2013年10月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英语（二）模拟试卷（一）（课程代码00015）本试卷共7页，满分100分，考试时间150分钟。

考生答卷前必须将自己的姓名和准考证号写在答题卡上。

必须在答题卡上答题，写在试卷上无效。

第一部分：阅读判断（第1~10题，每题1分，共10分）下面的短文后列出了10个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子作出判断：如果该句提供的是正确信息，选择A；如果该句提供的是错误信息，选择B；如果该句的信息文中没有提及，选择C，并在答题卡上相应位置上将答案选项涂黑。

Black HolesMost scientists agree that black holes exist but are nearly impossible to locate. A black hole in the universe is not a solid object, like a planet, but it is shaped like a sphere. Astronomers think that at the center of a black hole there is a single point in space with infinite density. This single point is called a singularity. If the singularity theory is correct, it means that when a massive star collapses, all the material in it disappears into the singularity. The center of a black hole would not really be a hole at all, but an infinitely dense point. Anything that crosses the black hole is pulled in by its great gravity.Although black holes do exist, they are difficult to observe. These are the reasons.● No light or anything else comes out of black holes. As a result, they are invisible to a telescope.● In astronomical terms, black holes are truly. For example, a black hole formed by the collapse ofa giant star would have an event horizon only 18 miles across.● The nearest black holes would be dozens of light years away from Earth. One light year is about6 trillion miles. Even the most powerful telescopes could not pick out an object so small at such a great distance.In 1994 the Hubble Space Telescope provided evidence that black holes exist. There are still answers to be found, however, so black holes remain one of the mysteries of the universe.1. Black holes are part of space.A. TrueB. FalseC. Not Given2. Black holes exist but are difficult to observe.A. TrueB. FalseC. Not Given3. The black hole is shapeless as it is not a solid subject.A. TrueB. FalseC. Not Given4. The center of a black hole is empty.A. TrueB. FalseC. Not Given5. The attraction of two large stars leads to gravity.A. TrueB. FalseC. Not Given6. Black hole can absorb everything that crosses it because of its gravity.A. TrueB. FalseC. Not Given7. The sun is the heaviest star in the universe.A. TrueB. FalseC. Not Given8. Nothing can come out of black holes.A. TrueB. FalseC. Not Given9. The nearest black holes are hundreds of light years away from us.A. TrueB. FalseC. Not Given10. The Hubble Space Telescope helps scientists to understand the nature of the universe.A. TrueB. FalseC. Not Given第二部分：阅读选择（第11~15题，每题2分，共10分）阅读下面短文，请从短文后多给各题的4个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出1个最佳选项，并在答题卡相应位置上将该项涂黑。

The world is full of new horrors and there’s no place to hide. Who says so? Disaster psychologists, for a start. They are the people who take in the big picture of our collective reactions to human-created disasters, the ways these reactions are caused, and our coping mechanisms. And research into disaster psychology is growing fast.Among the big issues addressed by these researchers are understanding the terrorists’weapons, assessing the full impact of terrorism –and, most importantly, working out which psychological approaches actually work. It’s a deeply controversial（有争议的）area.Take the work of Dennis Embry as an example. He argues that we have overlooked the obvious: the purpose of terrorism is to create terror. This works best “if the very symbols of everyday life become conditioned fear and anxiety stimulant”. The top targets will be the most symbolic of a nation’s daily life, preferably served up for prime-time（黄金时间）television. Crashing planes from United and American Airlines into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon（五角大楼）from 8:46 a.m. on met those objectives all too perfectly. After the attacks, people stopped flying. Why? Not because they had made a rational risk assessment but because the mere thought of flying made their palms sweat.From terrorism to rail crashes, counseling and “debriefing”（问询）are the standard response to help those caught up in disasters. But there are growing doubts about their effectiveness. What might be going wrong? Debriefing focuses on getting people to talk through the shocking experience and its emotional consequences soon after the incident. Could it be that some people are better off distancing themselves from what happened, rather than reliving it?If disaster psychologists want to find better ways to help, they’ll have to win the race between our understanding of human psychology and the terrorists’.11. Disaster psychology is concerned with how to ____.A. avoid human-created disastersB. cope with reactions to disastersC. minimize the negative effects of disastersD. prevent growing terrorism12. What is the biggest concern of the disaster researchers?A. Describing people’s reactions to disastersB. Studying the causes of disastersC. Finding the effective psychological ways for the victimsD. Examining weapons used by terrorists13. Why does the author mention the terrorist attack on the Pentagon?A. To illustrate how terrorists reach their goal of creating panic among peopleB. To compare it with the Twin TowersC. To analyze its significance in national defenseD. To demonstrate how the famous buildings are attacked14. The reason why people stop flying after the terrorist attacks is that ______.A. they are scared of flyingB. they believe in rational risk assessmentC. their palms will become too sweaty for them to flyD. they can’t decide which airline will be the safest15. Counseling and debriefing may not be effective methods because _____.A. there exist many conflicting opinions about their resultsB. they are proved harmful to some people by many researchersC. some people may hide their true feelingsD. some people may feel better to forget the disasters第三部分：概括段落大意和补全句子（第16~25题，每题1分，共10分）阅读下面短文，请完成短文后的2项测试任务：（1）从第16~ 20题后所给的6个选项中为第①~⑤段每段选择1个正确的小标题；（2）从第21~25题后所给的6个选项中选择5个正确选项，分别完成每个句子，并在答题卡相应位置上将答案选项涂黑。