2003年10月自考高级英语试题含答案内容简介
2003年10月自考高级英语试题含答案
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.
A. reasonable B. put C. bias D. choice
E. nature F. yet G. mistaken H. lives
I. thin J. encountered K. euthanasia L. fool
M. spread N. objections O. pages P. extent
Q. elderly R. suspect S. cleared T. narrowed
U. put on V. on W. supposed X. appointed
25. From the start of that campaign, I faced ________ hostilITy because of my sex.
26. A beautiful woman came along and ________ her bunch of violets, and a lITtle boy ran after to hand them to her, and she took them and tHRew them away as if they’d been poisoned.
27. Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to ________ them wITh the shades of deeper meaning.
28. If IT be true that our thoughts and mental images are perfectly ________ things, like our books and pictures, to the inhabitants of the next world, then I am making for myself a better reputation there than I am in this place.
29. Although I had to search, and did search, for the right words, I seemed to be making this descriptive effort almost against my will, under a kind of ________ from outside.
30. ________ a man does not have to work so hard as to impair his vigor he is likely to find more zest in his free time than an idle man could possibly find.
31. And so we are suddenly ________ a sickening sITuation in this country.
32. WITh three job ________ from tHRee of the most presti
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