2001年10月福建自考高级英语真题00600

全国2001年10月高等教育自学考试

高级英语试题

课程代码：00600

Part One

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. (0.5 point each, 12 points) 

·We are going the wrong way  1  all this. Everyone must draw  2  .This isn’t the last draw we shall have , and   3  to yourselves what it will be  4  in this cell if we have a  5  class—the ones who are left to the  6   . The rest of you will soon begin to hate us.

·But the press isn’t the  only party in this country that’s  7  of this rampant insensitivity. When I went to the chairman of the board of a large New York  8 firm and asked him for money to help us get  9  of the testimony to  10  to each member of Congress so that we can press our demands for open  11  , I was told in seriousness : “I don’t think you can market war  12   .”

·Most of the information we use now is   13  free from trade  14  and some government organizations, and there is no  15   of knowing anymore whether the information 16  which we base our own information  17  distribution is true or  18  .

·Operationally excellent companies  19   a combination of quality, price, and ease of purchase that no one else  20    their market can  21  .They are not product or service innovators,   22  do they 23  one-to-one relationships with customers. They execute extraordinarily well, and their proposition to customers is  24  low price or hassle-free service, or both.

Ⅱ.There are 15 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. (1 point each, 15 points)

25.“Oh, no!”he said quickly, smiling at her out of that unfailing          of contrition — a sort of chivalry.

26.At last, with the Vietnam War, Americans are beginning to realize that they are

             original sin as much as Europeans are.

27.The value of snobbery in general, its humanistic “point”, consists in its power to

             activity.

28.It is not altogether easy to decide what is the        of the love of excitement.

29.The American dream promised older people that if they worked hard enough all their lives, things would        well for them.

30.I believe that over a period of decades newspapers have become a habit    a function.

31.Her time was        , but she continued to sit by the window, leaning her head against the window curtain, inhaling the odour of dusty cretonne.