2012年高等教育自学考试英语(二)冲刺模拟试卷(3)

历史上许多科学家与发明家曾充分利用白日梦。

But your own books belong to you；you treat them with that affectionate intimacy that annihilates(歼灭；消灭)formality. Books are for use，not for show；you should own no book that you are afraid to mark up，or afraid to place on the table，wide open and face down. A good reason for marking favorite passages in books is that this practice enables you to remember more easily the significant sayings，to refer to them quickly，and then in later years，it is like visiting a forest where you once blazed(在树上做标记)a trail. You have the pleasure of going over the old ground，and recalling both the intellectual scenery and your own earlier self.

一个社会的人口增长率越接近零，它的人口就可能越老龄。

只是在近几年天文学家才开始具体研究黑洞。

她说在伦敦她干活的家里，她觉得就像个奴隶。

人的一生如果没有想象和梦幻，他的一生将是十分贫乏的。

It would be completely irresponsible and unethical to use drugs on people that______(not test)thoroughly on animals.

We know that we are getting even older，and that the______(near)a society approximates to zero population growth，the older its population is likely to be.

Although managers cannot predict the future，many of their decisions require that they______(consider)possible future events.

______(affect)with a serious disease，Van Wendel was no longer able to speak clearly and he knew there was no hope of recovery.

Electronic brains can reduce the profusion of dead ends______(involve)in vital research.

How does it happen that the two-party system is so strongly______(root)in American politics?

Technology and the division of labor have made a very large number of______(pay)occupations which formerly were enjoyable work into boring labor.

Other engineers are writing new programs allowing robots to make decisions such as whether to discard______(defect)parts in finished products.

Understand what Jet Lag is，and how a careful diet can minimize its worst effect，and your flights will be less______(stress).

最终的 a. e_ _ _ _ _ _ _

______(make)sure that holidays and pay are not the first things you ask about.

代替；替换 vt. r_ _ _ _ _ _

投资 n. i_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

细胞 n. c_ _ _

性格 n. c_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

成功的 a. s_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

画家 n. P_ _ _ _ _ _

跳跃 vi. & vt. l_ _ _

体力的 a. m_ _ _ _ _

拥有 vt. P_ _ _ _ _ _

延长 vt. P_ _ _ _ _ _

坚持 vi. P_ _ _ _ _ _

路线 n. r_ _ _ _

信心 n. c_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

商人 n. m_ _ _ _ _ _ _

令人心碎的 a. h_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

执照 n. d_ _ _ _ _ _

使活动 vt. a_ _ _ _ _ _ _

分开 n. s_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

微型的 a. m_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Which of the following statements is NOT mentioned in the passage?

The present campaigns that doctors have begun are______.

Why does the World Health Organization give help to national governments to wipe out malaria?

Millions of people are in danger of getting malaria because______.

Passage Three

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.

One of the most exciting races ever run is now in progress between doctors fighting malaria(疟疾)and mosquitoes. According to the most recent counts 225 million people a year suffer attacks of malaria and more than two million die. Public health workers around the world are doing all t11ev can to destroy malaria before the mosquitoes that pass on the disease become resistant to the poisons now used against them. It's a race against time and against difficulties，with millions of lives in danger and the chances of winning not in man's favour.

Malaria，it is true，has been practically wiped out in thirteen countries. including the United States，and is under attack in many others. But it is equally true that in some parts of the world certain types of malaria-carrying mosquitoes have already learned to resist some of the sprays that formerly killed them. Other types of mosquitoes are not killed as quickly by present sprays as they once were.

The World Health Organization is helping national governments to get rid of malaria before resistance among the mosquito population becomes so great that new poisons will have to be found to replace those in use at present. Most of the countries in the world have started，or are planning，campaigns against mosquitoes. If the race against resistance is won by man，it is possible that ten years from now dais old evil will have disappeared completely from the America，perhaps from the world.

 Malaria has been successfully got. rid of in______.

In American society，young people often______.

Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the reading passage?

The word “around” in paragraph 1 means______.

Which one is NOT the cause of the generation gap?

The passage suggests that______.

As used in this passage，the word “valid” in the second paragraph means______

Passage Two

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.

We can conclude from the passage that______.

Passports are beneficial for______.

Passage One

Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.

Your passport is your official identification as an American citizen. In America，most people never consider obtaining a passport unless they are planning a trip out of the country. In Europe, where travel from one country to another is much more common，almost everyone carries a passport. A passport is final proof of identity in almost every country in the world.

In 1979 almost 15 million Americans held passports. Most of these passports were obtained to travel outside the country because，except for a few Western nations。passports are required to enter every country. And if you travel abroad，you must have a valid passport to reenter the country.

When traveling abroad，you will need a passport for identification when exchanging dollars for francs or marks or other foreign currency. You may also need your passport to use a credit card，buy an airplane ticket or check into a hotel. As a passport is an official U. S. document. it is valuable as identification in any emergency cases，such as floods，fires，or war.

Don't confuse passports and visas. Whereas a passport is issued by a country to its citizens. a visa is official permission to visit a country granted by the government of that country. For some years，many countries were dropping their visa requirements，but that trend has reversed. Argentina，Brazil，and Venezuela now require visas from U. S. citizens. They may be obtained from the embassy of the country you wish to visit.

Passport applications are available at passport agency offices in large cities like Boston，New York，or Chicago. In smaller cities，applications are available at post offices and at federal courts. To get your first passport，you must submit the application in person. along with a birth certificate and two pictures.

 The main purpose of this passage is to______.

Henry's job was to examine cars which crossed the frontier to make sure that they were not smuggling anything into the country. Every morning，except at weekends，he (11) see a factory worker coming up the hill towards the frontier， (12) a bicycle with a big load of old straw on it. When the bicycle arrived the frontier，Henry used to stop the man and order him to take the straw off. Then he would examine the straw very carefully to see (13) he could find anything，after which he would look in all the man's pockets before he let him tie the straw up again. The man would then put it on his bicycle and go off down the hill with it. Although Henry was always (14) to find gold or jewelry or other valuable things hidden in the straw，he never found (15) ，even though he examined it very carefully. He was sure that the man was smuggling something，but he was not (16) 鱼to imagine what it could be.

Then one evening，after he had looked through the straw and emptied the factory worker's pockets (17) usual，he said to him，“Listen，I know that you are smuggling things (18) this frontier. Won't you tell me what it is that you're bringing into the country so successfully? I'm an old man，and today's my last day on the job. Tomorrow I'm going to (19) . I promise that I shall not tell anyone if you tell me what you've been smuggling. ”The factory worker did not say anything for (20) . Then he smiled，turned to Henry and said quietly：“Bicycles. ”

______can be judged from her eyes，she has no personal hostility to us.

His doctor was clearly a family friend；his wife had only her husband's interests ______heart.

The most ______evidence of black holes comes from research into binary star systems.

And they can ______their passports______，making leaving or “escaping” virtually impossible.

It is ______this division that apartheid rests.

Grabbing Weinstein ______the jaw，the attacker told her he had a gun and forced her into her car.

______by guards with guns，they raised their legs in unison and made their way to the edge of the highway，Interstate 65.

The total water area is about ______the land area.

A dog or a cat can teach us a lot about human nature. They are a lot more like us ______some might think.

There was only two ______of SARS yesterday in the whole country.