2003年10月福建自考高级英语真题00600

全国2003年10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 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, 0.5point each)

● Rumors   1   quickly that I was a FBI agent. I was   2   because I was not   3___    to return. Some people said I was either a federal agent or a    4   , for no    5    man, they said, returns to Watts by    6   .

● Television    7    on advertising to an even greater    8    than newspapers, and since advertising is big business, advertising is by    9    Republican. Yet nowhere in network newscasts in network commentaries on current events have I    10    the intense partisanship, the often rabid    11    that colors the editorial    12    of the majority of newspapers in this country.

● The chances had    13    to one in eight when the    14    clerk drew the second slip. He    15    his throat and    16    his pince-nez as though he had to make sure he was not    17   . “Ah, Monsieur Voisin,” he said with a    18    undecided smile, “May I join you?”

● Some people believe that the time of death is    19    by God and that no man should ___20    the clock back on another.    21    if a patient’s philosophical views embrace __ 22   , it is not clear why the religious    23    of others should intrude    24___    his death.

Ⅱ. There  are 15 sentences from the textbooks, 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