2005年10月福建自考高级英语真题00600

全国2005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, 0.5 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.