2010年10月基础英语自考试题

全国2010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。
1. The current investment _____ in our country are favorable, so a lot of foreign investors have come.
 A. conditions  B. weather  
 C. situation  D. state
2. I _____ it for granted that we should have a pay raise.
 A. take  B. think  
 C. make  D. ask
3. This house has _____hands three times this year.
 A. shaken  B. changed  
C. made  D. offered
4. He can not _____ to buy such an expensive car.
 A. spend  B. waste  
 C. afford  D. acquire
5. By _____ of taxation, we pay for things that we need just as much as we need something to eat.
 A. means  B. mean  
 C. ways  D. method
6. He told me that he had been offered a wellpaid _____ abroad.
 A. employment  B. work  
 C. service  D. job
7. We have to raise our prices because of the increase in the cost of _____ materials.
 A. primitive  B. rough  
 C. original  D. raw
8. Violent programs on television may have a bad _____ on children.
 A. affect  B. effort  
 C. effect  D. control
9. A _____ is the place where ships from other countries can unload goods for trade, storage, processing, or transfer to another ship.
 A. building  B. port  
 C. warehouse  D. storage
10. A new system of quality control was _____ to improve the firm’s products.
 A. invested  B. published  
 C. introduced  D. displayed
11. Our manager spends a large _____ of time each day on the telephone.
 A. amount  B. moment  
 C. period  D. number
12. When the exporter arranges shipment through a forwarding agent, the agent _____ the whole transaction.
 A. handles  B. does  
 C. manages  D. makes
13. Our income can only _____ our expenses, so we have no extra money to have a holiday.
 A. afford  B. spend  
 C. support  D. cover
14. When making an investment, you have to take a lot of factors into _____.
 A. considering  B. account  
 C. accountant  D. count
15. The development of science and technology _____ a change in our life.
 A. brought about  B. brought up  
 C. brought forward  D. brought out
(二)语法结构(15分)
选择最佳答案完成句子。
16. The city is _____ most densely populated in China.
 A. sixth  B. six  
 C. the six  D. the sixth
17. It _____ that a businessman is only interested in making profits.
 A. is generally supposed  B. generally supposes
 C. generally is supposed  D. supposed generally
18. These stripes _____ by a computer.
 A. can read  B. can be read
 C. read  D. is read
19. He didn’t come back _____ it was dark.
 A. until  B. that  
 C. as soon as  D. where
20. We all know automatic machines cannot do all _____ man does.
 A. when  B. if  
 C. what  D. that
21. The house is very nice _____.
 A. living  B. live  
 C. to live  D. to live in
22. What he lacks is courage, _____?
 A. isn’t it  B. isn’t he  
 C. is it  D. is he
23. The dancer and teacher who _____ giving performance now _____ my sister.
 A. is, are  B. is, is  
 C. are, are  D. are, is
24. I have never seen such a spelling, it _____ a mistake.
 A. can be  B. will be  
 C. need be  D. must be
 25. Not until the year of 1966 _____ made the capital of this province.
 A. the city was  B. when the city was
 C. was the city  D. when was the city
 26. This computerized system will probably save _____ of the checkout clerk’s time.
 A. as much as 45 percent  B. 45 percent as much as
 C. as much 45 percent as  D. as many as 45 percent
 27. As fuel price rose, bus companies raised their fares and _____.
 A. so did the airlines  B. so the airlines did
 C. nor did the airlines  D. nor the airlines did
 28. Britain trades _____ many European countries.
 A. in  B. with  
 C. at  D. on
29. By the end of this century, air pollution _____ a serious problem that endangers the health of the human race.
 A. will have become  B. becomes
 C. will become  D. has become
30. It is cheaper to throw the cars away than _____ them.
 A. to repair  B. repair
C. repairing  D. repaired

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. When overall exports exceed imports, a country said to have a trade surplus.
A        B                   C            D
32. Unemployment is expected to affect an estimating twenty thousand people this year,
A                 B
equivalent to some three percent of the labor force.
C       D
33. The police claim that their relationship with the public are getting better, but it is not true.
A                          B     C                     D
34. All the people got off the train and walked toward the stairs lead to the street.
A         B                     C             D
35. Without taxation, it would be impossible to pay the soldiers and policemen who protects us.
A        B                                   C           D
36. A bank need not keep its excess reserves in it, but can use them by its discretion.
A             B                     C   D
37. At that hour of the morning, a train came into the station every a few minutes.
A              B              C