综合英语(二)2016年4月真题试题及答案解析(00795)

TOPIC: What kind of mother was Mrs. Baker in the story “Selling the Post”?

由于噪音很大，广场舞这种娱乐形式正受到越来越多人的批评。

还在读大学的时候，他就打工，挣钱养活自己。

我无意伤害他，但是他觉得我在取笑他。

Clearly, if you are spending more than what you earn, you’ll have to________your belt. (tight)

在生活中他应对困难的特殊方式给我留下了深刻的印象。

为了不使她感到难堪，我们没有告诉她真相。

We apologize for any_______caused during the construction of the road.(convenience)

The evidence given by the witness in court was inconsistent with what he had _________told the police. (previous)

He believed in________so much that he would rather die than live without it.(free)

We all know that________is the first requirement for learning. (concentrate)

Please concentrate on the business at hand and don’t drag in_______issues.(relevant)

In my opinion it is less________for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery. (shame)

After a long period of rain the river may________its banks. (flow, over)

The will to win and the desire to succeed are the keys that will unlock the door to_______excellence. (person)

Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?

When you feel bad, find a person to cry with and to let out your anger and other feelings of ________. (helpless)

Which of the following is frequently asked about in a job interview for online degree holders?

Passage 2

Online education is still a hot topic among employers for a number of reasons.Many employers welcome online educational qualifications because they recognize the fact that the individuals who are trained online have vital qualities that other competitors may not have and that they are also trained to the same level as anyone completing a campus course. However, there are still some traditional employers who will still question the fact that the individuals did not sit in a classroom for three or four years. For some reason, those employers do not perceive an online degree as of value.However, these employers are few now simply because the online degreegraduates are filling jobs that may never have otherwise been filled. They are responding to the demand and helping the country to run much more smoothly than it has done in a long time. In fact, online college degrees and technical qualifications have revolutionized the way that the world of education and the world of industry work. Although attitudes are changing, nobody with an online degree should expect not to be challenged when it is presented in a resume or in a job interview because it is still likely to be a topic of discussion.Attending a campus institution makes the degree easily identifiable and easy to track in terms of what the candidate has indeed completed. Online degrees are not as easy to trace and can prove to be quite difficult to substantiate too. However, they both tend to have the same amount of work involved with the latter providing far more useful personal qualities in terms of working off one’s own initiative and time management skills. While that is not to discredit campus graduates, these are qualities that can be pointed out in an interview to help a candidate’s claim to a job!An employer is well within his or her right to check up on an educational background and may indeed be cautious of individuals with online qualifications from universities and colleges that are less well-known because of the number of faking agencies out there. An employer will be skeptical until everything actually checks out. It may even put them off hiring you. This is just because of the healthysuspicion that still lingers over the online degree, and with good reason. However,larger online universities are well-known enough by now to need no explanation. The one question a potential employer will always ask though is why the candidate chose to take an online degree instead of a campus course. This is a question that you always need to be prepared for and have a good answer ready.No matter how well you try to prepare for an interview, you can never count on which way an employer will go or what view of an online degree he or she will take, so you need to have answers prepared for every possibility. Trying to predict the reaction will often land you in more trouble than assuming the worst. Always assuming the worst is the best advice that you could take because you are then prepared for anything. If you are confident and put faith in your degree, providing evidence to substantiate the fact that it is real, it should no longer hold you back!

Which of the following is true of employers’ attitude toward online degrees?

What might be an advantage for online degree graduates according to the passage?

Why are some employers skeptical of online degree holders?

What was the girl’s reaction when she found her bag gone?

What might happen after this train trip?

Which of the following is a proper title for this story?

What was the first step the young man took to stop the girl from going abroad?

Passage 1

“One way ticket? You are going to move into town?”the young man asked.He could not get his eyes off the pretty girl sitting in front of him in the train.“No,”the girl said. She knew the young man had a crush on her. Women just know these things. They had been sitting in the train for hours, face to face. At first they had just nodded to each other, and then the young man had introduced himself politely. Obviously, she was not the kind who wanted to talk to strangers.“You haven’t decided yet when you will return?” the youth did not want to leave the matter be.“I won’t,” she said. “My sister invited me to America and I am leaving tomorrow morning,”she continued.“Oh...”The young man had not expected this. Of course the times were rough and many people were traveling to seaports to take the ships to a hopefully better future across the ocean.“I have heard it is not always very safe to go,” he tried.“I shall meet others at the harbor,”the girl said with a voice that clearly said the conversation was over. “I shall be perfectly safe!'”At that the young man fell quiet. The girl closed her eyes and pretended to be napping. He had good time to watch her. Pretty, slightly round face, shiny brown hair. You could see from her clothes she was not wealthy, but everything was neat and clean. He realized he liked her very much, very, very much.The girl opened her eyes and found him looking at her. He coughed, embarrassed he had been caught.“I need to…go…”she said modestly. “Could you please keep an eye on mybags?”“Of course, Miss,” he said.When she came back she found him asleep. She shook her head and sat down. Her wooden box was under the seat and her smaller bag was... Nowhere to be seen!He opened his eyes at her panic exclamation.“My bag! Someone has stolen my bag!”The young man looked scared. He got to his feet and ran out of thecompartment. The girl frantically looked around to see if she had just put her bag into a wrong place. But it was nowhere to be seen.“Is it this one?”the young man held a bag in his hands. “I found it in the comer of the next compartment.”“Yes，yes it is!” she grabbed it quickly and opened it, “My purse…yes，it is here…My papers…” She sat down, looking like she was going to faint “My passport! Someone has stolen my passport!”“Oh no,” the young man said. “I shall go and ask everyone if they saw anything.”He came back after half an hour. The girl looked at him hopefully. He shook his head. “Nothing. No one has seen anything, and none of the people look suspicious. Ordinary, decent folks, all of them.”“My passport…Now I cannot leave!” she burst into tears. “Who would only take my passport and leave my purse and all the money? This makes no sense!”He sat next to her and took her hand to console her. “Please, Miss. You can getanother passport.”“But it takes forever! I cannot get to this ship! My sister is waiting for me to arrive with it!”“Write a letter explaining you will come later. Give the letter to someone who is going to that ship and can take it to your sister in America.”Slowly she calmed down.“I shall help you to get a new passport, because it was my fault it was stolen,”the young man said. “The first thing we shall do is to go to the police to report the theft. At least they can check if anyone is trying to use it.”He felt her passport in his inside breast pocket. He would need to get rid of it as soon as possible.She did not say anything but gave him a faint smile. He looked into her grey blue eyes and smiled so tenderly that she blushed....(I don't know when my great grandfather confessed to stealing my greatGrandmother’s passport and had her forgiveness, but their long marriage speaksfor itself. And maybe this sweet story is the reason I love trains.)

Which of the following is closest in meaning to the phrase “had a crush on” in Paragraph 2?

No one really expects a vacation trip to produce a close friend.

I suspect that we are always faintly conscious of the fact that this is a smallish island, with the sea always round the comer.

I never do anything whatever on the ground that it is good for health, though in actual fact the things I like doing are mostly wholesome.

...and its whole staff was out in the cold without so much as a month’s salary to tide them over.

She wrote about it not only in formal academic reports but also in a book that informed and thrilled laymen around world.

“It’s not so much what my husband says,” a tearful wife confides, “as the way he says it...”

Overindulgence of a child also happens when parents are unable to stand up to Their children’s unreasonable demands.

We can’t call ourselves Christians and then deny safety to our friends when the showdown comes.

All of us depend for our peace of mind and our efficiency on hundreds of these cues, often without our conscious awareness.

It’s much braver to ask questions even when there’s a prospect of ridicule than to suppress your questions and become deadened to the world around you.

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In the distant past, the beginnings of the world and of society were explained inmythology. Mythology is the rich   16    of tales from different cultures about how the world was  17  and why certain things happen. Today the word “myth” is often used to describe something that is made up. Myths tell of gods or other supreme beings, heroes and events that are—or were   18  —believed to be true.Thousands of years ago, humankind did not have the sciences to help them  19  life. They did not know why the sun rises each morning, why the moon changes   20  or why the seasons change. Ancient peoples witnessed sickness, death and natural disasters but they did not know   21    caused them. To explain the world around them, groups of people  22  their own accounts about nature and life. These stories were usually not recorded. Instead, they were part of a(n)  23  tradition, meaning they developed slowly and were  24   , from one generation to another through telling stories. Upon hearing the 25 , people accepted them as the truth.   26  , myths became beliefs. It is for this reason    27  mythology is closely associated with religion.Mythmaking,   28  superstition, is not the sole property of people who lived thousands of years ago. It has traditionally looked to the past to try to make sense   29    the present. Some modem myths look to the future. Storytellers make use of the   30   inventions of the last few centuries to give vivid depictions of what Earth may be like hundreds of years from now. They imagine life on worlds billions of light-years away in space or far in the future.

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Why bring the issue to the meeting? It is the sort of thing one should talk about________.

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It takes time for new arrivals at the military academy to get used to strict________.

________care in hospital is given to the seriously ill.

We were aware that he was under great________, so we forgave his bad temper.

As a member of the club, you must________to its rules.

After the earthquake there were very few buildings left_________in the village.

No firm evidence had come to light________the men arrested were actually responsible for the accident.

After twenty years abroad, William came back_______his hometown changed beyond recognition.

Peter’s mum told him to stay in the room waiting for her and he did_______.

We keep the meat in the fridge, ________it doesn’t go bad.

He rushed into the room, his face________with sweat.

Throughout the football match, the boy________his eyes on his favorite player.

I think Dike is dating Jane. They_______each other a lot recently.

The subway is still under construction. It will take________to complete.

If people were a little more tolerant, our world________ a better place to live in.