2015年4月自学考试《英语(一)》试题
2015年4月全国高等教育自学考试《英语(一)》试题
课程代码：00012
一、阅读判断题(第1～10题，每小题1分，共10分)
下面的短文后列出了10个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子作出判断：如果该句提供的是正确信息，选择A；如果该句提供的是错误信息，选择B；如果该句的信息文中没有提及，选择C。在答题卡相应位置上将答案选项涂黑。
The Greatest Gift
One day, I was telling my mother about a new girl in school. Suddenly she asked, "Who are your two best friends, Helen?"
"J ill and J aime."
"Well, what about Karen andCindy?"
"I don't know who their best friends are."
"No," she said. "I mean, why aren't they your best friends?" She seemed upset and hurt.
"But they're my sisters."
"Yes, but they can still be your best friends. Friends may come and go, but your sisters will always be there for you."
At the time, the idea of my sisters being my closest friends seemed strange to me. We used to fight over toys, food, attention and what to watch on television. But my mother never let the three of us forget it: sisters are lifelong friends. Her wish was to give us something that she had never had. When she gave birth to three daughters, the fulfillment (实现) of her dream had only just begun. She had given us each a gift--our sisters and she wanted to make sure we did not take that gift for granted. She would frequently tell us how lucky we were, constantly take us to places together so we grew closer, and would even punish us equally, giving us yet another bonding (亲密关系) experience.
It was somewhere in between Mom's lectures, the family vacations and the shared memories that we realized that Mom was right. Today I share things with my sisters that I share with no one else. My sister Cindy and I ran the New York City Marathon together, side by side, holding hands when crossing the ~mishing line. When Karen got married, I was her maid of honor. The three of us trust each other with our greatest secrets.
It was twenty-three years ago that my mother first asked me who my two best friends were. Today she doesn't have to. She already knows.
1. One day, one of Helen's sisters asked her to be her best friend.（ B ）
A. True B. False C. Not Given
2. Mom believed that sisters should be the best friends to each other. （ A ）
A. True B. False C. Not Given
3. Helen found it easy to accept the idea of having her sisters as her best friends. （ B ）
A. True B. False C. Not Given
4. Helen and her sisters never argued and fought. （ B ）
A. True B. False C. Not Given
5. To help her daughters become best friends, Mom sent them to the same school. （ C ）
A. True B. False C. Not Given
6. Helen's sisters were the greatest gift that Mom gave Helen. （ A ）
A. True B. False C. Not Given
7. Mom punished the sisters equally to make them understand they were（ A ）
connected by blood tie.
A. True B. False C. Not Given
8. Helen and Cindy's friendship was shown by their running the New York（ A ）
Marathon together.
A. True B. False C. Not Given
9. Helen's sister Cindy was not married. （ C ）
A. True B. False C. Not Given
10. The three sisters seldom share their secrets. （ B ）
A. True B. False C. Not Given
二、阅读选择题(第11～15题，每小题2分，共10分)
阅读下面短文，请从短文后所给各题的4个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出1个最佳选项，并在答题卡相应位置上将该项涂黑。
Hares and Rabbits
One of the gentlest of all animals is the hare. When you consider how mild this animal is, you might wonder
how it can survive in a world full of enemies. But then you've also probably noticed its strong hind (后面的) legs.
Those legs give k plenty of speed. And you know how rapidly hares and rabbits breed (繁殖). That's another
reason why they manage to survive.
Hares and rabbits have long, sharp front teeth. Their hind legs are longer than their front legs so that they run faster uphill than downhill. When they are hunted, they use tricks such as taking huge leaps to break the smell or signal danger to each other by hitting the ground with their hind feet. Hares and rabbits are purely vegetarians (素食者). They can live very well on the inner bark of trees.
There are many differences between hares and rabbits. Hares are larger, and their feet and ears are longer. Hares do not dig holes or live in groups, as do rabbits. Hares are born open-eyed and with thick fur, while rabbits are born blind and hairless.
North America is the home of many different types of hares. One of the best known is the jack hare, a large hare with very long ears. Jacks are so fast that they can sometimes make a leap of six meters.
The March hare, whom we know from Alice in Wonderland, is a common European hare. In March, they are always busy in mating, thus acquiring its name.
Unlike hares, rabbits are social animals, living together in holes. A rabbit may mate when it is six months old and its young are born within a month. So if the rabbit has no natural enemies, it can become quite a pest.
11. People are curious about the survival of the hare because（ C ）
A. their legs are not strong enough B. their growth is not fast enough
C. they are too gentle D. they run too slow
12. Hares and rabbits use tricks when they（ B ）
A. run uphill B. are hunted C. signal danger D. take huge leaps
13. Compared with hares, rabbits（ D ）
A. have longer feet B. have thicker fur
C. are born open-eyed D. like to live in groups
14. Many people get to know the March hare from the fact that it（ D ）
A. has long ears and legs B. digs a lot of holes in March
C. can make a leap of six meters D. appears in Alice in Wonderland
15. Rabbits' natural enemies prevent them from（ A ）
A. becoming a big trouble B. breeding when young
C. living in holes D. becoming social animals
三、概括段落大意和丰卜全句子(第16～25题，每小题1分，共10分)
阅读下面短文，请完成短文后的2项测试任务：(1)从第16～20题后所给的6个选项中为第O～⑦段每段选择1个正确的小标题；(2)从第21～25题后所给的6个选项中选择5个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。将答案写在答题卡相应位置上。
Pawn Shops (当铺)
1 Pawn shops are businesses where people bring their possessions to sell or to get a short-term loan. Pawn shops may be large or small, clean or dirty, but they are all full of stories. The United States has about ten thousand of them.
2 In the past few years, pawn shops have been doing business with more people than ever before. That is because many lenders (贷方) now do business only with individuals having good credit records or a high-paying job. Often, the individuals most in need of a loan have poor credit records. But they do not need a good job or credit record to get a loan from a pawnbroker (典当商). They only need to have something of value.
3 When a traditional lender agrees to provide a loan, it may take days or weeks before an individual receives the money. But pawnbrokers will give a loan in just a few minutes based on the resale value of an object and without asking about the person's job or credit history.
4 Many pawn shops specialize in jewelry. But most shops accept ahnost anything of value, including computers, musical instruments, guns, old coins and so on. The item itself acts as the security, or collateral (抵押物), for the loan. If the loan is not repaid, the object can be sold. Customers can get the object back at any time by repaying the loan plus the interest and fees they agreed to pay. Or they can pay the interest and leave the item at the pawn shop for a while longer.
5 The National Pawnbrokers Association is a national trade group representing pawnbrokers. The association calls pawn-brokering "one of humankind's oldest financial institutions." It says pawnbrokers operated three thousand years ago in ancient China and in early Greek and Roman times.
Task 1
16. Paragraph 1: D
17. Paragraph 2: F
18. Paragraph 3: A
19. Paragraph 4: C
20. Paragraph 5: E
A. Quick loan from a pawnbroker
B. Properties of a pawnbroker
C. How does a pawn shop run?
D. What is a pawn shop?
E. Pawn-brokering: a trade with a long history
F. Recent development of pawn shops
Task 2
21. People bring their valuable things to pawn shops to E
22. People who have poor credit records are more likely to A
23. Pawnbrokers pay more attention to the resale value of an object instead of B
24. If customers want to get their objects back they must D
25. The pawn shop may keep the object for a longer time on the condition that F
A. turn to pawn brokers
B. the borrower's job or credit history
C. the customers repay the loan
D. pay back the agreed sum of money
E. get a loan
F. the customers pay the interest
四、填句补文(第26～30题，每小题2分，共10分)
下面的短文有5处空白，短文后有6个句子，其中5个取自短文，请根据短文内容将其分别放回原有位置，以恢复文章原貌，并将答案写在答题卡相应位置上。
Resources
Resources are found in nature. They make a better quality of life for humans. Soil, air, water, sunlight and trees are all examples of resources that humans use every day, whether they know it or not. 26 D
A natural resource is a material found in nature and used by living things. Air, rocks, metals, oil and sak are all natural resources. Renewable (可再生的) resources are resources that can be replaced. 27 E Trees that are cut down can be replaced quickly when seeds or baby trees are planted. Water from our bathtubs (浴盆) can be cleaned for use. Plants, wind and rain can help clean the air to make it safe to breathe even if it comes out of a car or a factory.
Sometimes resources cannot be replaced after they are used. 28 A Once nonrenewable resources are all used up, nature will not be able to replace them. OiL natural gas, soil and metals are all examples of nonrenewable resources.
Coal is another example of a nonrenewable resource. 29 C Humans mine the coal underground and use it as an energy source. Once humans have mined all the coal from inside Earth, there will be no more for us to depend on. 30 F For example, wind and water turbines (涡轮机) are now being used to produce energy.
A. These are called nonrenewable resources.
B. They replace some of the need to burn coal.
C. It is made by nature deep in Earth.
D. Without resources, humans could not live on Earth.
E. Trees, air, water and energy from the sun are renewable resources.
F. Luckily, humans are finding new ways to replace coal.
五、填词补文(第31～40题，每小题1．5分，共15分)
下面的短文有10处空白，短文后列出12个词，其中10个取自短文，请根据短文内容将其分别放回原有位置，以恢复文章原貌，并将答案写在答题卡相应位置上。
How Old Are You?
In English, when we meet people for the first time, there are some sage topics to talk about, such as weather, or which part of the country they come from. We wouldn't ask them whether they were 31 C , or how much they earned, or how 32 K they were.
We learn these politeness rules very 33 G on in life, from around age three. "How old are you?" asks Auntie Ann at little Jimmy's fourth birthday party. "I'm four", 34 D Jimmy. And then he says, "How old are you?" But Auntie Ann won't say. And 35 I , Jimmy learns that one thing you should never 36 J is ask a lady her 37 B !
This is one of the rules of polite 38 A which is found in cultures and languages in many parts of the 39 L but not everywhere. In some Asian cultures questions about age are very 40 E . It's just their way of being friendly.
A. conversation E. common I. gradually
B. age E generally J. do
C. married G. early K. old
D. says H. asks L. world
六、完形补文(第41～50题，每小题1.5分，共15分)
下面的短文有10处空白，每处空白后的括号内有，一个词，请根据短文内容将其正确的形式填入文中，以恢复文章原貌，并将答案写在答题卡相应的位置上。
The Internet
The Intemet is a global (globe) system of computer networks to serve billions of users worldwide. The Intemet has reshaped most 41 traditional (tradition) means of communication including telephone, music, film and television. This has given birth to new 42 development (develop) of mass media. Newspaper, book and other print publishing are 43 adapting (adapt) themselves to this new technology.
The Intemet has 44 enabled (enable) new forms of human communications such as online chatting and social networking. Online shopping has 45 grown (grow) rapidly for major stores and small traders. The business-to-business service on the Intemet affects the supply chains across all 46 industries (industry).
The origins of the Intemet date back to research in the 1960s. The project was to build 47 powerful (power) computer networks. It was supported by the US 48 government (govern) in cooperation with private businesses. By the 1990s, the Intemet was made a commercial 49 product (produce) and became popular worldwide. As of 2011, 50 nearly (near) a third of the Earth's population used the Intemet.
七、短文写作(第51题，30分)
请根据所提供材料中的要求完成一篇80词左右的英文写作任务。将你的答案写在答题卡相应的位置上。
51．
某英语刊物邀请你参加题为“A gift for my father”的征文活动。
以下是你的写作提纲：
●你想送给父亲什么礼物?
●为什么选择这个礼物?
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