1、高级英语自考题-11 及答案解析(总分：92.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、B(总题数：1，分数：25.00)The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y.What a U U 1 /U /Uof contradictions is a man! Surely, U U 2 /U /Uis the U U 3 /U /Ugrace of us, for U U 4 /U /Uit we should die of U
2、 U 5 /U /U. With me, nothing U U 6 /U /Uthe U U 7 /U /Uof things U U 8 /U /Uthe U U 9 /U /Uof sleep. If, for example, my U U 10 /U /Uis to write an essay, and I have before me ink and pens and several sheets of U U 11 /U /Upaper, you may U U 12 /U /Uit that before I have gone very U U 13 /U /UI feel
3、 an U U 14 /U /Udesire for sleep, U U 15 /U /Uwhat time of the day it is, I stare at the U U 16 /U /Ublank paper until sights and sounds become dim and confused, and it is only by an U U 17 /U /Uof will that I can continue at all. Even then, I proceed U U 18 /U /U, in a of U U 19 /U /U. But let me b
4、e between the sheets at a late hour, and I can do anything but U U 20 /U /U. Between chime and chime of the clock I can write essays by the U U 21 /U /U. U U 22 /U /Usubjects and U U 23 /U /Uideas come pell-mell, each with its appropriate U U 24 /U /Uand expression. Nothing stands U U 25 /U /Ume and
5、 half-dozen imperishable masterpieces but pens, ink, and paper.A. saving B. without C. virgin D. vexationE. contrariness F. bundle G. depend upon H. humourI. better than J. matter K. illustrates L. imageryM. no matter N. far O. overpowering P. scoreQ. sleep R. reproachfully S. Fascinating T. effortU
6、. dream V. intention W. half-heartedlyX. noble Y. between（分数：25.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_二、B(总题数：15，分数：15.00)1.The Watts-as-a-way-station _ has a f
7、irm hold on both those who remain and those who leave. A. physics B. physical C. mental D. mentality（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.2.As a customer, you dont have to spend much time _ over what brand of coffee or home appliance to select. A. deliberate B. deliberating C. deliberated D. deliberates（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.
8、3.Similarly, in any autocratic regime, the holders of power become increasingly _ with experience of the delights that power can afford. A. tyrannical B. brave C. rude D. careful（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.4.Her hands and her neck began to sweat. But she knew that no emotion was _. A. pertinent B. percent C. p
9、ercentage D. permit（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.5.Modernity-snobs naturally tend to throw away their old _ and buy new ones at a greater rate than those who are not modernity-snobs. A. possess B. possessions C. pose D. posed（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.6.He evened the nylon thread out with his thumb so that it would not _
10、at a vital moment. A. stop B. clog C. barricade D. prevent（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.7.In New Jersey, I never had to _ by a fire that wouldnt draw, or go without canned food. A. frighten B. safe C. waggle D. shiver（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.8.On the edge of a small cape that marked the side of the hay away from the pro
11、montory was a loose _ of rocks. A. scat B. scatter C. scratch D. crab（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.9.Like all artists, these rock musicians _ feelings and beliefs that help us see and form our own. A. mirror B. mirroring C. mirrors D. mile（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.10.It can be handled in the same way that hard problems h
12、ave been coped with beforepiecemeal, pragmatically, by the _ efforts or many people. A. dog B. dogging C. dogged D. have dogged（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.11.Her tongue was cut and she was screaming in wild _ shrieks. A. happy B. excited C. hysterical D. kind（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.12.The child strikes his head in th
13、e bath and falls unconscious. The man sits down and watches _ him. A. brown B. draw C. drown D. drawn（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.13.Being the first black woman elected to Congress has made me some kind of _. A. phone B. nobody C. anybody D. phenomenon（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.14.Because its a part of the condition of h
14、is parole that he _ friends and relatives and exconvicts and just about everybody. A. stay B. stays away from C. stay with D. stay in（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.15.A beautiful woman came along and _ her bunch of violets, and a little boy ran after to hand them to her, and she took them and threw them away as i
15、f theyd been poisoned. A. pick B. take C. bring D. dropped（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.三、B(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Read the following passage carefully and complete the succeeding three items III, IV, V.My Fathers AdviceI learned from him the way children always learn.A mans main job is to take care of the people who de
16、pend on him.I was 23 and about to set off for Europe. I had been saving since college, living at home to cut expenses. Now I planned to stop my job and travel as long as my money lasted.A few days before my departure, my father handed me a handwritten sheet of paper. “Norman here are some things I w
17、ant you to keep in mind.“Surprised, I took the paper to my room. Dad wasnt one for writing.The sheet was headed “Reminders, “and there were 29. The first few were sensible enough.“Check in with U.S. embassy in each country.“Keep change in your pockets.“Put money under pillow at night.“Then came, as
18、I knew it would, the advice that meant to cramp my style:“Dont pick up strange girls. You may be sorry.“Do not climb mountains. You might get hurt.“Dont hitchhike.“Dont get tattooed.“It was always that way with Dad, a drumbeat of cheats and prohibitions from morning to night. There was never an easy
19、 conversation with him. Always, it was Dad telling me what to think, what to do, what dangers to avoid. As a teenager I decided he had devoted his life to destroying my fun and freedom.Thats not the way hed lived his adolescence, though.Charles Wesson Smith was born in a “small town in Kentucky, one
20、 of six children of the general-store owner. He hadnt finished high school when he left town by jumping a freight train.My mother, a Texan, met my father when both lived in Oklahoma City, she working in a bank, he as a salesman. What first attracted her was his voice: deep, rich, confident, and spic
21、ed with country expressions. “You did your best,“ hed say. “Thats all a mule can do.“After they married, my parents traveled the United States, moving whenever the mood struck. My father could always find something to sell. They were in Texas during the big oil strikes, in Hollywood in the era of th
22、e great movie studies, in New York for the 1939 Worlds Fair. Not until my brother Jim was born did they settle down and buy their first house. By the time I came along, two years later, they had left their adventuring days behind.I remember Dad driving us to school, giving the same lecture every mor
23、ning: “Boys, youre getting the tools of your trade. Get them now or youll be like a carpenter without his toolsyou wont be able to make a riving.“The lecture never inspired me to do much learning. I daydreamed my way through classes. In the school yard, I was in a lot of fights. That originated from
24、 Dads advice: “Give bullies a good fight and they wont bother you anymore.“It didnt work out exactly that way. Kids my age stop troubling me, but when word got out that the little kid in the second grade wouldnt run, the fourth grade bullies sought me out. I followed Dads advice even when I realized
25、 it had a shortcoming, because I knew he wouldnt run from a fight himself. And I wanted him to be proud of me.As I grow older, however, I began to feel angry at Dads advice. I rebelled not only against his beliefs too. I never rejected him personally, however. And for that Im thankful, for he died s
26、uddenly when I was in my mid-20s.Years later when my son, Eric, was born, I considered what I wanted to teach him. Only then did it grow clear to my mind just how much Id been taught by my father. I had learned the way children always learnnot by words but by example.Dads most important lessons were
27、 ones he never verbalized. I have tried to put them into words.A mans main job is to take care of the people who depend on him. Dad did this in the old-fashioned way. He worked hard to pay for everything we needed. He took care of my mothers family too her sister Virgiebelle and Virgiebelles daughte
28、r Dodie.Once, Virgiebelle phoned my mother, extremely anxious. Her exhusband, Ray, she reported, was acting mad again. Hed taken Dodie, then four, and said he wasnt going to give her back. My father said hed take care of it. He went to Rays hotel, knowing he wouldnt have much standing with the law i
29、f trouble arose; hed be the uncle-in-law kidnapping a child from her own father. But Dad was a salesman, and he knew mens weaknesses. He brought along a bottle of whisky and said, “Ray, weve got to talk, so lets have a drink first.“ My father could outdrink most men, then, and he soon had Dodie back
30、 with her mother.Virgiebelle and Dodie lived with us for the first five years of my life. When they moved into their home, I couldnt understand it. But years later, when my mothers cousin Marianne came to stay with us for a few months because she was “having problems“, I was old enough to realize no
31、t every man welcomed in-laws into him house.Never boast, never pretend, never say, anything that isnt rue:Share with the less fortunate.When you say youre going to do something, do it.When youre right, dont stop.My fathers world, that of commission salesmen, was filled with big talkers. Theyd often
32、come by the house. Many had worked for my father and were looking for an “advance“. Dad was an easy touch.I remembered one salesman spinning visions of fortunes to be made with a new deal he wanted my father to take on. “It cant miss, Charlie!“ He said. When I asked my father about it afterward, he
33、just smiled. “Everybody in this business has a sure thing.“ he said.I often heard my fathers sales pitches; hed work the phone in the evening. But I never heard him make the kind of claims the big talkers made. He never said anything he didnt believe himself. And he never bothered to instruct me abo
34、ut telling the truth. I dont think it occurred to him that it was something a father had to do.Once when Dad was home working while the rest of us were at our summer house, he wrote my mother. “When I came home last night, Annas little girl was vitally interested in Normans bicycle, and I gave it to
35、 her.“ Anna was our longtime mothers helper. Though Dad did replace my bike, I thought he had no right to give it away. Not until years later could I appreciate the charm of that kind of spontaneous giving.Some childhood memories are impressed deeply in a way you know will never fade. One of mine oc
36、curred when I was barely four. My father is unconscious on the kitchen floor. He has passed out from drinking too much. Jim has his right arm and I have his left as we try to pull him to the living-room bed.I dont remember what happened next. Probably my mother came downstairs. But not long afterwar
37、d, my father joined AA. He said he wasnt going to touch alcohol again. And he never did. I didnt then understand me powerful hold alcohol could have, but I did understand, growing up, that my mother never worried about my fathers falling off the wagon. Hed said he wasnt going to drink anyone, and th
38、at was that.One day in my high-school-freshman year, Dad picked Jim and me up from school. “Youd better read this before you hear it from someone else.“ he said, handing us a newspaper. “D.A NABS MAIL FRAUD CROOKS“ declared the headline above my fathers picture.Dad calmly explained that hed done not
39、hing wrong, but complaints had been filed against salesmen, and an ambitious district attorney decided to make a fuss. Since Dad was the biggest fish in the pond, they arrested him. But we were not to worry. It would blow over quicklythere was no case.I did worry. Not about Dad- hed be all rightbut
40、about classmates saying something. When they didnt, I stopped worryingBut then my father was accused. He could have pleaded guilty and settled for a minimal fine, but Dad was innocent. Even if it meant risking jail, hed never said hed been dishonest. The trial took a long time. He paid a fortune to
41、lawyers, his business was ruined, but in the end Dad was found not guilty.Though innocent of crime, my father was seriously guilty of misjudgement. I can remember the dinner-table conversations that predicted his accusation.“Charles, “my mother would say,“ you know Frank is trouble.“I know, Geneviev
42、e, but he deserves a second chance.“Frank was Dads oldest friend, a fellow salesman. I knew him as a big man who drove a pink cadillac and told great stories. Hed gotten in trouble with the law, blamed it on alcohol and said he needed my fathers help.Dad cut him in on some franchise sales he was han
43、dling. He separated his dealings from Franks, but when Frank reverted to his slippery sales techniques, Dad was inevitably dragged in. Frank was tried separately from my father and convicted.In this section, there are ten incomplete statements or questions, followed by four choices marked A, B, C an
44、d D. （分数：20.00）(1).Nomans father thought Norman was _. A. experienced B. ignorant C. not practical D. lacking in experience（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).When did the family finish their adventuring days? A. After the father and the mother married. B. As soon as Jim was born. C. After Norman was born. D. Two
45、years later.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Normans father preferred _ in his youth. A. to live by a lot of rules B. fun and freedom C. to obey the advice he gave to Norman D. to finish high school first（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Normans father wanted his children _. A. to buy the tools they needed for farming B. to
46、 become a carpenter C. to study hard D. to be without tools（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Norman learned useful lessons in teaching children, and he taught children _. A. only by words B. by ordering them to obey C. by example D. telling them what is right（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(6).The father was a person who never _. A. ma
