浙江省2003年1月高等教育自学考试综合英语(一)试题

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Ⅰ.用适当的语法形式或词汇填空。从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个正确答案。(每小题1分，共30分)
1. I knew the thing (     ).
  A. by accident            B. in accident
  C. with accident          D. at accident
2. So they (     ) the bad news gently——her husband was dead.
  A. broke             B. let on
  C. murmured         D. muttered
3. She had changed so much over the years that I hardly (     ) her.
  A. recreated          B. realized
  C. recognized         D. reacted
4. My grandmother was physically (     ) after her tears.
  A. tired             B. exhausted
  C. fatigued          D. tire
5. The new library is equipped with various protections (     ) fire.
  A. from          B. of
  C. under         D. against
6. He gave a good (     ) in the “Sydney 2000",defeating every opponent in contests.
  A. amount          B. announce
  C. arouse          D. account
7. The old professor (     ) himself to the cause of education.
  A. influenced          B. was devoided
  C. devolved on         D. devoted
8. The meeting is (     )a proposal to construct a new swimming pool.
  A. in connection with          B. in view of
  C. in comparison              D. on account of
9. There are many (     ) between them.Maybe they are twins.
  A. specimens          B. instruments
  C. differences        D. resemblances
10. How did it come (     ) that you made a lot of mistakes in your homework.
  A. about           B. with
  C. after           D. to
11. The medicine had no (     ) on him.
  A. affection          B. effect
  C. affect             D. effective
12. It was 10 o'clock when the train (     ) into New York.
  A. drew           B. entered
  C. pulled         D. dragged
13. Four days later,a headline about a burglary (     ) his eye.
  A. caught          B. met
   C. took           D. taught
14. A friend of my wife (     ) at her kids one day when they were running out to meet a trash truck.
  A. yelled            B. abandoned
  C. indulged          D. flung
15. If a woman is fat in a pleasant looking way,we say she is (     ).
  A. plump            B. ugly
  C. slender           D. handsome

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16. (     ) with his achievement,mine is not achievement at all.
  A. When compared          B. While comparing
  C. Compare                D. Comparing
17. I should very much like to have gone to the party,but I(     ).
  A. am not invited               B. am not being invited
  C. shall not be invited          D. was not invited
18. I'll buy one (     ) it costs.
  A. whichever          B. however
  C. whateve r          D. whenever
19. Nowhere else in the world (     ) more attractive scenery than in Switzerland.
  A. you can find          B. in found
  C. can you find          D. had been found
20. (     ),she went back to her room.
  A. There was no cause for alarm
  B. Being no cause for alarm
  C. Without having cause for alarm
  D. There being no cause for alarm
21. This is the second time she (     ) improvement in that equipment.
  A. had made          B. made
  C. is making         D. has made
22. She found one excuse after another to postpone (     ) to the doctor.
  A. to go                B. going
  C. to have gone         D. having gone
23. The further this process is allowed to go,(     ) it will be to reverse it.
  A. the more difficult           B. the more easier
  C. the more easy               D. more difficult
24. This is the refrigerator (     ) we have had so much trouble.
  A. with which          B. of which
  C. at which            D. to which
25. (     ) you were ill,I wouldn't have spoken so rudely.
  A. If I have realized           B. If I had realized
  C. Did I realize               D. Should I realize
26. You (     ) yesterday if you were really serious about the job.
  A. ought to come          B. ought have come
  C. ought come             D. ought to have come
27. Our English teacher is (     ).
  A. James and Mary's father
  B. James's and Mary's father
  C. Jame's and Mary's father
  D. James' and Mary's father
28. When you (     ) your house,please tell me.
  A. finish to paint          B. will finish paint
  C. finish paint             D. have finished painting
29. (     ) becoming less and less is of great concern to all the people in the world.
  A. Is water               B. Water is
  C. That water is          D. Water
30. Economic goods may take the form (     ) of material things or services.
  A. either           B. because
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Ⅱ.认真阅读下面两篇短文，每篇短文后有五个问题，根据短文的内容从四个选项中选择一个最佳答案。(每小题1分，共10分)
Passage 1
    Reading is the key to school success and,like any skill,it takes practice.A child learns to walk by practicing until he no longer has to think about how to put one foot in front of the other.A great athlete practices until he can play quickly and accurately without thinking.Tennis players call that “being in the zone." Educators call it “automaticity".
    A child learns to read by sounding out the letters and decoding(辨识)the words.With practice,he stumbles less and less,reading by the phrase.With automaticity,he doesn't have to think about decoding the words,so he can concentrate on the meaning of the text.
    It can begin as early as first grade.In a recent study of children in Illinois schools,Alan Rossman of Northwestern University found automatic readers in the first grade who were reading almost three times as fast as the other children and scoring twice as high on comprehension tests.At fifth grade,the automatic readers were reading twice as fast as the others,and still outscoring them on accuracy,comprehension and vocabulary.
    “It's not I.Q.(智商) but the amount of time a child spends reading that is the key to automaticity,"accordin