2017年重庆地区自考英语试题参考：完型填空

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　　11、Many Chinese students don't pay much attention to spoken English at school. They think it necessary to practice speaking English in class. Here is a story to show you how important it is to speak the English language 1 in everyday life.

　　A foreigner once got hungry and went into a restaurant in London. He sat down at a table.

　　When the waiter came, he opened his mouth, put his fingers 2 it and took them out again in order to express that he wanted something to eat for he could not speak English.

　　The waiter soon brought a cup of tea. The man shook his head. The waiter then took away the tea and brought a cup of coffee. The man again shook his head. The man tried again and again, but he wasn't able to make 3 understood. Finally another man came in. He spoke English clearly and fluently. In a few minutes, there was a large plate of meat and vegetables on the table 4 him.

　　So you see a man often goes hungry if he doesn't 5 a foreign language.

　　(1)、

　　A：into

　　B：freely

　　C：before

　　D：himself

　　E：master

　　答案：B

　　(2)、

　　A：into

　　B：freely

　　C：before

　　D：himself

　　E：master

　　答案：A

　　(3)、

　　A：into

　　B：freely

　　C：before

　　D：himself

　　E：master

　　答案：D

　　(4)、

　　A：into

　　B：freely

　　C：before

　　D：himself

　　E：master

　　答案：C

　　(5)、

　　A：into

　　B：freely

　　C：before

　　D：himself

　　E：master

　　答案：E

　　12、 It seems quite clearly unjust to pay two people different amounts of money for doing the same work. But it is not as easy as it appeals at first __1__ to introduce equal pay for equal work.

　　Two people may be working side by side in a factory and doing the same work, but one may be doing it twice as fast as the __2__; or one may be making no mistakes, while the other is making a lot. In some kinds of work, one can solve the problem of speed if one pays by the amount of work to be done and not by the hour: work paid for in this __3__ is called piece-work. But it is not always possible to do this, so it is sometimes useful to pay workers at different rates, which take differences in skill into __4__. This usually means that the younger and therefore less experienced worker gets less than the __5__ and more experienced one, which seems reasonable enough.

　　(1)、

　　A：other

　　B：sight

　　C：older

　　D：way

　　E：account

　　答案：B

　　(2)、

　　A：other

　　B：sight

　　C：older

　　D：way

　　E：account

　　答案：A

　　(3)、

　　A：other

　　B：sight

　　C：older

　　D：way

　　E：account

　　答案：D

　　(4)、

　　A：other

　　B：sight

　　C：older

　　D：way

　　E：account

　　答案：E

　　(5)、

　　A：other

　　B：sight

　　C：older

　　D：way

　　E：account

　　答案：C

　　13、 There is an old saying that husbands and wives start to look and behave like each other after a time. I don't know if this was true of my mother and father.

　　Both of my parents had brown hair and brown eyes and low voices. My father, __1__, was eight years older than my mother and taller and thinner. He was built as straight as an arrow. My mother was shorter and had a rounder and fuller face and she looked as soft as a pillow.

　　My mother was quieter and talked less than my father did. She was also a much more patient person than my father. My father was more experienced in life. He was __2__ to doing everything quickly. My mother, on the other hand, worked and spoke more slowly.

　　They were fond of nature and sports, such as walking, gardening and swimming. They were both __3__ in reading and music, but my father preferred history books, while my mother liked to read romantic novels. In music, their types were similar, and they were never proud of listening to it. Most of the time they were in agreement on bringing __4__ their children. They both believed in giving them love and neither one believed in punishing them physically. At times, their personalities were very much alike, but at other times, they seemed very __5__. Perhaps that is why none of their children knows which parent he looks or behaves like.

　　(1)、

　　A：however

　　B：interested

　　C：up

　　D：used

　　E：different

　　答案：A

　　(2)、

　　A：however

　　B：interested

　　C：up

　　D：used

　　E：different

　　答案：D

　　(3)、

　　A：however

　　B：interested

　　C：up

　　D：used

　　E：different

　　答案：B

　　(4)、

　　A：however

　　B：interested

　　C：up

　　D：used

　　E：different

　　答案：C

　　(5)、

　　A：however

　　B：interested

　　C：up

　　D：used

　　E：different

　　答案：E

　　14、 Man can not go on increasing his number at the present rate. In the __1__ 30 years man will face a period of crisis. __2__ experts believe that there will be a widespread food shortage. Other experts think this is too pessimistic, and that man can prevent things from getting worse than they are now. But remember that two thirds of the people in the world are under-nourished(有营养的)or starving now.

　　One thing that man can do is to limit the __3__ of babies born. The need __4__ this is obvious, but it is not __5__ to achieve. People have to be persuaded to limit their families.

　　(1)、

　　A：for

　　B：easy

　　C：Some

　　D：number

　　E：next

　　答案：E

　　(2)、

　　A：for

　　B：easy

　　C：Some

　　D：number

　　E：next

　　答案：C

　　(3)、

　　A：for

　　B：easy

　　C：Some

　　D：number

　　E：next

　　答案：D

　　(4)、

　　A：for

　　B：easy

　　C：Some

　　D：number

　　E：next

　　答案：A

　　(5)、

　　A：for

　　B：easy

　　C：Some

　　D：number

　　E：next

　　答案：B