[自考类试卷]自考英语(二)综合模拟试卷12及答案与解析.doc
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1、自考英语(二)综合模拟试卷 12 及答案与解析一、填句补文0 HalloweenHalloween is a festival that takes place every year on October 31. It is a time when children and adults dress up in costumes, go trick or treating and make jack-o-lanterns(南瓜灯 )from empty pumpkins.Halloween goes back to the customs and traditions of the Celts
2、, who lived between Ireland and Northern France about 2, 000 years ago. 【T1】_They thought that witches, demons and the spirits of dead people wandered around the world on the evening before November 1 They lit bonfires(篝火)to scare them away and they tried to confuse these demons by wearing the same
3、clothes that they did. 【T2】_In ancient Rome, the festival of Pomona(果树女神)was held in honor of the Roman goddess of fruits and gardens. At about 800 A. D. the Roman Catholic Church introduced a new holiday which they called All Saints Day. It was celebrated on November 1 and the evening before became
4、 known as All Hallows Eve. 【T3 】_Later on All Hallows Eve was shortened to Halloween. 200 years later All Souls Day became a church holiday. It was day on which people prayed for all their dead relatives, friends and the people that they had known.【T4】_When they go trick or treating from house to ho
5、use they ask for sweets(a treat)or else they threaten to play tricks on the people who dont give them anything. Some children and adults go to Halloween parties where they have fun and play games like bobbing the apple in a tub of water.In many European countries people visit the graves of their rel
6、atives on All Saints or Vll Souls Day. At first Halloween was not celebrated in Europe as it was in America, but during the past few decades Halloween parties have become more and more popular in Europe too.The jack-o -lantern is closely connected with Halloween. 【T5 】_Most of them have a candle or
7、some other light in them.According to an old Irish story jack-o -lanterns were named after a man called Jack. He could not go to heaven because he was an evil person and often in a bad mood. However, he couldn t go to hell either because he had tricked the devil many times. So Jack had to stay on Ea
8、rth forever and wander around with his lantern.A. They also offered them something to eat.B. They were pagans(异教徒 )who did not believe in god.C. Hallow was the old word for “holy“.D. However, not everyone wants to be frightened on Halloween night.E. It is a pumpkin that you empty and carve a face in
9、to.F. Today Halloween is celebrated mainly by children who dress up as ghosts, witches and other evil spirits.1 【T1】2 【T2】3 【T3】4 【T4】5 【T5】二、填词补文5 Gross National Happiness Bhutan(不丹)was a poor country. People died at a young age. Most of its people could not read, and they did not know much about t
10、he outside world. Then, in 1972, a new【B1】_named King Jigme Singye Wangchuck decided to help Bhutan to【B2】_modern, but without losing its traditions. King Wangchuck looked at other countries for【B3】_He saw that most countries measured their progress by their Gross National Product(GNP). The GNP meas
11、ures products and money. When the number of products sold increases, people say the country is【B4】_progress. King Wangchuck had a【B5】_idea for Bhutan. He wanted to measure his country s progress by people s happiness. If the people s happiness increased, the king could say that Bhutan was making pro
12、gress. To decide if people were happier, he created a measure called Gross National Happiness(GNH). GNH is based on certain principles that create【B6】_People are happier if they have health care, education, and jobs. They are happier when they live in a healthy, protected environment. They are happi
13、er when they can keep their【B7】_culture and customs. Finally, people are happier when they have a good, stable government. Now there is some evidence of increased GNH in Bhutan. People are healthier and are living 【B8】 _. More people are educated and employed. Twenty-five percent of the land has bec
14、ome national parks, and the country has almost no pollution. The Bhutanese【B9】_to wear their traditional clothing and follow their ancient Buddhist customs. Bhutan has also become a democracy; it had political parties and political candidates for the first time. 【B10 】_, Bhutan has connected to the
15、rest of the world through television and Internet.6 【B1 】7 【B2 】8 【B3 】9 【B4 】10 【B5 】11 【B6 】12 【B7 】13 【B8 】14 【B9 】15 【B10 】三、完形补文15 Discovery of EuropaSince early times, people have been【C1 】_(fascination)with the idea of life existing somewhere else besides earth. Until recently, scientists bel
16、ieve that life on other planets was just a【C2】_(hope)dream. But now they are beginning to locate places where life could form. In 1997, they saw【C3】_(evident)of planets near other stars like the sun. But scientists now think that life could be even nearer in our own solar system. One place scientist
17、s are studying very【 C4】_(close)is Europa, a moon of Jupiter. Space probes have provided evidence that Europa has a large ocean under its surface. The probes have also made scientists think that under its surface Europa has a rocky core【C5】_ (give)off volcanic heat. Water and heat from volcanic acti
18、vity are two basic conditions【C6 】_(need)for life to form. A third is certain basic chemicals such as carbon, oxygen and nitrogen. You may【C7】_(wonderful)if light is also needed for life to form. Until recently, scientists thought that light was【C8】_(essentially). But now, places have been found on
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