2009年10月福建自考高级英语真题00600

全国2009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)

  So at least the historical evidence seems to suggest. When I was graduating from college, my

 1  also found the world in a mess. The economic machinery had  2  down almost everywhere: In this country  3  a quarter of the population was out of work. A major war seemed all too  4 . As a college newspaper editor at that time, I protested  5  this just as  vehemently as student  6  are protesting today.

  But today she passed the baker’s by, climbed the  7 , went into the little dark room—her room like a cupboard—and sat down on the red eiderdown. She sat  8  for a long time. The box  9   the fur came out of was  10  the bed. She unclasped the necklet quickly; quickly,  11   looking, laid it inside. But when she put the  12  on she thought she heard something   crying.

The Watts-as-a-way-station mentality has a firm hold on  13  those who remain and those who leave. Such as  14  is, the ghetto is regarded as  15  place to make a career for those who have a future. Without  16 , the prime American values underscore the  17 . Negroes, inside it or out, and whites too, behave toward the  18  like travelers.

I know that American technical genius, and  19  of all the moon landing, seems to give the   20  to too summary a condemnation of the  21  system, but there is more to education  22   the segmental equipping of the mind. There is that transmission of the value of the  23  as a force still miraculously fertile and moving—mostly  24  from American education at all levels.