2010年10月广东自考高级英语真题00600

全国2010年10月高等教育自学考试

高级英语试题

课程代码：00600

全部题目用英文作答(翻译题除外)，并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上

I. The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. 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. (25 points, 1 point for each)

Today’s heroes—some of them, anyway—tell us they enjoy their   1    . “And I   2   to myself at the men and the ladies. Who never   3   of us billion-dollar babies.” The   4   

“culture hero” who   5   that is Alice Cooper.

If I said that being black is a greater   6   than being a woman, probably no one would   7   

me. Why? Because “we all know” there is   8    against black people in America. That there is prejudice against women is an idea that still   9   nearly all men—and, I am afraid, most women—as   10  .

There is, however, another   11   possessed by the best work, which is even more important as a   12   of happiness than is the exercise of   13  . This is the element of constructiveness. In some work, though by no   14   in most, something is built up which remains as a   15   when

the work is completed.

My own state of mind, when I left Watts eight years ago to take up the   16   year at Whittier College, was   17  . It was to me less of a   18  ; it was the stepping off point of an Odyssey that was to take me through Whittier College and Oxford University, to Yale Law School, and back to Watts. I had   19   then, as now, to make Watts my   20  .

Well, it’s a good life and a good   21  , all said and   22  , if you don’t   23  , and if you know that the big wide world hasn’t   24   from you yet, no, not by a long way, though it won’t be long now. The float bobbed more violently than before and, with a   25   on his face, he began to wind in the reel.