2012年高等教育自学考试英语(二)冲刺模拟试卷(1)

他的成功与其说是由于机遇, 不如说是由于努力。

What is a good education? Is it one that covers as much as possible of human history and achievements, past and present? Or ode that gives graduates the ability to find employment promptly when they leave school? Is it a broad education or a specialized one? Should it provide students with a vast collection of facts, or merely train them to think? Should a future engineer gain only the knowledge that will enable him to do his job properly, or would a richer background improve his professional ability as well as his personal life? The debate goes on and on, with good arguments on both sides.

In the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. the question was not even worth asking. A good education was, of course, a broad one based on the humanities. An educated man knew “something about everything”. He was familiar with the great deeds and the great ideas of the past. He had read extensively；he was able to use his own language correctly and often elegantly. He could join in any conversation about plants, planets, painters, or politics. He was at ease in the world, and he knew that his education would open to him any career that he might want to try. Even if he was mostly interested in literature, he had some knowledge of the sciences and the techniques of his time。

据估计, 在英国工作的外籍家庭佣人有两万多人。

不用说, 我们现在已不是生活在传统社会。

电脑时代的人类如同以往, 依然面临一个基本问题。

有时, 决策的疏漏不会造成严重的后果, 但有时后果却不堪设想。

The robots are used to prevent human personnel from______(expose)to radiation.

Whether a job is______(classify)as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it.

The sad condition of women working as domestics around the world received much media attention earlier this year in several______(high)publicized cases.

In 1992, Clinton won in States that gave him an______(overwhelm)370 electoral votes. compared with 168 for Bush and none for Perot.