全国2021年4月高等教育自学考试
英语(一)试题
课程代码:00012
第一部分:阅读判断(第1~10题，每题1分，共10分)
下面的短文后列出了10个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子作出判断:如果该句提供的是正确信息，选择A;如果该句提供的是错误信息，选择B;如果该句的信息文中没有提及，选择C。在答题纸相应位置上将答案选项涂黑。
India's“Macaron (小圆饼) Queen”
Pooja was a young Indian woman. She opened her own macaron store a few years ago. She should have been a lawyer. But while studying law at university in Mumbai, she decided to quit. She wanted to do something more creative. She had helped her mother in the kitchen during her childhood, so she decided to work with food instead of legal cases.
Pooja persuaded her parents to let her go to Switzerland to study cooking and management. Returning to Mumbai upon graduation, she set to work in her parents' kitchen. She wanted to develop her own macaron recipe (配方). It took her around six months of research and 60 failed recipes to finally get something right.
When she had a recipe she was proud of, her businessman father agreed to put money into her business. Yet being both young and female, she faced challenges. “The biggest problem was to get people to take you seriously,” she said. “For example, if I had to sign a lease (租约) for a place, or buy machinery, I would have to ask my father to make the phone calls for me.”
She named the business after “Le 15 Patisserie” in Paris, where she once lived in Mumbai, very few people knew what a macaron was. People never tried one. Pooja decided to give away free samples. The cakes were immediately popular, and sales soon started to go up thanks to positive word of mouth.
Pooja also started running classes on how to make macarons and other cakes. This made the business better known. She even published a book on cooking. It became a best-seller in India. One newspaper article called her“the macaron queen of India.'
1. Pooja became a lawyer after graduation.
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
2. Pooja thought cooking was more creative than law.
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
3. Pooja studied cooking in Switzerland for six months.
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
4. Pooja got the right macaron recipe from her parents.
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
5. Pooja's father refused to give her the money for the business.
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
6. Pooja's father sometimes helped her make business calls.
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
7. Pooja lived in Paris for five years.
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
8. At the beginning, Pooja let people try macarons for free.
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
9. Pooja offered courses on how to make macarons.
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
10. The book Pooja published was not popular.
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
第二部分:阅读选择(第11~15题，每题2分，共10分)
阅读下面短文，请从短文后所给各题的4个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出1个最佳选项，并在答题纸相应位置上将该项涂黑。
Risk Loving It
Do you know how it is when you want something so much it hurts? That's the way it was with me on my 11tn birthday. I didn't know then that getting something doesn't mean it will always be yours.
It was a Saturday. Dad gave me $25 to buy my own birthday gift. While passing a pet shop, I found a little dog called Yorky. When he saw me he barked twice, pawing (挠) the window. I went inside and reached down to pet him; he licked (舔) my hand. I bought Yorky at once. Since then, Yorky followed me everywhere, often jumping up and down with excitement. I believed he was mine forever.
It happened in February. I was going home from school as usual, and I stopped three blocks away to whistle for Yorky. He didn't come. I whistled again. Then I began to run. I stopped before I got to the street in front of our house. I could see him lying still in the middle of the street on his side. I saw the tire marks. I knew he was dead.
Then I put all my energy into baseball. At least I was tired at night and could sleep without missing Yorky. One afternoon, I was halfway home when I noticed this thing following me. It was the funniest-looking dog you've ever seen. "Get away from me! I don't like dogs," I shouted. But for two days it kept showing up at my door. I began to feed it when Dad got home from work and said,“Go ahead. Risk loving it." Then 1 held the dog up in my arms and cried like a baby.
11. After I turned eleven, I understood
A. one might suffer on his birthday
B. it might hurt to hate something
C. it might do harm to forget something
D. one might lose his loved ones
12. I decided to have Yorky because he
A. ran around with excitement
B. touched me with his paw
C. went after me everywhere
D. greeted me friendly
13. I found Yorky dead
A. under the tire of a car
B. on one side of the street
C. on my way home after school
D. three blocks away from my home
14. After Yorky left me, I
A. played baseball to tire myself
B. wanted to quit school
C. bought another pet right away
D. took to running and whistling
15. I refused to keep the new dog at first because
A. it looked very strange
B. I was afraid of losing it
C. I didn't like it
D. it kept barking at me
第三部分:概括段落大意和补全句子(第16~25题，每题1分，共10分)
阅读下面短文，请完成短文后的2项测试任务: (1) 从第16~20题后所给的6个选项中为第➊~❺段每段选择1个正确的小标题; (2) 从第21~25题后所给的6个选项中选择5个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。将答案选项写在答题纸相应位置上。
Life of the Samoans
➊ The Samoan islands are 2,300 miles south of the Hawaiian islands. Though the land is steep, the islands have a plant cover watered by up to 200 inches of rain a year. All that rain does not affect outdoor activity much, since the showers do not last long. And the water disappears quickly into the soil.
❷ The Samoans plant three major tree crops. They require little work except in harvesting. Once planted, with a few years of waiting, the breadfruit tree continues to produce about two crops a year for up to half a century. Coconut (椰子) trees may continue to produce for a hundred years. And banana trees make new stems of fruit for many years.
❸ The Samoan men also clear small land for a crop called taro. But even taro doesn't require much work; planting requires nothing more than slightly burying the top sliced off a root just harvested. Young men do most of the planting and harvesting and women mostly do the occasional weeding.
❹ This kind of farming behavior makes people think the Samoans are lazy. But they cannot weed as often as European farmers. In contrast with the flat European farmlands, the land of Samoa is steep. The casual farming allows the deep and shallow roots of the various plants growing together to hold the loose soil.
❺ The Samoans keep chickens and pigs, but they are eaten only occasionally. The major source of animal protein (蛋白质) for the Samoans is fish. Younger men may swim in the deep sea for fish; older men will be more likely to stand on the reef (珊瑚礁) and catch the fish swimming inside the reef.
Task 1
16. Paragraph ➊:
17. Paragraph ❷:
18. Paragraph ❸:
19. Paragraph ❹:
20. Paragraph ❺:
A. Taro planting
B. The Samoan geography
C. The Samoan tree plants
D. The Samoan women's role
E. The reason for Samoans' casual farming
F. Catching fish for animal protein
Task 2
21. The yearly rainfall of the Samoan islands is
22. The Samoans do not need to work a lot to
23. Women on the Samoan Islands
24. The casual farming makes people feel that
25. Chickens and pigs are kept by the Samoans, but
A. up to 200 inches
B. mostly weed the land
C. make the tree crops grow
D. they are not eaten very often
E. the Samoans do not work hard
F.2,300 miles from the Hawaiian Islands
第四部分:填句补文(第26~30题，每题2分，共10分)
下面的短文有5处空白，短文后有6个句子，其中5个取自短文，请根据短文内容将其分别放回原有位置，以恢复文章原貌，并将答案选项写在答题纸相应位置上。
The Fisherman and the Bear
One fine day, an old man was fishing and caught nothing. Finally, he gave up and walked back along the shore to his shack (窝棚). When he got close to the front door, he saw it was open. _26_ A big black bear was opening his honey bottle. The honey spilled all over the floor and the bear rubbed his paw (爪子) in it, spreading it all over.
The old man went to the back of the shack and gave a loud shout. _27_ The old man saw that the bear was holding up the paw covered with honey.
The bear ran to the shore of the lake. Standing on its back legs, it held up the paw full of honey. Soon all the flies were gathering quickly all over the sticky sweet paw. Then the bear walked into the water with his sticky paw full of flies. _28_Suddenly, a big fish came jumping out of the water trying to get to the flies. The bear gave it a swat (拍打) and it flew to the shore and dropped there. Then another fish jumped into the air after the flies, followed swiftly by another. _29_ Soon it had a large pile.
The old man got out of the bushes and down to the shore. _30_ "Well," said the old man,“That's the first time a bear has ever paid me for my honey."
A. It held the paw out over the water.
B. The bear jumped and ran out of the door.
C. He walked to the door quietly and looked inside.
D. The bear was gone and had left six large fish for him.
E. The bear often came to the old man's shack to get honey.
F. Every time a fish jumped after his paw, the bear hit it ashore.
第五部分:填词补文(第31~40题，每题1.5分，共15分)
下面的短文有10 处空白，短文后列出12个词，其中10 个取自短文，请根据短文内容将其分别放回原有位置,以恢复文章原貌,并将答案选项写在答题纸相应位置上。
Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens lived from 1913 to 1980. He didn't have much money growing up, but he had dreams. He worked_31_ at part-time jobs to help support his family. His high school coach noticed Jesse's_32_ for running. Because of work, Jesse couldn't practice with the team after school. His coach_33_ to train him in the morning and he accepted it _34_away
Jesse was_35__ to many colleges, but he chose Ohio State University. He broke several world records there. However, since he was African American, he received no__ 36_. He continued to work, study and train. In the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936, he became the first American to_ 37__ four gold medals in a_ 38_ game. He broke many records; some lasted more than 20 years.
In 1976, Jesse Owens was_ 39_ the Medal of Freedom. It is the_ 40_ honor an American can receive.
A. win
B. admitted
C. hard
D. operate
E. talent
F. single
G. latest
H. scholarship
I. highest
J. right
K. offered
L. awarded
第六部分:完形补文(第41~50题，每题1.5分，共15分)
下面的短文有10处空白，每处空白后的括号内有一个词，请根据短文内容将其正确的形式填入文中，以恢复文章原貌，并将答案写在答题纸相应的位置上。
Salt
Salt is a remarkable (remark) thing. It is a basic element in the diet of humans. It is also necessary for_ 41_ (animal) and plants. It is one of the most_ 42_ (effect) and most widely used of all food preservatives (防腐剂). Its industrial, _ 43_ (medicine) and other uses are almost countless. In fact, salt has been a(n)_44_ (importance) element of life. It also has been the subject of many stories. It is _45_ (frequent) mentioned in fairy tales. Some cultures give magical power to salt. In the past, salt_ _46_ (serve) as money at various times and _47_ (place). Salt has been the cause of bitter wars. In many cultures, _ 48_ (offer) bread and salt to visitors is a_ 49_ (tradition) sign of welcome. Salt-making_ 50_ (cover) much of the history of Europe since Roman times.
第七部分:短文写作(第51题，30分)
请根据所提供材料中的要求完成一篇80词左右的英文写作任务。将你的答案写在答题纸相应的位置上。
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