全国2008年10月高等教育自学考试高级英语真题及答案
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全国2008年10月高等教育自学考试
高级英语试题
课程代码：00600
请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上。全部题目用英文作答（英译汉题目除外）
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)
Women have an
average life 1 of seven years longer than men
and tend to marry men older
than themselves;
so two-thirds (six million) of all older women are
widows. 2 widowed they
do not have the
same social prerogatives as older men to 3 and
marry those who are younger.
4 , they are
likely to end up alone—an ironic 5 of events
when one remembers that most
of them were
raised from childhood to consider 6 the only
acceptable state.
The sheriff follows the
county attorney 7 the other room. Then Mrs.
Hale rises, hands 8 _
together, 9
intensely at Mrs. Peters, whose eyes make a slow
turn, finally 10 Mrs. Hale’s.
A moment Mrs.
Hale holds her, then her own eyes 11 the way
to where the box is concealed.
12 Mrs.
Peters throws back quilt pieces and tries to put
the box in the bag she is wearing.
A company
that delivers value 13 customer intimacy
builds 14 with customers like
those
between good neighbors. Customer-intimate
companies don’t deliver what the market wants
15 what a specific customer wants. The
customer-intimate company 16 a business of
knowing the people it sells to and the
products and services they need. It continually
17 its
products and services and does so at
18 prices.
Childhood’s 19 never asks to
be proved (all conclusions are absolute). I didn’t
question why
Mrs. Flowers had 20 me out
for attention, nor did it 21 me that Momma
might have
asked her to give me a little
talking to. All I 22 was that she had made tea
cookies for me
and read to me from her 23
book. It was 24 to prove that she liked me.
A. via
E. logic
I. but
M. expectancy
Q. meeting
U.
Suddenly
II. In this section, there are
fifteen sentences taken from the textbooks 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. The campaign
for more physical beauty seems to be both a
tremendous success and a
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B.
reasonable
F. occur to
J. makes
N.
turn
R. As a result
V. favorite
C. enough
G. tailors
K. singled
O. date
S. When
W.
marriage
D. cared about
H. bonds
L. into
P tight
T. point
X.
looking
______failure.
26. When
salesmen are doing well, there is pressure upon
them to begin doing better, ______ they
may
start doing worse.
27. In its entertainment,
television ______ far too much to the lowest
instincts of man, particularly
the lust for
violence.
28. Modernity-snobs naturally tend
to throw away their old ______ and buy new ones at
a greater
rate than those who are not
modernity-snobs.
29. But far worse is the
nightmare of travel in and around Los Angeles,
where public transport
does not exist and
people are literally choking ______ in their
exhaust fumes.
30. She felt her blood ______
her temples and there was pressure in her chest
below the hollow.
31. We don’t advertise
openings and we don’t solicit applications. We
keep a low ______, and we
do things
differently.
32. She had hard work to see that
the two young children who had been left to her
______ went to
school regularly and got their
meals regularly.
33. On the edge of a small
cape that marked the side of the bay away from the
promontory was a
loose ______ of rocks.
34. She hurried on the almond Sundays and
______ the match for the kettle in quite a dashing
way.
35. For all but the last six, I have
done the work—all the tedious details that ______
between
victory and defeat on election
day—while men reaped the rewards, which is almost
invariably
the lot of women in politics.
36. The child strikes his head in the bath and
falls unconscious. The man sits down and watches
him ______.
37. Her tongue was cut and she
was screaming in wild ______ shrieks.
38. I
believe that TV’s appeal to the short attention
span is not only inefficient communication but
decivilizing ______.
39. Indeed from the
first draw any mark of pleasure was taboo: one
couldn’t mock the ______
man by any sign of
relief.
A. lamentable
E. cares
I. pricking along
M. or
Q. caters
U. make the difference
B. to death
F. processes
J.
condemned
N. possessions
R. terrifying
V. hold over
C. for fear
G.
struck
K. painting
O. as well
S.
separate
W. scatter
D. unless
H.
drown
L. in death
P. charge
T.
hysterical
X. profile
III. Each of
the following sentences is given two choices of
words or expressions. Choose
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the right one to complete the sentence
and write the corresponding letter on your Answer
Sheet. (15 points, 1 point for each)
40. A
fist fight followed, with much shouting and
______, until the ragged man succeeded in
driving up to the door.
A. disputing
B. squabbling
41. Susie will examine our
secondary school programs to insure that all
students are prepared to
be responsible,
productive and technologically ______ citizens of
the 21st century.
A. literary
B. literate
42. Meanwhile I’m just going to be
hanging around ______ my thumbs, so if you’ve got
anything
an idle detective can do, just say
the word.
A. twiddling B.
twisting
43. These tasks were repetitive,
lengthy, and lacking in any ______ interest.
A. intrinsic B. instinctive
44.
Louisa said she could not go on living with a man
who had married her under false ______.
A.
pretences B. preferences
45. Deep
at night, they could still hear gun-fire ______ in
the distance.
A. rumbling B.
rambling
46. Her husband did not like her new
interests and her ______ added further strain to
an already
failing marriage.
A.
persistence B. obstinacy
47.
Political leaders have reached a ______ agreement
to hold a preparatory conference next
month.
A. hesitant B. tentative
48. Initially this was ______ at as farfetched
conjecture, but gradually it has received grudging
respect and empirical support.
A.
scolded B. scoffed
49. Gaining ______ to
the club was no easy matter.
A. permission
B. admittance
50. Even though thousands of
people die violently each year in Sri Lanka, the
death of an
important figure causes national
______.
A. anguish B.
melancholy
51. The rapid fire of questions was
deliberate, she knew, designed to scare her into
______ out the
truth.
A. blurting
B. blunting
52. Small debts could rapidly
mount up and begin to exert ______ pressure on the
relationship
between husband and wife.
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A. intolerant B.
intolerable
53. This part of the story is
perhaps the most exciting, since the company not
only kept its head
above water, but produced a
series of plays which ______ its reputation.
A. increased B. enhanced
54. He looked
across the sea: a faint ______ of pale light was
rising in the midnight-blue sky.
A. glimmer
B. glamour
Read the following passage
carefully and complete the succeeding four items
IV, V, VI and
VII.
How America Lives
(1) Americans still follow many of the old
ways. In a time of rapid changes it is essential
that we
remember how much of the old we cling
to. Young people still get married. Of course,
many
do get divorced, but they remarry at
astonishing rates. They have children, but fewer
than
before. They belong to churches, even
though they attend somewhat less frequently, and
they
want their children to have religious
instruction. They are willing to pay taxes for
education,
and they generously support
institutions like hospitals, museums and
libraries. In fact, when
you compare the
America of today with that of 1950, the
similarities are far greater than the
differences.
(2) Americans seem to be
growing conservative. The 1980 election,
especially for the Senate and
House of
Representatives, signaled a decided turn to the
right insofar as political and social
attitudes were concerned. It is as if our
country spent the 1960s and 1970s jealously
breaking
out of old restraints and now wishes
to put the brakes on. We should expect to see a
reaffirmation of traditional family values,
sharp restraints on pornography, a return to
religion
and a rejection of certain kinds of
social legislation.
(3) Patterns of courtship
and marriage have changed radically. Where sex was
concerned, I was
raised in an atmosphere of
suspicion, repression and Puritanism, and although
husky young
kids can survive almost anything,
many in my generation suffered grievously. Without
reservation, I applaud the freer patterns of
today, although I believe that it’s been difficult
for
some families to handle the changes.
(4) American women are changing the rules.
Thirty years ago I could not have imagined a group
of women employees suing a major corporation
for millions of dollars of salary which, they
alleged, had been denied them because they had
been discriminated against. Nor could I
imagine women in universities going up to the
men who ran the athletic programs and
demanding a just share of the physical
education budget. At work, at play, at all levels
of living
women are suggesting new rules.
(5) America is worried about its schools. If I
had a child today, I would send her or him to a
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private school for the
sake of safety, for the discipline that would be
enforced and for the
rigorous academic
requirements. But I would doubt that the child
would get any better
education than l did in
my good public school. The problem is that good
public schools are
becoming pitifully rare,
and I would not want to take the chance that the
one I sent my
children to was inadequate.
(6) Some Americans must live on welfare. Since
it seems obvious that our nation can produce all
its needs with only a part of the available
work force, some kind of social welfare assistance
must be doled out to those who cannot find
jobs. When I think of a typical welfare recipient
I
think of a young neighbor woman whose
husband was killed in a tragic accident, leaving
her
with three young children. In the bad old
days she might have known destitution, but with
family assistance she was able to hold her
children together and produced three fine,
tax-paying citizens. America is essentially a
compassionate society.
(7) America cannot find
housing for its young families. I consider this
the most serious danger
confronting family
life in America, and I am appalled that the
condition has been allowed to
develop. For
more than a decade, travelers like me have been
aware that in countries like
Sweden, Denmark,
Russia and India young people have found it almost
impossible to acquire
homes. In Sweden the
customary wait was 11 years of marriage, and we
used to ask, “what
went wrong?” It seemed to
us that a major responsibility of any nation would
be to provide
homes for its young people
starting their families. Well, this dreadful
social sickness has now
overtaken the United
States, and for the same reasons. The builders in
our society find it
profitable to erect three-
bathroom homes that sell for $$220,000 with a
mortgage at 19 percent
but find it impossible
to erect small homes for young marrieds. For a
major nation to show
itself impotent to house
its young people is admitting a failure that must
be corrected.
(8) Our prospects are still
good. We have a physical setting of remarkable
integrity, the world’s
best agriculture, a
splendid wealth of minerals, great rivers for
irrigation and an unsurpassed
system of roads
for transportation. We also have a magnificent
mixture of people from all the
continents with
varied traditions and strengths. But most of all,
we have a unique and balanced
system of
government.
(9) I think of America as having
the oldest form of government on earth, because
since we started
our present democracy in
1789, every other nation has suffered either
parliamentary change or
revolutionary change.
It is our system that has survived and should
survive, giving the
maximum number of people a
maximum chance for happiness.
IV. In this
section, there are ten incomplete statements,
followed by four choices marked A, B,
C and D.
Choose the best answer and write the corresponding
letter on your Answer
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Sheet. (10 points, 1 point for each)
55. Which of the following is NOT a major
aspect of the American life discussed by the
writer?
A. Family value and housing.
C. Agriculture and transportation.
B.
Social welfare and education.
D. Marriage and
women’s social status.
56. The author welcomes
the freer patterns of today’s courtship and
marriage ______.
A. since nobody can survive
almost anything
B. because many young kids
of his time suffered bitterly
C. although
all the families find it difficult to deal with
the changes
D. whether or not these changes
have indicated a decided turn to the right
57.
American public schools today are ______.
A.
no better than those decades ago
B. no worse
than those in the past
C. less desirable
than they used to be
D. more desirable than
private schools
58. Builders seem not willing
to put up small homes for young married couples
because ______.
A. there is no market demand
for small houses
B. America is a nation
impotent to house its young people
C. most
young people would dream of having larger homes
D. it is not very lucrative for builders to
put up small houses
59. The America of today
is similar with that of 1950, a case in point is
______.
A. young people have more children
than their parents did
B. young people do
many things in the same ways as their parents did
C. American people are reluctant to donate
money to public services
D. many young
people are cautious about getting re-married after
a divorce
60. Which of the following is a
serious problem that exists in American society?
A. American women are changing the rules.
B. America cannot provide homes for its
young people.
C. American public schools are
as good as private schools.
D. None of the
jobless can enjoy more welfare than before.
61. As the writer expects to see a
reaffirmation of traditional family values, sharp
restraints on
pornography, a return to
religion and a rejection of certain kinds of
social legislation, he is
somewhat ______.
A. radical
C. conservative
B. cynical
D. open-minded
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62. Obviously, the writer is ______ the
major changes that have taken place and that are
occurring
in American life.
A. in favor
of
C. critical of
B. enraged by
D. worried about
63. The
American system of government has survived and
should survive, because ______.
A. it is
truly democratic
B. it is the oldest on
earth
C. it has experienced numerous changes
D. it offers its people chances of happiness
64. This essay is ______.
A. narrative
C. descriptive
B. expository
D. argumentative
V. There is one
underlined part in each of the following
sentences, followed by four choices
marked A,
B, C and D. Choose the one that is closest in
meaning to the underlined part
and write the
corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (10
points, 2 points for each)
65. In a time of
rapid changes it is essential that we remember how
much of the old we cling to.
A. adhere to
C. take pride in
B. put up
with
D. agree upon
66. It is as if our
country spent the 1960s and 1970s jealously
breaking out of old restraints and
now wishes
to put the brakes on.
A. stop it
C. renounce it
B. embrace it
D. accelerate it
67. Thirty years ago I
could not have imagined a group of women employees
suing a major
corporation for millions of
dollars of salary...
A. applying to
C. making a legal claim against
B.
competing with
D. demanding compensation from
68. In the bad old days she might have known
destitution, but with family assistance she was
able
to hold her children together...
A. scarcity
C. prostitution
B. prosperity
D. impoverishment
69. I
consider this the most-serious danger confronting
family life in America, and I am appalled
that
the condition has been allowed to develop.
A. satisfied
C. reminded
B. shocked
D. convinced
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Vl. Translate the following sentences
into Chinese and write the translation on your
Answer Sheet. (10 points, 2 points for
each)
70. They belong to churches, even though
they attend somewhat less frequently, and they
want
their children to have religious
instruction.
71. The 1980 election, especially
for the Senate and House of Representatives,
signaled a decided
turn to the right insofar
as political and social attitudes were concerned.
72. Nor could I imagine women in universities
going up to the men who ran the athletic programs
and demanding a just share of the physical
education budget.
73. The problem is that good
public schools are becoming pitifully rare, and I
would not want to
take the chance that the one
I sent my children to was inadequate.
74. For
a major nation to show itself impotent to house
its young people is admitting a failure that
must be corrected.
VII. Answer the
following essay question in English within 80-100
words. Write your
answers on the Answer
Sheet. (10 points)
75. What do you think are
the merits that we could learn from Americans?
ate the following sentences into English and
write the translation on your Answer
Sheet.
(18 points, 2 points each for 76-80, 8 points for
81)
76. 就政策而言，我们和你们一样对相同的事情感到愤怒——我们更为愤怒，因为我们的生
命成了用来检验政策的东西。
77. 在我看来，没有比睡眠问题更能说明事物的对立性了。
78. 人类历史上什么时候有这么多人一起把闲暇时间耗在一种玩具——电视上？
79.
也许她再也看不到这些熟悉的东西了，她做梦也没想到会和它们分开。
80.
先不说写作是为了养家糊口，我认为写作有四个主要动机，至少写散文是如此。
81. 与美国传统不
同，总的来说，在英国黑人和白人之间并没有细微的区分。在伦敦，除了
为数不多的几家只对白人开放的
俱乐部外，划分种族界限的场合很少。英国人没有肤色
偏见，牛津的大学生活更是如此。就是在这样一种
宽松的气氛里，我的关于种族和家庭
的戒备心理松懈下来了。
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