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1、1高级英语试题课程代码：00600I. 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 point
2、s, 0.5 point for each)As I ate she began the first of what we later called “my lesson in living.” She said that I must always be 1 of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some 2 , unable to go to school, were more 3 and even more intelligent than 4 professors. She encouraged me to 5 caref
3、ully to what country people 6 mother wit. When salesmen are doing well, there is 7 upon them to begin doing better, for 8 they may start doing worse. When they are doing 9 , they are doing terribly. When a salesman lands a large order or 10 in an important new account, 11 elation is brief, for there
4、 is danger he might lose that large order or important new account to a salesman 12 a competing company the next time around. The American dream promised older people that if they 13 hard enough all their lives, things would 14 well for them. Todays elderly were brought up to 15 in pride, self-relia
5、nce and independence. Many 16 tough, determined individuals 17 manage to survive against adversity. But even the tough ones reach a 18 where help should be available to them.Another solitary man was fishing further along the canal, 19 Arthur knew that they would leave each other 20 peace, would not
6、even call 21 greetings. No one bothered 22 : you were a hunter, a dreamer, your own 23 , away from it all for a few hours on any day that the 24 did not throw down its rain.A. peopleE. bossI. believeM. areQ. outU. fromB. fearF educatedJ. inN. pointR. whoV. calledC. hisG. intolerantK. butO. listenS.
7、youW. poorlyD. workedH. brings L. weather P pressure T. turn out X. collegeII. 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
8、corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. ( 15 points, 1 point for each )25. They lived, in bitter disillusionment, to see the establishment they had overthrown replaced by a _ one, just as hard-faced and stuffy.26. Among members of my own party, closed m
9、eetings were held to discuss _ of stopping me.27. No doubt somebody would have _ if she hadnt been there; she was part of the performance, after all.28. All I cared _ was that she had made tea cookies for me and read to me from her favorite book.29. He sat with his _ still pressed over his stomach,
10、hiding his watch, but all through the cell you could hear its blunt tick tock tick.30. Give me a restless _ or two in bed and I can solve, to my own satisfaction, all the doubts of humanity.31. I am not able, and I do not want, completely to _ the world-view that I acquired in childhood.32. Were ang
11、ry about the same things you are _ policya little angrier because our lives were the things used to test those policies.33. I frequently feel Im being taken advantage of merely _ Im asked to do the work Im paid to do.34. Through the wide doors of the sheds she _ a glimpse of the black mass of the bo
12、at, lying in beside the quay wall, with illumined portholes.35. Persons who do remain at home while _ ill health have serious difficulties in getting social, medical and psychiatric services brought directly to them.36. What women didnt seem to realize _ that there were things you knew but shouldnt
13、say.37. They execute extraordinarily well, and their proposition to customers is guaranteed low _ or hassle-free service, or both.38. Standing in front of the flower-stand woman she knew she _ not have to explain that she wanted to leave them.39. For some reason he smiled at what he saw, and turned
14、_ some yards along the towpath.A. irregularE. noticedI. wouldM. priceQ. caughtU. apologyB. waysF abandonJ. humiliatingN. newR. in vainV. wasC. geneticsG. in terms ofK. compulsionO. handsS. inW. by means ofD. about H. to walk L. meditate P crunch T. hour X. becauseIII. Each of the following sentences
15、 is given two 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 )40. Mutual cooperation was _ from the generals point of view, because it wasnt helping them to win the war.A. understandable B. undesirable41. He was much more restless than last night, and, despite sleeping drugs, much more _.A. awake B. wakeful42. The marketplace _ the requirements of advertisers.A. cares for
