2003年10月自考英语(二)试卷及答案

2003年10月英语(二)试题

一、从下列各句四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。(每小题1分，共10分)

1. I'm wondering why he hasn't turned _____ at the meeting.

A. down

B. up

C. out

D. over

2. _____, I couldn't get a job in this company.

A. Try as I might

B. As I might try

C. Try though I might

D. I might try

3. It is a well-known fact ______ a person will move in a circle when he cannot use his eyes to control his direction.

A. that

B. if

C. when

D. whether

4. _____, Mary went out with delight.

A. With her homework doing

B. With her homework done

C. Her homework was done

D. Done her homework

5. Contrary ______ popular belief, moderate exercise actually decreases your appetite.

A. on

B. at

C. against

D. to

6. ______ the storm, we have to postpone the flight.

A. Owing to

B. Thanks to

C. Because

D. As

7. By using both ears one can tell the direction _____ a sound comes.

A. in which

B. from which

C. over which

D. with which

8. When she worked with the government, she _____ the difficult task of monitoring elections.

A. overworked

B. overtook

C. underwent

D. undertook

9. Apparently, it wasn't an accident. Someone must have done it on ______.

A. intention

B. determination

C. purpose

D. reason

10. The young doctor could not sleep at night, the worsening condition of a patient _____ him.

A. disturbing

B. disturbed

C. being disturbed

D. to disturb

二、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(每选项1分，共10分）

Sometimes people find really wonderful things when they are not looking 11 them. One example was John Colter. Colter was a mountain man who lived 12 in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. He loved to walk in the mountains, but one day in 1803 he saw a strange 13 . Water was shooting high into the air and 14 into a green pool. It was a natural water fountain. Colter found other pools of blue water. Some of the pools were hot. The chemicals in the water made a beautiful color, 15 they also made it smell bad. 16 there were large, clear lakes and spectacular waterfalls on cold, clear mountain rivers. Colter was excited, so he told 17 about the place. 18 , the other people did not believe him. They thought that he was a dreamer, a fool. 19 they saw these wonders, they too were excited. Today the place Colter 20 is known as Yellowstone Park.

11. A. forward B. for C. upon D. into

12. A. along B. alive C. alone D. lonely

13. A. sight B. site C. glimpse D. glance

14. A. fall B. falling C. to fall D. falls

15. A. but B. and C. thus D. so

16. A. Nearly B. Near C. Next to D. Nearby

17. A. the other B. others C. another D. each other

18. A. Then B. However C. Therefore D. Consequently

19. A. Since B. Before C. After D. While

20. A. initiated B. invented C. created D. discovered

三、从下列每篇短文的问题后所给的四个选择项中选出一个最佳答案。(每选项2分，共30分)

Passage One

Question 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.

Albert Einstein had a great effect on science and history. An American university president once commented that Einstein had created a new outlook, a new view of the universe. It may be some time before the average mind understands fully the identity (特性) of time and space and so on —but even ordinary men understand now that the universe is something larger than ever thought before.

By 1914 the young Einstein had gained world fame. He accepted the offer to become a professor at the Prussian Academy of Science in Berlin. He had few duties, little teaching and unlimited opportunities for study, but soon his peace and quiet were broken by the First World War. Einstein hated violence. The misery of war affected him deeply, and he sat unhappily in his office doing little. He lost interest in his research. Only when peace came in 1918 was he able to get back to work.

In the years following the First World War, honors were increasingly heaped on him. He became the head of the Kaiser Whilhem Institute of Theoretical Physics. In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize for Physics, and he was highly honored in Germany until the rise of Nazism (纳粹主义) when he was driven from Germany because he was a Jew.

21. The first paragraph is mainly about _____.

A. a new outlook of the universe