自考英语（二）模拟试卷31
(总分：102.00，做题时间：90分钟)
一、 阅读判断(总题数：1，分数：20.00)
They Say Ireland's the Best Ireland is the best place in the world to live for 2005 , according to a life quality ranking(排名) that appeared in Britain' s Economist magazine last week. The ambitious attempt to compare happiness levels around the world is bad on the principle that wealth is not the only measure of human satisfaction and well-being. The index of 111 countries us data on incomes, health, unemployment, climate, political stability Job curity, gender (性别) equality as well as what the magazine calls " freedom, family and community life". Despite the bad weather, troubled health rvice, traffic congestion(拥挤) , gender inequality, and the high cost of living, Ireland scored an impressive 8. 33 points out of 10. That put it well ahead of cond-place Switzerland, which managed 8. 07. Zimbabwe troubled by political incurity and hunger, is rated the gloomiest(最差的) ,picking up only 3.89 points. "Although rising incomes and incread individual choices are highly valued," t
he report said, "some of the factors associated with modernization such as the breakdown in traditional institutions and family values in part take away from a positive impact.'' "Ireland wins becau it successfully combines the most desirable elements of the new with the prervation of certain warm elements of the old, such as stable family and community life." The magazine admitted measuring quality of life is not a straightforward thing to do, and that its findings would have their critics. No. 2 on the list is Switzerland. The other nations in the top 10 are Norway, Luxembourg, Sweden, Australia, Iceland, Italy, Denmark and Spain. The UK is positioned at No. 29, a much lower position chiefly becau of the social and family breakdown recorded in official statistics. The US, which has the cond highest per capita GDP after Luxembourg, took the 13th place in the survey. China was in the lower half of the league at 60th.（分数：20.00）
(1).For 2,005 years, Ireland has been the best place for humans to live in.（分数：2.00）
A.True
B.Fal √
C.Not Given
解析：解析：原文第一句话“Ireland is the best place in the world to live for 2005”说的是2005年这一年度界上最适合居住的地方是爱尔兰，而题干的意思是近2005年以来爱尔兰都是世界上最适合居住的地方，与原文不符。
(2).Level of education is a measure of life quality.（分数：2.00）
A.True
B.Fal
C.Not Given √
解析：解析：原文没有提到教育程度(level of education)。
(3).Cost of living in Ireland is pretty high.（分数：2.00）
A.True √
stuffed B.Fal
C.Not Given
解析：解析：根据原文第四段可知，尽管爱尔兰生活成本高，但依然排在第一位。因此爱尔兰生活成本高是事实，该句说法正确。
(4).Family life in Zimbabwe is not stable.（分数：2.00）
A.True
B.Fal
C.Not Given √
解析：解析：原文第五段提到津巴布韦受困于政治不安定和饥饿(troubled by political incurity and hunger)，但未提到家庭生活。
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(5).Breakdown in family values does not affect the happiness level.（分数：2.00）
A.True
B.Fal √
C.Not Given
escher解析：解析：原文第六段“breakdown in traditional institutions and family values in part take away from a positive impact”，意思是说传统习俗和家庭价值观的崩溃会部分地削弱积极影响，故家庭价值观的崩溃是可以影响幸福水平的。该句说法不正确。
大衣柜内部设计图(6).Ireland is positioned at No. 1 becau it combines the most desirable elements of the new with some good elements of the old.（分数：2.00）
A.True √
B.Fal
C.Not Given
解析：解析：根据原文第七段可以得出爱尔兰排名第一的原因是结合了现代生活的好处与传统社会的某些好的因素，该句说法正确。
(7).Modernization does not necessarily contribute to high quality of life.（分数：2.00）
A.True √
B.Fal
卡bug是什么意思 C.Not Given
解析：解析：根据原文第六段可知，现代化对生活质量也有一些消极影响，比如传统习俗和家庭价值观的崩溃。而题干说现代化不一定有助于提高生活质量，与原文相符。
(8).Many people criticize the magazine's survey on life quality.（分数：2.00）
我的教育小故事 A.True
B.Fal
C.Not Given √
解析：解析：原文倒数第三段提到该杂志承认他们的评分结果可能会遭到批评，但文章并未提到事实上是否有很多人批评他们的调查。
(9).To measure life quality is easy.（分数：2.00）
A.True
B.Fal √
C.Not Given
解析：解析：原文倒数第三段中提到“measuring quality of life is not a straightforward thing to do”，其中straightforward意思是“直接的、简单的”，这说明测量生活质量并不简单。该句说法不正确。
(10).The United States of America is among the top 10 countries.（分数：2.00）
A.True
B.Fal √
C.Not Given
解析：解析：根据原文最后一段可知，美国排名第13位，不属于排名前十的国家。
二、 阅读选择(总题数：1，分数：10.00)
Electricity The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so ud to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a power failure, people grope about in flickering candlelight, cars hesitate in the streets becau there are no traffic lights to guide them, and food spoils in silent refrigerators. Yet, people began to understand how electricity works only a little more than two centuries ago. Nature has apparently been experimenting in this field for millions of years. Scientists are discovering more and more that the living world may hold many interesting crets of electricity that could benefit humanity. All living cells nd out tiny puls of electricity. As the heart beats, it nds out puls of record; they form an el
ectrocardiogram, which a doctor can study to determine how well the heart is working. The brain, too, nds out brain waves of electricity, which can be recorded in an electroen-cephalogram. The electric currents generated by most living cells are extremely small—often so small that nsitive instruments are needed to record them. But in some animals, certain muscle cells have become so specialized as electrical generators that they do not work as muscle cells at all. When large numbers of the cells are linked together, the effects can be astonishing. The electric eel is an amazing storage battery. It can nd a jolt of as much as eight hundred volts of electricity through the water in which it lives. (An electric hou current is only one hundred twenty volts.) As many as four fifths of all the cells in the electric eel' s body are specialized for generating electricity, and the strength of the shock it can deliver corresponds roughly to the length of its body.（分数：10.00）
(1).What is the main idea of the passage?（分数：2.00）
A.Electric eels are potentially dangerous.
B.Biology and electricity appear to be cloly related. √
C.People would be at a loss without electricity.
D.Scientists still have much to discover about electricity.
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解析：解析：主旨大意题。统观全文可知，文章用了大量的篇幅介绍生物和电流的密切关系。因此选B。
(2).The author mentions all of the following as results of a blackout EXCEPT___________.（分数：2.00）
&frigerated food item may go bad
&affic lights do not work
C.people must rely on candlelight
D.elevators and escalators do not function √
解析：解析：事实细节题。第一段第三句话“当停电时，人们在摇曳不定的烛光下摸索；因没有红绿灯的指示，汽车在道路上迟疑不前；冰箱也停止工作，导致食物变质。”由此可以看出，只有D选项不正确。
(3).Why does the author mention electric eels?（分数：2.00）
A.To warn the reader to stay away from them.
B.To compare their voltage to that ud in hous.
C.To give an example of a living electrical generator, √简介模板
