全国2005年1月高等教育自学考试高级英
语试题
Part one
I. The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks followed by a list of words and 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.(0.5 point for each. 12 points) 1.These aren’t __1__ questions. Some sociologists say that your answers to them could explain a lot about what you are thinking and about what your society is thinking—in other words, about where you and your society are.“Music __2__ its times,”says sociologist Irving Horowitz. Horowitz sees the rock music arena as a sort of __3__,a place where ideas __4__ and crash. He sees it as a place where American society __5__ to define and redefine its feelings and __6__.
2.She said that I must always be __7__ of ignorance but understanding of __8__.That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more __9__ than college professors. She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother __10__.That in those __11__ sayings was __12__ the collective wisdom of generations.
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3.It is easier to print wire services dispatches than have a reporter on the __13__.It is easier to buy __14__ columns than find—and train—local talent. It is easier to let the ads __15__ the format than develop a format that __16__ news above dogfood. It is easier to write editorial copy that __17__ to emotion rather than __18__.
4.Product leaders have a __19__ interest in protecting the entrepreneurial environment that they have created. To that __20__,they hire, recruit, and train employees in their own __21__.When it is time for Vistakon to hire new salespeople, for example, its managers do not look for people experienced in selling contact lenses: they look for people who will __22__ with J&J’s culture. That means their first question is more __23__ to be,“Could you work cooperatively in __24__¡” A. intolerant B. dictate C. appeals D. vested E. illiteracy F. expresses
G. endH. mold I.syndicated J. homelyK. fit inL. elevatesM. debating forum
N. teamsO. clashP. strugglesQ. intelligentR. likelyS. wit T. idleU. couchedV. beatW. reasonX. beliefs
II. There are 15 sentences with a blank in each, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that
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best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your answer sheet. One word or expression for each blank only.(1 point for each,15 points) 1.The detective finally gave up, declaring the mystery ______. 2.When she was asked about her family, she skillfully ______ the question.
3.They managed to trace his ______ by checking on his cred it card expenditures.
4.I have not even read the first chapter,______ finished the book.
5.The ______ of getting killed in a plane crash are around a million to one.
6.The bombing of Japan by nuclear bombs turned the ______ of the situation in Asia.
7.He ______ his cheating by saying that everyone else cheated. 8.The smell was a barrier she was ______,to keep the movie from going ahead.
9.We wanted to know something about his experience, but he ______ himself.
10.When she realized that her son had become an idiot, she ______.
11.In the autumn, the leaves are falling off the trees,______ in
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全国1月高等教育自学考试高级英语试题
