2014年11月函授继续教育会计专升本大学英语考试试题机器答案

单选题
1. Both France and Germany _______ claim to the territory.
A)placed
B)Laid
C)lied
D)put
2. Many countries in the world have ___ __ great importance to environmental protection.
A)attempted
B)attended
C)attached
D)attacked
3. They have stirred a lot of controversy in the process.
A)opponents
B)proponents
C)disputes
D)conversion
4. Geneticists figure that it is best to protect their turf now and go spelunking around in it later.
A)think
B)count
C)explain
D)disbelieve
5. During the famine many people ______ eating grass and leaves.
A)had to
B)needed nothing but
C)looked forward to
D)were reduced to
6. A funny thing happened ______ the way to the communications revolution.
A)to
B)on
C)over
D)along
7. Do you know where Nile has its _______ ?
A)starting
B)beginning
C)source
D)course
8. He has been investigated and found blameless.
A)asked
B)examined
C)dismissed
D)instigated
9. She has thrown herself ________ gardening with great enthusiasm.
A)down
B)into
C)upon
D)off
10. I’ll never forget _______ you for the first time.
A)to meet��
B)meeting���
C)to have met�����
D)having to be meeting
11. Who walks away with most of the booty won’t be decided in labs or universities.
A)stolen things
B)patent fees
C)profit
D)support
12. To transcend physical pain gives one the strength to conquer mental agonies.
A)occupy
B)break from
C)overcome
D)take away
13. Cancellation of the flight _______ many passengers to spend the night at the�airport.
A)resulted��
B)obliged�
C)demanded�����
D)recommended
14. Economists expect people’s living standards to continue rising in the dec ades _____.
A)ahead
B)before
C)forward
D)front
15. The patient slid _____ sleep after taking the medicine.
A)down
B)out
C)into
D)up
16. Everything we eat and drink contains some salt; we can meet the body’s need for it from natural sources without turning _______ the salt bottle.
A)up
B)to
C)on
D)over
17. More than one in four American children are growing up in ___ _ __-parent homes.
B)alone
C)only
D)single
18. They slaughtered us.
A)killed
B)bothered
C)destroyed the will of
D)defeated completely
19. The ______ American family today has two or three children.
A)mean
B)average
C)level
D)casual
20. The clothes a person wears may express his _______ or social position.
A)curiosity�
B)status������
C)determination�
D)significance
21. This policy maintained by the Security Council will have an impact __ _____ world peace.
A)on
B)over
D)above
22. This policy maintained by the Security Council will have an impact __ _____ world peace.
A)on
B)over
C)to
D)above
23. The hours _______ the children spend in their one-way relationship with television�people undoubtedly affect their relationships with real-life people.
A)in which�
B)on which
C)when������
D)that
24. He ____________ the initiative by speaking first at the meeting
A)wakes
B)cakes
C)takes
D)makes
25. The present arrangement was _____ reasonably well.
A)in use
B)proceeded
C)working
D)practical
26. “May I speak to your manager Mr. Williams at five o’clock tonight?” “I’m sorry. Mr. Williams _______ to a conference long before then.”
A)will have gone
B)had gone��
C)would have gone���
D)has gone
27. Daylight ______ long in the summer time.
A)lingers
B)stays
C)hovers
D)persists
28. The doctors have _______ the hope to rescue the old man.
A)turned down
B)abandoned
C)refused
D)left
29. The child couldn’t ______ the advanced textbook.
A)interpret
B)read
C)translate
D)comprehend
30. Science has developed no cure _____ envy.
A)in
B)at
C)for
D)of
31. John is ______ with Mary in writing a book.
A)combining
B)merging
C)associating
D)collaborating
32. In judging our work you should take into _______ the fact that we have been very busy recently.
A)consideration
B)thought
C)mind
D)memory
33. On New Year’s Eve, New York City holds an outdoor _______ which attracts a crowd of a million or more people.
A)incident�������
B)event����
C)case
D)affair
34. With e-mail and instant messaging ______ the internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another.
A)across
B)through
C)on
D)over
35. Promotion went to the ______ in rank.
A)seniors
B)superiors
C)officials
D)aged
36. Jobs and work do much to provide happiness and content, and more importantly, psychological ______ that can make the difference between a full and empty life.
A)man
B)nature
C)instinct
D)well-being
37. You _______ him so closely; you should have kept your distance.
A)shouldn’t follow
B)mustn’t follow
C)couldn’t have been following
D)shouldn’t have been follo wing
38. Barbara Jordan supported legislation to ______ discrimination and to deal with environmental problems.
A)ban
B)handle
C)investigate
D)list
39. I don’t like the plan. I am going to _____ before it is too late.
A)pull through
B)put through
C)make out
D)pull out
40. He saw the _______ of his face in the mirror.
A)image
B)picture
C)portrait
D)drawing
41. We should not _______ about taxes.
A)care
B)praise
C)complain
D)avoid
42. The glove suggests that she _____ at the scene of the crime.
A)had been
B)should be
C)be
D)was
43. It dawned on us that we were engaged in a sport, not in play.
A)It was clear
B)We came to understand
C)We were forced to believe
D)We were convinced
44. The old man put meat into the oven to _____ for dinner.
A)bake
B)scorch
C)roast
D)heat
45. Technology has an amplifying effect on students’ habits.
A)making more powerful
B)making potential
C)accelerating
D)promoting
46. Every advance in communications technology is a setback ____ the intimacy of human interaction.
A)at
B)from
C)to
D)for
47. Can you ______ your absence from the class last Saturday?
A)account for
B)excuse
C)examine
D)expand
48. These are our _____ for doing it.
A)drives
B)motives
C)themes
D)subjects
49. It is a mistaken idea to ________ inexperience with youth.
A)match
B)equivalent
C)compare
D)equate
50. I didn’t k now the word. I had to _______ a dictionary.
A)look out��
B)make out��
C)refer to��
D)go over
完形填空
When an invention is made, the inventor has three possible ##1## of action open to him: he can give the invention to the world by publishing it; ##2## the idea secret; or patent it. Secrecy obviously evaporates ##3## the invention is sold or used, and there is always the risk that in the meantime another inventor, working quite independently, will ##4## and patent the same discovery. A ##5## patent is the result of a bargain struck between an inventor and the ##6##, whereby in return for a limited period of monopoly (16 years in the U.K.), the inventor publish full details of his invention ##7## the public. Once the monopoly period expires, all those details of the invention pass ##8## the public domain. ##9## in the most exceptional circumstances is the life-span of a patent extended to alter this ##10## process of events. The longest extension ever granted was to George Valensi: his 1933 patent for color TV receiver circuitry was extended ##11## 1971, because for most of the patent’s normal ##12## there was no color TV to receive and thus no hope of reward for the invention. But even short extensions are normally extremely ##13## Because a patent ##14## perpetually published after it has expired, the shelves of the library ##15## to the British Patent Office contain details of literally millions of ideas that are free for anyone to use and, if ##16## than half a century, sometimes even re-patented. Indeed, patent experts often advise anyone wishing to avoid the high ##17## of conducting a search through live patents that the one ##18## way of avoiding infringement of an y other inventor’s rights is to plagiarize a ##19## patent. Likewise, because publication of an idea in any other form permanently invalidates further patents on that idea, it is traditionally safe to cull ideas from other ideas of ##20##. Much modern technological advance is based on these presumptions of legal security.
1.
A)courses
B)series
C)arrays
D)groups
2.
A)maintain
B)grasp
C)keep
D)attain
3.
A)before
B)that
C)owing
D)once
4.
A)install
B)make
C)do
D)build
5.
A)granted
B)offered
C)suggested
D)advised
6.
A)nation
B)government
C)state
D)country
7.
A)to
B)for
C)on
D)of
8.
A)as
B)into
C)for
D)onto
9.
A)Once
B)While
C)As
D)Only
10.
A)notional
B)noticeable
C)normal
D)natural
11.
A)to
B)until
C)by
D)before
12.
A)power
B)strength
C)vigour
D)life
13.
A)hardly
B)seldom
C)rare
D)scarce
14.
A)remains
B)maintains
C)keeps
D)holds
15.
A)related
B)attached
C)linked
D)tied
16.
A)longer
B)farther
C)elder
D)older
17.
A)cost
B)price
C)value
D)expense
18.
A)legal
B)sure
C)worthy
D)existing
19.
A)dying
B)died
C)die
D)dead
20.
A)character
B)word
C)print
D)letter
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People’s tastes in recreation differ widely. At a recent festival of pop-music in the Isle of Wight, crowds of teenagers flocked to listen to their favorite singers and musicians. They went with single railway tickets and slept in the open, a very risky thing to do in the climate of Britain, even in August. They were packed together like sardines for four days. There were innumerable thieves, a gang of roughs tried several times to break things up, and police were everywhere. At the end of the festival many young fans found themselves broke, with no money left, and they had difficulty in getting back home. Most people would consider these conditions a nightmare of discomfort: the fans appeared to enjoy it all enormously. Even in the overcrowded United Kingdom there are large tracts of open unspoilt country, where people with more traditional tastes can go for quiet, and for the sense of freedom they derive from contact with nature. In the national parks especially, modern development of housing and industry is strictly controlled. Visitors may walk for miles through landscape of the greatest beauty and wilderness, and often of considerable historic or scientific interest. Along the coasts of some of the maritime countries, public pathways have been created; these paths stretch for many miles along cliffs that look out on the Atlantic Ocean or the English Channel. Another path, lying inland, goes along the range of mountains in the north of England. It is called the Pennine Way. Here, the long distance walker and the nature lover can find much to enjoy, without feeling hemmed in by large numbers of their fellows. Yet few people make full use of the national parks established for everyone’s benefit. The commonest thing nowadays is for family groups to motor out to a beautiful spot and park their cars in a lay-by. A picnic basket is produced, along with a folding table and chairs, a kettle and a portable stove. They then settle down to a picnic in the lay-by beside the car. Apparently their idea of enjoyment is to get into the fresh air and amongst the
country sights and sounds without having to walk a yard. They seem almost to like to hear and to smell the traffic.
1. In Britain it is very risky to ______.
A)go with a single railway ticket
B)listen to pop-music at festivals
C)sleep in the open
D)pack together in crowds
2. Most people would think that this way of living was very _______.
A)uncomfortable
B)risky
C)difficult
D)enjoyable
3. Even in the overcrowded United Kingdom there are large _______.
A)tracks through the open country
B)areas of country without soil
C)areas of countryside not developed
D)expanses of land where nobody works
4. The Pennine Way _______.
A)is built along the coast
B)follows the length of the mountains
C)goes for miles along the cliffs
D)is hemmed in by the mountains
5. Family groups nowadays like to _______.
A)have meals out of doors by the road-side
B)go for a walk away from home
C)drive out past the beautiful places
D)hear and smell the animals
Because Ireland is an island geographically near the mainland of the United Kingdom, English rulers have fought since the Middle Ages to retain political control over it. Attracted by the lush farmland, English and Scottish landowners settled there, and in time of famine or political unrest, the local workers suffered, while their landlords were cushioned by their wealth. The history of modern Ireland is, in fact, largely a story of antagonism and resentment between the Ireland and their English and Scottish rulers. Since the 1920’s, Ireland has been divided into two parts: Northern Ireland (Ulster) and the Republic of Ireland (Eire). The north is still part of the United Kingdom and is predominantly Protestant; the south is an independent republic and is mainly Catholic. The majority in Ulster accept this political compromise, but the active and mainly Catholic minority are fighting for union with the independent republic of Southern Ireland. The IRA, the Irish Republican Army, have mounted bombing campaigns on military and civil targets in Ulster and England, they have sent letter-bombs to public figures, they have shot fellow Irishmen who support the British or belong to opposing, and now equally militant Protestant groups. As a result of this, the British have stationed an army in Belfast, the IRA have been outlawed, and several of them have spent many years in prison or have died in support of their cause. Whether this level of violence and repression is justifiable, and whether the violence that could result from political change would be worthwhile are the controversial issues that divide everybody involved.
6. This passage suggests that the central problem is _________.
A)many centuries old
B)about three centuries old
C)about eighty years old
D)a few years old
7. The IRA is _______.
A)part of the British army
B)part of the Ulster police force
C)a group of militant priests
D)a terrorist organization
8. The writer feels that the controversy is about ______.
A)the use of violence
B)political change
C)injustice
D)� freedom
9. The writer’s attitude towards the Irish is ________.
A)intolerant
B)sympathetic
C)aggressive
D)militant
10. The passage is ________.
A)informational
B)descriptive
C)academic
D)literary
Think of the computers in science-fiction films that can do everything, like those in The Matrix. In reality, even the superest of the supercomputers can’t read the way we do. They can’t learn or reason like us. Creating a computer that can read and learn at a sophisticated level is a major goal of artificial intelligence researchers. The US Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research
Project Agency (DARPA) is backing two Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) professors who are trying to build a machine that can learn by reading. “We have such a complex military now, it’s so high-tech, we need AI to help us,” said Selmer Bringsjord, director of RPI’s Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning Lab. He believes that artificial intelligence (AI) machines might be able to read military plans or manuals and adjust automatically in the midst of a heated battle. AI is already a part of our lives. It’s in programmes used by banks in evaluating borrower credit ratings, software that suggests corrected spellings for unrecognized words, and investigative programmes that search databases for non-obvious relationships. It’s complicated But reading is difficult for machines. Sentences must be converted into formal logic equations or other computer-friendly formats. Computers can do this on a modest scale. What has proved more elusive, however, is the software that can make sense of the verbal groups contained in a long, complicated sentence. “Natural language is very ambiguous,” said Boris Kats of MIT’s (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. “If you go beyond sentences like ‘John loves Mary,’ to something like a paragraph from The Wall Street Journal … there are some complex phenomena in language that are pretty hard to represent.” Bringsjord and fellow professor Konstantine Arkoudas want to create algorithms. These are mathematical formulas that might allow their “Poised-for-Learning” machine to convert sentences into formal logic. The next step would be to create an additional set of algorithms. These would allow the machine to use information it takes in to figure things out. Be quick please “In order to succeed, we’ll need systems that can remember where they’ve been and what they’ve seen and improve themselves over time,” said Ronald Brachman,director of DARPA’s Information Processing Technology Office. Machines that might be asked to help make battle-related decisions can’t adjust to quickly changing conditions in the field, Bringsjord said. He envisions AI robots of the future taking in all the relevant cultural, historical, and geographical data about an area. It’s not that crazy. Some people consider machines already cognitive (knowledgeable), depending on the definition of the word. In Texas, Cycorp has been building a “knowledge base” wit h the goal of becoming a store of human knowledge that can make intelligent decisions. Machines already exist that understand spoken words, recognize faces and make inferences based on experience. But, if you are worried about an all-knowing computer, you might be too early. Katz believes a computer that can reason at the level of even a baby is far off. “I’m still looking for that common sense that 3-year-olds have,” MIT’s Katz said.
11. According to Selmer Bringsjord, the US military is so that they need AI to help them.
A)very artificial and intelligent
B)very investigative and non-obvious
C)very complex and high-tech
D)very elusive and automatic
12. The statem ent that “reading is difficult for machines” is true in that .
A)sentences must be converted into formal logic equations
B)sentences must be converted into computer-friendly formats
C)the software that can understand long, complicated verbal groups is elusive
D)all of the above
13. Selmer Bringsjord and his fellow professor plan to enable their “Poised-for-Learning” machine to figure things out by .
A)using information it takes in
B)creating two sets of algorithms
C)making formal logic formats
D)converting sentences into formal logic
14. To MIT’s Boris Katz, a computer th at can reason at the human level .
A)is still a long way from now
B)is already available
C)is still a great distance away
D)comes too early
15. In reality, even the superest of the supercomputers can’t read the way we do.
A)understand or interpret spellings
B)recognize written words
C)obtain meaning from a printed text
D)say the printed words。