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.

Her last three months of life before______(give)a final, lethal injection by his doctor were filmed and first shown on television last year.

Understand what Jet Lag is, and how a careful diet can______(minimum)its worst effects, and your flights will be less stressful.

was supposed to______(pay)￡120 but I never received that amount.

______(tell)that bad weather lay ahead。they changed their course.

He spent a______(profit)afternoon in the library.

永恒的 a. e_ _ _ _ _ _ _

prefer______(take)English class this year.

特权 n. P_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

禁令 n. P_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

标准, 准则 n. c_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

个人 n. i_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

否认, 否定 vt. d_ _ _

值得 vt. d_ _ _ _ _ _

雇员 n. e_ _ _ _ _ _ _

让步 n. c_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

实行, 执行 vt. e_ _ _ _ _ _

争论, 辩论 n. a_ _ _ _ _ _ _

安乐死 n. e_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

发言人 n. s_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

伴随 vt. a_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

马戏团 n. c_ _ _ _

宇航员 n. a_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

个性 n. P_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

移民, 侨民 n. I_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

The judge did not award compensation to the chain store because he thought that______.

天文学家 n. a_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

组织(上)的 a. o_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

When the tramp was arrested, he______.

What did the tramp do after he had been locked in?

“The staff were dead beat” in the first paragraph means that they were______.

Tides would ______if the pull of the moon equaled the pull of the sun.

Passage Three

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.

During the Christmas shopping rush in London, a story was reported of a tramp(流浪者)who, apparently no fault of his own, found himself locked in a well. known chain store late on Christmas Eve. No doubt the store was crowded with last. minute Christmas shoppers and the staff were dead beat and longing to get home. Presumably all the proper security checks were made before the store was locked and they left to enjoy the three-day holiday untroubled by customers desperate to get last-minute. Christmas presents.

However that may be, our tramp found himself alone in the store and decided to make the best of if. There was food, drink, bedding and camping equipment, of which he made good use. There must also have been television sets and radios. Though it was not reported if he took advantage of these facilities, when the shop re-opened, he was discovered in bed with a large number of empty bottles beside him. He seems to have been a man of good humor and philosophic temperament-as indeed tramps very commonly are. Everyone else was enjoying Christmas, so he saw no good reason why he should not do the same. He submitted(屈服), cheerful enough, to being taken away by the police. Perhaps he had had a better Christmas than usual. He was sent to prison for seven days. The judge awarded no compensation to the chain store for the food and drink our tramp had consumed. They had, in his opinion, already received valuable free publicity from the coverage the store received in the newspapers and on television.

The tramp was locked in the store______.

Which of the following is an accurate statement about the pull of the sun on the earth?

The height of the tide is affected by all of the following EXCEPT______.

Passage Two

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.

Tides are created mainly by the pull of the moon on the earth. The moon's pull causes water in the oceans to be a little deeper at a point closest to the moon and also at a point farthest from the moon, on the opposite side of the earth. These two tidal “waves” follow the apparent movement of the moon around the earth and strike nearly every coast line at intervals of about twelve hours and twenty-five minutes. After reaching a high point, the water level goes down gradually for a little more than six hours and then begins to rise toward a new high point. Hence, most coast lines have two tides a day, and the tides occur fifty minutes later each day. Differences in the coast line and in channels in the ocean bottom may change the time that the tidal wave reaches different points along the same coast line. The difference in water level between high and low tide varies from day to day according to the relative positions of the sun and the moon. The sun also exerts a pull on the earth, although it is only about haft as strong as the pull of the tides arise higher and when they pull at right angles to one another. the tide is lower. The formation of the coast line and variations in the weather are additional factors which can affect the height of tides. Some sections of the coast are shaped in such a way as to cause much higher tides than are experienced in other areas. A strong wind blowing toward the shore may also cause tides to the higher.

Which of the following is right according to the passage?

The passage is mainly about______.

The time that high tide occurs at a particular place is affected by all of the following EXCEPT______.

The passage tells us that—一.

It can be inferred from the passage that a smart consumer should______.

Passage One

Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.

The appeal of advertising to buying motives can have both negative and positive effects. Consumers may be convinced to buy a product of poor quality or high price because of an advertisement. For example, some advertisement have appealed to people's desire for better fuel economy for their cars by advertising automotive products that improve gasoline mileage. Some of the products work. Others are worthless and a waste of consumers' money.

Sometimes advertising is intentionally misleading. A few years ago, a brand of bread was offered to dieters(节食者)with the message that there were fewer calories(热量单位, 卡)in every slice. It turned out that the bread was not dietetic(适合于节食的), but just regular bread. There were fewer calories because it was sliced very thin. but there were the same number of calories in every loaf.

On the positive side, emotional appeals may respond to a consumer's real concerns. Consider fire insurance. Fire insurance may be sold by appealing to fear of loss. But fear of loss is the real reason for fire insurance. The security of knowing that property is protected by insurance makes the purchase of fire insurance a worthwhile investment for most people. If consumers consider the quality of the insurance plans as well as the message in the ads, they will benefit from the advertising.

Each consumer must evaluate her or his own situation. Are the benefits of the product important enough to justify buying it? Advertising is intended to appeal to consumers, but it does not force them to buy the product. Consumer still controls the final buying decision.

The reason why the bread advertisement is misleading is that______.

What do we mean by a perfect English pronunciation? In one (11) there are as many different kinds of English as there are speakers of it. No two speakers speak in exactly the same (12) We can always hear different forms between them, and the pronunciation of English (13) a great deal in different geographical areas. How do we decide What sort of English to use as a model? This is not a question that can be (14) in the same way for all foreign learners of English. (15) you live in a part of the world like India or West Africa, where there is a long tradition of speaking English for general communication purposes, you should (16) to acquire a good variety of the pronunciation of this area. It would be a fashion in these circumstances to use as a model BBC English or anything of the sort. On the other hand, if you live in a country (17) there is no traditional use of English. You must take as your model some form. of (18) English pronunciation. It does not (19) very much which form. you choose. The most (20) way is to take as your model the sort of English you Can hear most often.

Black and white must be ______from each other, must be unable to communicate.

Professor David Morton of the department is involved ______animal research and is concerned ______reducing animal suffering as much as possible.

Parents, teachers in schools, work associates and communicators in or using the mass media are all capable of ______our potential interests.

Chinese and Russian scientists have reposed that in places ______stress is building up, the radon levels of the water build up too.

______the contrary, the rapid growth in enrollment over the last 40 years has come to an end.

People and animals are different ______their reactions to drugs and in the way ______their bodies work.

We will come here on time at your______.

Her powers of persuasion were ______no avail.

The reason for making a decision is that a problem exists, or something is standing ______the way of accomplishing them.

Robots differ from automatic machines ______after completion of one specific task, they can be reprogrammed by a computer to do another one.