00600高级英语200910试题及答案.doc

全国2009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位置上，全部题目用英语作答(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) So at least the historical evidence seems to suggest. When I was graduating from college, my 1 also found the world in a mess. The economic machinery had 2 down almost everywhere: In this country 3 a quarter of the population was out of work. A major war seemed all too 4 . As a college newspaper editor at that time, I protested 5 this just as vehemently as student 6 are protesting today. But today she passed the baker’s by, climbed the 7 , went into the little dark room—her room like a cupboard—and sat down on the red eiderdown. She sat 8 for a long time. The box 9 the fur came out of was 10 the bed. She unclasped the necklet quickly; quickly, 11 looking, laid it inside. But when she put the 12 on she thought she heard something crying. The Watts-as-a-way-station mentality has a firm hold on 13 those who remain and those who leave. Such as 14 is, the ghetto is regarded as 15 place to make a career for those who have a future. Without 16 , the prime American values underscore the 17 . Negroes, inside it or out, and whites too, behave toward the 18 like travelers. I know that American technical genius, and 19 of all the moon landing, seems to give the 20 to too summary a condemnation of the 21 system, but there is more to education 22 the segmental equipping of the mind. There is that transmission of the value of the 23 as a force still miraculously fertile and moving—mostly 24 from American education at all levels. II. In this section, there are fifteen sentences taken from the textbooks with a blank in each, followed by a list of words or ex