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《综合英语(二)》试题B卷
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C. about D. concerning
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It is not hard to find the truth ;what is hard is not to run away from it ______ you have found it.
A. while B. once
C. as long as D. as soon as
12. ______ men fail through ignorance of their strength than through knowledge of their weakness.
A. Many B. Some
C. More D. Less
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一、用适当语法形式或词汇填空。从A、B、C和D四个选项中选出一个
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1. Books require hard work and practice and ,like sports ,they can be both a ______ and a delight.
A. nuisance B. annoyance
C. challenge D. prodding
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A lot of trouble in this world is caused by ______ a narrow mind with a wide mouth.
A. combining B. concerning
C. adding D. involving
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3. Most economists believe that the five-day work week has had a positive ______ on our economy.
A. influence B. affect
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C. after-effect D. effect
4. If a man does not make new acquaintances ,he will soon find himself ______.
A. out in the cold B. lonely
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5. The boy ran ______ from home to school and was just in time for class.
A. all the more B. all the way
C. all the same D. all the time
6.
Parents unable to spend much time with their children are likely to ______ them with a lot of playthings.
A. cover B. fill
C. rain D. shower
7. Some people have trouble ______ to a life of retirement.
A. changing B. adopting
C. adjusting D. fitting
8.
A good way to forget your trouble is to help others out of ______.
A. them B. their
C. theirs' D. theirs
9. Garbage collecting is as ______ a job as clerking ,or teaching.
A. respectable B. respective
C. respectful D. respecter
10.
There's nothing shameful ______ being wrong .Nobody can be right all the time.
A. on B. for
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13. According to a medical report,______ 75 percent of the current violent crime is drug related.
A. so many as B. as many as
C. so much as D. as much as
14. ______ so many people been interested in computers as today.
A. There never have B. Never before have
C. There have never D. Before never have
15. She was the only one in her family ______ the disastrous earthquake.
A. surviving B. having survived
C. to survive D. survived
16. It is the first time that I ______ really relaxed for months.
A. feel B. have felt
C. felt D. will have felt
17. “Will you join us tonight?”
“Oh ,I ______,but I have an essay to write.”
A. would love to B. would love
C. would love to join D. would love joining
18. I don't regret ______ her what I thought of her husband ,even though it might have upset her.
A. telling B. to tell
C. that I will tell D. to have to tell
19.
The higher the standard of living ,the ______.
A. greater is the amount of goods to consume B. greater amount of goods consumed
C.
greater the amount of goods consumed D. amount of goods consumed is greater
20. “Why didn't you buy the dictionary?”
“I ______,but I didn't have enough money with me.”
A. would buy B. would have
C. had bought D. had done
21. To be frank ,I'd rather you ______ anything about it for the time being.
A. do B. don't do
C. did D. didn't do
22. ______ dark clouds gathering on the horizon ,he stopped the work in hand and went home.
A. To see B. Having been seeing
C. Seeing D. Having to see
23. “Couldn't he understand that the few drops of water ______ out of us so fast if we waited until night?”I thought
to myself.;
A. won’t be sweated B. wouldn't be sweated
C. won’t be sweating D. wouldn't be sweating
24.
His eyes wouldn't close .They kept ______ me ,narrow and dangerous.
A. watch B. watching
C. to watch D. watched
25. I think you ought ______ me about the matter and not have let me make such a fool of myself.
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A. have told B. tell
C. had told D. to have told
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二、认真阅读下面两篇短文，每篇短文后有五个问题。根据短文的内容
从四个选项中选择一个最佳答案（每小题2分，共20分）
Passage 1
Making Use of Your Time
Everybody wastes d of doing their lessons,students watch television,or go and enjoy themselves
outside the campus(校园).Writers neglect their work,and wander up and down in the room making cups of coffee and
all have good intentions,but they keep putting off the moment when they must start a
consequence,they begin to feel guilty,and then waste even more time wishing they had not allowed themselves to be
distracted.
When someone else is organizing our time for us,as,for instance,during lessons or working hours,we do not
necessarily work more efficiently,but at least we are subject to the discipline of a is when we are responsible
for organizing our own time that the need for self-discipline -employed people,particularly those engaged in
such creative activities as writing,can only survive,let alone prosper,if they can organize their time efficiently.
I know two writers who seem to me to have got to grips with(正确解决) the problem,but in quite different
is extremely methodical(井井有条).He arrives at his office at and is creative until 12∶ 2
p.m.,he returns to his desk and is creative until ,when he goes home and switches off until the following
would deny that you can regulate your creativity in this way,by the clock as it works in
inspired bursts,often missing meals and sleep in order to get down on paper the ideas that are in his periods
of intense activity are usually followed by days of laziness,when he walks around his flat,listening to Mozart or
flicking through magazines.
Their places of work reflect their 's books are neatly arranged on the shelves by his can
always find the books he wants,and there is not a single book in his office which is not directly relevant to his
,on the other hand,has books and magazines all over the place,some on shelves,some in piles on the floor
and the table,still some even on or under the bed.
Both Bob and Alan have managed to organize their lives in such a way that they are able to produce work of very
high sly,each works in the way that suits his character,and it would be foolish to take either as a
the same,there is a lot we can learn from example,Bob has the excellent idea of setting targets for
each long as he is “on target,”he will occasionally take one afternoon off for relaxation without feeling
guilty;he deliberately plans to waste time for recovery from seems to be a much better idea to relax and
enjoy your time-wasting,rather than to feel guilty about it both at the time and afterwards.
author implies that a person who has wasted time should not
A. waste any more time regretting it.
B. feel uneasy or blame others.
C. avoid being distracted a second time.
D. try to make up for the lost time.
if a writer can organize his time efficiently,he
A. may not achieve much success.
B. is unlikely to produce high quality work.
C. still can't work creatively or productively.
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D. is less productive than people with regular jobs.
h the example of Bob and Alan,the author wants to show
A. self-discipline is the most important in the profession of writing.
B. creativity can never be regulated by devices such as a clock.
C. one should not feel uneasy when wasting time once a target is hit.
D. not bothering with small matters is a work style rather than a shortcoming.
make use of our time,we should
A. keep warning ourselves against wasting time.
B. set targets for each time unit.
C. deliberately plan to waste time.
D. work hard while working and enjoy ourselves while playing.
author suggests that wasting time can sometimes be
A. necessary. B. shameful.
C. productive. D. enjoyable.
Passage 2
It's Mugger's Game In Manhattan
Martin had lived in New York for 40 years and never been mugged did not make him confident — on
the contrary,it terrified way he saw it,he was now the most likely person in Manhattan to get mugged next.
“What are the odds(可能性) in favour of me getting mugged?”he asked his friend Lenny.
“How much are you willing to bet?”said Lenny,who was a compulsive gambler.
“Oh,come on,this is too important to bet on!”
“Nothing is too important to bet on,”said Lenny, was the end of their friendship.
“How do you think I can avoid getting mugged?”Martin asked his friend had not been outside her
apartment in five years,as a sure-fire(保险的) way of avoiding being had failed;someone had broken in and
mugged her.
“I've no idea,Martin,”she said.“Most of these guys are on drugs anyway,and they need the money for their
addiction(毒瘾).”
This gave Martin an the muggers only needed the money for drugs,why didn't he offer them drugs
instead?Then possibly they would be so grateful that they wouldn't harm h some rich friends he knew he
bought small quantities of different had never touched the stuff himself,so he had to label them carefully to
make sure he didn't get them mixed up.
One day he was walking in a part of Central Park he shouldn't have been in (the part where there is grass and
trees)when three men leapt out at was black,one was Puerto Rican and one was Caucasian(白种人).Well,at
least mugging is being integrated he thought.
“You want drugs?”he cried.“I've got drugs!Anything you want you can name don't touch me!”
The three men let go of him respectfully.
“We almost made a big mistake there,”said one of them.“This guy's a him and we could have the
Mafia(黑手党) down on 's see what you got,mister.”Somewhat to his surprise,Martin found himself displaying
his wares to his more to his surprise,he found himself accepting money for the drugs,much more than
he'd paid for them.
“How come you guys have all this money?”He said.“Why are you out mugging when you have money?”
“Well,we're not muggers,”said the Caucasian,embarrassed.“We're out-of-work actors.”
“I thought out-of-work showbiz(演艺) people always became waiters or barmen,”said Martin.
“ there are so many showbiz people in catering now that you can't get work as we had to
get work as muggers.”
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When Martin got home,he bought some more drugs from his soon he sold them to some more
muggers.
Shortly after that he found he was spending more and more time pushing drugs,and making more and more
money at afraid of muggings had turned him into a professional drug-pusher.
One day a man leapt out at him and grabbed him.
“You want drugs?”said Martin.“I've got drugs.”
“I want money,”said a familiar voice.
“Lenny!”cried Martin.“How're you doing?”
“Badly,”said Lenny.“I lost everything gambling.”
He hit Martin on the head and took his money,wallet and all his credit cards,leaving the little packets of white
39.“Will you please get the documents ready and _______ the pencils before the meeting?”(sharp)
a high price is _______ to attract large numbers of customers.(likely)
y a decision was taken after some heated _______.(argue)
his view,_______ leaders and gardeners have something in common — they must take responsibility for what
they have undertaken.(politics)
couple expressed their _______ thanks to the young man who had saved their son by donating one of his
kidneys.(heart,feel)
44.“To survive in prison,”Nelson Mandela said,“one must develop ways to take _______ in one's daily life.”(satisfy)
45.A month before Christmas,Henry Wade,_______ of a family of five,found himself without a job.(bread,win)
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powder behind.
Moral:It's no use offering drugs to a money addict(上瘾的人).
thought he was going to be mugged soon because
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ne gets mugged at least once in forty years.
had been mugged more than once before.
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people in New York get mugged sooner or later.
were too many people like Lenny in New York.
decided to offer drugs to would-be muggers because
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decided he could get drugs more easily than he could earn money.
believed most muggers were more interested in drugs than in money.
found himself having more drugs than money.
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thought most muggers didn't need the money.
he was finally mugged,he wasn't harmed because
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muggers found he didn't have any money on him.
muggers were actually playing a practical joke on him.
muggers were impressed by his readiness to co-operate with them.
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muggers thought he had connections with and was protected by the Mafia.
,at least mugging is being integrated he sentence shows Martin thought at least
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was no racial discrimination in mugging.
g involved people from different races.
s were united as one in their crime.
from different cultures were equal in mugging.
was finally unable to save himself from being mugged probably because Lenny
also pushing drugs like himself.
longer regarded him as a friend.
money and not drugs.
to teach him a lesson.
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三、词形转换。将括号里提供的词转换成适当的词形。(本大题共10小
题，每小题1分，共10分)
was annoyed by the husband's _______ to the studies of their child.(indifferent)
37.“You look must have _______ yourself.”(work)
Paris he bought for his wife two bottles of _______ perfume.(sweet,smell)
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四、完形填空（每小题1分，共15分）
Just after World War II ,people were very willing to give money to help those who had suffered from it. 46
not everyone who collected the money was honest .Newspapers were full of stories of people who had been 47
by men who went from house to house saying that they were collecting for 48 wounded soldiers ,or for those
who had 49 their homes ,or for some other noble 50 .Yet all the time they 51 the money into
their own pockets
52 using it for what they 53 to be doing it for.
one day told his wife that a group of people had 54 thousands of dollars for the widow of the
Unknown e had 55 to the papers about it,and they had warned people that it might be a
fraud(骗局).Mr. Smith said that he and his friends at the office had had a good 56 when they read about it in
the newspaper.
“Can you imagine anyone so 57 as to believe that story and 58 money for the widow of the
Unknown Soldier?”he asked his wife.
looked puzzled.“What a fool I have been?”she thought to her face
59 .“oh,yes!I see now!”she answered.“Of course,it is the 60 that pays the widow of the Unknown
Soldier!”
46.A. And B. But C. Then D. So
47.A. cheated B. stolen C. robbed D. mugged
48.A. badly B. slightly C. deadly D. fatally
49.A. missed B. left C. lost D. sold
50.A. goal B. course C. cause D. idea
51.A. have been putting B. had been putting C. put D. were putting
52.A. except B. except for C. instead D. instead of
53.A. claimed B. clamoured C. disguised D. pretended
54.A. made B. donated C. sent D. collected
55.A. reported B. written C. warned D. told
56.A. time B. cry C. laugh D. surprise
57.A. stupid B. crazy C. clever D. happy
58.A. bring B. send C. give D. distribute
59.A. shined B. brightened C. smiled D. shaken
60.A. public B. people C. committee D. government
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