2009年10月全国自考英语(二)真题及答案[1]

2009年10月全国自考英语（二）真

题

一、Vocabulary and Structure(10 points,1 point each)从下列各句四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并在答题纸上将相应的字母涂黑。

1.The traffic was held up for more than thirty minutes,________caused me to

arrive late.

A.it

B.that

C.what

D.which

答案：D

2.________he has many friends，he is often feeling lonely.

A.As

B.When

C.While

D.Since

答案：C

3.Poor speaker of English though he was at the time，he still managed to make

himself_______.

A.understand

B.understood

C.understanding

D.to understand

答案：B

4.There are many sales this season，during which stores will lower

their_________prices.

A.normal

B.general

C.ordinary

ual

答案：A

5.As for family education，parents are encouraged to rely on_________rather than

punishment.

A.criticism

B.intimidation

C.persuasion

D.scolding

答案：C

6.Scientists doubt whether it’s_________to regulate one’s biological clock by

drinking.

A.feasible

B.incredible

C.fashionable

D.valuable

答案：A

7.You’d better leave things________if you don’t know how to deal with them.

A.lonely

B.only

C.lone

D.alone

答案：D

8.The room was quiet，_________the occasional coughing from my throat.

A.in case

B.except for

C.by far

D.instead of

答案：B

9.So far scientists have only acquired_________understanding of the physical

processes that cause earthquakes.

A. a partial

B. a changeable

C.an original

D.an individual

答案：A

10.The profit-sharing plan is designed to_______the staff to work hard.

A.calculate

B.demonstrate

C.speculate

D.motivate

答案：D

二、Cloze Test(10 points,1 point each)下列短文中有十个空白，每个空白有四个选项。根据上下文要求选出最佳答案，并在答题纸上将相应的字母涂黑。

1.Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman.A man goes shopping1he needs something.His purpose is settled and decided

2.He knows what he wants and his objective is to find it and3it;the price is a

secondary4.Most men5walk into a shop and ask the salesman6what they want.If the shop has it in stock,the salesman promptly7it,and the business of trying it on

proceeds8.All being well,the9can be and often is completed in less than five minutes,with hardly any bargain and to their satisfaction.For a man，slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants，10 does not have exactly what he wants.In that case the salesman，as the name implies，tries to sell the customer something else.

(1).

(A).although

(B).before

(C).unless

(D).because

答案：D

(2).

(A).in advance

(B).in addition

(C).in contrast

(D).in return

答案：A

(3).

(A).book

(B).order

(C).buy

(D).take

答案：C

(4).

(A).transaction

(B).consideration

(C).regulation

(D).possession

答案：B

(5).

(A).simply

(B).necessarily