全國2004年7月高等教育自學(xué)考試

英語閱讀(一)試題

課程代碼：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. (inferior)Having realized her bodily ________ to her cousins, Jane Eyre dreaded coming home.

2. (stir)His ________ speech encouraged us to study even harder.

3. (propose)Shall we discuss the intention book ________last week.

4. (sympathy)I know you feel angry, and I ________ you.

5. (conspicuous)The shy girl tried to make herself as ________ as possible.

6. (dignify)Our English teacher is a ________ lady.

7. (agree)Smile at me, and stop being so________.

8. (caution)She opened the door ________so as not to wake the bady.

9. (commit)He has a lot of ________for he has agreed to pay his brother’s school expenses.

10. (exasperate)The ________ noise upstairs made me upset.

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 No Marriage, No Apologies, families and households are the same concepts.

2. In The Decameron,  Filomena’s story was concerned with the people in the royal palace.

3. According to Bringing up Children, an adult’s character is in a great measure decided by his childhood experiences.

4. In A Day’s Wait, what led the boy to think that he was going to die was that he mistook the Fahrenheit scale for the Celsius one.

5. In How to Live Like a Millionaire, according to the author, marriage is one of the important factors in building wealth.

6. In Rip Van Winkle, Rip had formed the habit of being agreeable to all by thinking highly of everyone except his wife.

7. In The Lady or the Tiger, the king was cruel and had none of the grace and polish of his neighbors.

8. In New Applications, the bank manager, AI Gropin, was such an extravagant person that he was not accepted by many people in the town.

9. According to The World at War, Britain favored the camp of Germany because France