2002年1月广东自考高级英语真题00600

广东省2002年1月高等教育自学考试

高级英语试题

课程代码：00600

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.They are always on _1_,always on the _2_ of failure,collectively and individually.They _3_,even the most secure and selfassured of them,to look good on paper;and there is much paper for them to look good on.Each week,for example, a _4_ of the sales results of the _5_ week for each sales office and for the trial Sales Department as a whole for each division of the company is kept and compared to the sales results for the _6_ week of the year beofre.

2.She had _7_to go away,to leave her home.Was that wise?She tried to _8_ each side of the question.In her home anyway she had _9_ and food;she had those whom she had known all her life about her.Of course she had to work hard,both in the house and at business.What would they say of her in the Stores when they found out that she had run away with a fellow?Say she was a _10_,perhaps;and her place would be filled up by _11_.Miss Gavan would be glad.She had always had an _12_ on her,especially whenever there were people listening.

3.Most people,when they are free to fill their own time _13_according to their own choice,are _14_ to think of anything sufficiently pleasant to be _15_doing.And whatever they decide on,they are troubled by the feeling _16_ something else would have been pleasanter.To be able to _17_ leisure intelligently is the last product of civilziation,and _18_very few people have reached this level.

4.Most disturbing of all was our discovery of the population explosion.It_19_ us rather suddenly that the number of _20_ on the small spaceship we inhabit is doubling about every forty years._21_ the earth's population keeps growing at this cancerous rate,all of the other problems appear virtually _22_.Our cities will continue to become more crowded and noisome.The _23_ will get more cluttered,the air and water even dirtier.The quality of life is _24_ to become steadily worse for everybody.

  A.advertisement  B.at a loss  C.at present  D.consented

E.corresponding  F.dawned on  G.edge  H.fill  I.fool

J.insoluble  K.landscape  L.left  M.likely

N.passengers  O.preceding  P.record  Q.shelter

R.so long as  S.strain  T.that  U.trial   V.verge

W.weigh  X.worth

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 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.This subject is not within the ___ of our investigation.

2.Archeological discoveries strengthened the ___ that Troy once existed.

3.___ your report we have decided to buy some new machines.

4.Miss Robin went through the typescript carefully,to ___ all errors from it.

5.Worded like that, the sentence ___ a rhetorical flavor.