1、自考英语（二）模拟试卷 34 及答案与解析一、阅读判断0 Stomach UlcerStomach ulcers(溃疡) are the cause of severe pain for many people. Doctors have been able to help lessen the pain of ulcers. They could not cure them. Now doctors have discovered a cause of ulcers. This means they may have found a way to cure people who suffer
2、 from the stomach pain. Studies show that ten percent of the population will develop an ulcer at some time in their life. So a possible cure is good news for many people.Ulcers are wounds in the stomach that are similar to small cuts or tears. These wounds can harm the tissue (生物组织) in the stomach,
3、the pipe that carries the food to the stomach or parts of the small intestines (肠). Fluids (液体) in the stomach then increase the pain of an ulcer. How does a person know he or she has an ulcer? Doctors say most people with ulcers feel a burning pain in their chest or stomach. This pain often is call
4、ed heart-burn. It usually happens before eating or during the night. It causes some people to lose their desire to eat, or they are unable to keep food in their stomachs.Doctors believed that ulcers were caused by unusually strong stomach fluids, which damaged stomach tissue. Now they have discovere
5、d that most ulcers are caused by a bacterial (细菌的 ) organism (有机体) called Hillico Bactor Pilorie or H Pilorie. H Pilorie bacteria are what make stomach produce extra stomach fluid. Doctors found that they can kill the bacteria with medicines called antibiotics(抗生素). Health experts say the discovery
6、of a cure for ulcers can save thousands of millions of dollars in medical costs. They also believe curing ulcers will reduce the number of people who develop stomach cancer. The number of people with stomach cancer is very high in Japan, Southeast Asia and parts of Africa.Doctors say a person is mor
7、e likely to get an ulcer if someone in his or her family has had one. In fact a person with the family history of ulcers is three times more likely to get one than other people. There are ways people can protect themselves from developing an ulcer. Doctors say it is more important to reduce the amou
8、nt of strong fluids in the stomach. To do this, doctors say, people should not smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol. And they say people should reduce tension in their lives.1 Doctors have been able to reduce the pain caused by stomach ulcers.（A）True（B） False（C） Not Given2 Now doctors can successfully
9、cure stomach ulcers.（A）True（B） False（C） Not Given3 Some people are likely to suffer from the stomach pain at some time in their life.（A）True（B） False（C） Not Given4 People with ulcers usually feel a burning pain in their chest or stomach when they are eating.（A）True（B） False（C） Not Given5 There has b
10、een a change in doctors understanding of the cause of stomach ulcers.（A）True（B） False（C） Not Given6 Stomach ulcer can lead to stomach cancer.（A）True（B） False（C） Not Given7 People who eat a lot of spicy food are also easy to have stomach ulcers.（A）True（B） False（C） Not Given8 H Pilorie bacteria cannot
11、 be killed.（A）True（B） False（C） Not Given9 If a persons family has had an ulcer, he is three times more likely to get ulcer than people without a family history of ulcers.（A）True（B） False（C） Not Given10 Tension in life can increase the likelihood of getting a stomach ulcer.（A）True（B） False（C） Not Giv
12、en二、阅读选择10 Evolution of SleepSleep is very ancient. In the electroencephalographic (脑电图仪的) sense we share it with all the primates(灵长类动物) and almost all the other mammals and birds; it may extend back as far as the reptiles (爬行动物).There is some evidence that the two types of sleep, dreaming and drea
13、mless, depend on the life-style of the animal, and that predators(食肉动物 ) are statistically much more likely to dream than prey, which are in turn much more likely to experience dreamless sleep. In dream sleep, the animal is powerfully immobilized (使固定不动) and remarkably unresponsive to external stimu
14、li. Dreamless sleep is much shallower, and we have all witnessed cats or dogs cocking their ears to a sound when apparently fast asleep. The fact that deep dream sleep is rare among prey today seems clearly to be a product of natural selection, and it makes sense that today, when sleep is highly evo
15、lved, the stupid animals are less frequently immobilized by deep sleep than the smart ones.But why should they sleep deeply at all? Why should a state of such deep immobilization ever have evolved? Perhaps one useful hint about the original function of sleep is to be found in the fact that dolphins
16、and whales and aquatic mammals in general seem to sleep very little. There is, by and large, no place to hide in the ocean. Could it be that, rather than increasing an animal s vulnerability, the function of sleep is to decrease it? Wilse Webb of the University of Florida and Ray Meddis of London Un
17、iversity have suggested this to be the case. It is conceivable that animals who are too stupid to be quiet on their own initiative are, during periods of high risk, immobilized by the implacable arm of sleep. The point seems particularly clear for the young of predatory animals. This is an interesti
18、ng notion and probably at least partly true.11 The author states that during dream sleep, the animal sleeps_.（A）without moving（B） shallowly（C） intermittently（D）on its side12 It can be inferred from the passage that animals that are prey rarely experience dream sleep because they_.（A）have evolved fur
19、ther than predators（B） are particularly intelligent animals（C） need less sleep than predators（D）would be caught if deeply asleep13 The author suggests that, because there are no hiding places in the oceans, whales and dolphins_.（A）sleep only when they are very young（B） cannot afford to sleep very mu
20、ch（C） usually dream while awake（D）take turns to sleep14 The passage is mainly concerned with the_.（A）types and function of sleep（B） psychological role of dreams（C） history of reptilian sleep patterns（D）influence of evolution on young animals15 Compared with dreamless sleep, deep dream sleep is_.（A）n
21、ot the result of natural selection（B） less likely to appear to monkeys（C） more protective to the animals（D）at a higher stage of evolution三、概括段落大意和补全句子15 Radar1 Children enjoy shouting at a high wall and hearing the sound come back to them. These sounds are called echoes (回声). Echoes have given us a
22、number of valuable tools.2 Echo sounding devices were early used in making maps of the ocean floor. Sounds or ultrasonic (超声的) sounds make good tools for determining how deep the water is under ships. Sometimes echoes from ultrasonic distance finding devices were prevented from working by fish swimm
23、ing past or by the presence of large objects. So ultrasonic devices have been replaced by other tools.3 Radar is now a familiar tool. Like many others it was an unexpected discovery. It was first observed by two researchers, who were studying sound communication. They were sending signals from a sta
24、tion on one side of a river in Washington. DC. to a vehicle across the river. They discovered that their signals were stopped by passing ships. They recognized the importance of this discovery at once.4 All this was of course just a start, from which our present radar has developed. The word “radar,
25、“ in fact, gets its name from the term “radio detection (检测) and ranging“. “Ranging“ is the term for detection of the distance between an object and the radar set. Today, in our scientific age, it would be difficult to manage without radar.5 One of the many uses of radar is as a speed control device
26、 on highways. When a person in an automobile is driving faster than the speed limit, radar will show this clearly and the traffic police can take measures to stop him.6 A pilot cannot fly a plane by sight alone. Many conditions such as flying at night and landing in dense fog require the pilot to us
27、e radar. Human eyes are not very good at determining speeds of approaching objects, but radar can show the pilot how fast nearby planes are moving.A. Study of SoundB. Highway PoliceC. Present Radar Is Developed and UsedD. Early Use of Echo Sounding DevicesE. EchoesF. Discovery by Chance16 Paragraph
28、117 Paragraph 218 Paragraph 319 Paragraph 420 Paragraph 520 A. detect nearby objectsB. determine the depth of the ocean waterC. decide how fast you driveD. in need of radarE. map the ocean floorF. observe water flow21 Echo-sounding devices were early used to_.22 Ultrasonic devices were used to_.23 S
29、cientific age is_.24 Police use radar on highways to_.25 Radar helps pilots to_.四、填句补文25 Michael Jacksonthe Ups and DownsMichael Jackson, the seventh of nine children, started his musical career with his brothers in 1964.【T1】_Michael quickly became the centre of attention.During the following years
30、the band released hit after hit and became the most successful Motown group, In 1975 the Jackson Five decided to leave Motown for more money at CBS records.Young Michael began his solo (独唱) career while he was still with the group. His big breakthrough came in 1982 with the arrival of his biggest se
31、lling album, Thriller. The album had seven hit singles and became famous for its video clip.【T2】_In 1984 he set his hair on fire for a commercial in Los Angeles. He was injured and carried out on a stretcher (担架). This and many other strange stories about Jackson brought him the nickname Wacko Jack
32、(怪人杰克 ). Nevertheless the sales of his records went up.Black and White was the biggest hit of the 1991 album Dangerous. During the promotion of his album he invited US talk master Oprah Winfrey to Neverland (梦幻岛). There he gave the world insights into his private life.【 T3】_And he also admitted that
33、 he had undergone plastic surgery.In 1993 the King of Pop was accused of harassing (骚扰) children, but a settlement with the 13-year old s parents saved him from prison.【T4】_But unluckily, the couple separated a year and a half later.By the mid 1990s Jacksons popularity had started to fall. History w
34、as a collection of greatest hits plus a few new recordings. The pop star appeared at the Brit Awards to perform his number one single Earth Song, together with a group of children.A second marriage with Nurse Deborah Rowe produced a son Michael and a daughter Paris.【T5】_It took almost 6 years to fin
35、ish the album Invincible. But when it was released in 2001 ,it was only in the charts (排行榜) for six weeks.In March 2009 Jackson surprised the pop world by announcing were that he would go on stage one last time. A series of ten concerts, definitely his last ones, were planned for July 2009 in the 02
36、 Arena in London. But on June 25, 2009, less than a month before he was scheduled to begin a series of comeback concerts, paramedics were called to Michael Jacksons rented home in Holby Hills near Los Angeles where they found him unconscious and not responding. They were unable to revive the “King o
37、f Pop,“ and Jackson was pronounced dead at the L. A. Medical Center.A. They called themselves the Jackson Five.B. The following year Jackson married Lisa Marie Presley.C. He said that he was lonely.D. Michael Jackson was not only a great singer, he also did crazy things.E. Elizabeth Taylor and Micha
38、el Jackson were two peas in one odd pod.F. Jacksons downturn continued into the new millennium.26 【T1】27 【T2】28 【T3】29 【T4】30 【T5】五、填词补文30 English and English CommunityThere is no denying that English is a useful language. The people who speak English today make up the【B1】_ speech community in the w
39、orld with the exception of speakers of Chinese. Originally they were small tribes of people from northern Europe who【B2】_ in England. Their languages became more and more【B3】_ to each other. Finally, the language had enough uniformity to be used by all speakers in England. The people were united int
40、o a speech community through their shared language.Speech community is similar to other kinds of【B4】_ The people who make up the community share common language. Often they live side by side, as they do in a neighborhood, a village, or a city. More often they form a whole country. National boundarie
41、s, however, are not always the same as the boundaries of a speech community. A speech community is any group of people who【B5】_ the same language no matter where they happen to live.We may say that anyone who speaks English【B6】_ to the English speech community. For convenience, we may classify the s
42、peakers into two groups: one in which the speakers use English as their native language, the other in which the speakers learn English as a second language for the【B7】_ of education, commerce, and so on.English serves as an alternative language in several areas of public activity for most nations in
43、 the world which employ it as an【B8】_ second language. English has been adopted as the language of air traffic, commerce, as well as international diplomacy. Moreover, English is the【B9】_ of the majority of published materials in the world so that education has come to rely【B10】_ on an understanding
44、 of English.A. international B. native C. speakD. belongs E. purpose F. languageG. communities H. settled I. similarJ. same K. heavily L. largest31 【B1 】32 【B2 】33 【B3 】34 【B4 】35 【B5 】36 【B6 】37 【B7 】38 【B8 】39 【B9 】40 【B10 】六、完形补文40 Why do We Use E-mail?Personal computers and the Internet give peo
45、ple new choices about how to spend their time.Some may use this【C1】_(free) to share some time with certain friends or family members, but new technology will also let them stay in closer touch with those they care about most. I know this from【C2】_(person) experience.E-mail makes it easy to work at h
46、ome, which is where I now spend most weekends and evenings. My【C3 】_(work) hours aren t necessarily much【C4】_(short) than they once were but I spend fewer of them at the office. This lets me share more time with my young daughter than I might have if she d been born before electronic mail became suc
47、h a【C5】_(practice) tool.The Internet also makes it easy to share【C6 】_(think) with a group of friends. Say you do something fun, see a great movie perhaps, and there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you call each one, you may tire of【C7 】_(tell) the story.With E-mail, you
48、 just write one note about your experience, at your【 C8】_(convenient) ,and address it to all the friends you think might be interested. They can read your message when they have time, and read only as much as they want to. They can reply when they are【C9】_(avail) and you can read what they have to s
49、ay when you have time. E-mail is also an【C10】_(expense) way to stay in close touch with people who live far away.41 【C1 】42 【C2 】43 【C3 】44 【C4 】45 【C5 】46 【C6 】47 【C7 】48 【C8 】49 【C9 】50 【C10 】七、短文写作51 我们成长的过程中总伴随着父母亲人的关爱，但当这种关爱超出极限时它就变成了具有摧毁力的溺爱。请结合下图谈谈你的看法，写一篇 150 词左右的英文短文。自考英语（二）模拟试卷 34 答案与解析一、阅读判断1 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 根据是原文第一段第二句话。其中“lessen”一词意同“reduce”，表示“降低、缓解”。2 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 注意原文第一段第三行的“may hav
