【自考英语】2022年3月山西省古县英语（一）模拟题(解析版).pdf

备 注:本套试卷附有答案解析，答案解析字体为白色，预览无法观看，如需观看试题的答案解析，请下载试卷CTRL+A选中全部文字，然后将答案字体调整为黑色即可。【自考英语】2022年3月山西省古县英语（一）模拟题（解析版）第1题【单选题】【填句补文】Children think that being grown up means being able to do exactly as they please.,The chance to discover whether that freedom is as wonderful as it sounds is a chancemore and more Americans are taking.A、Its now socially acceptable,even fashionable,to live alone.B、The number one reason given by most people for living alone is that they simply enjoy doingwhat they want when they want to do it.C、Living alone is a luxury.D、It seems that many grown-ups today are realizing that childhood dream.【正确答案】D第2题【单选题】【填句补文】Mexicos current lack of funds is also partly due to oil.The country has rich oil fieldsand a few years ago,when oil was expensive,Mexico was selling large quantities of oil to the USAand earning a lot of mo n e y.However;the price of oil then dropped,and Mexico has beenleft owing enormous sums of money and with not enough income from oil sales to pay back theloans.A、But those ruins are in danger of being seriously damaged by pollution.B、Scientists estimate that about one millimeter of stone is worn away every twelve years.C、At others the painted surfaces inside temples are lifting and flaking off and the stone is beingeaten away.D The government was therefore able to borrow huge sums of money from banks around theworld,thinking they would have no problem repaying their debts.【正确答案】D第 3 题【单选题】【阅读理解】I was searching for just the right word to describe this book;a wordthat describes something that is perhaps somewhat sad,but in a good way.Icouldnt find quite the right word,but I do know the feeling.This book does makeme feel a bit sad.Sad for the way that childhood passes so quickly,sad for days thatgo by,faster than wed like them to.But it also makes me feel the sweetness ofthese things and helps me remember that childhood imagination,freedom and joyare things that we can carry with us still,long after our days as children havepassed.Which of the following is true about the authors feeling of the book?A、It makes him feel sad for his childhood is sad.B、It makes him feel sad because he didnt remember his happy childhood.C、He couldnt describe the book,for he doesnt know the feeling.D、He realizes that childhood imagination,freedom and joy are things that he can carry evenwhen he is an adult.【正确答案】D第4题【单选题】2004.10 Jean didnt have time to go to the concert last night because she was busy forthe examination.A、to prepareB to be preparedC、preparingD、being preparing【正确答案】c第5题【单选题】【概括大意】On October 19,1911,Amundsen set out from his base in Bay of Whales,Antarctica,with four companions（同伴）,52 dogs and four sleds.His success in reaching the South Pole wasaided by careful planning.His use of sled dogs to carry supplies also helped.Amundsen and his men,along with 11 surviving dogs,made it back to the base on January 25,1912,quicker than expected.The main idea of this paragraph is.A Came up with the idea of reaching the South PoleB An important race on Amundsens way to his polar career in the early stageC、Armed to the teeth,Amundsen finished his trip to the South PoleD、Amundsen got a great achievement in the field of polar expedition 100 years ago【正确答案】C第6题【单选题】2004.04 Harry Potter is the most interesting book I have ever read.A、whichB、whereC whenD、that【正确答案】D第7题【单选题】【概括大意】Fords great strength was the manufacturing process-not invention.Long before hestarted a car company,he was a worker,known for picking up pieces of metal and wire and turningthem into machines.He started putting cars together in 1891.Although it was by no means the firstpopular automobile,the Model T showed the world just how creative Ford was at combiningtechnology and market.The main idea of this paragraph is.A、Fords OpponentsB Fords Great TalentC、Fords Great DreamD、The Establishment of the Company【正确答案】B第8题【单选题】2005.41 or not youre conscious of it,youre constantly valuing items in dollars.A、AsB、WhetherC、HoweverD If【正确答案】B第 9 题【单选题】（阅读理解“Longer life would give us a chance to recover from our mistakes andpromote long term thinking/says Dr Gregory Stock of the University Of CaliforniaSchool Of Public Health.would also raise productivity by adding to the year wecan work.Longer lives dont just affect the people who live them.They also affectsociety as a whole.MWe have war,poverty,all sorts of issues around,and I dontthink any of them would be at all helped by having people live longer,“says USbioethicist Daniel Callahan.MThe question is What will we get as a societys suspectit wont be a better society/Which of the following is NOT mentioned as one of thethings that living longer might enable an individual to doA、Spending more time with his family.B、Having more education.C Realizing more dreams.D、Working longer.【正确答案】B第 10题【单选题】阅读理解】The problem of leisure is new.Until very recent times people workedeach day to the limit of their strength.Of course there were always a privileged fewwho had leisure;but most men had to work 12,14,or even 16 hours a day,six daysa week.As late as 1840 the average factory worker labored 72 hours a week.“Sunup to sundown“was the farmers day,or as another phrase puts it,“from canto cant.The phrase“from can to cant me a n s.A、from beginning to endB、from birth to deathC、from morning to nightD、from time to time【正确答案】C第 11题【单选题】阅读理解】“Longer life would give us a chance to recover from our mistakes andpromote long term thinking/says Dr Gregory Stock of the University Of CaliforniaSchool Of Public Health.Mlt would also raise productivity by adding to the year wecan work.Longer lives dont just affect the people who live them.They also affectsociety as a whole.Ne have war,poverty,all sorts of issues around,and I dontthink any of them would be at all helped by having people live longer,“says USbioethicist Daniel Callahan.Z/The question is What will we get as a society/s suspectit wont be a better society/Which of the following is NOT mentioned as one of thethings that living longer might enable an individual to doA、Spending more time with his family.B、Having more education.C、Realizing more dreams.D、Working longer.【正确答案】B第 12题【单选题】2008.10The more the customer c o m p la in e d,a n d more unpleasant the manager became.A、the ruderB、more rudeC、the rudestD、the rude【正确答案】A第 13题【单选题】【阅读理解】In this world of change and complexity,the need for information is ofgreatest importance.Those people who have accurate,reliable up-to-dateinformation to solve the day-to-day problems,the critical problems of theirbusiness,social and family life,will survive and succeed Knowledge is power maywell be the truest saying and access to information may be the most criticalrequirement of all people.We can learn from the paragraph t hat.A、it is necessary to obtain as much knowledge as possibleB、people should make the best use of the information accessibleC、we should realize the importance of accumulating informationD、it is of vital importance to acquire needed information efficiently【正确答案】D第14题【单选题】【阅读理解】He is a resolute man.Once he makes up his mind to do something,hewont give it up halfway.The word“resolute“m e a n s.A、strongB、firmC、kindD、clever【正确答案】B第15题【单选题】【填句补文】The basic tools for an interview are paper and two or three well-sharpened pencils.But keep your notebook or paper out of sight until you need it.Theres nothing less likely to relax aperson than the arrival of someone with a note-taking pad.Take a while just to chat,judging what sort of person youre dealing with,getting him or her to trust you.A、This fear is almost 100 percent unnecessary.B Come back another day;it will go better.C、The rest is instinct,which can all be learned with experience.D、Both of you need time to get to know each other.【正确答案】D第 16题【单选题】【阅读理解】On the other hand,on the moon there will be an attraction betweenthe butter and the moon;but the butter will weigh only about one-sixth as much asit does on the earth.This is because the moon is so much smaller than the earth.The amount of gravitational pull that a body produces depends on the amount ofmaterial in it.A packet of butter has a gravitational pull of its own;but this is verysmall in relation to the pull of something as large as the moon,or the earth,or thesun.We do not feel the gravitational pull of a packet of butter becauseA it is too small to have a gravitational pull of its own.B、its pull is so small that we tend to ignore it.C、its pull disappears in the presence of the earths gravitation.D、it tends to melt and loses its gravitational pull.【正确答案】B第 17题【单选题】【阅读理解】Jamie was worried about the junk food which he saw being servedwhich included burgers,pizzas and chips.So he decided to ban the junk and startedcooking some good soup and curries for the children instead.So he improved theschool dinners in that particular school,and trained the dinner ladies to cookhealthy food.Then he put pressure on the government to improve the standards ofschool food across the country.And it looks like the changes have takenplace.Generally,schools didnt serve to students before.A、soup and curriesB、hot cooked mealsC、drinks and chipsD、burgers and pizzas【正确答案】A第 18题【单选题】【阅读理解】Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison deals specifically with thelegacy of slavery in her book Beloved.The main character in this novel,a formerslave called Sethe,lives in Ohio in the years following the Civil War;but she cannotfree herself from her horrific memories.Through a series of flashbacks and bitterreminiscences,the reader learns how and why Sethe escaped from the plantationshe had lived on;the fate of her husband,who also tried to escape;and finally,what happened to the child called Beloved.Morrisons scenes of torture andmurder are vivid and strongly convey the desperation of the slaves and the crueltyof their owners.Beloved is setA、on a slave shipB on a plantation before the Civil WarC、in Ohio after the Civil WarD、in an African town【正确答案】C第 19题【单选题】【阅读理解】We are so used to our life on the surface of the earth that it can bequite an effort for our mind to break free of all the ideas that we take for granted.Because we can feel that things are heavy,we think of weight as being a fixedquality in an object,but it is not really fixed at all.If you could take a one-poundpacket of butter 4,000 miles out from the earth,it would weigh only a quarter of apound.We find it hard to break free from ideas connected with living on the earthbecauseA、it demands too great an effort for us to do so.B、we are too familiar with the way things are to question the ideas.C、we have proved that those ideas are correct.D、we are so sure of ourselves that we never doubt anything on the earth.【正确答案】B第20题【单选题】The advertisements are trying people to buy things they dont really need.A、persuadeB、persuadingC be persuadingD、to persuade【正确答案】D第21题【单选题】（完成句子】There are many other traps to avoid.The has found little awareness among driversabout safe parking.Most motorists questioned made no efforts to avoid parking in quiet spots-justthe places thieves love.The A.A.advises drivers to park in places with people around-thieves dontlike audiences.Car drivers are found to be careless in c h o o s i n g.A、safe parking spotsB、increase in the number of cars stolenC、non-professional thievesD、lack of parking space【正确答案】A第22题【单选题】【填句补文】Five-year-old Lani still takes seven medicines with her breakfast every morning.Shesvery good about it,says her father David.Lani is alive today because of her father David,in morethan one way;when she was one year old she received part of her fathers liver in alivertransplant operation.Lani was born with a liver i l l ne s s.Doctors advised that atransplant was the only way in which she would live.A She had one operation when she was six weeks old,which was not successful.B、David quickly recovered from the operation.C、David was finally able to ride his bike again after about a year.D Doctors hope that she will continue to get stronger and stronger.【正确答案】A第23题【单选题】2005.4 It was long supposed that the main difference between animals and plants was that theformer could move about while the could not.A、otherB latterC anotherD later【正确答案】B第24题【单选题】【填句补文】Some 20,000 tons of antibiotics are used in the European Union and the US each year.More than half are give to farm animals to prevent disease and promote g r o wt h.AThe warning comes from a researcher in Switzerland who looked at levels of the drugs in farmslurry.B、The drugs could be getting into our food and water.C、Many drugs given to humans are also excreted unchanged.D、But recent research has found a direct link between the increased use of these farmyarddrugs and the appearance of antibiotic-resistant bugs that infect people.【正确答案】D第25题【单选题】（填句补文】But Bali starlings are only found in a small area on the island of Bali in Indonesia.Theylive in the tall grasslands near the c o a s t.T o d a y there are only 14 left in the wild on a singlereserve.More than half of their habitat was converted into farmland,and forest plantation.Many ofthem were captured and sold as pets.A、We should take measures to protect them.B、Bali starlings are very beautiful birds.C、They grow fast because of a protein rich diet of insects.D In 1984,there were only 150 birds left in the wild.【正确答案】D第26题【单选题】【填句补文】The weather of the Caribbean Sea is almost always warm and sunny.Sandy beachesline the coasts of many i s l a n d s.Many tourists arrive on cruise ships.A、They are Cuba,Puerto Rico,Jamaica,and Hispaniola.B The Caribbean Islands are known by several names.C、Some of these islands are no more than tiny slivers（小片）of exposed coral.D、This is why millions of tourists visit the islands each year.【正确答案】D第 27题【单选题】【阅读理解】Decibels（分贝）measured in water are different from thosemeasured on land.A noise of one hundred-twenty decibels on land causes pain tohuman ears.In water,a decibel level of one-hundred ninety-five would have thesame effect.Which of the following is discussed in the paragraph?A The same noise level produces a different effect on land and in the ocean.B、Different places may have different types of noises.C、The decibel is not a suitable unit for measuring underwater noise.D、Different ocean animals may have different reactions to noises.【正确答案】A第 28题【单选题】【阅读理解】I was searching for just the right word to describe this book;a wordthat describes something that is perhaps somewhat sad,but in a good way.Icouldnt find quite the right word,but I do know the feellng.This book does makeme feel a bit sad.Sad for the way that childhood passes so quickly,sad for days thatgo by,faster than wed like them to.But it also makes me feel the sweetness ofthese things and helps me remember that childhood imagination,freedom and joyare things that we can carry with us still,long after our days as children havepassed.Which of the following is true about the authors feeling of the book?A、It makes him feel sad for his childhood is sad.B、It makes him feel sad because he didnt remember his happy childhood.C、He couldnt describe the book,for he doesnt know the feeling.D、He real