2014年10月全国自主考试综合英语(一)真题及答案

汤姆上课经常迟到，给老师留下了不好的印象。

当地政府承诺改善社区医疗卫生工作。

尽管他很努力，但他实在无法胜任总经理的职责。

我并不知道他在城里，只是碰巧在聚会上遇见了他。

据说这所幼儿园非常重视孩子的智力发展。

你可以申请任何你想就读的学校。

这个城市的污染太厉害了，我实在不能忍受了。

杰克上周一直在找工作。

由于缺水，这个国家的政府号召全国人民节约用水。

Louise died of heart disease when _______.

贫困剥夺了他上大学的机会。

According to the author of The Time Message, Sunday is a good day to_______.

Mr. Grayson found out that there was an information leak at his office when his staff reported that wherever they went, his biggest competitor________.

The study on the effect of television on children that Dr. Heinrich Applebaum recently completed is about ________.

Jim decided not to undergo chemical treatment because he didn’t want to prolong his life if_______.

Walter Pauk knew that the only way to pass Professor Kolb’s Egyptian History was to______.

In The Emotional Bank Account, being loyal to family members when they are not present means______.

English reserve is an unfortunate quality in some ways since _______.

After Colin sneezed，the guests burst into laughter. They were laughing at themselves because they realized that ________.

In Love of Life，though the man could no longer strive, he was still driven on by ______.

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B. 根据课文的内容在每个空白处填入一个恰当的词。

The first person stood up and told a very funny joke about an Englishman who

fell in love with his umbrella. When he finished, he was  61 tears of laughter, for he always laughed at his  62 jokes. The rest of the group remained  63 silent. You could tell from their faces and their eyes  64 they found the joke funny, but not one of them was going to laugh, and give him the chance to  65 the competition. The second told a story about a three-legged pig,  66 was so good that, some years later, a film company made a  67 of it. When she sat down, the others buried their faces  68 their handkerchiefs, coughed, pretended to sneeze, dropped pencils under the table-anything to  69 up their laughter. And so it went    70 , joke after joke, the sort of jokes that make your sides ache. And nobody dared to laugh.

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A. 从下列单词中选择适当的词填空，每个词只能用一次。

Fred Ames and I haven’t much in common. I sometimes wonder  51  we

are friends at all. Perhaps it is Fred’s skill  52 a craftsman that I find so attractive. He's always busy  53 things. Everything he makes is so  54 that I sometimes feel a bit jealous  55 him. If I happen to mention that one of my books is so old and  56 that I shall have to throw it away, Fred takes it home  57 him and returns it a few days later  58 bound. If I knock over a vase and it is broken into a thousand  59, Fred puts it together again in such a way that only an expert would see the  60 . I wish I could be like him.

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following

rigorous

cautiously

occupation

barefoot

prejudice

annoy

mechanical

merchant

violence

beneath

sympathy

thoroughly

challenge

authority

loose

lose

achievement

The underlined word “shoved”in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ________.

How did he manage to save himself from drowning?

contribution

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

When he came up the second time, _________.

Passage 2

There were shots as I ran. I ducked down, pushed between two men and ran for the river. I tripped at the edge and went in with a splash. The water was icy, but I stayed under until I thought my lungs would burst. The minute I came up I took a breath and plunged down again. Staying under the water was only too easy with so much clothing and my heavy army boots. When I came up for the second time, I saw a piece of timber ahead of me and reached it and held on with both hands. There were no shots now. I looked at the bank, which seemed to be going by very fast. The piece of timber swung in the current but I held on firmly and let it take me along. When I looked again the shore was out of sight.

It was impossible to know how long I was in the river. It seemed a long time but may have only been ten minutes. It was early spring floods of barely-melted snow from the mountain tops that were swirling round me, and the water was unbearably cold. I was lucky to have the heavy timber to hold on to, and I lay with my arms locked round it in an exhausted embrace. Sections of trees and various objects that had been floated off the banks when the river rose raced by me, scratching and hitting me as they passed. It was beginning to be light enough to see the bushes along the muddy river bank. I wondered if I should sacrifice boots and clothes and try to swim ashore, but decided not to. I would be in a bad position if I landed barefoot. I had to get to headquarters somehow.

I watched the shore come close, then swing away, then come closer again, and then the timber began to revolve slowly in the cross-currents of a bend in the river. As I faced the bank again, so close now that I could see branches on a willow tree strong enough to grasp, I tried holding with one arm and swimming with the other to force the timber to the bank, but I did not bring it any closer. I drew up my feet against the side of the timber andshoved hard towards the bank. But although I was exercising all my strength, the current was carrying me away. I thought then I would drown because of my boots, but I fought through the water, and when I looked up, the bank was coming towards me, I kept swimming until I reached it. I clung to the willow branch without the strength to pull myself up, but I knew I would not drown now. I felt exhausted and sick in my stomach and chest from the effort, and I held on to the branches and waited. When the sick feeling was gone, I pulled myself up into a thick bush and rested again, still holding tight. Then I crawled out, pushed on through the willows and on to the bank.

In the river, the writer came up for the first time _________.

According to the passage, one factor that can account for British men’s change is _______.

The tone of the passage seems to be __________.

According to the survey, ______ British men cried over their own sufferings and troubles.

Role models burst into tears at the drop of a hat. Here “at the drop of a hat” means_______.

Passage 1

British men are changing their traditional image but still are not as emotional in public as Americans, a new survey shows. When it comes to raw emotion, the Brits are now happy to shed tears quite openly-but Italians can still“out-sob”them. “Thirty percent of all British males have cried in the last month. That is a very high figure,” said Peter Marsh, director of the Social Issues Research Centre which took the emotional temperature of Britain.”Only two percent said they could not remember when they last cried.” Long gone is the “No Tears— We’re British” era when emotion was considered distinctly bad form. According to this survey, almost half the men opened the floodgates over a sad movie, book or TV program. Self-pity got 17 percent crying. Nine percent sobbed at weddings. “You can see what is happening over the generations. Role models burst into tears at the drop of a hat-people like Beckham with his New Man image. He had a little cry when he took his son Brooklyn to school for the first time," Marsh said. Women’s battle for equal rights has certainly had an effect, too-both in the workplace and at home. “Men in their twenties or thirties are interacting with women on equal terms much more so than a generation ago. They have to relate to the opposite sex. Women become more man-like and men become more female. This transfers into the workplace too.”Marsh said. From the days of Empire, the British have always considered themselves models of reserve,haughtily mocking“excitable foreigners” who show no restraint. Marsh argued the divide was still there：“We have probably not caught up with the Americans or the Italians when it comes to the actual display of emotions. But we are clearly shifting. What we take as typical British reserve has been significantly eroded.”

British men used to be quite reserved. But now they_______ .

After the accident, there was no hope of getting on his feet again, ______ climbing such a high mountain.

We’ll set about an hour earlier to ______ possible delays on the way.

The name of the city changed many times in the _______ of history.

To give students more freedom, I think we should offer more selective courses and fewer ______ones.

In my opinion, the overwhelmingly large population is the key ______ the understanding of many of our policies today.

No sooner had the professor asked the question ______ several students raised their hands.

The search for the missing climber had to be _______when it got too dark.

Walking through an area like that after dark is really asking for _______.

________everyone else had left did Tom manage to concentrate on his work.

Somehow she never seemed to be able to _______with her parents-in-law.

He was already ________his way to making his reputation as a writer when the war began in 1939.

______is generally accepted, computers affect our lives in many ways.

_________, John could cope with a lot of difficulties very well.

My classmates regretted ________Professor Li’s lecture on the economic development in Asia.

They are going to have the landlady ______a new heating system.

I tried to telephone Cynthia last night but her number ______.

All things ________the strike will have to be cancelled.

Jack said he ______here for almost three weeks when I arrived.

My friend suggested ______to Mary’s birthday party together.

Mike studied hard in the college，______contributed to his success in later life.