2007年10月福建自考高级英语真题00600

全国2007年10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 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 )

She  1  to me because she was like people I had never met  2 . Like women in English novels who  3  the moors (whatever they were) with their loyal dogs racing at a respectful  4 . Like the women who sat in front of roaring  5 , drinking tea incessantly from silver trays full of scones and crumpets. Women who walked over the "heath" and read morocco-bound books and had two last names  6  by a hyphen. It would be safe to say that she made me proud to be Negro, just by being herself.

Homes and restaurants do what they can with this  7  —— which my mother-in-law would

 8  on the spot. I have long thought that the   9   blindfold test for cigarettes should be applied to city  10 . For I am sure that if you  11  them blindfolded, you couldn't tell the beans from the  12  , the turnips from the squash. Chavel was filled with a huge and  13  joy. It seemed to him that already he was  14  —— twenty nine men to draw and only two marked papers left. The  15  had suddenly grown in his favor from ten to one to fourteen to one: the greengrocer had drawn a slip and  16  carelessly and without pleasure that he was safe. Indeed from the first draw any mark of pleasure was   17  : one couldn't mock the condemned one by any  18  of relief.

Red Indians, while they were still  19  by white men, would smoke their pipes, not calmly as we do, but  20  , inhaling so deeply that they sank into a  21 . And when excitement by means of nicotine failed, a patriotic orator would stir them  22  to attack a neighboring tribe, which would give them all the  23  that we (according to our temperament) derive from a horse  24  or a General Election.