2010 年 1 月全国高等教育自学考试高级英语真题
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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)
Many doctors working on the battlefield of terminal suffering think that only
difference between passive and active
squeamishness demands a
euthanasia on request. Their
for killing goes like this: one of a
doctor’s
is to prevent suffering; sometimes that is all there is left
for him to do, and killing is the only way to do it. There is nothing new in this
view. When Hippocrates
his oath for doctors, which explicitly
rules
active killing, most other Greek doctors and thinkers disagreed
with his
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to clothes, one third to mild
The women’s magazines are about one third
third to recipes and pictures of
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sex, and the
.“Institutes”exist to experiment
handsome salads, desserts, and main
and tell housewives how to cook attractive meals and how to turn leftovers
into
famous
paintings of still life. The only trouble is it’s tasteless.
criticisms of television has been that
One of the greatest and most
to the largest audience possible, it neglects minority audiences
in
true. But there is, perhaps, one
and minority tastes. This is still
program a day and many, of course, on Sunday which an intelligent man or woman can
interest from. In my trips east or west or north or south,
enjoy and
I pick up the
paper to find this enjoyment or interest
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American individualism, on the
of it an admirable philosophy, wishes
to manifest itself in independence of the community. You don ’ t share things
in
; you have your own things. A family’s strength is signalized by its
possessions. Herein lies a
. For the desire for possessions must
eventually mean dependence on possessions. Freedom is slavery. Once let
the
instinct burgeon, and there are ruggedly individual
forces
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appetites are invented; what to the European are bizarre luxuries become, to the
American, plain necessities.
too ready to make it come to full and monstrous
of art. The food thus pictured looks
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A.acquisitive
B.appealing
C.argument
D.ban
E.blossom
I.derive
F.common
J.duties
G.courses
K.face
H.dedicated
L.firm
M.formulated
N.in
O.justified
P.largely
Q.like
U.other
R.local
V.out
S.on
W.paradox
T.only
X.works
II. 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 corresponding letter
on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. (15 points, 1 point
for each )
25. More than any other generation, our generation views the adult world with great
______. There is also an increased tendency to reject completely the world.
26. The need for laws on euthanasia cannot be ______ for much longer.
27. He stood in front of us for a moment and then ______ us to go into the living
room.
28. My imagination boggled at the punishment I would ______ if in fact I did abuse
a book of Mrs. Flowers’. Death would be too kind and brief.
29. The odds seemed to move toward Chavel with a dreadful ______: nine to one, eight
to one: they were like a pointing finger.
30. Writing a book is a horrible, ______ struggle, like a long bout of some painful
illness.
31. We are asking for the support of all sections of the peace movement because we
do not feel that this is a time to be ______.
32. I ______ at several schools and was accepted everywhere. Harvard offered more
financial assistance.
33. On the days when I’m especially melancholy, I began constructing tables of
organization ... ______ people in the company on the basis of envy, hope, fear,
ambition, frustration, rivalry, hatred, or disappointment.
34. No sooner did his car touch the boulevard heading home than Ace ______ on the
radio.
35. I was convinced that some ______ changes had been wrought for all Negroes, not
just those in the ghetto.
36. In Australia, where people are few and rabbits are many, I watched a whole
populace satisfying the primitive ______ in the primitive manner by the skilful
slaughter of many thousands of rabbits.
37. If we regard activity as being in itself a good, then we must count all snobberies
as good; for all ______ activity.
38. I ask the reader to note that I, an Englishman who no longer lives in England
and can’t spend more than six months at a ______ in any other European country,
home to America as to a country more stimulating than depressing.
39. Strangely enough, the salesmen react very well to the constant pressure and rigid
supervision to which they are ______.
A.applied
E.dodged
B.classifying
C.desert
D.deserve
H.exhausting
L.gestured
P.momentous
T.revoke
X.subjected
I.exhaustive
J.flicked
F.dominant
G.dormant
K.gestated
M.impulse
N.inevitability
O.moment
Q.neglected
U.skepticism
R.provoke
V.stretch
S.recoiled
W.subject
Ⅲ. Each of the following sentences 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. Justice to all, regardless of race, sect or class, is the ______ right and the
inescapable obligation of all.
inalienable
41. My uncle remained ______ of stories about flying saucers.
B. unbelievable
A.
A.
incredible
B. incredulous
42. Although the main characters in the novel are so true to life, they are ______.
A.
imaginary
B. imaginative
43. In spite of the financial crisis, the manager will pay the bonus ______ the job
is completed on time.
A.
unless
B. provided
44. The adverse criticism the book received didn’t ______ the author one way or
another.
A.
affect
B. effect
45. It is a ______ fact that when we grow older, we tend to become weaker and weaker.
A.
regretful
B. regrettable
46. The ______ of a full stop at the end of the sentence is a deliberate act by the
writer.
exclusion
B. omission
47. He ______ the rope with both hands and pulled it with all his strength.
A.
A.
grasped
B. grabbed
48. The leaflet was written in jargon that would have been totally ______ to anyone
outside the profession.
A.
incomprehensive
B. incomprehensible
49. After driving for so long on the gravel I was glad to get on an ______ stretch
of road.
A.
even
B. equal
50. Many of the more ______ forms of cancer can be treated successfully if detected
early.
common
B. ordinary
51. Even a ______ translation is not always faithful to the original.
A.
A.
literal
B. literary
52. She asks him to remember her, and he replies that he is more ______ to forget
anything else.
able
53. The experts disliked the acting but enjoyed the play ______.
A.
as
B. apt
whole
B. on the whole
54. How can you be so ______ to the sufferings of these children?
indifferential
B. indifferent
A.
a
A.
Read the following passage carefully and complete the succeeding three items Ⅳ,
V and Ⅵ.
(1) Freedom’s challenge in the Atomic Age is a
sobering topic. We are facing today
a strange new world and we are all wondering what we are going to do with it. What
are we going to do with one of our most precious possessions, freedom? The world
we know, our Western world, began with something as new as the conquest of space.
(2) Some 2,500 years ago Greece discovered freedom. Before that there was no freedom.
There were great civilizations, splendid empires, but no freedom anywhere. Egypt,
Babylon, Nineveh, were all tyrannies, one immensely powerful man ruling over
helpless masses. In Greece, in Athens, a little city in a little country, there were
no helpless masses, and a time came when the Athenians were led by a great man who
did not want to be powerful.
Absolute obedience to the ruler was what the leaders
of the empires insisted on. Athens said no, there must never be absolute obedience
to a man except in war. There must be willing obedience to what is good for all.
underlay
Pericles, the great Athenian statesman, said: “We are a free government, but we
obey the laws, more especially those which protect the oppressed, and the unwritten
laws which, if broken, bring shame.”
(3) Athenians willingly obeyed the written laws which they themselves passed, and
the unwritten, which must be obeyed if free men live together.
They must show each
other kindness and pity and the many qualities without which life would be
intolerable except to a hermit in the desert. The Athenians never thought that a
man was free if he could do what he wanted. A man was free if he was self-controlled.
To make yourself obey what you approved was freedom.
They were saved from looking
at their lives as their own private affair.
Each one felt responsible for the
welfare of Athens, not because it was imposed on him from the outside, but because
the city was his pride and his safety. The creed of the first free government in
the world was liberty for all men who could control themselves and would take
responsibility for the state. This was the conception that
the lofty
reach of Greek genius.
(4) But discovering freedom is not like discovering atomic bombs. It cannot be
discovered once for all. If people do not prize it, and work for it, it will depart.
Eternal vigilance is its price. Athens changed. It was a change that took place
unnoticed though it was of the utmost importance, a spiritual change which penetrated
the whole state. It had been the Athenians’ pride and joy to give to their city.
That they could get material benefits from her never entered their minds. There had
to be a complete change of attitude before they could look at the city as an employer
who paid her citizens for doing her work. Now instead of men giving to their state,
the state was to give to them. What the people wanted was a government which would
provide a comfortable life for them; and with this as the foremost object, ideas
of freedom and self-reliance and responsibility were
to the point of
disappearing. Athens was more and more looked on as a cooperative business possessed
of great wealth in which all citizens had a right to share.
(5)
She reached the point when the freedom she really wanted was freedom from
responsibility.
There could be only one result. If men insisted on being free from
the burden of self-dependence and responsibility for the common good, they would
cease to be free. Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom. It
is to be had on no other terms. Athens, the Athens of Ancient Greece, refused
responsibility, she reached the end of freedom and was never to have it again.
(6) But, “the excellent becomes the permanent,” Aristotle said. Athens lost freedom
forever, but freedom was not lost forever for the world. A great American statesman,
James Madison, in or near the year 1776 A.D. referred to “the capacity of mankind
for self-government”. No doubt he had not an idea that he was speaking Greek. Athens
was not in the farthest background of his mind, but once a great and good idea has
dawned upon man, it is never completely lost. The Atomic Age cannot destroy it.
Somehow in this or that man’s thought such an idea lives though unconsidered by
the world of action. One can never be sure that it is not on the point of breaking
out into action, only sure that it will do so sometime.
obscured
Ⅳ. In this section, there are ten incomplete statements followed by four choices
marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on
your Answer Sheet. (20 points, 2 points for each)
55. “Sobering topic” in paragraph 1 is a topic that makes one feel very ______.
A.
nervous
serious
B. excited
D. sad
C.
56. It can be inferred from paragraph 2 that ______.
A. Athenians would be willing to obey what would benefit them all
B. Egyptians insisted on absolute obedience to a powerful man
C. Athenians would be willing to obey a tyranny
D. Egyptians opposed any form of government
57. The word “underlay” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.
A.
C.
was
the
was
consequence
B. was the cause of
key
the
of
to
D. was the basis of
58. In paragraph 4, “atomic bombs” is mentioned in order to ______.
A. emphasize that atomic bombs will threaten the survival of mankind
B. illustrate that freedom requires constant pursuit and dedication
C. stress that freedom is as influential as atomic bombs
D. point out that it took a long time to discover freedom
59. The word “obscured” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. made difficult to know or understand
B. made easy to know or understand
C. made hard to deal with
D. made clear to see
60. Paragraph 4 is mainly about ______.
A. the Athenians’s pride and joy to give to their city
B. the ideas of freedom and self-reliance
C. the spiritual change of the Athenians
D. a cooperative business
61. According to paragraph 5, the relationship between freedom and responsibility
is that ______.
A. freedom is independent of responsibility
B. responsibility is the precondition of freedom
C. responsibility is the natural result of freedom
D. freedom is more important than responsibility
62. The author’s opinion about freedom in the future is that ______.
A. once lost, freedom will never be regained
B. people will never have freedom again
C. freedom will be challenged
D. freedom will last forever
63. “No doubt he had not an idea that he was speaking Greek” in paragraph 6 means
______.
A. he was thinking about the Greek freedom when he said this
B. he didn’t know he was speaking the language of Greek
C. Greek freedom was not on his mind when he said this
D. definitely he didn’t know what Greek freedom was
64. The best title for this passage is ______.
A. The Disappearance of Freedom
Development of Freedom
C.
Importance
Freedom
Freedom
B. The
of
D. Roots of
V. Translate the following sentences into Chinese and write the translation on your
Answer Sheet. (10 points, 2 points for each)
65. Absolute obedience to the ruler was what the leaders of the empires insisted
on.
66. They must show each other kindness and pity and the many qualities without which
life would be intolerable except to a hermit in the desert.
67. They were saved from looking at their lives as their own private affair.
68. She reached the point when the freedom she really wanted was freedom from
responsibility.
69. One can never be sure that it is not on the point of breaking out into action,
only sure that it will do so sometime.
Ⅵ. Answer the following essay question in English within 80-100 words. Write your
answers on the Answer Sheet. (10 points)
70. What is your view on “freedom”?
Ⅶ. Translate the following sentences into English and write the translation on your
Answer Sheet. (18 points, 2 points each for 71-75, 8 points for 76)
71.一些社会学家认为你对这些问题的回答,很能说明你在想什么,社会在想什么,换句话
说,可以说明你和社会的态度。
72.30 年代的大难题刚刚得到初步控制,新的问题又出现了——前所未有的富裕社会和种
族平等问题。
73.丈大让她独自来到墨西哥就证明了这一点,此次墨西哥之行的目的就是让她找回自己,
重新站起来,医治好创伤回到他的身边。
74.我们的调查表明没有一家公司能够靠试图面面俱到、满足所有人的需求而成功。
75.这些事实使美国任何一家餐馆——或者是距离蔬菜供应地几小时路程以外的城市居民—
—都不可能有像样的新鲜蔬菜。
76.美国梦给老人这样的期望,只要他们一生努力工作,一切终会好的。今天的老人在成长
过程中受到的教育是信奉自尊、自立、自主。很多都是能在逆境中生存下来的坚强而果断的
人。但即使是坚强的人也会有需要得到帮助的时候。