20xx年上半年高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试doc8)-考试学习(编辑修改稿)

20xx年上半年高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试doc8)-考试学习(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

feed for them, you know, and two of my wells have gone dry this month. So we39。 ve been driving the sheep around a bit. If you go straight across the middle of my farm, it39。 s a hundred and ten miles. That isn39。 t a great size for a farm in Australia, but it39。 s big enough for me! We talked for three minutes, and it was very interesting. I gave Mr. Flower my telephone number. He promised to ring me on my birthday next year. 31. You can please yourself about the other seven figures means _______. [A] say please when you call the number [B] feel pleased to make the call yourself [C] choose the other seven figures yourself [D] be pleasant when you dial the other seven figures 32. When Mr. Flower said You39。 re in London! Well, well—, he was _______. [A] very surprised [B] very well [C] very sorry [D] out of breath 33. Mr. Flower has been driving his sheep around a bit because ____. [A] his farm was too small for niy thousand sheep [B] his farm was only 110 miles straight across the middle [C] he was afraid someone would steal more of his sheep [D] there wasn39。 t enough feed or water on his farm for the sheep 34. Which detail from the passage shows that Australia is a big country? [A] One must dial a 10figure to reach Australia. [B] Mr. Flower lived one hundred miles from Kikri. [C] Mr. Rower now had only eighty thousand sheep on the farm. [D] Mr. Flower39。 s farm isn39。 t considered a big one in Australia. 35. The best title for this passage is perhaps _______. [A] LondonKikri [B] A Birthday Present [C] Robert West and Don Flower [D] A Phone Call Passage 2 All of us can change our behaviour to fit different situations. We are often noisy at weddings and sympathetic at funerals. Our table manners are not the same at a piic as in a restaurant. When speaking with people, we feel free to interrupt close friends but tend to listen to our employers until they finish. If we don39。 t make such adjustments (调整 ), we are likely to get into trouble. From one point of view, language is behaviour。 it is part of the way we act. And like every other kind of behaviour, it must be adjusted to fit different contexts or situations where it is used. For instance, among people who are used to a writing system, there is one adjustment everyone makes: they speak one way and write another way. Speakers can stop in the middle of a conversation and repeat themselves if they sense that they are being misunderstood。 writers often go back over their writing to see that it is clear, which is, however, before the munication occurs. Once writers have passed their writing to someone else, they cannot change it. Speakers can use intonation (语调 ) , stress (重音 ), and pauses to help make their meaning clear. A simple sentence like John kept my pencil may。