全国2008年7月高等教育自学考试综合英语(一)试题
课程代码:00794
I. 用适当的语法形式或词汇填空.从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案,并将其代码填在答题纸相应的位置上.(本大题共20小题,每小题1分,共20分)
1. I planned（ ）the task before last Sunday, but failed because of a bad cold.
A. to finish
B. to have finished
C. finishing
D. having finished
2. Tom has been writing letters all morning, but he should finish them by now,（ ）?
A. has he
B. hasn’t he
C. should he
D. shouldn’t he
3. We can make some changes in the plan（ ）you find anything improper.
A. in case
B. unless
C. so that
D. even though
4. The manner in which he talked reminded me（ ）his grandfather.
A. in
B. by
C. of
D. towards
5. He has made another wonderful discovery,（ ）of great importance to science.
A. I think which it
B. which I think is
C. that I think is
D. which I think it is
6. It’s 10∶00 a.m. Mr. Johnson（ ）home now, for he told me that he would meet me in his office at this time.
A. must be
B. mustn’t be
C. can be
D. can’t be
7. If only we（ ）as we were told! This would never have happened.
A. did
B. had done
C. would do
D. would have done
8. The key（ ）success is hardworking and persistence.
A. on
B. for
C. to
D. of
9. For nearly three hours we waited for the decision, only（ ）to come again the next day.
A. to tell
B. to be told
C. being told
D. telling
10. In our opinion, there is much（ ）in their proposal.
A. to improve
B. improving
C. to be improved
D. to have been improved
11. Hardly had he rushed out of the gate（ ）the whole building collapsed right behind him.
A. when
B. than
C. then
D. that
12. His report is（ ）it gives a quite clear idea of every fact.
A. written as well that
B. written too well that
C. written so well that
D. written well so as
13. The book is much too difficult for me; most of it is quite（ ）my understanding.
A. over
B. behind
C. against
D. beyond
14. She will have some visitors tomorrow, so the has to have somebody（ ）her six-bedroom house today.
A. cleaned
B. cleaning
C. clean
D. to be cleaned
15. The wife blamed the husband for not having told her that they were（ ）short of money.
A. turning
B. running
C. going
D. proving
16. It is hardly（ ）that I shall be able to present on the occasion.
A. possibly
B. feasible
C. incredible
D. likely
17. John won’t go hunting tomorrow, and（ ）.
A. won’t his brother neither
B. won’t his brother either
C. neither his brother will
D. neither will his brother
18. However hard I tried, I could not（ ）him that he
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