2003年7月浙江自考英语阅读(一)真题00595

浙江省2003年7月高等教育自学考试

英语阅读(一)试题

课程代码：00595

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Ⅰ. Vocabulary. (10%)

Complete each of the following sentences with the proper form of the word in the brackets.  Write the word on the Answer Sheet.

1. (adaptation)When you go to a foreign country, you must ______ yourself to new manners and customs.

2. (except)Either of you has to finish the work tonight, I could make no ______ either.

3. (indicate)There seems no ______ of his being punished.

4. (significance)Even the most ______part of the problem ought to be carefully considered.

5. (vain)She tried ______to ask her husband to give up smoking.

6. (hesitate)Whenever he sees someone in trouble, he will give a hand without.

7. (suspicious)I have a ______that he is not telling the truth.

8. (detach)She is so ______from us that it is hard to get to know her.

9. (skyrocket)The ______prices in the pre-liberation days made the poor poorer.

10. (possess)You can take ______of that sum, because you're the eldest son in the family.

Ⅱ. Text Comprehension. (20%)

According to the texts you have learned, decide whether each of the following statements is true or false.  Write T or F on the Answer Sheet.

1. In The Merchant of Venice, Shylock was a Christian but he was such a hard-hearted man that he had never shown a touch of mercy to debtors who could not pay.

2. In Jane Eyre, Bessie's account of school discipline made Jane unwilling to  go to school.

3. In True Love, Milton was arrested because he asked his computer robot to search for the perfect woman to marry him.

4. Frances, in The Girls in Their Summer Dresses, kept to herself the feeling that her husband might leave her someday.

5. According to What Body Language Can Tell You That Words Cannot, touching, in most cases, should be avoided since it is very emotional.

6. In the United Nations, there are five working languages and at all official meetings, the five languages are all translated.

7. In Stories from Greek Myths, Zeus the father of the gods ordered Hephaestus to make massive chains and fasten them upon the immortal body of Prometheus and Hephaestus only too readily