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1、2022年华中科技大学武昌分校自考英语（二） 练习题汇总（附答案解析）第1题【单项选择题】She was be unable to speak.A、such angry as toB、so angry as toC、as angry as toD、angry so as to【正确答案】B【答案解析】so+形容词+ast。表示“如此生气以至于第2题【单项选择题】【填句补文】Home schooling is often more interesting than regular schools, but critics say that home-schoolers are outsiders

2、 who might be uncomfortable mixing with other people in adult life. However, most parents dont have the time or the desire to teach their children at home, so schools will continue to be where most children get their formal education.A、Critics also say that most parents are not well qualified to tea

3、ch their children. B、A number of parents prefer not to send their children to school.C、Children who are educated at home are known as home-schoolers.D、Others believe they can provide a better educational experience for their children by teaching them at home.【正确答案】A【答案解析】本段大意是对home schooling提出了质疑，需要

4、注意前面说到 了critics say”,空格处与之对应的是“Critics also say”。reports that about 53, 000 people die in the United States each year as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke.A、The risk is even higher for children who live in homes where both parents smoke.B、 In the United States, nine million children under the

5、 age of five live in homes with at least one smoker.C、 This smoke is called secondhand smoke.D、 No one knows for sure why Mr. Gilson has lung cancer.【正确答案】c【答案解析】前一句提到，不吸烟者时常吸入他人香烟中冒出的烟，接下来应首 选对此烟加以定义的句子。第20题【单项选择题】【填句补文】Home schooling is often more interesting than regular schools, but critics say

6、that home-schoolers are outsiders who might be uncomfortable mixing with other people in adult life. However, most parents dont have the time or the desire to teach their children at home, so schools will continue to be where most children get their formal education.A、Critics also say that most pare

7、nts are not well qualified to teach their children.B、A number of parents prefer not to send their children to school.C、Children who are educated at home are known as home-schoolers.D、Others believe they can provide a better educational experience for their children by teaching them at home.【正确答案】A【答

8、案解析】本段大意是对home schooling提出了质疑，需要注意前面说到 了critics say”,空格处与之对应的是“Critics also say。第21题【单项选择题】2007.04 The newspaper will have to close down if it cannot increase its10 considerably.A、distributionB、contributionC、prescriptionD、circulation【正确答案】D【答案解析】此题考查词义辨析。circulation：（书报杂志的）销售量，发行额, 销路。符合句意。第22题【单项选择

9、题】【阅读选择】But Ellen really became famous in 2001. Aged only 24, she was one of only two women who entered the Vendee Globe round the world solo race（单人环 球帆船比赛）,which lasts 100 days. Despite many problems, she came second in the race out of 24 competitors and she was given a very warm welcome when she

10、returned.In the Vendee Globe race, Ellen won.A、a gold medalB、The Best Woman Sailor awardC、The “Young Sailor of the Year awardD、the second place【正确答案】D【答案解析】细节查找题答案特点：答案一般在原文有共同或相似关键词。第23题【单项选择题】2009.04 Don/t trust everything you have read in the newspapers.A、whichB、 thatC asD、what【正确答案】B11【答案解析】此题考查

11、定语从句。译文：不要相信你在报纸上读到的每件事。定 语从句所修饰的先行词是不定代词everything,应选B。第24题【单项选择题】2009.04 Ive got the order from the boss that the work finished before5 p.m. today.A、would beB、beC、will have beenD、could be【正确答案】B【答案解析】此题考查名词从句中的虚拟语气。译文:我已经从老板那得到指令， 这项工作在今天下午五点钟之前要完成。详细解答：that引导同位语从句，说明 order的内容。同时从句要用虚拟语气，从句谓语用shou

12、ld+动词原形的形式， should可以省略。第25题【单项选择题】【I阅读选择】You can/t change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe youre sleepy in the evening but you must stay up late anyway. Counteract your cycle to some extent by habitually staying up lat

13、er than you want to. If your energy is low in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This wont change your cycle, but youll get up steam and work better at your low point.If one wants to work more efficiently at his low point in the morning, he

14、 should.A、change his energy cycleB、overcome his lazinessC、get up earlier than usualD、go to bed earlier【正确答案】C12【答案解析】此题要求读者找出本段中的最后两句，并联系本段开头两句的意思, 作出正确判断。本段开头说，“虽然你无法改变自己的能量周期，但你可以使你 的生活适合这一周期。Dr. Kleitman认为经常性的行为（对你的能量周期）能起作 用。”最后两句又说，.rise before your usual hour.work better at your low point. （如果

15、你在上午处于能量的低潮，但你有重要的工作要在上午做，那么 你就要比平时早起。这并不改变你的周期，但你可以在低潮时得到能量，工作得 更好。）因此选项C是正确答案。第26题【单项选择题】【I阅读选择】The United States perceives itself to be a middle-class nation. However; middle class is not a real designation, nor does it carry privileges. It is more of a perception, which probably was as true as i

16、t ever could be right after World War II. The economy was growing, more and more people owned their own homes, workers had solid contracts with the companies that employed them, and nearly everyone who wanted a higher education could have one. The information in this passage deals with.A、an individu

17、alB、a social and economic groupC、a political organizationD Government【正确答案】B【答案解析】答案选B。通过阅读本段，middle class中产阶级是一个群体，选答 案B。第27题【单项选择题】【阅读选择】On the other hand, on the moon there will be an attraction between the butter and the moon; but the butter will weigh only about one-sixth as much as it does on

18、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 of13material in it. A packet of butter has a gravitational pull of its own; but this is very small in relation to the pull of something as large as the m

19、oon, or the earth, or the sun.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

20、 its gravitational pull.【正确答案】B【答案解析】此题定位词是not feel.packet of butter,找到原文中A packet of butter has a gravitational pull of its own; but this is very small in relation to the pull of something as large as the moon, or the earth, or the sun.所以答案是 B。 C 项错在 disappearo第28题【单项选择题】【填句补文】Rough estimates in th

21、e past have predicted similarly disappointing results. Says Sallie Chishol, an environmental engineer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But the take-home message is the same. Ocean fertilization is not the answer to global warming.A、These are newer and better models,B、 Its opponents ar

22、gue, however, that it will stop global warming.C、 Adding iron to patches of ocean can make plankton bloom temporarily.D、As plankton die and settle on the ocean floor, their carbon is supposedly locked up in the seabed.【正确答案】A【答案解析】这个问题可以根据引号来作答，因为空格后面有“says这个词，它 预示着所填入的句子应该是带引号的。A的意思是：这些是比拟新的也是比拟好 的

23、模型。第29题【单项选择题】14【阅读选择】People suspected that “Lucky”, as he was called by friends, wanted to kill his wife he no longer lived with. They say that Lucan entered his old house and in the dark, Idled the nanny by mistake. His estranged wife heard noises, came downstairs and was also attacked, but manage

24、d to escape. Seven months after the murder, a jury concluded that Lucan had killed the nanny.lt is thought that Lucan killed the nanny because.A、she was looking after the childrenB、she was a friend of LucansC、it was dark and he thought she was Lady LucanD、Loa rd Lucan thought the nanny stole his car

25、【正确答案】c【答案解析】答案选C。因果关系题。对照本段People suspected thatLucky, as he was called by friends, wanted to kill his wife he no longer lived with. They say that Lucan entered his old house and in the dark, killed the nanny by mistake.本来是 要杀他的妻子，可是因为天太黑，所以错杀了保姆。答案选C。第30题【单项选择题】2008,10 Never before so rapidly deve

26、loping as it is today.A、has our country beenB、has been our countryC、our country has beenD、our country been has【正确答案】A【答案解析】【译文】我们国家从未像现在这样高速开展。【试题分析】语法题。 a （参看Unit 5课后的补充语法语序中的例句）【详细解答】否认词never在句 首，该句子应采用局部倒装。第31题【单项选择题】2009.01 Modern economics the countrys agricultural policies.15A、undergoesB、under

27、standsC、underliesD undertakes【正确答案】c【答案解析】此题考查词义辨析。句意：现代经济学是国家农业政策的基础。考 查形近动词词义。A经历，经受；B 了解；C成为的基础；D承当，保证。第32题【单项选择题】【阅读选择】Who was this man? How and when had he died? Everybody had a different answer to these questions. Some people thought that it was from this century, perhaps the body of a soldier

28、 who died in World War I, since several soldiers had already been found in the area. A Swiss woman believed it might be her father, who had died in those mountains twenty years before and whose body had never been found. The scientists who rushed to look at the body thought it was probably much olde

29、r, maybe even a thousand years old. All the followings are assumptions once made about the Iceman EXCEPT.A、he was a soldier in World War IB、he was a Swiss womans long-lost fatherC、he was born about a thousand years agoD、he came from Italy【正确答案】D【答案解析】解题步骤：四个选项逐个回到原文对应位置，确认是否正确。第33题【单项选择题】2007.04 Bec

30、ause of the bad weather, the sports meet had to be.A、shut downB、done away C gone off16D、called off【正确答案】D【答案解析】此题考查词义辨析。call off：取消，符合句意。shutdown：关闭（工 厂）；（工厂）停工，关闭。do away常与with搭配，构成do away with。go off： 爆炸，（闹铃）响。第34题【单项选择题】2009.10 The room was quiet,the occasional coughing from my throat.A、in caseB、

31、except forC、by farD、instead of【正确答案】B【答案解析】此题考查介词短语意义区分。【译文】这个房间很安静，除了偶尔 从我喉咙里发出的咳嗽声以外。A以免、以防万一 B除了以外C到目前 为止D代替、而不是第35题【单项选择题】2009.10 Poor speaker of English though he was at the time, he still managed to make himself.A、understandB、understoodC、understandingD、to understand【正确答案】B【答案解析】此题考查语法。那个时候虽然他说

32、英语说得不好，但仍然可以让别 人听懂。非谓语动词的选用。过去分词作宾语补足语表示被动以及动作的完成。第36题【单项选择题】17【I阅读选择】The other side of a state legal apparatus is a state military apparatus. While the one protects the individual from violence, the other sacrifices the individual to violence in the interests of the state. In war the state affirms

33、supreme power over the individuals within its own borders. War is not simply a trial by combat to settle disputes between states; it is the moment when the state makes its most powerful demands upon its people for their commitment, allegiance, and supreme sacrifice. The word allegiance is closest in

34、 meaning to.A、loyaltyB、objectiveC、survivalD、motive【正确答案】A【答案解析】解此题可用同类词关系进行判断。在“allegiance前后的两个词分别 是commitment和sacrifice,应能判断出这三个词相对于国家而言是同一类词， 再利用排除法，不难选出正确答案A。第37题【单项选择题】2008,04 That proposal is essentially irrelevant the issue at hand.A、withB、fromC、inD、to【正确答案】D【答案解析】此题考查介词的固定搭配。句子翻译：那个提案与手头上的问题根

35、 本无关。irrelevant to 表示： 与无关。第38题【单项选择题】【阅读选择】Two thousand years ago the Chinese had already developed a working compass. A piece of lodestone （天然磁石）would be cut into the shape of a ladle （长18 柄勺）. Placed on a stone board with a smooth surface, the lodestone would move round until the handle of the la

36、dle pointed south while the bulk （主体）of the ladle was attracted to magnetic north. This interestingly shaped device is mentioned in a book from about 80. Other ancient books may have dated it as far back as the fourth century Jade （玉石）finders played an important role in the invention of the ladle. T

37、hey travelled great distances to look for jade. In order not to lose directions, they would take a ladle with them.When did the Chinese invent the compass?A、In 1492.B、 In the thirteen century A.D.C、In A.D. 80.D、At least 2000 years ago.【正确答案】D【答案解析】本段中 Two thousand years ago the Chinese had already d

38、eveloped a working compass.直接告诉我们中国创造指南针的时间。第39题【单项选择题】2009.04 She everything else and concentrated on the task before her.A、set offB、set backC、set asideD、set up【正确答案】c【答案解析】此题考查短语意义辨析。译文：她把其他事情都放到一边，集中精 力于她面前的任务。详细解答：A出发、动身；B把（某物）置于之后、延迟； C撇开、取消、废除；D建立、提出。第40题【单项选择题】【阅读选择The world is not only hungr

39、y; it is also thirsty for water. This may seem strange to you, since nearly 75% of the earths surface is covered with water. But19第3题【单项选择题】【2009.7 The judge who was to his favorite was criticized by many people.A、partialB、fairC strictD、frank【正确答案】A【答案解析】此题句意为：许多人批评了偏袒他自己喜爱（球队或球员）的那个 裁判员。考查形容词的意义区分。

40、A偏袒的，不公平的；B公正的；C严格的， 严厉的；D坦率的。第4题【单项选择题】【完成句子】Sagan was noted for the vigour of his logic style, especially when criticizing some piece of pseudoscience （伪科学）.I remembered a 1973 AAAS meeting at which he destroyed the theories of Immanuel Velikovsky, who was maintaining that only a few thousands of

41、years ago, Venus had repeatedly collided with Earth and Mars; events well noted. Velikovsky said, in the bible.In Sagans opinion, Velikovsky might be.A、a member of the National Academy of ScienceB、a pseudo-scientistC、a science populariserD、a reporter【正确答案】B【答案解析】从这段文字中，我们可以了解到作者认为，Sagan与伪科学作斗争 的一个实例

42、就是Sagan摧毁了 Velikovsky的错误论述，即Velikovsky提出，在过 去几千年中，水星与地球和火星反复屡次相撞，这在圣经中有加载。第5题【单项选择题】 about 97% of this huge amount is sea-water; or salt water. Man can only drink and use the other 3%-the fresh water that comes from rivers, lakes, underground, and other sources. And we cannot even use all of that, b

43、ecause some of it is in the form of icebergs （次（山）and glaciers （次l） . Even worse, some of it has been polluted.What percentage of the earths water can man actually use at present?A、Nearly 75 per cent.B、About 97 per cent.C、Exactly 3 per cent.D、Less than 3 percent.【正确答案】D【答案解析】根据本段得知，地球上只有3%的水适于人类饮用，然

44、而局部以冰 山或冰川的形式存在，还有的被污染，因而实际上人类能用的水要低于3%。第41题【单项选择题】2009.01 You should help them when your friends quarrel with each other.A、come into sightB、come to termsC、come into playD、come to power【正确答案】B【答案解析】此题考查短语的习惯用法。句意：当你的朋友吵架时，你应当帮助 他们协调一下。come into或come to都表示进入（某种状态）。A映入眼帘； B.达成协议，妥协；C开始运作；D.上台，开始掌权。第42

45、题【单项选择题】【阅读判断】 Whether you work at home, on the farm, at the office, at school, or on the road， it is not a good idea to skip （故意略去）breakfast.Q: It is okay to skip breakfast if you work at home.A、True20B、FalseC、Not Given【正确答案】B【答案解析】答案选B。原句的意思是：无论一个人在哪干活，不吃早餐都不是 个好主意。因此该命题是错误的。第43题【单项选择题】2007.04 Jen

46、ny complained that the hospital her too much for the treatment.A、 expendedB、paidC、costD、charged【正确答案】D【答案解析】此题考查词义辨析。charge：要价；索价；要人支付；收费。例如： The fruit seller charged me too much money.这个水果商要了我很多的钱。第44题【单项选择题】【阅读判断】Back in 1969, US President Richard Nixon confidently predicted: In the next 50 years,

47、 we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think.” Today, not too far off Nixons deadline, America is looking at that possibility. Over the weekend, Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of former president Bill Clinton, announced her run for 2008 presidency.Q: Up to the present, no woman has b

48、een elected president in the US.A、TrueB、FalseC Not Given【正确答案】A【答案解析】答案选Ao问题句说迄今为止在美国没有一个女人曾经被选举为21总统。本段说的是“1969年,美国总统Richard Nixon很有信心地预测：在下一 个50年里，我们将会看见一个女总统，这或许比你想象的更快些，。今天距离 Nixon总统给出的最终期限已经不远了，美国人现在正关注这可能性。相邻语句 的句意相关，显然，定冠词结构the possibility指答案相关句中提到的可能出现 美国女总统。从该句中可以推断出“从1969年到现在为止，美国还没有出现女 总统。因此问题句提供了正确信息。第4