2017年10月全国自主考试英语阅读(一)真题及答案

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(63)To those old allies whose cultural sand spiritual origins we share. we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures.(64)Divided, there is lite we can do--for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.

To those new States whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, (65)we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed sway merely to .he replaced by a far greater Iron tyranny. We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. (66) But we shall always hope to find, them strongly supporting their own freedom--- and to remember that, (67) in the pest those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside

(From Inaugural Address)

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How did the author help AIDS infected patients?

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How did the author get to know her house was set on fire and what would she do with her patients?

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After a while he said to me, "You don't have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you."

"it doesn’t bother me."

"No, I(51)____ you don't have to stay if it's going to bother you." I thought perhaps he was a little lightheaded and after (52) ____ him the prescribed capsules at eleven o'clock I(53)_____out for a while.

It was a bright, cold day, the ground covered with a sleet that had frozen so that it (54)_____as if all the bare trees, the bushes, the cut brush and all the grass and the bare ground had been vanished with ice. 1 took the young Irish setter for a little walk (55)_____the road and along a frozen creek, but it was difficult to stand or walk on the gassy surface and the red dog slipped and slithered and I(56)_____twice, hard, once dropping my gun and having it slide away over the ice.

We flushed a covey of quail under a high clay bank (57)_____overhanging brush and I killed two as they went out of sight over the top of the bank Some of the covey lit in trees, but most of them (58)_____into brush piles and it was necessary to jump on the ice-coated mounds of brush several times before they would flush, Coming out while you were poised (59)_____ on the icy, springy brush they made difficult shooting and l killed two, missed five, and started back pleased to have found a covey close to the house and happy there were so many (60)_____to find on another day.

(From A Day's Wail)

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(large) The ultimate goal will be to__networks of Parliaments on Science, Technology and Innovation.

(efficient) What is so impressive about their society is the__of the public services.

(famous) She moved to London in search of__and fortune.

(fail) Three quarters of people with severe heart__will not live beyond five years.

(unite) A__effort is always more effective than an isolated complaint.

(sweet) A friend of mine has learned to fry the bananas and__them with a little honey.

(influence) Mr. Johnson was very__ in persuading the producers to put money into the film.

(survive) All of us know that water is extremely important not just for our__but also for our overall health and well-being.

(invent) The song gives a good example of Les Paul's experimental style and__spirit.

(adequate)If that price is too low, he says, it will not__cover the expense of fuel, fertilizer and equipment.

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Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

We can learn from the passage that playing outdoors can help children ______

In the waning year of the nineteenth century, the Time Traveler is entertaining some friends after dinner with a discussion of time (31)______. All things he says, exist not only in length, breadth, and thickness but in time as well. The only reason we cannot properly perceive the dimension of time is that (32)______

To correct this condition and to test his theories, the Time Traveler has constructed a machine designed to help him move backwards or forwards (33)____ He jolts his skeptical guests(a politician,a doctor, and a psychologist when he shows them an actual model of the machine,(34)

______He persuades the psychologist to press a lever, and suddenly the model disappears. The Time Traveler tells his astonished guests that as soon as his machine is perfected(35)______

The next week the same group gathers at the Time Traveler's house, joined by a newspaper editor. Their host is late for dinner, and (36)______Can he actually have traveled into the future?

Suddenly the door bursts open and the Time Traveler appears, dirty, disheveled and bedraggled, (37)______ After he has cleaned up and dressed and they have all dined, he tells the gusts his extraordinary story.

In the week (38)______, the Time Traveler perfected his machine. That very morning, strapping himself into the time machine, he took off (39)  ______The travel was very uncomfortable, for the days and nights sped past in such rapid succession that his eyes hurt (40)______. Eventually, in the misty, strange world of the future, he brought his machine to a jolting halt and found himself in the year AD 802 701.

(From The Time Machine)

A.he hopes to launch himself into the future

B.we ourselves are moving in it

C.After demonstrating his model

D.from the alternating light and dark

E. as the fourth dimension

F. with a nasty cut on his chin

G. which has taken him two years to construct

H. like a rocket into the future

I. he wishes to get there in time

J. from one place to another

K. his guests wonder what is keeping him

L. through the centuries

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What does Bamini Gopinath suggest?

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Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.

About twenty years ago, when the Internet was not so easily accessible, children used to spend much more time outdoors. Nowadays, however, children prefer to spend free time at home, watching more TV, playing computer games, and so on. Although this may also be more comfortable for parents, as they can watch and control their child more easily when at home, for a child's sake, it is better to encourage him or her to play outdoors.

What does the author mainly discuss in Parngraph3?

Why did Wally Amos add a lemonade recipe to each cookie bag?

Why did Wally Amos rejoin the first cookie company?

What does the special program "Cities in Schools" aim at?

The lat paragraph shows the author's_______

Wally Amos started his Famous Amos Cookie Company with money borrowed from ______

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Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage

When Wally Amos was little, his family was very poor After his parents got divorced, Amos went to live with his Aunt Della in New York City, His aunt loved to cook and she always made him special chocolate chip cookies.

Wally dropped out of high school to join the army. After he completed his work in the army, he attended a secretarial school to learn shorthand, typing and accounting skill.

Wally began baking chocolate chip cookies using a recipe similar to his aunts. He borrowed money from his friends and opened a small shop in California. The Famous Amos Cookie Company started. Soon he began to make money. Within the first two years, he was baking six tons of cookies a week and taking in over ＄4000.000 in sales each year.

He sold his company to the Bass Brothers of Fort Worth, Texas, and his cookies were soon found in grocery stores and vending machines all across the United States.

In 1992, Wally started a new cookie company called The Uncle Noname Cookie Company that made five different kinds of cookies. Each bag of cookies also had a recipe for lemonade on the bag. He added this recipe to the cookie bag because wally wanted his customers to know that, "...life hands them a lemon, they can turn it into lemonade". This expression means that if things happen that seem not to be so good at the time, later they can actually turn into something good.

Then Wally Amos rejoined the first cookie company to work on sales. He wanted the company to return to the market. He also wanted it to sell some new flavors of cookies besides the popular chocolate chip cookie, to add graphics (图样) to the packaging, and to work on new national advertising to attract more customers.

Wally has spent time as a literacy volunteer of America and he has given money to a special program called "Cities in Schools" which helps students stay in school., He also took time off in 1983 to write his autobiography, The Famous Amos Story: The Man Who Launched a Thousand Chips, In the meantime, Famous Amos had new shops popping up on the West Coast and franchised stores (特许商店)opening in Japan and its Asian neighbors.

Wally Amos is best known for his enjoyment in making cookies and for making so many possibilities out of his life.

 What kind of school did Wally Amos attend after he left the army?

What can be learnt about the author from the passage?

Why did the author try to leave the farm?

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Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.

I was supposed to have been a nice, church-going Swiss housewife, but I ended up a psychiatrist in the American Southwest for my belief in the power of unconditional love that set me to work with AIDS-infected patients.

I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to bold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the

two.

Later in my life, I was compelled to buy a 300 acre farm in rural Virginia, and I poured all the money I earned from publishing and lectures into making it a reality. I constructed a healing center where I held workshops, allowing me to cut down on my busy travel schedule. I was planning to adopt AIDS infected babies, who would enjoy however many days remained of their lives in the splendor of the outdoors. After announcing my intention of adopting AIDS-infected babies, I became the most despised (厌恶) person in the whole Shenan?oah Valley, and even though I soon abandoned my plans, there was a group of men who did everything in their power short of killing me to get me to leave, They fired bullets through my windows and shot at my animals.

The simple life on the farm was everything to me. The fields rolled out as far as I could see. Ancient trees offered their silent wisdom.

Then, on October 6, 1994, my house was set on fire. It burned down to the ground and all my papers were destroyed. Everything I owned turned to ash.

I was hurrying through the airport in Baltimore, trying to catch a plane home, when I got the news that it was on fire. The friend who told me begged me not to go home, not yet. But my whole life I had been told not to become a doctor, not to talk with dying patients, not to start an AIDS hospice (临终安养院), and each time I had stubbornly (倔强的) done what felt right rather than what was expected.

That is how I have lived. If I am opinionated and independent, if I am stuck in my ways, so what? That is me.

Believing in the power of unconditional love, the author______

The author built a healing center to______

In the Western romance, the landscape as a backdrop ______

In the Western romance, the hero has to balance between the powers of light and darkness to______

What does the horse in the Western romance represent?

Why are icons important for artists?.

A computer can be damaged when people ______

The spam problem should be taken seriously because spam ______

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Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.

Icons are objects in our environment that evoke deeply-felt emotional responses from those for whom they have a special, shared meaning. These magical items also function in popular art as a type of expression and provide both the creator and the audience with shared cultural experiences that carry with them a deep and meaningful significance far beyond their physical reality.

Icons have a type of religious significance. It is this religious significance that provides them with their basic power. A few years ago there was a story about a silver chalice (圣杯) brought to a small town in Brazil by a visiting American priest which bore the following words: "In memory of Marilyn Monroe." A remarkable mixture of the sacred and the secular (世俗的), an integration of the strengths of both into a super icon.

The Western romance is at its very basis religious in its implication. The hero, standing between the wilderness on the one hand and civilization on the other, balances, much like a priest, between the powers of light and darkness because he has the strengths of both and uses them against the weakness of the wilderness. The hero priest functions as a nineteenth-century savior by combining New Testament mercy with Old Testament justice.

In the Western romance the gun, the horse, and the landscape are the central icons. While the horse enables the hero to move easily about the virtue-laden (富有美德的）and vice-ridden landscape, the gun aids him in the final judgment between good and evil. The hero's gun must, of course, be special, almost magical; it is given the power with the fores of life and death, right and wrong The hero's gun is not a tool, but a real extension of the manhood and the "rightness" of the hero-savior. Speaking of the horse as an icon, it is representative of the force of nature, mute evidence of the hero's mastery over nature, of his ability to command respect from nature's forces. Consistent with the iconic significance of the gun and the horse, is the landscape itself, which finds its most complete expression in film. The landscape is not just a backdrop against which the story is set, but rather an integral part of the action. It is the wilderness in all of its positive-negative completeness, being able to provide spiritual and physical healthfulness for the modern experience.

Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word icon"?

What kind of spam can be ill in some religious countries?

What does the author think of dealing with spam day by day?

Who played a vital role in providing money for the Rushmore project?.

President Franklin D.Roosevelt attended the dedication ceremony held for the head of______

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Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage.

For what did Doane Robinson suggest sculpting the rocks into the shape of historic heroes of the West?

What did Gutzon Borglum convince President Calvin Coolidge to do?

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Questions 1 to s are based on the following passage.

Mount Rushmore (now known as the President's Mountain), located just north of Custer State Park in South Dakota's Back Hills National Forest, was named for the New York lawyer Charles E. Rushmore, who traveled to the Black Hills in 1884 to inspect mining claims in the region. When Rushmore asked a local man the name of a nearby mountain, he reportedly replied that it never had a name before, but from now on would be known as Rushmore Peak (later Mount Rushmore).

Seeking to attract tourism to the Black Hills in the early 1920s, South Dakota's state historian Doane Robinson came up with the idea to sculpt (雕刻)the rocks into the shape of historian heroics of the West. In August 1924, Robinson contacted Qutzon Borglum, an American sculptor of Danish descent who was then working on carving an image of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee into the face of Georgia's Stone Mountain Borglum suggested that the subjects of the South Dakota work be George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, as that would attract more national interest. He would later add Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt to the list, in recognition of their contributions to the birth of democracy and the growth of the United States.