全国2009年10月高等教育自学考试基础英语试题
课程代码:00088
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一、词汇应用和语法结构（本大题共30小题,每小题1分,共30分）
（一）词汇应用（15分）
选择最佳答案完成句子,错选、多选或未选均无分.
1. Both import and export trades can produce _____ effects on the home market.
A. beneficial
B. below
C. benefit
D. beyond

2. This watch is very complicated indeed. Once taken _____, it can hardly be put together again.
A. loose
B. apart
C. improperly
D. separately

3. All life on the earth _____ on the sun.
A. depends
B. carries
C. keeps
D. goes

4. There are many _____ of selling manufactured goods to foreign buyers.
A. systems
B. ways
C. directions
D. roads

5. Those who are _____ in marketing activities are all considered marketing employees.
A. included
B. interested
C. involved
D. informed

6. Mary borrowed a large _____ of money from her grandfather when she started her business.
A. deal
B. number
C. quantity
D. sum

7. How much does he _____ for this house?
A. ask
B. require
C. demand
D. charge

8. When people are free to compete, everyone _____.
A. benefits
B. profits
C. promotes
D. develops

9. China is striving to develop her _____.
A. economic
B. economical
C. economics
D. economy

10. Steel is _____ from iron which contains a certain amount of carbon.
A. composed
B. consisted
C. made
D. produced

11. A country sets up a free port to _____ foreign merchants to trade.
A. force
B. push
C. urge
D. encourage

12. We trust that our product is attractive enough in _____ of both quality and price.
A. terms
B. means
C. series
D. ways

13. They tried to _____ the damages after the car accident.
A. assess
B. decide
C. determine
D. value

14. Like every business, insurance companies try to _____certain risks.
A. clear
B. remove
C. avoid
D. lose

15. The _____ of trucks include flexibility, fast service, and dependability.
A. profits
B. advantages
C. benefits
D. gains

17. It’s still not decided _____ we are going for the holiday.
A. where
B. that
C. which
D. who

18. It seems oil _____ from this pipe for some time. We’ll have to check it up.
A. had leaked
B. is leaking
C. leaked
D. has been leaking

19. You _____ all these calculations! We have a computer to do that sort of thing.
A. needn’t have done
B. must not have done
C. shouldn’t be doing
D. can not have done

20. Our boss proposed that work _____ in three days.
A. starts
B. start
C. will start
D. to start

21. The source of income _____ he could count stopped all of a sudden.
A. for that
B. for which
C. on that
D. on which

22. No sooner _____ the top of the hill than we all sat down to rest.
A. we reached
B. had we reached
C. did we reach
D. were we reaching

23. Turn on the television or open a magazine and you _____ advertisements.
A. are often seeing
B. will often see
C. often sees
D. have often seen

24. The foreign visitors said that they wouldn’t mind _____ for the night.
A. having a hard bed
B. have a hard bed
C. to have a hard bed
D. they had a hard bed

25. The goods will be shipped this afternoon _____ it rains.
A. until
B. till
C. if
D. unless

26. We’d better not _____ through that field. There’s a sign saying "Private Property".
A. walk
B. to walk
C. walking
D. walked

27. We were awfully late and everyone turned their eyes to us, which was very _____.
A. embarrassing
B. embarrassed
C. being embarrassing
D. being embarrassed

28. He is said _____ five trips to Beijing in the last ten years.
A. to make
B. to have made
C. to have been making
D. to be making

29. He gave up _____ on medical advice.
A. drinking
B. to drink
C. drink
D. to be drinking

30. I seized him _____ the arm.
A. to
B. on
C. with
D. by

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