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1、2000年上半年高等教育自学考试英语（一）试卷I. Vocabulary and Structure (10 points, 1 point for each) 从下列各句四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并在答题纸上将相应的字母涂黑。 1.Some people who are very intelligent and successful in their fields find _difficult to succeed in language learning. Athem Bthemselves Cit Ditself 2.Television ads are short, but the
2、y are repeated over and over again _the audience sees and hears them many times. Ain that Bso that Cas to Dso as 3. The Atlantic Ocean is only half as big as the Pacific, _it is still very large. Abut Band Cso Dtherefore 4.No one has been able to prove that fish is _ better for the brain than many o
3、ther kinds of food. Asome Bso Cas Dany 5. Tomatoes were once called love apples and were supposed to make those who ate them _in love. Afell Bfeel Cfall Dfelt 6.Washing food down with water as a _for chewing is not a good habit. Adirection Bsubstitute Cpossibility Dresource 7. It is important to rea
4、lize that the same technology _helps us may also harm us. Aas Bthat Cwhat Dwhen 8.Science began to develop rapidly when man laid _his wrong beliefs and began to seek true explanations. Aout Bdown Caside Doutside 9.Remember,nothing hurts concentration _reading too slowly. Arather than Bas well as cmo
5、re than Dinstead of 10. More and more people are realizing that there is a _between heart disease and the way one lives. Acorrespondence Bcomparison Cconnection Dconsequence II. Cloze Test (10 points,1point for each) 下列短文有十个空白，每个空白有四个选项。根据上下文要求选出最佳答案，并在答题纸上将相应的 字母涂黑。 Fear and its companion pain are
6、two of the most useful things that men and animals possess, if they are properly used. If fire did not hurt when it burnt, children would play with it _11_their hands were burnt away, _12_,if pain existed but fear did not, a child would burn itself again and again, because fear would not _13_it to k
7、eep away from the fire that had burnt it before. Fear and pain are there fore two guards _14_which men and animals might soon die out. In the first sentence we suggest that fear ought to be properly used. If ,_15_,you never go out of your house _16_of the danger of being knocked down and killed in t
8、he street by a car, you are letting fear rule you too _17_. Even in your house you are not absolutely _18_:an airplane may crash on your house or you may get cancer! The important thing is not to let fear rule you, but _19_to use fear as your servant and guide. Fear will warn you of dangers; _20_you
9、 have to decide what action to take. 11.abecausebif cthough duntil 12.aGenerally bProbablycSimilarly dConsequently 13.awarn brequest cmanagedprotect 14.awith bwithout cfor dagainst 15.aafter all bby chance cfor example din fact 16.aregardless bbecause cin terms din front 17.alittle bmore cmanydmuch
10、18.afirm bcalm csafedstrong 19.ainsteadbbetter csimilarly dfurther 20.athen botherwise clikewise deven III. Reading comprehension (30 points, 2 points for each) 从下列每篇短文的问题后所给的四个选择项中选出一个最佳答案，并在答题纸上将相应的字母涂黑。 Passage One Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage. The problem of leisure is n
11、ew. Until very recent times people worked each day to the limit of their strength. Of course there were always a privileged (有特权的)few who had leisure; but most men had to work 12, 14, or even 16 hours a day, six days a week. As late as 1840 the average factory worker labored 72 hours a week. Sunup t
12、o sundown was the farmers day, or as another phrase puts it, from can to cant. Today, working less than a 40-hour week, people enjoy more leisure time. Hence, the wise use of leisure time has become an important problem for everyone, young or old. It is a particularly difficult problem for the sick,
13、 the aged, and those who have retired from earning a living. Those people have so much leisure that it is hard for them to find interesting and worthwhile ways to use it . However short the work week becomes, work is still the most important part of life. We do not work to get leisure and the pleasu
14、res leisure brings us; rather, we use leisure wisely so that work itself can become awarding and enjoyable. The feeling of success at doing ones daily work-whether it is a job, maintaining a home, or going to school-depends largely on coming to it each day with fresh energy and active interest. Leisure and re
