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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年淮北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】【阅读理解】Most of us walk and carry items in our hands every day. These are seemingly simple activities that the majority of us dont question. But an international team of researchers, i

2、ncluding Dr. Richmond from GWs Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, have discovered that human walking upright may have originated millions of years ago as an adaptation to carrying scarce, high-quality resources. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the first two paragraphs

3、A、 Many people question the simple human activities of walking and carrying items.B、Chimpanzees behaviors may suggest why humans walk on two legs.C、Human walking upright is viewed as an adaptation to carrying precious resources.D、Our ancestors/ ecological conditions resembled those of modern-day chi

4、mpanzees/.【正确答案】Ahealth risk. Research teams have conducted studies that show beyond all reasonable doubt that tobacco smoking is associated with a shortened life expectancy.Q: Smoking reduces ones life expectancy.A、TrueB、FalseC、Not Given【正确答案】A第19题【单选题】2008.10 Weve milk. Could you stop at the store

5、 on your way home?A、run throughB、run overC、run offD、run out of【正确答案】D第20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 anxious about math

6、, 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 teachers were probably an

7、xious 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21题【单选题】2005.10 Only after class to raise the question.A、did he

8、 allowedB、was he allowedC、he was allowedD、did he allow【正确答案】B第22题【单选题】How can you keep the machine when youre away?A、runB、to runC、runningD、being run【正确答案】C第23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 adv

9、ertisements, for example. We see and hear these 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

10、MessagesC、Advertisements as Important Messages from the Mass MediaD、Various Messages One May Receive Each Day【正确答案】C第24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 H

11、ealth. /zlt 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 longer

12、/ 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 thethings that living longer might enable an individual to doA、Spending more time with his family.B、Having more education.C、Real

13、izing more dreams.D、Working longer.【正确答案】B第25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, who were studying sound communication. They were sending signals from a station on one side of a river in Washington D to

14、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 paragraph 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26

15、题【单选题】（填句补文】As part of their study, the researchers used a special machine to take action photos of the students brains. This is the same part of the brain that becomes active when good readers read. This activated brain area appears to include a structure that helps people recognize familiar writte

16、n words quickly.A、 Do you have difficulty reading in class?B、The pictures showed an increase in activity in the back of the brain on the left side.C、As part of the study, 37 struggling readers received special tutoring.D、By the end of the school year, these children could read faster than before.【正确

17、答案】B第27题【单选题】【完成句子】In the United States, credit card fees have become a political issue. Congress has threatened to take action against some bad behavior by lenders. But getting a credit card has become a lot easier for most people. And many cards offer low rates at first, especially if people agree

18、 to move their money from another card. In the USA, Congress has threatened to take action against some bad behavior to.A、the interest charge on buying somethingB to show people the negative effects that credit cards bring to peopleC、restrain the phenomenon of credit card feesD、A key board【正确答案】C第28

19、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. They live in the tall grasslands near the coast.Today there are only 14 left in the wild on a single reserve. More than half of their habitat was converted into farmland, and forest plantation. Many of th

20、em were captured and sold as pets.A、We should take measures to protect them.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29题【单选题】填句补文】Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps a

21、nd ants, and are known for their role in pollination (授粉)and for producing honey and beeswax.The best-known bee species is the European honey bee, which, as its name suggests, produces honey, as do a few other types of bee.A、There is only one queen in a hive.B、Every bee does a job without being told

22、.C、There are nearly 20,000 known species of bees.D、Bees do not like ice and snow.【正确答案】C第30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 neoc

23、ortex (an area that processes sensory information) 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

24、of milliseconds later by beats in the hippocampus 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 me

25、mory decline to high glucose levels. What 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 toge

26、ther in memory consolidation.D、Somatosensory neocortex plays it primary role in memory consolidation.【正确答案】C第31题【单选题】(完成句子】There are many other traps to avoid. The has found little awareness among drivers about safe parking. Most motorists questioned made no efforts to avoid parking in quiet spots-

27、just the places thieves love. The A.A. advises drivers to park in places with people around- thieves dont like audiences.Car drivers are found to be careless in choosing.A、safe parking spotsB、increase in the number of cars stolenC、non-professional thievesD、lack of parking space【正确答案】A第32题【单选题】【阅读理解】

28、We find that bright children are rarely held back by mixed-ability teaching. On the contrary, both their knowledge and experience are enriched. We feel that there are many disadvantages in streaming pupils. It does not take into account the fact that children develop at different rates. It can have

29、a bad effect on both the bright and the not-so-bright child. After all, it can be quite discouraging to be at the bottom of the top gradeiThe authors attitude towards mixed-ability teaching isA、criticalB、questioningC、approvingD、objective【正确答案】C第33题【单选题】【阅读理解】Decibels （分贝） measured in water are diffe

30、rent from those measured 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 an

31、d 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34题【单选题】【阅读理解】The other side of a state legal apparatus is a state military apparatus. Whi

32、le 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 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

33、 when the state makes its most powerful demands upon its people for their commitment, allegiance, and supreme sacrifice. The word allegiance is closest in meaning to.A、loyaltyB、objectiveC、survivalD motive第35题【单选题】2010.4 After the meeting, Peter turned his to the task at hand.A、energyB、emphasisC atte

34、ntionD、direction【正确答案】C第36题【单选题】阅读理解】I entered the hotel managers office and sat down. I had just lost 50 and I felt very upset. I left the money in my room, I said, and its not there now. The manager was sympathetic, but he could do nothing. Everyone losing money these days. he said. He started to

35、complain about this wicked world but was interrupted by a knock at the door. A girl came in and put an envelope on his desk. It contained 50. I found this outside this gentlemans room. she said. Well, I said to the manager, there is still some honesty in this world!What did the writer believe had ha

36、ppened to his money?A、He had left his money in the managers office.B、Someone had stolen his money.C The manager had the money.D、The girl had stolen the money.第2题【单选题】【概括大意】Bad design is largely to blame, says Sanchez. In a separate survey of CD players last year; her colleague Wolfgang Huber found t

37、hat two machines with similar features used 28 watts and 2 watts respectively on stand-by. For most products, we believe that stand-by power can be reduced to one watt or less, says Sanchez. The main idea of this paragraph is.A、Factor Leading to Energy WasteB、Home AppliancesC、Proposals to Cut Energy

38、 ConsumptionD、Energy Consumption Test【正确答案】A第3题【单选题】【阅读判断】Studies show that children who eat breakfast do better in school. It doesnt take much further thought to believe that adults will feel better and perform better at work as well.Q: Adults who eat breakfast will perform better at work.A、TrueB F

39、alseC、Not Given【正确答案】A第4题【单选题】（阅读理解】“Longer life would give us a chance to recover from our mistakes andpromote long term thinking/7 says Dr Gregory Stock of the University Of California第37题【单选题】2008.10 In terms of electronic devices, its easy to buy exactly you need in a big city.A、thatB、 thoseC wh

40、atD、which【正确答案】C第38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39题【单选题】【阅读理解】Besides, it is rather unreal to grade people just according to their intellectual ability. This is only one aspect of their total personality. We are

41、 concerned to develop the abilities of all our pupils to the full, not just their academic ability. We also value personal qualities and social skills, and we find that mixed-ability teaching contributes to all these aspects of learning.The author argues that a teachers chief concern should be the d

42、evelopment of the students.A、personal qualities and social skillstotal personalityC、learning ability and communicative skillsD、intellectual ability【正确答案】B第40题【单选题】【阅读理解】I found in my babys behaviour a metaphor for the new generation. My wife and I had given him some books to examine, but he merely s

43、pit upon them. When we read to him, he did not feel comfortable. And 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 conc

44、lusion: let them watch it. If television is that much more attractive 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41题【单选题】【填句补文】Gang Xiao and Ben Schrag at Brown Univ

45、ersity, visualize the current by measuring subtle （细微的） changes in the magnetic field of an object and.A、to shrink it to the size of a desktop computerB、to make it capable of measuring very weak changes in magnetic fieldsC、as well as revealing microscopic defects in anything from aircraft to banknot

46、esD、converting the information into a color picture showing the density of current at each point【正确答案】D第42题【单选题】【填句补文】 More and more Americans are living alone. Some live alone because of divorce or the death of a partner. According to a recent U.S. census （人口普查）,25 percent of all households in the

47、U.S. are made up of just one person.A、It seems that many grown-ups today are realizing that childhood dream.B、He says, a like being by myself.C、However; even more people are living alone because they have chosen to.D、Theres more pressure to get married nowadays.【正确答案】C【阅读理解】It had been boring hangin

48、g about the hotel all afternoon. The road crew were playing a game with dollar notes. Folding them into small planes to see whose would fly the furthest. Having nothing better to do, I joined in and won five,and then took the opportunity to escape with my profit. Despite the evil-lookingclouds, I had to get out for a while. Why did the writer want to leave the hotelA、To enjoy the good weather.B、To have a change of scene.C、To spend all his winnings.D、To get away from the crew