自考英语二级练习题

大学英语二级模拟试题

Part I Listening Comprehension Section A Conversations

Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer.

1. A) In an office.B) In a post office.C) At home.D) In a reading-room.

2. A) Twenty-five.B) Fifteen.C) Thirty-five.D) Twenty.

3. A) Wife — Husband.B) Father — Son.

C) Shop assistant — Customer.D) Boss — Secretary.

4. A) Ten o’clock.B) Nine o’clock.C) Nine thirty.D) Five o’clock.

5. A) He gave it to the woman.B) He put it away.

C) He did not have the pen.D) He wrote a letter with it.

6. A) By December fourteenth.B) By New Year’s Day. C) By November.D) By November fourteenth.

7. A) His teacher.B) His boss.C) His mother.D) His partner.

8. A) Order a dictionary from other libraries.B) Use her dictionary more often.

C) Take the dictionary out of the library.D) Buy a dictionary for herself.

Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

9. A) About taking up a sport. B) About obtaining a pair of shoes. C) About favorite tennis teams. D) About joining a sports club.

10. A) They don’t help sports players at all. B) They don’t live up to their fame.

C) They may be comfortable but are too expensive.

D) They are good for track and field sports but not for ball games.

11. A) He and his friends have never worn Adidas.

B) Adidas is only for great sports players like the Chicago Bulls. C) Adidas helps sports players do better.

D) He has always wanted to wear Adidas shoes.

12. A) He thinks Adidas would cost him quite a lot of money. B) He thinks Mary will be running frequently.

C) He doesn’t think the shoes will help Mary to play better. D) He doesn’t think Mary will play sports for long.

Questions13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

13. A) Most people don’t think it is a serious problem.

B) Most of our pollution is caused by things people need. C) The government has not spent enough money to stop it.

D) The seriousness of pollution has not been realized by the government.

14. A) It can kill people. B) It can damage one’s mental ability. C) It can make it difficult to breathe. D) It can damage steel and concrete.

15. A) A crowded city. B) A busy airport. C) A steel factory. D) An old car park.

Section B Short Passages

Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. After each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passages and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).

Passage One

Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.

16. A) How to exchange views with the interviewer. B) How to handle a difficult job situation.

C) Getting prepared for questions at a job interview. D) What questions to put to the interviewer.

17. A) What makes you perfect for the job. B) How the company can benefit from you. C) How you can beat all other companies. D) How you would deal with the position.

18. A) Your past and present.B) Your present and future. C) Your past and future.D) All of the above.

19. A) You are especially good at dealing with customers. B) You are especially good at learning customers’ needs. C) You should praise the job advertisement.

D) You should relate your strengths to the job requirements.

Passage Two

Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.

20. A) The birth control policy.

B) The population situation in China.

C) Family planning workers’ responsibilities.

D) Education to keep population below 1.4 billion by 2010.

21. A) To do farm work. B) To improve living standards. C) To keep up social traditions.D) To continue the family line.

22. A) It will ensure families are happy.

B) It needs support from the urban inhabitants. C) Farmers should mainly rely on their own efforts. D) It should go hand in hand with family planning work.

Passage Three

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

23. A) We live in a world in which people depend more and more on each other.

B) We live in a world in which people are getting further and further away from each other.

C) We live in a world which is becoming more and more mysterious. D) We live in a world which is expanding at a speed that we have never experienced before.

24. A) They must establish close, meaningful contacts with people in other countries.

B) They must try hard to understand each other.

C) They must find differences and similarities among themselves. D) All of the above.

25. A) We have more and more education. B) We have more and more choices.

C) We have more space for survival and prosperity. D) We tend to go abroad for more sightseeing.

Section C Compound Dictation

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. You are

required to fill in the blanks numbered from S1) to S8) with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered S9) to S11) you are required to fill in the missing information. You can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words.

There is a popular S1) ______ among parents that schools are no longer

interested in spelling. No school I have taught in has ever S2) ______ spelling or considered it unimportant as a basic skill. There are, however, vastly different ideas about how to teach it, or how much priority it must be given

over S3) ______ language development and writing ability. The problem is, how to S4) ______ a child to express himself freely and S5) ______ in writing without holding him back with the complexities of spelling?

If spelling becomes the only S6) ______ point of his teacher’s interest, clearly a bright child will be likely to ―play safe‖. He will S7) ______ to write only words within his spelling S8) ______, choosing to avoid adventurous language. That’s why S9)_________________________________________________ ______________________________________________.