全国2005年10月高等教育自学考试高级英语试题

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. A. answers E. completing I. due

M. making Q. prosperity

U. session B. As F. cultivated J. for N. poor R. purge

V. spill C. badly off G. diffusion K. imminence O. process

S. unique

W. staged D. community H. done L. jolted

P. progression T. response X. to

Ⅱ. There are fifteen sentences 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 expression for each blank only. (15 points, 1 point for each)

25. Old age is neither inherently miserable nor inherently sublime — like every stage of life it has problems, joys, fears and ______. 26. Nobody spoke but Elgie came over, his ______ eyes filled with sorrow and misery.

27. Some men drew the first slip which touched their fingers; others seemed to ______ that fate was trying to force on them a particular slip.

28. Science, to my mind, is applied honesty, the one reliable means we have to ______ truth.

29. Product leaders have a (n) ______ interest in protecting the entrepreneurial environment that they have created.

30. Yet medical ______ that are hardly any better undoubtedly

continue, almost as a matter of macabre routine, in America, Britain and many other countries.

31. Taking these fables to heart, I would resolve to do likewise, and, going to bed, would ______ my teeth, look as determined as possible in the darkness.

32. Similarly, in any ______ regime, the holders of power become increasingly tyrannical with experience of the delights that power can afford.

33. The wealth qualification for the aspiring politicians is taken for granted; a governmental system ______ the promotion of personal