全国2011年1月高等教育自学考试

　　高级英语试题

　　课程代码：00600

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　　I. The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. 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. (25 points, 1 point for each)

　　West Germany, by contrast, will not be able to 1 any form of euthanasia for a long time to come. Opposition is 2 fierce, because of the shadow of the past. Countries 3 an uninterrupted recent libertarian tradition have less to fear from setting some 4 rules for voluntary euthanasia. By 5 to discuss it, they usher in something worse.

　　We watched while pride allowed unimportant battles to be 6 into the most important stands of the war-because we couldn’t 7 and we couldn’t retreat and because it didn’t matter how many American 8 were provided to prove that point. Now we are told that we have to 9 quietly while the American lives are lost so that we can exercise the 10 arrogance of Vietnamizing the Vietnamese.

　　Newspapers have two great advantages 11 television. They can be used by men as barriers

　　12 their wives. It is still the only effective screen against the morning features of the loved one, and, as such, performs a unique human 13 . The second advantage is that you can’t line a

　　14 pail with a television set—it’s usually the other way 15 .

　　It is only lately that I have found how much science of genetics is 16 . Agronomists and the like have taken to 17 all sorts of vegetables and fruits-changing their 18 nature. This sounds wonderful and often is 19 . For the scientists have not as a rule taken any 20 whatsoever in the taste of the things they’ve tampered with!

　　My own lack of shame in the rioting then taking place in America 21 me. In one sense, I was the 22 of the ghetto child who through hard work and initiative was 23 himself toward a better life. I was the 24 , the exception. It was my life that was held up to Watts youth to 25 .

　　II. Each of the following sentences is given four 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)

　　26. These arguments have never been _________ accepted.

　　A. amply

　　B. drastically

　　C. perpetually

　　D. universally

　　27. It takes the most cool-headed and good-tempered of drivers to resist the temptation to revenge when subjected to _________ behavior.

　　A. unfamiliar

　　B. uncivilized

　　C. unsatisfied

　　D. uncommon

　　28. The emergency services said it was _________ that no one was seriously injured in the air crash.

　　A. miraculous

　　B. mysterious

　　C. ridiculous

　　D. relentless

　　29. Banks _________ receive money from their customers in two distinct forms: on current account, and on deposit account.

　　A. formally

　　B. narrowly

　　C. normally

　　D. particularly

　　30. The recession has _________ so many firms that many can no longer survive.

　　A. lessened

　　B. weakened

　　C. decreased

　　D. reduced