1、高级英语自考题-20 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、B(总题数：1，分数：13.00)The following paragraphs are taken from the text, followed by a list of words or expressions. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences.Soon he U U 1 /U /Uout of the back seat and said, “Im going to U U 2 /U /Uover the bridge. I
2、ts about three blocks U U 3 /U /Uthere. There is an old, white two-story house U U 4 /U /Uthe left side just before you U U 5 /U /Uthe bridge. Magpies brother just got out of the Nebraska State Reformatory and he is staying there with his old lady, and thats U U 6 /U /UMagpie is.“Nobody spoke but El
3、gie U U 7 /U /Uover, his bloodshot eyes filled with sorrow and U U 8 /U /U. He stood in front of us for a U U 9 /U /Uand then U U 10 /U /Uus to go into the living room. The room was U U 11 /U /Uwith people U U 12 /U /Uin silence, and finally Elgie said, quietly, “They U U 13 /U /Uhim.“A. moment B. s
4、hot C. on D. walk E. cameF. got G. misery H. sitting I. cross J. downK. gestured L. filled M. where（分数：13.00）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:_二、B(总题数：15，分数：15.00)1.Quickly, she responded, “Oh, its not _ me to say. He is gone from me now.“ A.
5、up to B. in C. with D. off（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.2.Freedom. He wants to be free and you cant be that, man, when theyre watching you all the time. Man, that _ thats his parole officer is some mean watch-dog. A. reflect B. reflection C. freak D. freaked（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.3.Salina wouldnt let him get away so _
6、. A. noncommittal B. noncommit C. noncommittally D. committed（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.4.A police car moved slowly to the corner where we were _ and the patrolmen looked at the three of us intently and we pretended not to notice. A. park B. stop C. parked D. stops（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.5.Magpie needs some relief f
7、rom this constant _, constant checking up. A. surveil B. surveiling C. surveillance D. surveiled（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.6.Magpie returned to Crow Creek after months in _. A. exile B. excit C. textile D. text（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.7.Because its a part of the condition of his parole that he _ friends and relatives
8、 and exconvicts and lust about everybody. A. stay B. stays away from C. stay with D. stay in（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.8.But the silence which _ the place filled me with apprehension, and when we walked in the back door which hung open, we saw people standing in the kitchen. A. hung about B. hung off C. hang
9、D. hang about（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.9.For although the band played all the year round on Sundays, _ season it was never the same. A. out in B. out of C. about D. on（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.10.She knew she needed them, but it was no _ getting any; theyd be sure to break and theyd never keep on. A. bad B. good C. w
10、ell D. worse（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.11.They stared as though theyd just come from dark little rooms or eveneven _. A. room B. bedroom C. cupboards D. bathroom（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.12.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 th
11、rew them away as if theyd been poisoned. A. pick B. take C. bring D. dropped（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.13.And yet it explained why she made such a _ starting from home at just the same time each week. A. point to B. point of C. point in D. points out（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.14.Such a funny old man with long whiskers
12、hobbled along in time to the music and was nearly _ by four girls walking abreast. A. knocked about B. knock off C. knocked over D. knocking down（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.15.She thought of the old _ gentleman to whom she read the newspaper four afternoons a week while he slept in the garden. A. invalid B. va
13、lid C. validity D. invalidate（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.三、B(总题数：1，分数：55.00)My Fathers Advice(1)I learned from him the way children always learn.(2)A mans main job is to take care of the people who depend on him.(3)I was 23 and about to set off for Europe. I had been saving since college, living at home to cut
14、 expenses. Now I planned to stop my job and travel as long as my money lasted.(4) A few days before my departure, my father handed me a handwritten sheet of paper. “Norman, here are some things I want you to keep in mind.“(5)Surprised, I took the paper to my room. Dad wasnt one for writing.(6)The sh
15、eet was headed “Reminders,“ and there were 29. The first few were sensible enough.(7) “Check in with U. S. embassy in each country.“(8)“Keep change in your pockets.“(9)“Put money under pillow at night.“(10)Then came, as I knew it would, the advice that meant to cramp my style:(11)“Dont pick up stran
16、ge girls. You may be sorry.“(12)“Do not climb mountains. You might get hurt.“(13)“Dont hitchhike.“(14)“Dont get tattooed.“(15)It was always that way with Dad, a drumbeat of cheats and prohibitions from morning to night. There was never an easy conversation with him. Always, it was Dad telling me wha
17、t 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.(16)Thats not the way hed lived his adolescence, though.(17)Charles Wesson Smith was born in a small town in Kentucky, one of six children of the general-store owner. He ha
18、dnt finished high school when he left town by jumping a freight train.(18)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 spiced with country expressions. “You did your bes
19、t,“ hed say. “Thats all a mule can do.“(19)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 the great movie studies, in New York for the
20、 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.(20) I remember Dad driving us to school, giving the same lecture every morning: “Boys, youre getting the tools
21、of your trade. Get them now or youll be like a carpenter without his toolsyou wont be able to make a living.“(21)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 Dads advice. “Give bullies a goo
22、d fight and they wont bother you anymore.“(22)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 it had a shortcoming, becaus
23、e I knew he wouldnt run from a fight himself. And I wanted him to be proud of me.(23)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 suddenly when I was in my
24、mid-20s.(24)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.(25)Dads most important lessons were ones he never ve
25、rbalized. I have tried to put them into words.(26)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 tooher sister Virgiebelle and Virgiebelles daughter Dodie.(27)On
26、ce, Virgiebelle phoned my mother, extremely anxious. Her exhusband, Ray, she re-ported, 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 if trouble
27、 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 with her
28、mother.(28)Virgiebelle and Dodie lived with us for the first five years of my life. when they moved into their own 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 not
29、every man welcomed in-laws into him house.(29)Never boast, never pretend, never say anything that isnt true.(30)Share with the less fortunate.(31)When you say youre going to do something, do it.(32)When youre right, dont stop.(33) My fathers world, that of commission salesmen, was filled with big ta
30、lkers. Theyd often come by the house. Many had worked for my father and were looking for an “advance“. Dad was an easy touch.(34)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
31、about it afterward, he just smiled. “Everybody in this business has a sure thing.“ he said.(35)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
32、bothered to instruct me about telling the truth. I dont think it occurred to him that it was something a father had to do.(36)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 No
33、rmans bicycle, and I gave it to 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.(37)Some childhood memories are impressed deeply in a way you k
34、now will never fade. One of mine occurred 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.(38)I dont remember what happened next. Probably my mother
35、 came downstairs. But not long afterward. My father joined AA. He said he wasnt going to touch alcohol again. And he never did. I didnt then understand the powerful hold alcohol could have, but I did understand, growing up, that my mother never worried about my fathers falling off the wagon. Hed sai
36、d he wasnt going to drink anyone, and that was that.(39) 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
37、picture.(40)Dad calmly explained that hed done nothing wrong, but complaints had been filed against some 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 n
38、o case.(41)I did worry. Not about Dadhed be all rightbut about classmates saying some-thing. When they didnt. I stopped worrying.(42) But 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 b
39、een dishonest. The trial took a long time. He paid a fortune to lawyers, his business was ruined, but in the end Dad was found not guilty.(43)Though innocent of crime, my father was seriously guilty of misjudgement. I can remember the dinner-table conversations that predicted his accusation.(44)“Cha
40、rles,“ my mother would say, “you know Frank is trouble.“(45)“I know, Genevieve, but he deserves a second chance.“(46)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
41、 said he needed my fathers help.(47)Dad cut him in on some franchise sales he was handling. 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.（分数：55.00）(1).In this se
42、ction, there are Five incomplete statements, followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet.Normans father thought Norman was _. A. experienced B. ignorant C. not practical D. lacking in experience（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Whe
43、n 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 years later.（分数：5.00）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 h
44、e gave to Norman D. to finish high school first（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Normans father wanted his children _. A. to buy the tools they needed for farming B. to become a carpenter C. to study hard D. to be without tools（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Norman learned useful lessons in teaching children, and he taught
45、 children _. A. only by words B. by ordering them to obey C. by example D. telling them what is right（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.(6).Translate the following sentences into Chinese and write the translation on your Answer Sheet.He never bothered to instruct me about telling the truth.（分数：5.00）_(7).I dont think
46、it occurred to him that it was something a father had to do.（分数：5.00）_(8).I remembered one salesman spinning visions of fortunes to be made with a new deal he wanted my father to take on.（分数：5.00）_(9).I didnt then understand the powerful hold alcohol could have.（分数：5.00）_(10).Only then did it grow clear to my mind just how much Id been taugh
