2011年10月综合英语（一）自考试题

全国2011年10月自考
综合英语(一)试题
课程代码：00794

请将答案填在答题纸相应位置上
I．用适当语法形式或词汇填空。从A、B、C和D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，写在
   答题纸相应的位置上。(本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分)
1. I got to the airport only to find that the plane had left______.
 A. for ten minutes  B. since ten minutes ago
 C. ten minutes  D. ten minutes before
2. The committee for local development asked that the highway______ alongside the railway.
 A. be built  B. must build
 C. should build  D. will be built
3. John worked for more than ten years in a high school ______ the university.
 A. attach to  B. be attached to
 C. attached to  D. attaching to
4. Scarcely had Mary closed the door ______ heard the telephone ring.
 A. when  B. after
 C. then  D. if
5. I have always regretted ______ studied harder at school.
 A. not to have  B. not having
 C. to have not  D. having not
6. Tom, ______ he had done, could at first say nothing.
 A. horrified by that  B. horrifying by that
 C. horrified by what  D. horrifying by what
7. Jack said he ______ his teacher that he won the first place in the English speech contest.
 A. owed it to  B. owed
 C. owed to it  D. owed to
8. ______ , Bob’s lecture offers much background information beyond the textbook.
 A. As it is short  B. As short as it is
 C. Short it is  D. Short as it is

9. Cynthia was not well adapted to the life in the remote village, ______ there were so few distractions.
 A. what  B. which
 C. where  D. why
10. He was out of practice for two months. Now he must work harder and ______  the lost time.
 A. put up with  B. add up to
 C. go in for  D. make up for
11. According to some social scientists, teenage girls who become pregnant are more ______ to drop out of school than those who don’t.
 A. like  B. possible
 C. possibly  D. likely
12. He took the medicine but it didn’t have the expected ______ .
 A. answer  B. result
 C. effect  D. affect
13. The teachers took great ______ to make their lessons easy and interesting for their pupils.
 A. efforts  B. pains
 C. work  D. responsibility
14. He took a quick glance through the ______ of the small suitcase on the seat.
 A. contents  B. contexts
 C. objects  D. subjects
15. ______ their high sense of responsibility and experience, they wouldn’t have completed the project ahead of schedule.
 A. On account of  B. In spite of
 C. But for  D. Due to 
16. ______ having names, the roads in New York are numbered and the higher the number, the further north and “up” in the city you are.
 A. Because of  B. Instead of
 C. Despite  D. Besides

17. If we learn to see what we have to offer one another, then we can ______ our misunderstandings and work towards peace.
 A. set out  B. set aside
 C. set off  D. set down
18. ______ on the hilltop, a beautiful scene lay before me.
 A. Standing  B. As standing
 C. I stood  D. As I stood
19. The death of her son in a car accident was a big blow to her. She just couldn’t ______ it.
 A. get over  B. get rid of
 C. get through  D. get away with
20. Since you need the book badly, you might ______ buy a copy though it is expensive.
 A. as well as  B. much as well
 C. as good as  D. just as well

II．认真阅读下面两篇短文，每篇短文后有五个问题。根据短文的内容从四个选项中选择一个最佳答案，写在答题纸相应的位置上。(本大题共1 O小题，每小题2分，共 20分)
Passage 1
 Agnes Miller was one of the earliest leaders of the women’s liberation movement in the United States. She was born on a farm in Missouri in 1892. She had a very happy life as a child. She was the only daughter and the youngest child of five. Her parents and her brothers always treated her as their favorite.
 In 1896, the family moved to Chicago. Three years later they moved back to St. Louis where Agnes spent the rest of her childhood. She enjoyed her years in school and was an outstanding student of mathematics. She was also quite skillful as a painter.
 It was when Agnes went off to college that she first became aware that women were not treated as equals. She didn’t like being treated unequally but she tried not to notice it. After graduating from college she tried to get a job in her major field-physics. She soon found it was almost impossible for a woman.
 It took Agnes a full year to look for a job. Finally she gave up in anger. She began writing letters of protest to various newspapers. An editor in New York liked her ideas very much. He specially liked her style. He asked her to do a series of stories on the difficulties women had in finding a job.
 She traveled to several large cities to write stories about them. Her articles began to appear in more and more newspapers. She decided to write a book in support of women’s liberation. The book became a bestseller. She also began to write detective stories and published several books of poetry. But it was her work on equal rights for women that provided most of her income. Although she never saw full equal rights for women, she never gave up her fight. And she showed many other women the way to continue the fight.
21. How many children did Mr. and Mrs. Miller have?
 A. Only one.  B. Four.
 C. Five.  D. Six.
22. When did Agnes Miller’s family moved back to St. Louis?
 A. In 1892.  B. In 1893.
 C. In 1896.  D. In 1899.
23. What subjects was Agnes Miller good at when she was in school?
 A. Physics and painting.  B. Mathematics and painting.
 C. Writing and mathematics.  D. Physics and writing.
24. What did Agnes Miller realize when she was in college?
 A. Men and women were unequal.
 B. It was impossible for a woman to be a scientist.
 C. She could become a leader of women’s liberation.
 D. She would not find a job after graduating from college.
 25. According to last paragraph, Agnes Miller ______.
 A. became rich because of her work on equal rights
 B. did a lot of writing to support women’s liberation
 C. succeeded in her fight for equal rights for women
 D. also wrote detective stories and poetry
Passage 2
 Jogging has become the most popular individual sport in USA. It has become commonplace to see people of all ages running along city streets, in parks and along special jogger’s trails that have been built in some cities. Many theories, even some mystical ones, have been advanced to explain the popularity of jogging. The plain truth is that jogging is a cheap, quick, and efficient way to maintain physical fitness.
 The most useful sort of exercise is exercise that develops the heart, lungs, and circulatory systems. If these systems are fit, the body is ready for almost any sport and for almost any sudden demand made by work or emergen