自考英语二全真模拟题第二套

4. Henry Manley’s company was in deep trouble.

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A. True

B. False

C. Not Given

5. Henry Manley’s company was making enough profits to raise the workers’ wages.

A. True

B. False

C. Not Given

6. Henry Manley had no idea at all why George Strong wanted to see him.

A. True

B. False

C. Not Given

7. George Strong was the best engineer in Henry Manley’s company.

A. True

B. False

C. Not Given

8. The electric motors produced by Henry Manley’s company are

cheaper than those made in Japan.

A. True

B. False

C. Not Given

9. Men like George Strong are important to the future of the company.

A. True

B. False

C. Not Given

10. Different children learn their native languages at sharply different speed.

A. True

B. False

C. Not Given 第二部分：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4个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出1个最佳选项。

The Definition of Price

Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed among buyers. The price system of the United States is a complex network composed of the prices of all the products bought and sold in the economy as well as those of a myriad of services, including labor, professional, transportation, and public-utility particular product or service is linked to a broad, complicated system of prices in which everything seems to depend more or less upon everything else.

If one were to ask a group of randomly selected individuals to define “price”, many would reply that price is an amount of money paid by the buyer to the seller of a product or service or, in other words, that price is the money value of a product or service as agreed upon in a market transaction. This definition is, of course, valid as far as it goes. For a complete understanding of a price in any particular transaction, much more than the amount of money involved must be

所给的6个选项中选择5个正确选项。分别完成每个句子。

Science Fiction

①Amongst the most popular books being written today are those

which are usually classified as science fiction. Hundreds of titles are published every year and are read by all kinds of people.

Furthermore, some of the most successful films of recent years have been based on science fiction stories.

②It is often thought that science fiction is a fairly new development

in literature, but its ancestors can be found in books written hundreds of years ago. These books were often concerned with the presentation of some form of ideal society, a theme which is still often found in modern stories. Science fiction is a genre of fiction with imaginative but more or less plausible content such as settings in

the future, futuristic science and technology, space travel, parallel universes,

第4页aliens, and paranormal abilities. Exploring the consequences of scientific innovations is one purpose of science fiction, making it a “literature of ideas”. Science fiction has been used by authors as a

device to discuss philosophical ideas such as identity, desire, morality and social structure.

③Most of the classics of science fiction, however, have been written

within the last hundred years. Books by writers such as Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, to mention just two well-known authors, have been translated into many languages.

④Modern science fiction writers don’t write about men from Mars or

space adventure stories. They are more interested in predicting the results of technical developments on society and the human mind;

or in imaging future worlds which are a reflection of the world which we live in now. Because of this their writing has obvious political undertones. Science fiction is largely based on writing rationally about alternative possible worlds or futures. It is similar to, but differs from fantasy in that, within the context of the story, its imaginary elements are largely possible within scientifically established or scientifically postulated laws of nature (though some elements in a story might still be pure imaginative speculation思索). The settings for science fiction are often contrary to consensus （一致）reality, but most science fiction relies on a considerable degree of suspension of disbelief, which is facilitated