20101年10月试卷

2010年10月高等教育自学考试

英语语法试题

课程代码：10056

Ⅰ.单项选择题（本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分）

Multiple choices: for each of the following sentences, there are four choices marked A, B,

C and D, choose the one that best completes the sentence (20 points, 1 point for each)

1. By the time you arrive in London, we ______ in Europe for two weeks.( )

A. shall stay

B. have stayed

C. will have stayed

D. have been staying

2. She ______ very little food every day because her doctor advises her to keep on a diet. But I’m sure she’ll soon relapse to her old habit of overeating.( )

A. eats

B. has eaten

C. has been eating

D. is eating

3. What ______ you ______ over the past two years?( )

A. did…do

B. do…do

C. are…doing

D. have…been doing

4. The weather ______ very cold as soon as the night fell.( )

A. was going to be

B. was

C. was getting

D. was to be

5. Considering it was the first time she ______ a speech to the public, she did a wonderful

job.( )

A. was to make

B. would make

C. had made

D. was making

6. Bill ______ several jobs since he ______ at Harvard.( )

A. has had…wasn’t

B. had…was

C. has had…was

D. had…wasn’t

7. The food ______ awful. Throw it away before the children eat it.( )

A. smells

B. is smelling

C. smelt

D. has smelt

8. He ______ to escape but his conscience prevented him from doing that.( )

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A. had intended

B. has intended

C. had been intending

D. has been intending

9. Water will continue to be ______it is today—next in importance to oxygen.( )

A. how

B. which

C. as

D. what

10. Why is there ______ traffic on the streets in February than in May?( )

A. less

B. fewer

C. few

D. little

11. The house built of ______ was once used as a warehouse.( )

A. stone

B. stones

C. a stone

D. some stones

12. Some ______ were seen loafing in the street.( )

A. youth

B. few youth

C. more youth

D. youths

13. We had ______ rainfalls last summer.( )

A. too much

B. little

C. a little

D. only several

14. He has published ______ short stories in English.( )

A. a great amount of

B. a number of

C. another

D. many a

15. I saw ______ boys at the cinema.( )

A. the both

B. many a

C. both the

D. the several

16. ______ candidates are girls.( )

A. Half the

B. The half

C. Their half

D. Half a

17. Expenditure is twenty pounds ______ income.( )

A. in point of

B. in the pay of

C. in the wake of

D. in excess of

18. ______ rigorous training, the football team has secured promotion.( )

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A. But for

B. As for

C. Thanks to

D. Save for

19. The ship was sunk by a collision; but ______ diving apparatus the cargo was retrieved.( )

A. for the sake of

B. by way of

C. by reason of

D. by means of

20. I’m not going to have you ______ with this sort of business.( )

A. mix up

B. mixing up

C. to mix up

D. mixed up

Ⅱ.填空题（本大题共15小题，每小题1分，共15分）

Fill in the blanks (15 points, 1 point for each)

A. with appropriate conjuncts.

1. He has not paid his debts, _________ he has no intention of paying.

2. Only one person was absent, _________, Harry.

3. Susan is stupid and lazy. _________, her sister is intelligent and hardworking.

4. Because the exclamation point expresses strong feelings, it should be used sparingly. _________ your readers will not believe you.

5. A great deal of simple coordination will tend to make your writing seem relaxed and casual, sometimes even innocent and childlike. _________, using paired coordinators and interrupting coordinated elements will tend to make our writing seem more formal, serious, and sophisticated.

B: with the adjectives in brackets in correct order:

6. He is a _________ man. (young, handsome)

7. I find Tom a _________ business man. (mean, wealthy)

8. This is a(n) _________ cooker. (pressure, steaming, enormous)

9. There were some _________ beads on the table. ( round, black, big, Indian)

10. Where are all those _________ figures? (expensive, stone, black, carved)

C: with question tags:

11. You are listening, _________?

12. Don’t turn down the radio, _________?

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13. Let’s talk to the director, _________?

14. They have to live on their own, _________?

15. John had to work harder, _________?

Ⅲ.名词解释（本大题共5小题，每小题4分，共20分）

Define the following terms with examples (20 points, 4 points for each)

1. free morpheme

2. bound morpheme

3. collective noun

4. unit noun

5. generic reference

Ⅳ.句子改写题（本大题共10小题，每小题2分，共20分）

Rewrite the following sentences as required (20 points, 2 points for each)

A. Turn the following statements into exclamations:

1. You are working with very strange people.

2. A very large swarm of ants is approaching.

3. They are running very fast.

4. The computer is a very efficient machine.

5. Dr. Smith treated him very patiently.

B. Combine sentences using relative clauses:

6. I am driving to the railway station to meet an engineer. He will be an important member of our team for the project.

7. Tom has decided to renew the lease on his New York apartment. His wife strongly opposes such

a decision.

8. They told me that she stole the money. What they told me turned out to be true.

9. There is a kettle on the table. The kettle’s mouth is shaped like a flower.

10. He changed the standards. We used to measure our living conditions by these standards.

Ⅴ.问答题（本大题共4小题，共25分）

Answer the following questions with the help of examples (25 points)

1. What is special about the pseudo passive? (7 points)

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2. What is the difference in meaning between should and must in the non-predictive use? (6 points)

3. What concord principle do we apply to the existential sentence? (5 points)

4. What is the difference between reference and substitution?(7 points)

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