2007年1月广东自考高级英语真题00600

全国2007年1月高等教育自学考试

高级英语试题

课程代码：00600

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本试卷共10页,满分100分；考试时间150分钟。全部题目用英文作答(英译汉题目除外),并将答案写在答题纸的相应位置上,否则不计分。

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)

What a bundle of contradictions is a man! Surely, humor is the 　1　 grace of us, for without it we should die 　2　 vexation. With me, nothing illustrates the contrariness of things 　3　 than the matter of sleep. If, for example, my 　4　 is to write an essay, and I have before me ink and pens and several 　5　 of virgin paper, you may depend upon it that before I have gone very far I 　6　 an overpowering desire for sleep, no matter what time of the day it is.

The senior partner studied the resume for the hundredth time and 　7　 found nothing he disliked about Mitchell Y. Mcdeere, at least not on paper. He had the 　8　, the ambition, the good looks. And he was 　9　；with his background, he had to be. He was married, and 　10 was mandatory. The firm also 　11　 heavily on divorce, as well as womanizing and drinking. Drug testing was in the contract. He had a degree in accounting and wanted to be a tax 1awyer, which was of course a 　12　 with a tax firm.

Imitations also came into the cheese 　13　. There are American 　14　 of most of the celebrated European cheeses, mass-produced and 　15　 by far than the imports. They would 　16　 European food-lovers to gag and 　17　——but generally, the imitations are all that’s 　18　 in the supermarkets. People buy them and eat them.

I suspected at the time and now 　19　 that the riots were perhaps the most significant massive