2022年福建农林大学东方学院自考英语（二）练习题汇总（附答案解析）

1、 2022年福建农林大学东方学院自考英语（二）练习题汇总（附答案解析）第1题【单选题】I _ your strength today to do what I _ today. A、need, done B、need, doing C、need, to doing D、need, need to do【正确答案】D【答案解析】题目意思：今天，我需要你的力量，来做好我需要去做的事情。第2题【单选题】【阅读选择】The United States perceives itself to be a middle-class nation. However, middle class is not a

2、 real designation, nor does it carry privileges. It is more of a perception, which probably was as true as it ever could be right after World War II. The economy was growing, more and more people owned their own homes, workers had solid contracts with the companies that employed them, and nearly eve

3、ryone who wanted a higher education could have one. The information in this passage deals with_. A、an individual B、a social and economic group C、a political organization D、Government【正确答案】B【答案解析】答案选B。通过阅读本段，middle class中产阶级是一个群体，选答案B。第3题【单选题】【阅读选择】There are many other foods that have traveled from S

4、outh America to the Old World. But some others went in the opposite direction. Brazil is now the worlds largest grower of coffee, and coffee is an important crop in Colombia and other South American countries. But it is native to Ethiopia, a country in Africa. It was first made into a drink by Arabs

5、 during the 1400s.Which country is the largest coffee producer? A、Brazil. B、Colombia. C、Ethiopia. D、Egypt.【正确答案】A【答案解析】答题依据在本段的第三句。Producer 与 grower 意思等同。第4题【单选题】【2007.04】The newspaper will have to close down if it cannot increase its _ considerably. A、distribution B、contribution C、prescription D、ci

6、rculation【正确答案】D【答案解析】本题考查词义辨析。circulation：（书报杂志的）销售量，发行额，销路。符合句意。 第5题【单选题】【概括大意】The VLT （Very Large Telescope） is the worlds largest telescope （望远镜） and is taking astronomers （天文学家） further back to the Big Bang than they ever thought possible. Located 2,600 metres up in the Chilean Andes, it has fo

7、ur huge mirrors, each about the size of a London bus. The VLT is so powerful it can spot a burning match 10,000 kilometres away.The main idea of this paragraph is_. A、Biggest telescope B、Power of the telescope C、Fuctions of VLT D、Birth of the new telescope【正确答案】A【答案解析】本段文字主要介绍了世界上最大的望远镜。第6题【单选题】【填句补

8、文】The future is much too important to simply guess about, the way the high school students did. _ by carefully studying the present, skilled businessmen, scientists, and politicians are supposedly able to figure out in advance what will happen. A、The stock market had its worst losses ever B、Building

9、s would rotate so they could follow the sun to take maximum advantage of its light and heat C、So experts are regularly asked to predict accurately D、The article was written in 1958【正确答案】C【答案解析】第一句说的是：预测未来很重要，不能像中学生那样猜测。这一空的关键词是experts，他们不同于中学生，他们的预测应该是较为准确的。第7题【单选题】He _ his poor judgment _ Jet Lag A

10、、blamed . for B、blamed . to C、blamed . on D、blamed . at【正确答案】C【答案解析】此题考查固定词组blame sth. on sb.把.怪到.头上。第8题【单选题】【2007.04】Having decided to rent a flat, we _ contacting housing agencies in the city. A、set about B、set down C、set out D、set up【正确答案】A【答案解析】本题考查关于set的短语。contacting housing agencies：联系房屋中介。根据句

11、意，应该选set about。set about：开始做某事。set down：放下，搁下；记下，记载，写下。set out：出发，开始，后面跟to do sth。set up：建立（事业）；成立（组织）；为某人提供必需品或有用的东西。 第9题【单选题】When _, water will be turned into steam. A、heated B、heating C、being heat D、having heated【正确答案】A【答案解析】水被加热时会变成蒸汽。因为主句主语water和从句谓语heat的关系是被动的，所以用过去分词。第10题【单选题】【阅读选择】Helping th

12、e planet is a big part of what our world trip is all about and thats exactly what we did this past week. We helped get a hydroponics farm started in a local village. This farm will be a model for the local villagers so they can start their very own self sustaining farm. Hydroponics is a type of farm

13、ing that uses a third of the water needed in an average farm and uses no soil. A hydroponics farm _. A、is difficult to build B、is a type of farm without soil C、will cost lots of money D、was started in the village before they came【正确答案】B【答案解析】答案选B。词义理解题。根据关键词hydroponics farm迅速锁定本段。再通过排除法可以判定B项是正确的。因为

14、A和C表述的内容文章并没有提到过。D项表述是错误的，因为那个村庄在他们去之前并没有这种hydroponics farm。是他们到了之后，帮忙建立了一个模型。第11题【单选题】【填句补文】Many beginning interviewers are afraid that they are forcing the other person to answer questions and have no right to inquire about his personal secrets. _. Unless the person really hates being interviewed,

15、 he is delighted that somebody wants to interview him. A、This fear is almost 100 percent unnecessary. B、This doesnt necessarily mean that it will go well. C、Most men and women lead lives that are uninteresting. D、Both of you need time to get to know each other.【正确答案】A【答案解析】抓住关键词进行同义替换，也就是afraid，选项中t

16、his fear就是对这种担心的补充，这种担心是完全没有必要的，除非被采访者确实是讨厌别人问自己。第12题【单选题】【2008.10】Johnson was _ unknown before running for the presidency. A、visibly B、visually C、vertically D、virtually【正确答案】D【答案解析】本题考查（形近的）副词词义区分。译文：事实上，约翰逊在参选总统职位之前是个无名人士。A 显然，明显地 B 外表上，直观地 C 垂直地，直立地 D 实际上，事实上第13题【单选题】【阅读选择】She told me her name wa

17、s Helen and she was talking to a local restaurant where they were going to have lunch after her appointment. She called to see if he was there. She said, “My husband has Alzheimers（老年痴呆）and he shouldnt be driving without me.” Numerous thoughts ran through my head. Call the police, call her family, a

18、nd notify（通知）the doctors office she had just come from! But at first, I offered to drive to the local restaurant to see if Ed was waiting for her there.The elderly woman cried in the lobby when she was talking to _. A、her husband with Alzheimers B、the nurse in the doctors office C、a local restaurant

19、 D、one of her family members【正确答案】C【答案解析】答案选C。根据文章本段中She told me her name was Helen and she was talking to a local restaurant可知答案为C项。Helen由于担心自己丈夫安危，但又找不到人，情急之下先打电话到俩人约好即将要去的餐厅询问情况。第14题【单选题】【2009.7】The wounded soldiers would recover quickly if they were well _. A、nourished B、stuffed C、tamed D、ventur

20、ed【正确答案】A【答案解析】本题考查过去分词意义区分。译文：如果受伤的战士营养很好，他们就会很快痊愈。A 营养，滋养；B 填满，塞满； C 驯服（猛兽）；D 冒险第15题【单选题】【2009.10】Poor speaker of English though he was at the time, he still managed to make himself _. A、understand B、understood C、understanding D、to understand【正确答案】B【答案解析】本题考查语法。那个时候虽然他说英语说得不好，但仍然可以让别人听懂。非谓语动词的选用。过

21、去分词作宾语补足语表示被动以及动作的完成。第16题【单选题】【2009.01】The twin sisters were identical_ appearance and character. A、of B、with C、in D、to【正确答案】C【答案解析】本题考查介词词义。句意：这对双胞胎姐妹的面容和性格都一模一样。be identical to/ with 完全相同的，一模一样的。本题要说明在某个方面是一样的，故选C。 第17题【单选题】【2008.10】Johnson was _ unknown before running for the presidency. A、visibl

22、y B、visually C、vertically D、virtually【正确答案】D【答案解析】本题考查（形近的）副词词义区分。译文：事实上，约翰逊在参选总统职位之前是个无名人士。A 显然，明显地 B 外表上，直观地 C 垂直地，直立地 D 实际上，事实上第18题【单选题】【阅读判断】Five neighbors at a central Missouri retirement community who are all centenarians (百岁老人) get asked all the time：“How did you live to be 100?Q: The five ce

23、ntenarians live in a very friendly community A、True B、False C、Not Given【正确答案】C【答案解析】答案选C。题目说的是“这五位百岁老人生活在一个非常友好的社区”，文章开头部分提到了“community(社区)”，但该句并没有说这五位百岁老人生活的社区是否是一个友好的社区，因此判断问题句的信息在文章中没有提到。第19题【单选题】【填句补文】“Geochemists just want an intuitive sense of whats going on with the elements,” says Albert Gal

24、y from the University of Cambridge _. A、An earth scientist has rejigged the periodic table（元素周期表）to make chemistry simpler to teach to students. B、The traditional periodic table was well drawn. C、“I imagine contour lines would be good for undergraduates.” D、But he has added contour lines to charge d

25、ensity, helping to explain which ions react with which.【正确答案】C【答案解析】这一段是剑桥大学的Albert Galy的原话，我们可以从引导整个关键点得出答案。即：“地学化学家们只想通过直觉判断元素的活动。我想等高线对学生们有好处”。第20题【单选题】【阅读判断】Technology is a beauty. We eagerly adopt its pleasure, preferring to cope with the drawbacks on the morning after.Q: Technology is like an

26、art, which everybody including scientists loves. A、True B、False C、Not Given【正确答案】C【答案解析】答案选C。这段提到了technology是一种美的享受，但是没有说它是一种艺术，更没有说我们每个人都热爱这门艺术。第21题【单选题】【概括大意】Wignall calculated the killing efficiency for these volcanoes by comparing the proportion of life they killed off with the volume of lava th

27、at they produced. He found that size for size, older eruptions were at least 10 times as effective at wiping out life as their more recent rivals.The main idea of this paragraph is_. A、Killing Power of Ancient Volcanic Eruptions B、Accounting for the Killing Power of Older Eruptions C、Calculation of

28、the Killing Power of Older Eruptions D、A Mass Extinction【正确答案】C【答案解析】本段第一句话是说：Wignall calculated the killing efficiency for these volcanoes；Wignall 计算了这些火山的“灭绝效率”；其中killing efficiency与killing Power意思差不多，属于同义词转换，因此选择B或C，但是account for 意思是：（在数量方面）占；说明（原因等）不符合句意，因此不选择B。第22题【单选题】【2007.04】The central thea

29、tre has a seating _ of more than 3, 000 people. A、capability B、capacity C、ability D、facility【正确答案】B【答案解析】本题考查词义辨析。ability主要指天赋的能力或应用知识的才能，应该是属于那种已经具备并发展较快的能力。如“He has unusual ability in science“。capability与ability不同的是，它不仅能用于人，也可用于物，如：Electronic refinements, however, have greatly extended the uses an

30、d capabilities of some of the older electrical devicescapacity指容纳或吸收事物的能力，可用于人和物。如“The hall has a seating capacity of 500”。根据句意，本题应该选capacity。 第23题【单选题】【2009.7】He would _ that all the classified data should be kept safe when in office. A、assure B、ensure C、insure D、secure【正确答案】B【答案解析】本题考查动词意义区分。【译文】他

31、保证在办公室里的所有机密数据处于安全状态。【详细解答】A 使确信，使有信心；B 确保（某事）发生，担保；C 为投保，给保险；D 安全的，没有危险的第24题【单选题】【阅读选择】One reason is economic. In a traditional agricultural economy, large families are helpful. Having more children means having more workers in the fields and someone to take care of the parents in old age. In an in

32、dustrial economy, the situation is different. Many children do not help a family; instead, they are an expense. Thus, industrialization has generally brought down the birth rate. This was the case in Italy, which was industrialized quite recently and rapidly. In the early part of the twentieth centu

33、ry, Italy was a poor, largely agricultural country with a high birth rate. After World War, Italys economy was rapidly modernized and industrialized. By the end of the century, the birth rate had dropped to 1.3 children per woman, the worlds lowest.In a traditional agricultural economy, a large fami

34、ly_. A、can be an advantage B、may limit income C、isnt necessary D、is expensive【正确答案】A【答案解析】答案选A。对照本段In a traditional agricultural economy, large families are helpful.大的家庭是有帮助的，选项中最接近意思的是A，成为一个优势，答案是A。第25题【单选题】【2009.01】I was writing a report last night;_I would not have stayed up late. A、however B、oth

35、erwise C、therefore D、furthermore【正确答案】B【答案解析】本题考查副词词义辨析。句意：我昨天晚上写一个报告，否则我就不会熬夜了。A 然而，不过；B 否则，要不然；C 因此，所以；D 再者，而且。 第26题【单选题】【2009.04】Ive got the order from the boss that the work _ finished before 5 p.m. today. A、would be B、be C、will have been D、could be【正确答案】B【答案解析】本题考查名词从句中的虚拟语气。译文：我已经从老板那得到指令，这项工作

36、在今天下午五点钟之前要完成。详细解答：that引导同位语从句，说明order的内容。同时从句要用虚拟语气，从句谓语用should+动词原形的形式，should 可以省略。第27题【单选题】【2009.7】He would _ that all the classified data should be kept safe when in office. A、assure B、ensure C、insure D、secure【正确答案】B【答案解析】本题考查动词意义区分。【译文】他保证在办公室里的所有机密数据处于安全状态。【详细解答】A 使确信，使有信心；B 确保（某事）发生，担保；C 为投保，

37、给保险；D 安全的，没有危险的第28题【单选题】【填句补文】Home schooling is often more interesting than regular schools, but critics say that home-schoolers are outsiders who might be uncomfortable mixing with other people in adult life. _. However, most parents dont have the time or the desire to teach their children at home,

38、 so schools will continue to be where most children get their formal education. A、Critics also say that most parents are not well qualified to teach their children. B、A number of parents prefer not to send their children to school. C、Children who are educated at home are known as home-schoolers. D、O

39、thers believe they can provide a better educational experience for their children by teaching them at home.【正确答案】A【答案解析】本段大意是“对 home schooling 提出了质疑”，需要注意前面说到了“critics say”，空格处与之对应的是“Critics also say”。第29题【单选题】【2009.10】_ he has many friends, he is often feeling lonely. A、As B、When C、While D、Since【正确

40、答案】C【答案解析】本题考查状语从句的从属连词。【译文】 尽管（虽然）他有许多朋友，但他常常感到孤独。第30题【单选题】【2009.7】He would _ that all the classified data should be kept safe when in office. A、assure B、ensure C、insure D、secure【正确答案】B【答案解析】本题考查动词意义区分。【译文】他保证在办公室里的所有机密数据处于安全状态。【详细解答】A 使确信，使有信心；B 确保（某事）发生，担保；C 为投保，给保险；D 安全的，没有危险的第31题【单选题】I promise

41、I will remember _ the book to you. A、return B、to return C、returning D、returned【正确答案】B【答案解析】根据I promise可知这件事情还没有做，所以用remember to do。这句话的意思是：我保证我会记得还书给你。第32题【单选题】【阅读选择】Northern Europeans are willing to pay a lot of money and put up with a lot of inconveniences for the sun because they have so little o

42、f it. Residents of cities like London, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam spend a lot of their winter in the dark because the days are so short, and much of the rest of the year in the rain. This is the reason the Mediterranean has always attracted them. Every summer, more than 25 million people travel to Me

43、diterranean resorts and beaches for their vacation. They all come for the same reason: sun!In the paragraph, cities like London, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam are mentioned_. A、to show that they are not good cities in terms of geography and climate B、to tell us how wealthy their residents are C、to sugge

44、st that these cities lack places of historic interest and scenic beauty D、to prove that they have got more tourism than they can handle【正确答案】A【答案解析】该段中所列举的三个城市都具有阴冷日短的气候特点，这些不利的地理气候条件使得当地居民向往阳光充足的地方。四个选项中，选项A最接近题意。第33题【单选题】【阅读选择】Organisms have a great variety of ways of adapting. They may adapt in t

45、heir structure, function and genetics, in their development and production of the young and in other respects. An organism may create its own environment, as do warm-blooded mammals, which have the ability to adjust body heat exactly to maintain their ideal temperature despite changing weather. Usua

46、lly adaptations are an advantage, but sometimes an organism is so well adapted to a particular environment that, if conditions change, it finds it difficult or impossible to readapt to the new conditions.The author cites the behavior of warm-blooded mammals in order to show that a living thing may h

47、ave the ability_. A、to create an environment of its own B、to remain still when an enemy is near C、to make food from inorganic chemicals D、to change the color of its skin【正确答案】A【答案解析】作者举例，证明观点；例子不需要看懂，关键要看论据；一般论点在前（前一句或段落首句），论据在后。第34题【单选题】【阅读选择】Roxaboxen is based on the true story of a group of child

48、ren, growing up in the Arizona desert. There children can be a bit wild and much free, and they play outside from dawn to dusk. The children discover the make-believe（虚假的）town, built on the hill across from their neighborhood. The town, called Roxaboxen, becomes the center of their play as the child

49、ren grow, but the story is not just about the time spent in Roxaboxen as young children. More than that, this book is about the way that imagination and secret places stay with us as we grow older and become a part of who we are. It is about the way that it helps us to grow into the adults that we b

50、ecome. What does the books name Roxaboxen refer to? A、A child. B、A library. C、A period of time. D、A place.【正确答案】D【答案解析】答案选D。查找细节题。短文本段中明显一句话提到，The town, called Roxaboxen，所以指的是一个地方的名字。第35题【单选题】【2008.10】It is strongly held that new _ must be introduced to protect the right of the immigrants. A、statist

51、ics B、constructions C、measures D、concessions【正确答案】C【答案解析】本题考查名词词义区分。【译文】强烈支持采取新措施维护移民的权力。【详细解答】A 统计学 B 建设 C 措施，办法 D 让步，特许权第36题【单选题】【阅读选择】In 1841, a book was published which astonished the world. It was called “Incidents of Travel in Central America，Chiapas and Yucatan”. The author John Loud Stephens

52、 had just returned from a long, difficult and dangerous journey through the thick rain forest of southern Mexico and Guatemala. He had once been there with Frederick Catherwood, an architect and artist, to search for the remains of a lost civilization known as the Mayas(玛雅). Very little was known ab

53、out the Mayas at that time, but Catherwoods drawing in the book showed incredible cities with temples，pyramids and other buildings as impressive as those of their northern neighbors, the Aztecs. These cities, however, were deserted. The inhabitants(居民) had disappeared almost a thousand years before.

54、Stephens book astonished the world because _. A、it was the first time people heard about Mayas. B、the Mayas were excellent builders and farmers. C、he had experienced so many difficulties to find this lost civilization. D、it described that the Mayas used to be an advanced civilization.【正确答案】D【答案解析】根据

55、问题中的关键词astonished，把本问题定位在第一句In 1841, a book was published which astonished the world.对下面的几个重要事实的归纳概括就得出正确答案：D。第37题【单选题】【完成句子】Sagan was noted for the vigour of his logic style, especially when criticizing some piece of pseudoscience（伪科学）. I remembered a 1973 AAAS meeting at which he destroyed the the

56、ories of Immanuel Velikovsky, who was maintaining that only a few thousands of years ago, Venus had repeatedly collided with Earth and Mars; events well noted. Velikovsky said, in the bible.In Sagans opinion, Velikovsky might be_. A、a member of the National Academy of Science B、a pseudo-scientist C、

57、a science populariser D、a reporter【正确答案】B【答案解析】从这段文字中，我们可以了解到作者认为，Sagan与伪科学作斗争的一个实例就是Sagan摧毁了Velikovsky的错误论述，即Velikovsky提出，在过去几千年中，水星与地球和火星反复多次相撞，这在圣经中有加载。第38题【单选题】【2008.04】The farming methods have been _ improved with the invention of the new machine. A、efficiently B、proficiently C、professionally D

58、、intentionally【正确答案】A【答案解析】本题考查副词词义辨析。句子翻译为：由于新机器的发明，人们已经高效率地改进了农业耕种方法。A 高效率地 B熟练地 C 职业地、专职地 D 故意地、有意地。第39题【单选题】【阅读判断】Technology is a beauty. We eagerly adopt its pleasure, preferring to cope with the drawbacks on the morning after.Q: Technology is like an art, which everybody including scientists l

59、oves. A、True B、False C、Not Given【正确答案】C【答案解析】答案选C。这段提到了technology是一种美的享受，但是没有说它是一种艺术，更没有说我们每个人都热爱这门艺术。第40题【单选题】【阅读选择】It normally takes from five days to one week for a person to adapt to a reversed routine of sleep and wakefulness, sleeping during the day and working at night. Unfortunately, it is o

60、ften the case in industry that shifts are changed every week; a person may work from 12 midnight to 8 a. m. one week, 8 am to 4pm the next, and 4 pm to 12 midnight the third and so on. This means that no sooner has he got used to one routine than he has to change to another, so that much of his time