2014年4月英语二试题及答案

2014年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试
英语（二）试卷
(课程代码00015)
第一部分选择题（共20分）
一，阅读判断（第1-10题，每题1分，共10分）
下面的短文后列出了十个句子，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,并在“答题卡”
上将相应字母涂黑。

Table manners
People who go to a formal western dinner party for the first time may be surprised by the table manners in western culture. Knowing them will help you make a good impression. Having good table manners means knowing, for example, how to use knives and forks, when to drink a toast and how to behave at the table. Beside your napkin(餐巾)，you will find a small bread roll and three glasses----one for white wine, one for red wine, and one for water. There are two pairs of knives and forks on the table, forks on the left and knives on the right of the plate. When you see two spoons(汤匙)，the big one is for the soup and the small one for the dessert. The knife and fork that are closest to your plate are a little bit bigger than ones beside them. When you sit down at the table, you can take your napkin, unfold it and put it on your lap(膝盖)。

Dinner starts with a small dish, which is often called starters. Some people pray before they start eating, and other people may keep silent for a moment. After the starter you will get a bowl of soup—but only one bowl of soup and never ask for a second serving. The next dish is the main course (主菜). Many westerners think the chicken breast with its tender white flesh is the best part of the bird. Some people can use their fingers when they are eating chicken or other birds, but never touch beef or other meat on bones. It is polite to finish eating everything on your plate, so don’t take more food than you need. At table, you should try to speak quietly and smile a lot, but do not laugh all the time.
Most westerners like soft drinks if they will drive home. Many of them drink white or red wine with the food. When drinking to someone’s health, you raise your glasses, but the glasses should not touch. The custom of toasting in some parts of China is to finish the drink at once, but westerners usually take only a sip. For drinking during a dinner, the best advice is never to drink too much.
Table manners change over time. They follow the fashion of the day. Besides, table manners are only important at formal dinner parties. If you’re not sure what to do, you can always follow your hosts. Although good manners always make you look good, you do not need to worry about all these rules while having dinner with your friends or family.
1.The table manners in western dinner parties are the same as those in China.
A.True
B. False
C. Not Given
2.The people in western dinner parties usually use the knives and forks.
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
3.People in western dinner parties use the same glass for different drinks.
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
4.You should put the napkin around your neck when you sit down.
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
5.The napkin in western dinner parties has different colors and sizes.
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
6.People can use fingers to eat any meat on bones in western dinner parties.
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
7.You shouldn’t take more food than you can eat.
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
8.It is better for people to finish the drink at once.
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
9.People are only allowed to drink two glasses of wine at the dinner.
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
10.If you are not clear about the table manners, you can follow your hosts.
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
二阅读选择（第11-15题，每题2分，共10分）
阅读下面短文，请从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A,B,C,D）中选出一个最佳选项，并在“答题卡”上将相应字母涂黑。

The Successful Clothing Shop
The success story started in northern Italy towards the end of the Second World War. Leone Benetton had a bicycle rental (租赁) business in the town of Treviso. He wanted his eldest son Luciano to study and become a doctor. After Leone died, the family was poor and Luciano decided to leave school and get a job. He found work in a clothing store but soon had his won ideas and started a family clothing company producing colorful woolen sweaters for people only used to wearing dull colors. Shops selling only Benetton sweaters opened in many Italian cities and by 1974, there were stores in France, Germany and Belgium.
It was clear that the success of the Benetton business lay in the strength of the family at this stage. In 1975 Luciano married the 20-year-old Marina Salomon who worked in one of his shops. After careful research, Benetton opened his first shop in the USA, in Manhattan, New York, where it attracted some very special customers including Princess Diana and Jackie Onassis. In 1982 Luciano was introduced to Oliviero Toscani, the photographer who was to change the image(形象)of Benetton forever.
Although Benetton was growing very quickly, it needed an international image and for this reason in the early 1980s, it decided to provide money for formula 1 motor racing. This was followed by the advertising campaigns(广告攻势)for which the company became famous.
Luciano Benetton succeeded in turning the company he started in the 1950s into one of the world’s most successful businesses but he paid a high personal price. He spent so much of his life
working and traveling that he lost touch with his family and friends.
11.Leone Benetton wanted his son to be ___________.
A. a designer
B. a policeman
C. a doctor
D. a manager
12. Shops selling only Benetton sweaters can be found the following countries EXCEPT _______.
A. France
B. Germany
C. Italy
D. Japan
13. What was the most important factor for the success of the Benetton business in the early period?
A. His boss
B. His family
C. His coworkers
D. His photographer
14. Why did Benetton shops decide to provide money for formula 1 motor racing?
A. Because Luciano Benetton enjoyed driving formula 1 motor。

B. Because they wanted to set up an international image.
C. Because the formula 1 motor racing is popular in the world.
D. Because they had made a huge amount of money.
15. Luciano Benetton made great success in his business but lost _______.
A. his health
B. his wealth
C. his friendship
D. his confidence
第二部分非选择题（共80分）
三，概括段落大意和补全句子（第16-25题，每题1分，共10分）
阅读下面短文，请完成短文后的两项测试任务：（1）从第16-20题后所给的6个选项中为第①--⑤段每段选择一个正确的小标题；（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。

在“非选择题”答题区内作答。

Energy recycling ( 能量再利用)
○1Every day, people throw away a lot of rubbish. Some of the rubbish, such as food, paper and iron, rots away over a long period of time. But plastics and rubber never rot. If they are burned, they give off poisonous gases. How to get rid of these things is a big problem.
○2Fortunately, people are beginning to realize just how serious the whole situation is. In many countries, laws have been passed to prevent factories form sending out poisonous gases and polluted water.
○3Many natural materials are becoming scarce. Scientists have found ways to take some useful things out of the waste materials and use them again. This is called recycling. Steel, iron, glass, cloth and paper can all be recycled.
○4Waste water, too, can be recycled. When the waste water from factories is made clean and reused, a lot of money is saved. Waste water from a number of cities is “cleaned” before flowing back into rivers. Today, many rivers that were polluted are getting cleaner and cleaner. Fish and birds are returning to these rivers, and the water in them is no longer
poisonous or dangerous to people ’s health.
○
5 Man is fighting a battle against pollution. Yet, the battle will not be won until everyone knows how serious the danger is, and does something to stop it.
T ask 1
16. paragraph ○
1 17. paragraph ○
2 18. paragraph ○
3 19. paragraph ○
4 20. paragraph ○
5
Task 2
21. Burning plastics and rubber will produce____________.
22. Laws have been passed to prevent factories from producing poisonous gases and __________.
23. Steel, iron, glass, cloth and paper can be used again,
which is called __________. 24. Water recycling can save _____________. 25. People are carrying out a fight against _____________.
四，填句补文 （第26-30题，每题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，并在“非选择题”答题区作答。

Bamboo
Although bamboo is really a kind of grass, it looks more like a tree —a beautiful tree. It has long leaves that sway in the wind like slim fingers reaching to touch something. Chinese and Japanese poets write poems and songs about bamboo. _____26_____.
Not all bamboo grows tall. Altogether there are more than 500 different kinds of bamboo, and some grow no higher than your ankles. Bamboo grows best in places where it is warm and where it rains often. ______27______. If they are growing near a house, their slim leaves brush the roof gently and cool the house with their shade.
Some bloom and have seeds every year. Some bloom only once, after living about forty years, and then die. _____28_____. However, new shoots of bamboo will come up from around the roots of the old ones.
But the most interesting things about this remarkable plant is what people do with it after it is cut down. People can sue bamboo to make chairs, tables, curtains, cooking pots, flower vases, drinking cups. _____29______.
Bamboo is not a tree, remember, so the long straight stems of bamboo are not like tree wood. They are very light. _____30______. At the same time, bamboo is so strong that people use it to build houses and even high bridges over rivers.
A.You can lift a big piece of bamboo with one hand
B.Some never bloom at all
C.Artists paint it in pictures
D.Did you ever see grass growing high as a tree?
E.Some kinds of bamboo grow very fast
F.And the fence around their garden is made of bamboo too
五，填词补文（第31—40题，每题1.5分，共15分）
下面的短文有10出空白，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，并在“非选择题”答题区内作答。

A Trip to Sichuan
During the first week of May, I went on a holiday to Sichuan. First, I found some photos of interesting places which were not far away from Chengdu. I decided to go and see the big Buddha in Leshan and Mount Emei, which wasn’t too expensive. My friends, Xiao Rong and Wei Bin, said they would come with me. We took a few ___31___ of water, some apples and oranges in our bags.
The next day we got up at five o’clock. First, we went to Leshan, where we climbed all the way up the ___32____ to see the Buddha. The Buddha is really very big: taller than the highest building in our village. Looking up at the large head and ___33___ at the large feet makes you feel so small. Wei bin took photos of us standing in front of the Buddha.
The next morning, we____34____ Mountain Emei. There are many old temples and the forest on the mountain is very ____35_____. The wild monkeys are the most exciting things on Mount Emei. They are not ___36____ of people. In a second they will come to you and touch you. The monkeys ___37____liked to touch my hair. Xiao Rong took a photo of a monkey that was sitting on my head. The ____38____looked sweet, but they could be very naughty. A small monkey suddenly put its hand in Xiao Rong’s pocket. Wen Bin took out some peanuts and it was fun to see the monkey eating from his hand. ____39_____, towards evening we were on the way back to Chengdu. We were all very ____40_____ and slept on the bus, but our trip to Sichuan was really unforgettable.
A. afraid E. down I. Finally
B. Bottles F. monkeys J. tired
C. really G. largely K. beautiful
D. mountain H. climbed L. happy
六，完形补文（第41—50题，每题1.5分，共15分）
下面的短文有10处空白，每处空白处的括号内有一个词，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，并在“非选择题”答题区内作答。

Language difference
Many students want to know about the differences between American English and British English. How did these differences come about? There is no ____41_____ (quickly) answer to this question. At first the language in Britain and America was the same. In 1776 America ____42____ (become) an independent country. After that, the language ___43____(slow) began to change. For a long time the language in America stayed the same, while the language in Britain changed. For example, 300 years ago the English talked about “fall”. Today, most British people talk about “autumn” but Americans still talk about “fall”. In the same way Americans still use the ____44____(express) “I guess”(meaning “I think”), just as the British did 300 years ago.
At the same time, British English and American English started ___45____(borrow) words from other languages, ending up with ____46____(difference) words. For example, the British took “typhoon” from Chinese, while the Americans took “tornado” from Spanish.
In 1828, Noah Webster ____47____ (publish) the first American dictionary. He wanted to make American English difference form British English, so he changed the spelling of many ___48___(word). Tha t’s why the words “colour”and “centre”are spelt “color” and “center”in American English. Except for these differences in spelling, ___49____ (write) English is more or less the same in both British and American English.
The differences are greater in the spoken language. However, most of the time people from the two countries do not have any ____50_____ (difficult) in understanding each other.
七，短文写作（第51题，30分）
请根据要求撰写一篇120词左右的英语短文。

将短文写在“非选择题”答题区内。

参考答案
第一部分选择题
二，阅读判断（第1-10题，每题1分，共10分）
1.B
2.A
3.B
4.B
5.C
6.B
7.A
8.C
9.C 10.A
二阅读选择（第11-15题，每题2分，共10分）
11.C 12.D 13.B 14.B 15.C
第二部分非选择题（共80分）
三，概括段落大意和补全句子（第16-25题，每题1分，共10分）
16.B 17.F 18.E 19.A 20.C
21.C 22.B 23.A 24.F 25.D
四，填句补文（第26-30题，每题2分，共10分）
26.C 27.E 28.B 29.F 30.A
五，填词补文（第31—40题，每题1.5分，共15分）
31.B 32.D 33.E 34.H 35.K
36.A 37.C 38.F 39.I 40.J
六，完形补文（第41—50题，每题1.5分，共15分）
41.quick 42.became 43.slowly 44.expression 45.borrowing
46.different 47.published 48.words 49.written 50.difficulty 七，短文写作（第51题，30分）
As time goes by, we enjoy more and more convenience taken by the development of scientific technology. There is no doubt that computer is one of the successful achievements.
It makes our life easier and happier and we really can’t leave computers. We can play games and surf the internet so that we can know more about the world outside. besides, communicating with our friends isn’t a problem a t all since we can chat with them by the internet.
Everything has two sides, and computer is obviously not an exception.
More and more people rely on computers and then they are not good at spelling Chinese words. What’s worse, many people lose thems elves in the computer games which sometimes cause crime. Many students get used to looking for answers by surfing the internet which is not beneficial to develop their own thoughts.
In my opinion, computer is a good thing on condition that we use it properly. From now on, let’s go out and decrease the use of the computer.。