2018年1月自考全国高级英语试题
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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 squeamishness demands a   1  difference between passive and active euthanasia on request. Their   2  for killing goes like this: one of a doctor’s   3  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   4  his oath for doctors, which explicitly rules   5  active killing, most other Greek doctors and thinkers disagreed with his   6  .
The women’s magazines are about one third   7  to clothes, one third to mild comment   8  sex, and the   9  third to recipes and pictures of handsome salads, desserts, and main   10 . “Institutes” exist to experiment and tell housewives how to cook attractive meals and how to turn leftovers into   11  of art. The food thus pictured looks   12  famous paintings of still life. The only trouble is it’s tasteless.
One of the greatest and most   13 criticisms of television has been that in   14  to the largest audience possible, it neglects minority audiences and minority tastes. This is still   15 true. But there is, perhaps, one program a day and many, of course, on Sunday which an intelligent man or woman can enjoy and   16  interest from. In my trips east or west or north or south, I pick up the   17  paper to find this enjoyment or interest—  18  vain.
American individualism, on the   19  of it an admirable philosophy, wishes to manifest itself in independence of the community. You don’t share things in   20  ; you have your own things. A family’s strength is signalized by its possessions. Herein lies a   21  . For the desire for possessions must eventually mean dependence on possessions. Freedom i
s slavery. Once let the   22  instinct burgeon, and there are ruggedly individual forces   23 too ready to make it come to full and monstrous   24  . New appetites are invented; what to the European are bizarre luxuries become, to the American, plain necessities.
A．acquisitive
B．appealing
C．argument
D．ban
E．blossom
F．common
G．courses
H．dedicated
I．derive
J．duties
K．face
L．firm
M．formulated
N．inhermit
O．justified
P．largely
Q．like
R．local
S．on
T．only
U．other
V．out
W．paradox
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 fina
ncial 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.

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