全国2002年4月高等教育自学考试综合英语(二)试题

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PART ONE
Ⅰ.语法、词汇。用适当的词填空。从A 、B 、C 、D 四个选项中，选出一个正确答案，并将选项号填在答题纸的相应位置上。(本大题共25小题，每小题1分，共25分)
Complete each of the following sentences with the most likely answer.(25 points)
1.Books require hard work and practice and ,like sports ,they can be both a ______ and a delight.
  A. nuisance                          B. annoyance
  C. challenge                         D. prodding
2.A lot of trouble in this world is caused by ______ a narrow mind with a wide mouth.
  A. combining                         B. concerning
  C. adding                            D. involving
3.Most economists believe that the five-day work week has had a positive ______ on our economy.
  A. influence                         B. affect
  C. after-effect                       D. effect
4.If a man does not make new acquaintances ,he will soon find himself ______.
  A. out in the cold                    B. lonely
  C. behind                          D. in peace
5.The boy ran ______ from home to school and was just in time for class.
  A. all the more                      B. all the way
  C. all the same                      D. all the time
6.Parents unable to spend much time with their children are likely to ______ them with a lot of playthings.
  A. cover                             B. fill
  C. rain                              D. shower
7.Some people have trouble ______ to a life of retirement.
  A. changing                          B. adopting
  C. adjusting                          D. fitting
8.A good way to forget your trouble is to help others out of ______.
  A. them                              B. their
  C. theirs'                             D. theirs
9.Garbage collecting is as ______ a job as clerking ,or teaching.
  A. respectable                       B. respective
  C. respectful                        D. respecter
10.There's nothing shameful ______ being wrong .Nobody can be right all the time.
  A. on                               B. for
  C. about                             D. concerning
11.It is not hard to find the truth ;what is hard is not to run away from it ______ you have found it.
  A. while                             B. once
  C. as long as                        D. as soon as
12.______ men fail through ignorance of their strength than through knowledge of their weakness.
  A. Many                              B. Some
  C. More                              D. Less
13.According to a medical report,______ 75 percent of the current violent crime is drug related.
  A. so many as                        B. as many as
  C. so much as                        D. as much as
14.______ so many people been interested in computers as today.
  A. There never have                  B. Never before have
  C. There have never                  D. Before never have
15.She was the only one in her family ______ the disastrous earthquake.
  A. surviving                         B. having survived
  C. to survive                        D. survived

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16.It is the first time that I ______ really relaxed for months.
  A. feel                              B. have felt
  C. felt                              D. will have felt
17.“Will you join us tonight?”
   “Oh ,I ______,but I have an essay to write.”
  A. would love to                     B. would love
  C. would love to join                 D. would love joining
18.I don't regret ______ her what I thought of her husband ,even though it might have upset her.
  A. telling                           B. to tell
  C. that I will tell                     D. to have to tell
19.The higher the standard of living ,the ______.
  A. greater is the amount of goods to consume
  B. greater amount of goods consumed
  C. greater the amount of goods consumed
  D. amount of goods consumed is greater
20.“Why didn't you buy the dictionary?”
   “I ______,but I didn't have enough money with me.”
  A. would buy                         B. would have
  C. had bought                        D. had done
21.To be frank ,I'd rather you ______ anything about it for the time being.
  A. do                                B. don't do
  C. did                               D. didn't do
22.______ dark clouds gathering on the horizon ,he stopped the work in hand and went home.
  A. To see                           B. Having been seeing
  C. Seeing                           D. Having to see
23.“Couldn't he understand that the few drops of water ______ out of us so fast if we waited until night?”I thought to myself.;
  A. won’t be sweated                  B. wouldn't be sweated
  C. won’t be sweating                 D. wouldn't be sweating
24.His eyes wouldn't close .They kept ______ me ,narrow and dangerous.
  A. watch                           B. watching
  C. to watch                         D. watched
25.I think you ought ______ me about the matter and not have let me make such a fool of myself.
  A. have told                        B. tell
  C. had told                         D. to have told
Ⅱ.完形填空。从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择一个正确答案，并将选项号填在答题纸的相应位置上。(本大题共15小题，每小题1分，共15分)
Fill in each blank in the passage with the most likely answer.(15 points)
Just after World War II ,people were very willing to give money to help those who had suffered from it.    26    not everyone who collected the money was honest .Newspapers were full of stories of people who had been    27    by men who went from house to house saying that they were collecting for    28    wounded soldiers ,or for those who had    29    their homes ,or for some other noble    30   .Yet all the time they    31    the money into their own pockets
   32    using it for what they    33     to be doing it for.
    one day Mr.Smith told his wife that a group of people had    34    thousands of dollars for the widow of the Unknown Soldier.Someone had    35    to the papers about it,and they had warned people that it might be a fraud(骗局).Mr. Smith said that he and his friends at the office had had a good    36    when they read about it in the newspaper.
  “Can you imagine anyone so    37    as to believe that story and    38    money for the widow of the Unknown Soldier?”he asked his wife.
Mrs.Smith looked puzzled.“What a fool I have been?”she thought to herself.Then her f