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1、精品自学考 料推荐浙江省 2018 年 1 月高等教育自学考试英语阅读（二）试题课程代码： 00596 . Match the words from Column A with the definitions from Column B(15%)A.B.1. unexpectedA. giving no attention2. noveltyB. the act of sending out (esp.heat, light, etc. )3. spaciousC. quick and active4. entertainingD. never thought to happen5. inat
2、tentivenessE. a person who brings one or more pieces of information6. emissionF. newness7. briskG. having much space8. messengerH. amusing9. commitmentI. state of being placed in view10. substituteJ. angry violent and cruel11. hintK. cuts of sth. by leaving out parts of it12. discloseL. show by unco
3、vering13. clipsM. a small or indirect suggestion14. fierceN. put something in place of another15. exposureO. a promise to follow a certain course of action . All the following sentences are taken from the textbook.Study each sentence carefullyand choose A,B,Cor D that has the closest meaning tothe u
4、nderlined word or phrase.(15%)1. It is something offered at a low or advantageous price.A. advancingB. profitableC. attractiveD. high2. A technician will examine your blood under a microscope-counting the white cells in a small marked-off area.A. indicatingB. separated by a line-drawingC. noticeable
5、D. having visible trace3. How do you go about identifying people s needs?A. change to the opposite directionB. concentrate onC. begin to work atD. notice4. People often say the right words, but their eyes betray their true feelings.A. hideB. representC. revealD. turn against5. We tried, in short tim
6、e, to catch up on our respective lives over the last two decades.A. come up from behindB. bring to date1精品自学考 料推荐C. be interested inD. be eager to tell each other about6. A mutation (whichis always possible) happens to suit a new environment, and the oddcreature survives because it is better fitted.
7、A. fixed in placeB. made suitable or competentC. in good healthD. of the right size or shape7. The repeated actions of preparing, sorting, filling, distributing, and keeping track ofrecordsand publications can be as troublesome as calculating.A. following the way ofB. pursuingC. seeking afterD. keep
8、ing oneself informed about8. All plants and animals that have been studied carefully (includingthe human) seem to havebuilt-in clocks.A. making a fix partB. fixing to a part as a wholeC. internally fixedD. causing to become one part of sth.9. The International Monetary Fund is concerned with short-t
9、erm credit and the cooperative management of foreign exchange rates.A. advance or loanB. trust or believeC. money or cashD. pay or debt10. The lending nations subscribe toward its capital stock in proportion to their economic importance.A. with reference toB. at the rate ofC. in the measure ofD. in
10、comparison with11. More important is the fact that it can float bonds and use the proceeds to make loans.A. stayB. moveC. supportD. issue12. It hoped to secure the advantages of the gold standard without its disadvantages.A. protectB. have no doubtC. be certainD.make safe13. This concentration on pr
11、oject lending is directed at ensuring that Bank funds are invested insound, productive projects.A. close gatheringB. close attentionC. coming togetherD. point14. The Bankis both a developmental and a financial institution,and each project forwhich itlends must satisfy both features of the institutio
12、n.A. collegeB. universityC. organizationD. institute15. Of these, the overwhelming majority, well over 90 percent, have been for specific projects such as schools.A. largest crowdB.big figureC. by far the greatest numberD. small part . Reading comprehension(40%)2精品自学考 料推荐Reading Passage 1Itisbecomin
13、gincreasinglyrecognizedthat educationis a process whichcontinuesthroughout adult life.The scope of adult and continuing education has widened in recent yearsand now includes, in addition to the development of the individual through cultural, physical and craft pursuits, such subjects as basic educat
14、ion: education for disadvantaged groups and those with special needs such as ethnic minorities or the disabled; consumer education; health education; andpre-retirement education. Continuingeducationincludestraining for those in employment, toenable them to keeppace with technologicalchange.TheBritis
15、hgovernment has takenanumber of recent initiatives to improve opportunities for both adult and continuing education.In1982 it launched a Professional, Industrial and Commercial Updating Program designed to helpcolleges and universities to meet the need to up-date and broaden the skills of those in m
16、id-careerin industry, commerce and the professions.A three-year program to encourage the expansion ofeducational opportunities for the adult unemployed was launched in 1984.Apart from provisionfor maturestudents at universities,courses are providedbyfurthereducation colleges, adulteducation centers,
17、 residential colleges, the Open Universities and various other bodies including anumber ofvoluntaryorganizations.Most ofthe provisionis made by the local educationauthorities in a wide variety of establishments, including schools used for adult evening classesand community schools which provide educ
18、ational, social and cultural opportunities for the widercommunity.Most courses are part-time.Local authorities also maintain or aid many courseslasting between a weekend and afortnight.Long-termresidentialcolleges, grant-aided bycentral government departments, provide courses of one or two years and
19、 aim to provide a liberaleducation without academic entry tests.Most students admitted are entitled to full maintenancegrants.1. One of the tasks of continuing education is _.A. to keep employees well informed of recent technological developmentsB. to help employees get promoted and pay increasedC.
20、to widen employees knowledge of their country s historyD. to make employees spare time activities rich and varied2. The word “ initiatives ” in Line 8 most probably means _.A. plansB. offersC. measuresD. proposals3. The two programs launched by the British government are designed for _. A. students
21、and teachers in colleges and universitiesB. the employed and unemployed respectively C. the government employees in BritainD. the disadvantaged and the disabled4. Which of the following is mentioned in the passage?_A. Adult education might be replaced by other types of education.3精品自学考 料推荐B. Many Br
22、itish young people can receive higher education without entrance examination.C. Only those who passed academic entry tests can get financial aid from the central government. D. The aid for improving adult and continuing education is provided by local and Stategovernments.5. It can be concluded from
23、the passage that _.A.adult education will probably become the main type of education in Britain and other developed countriesB. the government should attach importance to various types of education to meet the needs of thechanging worldC. higher education should meet the demands of the development o
24、f science and technology D. high schools should produce more skilled studentsReading Passage 2Brain damage is forever, or so doctors once thought, but that long-standing medical axiom(公理 ) is now being proved wrong.In laboratories across the USA and Europe, researchers arefinding that by creating th
25、e right chemical environment, and in some cases implanting new cells inthe brain, damaged nervous systems can be coaxed (哄 ) to regenerate (再生 ). Even moreencouraging is the discovery, so far shown only inanimals, that cellular (细胞 ) re-growth canstore lost mental functions, and , in addition, impro
26、ve memory and learning.The latest achievement in this promising fieldis the work of Dr. Donald Stein and threecolleagues at Clark University in Worcester Mass.As reported in last week s issue of Science,the group attempted to restore mental functioning in 21 rats whose brains had been damaged bythe
27、removal of large sections of the frontal cortex (皮层空间 ). This function of the brain is involved in the learning of complex spatial ( 空间 ) relationships. Typically rats sustaining such asevere injury would take 18 days or more to master a maze ( 迷宫 ) that required them to alternate right and left tur
28、ns in order to get a drink of water. Normal rats can learn the task in just 2. 5 days.Before attempting to repair the brain damage, Stein s team waited a week to allow for thenatural accumulation of healing proteins called nerve growth factors.Then they implanted apinhead size lump of tissue that ha
29、d taken from the frontal cortex of normal rat embryos (胎儿 ).The researchers used fetal (胎儿 ) cells because they are rich in growth factors and adapt easily to anew environment. Result of the operation: the brain-damaged rats were able to learn the maze in just 8. 5 days. While this is still slower t
30、han normal, says Stein,“ the transplant was dearlyproducing some degree of functional recovery. ” Stein later found that new connections hadgrown between the transplanted tissue and the rest of the brain.According to Stein, the immediate lesson of his group s experiment is that there is muchmore cap
31、acity for response to brain injury than previously thought.6. In this experiment, the damaged brains were healed _. A. through surgeryB. by creating a favorable chemical environment4精品自学考 料推荐C. by placing new brain material in the damaged brainD. all of the above7. The rats described in the article
32、_. A. had accidental brain damageB. were at first incapable of learning the maze C. had had part of their brains removedD. were superior to normal rats after the experiment8. The article inplies that _.A. learning a maze depends upon the ability to learn spatial relationships B. damaged brains could
33、 never be returned to normalC. only fetal brain tissue is useable for brain regenerationD. normal rats could learn the maze even faster if implanted with brain tissue proteins 9. Nerve growth factors are _.A. conditions under which brain cell can regenerateB. a chemical environment which induces bra
34、in cell enlargement C. proteins which can be used by the tissueD. none of the above10. According to Dr. Stein the experiment shows that _. A. human brain damage is repairableB. a damaged brain does make some attempt to heal itselfC. brain damage does not necessarily mean a lot of functional abilityD
35、. animal brains, such as a rat s, are better able to repair themselves than human brainsReading Passage 3Newspapers in Great Britainvary greatly in their ways of carrying the news.There areserious papers for those who want to know about important happenings everywhere, both at homeand abroad.There a
36、re popular newspapers for those who prefer entertainment to information.The London newspaper that is best known outside Great Britain is probablyThe Times .It began in 1785, and has a high reputation for reliable news and serious opinions on the news.Itcalls itself an independent paper, which means
37、that it does not give its supports to a particular party. Its leading articles give the opinions of the editor, not those of the owners of the paper.Letters to the editor are printed in parts of the newspaper.These parts ofThe Times arealways interesting.Most of the letters are on serious subjects,
38、but from time to time there will belong letters on the subject which is not at all serious, perhaps on a new fashion of dress, or the bad manners of the young people compared with the manners of the people thirty years ago.In additionto the London daily newspapers, there are other papers.The two Lon
39、donevening papers, the Evening News and the Evening Standard, are sold not only at the ordinarynewsagents shops, but always stay by their piles of papers.However, the newspaper sellerssometimes go away and leave their papers.Passers-by help themselves to the paper they want,5精品自学考 料推荐and leave the p
40、rice of the paper in a box.There are dishonest people in London, but no onethinks it is worth robbing a newspaper seller of a few coins.11. If you want to entertain yourself, please buy yourself_.A. a popular newspaperB. a serious newspaperC. a foreign newspaperD. any independent paper12. The main r
41、eason why The Times is a newspaper of high reputation is that _. A. it is well known outside Great BritainB. news carried in the paper can be accepted as true C. the first paper of The Times was published in 1785 D. it provides readers with many articles on serious news13. The Times is an independen
42、t paper, for _.A. it doesn t speak in favor of a certain political partyB. it doesn t support all the political partiesC. it is not controlled by the British governmentD. the editors opinions are not examined by the owners of the paper14. What can we infer from the third paragraph?A. Writing on the
43、latest fashion on clothes is the best way to attract young readers.B. People thirty years ago were often polite.C. In the letters to the editor serious subjects are written in an amusing way.D. Letters to the editor are usually too serious to be interesting.15. Which of the following statements in T
44、RUE?A. No one thinks the paper is well worth a few coins.B. The busy street corners are not the usual place where papers are sold.C. Even dishonest people will not take the paper without paying for it.D. The passers-by can be offered free copies of newspapers.Reading Passage 4There are a great many careers in which the increasing emphasis is on specialization.Youfind these careers in engineering, in production, in statistical work, and in teaching.But there isan increasing demand for people wh