自考高级英语试题_浙江省2009年7月自考试卷

浙江省2009年7月自学考试高级英语试题

课程代码：10005
Part I Vocabulary (20%)
Directions A: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose one answer that best completes the sentence.
1. The wind ______ the tree of all its leaves. (      )
A. striped B. stripped
C. struck D. stretched
2. She has been ______ in line to buy some stamps. (      )
A. waited B. waiting
C. awaited D. awaiting
3. He was unable to keep up the ______ on his car. (      )
A. loan B. money
C. deposit D. payments
4. He gave a(n) ______ to the United Nations. (      )
A. gift B. address
C. note D. agreement
5. This book tells you how to ______ getting ill while traveling. (      )
A. escape B. remove
C. recover D. avoid
6. He got through his work with ______ and efficiency. (      )
A. speed B. spark
C. space D. speech
7. She insisted that he ______ the experiment all over again. (      )
A. did B. had
C. do D. leave
8. I invited him to the meeting, but he ______. (      )
A. declined B. accepted
C. removed D. escaped
9. Our vacation is ______ and we still can’t decide where to go. (      )
A. going B. approaching
C. flying D. keeping
10. These flowers will not grow in a cold ______. (      )
A. weather B. air
C. day D. climate
11. He spoke with more eagerness ______ is appropriate on such occasions. (      )
A. than that B. than what
C. than D. other than
12. He feels a deep ______ towards his parents for his miserable childhood. (      )
A. indignation B. indignity
C. indigenous D. indignant
13. The badly wounded have ______ for medical attention over those only slightly hurt.(      )
A. privilege B. priority
C. potential D. principle
14. They stayed up late trying to ______ out a way to solve the problem. (      )
A. let B. give
C. knock D. figure
15. After he won the first prize, he was full of ______ and believed that he was an expert on everything. (      )
A. arrogance B. vanity
C. conceit D. contempt
16. That mountain track is not ______ in winter. You’d better go there in summer. (      )
A. practicable B. practical
C. feasible D. possible
17. Our school bus always ______ more than fifty students, which, in fact, is not allowed.  (      )
A. is seating B. has been seated
C. is seated D. seats
18. Language is not ______ throughout the country but falls into dialects. (      )
A. constant B. uniform
C. steady D. steadfast
19. At that time they did hope to create a new world they had dreamed of, ______ of all human sins. (      )
A. cleanse（使清除） B. cleansed
C. had cleansed D. cleansing
20. She hopes to ______ her artistic talents in the job. (      )
A. apply B. utilize
C. employ D. avail
Directions B: There are 20 sentences in this section. In each sentence there is a word or phrase underlined. Below each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that can replace the underlined part of each sentence without changing its original meaning.
21. With time going by, the rocks decompose and then become sand to continue to exist. (      )
A. decay B. molder
C. form D. disintegrate
22. Mary is so careful about her weight that she doesn’t eat staple food at all. (      )
A. sensible B. sensational
C. senseless D. sensitive
23. He is advised not to watch TV for more than 4 hours a day. Otherwise, it would be a strain on his eyes. (      )
A. hurt B. tension
C. stress D. burden
24. Do not be deceived by what he has said this time. (      )
A. taken in B. taken over
C. taken after D. taken on
25. They suggested that we should leave a separate room for smokers. (      )
A. reserve B. conserve
C. maintain D. preserve
26. This attracted the attention of Richard Humphries who was then the most eminent boxer in England. (      )
A. qualified B. humorous
C. infamous D. famous
27. He expressed criticism on the new style of writing which is now quite popular on the Internet in his latest paper. (      )
A. blame B. denunciation
C. evaluation D. accusation
28. Every time when she tried to move her body, she let out a moan in pain. (      )
A. wail (哀号) B. whimper (呜咽)
C. groan D. weep
29. As we all know, thick forests are the natural habitat for birds, animals and insects, and we must forbid cutting trees without any limitation. (      )
A. home B. resort
C. residence D. refuge
30. Even though the government denied it but what the spokesman said is a clear indication that the government will sooner or later collect this kind of tax. (      )
A. symptom B. symbol
C. demonstration D. signal
31. What can destine (命中注定) him to such a terrible lot, when his soul is dead and his body is alive? (      )
A. foredoom B. foretell
C. forecast D. foretaste
32. Today’s low inflation and steady growth in household income translates into more purchasing power. (      )
A. changes  B. transfers
C. transplants D. transmits
33. The journalist refused to reveal the source of her information. (      )
A. report B. disclose
C. publish D. betray
34. Comparison and contrast are often used intentionally in advertisements. (      )
A. purposefully B. pertinently
C. incidentally D. overwhelmingly
35. These ancient buildings are part of our national legacy which, of course, should be protected. (      )
A. privacy B. heritage
C. legend D. property
36. My father always hopes that I could mingle with his friends’ children but I prefer to stay alone. (      )
A. reject B. merge
C. complain D. combine
37. With the fast development and expansion of cities, the outlying suburbs of which become prosperous, too. (      )
A. exterior B. external
C. outer D. outside
38. I am sorry I have no time at present to probe into more detail or give you an account of the incident. (      )
A. bring into B. talk into
C. come into D. go into
39. This type of apparatus can produce more than 40,000 blood specimen a day. (      )
A. examples B. models
C. operations  D. samples
40. Smith did the only sensible thing by asking the Indians for food and shelter in their village. (      )
A. sensitive B. sentimental
C. wise D. separate
Part II Cloze (10%)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank th