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1、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。2022年宁波城市职业技术学院自考英语（二）练习 题汇总（附答案解析）第1题【单选题】概括大意It is not difficult to think of other messages we receive through the mass media. Every day we get hundreds of them. Think about advertisements, for example. We see and hear th

2、ese messages almost everywhere we go. Advertisements are important messages, even though they are sometimes annoying. They help us compare and evaluate products. The main idea of this paragraph is.A、Importance of the Mass MediaB、Media Means to Communicate MessagesC、Advertisements as Important Messag

3、es from the Mass MediaD、Various Messages One May Receive Each Day【正确答案】C第2题【单选题】【阅读判断 J Since 1939, numerous studies have been conducted to determine whether smoking is a health hazard. The trend of the evidence has been consistent and indicates that there is a serious health risk. Research teams ha

4、ve conducted studies that show beyond all reasonable doubt that2007,4 Each one of us, old or young, is a valuable member of society.A、howeverB、wheneverC whoeverD、no matter【正确答案】A第20题【单选题】【阅读判断】El Nino tends to develop between April and June and reaches its peak between December and February. The war

5、ming tends to last between 9 and 12 months and occurs every two to seven years.lt takes about eight months for El Nino to reach its peak.A、TrueB、FalseC、Not Given【正确答案】A第21题【单选题】【阅读理解】Another problem the village people face is the destruction caused by wild animals such as the elephant. Elephants wil

6、l walk through and destroy their crops, trees and huts in just one night. The cheap and easy solution is to soak ropein chili water and put it up around their fence and it will keep the elephants andother wild animals away.ln the local village, ElephantsA、are important for farmingB、are the only wild

7、 animalsC、often cause trouble to villagers cropsD、can be found in each family【正确答案】C第22题【单选题】【阅读理解】I found in my baby/s behaviour a metaphor for the new generation. My wife and I had given him some books to examine, but he merely spit upon them. When we read to him, he did not feel comfortable. And

8、so it is in the schools. We find that our students dont read, that they look down upon reading and scold those of us who teach it. All they want to do is watch TV. After this experience with the baby, however, I have reached a conclusion: let them watch it. If television is that much more attractive

9、 to children than books why should we fight it? Let them watch it all they wantiFrom the passage we know that the author isA、a doctor.B、 an editor.C、a writer.D、a teacher.【正确答案】D第23题【单选题】【阅读理解】Young musicians in African countries are creating a new kind of pop music. The tunes and the rhythms of thei

10、r music combine African traditions with various forms of music popular today, such as hip-hop, rap, rock, jazz, or reggae. The result is music that may sound familiar to listeners anywhere in the world, but at the same time is distinctly African. It is different also in another way Many of the songs

11、 are very serious and they deal with important social or political issues in Africa today. This passage is about how African pop music is.A、usually about love and romanceB more serious than most pop musicC、popular with young people in AfricaD、mostly written just for entertainment【正确答案】B第24题【单选题】2009

12、.7 Ive had a few jobs with long periods of unemployment inA、amongB、betweenC、 that【正确答案】B第25题【单选题】【阅读理解】The researchers also gave the students tests to tell whether the students believed that a math superstar had to be a boy. Then the researchers turned to the teachers To find out which teachers were

13、 anxious about math, the researchers asked the teachers how they felt at times when they came across math, such as when reading a sales receipt. A teacher who got nervous looking at the numbers on a sales receipt, for example, was probably anxious about math. According to the experiment, those teach

14、ers were probably anxious about math when they felt.A、nervous memorizing the numbers of a sales receiptB、helpless saving the numbers of a sales receiptC、uneasy reading the numbers of a sales receiptD、hopeless filling in the numbers of a sales report【正确答案】C第26题【单选题】【阅读理解】I have learnt of a plan to bu

15、ild three hundred houses on the land called Parsons Place by the football ground. Few people know about this new plan to increase the size of our town. For me, Parsons Place is special because it is a beautiful natural area where local people can relax - the small wood has many unusual trees and the

16、 stream is popular with fishermen and bird-watchers. It/s very quiet because there are few houses or roads nearby. I think that losing this area will be terrible because we have no other similar facilities in the neighbourhood.Why is Parsons Place particularly important, in Alans opinionA、Because it

17、 is near the football ground.B、Because lots of people live near it.C、Because it is a place near the town where people can enjoy nature.D、Because local people can get there easily by car from the town.【正确答案】C第27题【单选题】2007. 4 As his parents died when he was young, he was by his uncle.A、brought upB、gro

18、wn upC、brought outD、taken out【正确答案】A第28题【单选题】If he had not missed the train, he by then.A、might getB、should have gotC、gotD s had got【正确答案】B第29题【单选题】阅读理解】In 2006, Blackburn, of the University of California, San Francisco, and Greider, of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, shared the Lasker prize

19、for basic medical research with Jack Szostak of Harvard Medical School. Their work set the stage for research suggesting that cancer cells use telomerase to sustain their uncontrolled growth. The research by Blackburn and Greider helps suggest the role of.A、money in medical researchB、proteins in can

20、cer treatmentC、hormones in the functioning of lifeD、telomerase in the growth of cancer cells【正确答案】D第30题【单选题】2004,04 His best film,won several, is about the life of Martin Luthur King.A、thatB、whereC、whichD、whether【正确答案】C第31题【单选题】【阅读理解】You play the lottery （彩票）each day and there are two options （选 择）:

21、either you hit the jackpot and your life changes greatly or you lose and you have to start it from the very beginning. On the contrary, its well known that if you dont take risks, you cant win, so the best solution is always to think over and over again, to see what your decisions could represent in

22、 your future and only afterwards to make up your mind.While making a decision, you are advised toA、refer to your experienceB、think twice before you leapC、turn to parentsD、prepare to take a risk【正确答案】B第32题【单选题】【填句补文】The black robin （旅鸩）is one of the worlds rarest birds. It is a small, wild bird, and

23、it lives only on the island of Little Mangere, off the coast of New Zealand. In 1967 there were about fifty black robins there; in 1977 there were fewer than ten.A、These are the only black robins left in the world.B、Those that fail to meet the challenges will disappear early.C、 Both represent orders

24、 in the classification of life.D s Detailed studies are going on, and a public appeal for money has been made.【正确答案】A第33题【单选题】（阅读理解】“Longer life would give us a chance to recover from our mistakes and promote long term thinking/ says Dr Gregory Stock of the University Of California School Of Public

25、Health. /#lt would also raise productivity by adding to the year we can work. Longer lives dont just affect the people who live them. They also affect society as a whole. We have war, poverty, all sorts of issues around, and I dont think any of them would be at all helped by having people live longe

26、r/ says US bioethicist Daniel Callahan. The question is What will we get as a societys suspect it wont be a better society.Which of the following is NOT mentioned as one of the things that living longer might enable an individual to doA、Spending more time with his family.B、Having more education.C、Re

27、alizing more dreams.D、Working longer.【正确答案】B第34题【单选题】【填句补文】Once upon a time there was a rich village. The wealthiest of the villagers decided to hide a huge lump （堆）of gold to protect it from robbers.A A poor old farmer decided to plow the field.B、When you are always ready to share your own things w

28、ith others, you are doomed to benefit from it.C、And I will receive the honor with the fourth by giving it to the needy.D、So he buried it in a nearby rice field.【正确答案】D第35题【单选题】概括大意Radar is now a familiar tool. Like many others it was an unexpected discovery. It was first observed by two researchers,

29、 who were studying sound communication. They were sending signals from a station on one side of a river in Washington D to a vehicle across the river. They discovered that their signals were stopped by passing ships. They recognized the importance of this discovery at once.The main idea of this para

30、graph is.A、Study of RadarB、Radar is now a familiar toolC、Radar Working PrinciplesD、Radar was Discovered by Chance【正确答案】D第36题【单选题】【概括大意】Fords great strength was the manufacturing process-not invention. Long before he started a car company, he was a worker, known for picking up pieces of metal and wir

31、e and turningthem into machines. He started putting cars together in 1891. Although it was by no means the first popular automobile, the Model T showed the world just how creative Ford was at combining technology and market. The main idea of this paragraph is.A、Fords OpponentsB、Fords Great TalentC、F

32、ords Great DreamD、The Establishment of the Company【正确答案】B第37题【单选题】【阅读理解】Writing for the content sites such as the Yahoo! Contributor Network also interests me. Ive been trying creative writing, news, reviews and numerous lifestyle issues. And all of these topics have been of my own choosing. Then th

33、ere is the opportunity to meet other writers. The Yahoo! Contributor Network has a wonderful in-house messaging system that allows its writers to communicate easily with one another. Not all your tries are rosy and easy when you write for a content site, but you will get much benefit if you try it.

34、What is the benefit that the Yahoo! Contributor Network offers according to the author?A、You can have all your articles published.B、You can get a lot of rewards from the site.C、You can easily communicate with other writers.D、You can use its information and messages free.tobacco smoking is associated

35、 with a shortened life expectancy.Q: Smoking reduces ones life expectancy.A TrueFalseC、Not Given【正确答案】A第3题【单选题】【阅读理解】You play the lottery （彩票）each day and there are two options （选 择）:either you hit the jackpot and your life changes greatly or you lose and you have to start it from the very beginning

36、. On the contrary, its well known that if you dont take risks, you cant win, so the best solution is always to think over and over again, to see what your decisions could represent in your future and only afterwards to make up your mind.While making a decision, you are advised toA、refer to your expe

37、rienceB、think twice before you leapC、turn to parentsD、prepare to take a risk【正确答案】B第4题【单选题】To some extent the good service at the hotel the poor food.【阅读理解】The problem of leisure is new. Until very recent times people worked each day to the limit of their strength. Of course there were always a priv

38、ileged 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 to sundown“ was the farmers day, or as another phrase puts it, “from can to cant.The phrase “from can to cant means,A、from b

39、eginning to endB、from birth to deathC、from morning to nightD、from time to time【正确答案】C第39题【单选题】【阅读理解】As well, there are 2,000 transmitter towers around Australia, many in high density （密度） residential areas. For example, Telstra, Optus and Vodaphone build their towers where it is geographically suita

40、ble to them and disregard the need of the community. The radiation emitted from these towers may have already produced some harmful effects on the health of the residents nearby.Many transmitter towers were builtA、on high mountains.B、in places suitable to the phone users.C in areas which can take in

41、 radiation.D、in densely populated areas.【正确答案】D第40题【单选题】【阅读理解】Gyorgy Buzsaki of Rutgers University and his colleagues analyzed the brain waves of sleeping rats and mice. Specifically, they examined the electrical activity emanating from the somatosensory neocortex (an area that processes sensory inf

42、ormation) and the hippocampus, which is a center for learning and memory. The scientists found that oscillations in brain waves from the two regions appear to be intertwined. So-called sleep spindles (bursts of activity from the neocortex) were followed tens of milliseconds later by beats in the hip

43、pocampus known as ripples. The team posits that this interplay between the two brain regions is a key step in memory consolidation. A second study, also published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, links age-associated memory decline to high glucose levels. What

44、 is the result of the experiment with rats and mice carried out at Rutgers UniversityA、The electrical activity is emanating from the somatosensory neocortex.B、Oscillations in brain waves are from hippocampus.C Somatosensory neocortex and hippocampus work together in memory consolidation.D、Somatosens

45、ory neocortex plays it primary role in memory consolidation.第41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 a person than the arrival of someone with

46、 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

47、 time to get to know each other.【正确答案】D第42题【单选题】Health good food, fresh air and enough sleep.A、relyB、 dependC depends onD、consist of【正确答案】C【填句补文】When do people decide whether or not they want to become friends? During their first four minutes together, according to a book by Dr. Leonard Zunin. In hi

48、s book, Contact: The first four minutes, he offers this advice to anyone interested in starting new friendships:. A lot of peoples whole lives would change if they did just that.A、That is not the time to complain about ones health or to mention faults one finds in other people.B、Every time you meet someone in a social situation, give him your undivided attention for four minutes.C It is not the time to tell the whole truth about ones opinions and impressions.D、He is eager to make friends with everyone.【