浙江省2003年7月高等教育自学考试综合英语(二)试题

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Ⅰ.Complete the sentences with the best choice. Write your right letter on the Answer Sheet:(10%)
1.He was cold and hungry but he couldn’t make a fire as his only (     ) lost.
  A. box of matches were     B. box of match was
  C. box of matches was     D. boxes of matches were
2.The young man (     ) clever but dishonest.
  A. thought to be      B. was thought to be
  C. was thought as     D. was thought being
3.Don’t worry. This question is of the (     ) importance of all.
  A. less      B. little
  C. least      D. best
4.Olivia obviously had no (     ) of doing any work that day, although it  was only a week before the entrance examination.
  A. willingness    B. intention
  C. ambition     D. desire
5.The directors have a meeting every Friday,(     ) there is nothing to discuss.
  A. if      B. unless
  C. for      D. because
6.In the room (     ) with three legs and a few broken chairs.
  A. could only be found a table   B. could only a table be found
  C. a table could only be found   D. only could be a table found
7.Overjoyed to see his long-lost friends, Jimmy (     ) a toast to the health of them all.
  A. suggest    B. spoke
  C. raised    D. proposed
8.(     ) their terms, we would go bankrupt.
  A. If we accept     B. If we should accept
  C. If we had accepted    D. If we are to accept
9.No one was absent from the meeting,(     )?
  A. was she       B. weren’t she
  C. were they      D. weren’t they
10.Jean didn’t have time to go to the concert last night because she was busy (     ) for her exam.
  A. preparing     B. to prepare
  C. to be prepared     D. being prepared
Ⅱ.Complete the sentences with a word derived from the one in bracket. Write answers on the Answer Sheet:(5%)
1.Probably hundreds of comparisons were made before I became ______ of them.(awareness)
2.Walking made no noticeable difference to my back and the sun remained ______.(hide)
3.But if I give him the brights, he’ll be ______,stupid and blind.(courtesy).
4.I told the police about the ______ of the TV set.(thief)
5.According to the newspaper, more than 50 workers were thrown into ______ when the factory closed last month.(employ)

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Ⅴ.Cloze:(20%)
Complete the passage by putting in the blanks the corrtect choice. Write your right letter on the Answer Sheet:
Nobody likes insects. They are ___1    and sometimes dangerous. Some of them bite us and give us __2__;others bite us and give us big red    3___.Some do not bite,___4___ they just fly round our heads or crawl round our houses and gardens. And we do not like any of them—___5___ those lovely butterflies.
But insects are interesting. First, they are very ___6___ animals. Three hundred and twenty million years age no men or other ___7___ in the world but there were insects.Today,___8___ every square mile of land there are millions of them flying and crawling ___9___.Second,insects are very ___10___ to their habitat, to their food and to the weather, now there are about a million different ___11___ in the world.___12___ do people use insecticides?
Not many insects ___13___ us. In many cases we do not see the insects and we do not think much about them. The ___14___ is that insects eat so much of man’s food,___15___ there are so many billions of them.
We must use insecticides to ___16___ them.
An insecticide is simply a special chemical ___17___ with some poisonous elements. Farmers ___18___ their crops very often and the insects die quickly. Of course some poisonous chemicals may ___19___ on the crops or in the ___20___,and that is also dangerous.
Decide which of the following would best complete the passage if inserted in the blanks:
1.  A. annoying  B. disgusted    C. troubling  D. wicked
2.  A. diseases  B. tumors    C. ulcers   D. wounds
3.  A. places   B. points    C. specks   D. spots
4.  A. and   B. because    C. but   D. or
5.  A. besides   B. except    C. except for  D. let alone
6.  A. old   B. small    C. weak   D. young
7.  A. amphibians  B. birds    C. mammals  D. reptiles
8.  A. in    B. on     C. throughout  D. with
9.  A. about   B. above    C. over   D. up
10.  A. adaptable  B. agreeable    C. suitable  D. variable
11.  A. models  B. samples    C. species  D. specimens
12.  A. How   B. When    C. Where   D. Why
13.  A. hurt   B. pierce    C. pin   D. wound
14.  A. condition  B. difference   C. method  D. reason
15.  A. and   B. due to    C. owing to  D. so that
16.  A. get hold of  B. get rid of    C. put an end to D. take care of
17.  A. component  B. compound   C. material   D. medicine
18.  A. cover   B. disinfect    C. splash    D. spray
19.  A. drop   B. evaporate   C. leave    D. stay
20.  A. clay   B. dirt     C. mud    D. soil转贴于：自学考试_博学在线

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Ⅵ.Read the following passages and complete the statements or answer the questions with the correct choice. Write your right letter on the Answer Sheet:(20%)
Passage 1
Public goods are those commodities whose enjoyment nobody can be effectively excluded. Everybody is free to enjoy the benefits of these commodities and one person’s use does not reduce the possibilities of anybody else’s enjoying the same good.
Examples of public goods are not as rare as one might expect. A flood control dam is a public good. Once the dam is built, all persons living in the area will benefit—irrespective