全国2009年4月高等教育自学考试综合英语(一)试题
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1.Until then, Jack’s sister ________ him an email for more than three months.
A.hadn’t sent
B.hasn’t sent
C.will not send
D.would not send

2.He found ________ to adapt himself to his new surroundings in the country.
A.difficult
B.it difficult
C.that difficult
D.that it difficult

3.The students are all for Tony’s proposal that the lecture ________.
A.be put off
B.will be put off
C.must put off
D.should put off

4.My teacher was supposed to ________ Shanghai for London last week.
A.leave
B.have left
C.leaving
D.having left

5.There was no reason for ________ the class meeting yesterday evening.
A.not your attending
B.your not attending
C.you not to attending
D.you to not attending

6.The doctor said that his brother had ________ at once.
A.to operate
B.to be operated
C.to operate on
D.to be operated on

7.________ for your help, we’d never have been able to finish the work.
A.It was not
B.Had it not been
C.Hadn’t it been
D.If it had been not

8.I was told that his first job was in a factory,________ worked the night shift.
A.he just
B.and who
C.where he
D.there he

9.My new glasses cost me ________ the pair that I bought some years ago.
A.three times as much as
B.as three times much as
C.more than three times as
D.as three times more than

10.It was in a small town near New York ________ Dick and I saw him last Sunday.
A.that
B.only
C.there
D.which

11.A good idea ________ him that he should buy a used car with the money.
A.hit
B.struck
C.beat
D.caught

12.Because his Spanish was very limited, he could not ________ his ideas easily.
A.put over
B.get across
C.get over
D.put through

13.The news, though not wholly bad, was so ________ that I could no longer concentrate
on my work.
A.anxious
B.regretful
C.disturbing
D.disastrous

14.Many trees and flowers have been planted in recent years.They will ________ the
beauty of the city.
A.raise
B.rise
C.add to
D.add up

15.At the meeting, both sides exchanged views on a wide ________ of topics they were
interested in.
A.scope
B.range
C.number
D.series

16.The earthquake put the telecommunication system in the region ________.
A.out of tune
B.out of order
C.out of work
D.out of action

17.________ dieting, you ought to take as much exercise as possible.
A.Instead of
B.Except for
C.Apart from
D.In spite of

18.This young man could fix almost everything.He was ________ of a jack-of-all-trades.
A.everything
B.nothing
C.something
D.anything

19.________ all the jobs available, she finally decided to take the one in a remote mountain village and work as a school teacher.
A.Of
B.To
C.On
D.In

20.You’d better set out an hour earlier for the airport to ________ possible delays on the way.
A.deal in
B.allow for
C.permit of
D.prepare for

II.认真阅读下面两篇短文,每篇短文后有五个问题.根据短文的内容从四个选项中选择一个最佳答案,并将正确答案写在答题纸上.(本大题共10小题.每小题2分,共20分)
Passage 1
Don Lucas grew up in poverty.His father died when Don was eight.His mother, with three small children and limited education, was on welfare and had no job prospects.She packed the three kids into an old car and set out from Indiana to California where she had obtained a job as a supermarket checker.Don enrolled in a high school in a tough part of town.He describes his town as the spot where drive-by shootings were invented.Few of his classmates ever went to college, and Don did not think about college until his senior year.He had been working from 4 to 9 pm daily at a gas station helping his family to make ends meet.
Don recalled, "One day this great-looking girl walked in.She said she had run out of gas and asked if I could help her.I told her I couldn’t leave the station, but I gave her a gas can.She came back later to return the can, driving her brother’s old car, a classic Ford 3-window coupe."
Don and the girl, Sally, became friends.Sally planned to go to college and urged Don to do the same, "Had I not met her, maybe I would not have gone on." But with Sally’s encouragement Don enrolled in a community college.
In his first semester he earned eighteen units of straight "F" grades.He had enrolled in a heavy load of courses, was working long hours, had to commute for two hours every day, and forgot to withdraw from some of his classes.
Despite this mistake, another college, closer to home, admitted him on probation."I worked hard on my grades, took the college prep classes, went to summer school to keep up, and Sally made sure I attended my

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