全国2006年4月自学考试英语(二)试卷及答案

全国2006年4月自学考试英语(二)试卷及答案

PART ONE (50 POINTS)

I.Vocabulary and Structure (10 points， 1point each)

1. It would be better to make a decision now， ______ leave it until next week.

A. other than

B. rather than

C. less than

D. more than

2. We‘ll inform you as soon as tickets become ______.

A. valuable

B. capable

C. acceptable

D. available

3. The foreign company has been______ running this factory for decades.

A. enormously

B. effectively

C. infinitely

D. extremely

4. If you ______ my advice， you wouldn‘t be in such trouble now.

A. took

B. takes

C. has taken

D. had taken

5. The meeting ______， we left the room quickly for dinner.

A. over

B. was over

C. is over

D. been over

6. All the money ______， Frederick started looking for work.

A. having spent

B. has been spent

C. having been spent

D. had been spent

7. ______ his talk when Mary ran out of the lecture hall.

A. Hardly had be begun

B. Hardly he had begun

C. Hardly he has begun

D. He hardly had begun

8. The two sisters are _____ in many ways， not only in appearance but also in temperament.

A. like

B. likely

C. alike

D. lively

9. The purpose of the program is to provide training for employees so that they can work ______.

A. late

B. later

C. lately

D. latest

10. I hope my boy friend will be handsome， strong and ______ kind.

A. above all

B. in all

C. at all

D. after all

II. Cloze Test (10 points， 1 point each)

However careful one may be， he cannot possibly listen carefully to everything that he hears. There are 11 of reasons for this. One of them is the overload of messages most of us 12 each day. In addition to the numerous hours we 13 hearing other people speak， we may spend several hours listening to the radio or sitting in front

of a television set. 14， it is impossible to focus our attention completely on what is said； our mind might be 15 elsewhere. Preoccupation with our personal concerns is 16 reason we don‘t always listen carefully. A romance 17 sour or a good grade on a test may take prominence in our mind even as 18 is speaking to us. Furthermore，

we are surrounded by all kinds of noises which interfere 19 listening. For example， voices at a party or 20

of traffic may simply make it difficult for us to catch everything that is being said.

11. A. the number B. a number C. number D. numbers

12. A. accept B. obtain C. receive D. possess

13. A. put B. consume C. spend D. spare

14. A. Besides B. Whereas C. Otherwise D. Nevertheless

15. A. wondering B. swinging C. recycling D. wandering

16. A. other B. some C. the other D. another

17. A. gone B. going C. goes D. went

18. A. anyone B. everyone C. someone D. few

19. A. to B. with C. of D. about

20. A. sound B. noise C. voice D. scream

III. Reading Comprehension (30 points， 2 points each)

Passage One

Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.

Many of today‘s most trusted sales techniques were invented over a century ago by a young merchant named Eaton in Toronto. When he was young， Eaton worked briefly with his brothers in small-town stores. In 1869， he sep up