1、英语写作基础自考题-23 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Practice 1lilist-st(总题数：17，分数：17.50)1. A. The most critical election happened in 1896. B. The Great Depression produced conditions for 1932 election. C. Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 and became the 16th American president. D. Americas two-party sy
2、stem has experienced three critical elections, each of which affected the party balance in government.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.2. A. The purposes of sleep are to rest our bodies and mind. B. Passive sleep helps us to rest our bodies while active sleep helps us to rest our minds. C. In passive sleep, the hea
3、rt slows down and the body processes become very slow, leaving the body at rest. D. In active sleep, the brain temperature rises and the brain becomes very active and then dreaming occurs, helping us to rest our minds.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.3. A. Every morning, we hear the shouts of the forest rangers ech
4、oing in the mountains. B. We see women and young girls washing clothes and vegetables by the river. C. The people in my native town are living a simple and peaceful life. D. Farmers are working with hoes and ploughs in the fields.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.4. A. Jane is the most amusing friend Ive ever had. B
5、. Jane is a friend of mine. C. I have many friends. D. I and Jane became friends in 1998.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.5. A. The region is a gateway for foreign capital, technology and management skills to enter China. B. Hongkong is an important source of surplus for Chinese foreign trade bought and sold with f
6、oreign exchange. C. China has obtained foreign loans via Hongkong. D. Each year about 1.5 percent of Chinas domestic output is financed by direct over-seas investment.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.6. A. Measuring the depth of oceans. B. Sound is a phenomenon. C. A way was found. D. In the twentieth century a bet
7、ter way was found to measure the depth of oceans.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.7. A. Today many women go out to work. B. Today a woman can do any job a man can do, providing it does not require brute strength. C. Women are supposed to stay at home. D. Most working women in business are doing lower management job
8、s.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.8. A. The new restaurant has something for all ages. B. Each child gets a coloring book. C. Anyone over 60 gets seated immediately on arrival. D. The middle-aged get a 90 percent discount.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.9. A. Our school has facilities and services to help handicapped students su
9、cceed. B. Our school has 400 handicapped students. C. Our school has facilities and services for the handicapped students. D. Handicapped students are students who have trouble in using part of their body or mind.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.10. A. You can review a few hours the night before the test. B. You ca
10、n study with friends and help each other. C. You can get up early the morning of the test and study. D. There are many ways to study for a test.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.11. A. The branches are growing over the back fence. B. The backyard needs a lot of work. C. The trees need brimming. D. Some branches are
11、covering the telephone lines.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.12. A. In later adulthood, we begin to come to terms with our own mortality. B. There are various stages of human development. C. Adolescence is typically a time of identity crisis. D. Psychologists report that we pass through various stages of developme
12、nt through-out our lives.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.13. A. I eat a lot of homemade ice cream. B. Homemade ice cream is my favorite. C. I have a homemade ice cream maker. D. I miss homemade ice cream a lot.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.14. A. Some women continue their careers after marriage. B. My sister is a housewife wit
13、h two children. C. Modern marriage is quite different from the traditional marriage of my grandparents. D. Our grandparents have their own view on marriage.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.15. A. Families eat typical American dishes on Thanksgiving. B. Thanksgiving, an important celebration. C. A Thanksgiving feast
14、 for a family celebration. D. Thanksgiving is an important American holiday.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.16. A. There are some differences in the behavior of rock and classical music audiences. B. At a rock concert, the audience members yell, whistle, sing along, and even stamp their feet. C. Members of the cla
15、ssical music audience are so highly disciplined that they refrain from even clearing their throats or coughing. D. With rock music, the better the performance, the more active the audience will be; with classical music, the better the performance, the more still the audience will be.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D
16、.17. A. As a freshman I felt all the difficulties of managing money. B. Most college students are economically dependent on their parents. C. Doing a part-time job can increase the sense of financial responsibility for college students. D. Manipulating money wisely is an absolute necessity for every
17、one, especially for college students.（分数：1.50）A.B.C.D.二、Practice 2Read the f(总题数：10，分数：15.00)18.Deaf peoplepeople who cant hearare still able to communicate quite well, with a special language. Its called sign language. The speaker of sign language uses hand gestures in order to communicate. Basic s
18、ign language has been used for a long long time. But sign language wasnt really developed until about 250 years ago. In the middle of the 1700s, a Frenchman named Epee developed sign language. Epee was able to speak and hear, but he worked during most of his life as a teacher of deaf people in Franc
19、e. Epee developed a large number of vocabulary words for sign language. Epees system used mostly “picture-image“ signs. We call them picture-image signs because the signs create a picture.（分数：1.50）_19.What has happened to the American male? For a long time, he seemed utterly confident in his manhood
20、, sure of his masculine(男性的)role in society, easy and definite in his sense of sexual identity. The frontiersmen(边远地区居民)of James Fenimore Copper, for example, never had any concern about masculinity; they were men, and it did not occur to them to think twice about it. Even well into the twentieth ce
21、ntury, the he-roes of Dreiser, of Fitzgerald, of Hemingway remain men. But one begins to detect a new theme emerging in some of these authors, especially in Hemingway: the theme of the male hero increasingly preoccupied with proving his virility(男子气概)to himself. And by mid-century, the male role had
22、 plainly lost its rugged clarity of outline. Today men are more and more conscious of maleness not as a fact but as a problem. The ways by which American men affirm their masculinity are uncertain and obscure.（分数：1.50）_20.Tornados form under very special weather conditions, and these special weather
23、 conditions occur most often in inland areas, such as the central United States. A tornado forms when a layer of warm, dry air is on top of a layer of cooler, moist air. This combination of dry, warm air above wet, cool air creates a condition that causes the lower layer of air to lift up. As the lo
24、wer air rises, both layers of air begin to rotate, to turn around and around. The air begins to rotate faster and faster because of centrifugal(离心的)force. The tornado has a center called an “eye“ and the air rotates quickly around this eye.（分数：1.50）_21.The central symbol for Canada is undoubtedly su
25、rvival, a multi-faceted and adaptable idea. For early explorers and settlers, it meant bare survival in the face of hostile elements and natives: carving out a place and a way of keeping alive. But the word can also suggest survival of a crisis or disaster, like a hurricane or a wreck, and many Cana
26、dian poems have this kind of survival as a theme; what you might call grim survival as opposed to bare survival. For French Canada after the English took over it became cultural survival, hanging on as a people, retaining a religion and a language under an alien government. And in English Canada now
27、 while the Americans are taking over it is acquiring a similar meaning. There is another use of the word as well: a survival can be a vestige (痕迹) of a vanished order which has managed to persist after its time is past, like a primitive reptile. This version crops up in Canadian thinking too, usuall
28、y among those who believe that Canada is obsolete.（分数：1.50）_22.Living a quiet, calm life is still possible in the midst of heavily populated areas. For example, Salem County, on the Delaware Bay, has the largest chemical manufacturing companies located in its boundaries. There are plans to build a h
29、uge nuclear power reactor in Salem Country soon. But the bay still affords about a dozen men a quiet, peaceful, independent way to earn their living. These are crabbers. They gather wild crabs with traps that are called “pots,“ selling the fresh crabs to restaurants and commercial seafood packers in
30、 the area. Each crabber has about 150pots. From July to October, the men work an eight-hour day, beginning very early each morning, going out in boats to check their pots.（分数：1.50）_23.Californians and New Englanders are both American. They speak the same language and abide by the same federal laws.
31、But they are very different in their ways of life. Mobilityboth physical and psychologicalhas made a great impression on the culture of Californians: lack of mobility is the mark of the customs and morality of New Englanders.（分数：1.50）_24.Most people think that being a department store salesperson is
32、 not a difficult job, but from my experience I know that it takes time, effort, and patience to be successful. Once you have helped the customers, you have to ring up and bag the merchandise, then be sure to thank them. You also have to help with displaying the merchandise attractively, with putting
33、 out new lines, with taking inventory, with keeping stock organized, and with keeping the counter area clean and tidy. You have to know what is in stock and what needs to be put out. Then, too, a salesperson must be courteous when a customer is unreasonable and demanding. As you can see, a salespers
34、on does more than lust stand around and ring up others.（分数：1.50）_25.Americans might be embarrassed because their Japanese friends are so formal with them. Japanese might feel insulted because American acquaintances greet them casually. Still, the forms of greeting in both countries only show respect
35、 for others. It just happens that Americans and Japanese have a different way of looking at human relationships and thus have a different way of showing respect.（分数：1.50）_26.Burnout is a potential problem for any hard working and persevering student. To strengthen their immunity to burnout, students
36、 need to work in moderation. They can concentrate on school every day, provided that they do not overtax themselves. One method students can use is to avoid concentrating on a single project for an extended period of time. For example, if students have to read two books for a midterm history test, t
37、hey should do other assignments at intervals so that the two books will not get boring. Another means to moderate a workload is to regulate how many extracurricular projects to take on.（分数：1.50）_27.The most vital difference between Muslims in America and their brothers in Europe is the U. S. endurin
38、g emphasis on religious liberty. Religion is given far more respect in the U. S. than in Europe. Think about it. The U. S. is in the midst of a resentful debate over immigration in which many Americans reject “hyphenated (带连字符的) identities“ like Mexican-American as a threat to national unity. Yet wh
39、ile Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Americans may disagree strongly among themselves, the religious basis of their identity is not seriously questioned by anyone. If Muslim Americans are not so readily accepted today, it is not because they are believers. In Europe, by contrast, Muslims are resented
40、 and marginalized precisely because their religion threatens strong secular (世俗的) values.（分数：1.50）_三、Practice 3Read the f(总题数：12，分数：18.00)28.Topic Sentence: _Until the early 1960s, most people reported getting more news from newspapers than from any other source. By the mid-1960s, television nudged
41、(轻推)out news-papers as the publics major source of news. By the 1980s, about two-thirds of the public cited television as their news source, compared with less than one-half who named newspapers and less than one-fifth who relied on radio. Not only is television the publics most important source of
42、news now, but television news is also rated as more trustworthy than newspaper newsby a margin of more than 2 to 1. A. Virtually all citizens rely on the mass media for news. B. Only a very small number of the public relied on the radio for news. C. The public got news mainly from newspapers before
43、the early 1960s. D. Television now has become the most popular and trustworthy source of news.（分数：1.50）A.B.C.D.29.Topic Sentence: _If you are tired of making vague excuses for another dull summer at home, here is a thought to lift your spirits. You do not need anything so radical as winning a lotter
44、y to finance a trip to Europe. A student identity card that can be obtained for a few dollars from the Council on International Educational Exchange entitles you to discount tickets on certain charter flights to London and Paris, as well as reduced admission to many museums, cinemas, and musical eve
45、nts. Once in Europe, you can stay at approved youth hostels for about two dollars a night. So dont give up your hopes of becoming an international traveler. A. It is easy for a student to travel in Europe during the summer. B. The student needs to obtain an identity card to travel at a cheap rate. C
46、. The student could stay at approved youth hostels for about two dollar a night. D. The students will become international travelers in summer.（分数：1.50）A.B.C.D.30.Topic Sentence: _Women make up a large portion of the labor force now. They are playing an important role in factories and in government as well. Like men workers, they can also run machines, drive buses, and hold administrative positions. Moreover, there are many women sci
