2012年4月综合英语（一）自考试题

 

I．语法和词汇。从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并填在答题纸相应的位置。错选、多选或未选均无分。(本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分)
1. This camera is so easy to use; _____ a child could take good pictures with it.
A. yet B. even
C. but D. since
2. _____ of the figures seems correct. Would you check them carefully?
A. Neither B. Both
C. Either D. All
3. He had hardly left the building _____ the bomb exploded.
A. than B. before
C. when D. after
4. They have different views on the comment- _____ the daughter sees it as criticism, the mother takes it as praise.
A. why B. how
C. where D. if
5. This plan probably won’t work either- but you must do _____ to help her.
A. a thing B. something
C. things D. nothing
6. I would rather you _____ this to him yourself. When I tried to speak to him last time, he didn’t listen.
A. say B. will say
C. said D. would say
7. For most people, common cold is a mild illness _____ they will quickly recover.
A. over that B. over which
C. from that D. from which
8. We definitely are not the perfect couple, _____ we don’t pretend to be so.
A. and B. or
C. for D. because
9. Could you please tell me where _____ find Professor Smith? His wife has just called his office.
A. I can B. can I
C. would I D. I would
10. Everything _____ very different if your father were alive.
A. is B. will be
C. was D. would be
11. _____ would be wonderful to be able to meet the famous movie star in person.
A. It B. That
C. There D. This
12. When I entered the room, I saw him _____ in a front seat staring at a picture in a strange way.
A. to sit B. is sitting
C. sat D. sitting
13. Not only _____ about the food, but he also refused to pay for it.
A. he complained B. did he complain
C. he had complained D. he did complain
14. I am not very good _____ maths. Would you please work out the total cost of our trip?
A. in B. for
C. on D. at
15. It took them a long time to _____ the fire because of the strong wind.
A. put off B. take off
C. put out D. take out
16. Things will settle down as time goes by. They’ll never be the same, _____.
A. instead B. yet
C. though D. too
17. I _____ her my bicycle last month, but she has not returned it yet.
A. borrowed B. sent
C. gave D. lent
18. — I swam a kilometer today.
— Well _____ ！ You must be very fit.
A. made B. done
C. worked D. kept
19. Clearly it is with great _____ that he admitted his mistakes in public.
A. reward B. response
C. request D. reluctance
20. The man _____ laughing at the idea of an invasion bringing about democracy.
A. burst out B. burst into
C. turned out D. turned into

II．阅读理解。认真阅读下列两篇短文，根据短文的内容从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并填在答题纸相应的位置上。错选、多选或未选均无分。（本大题共10小题，每小题2分，共20分）
Passage 1
Shortly after the war, my brother and I were invited to spend a few days with an uncle who had just returned from abroad. He had rented a cottage in the country, although he rarely spent much time there. We understood the reason for this after our arrival: the cottage had no comfortable furniture in it, many of the windows were broken and the roof leaked, making the whole house damp.
On our first evening, we sat around the fire after supper listening to the stories which our uncle had to tell of his many adventures in distant countries. I was so tired after the long train journey that I would have preferred to go to bed; but I could not bear to miss any of my uncle’s exciting tales. 
He was just in the middle of describing a rather terrifying experience he had once had when there was a loud crash from the bedroom above, the one where my brother and I were going to sleep.
“It sounds as if the roof has fallen in!” exclaimed my uncle, with a loud laugh.
When we got to the top of the stairs and opened the bedroom door, we could see nothing at first because of the thick clouds of dust which filled the room. When the dust began to clear, a strange sight met our eyes. A large part of the ceiling had collapsed, falling right on to the pillow of my bed. I was glad that I had stayed up late to listen to my uncle’s stories, otherwise I should certainly have been seriously injured, perhaps killed.
That night we all slept on the floor to the sitting room downstairs, not wishing to risk our lives by sleeping under a roof which might at any moment collapse on our heads. We left for London the very next morning and my uncle gave up his cottage in the country. This was not the kind of adventure he cared for either!
21. The uncle seldom spent much time in the country cottage because ______.
A. the roof of the cottage was falling B. the cottage was in a bad condition
C. he was used to living abroad D. there was no furniture in it
22. The word “crash” (Line 2, Paragraph 3) most probably refers to ______.
A. a cry of terror B. a sudden ring
C. a sound of storm D. a sudden noise
23. When they opened the bedroom door, they could see nothing at first because ______.
A. it was completely dark inside B. dust was blown into their eyes
C. something strange blinded them D. there was too much dust in the air
24. The narrator felt glad that he had stayed up late because ______.
A. he did not miss the exciting stories B. he spent more time with his uncle
C. he had a lucky escape D. he saw a strange sight
25. Which of the following can best describe the narrator’s uncle?
A. Adventurous and good at storytelling. B. Humorous and good at making jokes.
C. Good-tempered and sensible. D. Hospitable and wealthy.
Passage 2
You might ask, what is Chinglish, anyway? It depends on whom you ask. Chinese parents raising their children in English-speaking countries will probably answer: Chinglish is a useful mix of standard Chinese or Cantonese terms with day-to-day English. It is indeed convenient to shorten a sentence such as “I don’t want to go now because it is too hot and it will be hard to find a parking lot anyway” into “Don’t go la, hot la, tai mafan la.” For the Chinese high-school teacher, Chinglish is the students’ unsuccessful attempts to understand English in a Chinese way, resulting in sentences such as “Please hurry to walk or we’ll be late” or “She is very miserable and her heart broke.” However, the English-speaking traveler more frequently comes across Chinglish in the form of public signs. No matter how one looks at the phenomenon, one thing is clear: Chinglish is not a language. 
Chinglish might be found, according to some scholars, in Chinese Pidgin (混杂语) English, which came to life in the eighteenth century when the British set up their first trading posts in Guangzhou. The term came from the word “business” and served, according to the great Yale China scholar Jonathan Spencer, “to keep the differing communities in touch, by mixing words from Portuguese, Indian, English, and various Chinese dialects, and spelling them according to Chinese grammar.” Some believe that expressions like “Long time no see” or “No can do” appeared during that time. Others refer to the late Qing-Dynasty Empress Dowager Cixi, who forced Chinese villagers to live and work in the West in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Another possibility is the so-call