自考英语一（00012）2012年10月真题试卷及答案

 Time travel has long attracted people. Traveling to the past or future would allow you to live in exciting periods of history or to get a brief look at what the world would be like in the future. Since the idea is so tempting, it is natural that time travel would interest so many writers, filmmakers, and scientists. But you might be surprised to realize that in the smallest sense of the term, we are all time travelers. Even as you sit here reading this article, time is racing forward The future becomes the past as soon as it happens.

66.在同一座楼里上班,你难免会遇到她。

67.会议什么时候召开还没有确定。

68.想去长城参观的人,请在这里签名。

69.她悄悄走进来,以免吵醒婴儿。

70.你能帮我照看一下行李吗?

36.节日 n. f_____                    

37.编辑 n. e_____

38.饿死，挨饿 v. s_____              

39.普遍的 a u _____

40.毕业 v. g _____                          

41.阴影，影子 n. s_____

42.警告 v. w_____             

43.忠诚的 a l_____

44.表达;表情 n. e_____                    

45.原理;原则 n. p_____

46.热带的 a t_____                           

47.机会 n. o_____

48.可靠的a r_____                             

49.精确的;准确的a p_____

50.发行，颁布 v. i_____                     

51.目标 n. t_____

52.财政;金融 n. f_____             

53.占领;职业 n. o_____

54.军事的 a m_____              

55.年轻的;有朝气的 a y_____

56.He tried to repair the engine, but without____ (succeed).

57. I said goodbye to them with a mixture of____ (sad) and joy.

58. There was a____ (drama) increase in the world population in the first half of the 20th century.

59. Good teamwork is a____ (power)tool for effective management.

60. There have been great advances in the____ (treat) of cancer.

61. When I was at school, we were required to ____ (memory) a poem every week.

62. The Internet provides many resources that were previously____ (available) to us

63. College was more difficult than he had expected; however, he managed to reach his____ (origin) goals.

64. This photo is too small. Please____ ____ (large) it for me.

65. For your ____ (safe), we advise you to keep your seat belt fastened during the flight.

Up to now, the best way to get spider silk is by .

Spider silk is the preferred material for bulletproof vests because it is .

Passage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.It is said that when the mighty ruler Genghis Khan conquered Asia, his soldiers were protected from enemy arrows by very special clothing. These leather garments were woven with one of the strongest materials then known to humans-spider silk!Eight hundred years later, scientists still can't make thread more durable(耐用的)than the stuff spiders use to make webs. But biologists trying to copy nature's strongest fiber are making great progress. The U.S. Army plans to use one of the great Khan' s tricks: making bulletproof vests woven with artificial spider silk.What makes spider silk so remarkable is its unique combination of strength and stretch. Spider silk is as strong as the fiber now used to make bulletproof vests, but far more elastic(有弹性的). The web of a golden silk spider is strong enough to trap a bird Researchers have figured out that a web woven of spider silk the thickness of a pencil could stop a plane in midair!"When you think about the size and speed of a flying bee, the web that catches it has to be able to absorb a lot of energy, " says Jean Herbert, an Army scientist in Natick, Massachusetts. Herbert is researching ways to use the tough fiber in everyday objects. Among the possibilities: jeans that don't wear out, car and truck bumpers that resist dents, and bridges whose structures can withstand earthquakes.Unlike silkworms, spiders cannot be raised on farms. One reason: they tend to eat one another!) So scientists are inventing ways of making spider silk without spiders.The ability to spin a web is controlled by certain genes inside the cells of spiders. Researchers at two chemical companies have made copies of these genes and put them into certain easy-to-grow bacteria(细菌). The scientists'goal: bacteria that can tun out spider silk. Transplanting spider genes is a sticky business. The genes don't always act exactly the way they would in a living spider so the silk is not as strong or elastic as the real stuff.For now, the surest silk-production method is the one that Genghis Khan supposedly used-spiders themselves. "I never step on spiders, "says chemist John O'Brien. "I have too much respect for them."

31The word"garments"(para 1) is closest in meaning to .

Biologists are making great progress in .

According to the passage, which of the following is true?

The League of American Wheelmen was formed to .

Which of the following statements is true of bicycling before the 1970s?

The Ordinary lost in the competition against the Rover partly because it was .

One of the reasons for the growing popularity of bicycles in the Golden Age of Bicycling was that they .

Passage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.Some people might find it surprising that the present times are not considered the"Golden Age of Bicycling, "since there are so many different bikes available. Believe it or not, this golden Age occurred more than 100 years ago in the 1890s when horses were the main form of transport.The first modern bicycle can be traced back to 1839 in Scotland A variety of bikes followed By the 1870, James Starley of England was producing bikes. His bike, called the Ordinary, had a huge front and a small back wheel. Many people went to the 1876 U.S. Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia to see a demonstration of how the Ordinary worked Some models at the exhibition became more well-known than others. One bike designed in the United States was a real luxury. It cost more than some people earned in a year!In 1885 the Coventry Machinists Company in England produced a 50-pound machine called the Rover. It was built like the modem bicycle. By the 1890s the Ordinary and the Rover were competing against each other. Eventually, the Ordinary faded from production and the Rover survived The Rover was simply faster and more easily controlled up and down hills and around corners.Bicycling really became popular in the 1890s because it was nearly as fast as a horse and required less care and expense. People rode their bikes through the country and the city. Changes began to take place as bicycling increased in popularity.As more people began biking, they formed the League of American Wheelmen. The league had one collective goal: all members wanted to improve bicycling conditions. The league worked to get roads paved for easier passage in all types of weather. It also published a bicycling magazine and established bicycle etiquette(规范).In the 1970s the mountain bike made bicycling even more popular. Adults joined kids and teenagers on their bikes. Biking was a fun pastime and a fantastic alternative to driving.

26The Golden Age of Bicycling was in .

According to the passage, the parents .

The author's purpose in writing this passage is to show .

Which of the following is true of Mr. Litmus?

According to Sophie, the flies could not get out of the window because they .

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Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.The science teacher, Mr. Litmus, had asked his students to study some particular animal. They would write a short report, and tell the rest of the class their conclusions. Some talked about dogs, others about horses, some chose fish. But the most interesting discovery of all was made by little Sophie."I found that flies are terribly grumpy. "she said, very sure of herself.Everyone smiled, waiting for her to continue. Then Sophie explained:"I spent hours in my house, watching flies. When they flew normally, everything was oK, but when they found a window they would really start buzzing. I had always thought they made that noise with their wings, but they don't. With my daddy's binoculars (望远镜) I inspected the flies really closely, and saw that what they were really doing was shouting and protesting. They were so wildly mad that they couldn' t fly out of the window and they would just beat their heads against the glass again and again. If only they had watched the butterfly that passed by, they would have seen that the top of the window was open. The butterfly tried to tell them, but it had no effect at all. The flies just kept on shouting and complaining."Mr. Litmus was amused, and explained to the class that form of fly behaviour had nothing to do with anger. Instead, it was an example of creatures having different levels of intelligence and awareness. They agreed that the next day they would bring a list of creatures in their order of intelligence.And this was what caused a big disturbance in the science class. Many parents had to come and complain, because their children had listed them as among the least intelligent of creatures! This, said the children, was because the parents did nothing but complain, and they never listened to anyone.Although Mr. Litmus had to do a lot of explaining, and calm down quite a few parents, it helped some of them realize that, although they weren't stupid, they often behaved not terribly intelligently.

21 The word"grumpy"(para 2) is closest in meaning to .

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By the year 2020 the population of the world to 8 billion.

Your body is a machine that needs to get energy and use energy to stay alive.You get the energy you need from the food you eat.Your body needs energy even when you are ____ 11 . It uses energy to pump your blood and to 12 ____ breathing. Even when you are asleep, your body 13 ____ up some of the energy it got from food.Energy from food is 14 ____ used every time you move. If you want to spend your noon break 15 ____ around, you know you need to have a healthy lunch. But what about an Olympic runner, who can travel the 16 ____ of a football field in less than ten seconds? To move the runner's mass such a long distance in such a short amount of time, a great deal of energy 17 ____ be spent. Sportsmen get this energy from carefully chosen foods. They train to build strong muscles that are very efficient at changing energy 18 ____ motion.Years of 19 ____ teach sportsmen to run very efficiently. As much energy as possible is used to drive them forward, and very little is 20 ____ on extra movement.

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I do not feel that you have enough resources to such a program.

You can never rely on the British weather. Take an umbrella with you just .

This shirt much softer than that one.

I wonder why they haven't arrived yet. I told them how to get here, but I them a map.

I like Carter personally, I don' t think what he's doing is right.

It is quite surprising that John should here every time we need him.

Walking in the street, the popular movie star does not mind .

He kept asking silly questions until my patience finally .

Companies spend millions of dollars trying to convince customers that their products are to others'.