全国2002年10月高等教育自学考试英语(一)试题

orld. All went well until some four hours later at 30,000 feet, the men were frightened by a loud, cracking noise: even the smallest hole in the ball would have meant instant death.  Luckily, though, it was only one of the outer windows that had broken. Soon afterwards, the ball touched the soft ocean floor raising a big cloud of "dust" made up of small dead sea-creatures. Here, powerful lights lit up the dark water and the men were surprised to see fish swimming just above them quite untroubled  by the great water-pressure. But they did not dare to leave the lights on for long, as the heat from them would make the water boil. Quite unexpectedly, the telephone began working again and the faint but clear voices of the divers were heard on the mother ship seven miles away. After a stay of thirty minutes the men began their journey up, arriving three hours later, cold and wet through, but none the worse for their experience.
31. A diver is a person _____.
   A. who studies plants and animals living underwater
   B. who works under water in a special dress
   C. who usually hides himself inside a small steel ball
   D. whose job is to drive underwater vessels
32. The purpose of the two divers' journey to the deepest point on the earth is ___.
   A. to see if humans can stand the severe cold at the bottom of the ocean
   B. to investigate which part of the Pacific Ocean is the deepest
   C. to make sure that there are no signs of life in the great depths
   D. to find out if there are any ocean currents or living creatures there
33. The telephone stopped working at a depth of 3,000 feet ____.
   A. Where the warm and cold layers of water were divided
   B. and thus the divers lost contact with their mother ship
   C. and the temperature immediately dropped to freezing point
   D. when a loud, cracking noise was suddenly heard inside the ball
34. The telephone began working again ___.
   A. after the steel ball reached the bottom of the ocean
   B. as soon as the divers went down to the depth of 30,000 feet
   C. shortly after one of the outer windows had broken
   D. just before the steel ball touched the soft ocean floor
35. On the ocean floor, the divers found that ______.
   A. there was no life but small dead sea-creatures
   B. fish were swimming as freely as they did near  the surface
   C. fish did not dare to come near the powerful lights
   D. all the living creatures had a hard time under the high water-pressure转贴于：自学考试_博学在线

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Ⅶ. E-C Translation (15 points)
将下列短文译成汉语并将答案写在答题纸上。
When a young man starts to earn his own living, he becomes free from the discipline of school and parents; but at the same time he is forced to accept responsibilities. He can no longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live comfortably. If he spends most of his time playing about in the way that he used to as a child, he will go hungry.  And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, however, he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he can have the great happiness of seeing himself make steady progress in his job and of building up for himself his own position in society.
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