2011年10月综合英语(二)自考试题

全国2011年10月自考
 综合英语(二)试题
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I. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
 Complete each of the following 15 sentences with the most likely answer. Write the letter corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet. (1 point each, 15 points in all)
1. The English verb system has a ______ complicated tense system than some other languages.
A. very  B. more
C. rather  D. most
2. At their next wedding anniversary, Tom and Sally ______ for twenty-five years.
A. will get married  B. will have married
C. will be getting married  D. will have been married
3. The student band gave an excellent performance at the celebration, but there were only two teachers present. I wish more teachers ______ the play.
A. have seen  B. were about to see
C. would see  D. could have seen
4. Under ______ circumstances will latecomers be admitted to the conference.
 A. no  B. any
 C. all  D. some
5. I know this is the fight train. The ticket agent said it would be on ______.
 A. Track Two  B. the Two Track
 C. Second Track  D. the Track Second
6. John is an excellent boss ______ he is looked up to by all of his employees.
 A. but  B. and
 C. while  D. or
7. We don’t really know who broke ______ Tommy’s house last night.
 A. out  B. down
 C. into  D. through
8. The course normally attracts 50 students per year, ______ up to half are from overseas.
 A. of them  B. of whom
 C. of those  D. of which
9. John strongly disagreed with the arbitrary ______ made by the board of directors, so he resigned from the board.
 A. permission  B. conclusion
 C. discussion  D. decision
10. As soon as the conference was over, all the participants went back to their ______ workplaces.
 A. relative  B. selective
 C. perspective  D. respective
11. You can’t leave your daughter home ______ because she is only six years old.
 A. alone  B. single
 C. lonely  D. separate
12. It is my own ______ if I am cheated by the same man twice.
 A. guilt  B. error
 C. fault  D. defect
13. The outdoor celebration has been ______ till next week due to the awful weather.
 A. put off  B. pulled off
 C. shut off  D. turned off
14. Neither Cathy nor Susan replied. Linda was angry and ______ at them both for not answering her question.
 A. glanced  B. gazed
 C. glimpsed  D. glared
15. In a job interview, it is ______ necessary for an applicant to prepare for some questions relevant to his or her career plan.
 A. openly  B. noticeably
 C. visibly  D. obviously

 II. CLOZE
Fill in each of the 15 blanks in the passage with the most likely answer. Write the letter corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet. (1 point each, 15 points in all)
Babies love a beat, according to a new study that found dancing comes naturally to infants. The research showed babies respond to the rhythm of   16  , and find it more interesting than speech. The findings, based   17  a study of 120 infants between five months and two years old, suggest that humans may be born with a   18  to move rhythmically in response to music. Researchers find that it is the beat   19  other features of the music, such as the melody,   20   produces the response in infants. They   21   found that the better the children’s movements were able to coincide with the music, the more they smiled.
To test babies’ reaction to music, the researchers   22   recordings of classical music, rhythmic beats and speech to infants, and videotaped the   23   In addition, they recruited professional ballet dancers to analyze how well the babies   24  their movements to the music. During the experiments, each baby was sitting on a parent’s lap. The adults had   25   on to make sure they couldn’t hear the music, and they were   26   not to move. The researchers found the babies moved their arms, hands, legs, feet and heads in response to the music,   27   than to speech.
 It   28  to be understood why humans have developed this   29   reaction. One possibility is that it was a target of natural selection for music or that it has evolved for   30  function that just happens to be relevant to music processing. Though the ability appears to be innate in humans, the researchers aren’t sure why it evolved.
16. A. voice  B. movement  C. music  D. dance
17. A. in  B. on  C. at  D. to
18. A. custom  B. character  C. tendency  D. behaviour
19. A. rather than  B. other than  C. more than  D. less than
20. A. what  B. which  C. it  D. that
21. A. still  B. also  C. just  D. only
22. A. composed  B. performed  C. played  D. set
23. A. consequences  B. results  C. information  D. data
24. A. suited  B. directed  C. balanced  D. matched
25. A. headphones  B. masks  C. microphones  D. glasses
26. A. controlled  B. instructed  C. limited  D. confined
27. A. much more  B. much fewer  C. no more  D. no less
28. A. keeps  B. leaves  C. stays  D. remains
29. A. certain  B. particular  C. unusual  D. characteristic
30. A. some other  B. the other  C. one another  D. each other

III. PARAPHRASING
Choose the closest paraphrased version after each of the following sentences or the italicized part. Write the letter corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet. (1 point each, 10 points in all)
31. We want every minute to count.
A. The minute is the basic unit of our lifetime.
B. Every minute should be precisely measured.
C. We want to make use of every minute effectively.
D. Everyone should be aware of the limit of his lifetime.
32. Culture shock is caused by the anxiety that results from losing all our familiar  signs and symbols of social intercourse.
 A. that may lead people to misunderstand the unfamiliar behaviour.
 B. that may make people feel lost in a completely new environment.
 C. people have when they are not used to the new ways of communication.
 D. people have when they do not know the rules and laws in a new place.
33. This washwoman, small and thin as she was, possessed a strength that came from generations of peasant ancestors.
 A. Unlike her peasant ancestors, this small thin washwoman was born strong.
B. This washwoman, like her peasant ancestors, was small and thin but strong.
 C. With the strength from her peasant ancestors, the washwoman was still small and thin.
D. The washwoman was small and thin, but she inherited the strength of her peasant ancestors.
34. Kaz Tanaka had wakened in a frightening new world—a world whose dominant sound was a silence broken only by the cries of the dying.
 A. …a silent world where one could do nothing but make dying cries.
 B. …a soundless world in which no one dared t