2016年10月湖北自考英語(yǔ)專項(xiàng)練習(xí)題及答案（三）

湖北2016年10月自考英語(yǔ)專項(xiàng)練習(xí)題及答案（三）

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1.【填句補(bǔ)文】Mexico's current lack of funds is also partly due to oil. The country has rich oil fields and a few years ago, when oil was expensive, Mexico was selling large quantities of oil to the USA and earning a lot of money. ________. However, the price of oil then dropped, and Mexico has been left owing enormous sums of money and with not enough income from oil sales to pay back the loans.

A.But those ruins are in danger of being seriously damaged by pollution.

B.Scientists estimate that about one millimeter of stone is worn away every twelve years.

C.At others the painted surfaces inside temples are lifting and flaking off and the stone is being eaten away.

D.The government was therefore able to borrow huge sums of money from banks around the world, thinking they would have no problem repaying their debts.

正確答案：

D

答案解析：

前文中說(shuō)到，墨西哥把大量的石油賣給美國(guó)并獲得很多的資金，therefore 引出了答案：墨西哥獲得了大量的貸款。

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2.【填句補(bǔ)文】More and more Americans are living alone. Some live alone because of divorce or the death of a partner. ________. According to a recent U.S. census (人口普查), 25 percent of all households in the U.S. are made up of just one person.

A.It seems that many grown-ups today are realizing that childhood dream.

B.He says, “I like being by myself.”

C.However, even more people are living alone because they have chosen to.

D.There’s more pressure to get married nowadays.

正確答案：

C

答案解析：

前句中是在對(duì)美國(guó)獨(dú)身人中的具體情況進(jìn)行介紹，而且提到了一些美國(guó)人獨(dú)身leave alone的原因，這是一個(gè)線索詞，判斷C是答案，C中提到了更大多數(shù)美國(guó)人獨(dú)身的原因。

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3.【填句補(bǔ)文】The weather of the Caribbean Sea is almost always warm and sunny.Sandy beaches line the coasts of many islands. ________. Many tourists arrive on cruise ships.

A.They are Cuba，Puerto Rico，Jamaica，and Hispaniola.

B.The Caribbean Islands are known by several names.

C.Some of these islands are no more than tiny slivers(小片)of exposed coral.

D.This is why millions of tourists visit the islands each year.

正確答案：

D

答案解析：

最后一段講到加勒比海的天氣溫暖，陽(yáng)光充裕，許多島嶼的海岸有沙灘。這樣的自然環(huán)境顯然會(huì)吸引旅游者。因此D是正確的選擇。這里也可以根據(jù)關(guān)鍵詞tourists來(lái)解題。

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4.【填句補(bǔ)文】Five-year-old Lani still takes seven medicines with her breakfast every morning. "She’s very good about it," says her father David. Lani is alive today because of her father David, in more than one way; when she was one year old she received part of her father’s liver in a liver—transplant operation. Lani was born with a liver illness. ________. Doctors advised that a transplant was the only way in which she would live.

A.She had one operation when she was six weeks old, which was not successful.

B.David quickly recovered from the operation.

C.David was finally able to ride his bike again after about a year.

D.Doctors hope that she will continue to get stronger and stronger.

正確答案：

A

答案解析：

文章說(shuō)Lani出生時(shí)就有肝功能缺陷，她六周大的時(shí)候做過(guò)一次手術(shù)，但是沒(méi)有成功，所以后邊醫(yī)生才會(huì)建議說(shuō)她能活下來(lái)的唯一方法就是做移植手術(shù)。

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5.【填句補(bǔ)文】Some 20，000 tons of antibiotics are used in the European Union and the US each year. More than half are give to farm-animals to prevent disease and promote growth. ________.

A.The warning comes from a researcher in Switzerland who looked at levels of the drugs in farm slurry.

B.The drugs could be getting into our food and water.

C.Many drugs given to humans are also excreted unchanged.

D.But recent research has found a direct link between the increased use of these farmyard drugs and the appearance of antibiotic-resistant bugs that infect people.

正確答案：

D

答案解析：

前兩句講的是抗生素在歐洲和美國(guó)的大量使用，這句講的是由此導(dǎo)致的不良后果，接上去是最合理不過(guò)的。But明確地表明了這一轉(zhuǎn)折。