2012年10月基础英语自考试题

全国2012年10月基础英语自考试题

请考生按规定用笔将所有试题的答案涂、写在答题纸上。
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注意事项：
1. 答题前，考生务必将自己的考试课程名称、姓名、准考证号用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔填写在答题纸规定的位置上。
2. 每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在试题卷上。

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. He is most ______ to succeed.
A. possibly  B. likely
C. probably  D. surely
2. If a foreign merchant must pay a tax on his goods，he must ______ more for them.
A. pay  B. charge
C. ask  D. demand
3. The free-port idea ______ in ancient times in the Middle East.
A. originated  B. produced
C. came  D. invented
4. Many people ______ on while the two men fought.
A. let  B. looked
C. passed  D. sat
5. Supplies of this commodity greatly  ______ demand.
A. cheat  B. lack
C. exceed  D. lag
6. They  ______ us to get a return ticket.
A. advised  B. wished
C. offered  D. suggested
7. The world has  ______ great changes in the last two decades.
A. inexperienced  B. formed
C. informed  D. experienced
8. Insurers do not have to  ______ the damages if a policyholder deliberately sets fire to an office building.
A. cover  B. include
C. involve  D. contain
9. In 1992  ______，the factory saved 200，000 RMB for our country.
A. alone  B. lonely
C. still  D. whole
10. Scientific discoveries are often applied  ______ industrial production methods.
A. to  B. above
C. at  D. from
11. Science and technology is the first productive force，and scientific research is the  ______ of modern industrial research.
A. backdoor  B. back
C. door  D. backbone
12. Although we had expected them to take a taxi，our relatives arrived by a  ______ car.
A. own  B. peculiar
C. private  D. special
13. The young teacher is becoming more and more popular among the students because of his  ______ of humor.
A. skill  B. feelings
C. principle  D. sense
14. I  ______  some money from the bank to buy a new coat.
A. deposit  B. lend
C. withdraw  D. take
15. A small cut in the prices will create a(n)  ______ for buying.
A. hope  B. desire
C. expectation  D. plan

（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. We consider it necessary that a plan  ______ in advance.
A. be made  B. to be made
C. should make  D. will be made
17. Some people prefer classical music，but  ______ prefer rock music.
A. others  B. other
C. another  D. the others
18. He graduated from the university in 1995，  ______.
A. so I did  B. I did so
C. did so I  D. so did I
19.  ______ his wealth，our boss is not very happy.
A. But  B. Besides
C. In spite of  D. Despite of
20. She continued her experiment  ______ nothing had happened.
A. as so  B. as if
C. only if  D. if as
21. The days  ______ you could travel without a passport are a thing of the past.
A. which  B. in which
C. when  D. at which
22. On reaching home I discovered that I  ______ my keys at the office.
A. left  B. have left
C. was left  D. had left
23. The students  ______ hand in their homework by Saturday.
A. require to  B. require to themselves to
C. required to  D. are required to
24. All substances，  ______ solids，liquids or gases，are composed entirely of atoms.
A. whether  B. nevertheless
C. despite  D. whatever
25. Frightened，the policeman didn’t report   ______ .
A. what he has seen  B. what had he seen
C. what did he see  D. what he had seen
26. We  ______  our country into a modern one in the near future.
A. turn  B. turns
C. will turn  D. have turned
27. There hasn’t been any rain  ______ .
A. two months ago  B. since two months
C. in the past two months  D. two months before
28. It was announced that the goals of  ______ had been achieved.
A. the five-years plan  B. five-years plan
C. the five-year plan  D. five-year plan
29. The committee  ______ made up of twenty members. 
A. are  B. is
C. be  D. were
30. A lot of people believe that ______ fifty percent of the doctors in the countryside are not qualified.
A. as much as  B. as long as
C. as big as  D. as many as

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.   foreign visitors  were    to the industrial exhibition,   they   many new products.
32.    the adoption of mass-production  ，more and more     put on the market.
33.   the reasons   decisions   things   a better shopper.
34.   materials can help you     the article，so you   them carefully.
35. The six      in   soon after our country  .
36. I was       the angry look  .
37. We were   late.    theatre when the performance  .
38. It is this   wastefulness   has got us   the mess   in now.
39. Because there was   demand   the product，manufacturers   tissues in   quantities.
40. The store clerk   need to   time   the price  .

三、完形填空（本大题共15小题，每小题1分，共15分）
选择最佳答案完成句子，错选、多选或未选均无分。
 All life is sound. We are constantly surrounded by sounds and noises made by nature and everything in   41  . For thousands of years man   42   speaking and singing，and thanks to his wonderfully constructed ears，perceiving sounds and noises，  43   they are but a small part of the inconceivable(难以想象的)wealth of sounds filling the universe.  Children everywhere and almost without  44   are born with musical abilities，with voices，and with hearing. The difference lies merely   45   what they do with these gifts. That   46   according to temperament，upbringing，nationality，and time.
Nature itself is full of   47  ，full of music. Musical sounds existed millions of years   48   there was a human ear to hear   49  ：the soft bubbling of the water，the roll(隆隆声)of   50  ，the whispering and rustling of leaves in the wind and   51   knows how many other audible(听得见的)manifestations of nature. Man was  52  into a world of sound.  Thunder filled him with fear and became a   53   of supernatural powers. In the roar of the wind he heard the voice