you forgive, you open the channels  61   trust and unconditional love. You cleanse your heart. You also remove a major obstacle  62  keeps others from changing- because when you don’t  63 , you put yourself between people and their conscience. Instead  64  spending their energy on work with their own conscience, they  65  it defending and justifying their behaviour to you.

In  66  you do for your family, keep in  67  the miracle of the Chinese bamboo. After the seed is  68  , new, taller shoots appear until the bamboo reaches full height.  69  the most dramatic growth is underground, where the  70  grow very strong. With this support, the bamboo can reach a height of 120 feet!

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A．从下列单词中选择恰当的词填空，每个词只能用一次。

Friends play a very important part in everyone’s life. Friendship begins to  51      early in childhood. As you progress through school, new friends are  52 . Those friends you make when you are a student usually  53 a long time. Friends influence your development, your maturity and your  54  of responsibility. A familiar expression is “You can  55  a lot about a person by knowing who his friends are.” Friendship is often based  56  common interests. If you like sports, most of your friends are  57  to be sporty. If you enjoy reading and shopping, most of your friends like to do the  58  .

True friends are those you can talk  59  about any subject or problem. They are most valuable, but difficult to find. You can consider yourself very lucky  60  you have one true friend. This friend is ready to help you whenever necessary, knowing that you would do the same for him or her.

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growth

grades

orange

blank

store

urge

amaze

luxury

flood

flour

choke

disease

smoothly

hunger

favourite

butcher

means

fasten

Jewish

cough

The author’s attitude towards Chinglish can be described as ______.

According to the passage, Yangjingbang (Line 11, Paragraph 2) is ______.

According to Jonathan Spencer, Pidgin English serves to ______.

The second paragraph mainly discusses ______.

Passage 2

You might ask, what is Chinglish, anyway? It depends on whom you ask. Chinese parents raising their children in English-speaking countries will probably answer: Chinglish is a useful mix of standard Chinese or Cantonese terms with day-to-day English. It is indeed convenient to shorten a sentence such as “I don’t want to go now because it is too hot and it will be hard to find a parking lot anyway” into “Don’t go la, hot la, tai mafan la.” For the Chinese high-school teacher, Chinglish is the students’ unsuccessful attempts to understand English in a Chinese way, resulting in sentences such as “Please hurry to walk or we’ll be late” or “She is very miserable and her heart broke.” However, the English-speaking traveler more frequently comes across Chinglish in the form of public signs. No matter how one looks at the phenomenon, one thing is clear: Chinglish is not a language.

Chinglish might be found, according to some scholars, in Chinese Pidgin (混杂语) English, which came to life in the eighteenth century when the British set up their first trading posts in Guangzhou. The term came from the word “business” and served, according to the great Yale China scholar Jonathan Spencer, “to keep the differing communities in touch, by mixing words from Portuguese, Indian, English, and various Chinese dialects, and spelling them according to Chinese grammar.” Some believe that expressions like “Long time no see” or “No can do” appeared during that time. Others refer to the late Qing-Dynasty Empress Dowager Cixi, who forced Chinese villagers to live and work in the West in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Another possibility is the so-called Yangjingbang , a mix of English and Chinese in the time of Lu Xun, China’s greatest twentieth-century writer. Very influential, too, are the large numbers of people from China to the United States, who came from the Gold Rush time to the last twenty-five years since the beginning of China’s policy of Reform and Opening.

No matter which theory one prefers, two things are certain: first, Chinglish exists because people move, and second, as a language phenomenon (现象), it is almost new. Although most Chinglish expressions are widely regarded as mistakes, occasionally some are found enjoyable. Such errors will not die, as they keep coming all the more in our time, largely thanks to the Internet.

Which of the following can best describe the narrator’s uncle?

The narrator felt glad that he had stayed up late because ______.

When they opened the bedroom door, they could see nothing at first because ______.

The man _____ laughing at the idea of an invasion bringing about democracy.

The word “crash” (Line 2, Paragraph 3) most probably refers to ______.

Passage 1

Shortly after the war, my brother and I were invited to spend a few days with an uncle who had just returned from abroad. He had rented a cottage in the country, although he rarely spent much time there. We understood the reason for this after our arrival: the cottage had no comfortable furniture in it, many of the windows were broken and the roof leaked, making the whole house damp.

On our first evening, we sat around the fire after supper listening to the stories which our uncle had to tell of his many adventures in distant countries. I was so tired after the long train journey that I would have preferred to go to bed; but I could not bear to miss any of my uncle’s exciting tales.

He was just in the middle of describing a rather terrifying experience he had once had when there was a loudcrash from the bedroom above, the one where my brother and I were going to sleep.

“It sounds as if the roof has fallen in!” exclaimed my uncle, with a loud laugh.

When we got to the top of the stairs and opened the bedroom door, we could see nothing at first because of the thick clouds of dust which filled the room. When the dust began to clear, a strange sight met our eyes. A large part of the ceiling had collapsed, falling right on to the pillow of my bed. I was glad that I had stayed up late to listen to my uncle’s stories, otherwise I should certainly have been seriously injured, perhaps killed.

That night we all slept on the floor to the sitting room downstairs, not wishing to risk our lives by sleeping under a roof which might at any moment collapse on our heads. We left for London the very next morning and my uncle gave up his cottage in the country. This was not the kind of adventure he cared for either!

The uncle seldom spent much time in the country cottage because ______.

Clearly it is with great _____ that he admitted his mistakes in public.

I _____ her my bicycle last month, but she has not returned it yet.

— I swam a kilometer today.— Well _____!You must be very fit.

I am not very good _____ maths. Would you please work out the total cost of our trip?

It took them a long time to _____ the fire because of the strong wind.

Things will settle down as time goes by. They’ll never be the same, _____.

When I entered the room, I saw him _____ in a front seat staring at a picture in a strange way.

Not only _____ about the food, but he also refused to pay for it.

_____ would be wonderful to be able to meet the famous movie star in person.

Everything _____ very different if your father were alive.

Could you please tell me where _____ find Professor Smith? His wife has just called his office.

We definitely are not the perfect couple, _____ we don’t pretend to be so.

I would rather you _____ this to him yourself.When I tried to speak to him last time, he didn’t listen.

For most people, common cold is a mild illness _____ they will quickly recover.

He had hardly left the building _____ the bomb exploded.

They have different views on the comment- _____ the daughter sees it as criticism, the mother takes it as praise.

This plan probably won’t work either- but you must do _____ to help her.

This camera is so easy to use; _____ a child could take good pictures with it.

_____ of the figures seems correct. Would you check them carefully?