2009年10月基础英语自考试题

全国2009年10月自考
基础英语试题
课程代码：00088

一、词汇应用和语法结构（本大题共30小题，每小题1分，共30分）
（一）词汇应用（15分）
选择最佳答案完成句子，错选、多选或未选均无分。
1. Both import and export trades can produce _____ effects on the home market.
A. beneficial  B. below
C. benefit  D. beyond
2. This watch is very complicated indeed. Once taken _____, it can hardly be put together again.
A. loose  B. apart
C. improperly  D. separately
3. All life on the earth _____ on the sun.
A. depends  B. carries
C. keeps  D. goes
4. There are many _____ of selling manufactured goods to foreign buyers.
A. systems  B. ways
C. directions  D. roads
5. Those who are _____ in marketing activities are all considered marketing employees.
A. included  B. interested
C. involved  D. informed
6. Mary borrowed a large _____ of money from her grandfather when she started her business.
A. deal  B. number
C. quantity  D. sum
7. How much does he _____ for this house?
A. ask  B. require
C. demand  D. charge
8. When people are free to compete, everyone _____.
A. benefits  B. profits
C. promotes  D. develops
9. China is striving to develop her _____.
A. economic  B. economical
C. economics  D. economy
10. Steel is _____ from iron which contains a certain amount of carbon.
A. composed  B. consisted
C. made  D. produced
11. A country sets up a free port to _____ foreign merchants to trade.
A. force  B. push
C. urge  D. encourage
12. We trust that our product is attractive enough in _____ of both quality and price.
A. terms  B. means
C. series  D. ways
13. They tried to _____ the damages after the car accident.
A. assess  B. decide
C. determine  D. value
14. Like every business, insurance companies try to _____certain risks.
A. clear  B. remove
C. avoid  D. lose
15. The _____ of trucks include flexibility, fast service, and dependability.
A. profits  B. advantages
C. benefits  D. gains
（二）语法结构（15分）
选择最佳答案完成句子，错选、多选或未选均无分。
16. The International Monetary Fund has done a lot _____ the exchange rate.
A. stabilize  B. to stabilize
C. stabilizing  D. have stabilized
17. It’s still not decided _____ we are going for the holiday.
A. where  B. that
C. which  D. who
18. It seems oil _____ from this pipe for some time. We’ll have to check it up.
A. had leaked  B. is leaking
C. leaked  D. has been leaking
19. You _____ all these calculations! We have a computer to do that sort of thing.
A. needn’t have done  B. must not have done
C. shouldn’t be doing  D. can not have done
20. Our boss proposed that work _____ in three days.
A. starts  B. start
C. will start  D. to start
21. The source of income _____ he could count stopped all of a sudden.
A. for that  B. for which
C. on that  D. on which
22. No sooner _____ the top of the hill than we all sat down to rest.
A. we reached  B. had we reached
C. did we reach  D. were we reaching
23. Turn on the television or open a magazine and you _____ advertisements.
A. are often seeing  B. will often see
C. often sees  D. have often seen
24. The foreign visitors said that they wouldn’t mind _____ for the night.
A. having a hard bed  B. have a hard bed
C. to have a hard bed  D. they had a hard bed
25. The goods will be shipped this afternoon _____ it rains.
A. until  B. till
C. if  D. unless
26. We’d better not _____ through that field. There’s a sign saying “Private Property”.
A. walk  B. to walk
C. walking  D. walked
27. We were awfully late and everyone turned their eyes to us, which was very _____.
A. embarrassing  B. embarrassed
C. being embarrassing  D. being embarrassed
28. He is said _____ five trips to Beijing in the last ten years.
A. to make  B. to have made
C. to have been making  D. to be making
29. He gave up _____ on medical advice.
A. drinking  B. to drink
C. drink  D. to be drinking
30. I seized him _____ the arm.
A. to  B. on
C. with  D. by

二、改错（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
下面句子中有 A,B,C,D四个划底线部分，其中有一个是错误的，选出错误部分的字母，无需改正错误。
31. People liked these facial tissues immediately and begin asking for them when they went into
A                        B            C                D
different stores.
32. Overcrowding in large cities, traffic jams and competition for jobs may be stress.
 A       B                  C             D
33. The number printing below the vertical bars identifies the manufacturer and the anufacturer’s
A              B              C                        D
item.
34. You must have noticed that the average person does not give their undivided attention to
A                B                     C
someone he has just met.
D
35. But no matter what frightening it may be to visit a steel mill, we see steel in use all around us.
A             B                       C                D
36. When travel and exploration became widespread, but especially when ships were  able to sail
A             B                               C
 far out on the Atlantic, the vision of a flat earth had to change.                             
                                        D
37. The United States Congress passed the Foreign Trade Zones Act in 1934, permit foreign trade
A