2003年1月福建自考高级英语真题00600

福建省2003年1月高等教育自学考试

高级英语试题

课程代码：00600

I. The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks followed by a list of words and 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 for each. 12 points)

1. Women have not even reached the level of   1    that blacks are reaching. No women sit on the Supreme Court. Only two have held Cabinet    2   , and none do    3   . Only two women hold ambassadorial rank. But women    4    in the lower-paying, menial, unrewarding, dead-end jobs, and when they do    5    better positions, they are    6    paid less than a man for the same job.

2. The satisfaction of killing time and of affording some    7   , however modest, for ambition, belongs to most work, and is    8    to make even a man whose work is dull happier    9    than a man who has no work at all. But when work is interesting, it is capable of giving satisfaction of a far higher    10    than mere relief from    11   . The kinds of work in which there is some interest may be arranged in a    12   . I shall begin with those which are only mildly interesting and end with those that are worthy to absorb the whole energies of a great man.

3. A grocer used to be very   13   about his cheese. Cheddar was made and   14   by hundreds of little factories. Representatives of the factories had   15   customers, and cheese was   16   by hand to suit the grocers, who knew precisely what their   17   wanted. Some liked them   18  ; some liked them yellower; some liked anise seed in cheese, or caraway.

4. It has been   19   that the youth of America has been in the vanguard of the discovery of both the disease and the   20  . The various escapist movements, however, have committed the gross error of assuming that original sin   21   their elders, their rulers, and that they themselves could manifest their essential   22   by building little neo-Edens. The drug   23   could confirm that the paradisal vision was available to all who   24   it.  

A. tokenism  B. on the average  C. culture  D. sold   E. outlet  F. invariably    

G. hierarchyH. sought  I. order   J. at present   K. fussy   L. sufficient  

 M. predominate   N. particularO. assumed   P. rested with   Q. prepared   

R. tedium   S. cure   T. patrons   U. innocence V. reach   W. rank   X. sharper  

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 for each, 15 points)

1. He used to _______ his frustrations by throwing glasses onto the ground.

2. Many people still cannot accept the idea of euthanasia though some ______ it.

3. However hard he had tried to keep the truth from _______, everybody got to know what he had done.

4. It never _______ me that he should be the murderer.

5. About 90% of the population in this village are _______. They cannot read or write.

6. The signature in the contract is quite clear and _______. That helps us to find out who should be responsible for it.

7. I have not even read the first chapter, _______ finished the book.