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1、 2022年4月份全国高等教育自学考试英语(二)试题及答案4Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.A number of recent books have reworked subjects, forms and writing techniques.Todays children read stories about divorce, death, drugs, air pollution,political extremism and violence. Relying on the magic of the illu
2、strator, allkinds of books are being published.Before they know to read, babies can play with books made of cloth or books madeto take in the bath. Later on, they are given picture books that may be cubical(立方形的)or triangular, outsized or very small. They also like work-books whichcome with watercol
3、ours and paintbrushes, and comic books(漫画册)filled withdetails where they have to spot a figure hidden among thousands of others.Not that the traditional childrens books are being neglected. There are stillstorybooks where the pages pop up(跳起)when they are opened, to make a forestor a castle. Among t
4、he latest ideas are interactive stories where readers choosethe plot(情节)or ending they want, and books on CD, which are very popular inrich industrialized countries.The public has enthusiastically greeted the wealth of creativity displayed bypublishers. “Previously, giving a child a book as often se
5、en as improper,“ saysCanadian author Marie-France Hebrt. Her books, published by a French-languagepublisher, sell like hot cakes in hundreds of thousands of copies. “Theres areal appetite for reading these days and I try to get across to children the passionfor reading which is food for the mind and
6、 the heart, like a medicine or a vitamin.“26.“Reworked“ as used in Paragraph 1 means “_“.A、rewordedB、rewrittenC、processedD、revised27.In the second paragraph the author lists the kinds of books_.A、recently publishedB、of various shapesC、babies likeD、popular among children28.Which of the following stat
7、ements is true?A、Books made of cloth came out earlier than picture books.B、When you buy work-books you will be given free comic books.C、Traditional childrens books are not being removed from market.D、Babies cannot have books while taking a bath.29.The expression “get across to children“ in the last
8、paragraph probably means “_“. A、pass on to childrenB、make children believeC、teach childrenD、get around to children30.The main idea of the last paragraph is that people have _.A、warmly welcomed the abundance of wealth shown by publishersB、warmly welcomed the enormous amount of creativity shown by pub
9、lishersC、showed great enthusiasm in publishers of treat wealtyD、reacted strongly to the unlimited creativity of publishersPassage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.Every body gets sick. Disease and injury make us suffer throughout our lives until,finally, some attack on the
10、body brings our existence to an end. Fortunately,most of us in modern industrialized societies can take relatively good healthfor granted most of the time. In fact, we tend to fully realize the importanceof good health only when we or those close to us become seriously ill. At suchtimes we keenly ap
11、preciate the ancient truth that health is our most preciousasset, one for which we might readily give up such rewards as power, wealth, orfame(荣誉).Because ill health is universal problem, affecting both the individual and society,the human response to sickness is always socially organized. No societ
12、y leavesthe responsibility for maintaining health and treating ill health entirely tothe individual. Each society develops its own concepts of health and sicknessand authorizes certain people to decide who is sick and how the sick should betreated. Around this focus there arises, over time, a number
13、 of standards, values,groups, statuses, and roles: in other words, an institution(体系；机构).To thesociologist(社会学家), then, medicine is the institution concerned with themaintenance of health and treatment of disease.In the simplest pre-industrial societies, medicine is usually an aspect ofreligion. The
14、 social arrangements for dealing with sickness are very elementary,often involving only two roles: the sick and the healer(治疗者).The latter istypically also the priest(牧师), who relies primarily on religious ceremonies,both to identify and to treat disease: for example, bones may be thrown toestablish
15、 a cause, songs may be used to bring about a cure. In modernindustrialized societies, on the other hand, the institution has become highlycomplicated and specialized, including dozens of roles such as those of brainsurgeon, druggist, hospital administrator, linked with various organizationssuch as nursing homes, insurance companies, and medical schools. Medicine, infact, has become the subject of intense sociological interest precisely becauseit is now one of the most pervasive and costl
