2005年10月全国自考“高级英语”试题

Ⅰ. The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expres

    
Ⅰ. The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. (12 points, 0.5 point for each)

· The fact is significant. To what is it 1 ? In part, I suppose, to a general increase in 2 . The rich have always 3 their personal appearance. The 4 of wealth — such as it is — now allows those of the 5 who are less 6 than their fathers to do the same.

· The 7 of aging and eventual death must ultimately be accepted as the natural 8 of the life cycle, the old 9 their prescribed life spans and 10 way for the young. Much that is 11 in old age in fact derives from the reality of aging and the 12 of death.

· News of Harlem rioting 13 the multi-national student 14 there. The typical European 15 was unlike anything I had seen before. They had no homes or businesses to worry about proecting. They want to know why Negroes did not riot more often. 16 the only Negro in the summer 17 I felt embarrassed for a time. I was embarrassed because I did not have any 18 .

· The investigation was not 19 so that veterans could 20 out their hearts or 21 their souls; it was 22 to prove that the policy of the U.S. in Indochina is tantamount 23 genocide, and that not only the soldiers are responsible 24 what is happening, but that everyone here in America is responsible.

A. answers

E. completing

I. due

M. making

Q. prosperity

U. session

B. As

F. cultivated

J. for

N. poor

R. purge

V. spill

C. badly off

G. diffusion

K. imminence

O. process

S. unique

W. staged

D. community

H. done

L. jolted

P. progression

T. response

X. to

Ⅱ. There are fifteen sentences with a blank in each, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. (15 points, 1 point for each)

25. Old age is neither inherently miserable nor inherently sublime — like every stage of life it has problems, joys, fears and ______.

26. Nobody spoke but Elgie came over, his ______ eyes filled with sorrow and misery.

27. Some men drew the first slip which touched their fingers; others seemed to ______ that fate was trying to force on them a particular slip.

28. Science, to my mind, is applied honesty, the one reliable means we have to ______ truth.

29. Product leaders have a (n) ______ interest in protecting the entrepreneurial environment that they have created.

30. Yet medical ______ that are hardly any better undoubtedly continue, almost as a matter of macabre routine, in America, Britain and many other countries.

31. Taking these fables to heart, I would resolve to do likewise, and, going to bed, would ______ my teeth, look as determined as possible in the darkness.

32. Similarly, in any ______ regime, the holders of power become increasingly tyrannical with experience of the delights that power can afford.

33. The wealth qualification for the aspiring politicians is taken for granted; a governmental system ______ the promotion of personal wealth in a few selected areas will never act for the public good.

34. A curious, most unchildlike ______, a controlled impatience, made him wait.

35. It’s just that Elvis managed to ______ the frustrated teenage spirit of the 1950s.

36. As I moved my chair a little nearer suddenly with one catlike movement both her hands ______ instinctively for my eyes and she almost reached them too.

37. It may be old-fashioned, but I was taught that thought is words, arranged in grammatically ______ ways.

38. The ______ of long-remembered lives was mirrored in his eyes, and the memory of cunning curves executed in the moving shadows from reed to reed … was almost pictured there.

39. If a salesman’s wife dies and he is not ready to remarry, he is usually moved into a(n) ______ position after several months of mourning.

A. yelled

E. callous

I. clench

M. potentials

Q. suspect

U. find out

B. autocratic

F. precise

J. embody

N. continuation

R. recognized

V. vested

C. dedicated to

G. persistence

K. administrative

O. glow

S. sprinkle

W. monstrosities

D. bloodshot

H. august

L. clawed

P. splash

T. pioneer

X. intolerant

Ⅲ. Each of the following sentences is given two choices of words or expressions. Choose the right one to complete the sentence and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (15 points, 1 point for each)

40. If you have ______ someone who has had a misfortune, you are sorry for them, and show it in the way you behave towards them.

A. sympathy with B. sympathy for

41. Get out. Stop ______ your teacher with such silly questions.

A. tormenting B. abusing

42. The umpire ______ a coin to decide which team should serve first.

A. threw B. tossed

43. ______ between companies is something good for the development of the economy.

A. Hostility B. Rivalry

44. It was embarrassing that my mother didn’t ______ you. It looked as though it were our fault.

A. take to B. take after

45. A spy should be able to ______ what he has found as quickly as possible.

A. memorize B. remember

46. He was enormously ______ when my father died.

A. sycophantic B. sympathetic

47. He ______ left and right as the gunman opened fire.

A. dodged B. evaded

48. The elderly woman was so ______ as to believe that she will die if she touches the stone.

A. superstitious B. ignorant

49. The responsibility for the future of the company ______ heavily on the newly-elected president.

A. weighs B. weights

50. I don’t believe that her poems are still in ______.

A. transcript B. manuscript

51. I can’t come to your wedding, but I will be with you ______; I will think about you.

A. in spirit B. in spirits

52. The servant was down on his knees, ______ the floor.

A. sweeping B. scrubbing

53. Urgent measures must be taken now to ______ water resources.

A. conserve B. preserve

54. The police have ______ three suspects from their inquiry.

A. eliminated B. illuminated

Read the following passage carefully and complete the succeeding four items Ⅳ,Ⅴ,Ⅵ and Ⅶ.

Why Are Students Turned Off?

(1)Ellen Glanz lied to her teacher about why she hadn’t done her homework ; but, of course, many students have lied to their teachers. The difference is that Ellen Glanz was a twenty –eight – year – old high school social studies teacher who was a student for six months to improve her teaching by gaining a fresh perspective of her school.

(2)She found many classes boring, students doing as little as necessary to pass tests and get good grades, students using ruses (借口) to avoid assignments, and students manipulating teachers to do the work for them. She concluded that many students are turned off because they have little power and responsibility for their own education.

(3)Ellen Glanz found herself doing the same things as the students. There was the day when Glanz wanted to join her husband in helping friends celebrate the purchase of a house, but she had homework for a math class. For the first time, she knew how teenag

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