2010年10月自考高级英语试题

2010年10月（全国）自考高级英语试题

全部题目用英文作答(翻译题除外)，并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上
I. The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. 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. (25 points, 1 point for each)

Today’s heroes—some of them, anyway—tell us they enjoy their 1 . “And I 2 to myself at the men and the ladies. Who never 3 of us billion-dollar babies.” The 4
“culture hero” who 5 that is Alice Cooper.

If I said that being black is a greater 6 than being a woman, probably no one would 7
me. Why? Because “we all know” there is 8 against black people in America. That there is prejudice against women is an idea that still 9 nearly all men—and, I am afraid, most women—as 10 .

There is, however, another 11 possessed by the best work, which is even more important as a 12 of happiness than is the exercise of 13 . This is the element of constructiveness. In some work, though by no 14 in most, something is built up which remains as a 15 when
the work is completed.

My own state of mind, when I left Watts eight years ago to take up the 16 year at Whittier College, was 17 . It was to me less of a 18 ; it was the stepping off point of an Odyssey that was to take me through Whittier College and Oxford University, to Yale Law School, and back to Watts. I had 19 then, as now, to make Watts my 20 .

Well, it’s a good life and a good 21 , all said and 22 , if you don’t 23 , and if you know that the big wide world hasn’t 24 from you yet, no, not by a long way, though it won’t be long now. The float bobbed more violently than before and, with a 25 on his face, he began to wind in the reel.

II. Each of the following sentences is given four choices of words or expressions. Choose the right one to complete the sentence and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (15 points, 1 point for each)
26. The citizens are grateful to the government for the ______ environment.
A. wholesome
B. wholesale
C. noisome
D. tiresome
27. The farmers’ ______ from the contest aroused heated debates.
A. omission
B. exclusion
C. inclusion
D. emission
28. He owed his victory to endurance and ______.
A. instance
B. existence
C. subsistence
D. perseverance
29. He killed his enemy and received a ______ wound himself.
A. moral
B. fateful
C. mortal
D. factual
30. To remove the paint, he had to apply a knife to ______ the table.
A. scrape
B. rub
C. dab
D. peel
31. The local government decided to ______ money for the building of a new post office.
A. distribute
B. divide
C. contribute
D. allot
32. She was ______ of her notorious family scandal.
A. shameful
B. shameless
C. ashamed
D. shamed
33. Since then, the contrast between his two careers has become even more ______.
A. symbolized
B. distinguished
C. predominated
D. pronounced
34. I recall how ______ it was years ago when people littered everywhere in our city.
A. annoying
B. scaring
C. frightening
D. humiliating
35. I don’t complain about the smoking ______ because I hate watching people smoking in hospitals.
A. programs
B. restrictions
C. arguments
D. advertisements
36. His muscles are firmest and his ______ colds and infections is highest.
A. ignorance of
B. independence of
C. resistance to
D. attribution to
37. Regardless of ______ poll results, a number of objections have been published in newspapers.
A. practical
B. sensible
C. favorable
D. outstanding
38. At British universities, it is ______ to cease work and spend a half-hour or so sipping tea and eating cookies with the members of one’s department.
A. satisfactory
B. extraordinary
C. contemporary
D. customary
39. The concentration of populations in cities has given ______ to many problems of housing, education, and medical services.
A. rise
B. reason
C. result
D. response
40. This discovery is highly ______ in the circle of science.
A. measured
B. appreciated
C. calculated
D. experimented

Read the following passage carefully and complete the succeeding three items III, IV, V.
A Wrong Man in Workers’ Paradise
(1) The man had never believed in mere utility.
(2) Having had no useful work, he indulged in mad whims. He made little pieces of sculpture—men, women and castle, quaint earthen things dotted over with sea-shells. He painted. Thus he wasted his time on all that was useless, needless. People laughed at him. At times he vowed to shake off his whims, but they lingered in his mind.
(3) Some boys seldom ply their books and yet pass their tests. A similar thing happened to this man. He spent his earth life in useless work and yet after his death the gates of Heaven opened wide for hi