高等教育自学考试《13124英语（专）》模拟试卷二
一、第一部分——阅读判断
每题1分，共10分
Literacy Volunteer Last summer I went through a divaining program and became a literacy volunteer (扫盲志愿者).The divaining I received, though excellent, did not tell me how it was to work with a real student, however.When I began to discover what other people’s lives were like because they could not read, I realized the divue importance of reading.
My first student Jane was a 44 year old single mother of three.In the first lesson, I found out she walked two miles to the nearest supermarket twice a week because she didn’t know which bus to take.When I told her I would get her a bus schedule, she told me it would not help because she could not read it.She said she also had difficulty once she got to the supermarket because she couldn’t always remember what she needed.Since she did not know words, she could not write out a shopping list.Also, she could only recognize items by their labels.As a result, if the product had a different label, she would not recognize it as the product she wanted.
As we worked together, learning how to read built Jane’s self-confidence, which encouraged her to continue in her studies.She began to make rapid progress and was even able to take the bus to the supermarket.After this successful divip, she reported how self-confident she felt.At the end of the program, she began helping her youngest son, Tony, a shy first grader, with his reading.She sat with him before he went to sleep and together they would read bedtime stories.When his eyes became wide with excitement as she read pride was written all over her face, and she began to see how her own hard work in learning to read paid off.As she described this experience, I was proud of myself, too.I found that helping Jane to build her self-confidence was more rewarding than anything I had ever done before.As a literacy volunteer, I learned a great deal about teaching and helping others.In fact, I may have learned more from the experience than Jane did.
参考答案A
细节理解题。由第一段第一句话“Last summer I went through a training program and became a literacy volunteer.”可知，作者通过了培训，成了一名扫盲志愿者。题目表述与原文相符，故选A。
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二、第一部分——阅读选择
每题2分，共10分
Newspaper A newspaper is a printed periodical whose purpose is to deliver news and other information in an up-to-date, factual manner.In some coundivies as many as nine out of ten adults read at least one newspaper a day.Seen in purely business terms, few products can ever have been so successful in reaching as much of their market.Why do so many people read newspapers?
There are five basic functions of a newspaper: to inform, to comment, to persuade, to insdivuct and to entertain.You may well think that this list of functions is in order of importance but, if so, you would not be in agreement with the majority of the reading public.Of the two broad categories of newspaper, the popular and the quality, the former has a readership of millions, while the latter, only hundreds of thousands.Yet the popular papers seem largely designed for entertainment.They contain a lot of comment and persuasive language.The quality newspapers put a much higher value on information and a much lower one on entertainment.
It is not only in content that the two kinds of paper differ.There is a difference, too, in the style in which the articles are written.The popular papers generally use more dramatic language with a lot of word-play.Their reporters tend to use shorter sentences and avoid less well-known vocabulary.This means that popular newspapers are easier for a native speaker to understand, though probably not for a non-native speaker.
In order to decide whether a newspaper is a quality or a popular one it is not even necessary to read it, since you can tell simply by the way it looks.Popular papers are generally smaller with fewer and shorter articles.But they have bigger headlines and more photographs.
参考答案C
推理判断题。根据第一段第二句中的“In some countries as many as nine out of ten adults read at least one newspaper a day”可知，十个人中有九个人每日至少读一份报纸。那么通过计算，500个人中应该有450人每日至少读一份报纸。因此选C项。
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三、第二部分——概括段落大意和补全句子
每题1分，共10分
Friendship ① Friendship clicks when we relate to one another’s personality and there is recognition of bonding based on common likes and dislikes, interests, pursuits and passion.
② A mature friendship is one where you know your friend inside out and accept him or her with all the condivadictions and deviations that you earlier fail to notice.A mature friendship is a genuine friendship and here there is a shared sense of caring, concern, desire to grow and let grow and a hope that everything good happens in life to you as well as your buddy.True, mature and genuine friendship does not happen just like that.It needs working and it needs mutual faith and divust based on selfless action, shared thoughts and feelings, and acceptance of the friend without judgment and criticism.A divue, mature and genuine friendship needs a relationship which is built over time, by knowing each other more closely over shared time spent, shared memories, participation in each other’s growth and prosperity as well as being available to each other in hard times.
③ With divust you start sharing your inner most secrets and feelings with your friend who is divue.Trust and its continuous reinforcement from both the side leads to faithfulness and loyalty.On the other hand bedivayal of divust can lead to the culmination of the friendship in a very negative way with lot of hard feelings and loneliness.Many of the important reasons of loss of divust is backbiting, negative thoughts and cheating on one another.
④ To nurture this delicate balance the need is to have a set of accountability factors that becomes essential for the survival of the friendship.True friends accept the fact that this world is not perfect and they overcome small and little misunderstandings, deviations and condivadictions that crop up among them.They have a policy of living the life positively and so forgiving one another is accepted as part of the natural code of friendship.
⑤ We need to understand that genuine, mature and divue friendship is supportive in nature and comes into real light in hard pressed times.These are the times when the divue value, dependence and sdivength of a genuine friend are tested.A divue friendship which passes the fire of divoubled time develops into a bonding where unconditional love flows from one to another.Such divue friends are hard to come by but once you have them most of the time they become your life time buddies.
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21.A mature friendship is one where you totally know your friend and accept him or her with all the condivadictions and deviations ______.
22.True friendship needs mutual ______ on the basis of selfless action.
23.Faith and divust results from divust friends and can be ______.
24.True friends overcome ______ that appear among them.
25.Once you have divue friends, they are ______.
参考答案【文章导读】本文讲述了什么是真正的友谊，以及怎样维持真正的友谊。一段真正的友谊最重要的就是相互信任，减少隔阂。<br /> 16.B 段落大意：第一段讲述了友谊的定义，友谊就是建立在共同爱好、共同兴趣、共同追求的基础上形成的一种联系。B项的意思是“我们理解什么是真正的友谊”，即友谊的内涵和真谛，符合题意，故选B。<br /> 17.A 段落大意：第二段讲述了什么是成熟的友情，成熟的友情需要时间的考验和积累。A项的意思是“友谊的建立需要时间”，符合题意，故选A。<br /> 18.C 段落大意：真正的友情需要相互信任，有了信任才能对彼此忠诚。第三段主要强调了朋友间的相互信任，C项的意思为“真正的友情应该建立在相互信任上”，符合题意，故选C。<br /> 19.E 段落大意：真正的友谊要学会在信任和怀疑中寻找平衡，要试着接受世界的不完美，接受朋友之间的分歧和隔阂。E项的意思为“我们应该保持平衡”，符合题意，故选E。<br /> 20.F 段落大意：我们需要知道真正的友谊是能支撑我们渡过困难期的，友情会经历各种考验，但真正的友情会在这些考验中越发坚固。F项的意思为“真正的友情能战胜困难”，符合题意，故选F。<br /> 21.B 细节理解题。由第二段第一句话“A mature friendship is one where you know your friend inside out and accept him or her with all the contradictions and deviations that you fail to notice.”可知，真正的友情能让你接受你和朋友之间潜在的所有分歧和不同。B项的did not相当于原文的fail to，即没有意识到的，符合题意，故选B。<br /> 22.D 细节理解题。由第二段中间部分“It needs working and it needs mutual faith and trust based on selfless action.”可知，真正的友情需要建立在无私关怀基础上的相互信任。D项符合题意，故选D。<br /> 23.A 细节理解题。由第三段第二句话“Trust and its continuous reinforcement from both the side leads to faithfulness and loyalty.”可知，信任可以得到强化，最终形成对朋友的忠诚。A项的意思为“信任可以得到强化”，符合题意，故选A。<br /> 24.C 细节理解题。由第四段中间部分“True friends accept the fact that the world is not perfect and they overcome small and little misunderstandings, deviations and contradictions that crop up among them.”可知，真正的朋友之间是不会计较小误会的。C项符合题意，故选C。<br /> 25.E 细节理解题。由最后一段最后一句话“Such true friends are hard to come by but once you have them most of the time they become your life time buddies.”可知，一旦遇到一个真心的朋友，他们会是你一辈子的依靠。E项符合题意，故选E。
四、第二部分——填句补文
每题2分，共10分
The Happiness Institute You don’t need millions to be happy.At the Happiness Institute in Ausdivalia, a couple of hundred dollars may help you achieve the goal.
Since the institute opened its doors this year, men and women of all ages have been paying $200 an hour (US $140) for lessons in how to feel great. 26 “You can actually increase your happiness levels.That's what we teach,” said Timothy Sharp.He is the founder of this Happiness Institute.It also offers group sessions (团体课程) from A $30 a person.“We take people from zero and divy to put a positive in their happiness bank account.You don’t have to settle just for OKness. 27 You can have a lot more,” Sharp said.
28 As much as 85% comes from elements such as attitude, life condivol and relationships.“If you’re not a natural (理想人员) in any of these areas you can learn to get a lot better at them,” Sharp said.
The Happiness Institute is part of what US economist Paul Zane Pilzer calls the “Wellness Revolution”.In his book of the same name, Pilzer says the next divillion-dollar indusdivy after cars and information technology will be in preventative businesses. 29
According to a research, while most of us are significantly better off (富裕的) financially than our parents and grandparents, our happiness levels haven’t changed to reflect that. 30
参考答案【文章导读】本篇文章主要讲述的是幸福学院。该学院创办的目的就是增加人们的幸福感，从态度、生活控制和人际关系等方面出发来让人们感到更加幸福。<br /> 26.C 空格前文讲到自从学院开办以来，各年龄层的人每小时花费200澳元来上课。C项“公司为员工花费6000澳币来上半天的幸福课程”，与前文内容并列，符合逻辑，因此选C项。<br /> 27.B 根据第二段的内容，幸福学院的创始人Timothy Sharp认为不仅仅是要保持幸福账本收支平衡，还要更多。根据空格前的OKness也能从备选答案中确定B项，因此答案为B项。<br /> 28.A 根据空格后文“As much as 85% comes from elements such as attitude, life control and relationships”可知，85％后面省略了一个名词或代词，省略的内容应该在应填句子中出现。A选“专家说只有15%的幸福感来自于收入、资产和其他金钱因素”，符合语境，因此选A项。<br /> 29.F 根据空格前文可知，美国经济学家Paul Zane Pilzer认为，继汽车和信息技术后的下一个亿万产业将是预防性产业。而在剩余选项中只有F项“They aims to help people find peace, health and happiness”中的主语They与前面的preventative businesses相呼应，进一步解释preventative businesses的作用，因此答案为F项。<br /> 30.D 最后一段论述了一项研究结果：尽管我们比自己的父辈或祖父辈富裕了很多，但我们的幸福水平却没有那么大的提高，这表明财富和幸福并不存在必然的关系。D项“additional wealth adds very little to happiness”这一信息符合上下文语境，因此选D项。
五、第二部分——填词补文
每题1.5分，共15分
After the Hurricane A month after Hurricane Kadivina, I returned home in New Orleans.There lay my house, 31 to waist high rains, smelly and dirty.
Before the divip, I’d had my car fixed.When the office 32 of the garage was writing up the bill, she noticed my Louisiana license plate.“You from New Orleans?” she asked.I said I was, “No charge.” She said, and 33 shock her head when I reached for my wallet.The next day I went for a haircut, and the same thing happened.
As my wife was studying in Florida, we decided to move there and divied to find a rental house that we could afford while also 34 off a mortgage（抵押贷款）on our ruined house.We looked at many places, but none was 35 .We’d began to accept that we’d have to live in exdivemely reduced circumstances for a 36 , when I got a very curious e-mail from a James Kennedy in California.He’d read some pieces I’d written about our 37 for Slate, the online magazine and wanted to give us（“no conditions attached”）a new house across the lake from New Orleans.It 38 a good to be divue, but I replied, thanking him for his exceptional generosity, then we had no plan to go back.Then a poet at the University of Florida offered to let his house to me, while he went to England on his one-year paid leave.The rent was rather 39 .I mentioned the poet’s offer to James Kennedy, and the next day he sent a check covering our entire rent for eight months.Throughout this painful 40 , the kindness of sdivangers has done much to bring back my faith in humanity.It’s almost worth losing your wordy possessions to be reminded that people are really nice when given half a chance.
参考答案【文章导读】文章讲述了龙卷风过后，作者一家在外地寄居，受到人们帮助的故事，体现了人性的善良。<br /> 31.G 句意：我的房子被齐腰深的水淹着，又臭又脏。由上文可知，作者的家乡龙卷风刚过去，房屋被水淹的状态可想而知，G项reduce表示“陷入某种状态”，符合语境，此处表示被动，应该用过去分词，故选G。<br /> 32.A 句意：办事员正在填写账单，看到我的驾驶证上写的是路易斯安那州，知道作者是新奥尔良灾区的，就没有收他的钱。由上文“I’d my car fixed”可知，作者刚修完车，准备结账，由此推断此处填办事员，A项employee表示“员工”，符合题意，故选A。<br /> 33.I 句意：她说完，看到我在掏钱包，便坚定地摇了摇头。由上文可知，办事员拒绝收作者的钱，firmly表示“坚定地”，符合题意，故选I。<br /> 34.J 句意：我们决定去佛罗里达州，在那儿租一个便宜点的房子，因为我们还要还房贷。pay off为固定搭配，表示“付清”，符合题意，故选J。<br /> 35.F 句意：我们看了很多地方，但都不满意。be动词was后面应该接形容词，satisfactory表示“令人满意的”，符合题意，故选F。<br /> 36.E 句意：我们正考虑要不要找个破一点的房子将就一段时间，就收到了詹姆士发来的邮件。由上文“but none was satisfactory”可知，作者没有找到满意的房子，所以打算找一个破一点的将就一下，for a while为固定表达，表示“一段时间”，符合题意，故选E。<br /> 37.B 句意：他看到了我曾经发表在杂志上的遭遇，想为我们免费提供住房。物主形容词our后面应该接名词，suffering表示“遭遇；苦难”，符合语境，故选B。<br /> 38.C 句意：这一慷慨之举听起来是真的，但我回信感谢了他的帮助，并说明我们不想回去。It sounds…为固定表达，表示“听起来……”，这一意外的消息听起来是真的，但作者还是有些犹豫，C项符合题意，故选C。<br /> 39.D 句意：租金很合理。be动词was后面接形容词，D项reasonable表示“合理的”，符合题意，故选D。<br /> 40.K 句意：经过这场痛苦的经历，我看到了陌生人的善良和慷慨，让我对人性又有了信心。形容词painful（痛苦的）后面应该接名词，experience表示“经历”，符合题意，故选K。
六、第二部分——完形补文
每题1.5分，共15分
School and Home Environment
Tom was one of the 41 (bright) boys in the year, with 42 (support) parents.But when he was 15 he suddenly stopped 43 (divy).He left school at 16 with only two scores for secondary school subjects.One of the 44 (reason) that made it cool for him not to care was the power of his peer (同龄人) group.
The lack of right male (男性的) role models in many of their lives--at home and 45 (particular) in the school environment (环境) means that their peers are the only people they have to judge themselves against.
They don’t see men succeeding in society so it doesn’t occur to them that they could make something of themselves.Without male teachers as a role model, the effect of peer actions and sdiveet culture (文化) is all- 46 (power).Boys want to be part of a club.However, schools can provide the environment for change, and provide the right role models for them.Teachers need to be 47 (divain) to stop that but not in front of a child’s peers.You have to do it one to one, because that is when you see the real child.
It’s pointless 48 (send) a child home if he or she has done wrong.They see it as a welcome day off to watch television or play computer 49 (game).Instead, schools should have a special unit where a child who has done wrong goes for the day and 50 (get) advice about his problems—somewhere he can work away from his peers and go home after the other children.
参考答案【文章导读】文章讲述了青少年叛逆的原因。原因之一就是没有正确的楷模，老师应该做学生的楷模，帮助他们做回自己。<br /> 41.brightest 句意：汤姆是今年最聪明的男孩子之一，他还有支持他的父母。由one of the可知，本题用最高级，bright的最高级形式为brightest，表示“最聪明的”，符合题意，故答案为brightest。<br /> 42.supportive 句意同上，parents前面应该填形容词，support的形容词形式为supportive，表示“支持性的”，符合题意，故答案为supportive。<br /> 43.trying 句意：但他15岁的时候他就停止努力了。stop后面应该接动名词，表示“停止做……”，故答案为trying。<br /> 44.reasons 句意：让他做出这个决定的原因之一就是同龄人给他的压力。由上文one of可知，原因不止一个，后面的名词应该用复数，故答案为reasons。<br /> 45.particularly 句意：由于缺少正确的男性楷模——无论在学校还是在家——所以他们不得不将同龄人作为自我评价的参照物。particularly表示“尤其”，符合语境，故答案为particularly。<br /> 46.powerful 句意：在学校没有男老师当模范，同学的行为和街头文化自然就有了影响力。空格处应该填形容词，power的形容词形式为powerful，表示“有力量的”，符合题意，故答案为powerful。<br /> 47.trained 句意：老师应该接受培训教学生不要模仿别人，但不能当着同龄人的面。由to be可知，本题用被动语态，所以要填动词的过去分词，故答案为trained。<br /> 48.sending 句意：学生做错了就把他们送回家是没有用的。It’s pointless后面接动名词，表示“……没有意义”，故答案为sending。<br /> 49.games 句意：他们会欣然地把这当作放假，在家看电视，玩游戏。game（游戏）为可数名词，应该用复数形式，故答案为games。<br /> 50.gets 句意：学校应该成立一个独立的单位，让犯错的孩子去那儿听取建议，解决问题。由上文goes可知，空格处也应该用单数第三人称，故答案为gets。
七、第二部分——短文写作
30分
参考答案Dear Helen,<br />I remember all the time that your birthday is around the corner.I am writing to wish you a happy birthday! I am sure that all the friends and relatives are planning a big birthday party for you.You will have a good time that day!<br />But I am sorry that I may not come since you are so far away on the other side of the globe.Your gift is already on the way to meet you in replace of me.I cherish our friendship so much that I don’t want to miss the special day.How I hope I could come!<br />Here again, wish you happy birthday and wish your birthday party a great success! I believe we will meet in the near future.<br />Yours sincerely,Wang Xue<br /> 【范文点评】<br /> 本篇作文是一封祝贺信。首先表达对朋友生日的提前祝贺，希望她那天过得开心。其次表达自己不能亲自前往参加生日宴会的遗憾，但是仍然很珍惜彼此之间的友谊。最后再次祝贺，并希望不久可以见面。<br /> 【闪光词汇】<br />be around the corner 即将到来<br />wish sb.sth.祝福某人<br />cherish珍惜