二○○○年下半年全国高等教育自学考试英语（二）试卷

best described as ____________. 
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Passage Three 
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage. People seldom feel neutral 
about poetry（诗）. Those who love it sometimes give the impression that it is 
an adequate substitute for food, shelter, and love. It isn’t. Words, no matter 
how satisfying, are never an equivalent for life itself and its human experiences. 
Those who dislike poetry on principle sometimes claim, on the other hand, that 
poetry is only words and good for nothing. That’s not true either. It is easy 
to become frustrated by words-in poetry or in life-but when words represent and 
recreate genuine human feelings, as they often do in poetry, they can be very 
important. Poetry is, in fact, more than just words. It is an experience of words, 
and those who know how to read poetry can easily extend their experience of life, 
their sense of what other people are like, their awareness of themselves, and 
their range of human feelings. One reason poetry can be so important is that it 
is so closely concerned with feelings. Poetry is often full of ideas, too, and 
sometimes poems can be powerful experiences of the mind, but most poems are 
primarily about how people feel rather than how people think. Poems provide, in 
fact, a language for feeling, and one of poetry’s most insistent merits involves 
its attempt to express the inexpressible. How can anyone, for example, put into 
words what it means to be in love or what it feels like to lose someone one cares 
about? Poetry tries, and it often captures exactly the shade of emotion that feels 
just right to a reader. No single poem can be said to express all the things that 
love or death feels like, or means, but one of the joys of experiencing poetry 
occurs when we read a poem and want to say, "Yes, that is just what it is like； 
I know exactly what that line means but I’ve never been able to express it so 
well."Poetry can be the voice of our feelings even when our minds are speechless 
with grief or joy. 
31."People seldom feel neutral about poetry"（in Para.1） 
in this context means that ____________.
A、few people think that poetry is neutral 
B、people always differ in their views about poetry 
C、people rarely take a biased opinion about poetry
D、people generally think of poetry as extremely important or totally useless 
32.The author suggests that ____________. 
A、poetry tends to 
make the reader disappointed
B、poetry makes its readers sentimental
C、poetry is more important than words 
D、poetry often captures real human feelings 
33.According to the author, poetry ____________. 
A、is more than just words 
B、is the poets’ feelings about words 
C、is anything but patterns of lines 
D、is an experiment on the use of words 
34.Poetry tries, persistently, to express 
____________.
A、what love and death mean 
B、what people think about themselves 
C、what people feel but find it hard to describe 
D、how people go through life 
35.This passage is mainly about ____________. 
A、the structure of poetry 
B、the components of poetry 
C、the nature and importance of poetry 
D、the appreciation of poetry  转贴于：自学考试_博学在线

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PART TWO 
Ⅳ.Word Spelling（10 points, 1 point for two words）将下列汉语单调成英语并写
在答题纸上。每个词的词类和第一个字母已在答题纸上给出。首字母后的每条短线上只
写一个字母。 36.护照 37.目标 38.邮费 39.海洋 40.削弱 41.月亮的 42.检查，视察 
43.集体宿舍 44.债务 45.基本的 46.内容 47.熟悉的 48.慷慨的 49.邀请 50.发明者 
51.菜单 52.明显的 53.不论如何，不顾 54.智慧 55.女主人 Ⅴ.Word Form（10 point, 
1 point for each）将括号中的各词变为适当形式填入空白。答案写在答题花。 56.A man 
cannot be really happy if what he enjoys ____________ （do）is ignored by society 
as of no value or importance. 57.Some proverbs ____________ （be）in the language 
for 1,000 years, for example, A friend in need is a friend indeed. 58.Anyone 
____________ （want）to understand the industry of the future will have to know 
about robotics. 59.The nations that ____________ actively ____________ （involve） 
in earthquake prediction programs include Japan, China, Russia, and the United 
States. 60.It is a well-know fact that a person will move in a circle when he 
cannot use his eyes ____________ （control）his direction. 61.In 1991, after the 
Gulf War, Bush’s approval rating reached 91 percent, the highest level recorded 
since polling ____________（begin）in the 1930s. 62.As research techniques become 
more advanced, the number of animals ____________ （use）in experiments may 
decrease. 63.Seeing violence on television or reading about it in the newspapers 
every day ____________ （make）us tolerate crime more than we should. 64.The 
____________ （far）away we get from the earth, the thinner the air becomes. 65.They 
demanded that the right to vote ____________ （give）to every adult person. 
Ⅵ.Translation from Chinese into English（15 points, 3 points for each）将下
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