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浙江省2002年7月高等教育自学考试综合英语(二)试题
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Readers of novels like Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice will know that in former times marriage among wealthy families were arranged by the girl's parents,that is,it was the parents' duty to find a suitable husband for their daughter,preferably a rich one,and by skillful encouragement—lead him eventually to ask their permission to marry her.Until that time,the girl was protected and maintained in the parents' home and the financial relief(减轻) of getting rid of her could be seen in their giving the newly married pair a sum of money called a dowry(嫁妆).It is very different today.Most girls of today get a job when they leave school and become financially independent before their marriage.This has had two results.A girl chooses her own husband,and she gets no dowry.
1.What does the author mean by “Family is of course an elastic word"?
A.Different families have different ways of life.
B.Different times produce different families.
C.Different nations have different families.
D.Different definitions could be given to the word.
2.For an English family,the husband's duty is ______.
A.financial while the wife's is running the home
B.defending the family which the wife's is running the home
C.supporting the family while the wife's is financial
D.independent while the wife's is dependent
3.Everything is decided in a family ______.
A.with the help of their parents B.by the couple
C.by brothers and sisters D.with the help of aunts and uncles
4.What is true concerning the book Pride and Prejudice?
A.It is the best book on marriage.
B.It is a handbook of marriage.
C.It provides a lot of information of formertime wealthy families
D.It gives quite some idea of English social life in the past.
5.With regard to marriage in Britain,present-ay girls differ from former-ime girls in ______.
A.the right family B.more parental support
C.social position D.choosing husbands转贴于：自学考试_博学在线
Passage 2
The rat has many enemies and its greatest enemy is man.Nevertheless,rats are survivors.Although man has carried on an endless war against them,rats have methodically and systematically colonized the world.In almost every country from the freezing cold of the Arctic regions to the blazing heat of the tropics,rats are to be found,growing,increasing and multiplying.
Apart from their ability to adapt themselves to varying climatic conditions,rats possess another quality that gives them an advantage in extending their boundaries.More so than most other animals,including snakes and spiders,they cause fear.Why should this be so?Certainly they carry disease and man is slow to forget the Black Plague(黑死病)carried by rats,that killed more than one-hird of the earth's population in the fourteenth century.Also rats have been known to bite babi
es in their cots,but the number of such attacks is very much exaggerated.One reads of the danger of being attacked by a cornered rat but they belong to fiction;rats do not go for your throat,as many would have us believe.Furthermore,it is difficult to believe that the rats' appearance can be a source of fear;the common black or brown rat can hardly be regarded as an ugly creature while its cousin,
the acacia rat,is quite pretty and gentle.
6.It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A.man is the rat's worst enemy
B.man is no worse than many of the rat's enemy
C.man's greatest enemy is rat
D.rats have many enemies worse than man
7.It can be concluded from the passage that ______.
A.rats dislike heat but do not mind the cold
B.rats prefer the heat to the cold
C.rats dislike both the heat and the cold
D.rats do not mind the heat or the cold
8.Which of the following is true of the rats?
A.They are more harmful than any other animal.
B.They make people afraid.
C.They are pretty and gentle.
D.They frequently attack babies.
9.According to the passage,which of the following statements is true?
A.The number of rats is decreasing quickly.
B.Rats usually go for your throat at night.
C.Rats will disappear at last because they carry disease.
D.Rats will survive because they can live anywhere.
10.By which of the following could the “exaggerated"(sentence 5,paragraph 2) be best replaced?
A.smaller than it really is. B.kept in secret.
C.larger than it really is. D.the same as it is reported.转贴于：自学考试_博学在线
Passage 3
For years,the Tobacco Institute has tried unsuccessfully to refute the charge by health experts that cigarette smoking can be dangerous to your health.Now the institute has taken a new tack.In an advertising campaign last fall,the industry trade association paid no attention to health questions and emphasized that no smoking could be dangerous to local economy.“Tobacco means $1,193,000,000 to Virginia,"said one advertisement,“Virginia tobacco helps pave Virginia roads,build Virginia parks and support Virginia social programs.Tobacco means 90,000 Virginia jobs." The message was repeated with an appropriate dollar figures in six other tobacco st
Readers of novels like Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice will know that in former times marriage among wealthy families were arranged by the girl's parents,that is,it was the parents' duty to find a suitable husband for their daughter,preferably a rich one,and by skillful encouragement—lead him eventually to ask their permission to marry her.Until that time,the girl was protected and maintained in the parents' home and the financial relief(减轻) of getting rid of her could be seen in their giving the newly married pair a sum of money called a dowry(嫁妆).It is very different today.Most girls of today get a job when they leave school and become financially independent before their marriage.This has had two results.A girl chooses her own husband,and she gets no dowry.
1.What does the author mean by “Family is of course an elastic word"?
A.Different families have different ways of life.
B.Different times produce different families.
C.Different nations have different families.
D.Different definitions could be given to the word.
2.For an English family,the husband's duty is ______.
A.financial while the wife's is running the home
B.defending the family which the wife's is running the home
C.supporting the family while the wife's is financial
D.independent while the wife's is dependent
3.Everything is decided in a family ______.
A.with the help of their parents B.by the couple
C.by brothers and sisters D.with the help of aunts and uncles
4.What is true concerning the book Pride and Prejudice?
A.It is the best book on marriage.
B.It is a handbook of marriage.
C.It provides a lot of information of formertime wealthy families
D.It gives quite some idea of English social life in the past.
5.With regard to marriage in Britain,present-ay girls differ from former-ime girls in ______.
A.the right family B.more parental support
C.social position D.choosing husbands转贴于：自学考试_博学在线
：xyfq
Passage 2
The rat has many enemies and its greatest enemy is man.Nevertheless,rats are survivors.Although man has carried on an endless war against them,rats have methodically and systematically colonized the world.In almost every country from the freezing cold of the Arctic regions to the blazing heat of the tropics,rats are to be found,growing,increasing and multiplying.
Apart from their ability to adapt themselves to varying climatic conditions,rats possess another quality that gives them an advantage in extending their boundaries.More so than most other animals,including snakes and spiders,they cause fear.Why should this be so?Certainly they carry disease and man is slow to forget the Black Plague(黑死病)carried by rats,that killed more than one-hird of the earth's population in the fourteenth century.Also rats have been known to bite babi
es in their cots,but the number of such attacks is very much exaggerated.One reads of the danger of being attacked by a cornered rat but they belong to fiction;rats do not go for your throat,as many would have us believe.Furthermore,it is difficult to believe that the rats' appearance can be a source of fear;the common black or brown rat can hardly be regarded as an ugly creature while its cousin,
the acacia rat,is quite pretty and gentle.
6.It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A.man is the rat's worst enemy
B.man is no worse than many of the rat's enemy
C.man's greatest enemy is rat
D.rats have many enemies worse than man
7.It can be concluded from the passage that ______.
A.rats dislike heat but do not mind the cold
B.rats prefer the heat to the cold
C.rats dislike both the heat and the cold
D.rats do not mind the heat or the cold
8.Which of the following is true of the rats?
A.They are more harmful than any other animal.
B.They make people afraid.
C.They are pretty and gentle.
D.They frequently attack babies.
9.According to the passage,which of the following statements is true?
A.The number of rats is decreasing quickly.
B.Rats usually go for your throat at night.
C.Rats will disappear at last because they carry disease.
D.Rats will survive because they can live anywhere.
10.By which of the following could the “exaggerated"(sentence 5,paragraph 2) be best replaced?
A.smaller than it really is. B.kept in secret.
C.larger than it really is. D.the same as it is reported.转贴于：自学考试_博学在线
：xyfq
Passage 3
For years,the Tobacco Institute has tried unsuccessfully to refute the charge by health experts that cigarette smoking can be dangerous to your health.Now the institute has taken a new tack.In an advertising campaign last fall,the industry trade association paid no attention to health questions and emphasized that no smoking could be dangerous to local economy.“Tobacco means $1,193,000,000 to Virginia,"said one advertisement,“Virginia tobacco helps pave Virginia roads,build Virginia parks and support Virginia social programs.Tobacco means 90,000 Virginia jobs." The message was repeated with an appropriate dollar figures in six other tobacco st
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