浙江自考《英语（一）》题型测试037题，由浙江省自考网整理，供自考生自考练习。
1：单选题
[填句补文]The typical person living alone is neither old nor lonely. ________. The majority of these people have chosen to live alone. They are responding to decreasing social pressure to get married and have a family.
A、This is a dramatic change from the extended families of just a couple of generations ago.
B、The growing number of women with good jobs has done much to increase the number of people living alone.
C、There‘s more pressure to get married nowadays.
D、In fact， a quarter of the 23 million single people in the U.S. are under the age of 35.
2：单选题
[填句补文]Mexico‘s current lack of funds is also partly due to oil. The country has rich oil fields and a few years ago， when oil was expensive， Mexico was selling large quantities of oil to the USA and earning a lot of money. ________. However， the price of oil then dropped， and Mexico has been left owing enormous sums of money and with not enough income from oil sales to pay back the loans.
A、But those ruins are in danger of being seriously damaged by pollution.
B、Scientists estimate that about one millimeter of stone is worn away every twelve years.
C、At others the painted surfaces inside temples are lifting and flaking off and the stone is being eaten away.
D、The government was therefore able to borrow huge sums of money from banks around the world， thinking they would have no problem repaying their debts.
3：单选题
[填句补文]More and more Americans are living alone. Some live alone because of divorce or the death of a partner. ________. According to a recent U.S. census （人口普查）， 25 percent of all households in the U.S. are made up of just one person.
A、It seems that many grown-ups today are realizing that childhood dream.
B、He says， “I like being by myself.”
C、However， even more people are living alone because they have chosen to.
D、There‘s more pressure to get married nowadays.
1：正确答案：D
答案解析：空格后句中出现代词“these people”，而空格前句出现的人是单数形式，因此判断空格处应该出现表意复数的人，从而与these people相呼应。而且空格前句提到了“年龄（old）”，所以判断D是答案，a quarter of the 23 million single people是复数名词，而且D中提到了年龄（35岁以下）。
2：正确答案：D
答案解析：前文中说到，墨西哥把大量的石油卖给美国并获得很多的资金，therefore 引出了答案：墨西哥获得了大量的贷款。
3：正确答案：C
答案解析：前句中是在对美国独身人中的具体情况进行介绍，而且提到了一些美国人独身leave alone的原因，这是一个线索词，判断C是答案，C中提到了更大多数美国人独身的原因。