全国2008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 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)

As I ate she began the first of what we later called “my lesson in living.” She said that I must always be  1  of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some  2 , unable to go to school, were more  3  and even more intelligent than  4  professors. She encouraged me to
 5  carefully to what country people  6  mother wit. When salesmen are doing well, there is
 7  upon them to begin doing better, for  8  they may start doing worse.
When they are doing  9  , they are doing terribly. When a salesman lands a large order or  10 
in an important new account,  11  elation is brief, for there is danger he might lose that large order or important new account to a salesman  12  a competing company the next time around. The American dream promised older people that if they  13 hard enough all their lives, things would  14  well for them. Today’s elderly were brought up to  15  in pride, self-reliance and independence. Many  16  tough, determined individuals  17  manage to survive against adversity. But even the tough ones reach a  18  where help should be available to them.
Another solitary man was fishing further along the canal,  19  Arthur knew that they would leave each other  20  peace, would not even call  21  greetings. No one bothered 22 : you were a hunter, a dreamer, your own  23 , away from it all for a few hours on any day that the
 24  did not throw down its rain.

A. people E. boss I. believe M. are Q. out U. from

B. fear F educated J. in N. point R. who V. called

C. his G. intolerant K. but O. listen S. you W. poorly

D. worked H. brings L. weather P pressure T. turn out X. college

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. They lived, in bitter disillusionment, to see the establishment they had overthrown replaced by a ______ one, just as hard-faced and stuffy.
26. Among members of my own party, closed meetings were held to discuss ____of stopping me.
27. No doubt somebody would have ______ if she hadn’t been there; she was part of the performance, after all.
28. All I cared ______ was that she had made tea cookies for me and read to me from her favorite book.
29. He sat with his ______ still pressed over his stomach, hiding his watch, but all through the cell you could hear its blunt tick tock tick.
30. Give me a restless ______ or two in bed and I can solve, to my own satisfaction, all the doubts of humanity.
31. I am not able, and I do not want, completely to ______ the world-view that I acquired in childhood.
32. We’re angry about the same things you are ______ policy—a little angrier because our lives were the things used to test those policies.
33. I frequently feel I’m being taken advantage of merely ______ I’m asked to do the work I’m paid to do.
34. Through the wide doors of the sheds she ______ a glimpse of the black mass of the boat, lying in beside the quay wall, with illumined portholes.
35. Persons who do remain at home while ______ ill health have serious difficulties in getting social, medical and psychiatric services brought directly to them.
36. What women didn’t seem to realize __that there were things you knew but shouldn’t say.
37. They execute extraordinarily well, and their proposition to customers is guaranteed low ______ or hassle-free service, or both.
38. Standing in front of the flower-stand woman she knew she ______ not have to explain that she wanted to leave them.
39. For some reason he smiled at what he saw, and turned ______ some yards along the towpath.
 

A. irregular E. noticed I. would M. price Q. caught U. apology

B. ways F abandon J. humiliating N. new R. in vain V. was

C. genetics G. in terms of K. compulsion O. hands S. in W. by means of

D. about H. to walk L. meditate P crunch T. hour X. because

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. Mutual cooperation was ______ from the generals’ point of view, because it wasn’t helping them to win the war.
A. understandable               B. undesirable
41. He was much more restless than last night, and, despite sleeping drugs, much more ______.
A. awake                        B. wakeful
42. The marketplace ______ the requirements of advertisers.
A. cares for                    B. caters to
43. At first I found the ______ of being unemployed very difficult to cope with.
A. stigma                       B. ugliness
44. Using the right hand to shake hands is a(an) ______.
A. invention                    B. convention
45. Let’s try and discuss this like two ______ human beings.
A. rational                     B. fashionable
46. Colleges and universities can no longer take ______ the learning that should be occurring on their campuses.
A. for granted                  B. for pride
47. I won’t pay top prices for goods of ______ quality.
A. high                         B. inferior
48. I took what he said ______, but afterwards it became clear that he really meant something else.
A. literally                    B. freely
49. John was standing in the doorway in his ______ blue suit.
A. broken                       B. shabby
50. About fifteen minutes later, I managed to secretly ______ the distressed woman from danger.
A. rescue                       B. reserve
51. Finally they realized that they must reduce their country’s ______ on imported grain.
A. development                  B. dependency
52. Susan looked ______, her whole body weak with exhaustion.
A. pitiful                      B. hopeful
53. Do you think that marriage between gay couples should be ______ in our country some day?
A. realized                     B. legalized
54. If you have no time for Shakespeare, for a basic look at philosophy, for continuity of the ______ arts, for history—then you have no business being in college.
A. beautiful                    B. fine

Read the following passage carefully and complete the succeeding four items IV, V, VI and VII. 

Waiting as a Way of Life

（1）Waiting is a kind of suspended animation, a feeling that one can’t do anything because one is waiting for something to happen. Waiting casts one’s life into a little hell of time. It is a way of being controlled, of being rendered immobile and helpless. One can read a book or sing (odd looks from the others) or chat with strangers if the wait is long enough to begin forming a bond of shared experience, as at a snowed-in airport. But people tend to do their waiting impassively. When the sound system went dead during the campaign debate in 1976, Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter stood in mute suspension for 27 minutes, looking lost.
（2）To enforce a wait, of course, is to exert power. To wait is to be powerless. Consider one minor, almost subliminal form. The telephone rings. One picks up the receiver and hears a secretary say, “Please hold for Mr. Green.” One sits for perhaps five seconds, the blood pressure just beginning to cook up toward the red line, when Green comes on the line with a hearty “How are ya?” and business proceeds and the moment passes, Mr. Green having established that he is (subtly) in control, that his time is more precious than his callee’s.
（3）Waiting is a form of imprisonment. One is doing time—but why? One is being punished not for an offense of one’s own but often for the inefficiencies of those who impose the wait. Hence the peculiar rage that waits cause, the sense of injustice. Aside from boredom and physical discomfort, the subtler misery of waiting is the knowledge that one’s most precious resource, time, a fraction of one’s life, is being stolen away, irrecoverably lost.
（4）Americans have enough miseries of waiting, of course—waits sometimes connected with affluence and leisure. The lines to get a passport in Manhattan last week stretched around the block in Rockefeller Center. Travelers waited four and five hours just to get into bureaucracy’s front door. A Washington Post editorial writer reported a few days ago that the passengers on her 747, diverted to Hartford, Connecticut, on the return flight from Rome as a result of bad weather in New York City, were forced to sit on a runway for seven hours because no customs inspectors were on hand to process them.
（5）The great American waits are often democratic enough, like traffic jams. Some of the great waits have been collective, tribal — waiting for the release of the American hostages in Iran, for example. But waiting often makes class distinctions. One of the more depressing things about being poor in America is the endless waiting in welfare or unemployment lines. The waiting rooms of the poor are often in bad conditions, but in fact almost all waiting rooms are spiritless and blank-eyed places where it always feels like 3 in the morning.
（6）One of the inestimable advantages of wealth is the immunity that it can purchase from serious waiting. The rich do not wait in long lines to buy groceries or airplane tickets. The help sees to it. The limousine takes the privileged right out onto the tarmac, their shoes barely grazing the ground.
（7）People wait when they have no choice or when they believe that the wait is justified by the reward—a concert ticket, say. Waiting has its social orderings, its rules and assumptions. Otherwise peaceful citizens explode when someone cuts into a line that has been waiting a long time. It is unjust; suffering is not being fairly distributed. Oddly, behavioral scientists have found that the strongest protests tend to come from the immediate victims, the people directly behind the line jumpers. People farther down the line complain less or not at all, even though they have been equally penalized by losing a place.
（8）Waiting can have a delicious quality (“I can’t wait to see her.” “I can’t wait for the party”), and sometimes the waiting is better than the event awaited. At the other extreme, it can shade into terror: when one waits for a child who is late coming home or—most horribly—has vanished. When anyone has disappeared, in fact, or is missing in action, the ordinary stress of waiting is overlaid with an unbearable anguish ofspeculation: Alive or dead?
（9）Waiting can seem an interval of nonbeing, the blank space between events and the outcomes of desires. It makes time maddeningly elastic: it has a way of seeming to compact eternity into a few hours. Yet its brackets ultimately expand to the largest dimensions. One waits for California to drop into the sea or for the Messiah. All life is a waiting, and perhaps in that sense one should not be too eager for the wait to end. The region that lies on the other side of waiting is eternity.

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. (10 points, 1 point for each)

55. In the first paragraph, the writer introduces ______.
 A. how people wait in different situations
 B. the great anger of people caused by waiting
 C. how miserable people feel while waiting
 D. negative aspects of waiting and some way of coping
56. Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter stood in mute suspension when the sound system went dead because they ______.
 A. wanted to have a rest         B. didn’t like each other
 C. chose to wait that way        D. didn’t know what to say
57. The example given in Paragraph 2 shows that ______.
 A. one can receive an unexpected phone call
 B. sometimes one is forced to wait
 C. Mr. Green is too slow to come to the phone
 D. a caller is always superior to a callee
58. From the passage we get to know that waiting makes people angry because ______.
 A. they don’t have so much time B. their time is wasted by strangers
 C. it is ridiculous for them to wait D. they feel being punished unfairly
59. Which of the following statements is true?
 A. Waits are considered terrible by Americans.
 B. Waiting is sometimes considered pleasant.
 C. People wait for different reasons in America.
 D. Travelers in America are free from waiting.
60. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
 A. Americans were greatly concerned about the American hostages in Iran
 B. waiting for the American hostages in Iran to be released was great
 C. the American hostages in Iran were admired by people at home
 D. all Americans were waiting for the American hostages to be released
61. We can learn from the passage that ______.
 A. being poor in America means waiting for various things
 B. in order to get what they want Americans have to wait
 C. rich people are free from waiting in long lines to buy things
 D. endless waiting depresses Americans more than anything else
62. According to the passage, people waiting in a line ______.
 A. fail to protest against line jumpers
 B. all hate the line jumpers very much
 C. consider line jumping an immoral behavior
 D. respond differently to the line jumpers
63. It is implied that ______.
 A. worrying about the result is worse than waiting
 B. waiting for a missing person is the worst thing
 C. many people can’t bear the stress of waiting
 D. some people would rather wait than know the result
64. The author’s tone of the last paragraph is ______.
 A. sincere         B. ironic         C. pessimistic       D. optimistic

V. There is one underlined part in each of the following sentences, followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is closest in meaning to the underlined part and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (10 points, 2 points for each)

65. One is doing time—but why?
 A. passing time carelessly              B. spending time in prison
 C. calculating time accurately          D. enjoying the time lonely
66. But waiting often makes class distinctions.
 A. differences    B. similarities        C. connections       D. conflicts
67. The limousine takes the privileged right out into the tarmac, their shoes barelygrazing the ground.
 A. touching        B. polluting      C. feeling        D. walking
68. Otherwise peaceful citizens explode when someone cuts into a line that has been waiting a long time.
 A. become excited     B. turn into a mob     C. get very angry    D. protest immediately
69.… the ordinary stress of waiting is overlaid with an unbearable anguish ofspeculation: Alive or dead?
 A. belief     B. expectation        C. doubt         D. guess

VI. Translate the following sentences into Chinese and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (10 points, 2 points for each)

70. One is being punished not for an offense of one’s own but often for the inefficiencies of those who impose the wait.
71. Aside from boredom and physical discomfort, the subtler misery of waiting is the knowledge that one’s precious resource, time, a fraction of one’s life, is being stolen away, irrecoverably lost.
72. Americans have enough miseries of waiting, of course—waits sometimes connected with affluence and leisure.
73. One of the more depressing things about being poor in America is the endless waiting in welfare or unemployment lines.
74. The rich do not wait in long lines to buy groceries or airplane tickets. The help sees to it.

VII. Answer the following essay question in English within 80-100 words.Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (10 points)

75. What is the author’s purpose in writing the article?

VIII. Translate the following sentences into English and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (18 points, 2 points each for 76-80, 8 points for 81)

76.我们的城市将继续变得更加拥挤喧嚣，景色将变得更加混乱，空气和水变得更脏。
77.当我们从敞开的后门走进去的时候，看到厨房里站着一些人。
78.他们每个人都能说出至少一位上级，感到他对自己怀有敌意，而且存心想毁了自己的前途。
79.她做梦也没想到会和这些熟悉的东西分开，今后可能再也见不到它们了。
80.他站在大门口，尖顶帽推到脑后，头发向前散乱地垂在晒得黝黑的脸上。
81.老年生活既不是本来就痛苦，也不是本来就美满的。它和生命的每个阶段一样，有困难、欢乐、恐惧和无限的潜力。变老的过程以及最后的死亡必须从根本上就被看作是生命周期的自然进程，老年人结束了生命，为年轻人让路。老年的独特之处实际上主要在于变老的事实和死亡的逼近。

2008年1月自学考试高级英语试题参考答案

一、选择题：1、G   2、A   3、F   4、X   5、O   6、V   7、P   8、B   9、W   10、H
11、C   12、U   13、D    14、T    15、I   16、M    17、R   18、N    19、K    20、J
21、Q    22、S    23、E    24、L   

二、选择题：25、N  26、B  27、E  28、D  29、O  30、T  31、F  32、G   33、X   34、Q
35、S  36、V   37、M   38、I   39、H

三、40、B  41、B   42、B  43、A  44、B   45、A   46、A   47、B  48、A  49、B
50、A   51、B   52、A   53、B  54、B

四、55、D   56、C   57、B   58、D  59、C  60、A  61、A  62、D   63、A  64、B

五、65、B  66、A  67、A  68、C  69、D

70、一个人不是因为自己的过错，而经常是因为那些迫使别人等待的人低效率而受惩罚。
71、除了无聊和身体上的不舒服之外，等待更难以形容的痛苦就是知道一个人最宝贵的资源——时间，其生命的一部分在被夺走，无可挽回地失去了。
72、当然，美国人饱受等待之苦——等待有时与富裕和闲暇有关。
73、在美国使穷人更加沮丧的事情之一就是没完没了地排队领福利和失业救济金。
74、富人不用排长队买食品或飞机票，有人帮助处理。

76、Our cities will continue to become more crowded and noisome. The landscape will get more cluttered, the air and water even dirtier.
77. When we walked in the back door which hung open, we saw people standing in the kitchen.
78. Each of them can name at least one superior in the company who he feels has a grudge against him and is determined to wreck his career.
79. Perhaps she would never see again those familiar objects from which she had never dreamed of being divided.
80. He was standing at the gate, his peaked cap pushed back on his head and his hair tumbled forward over a face of bronze.
81. Old age is neither inherently miserable nor inherently sublime——like every stage of life it has problems, joys, fears and potentials. The process of aging and eventual death must ultimately be accepted as the natural progression of the life cycle, the old completing their prescribed life spans and making way for the young. Much that is unique in old age in fact derives from the reality of aging and the imminence of death.
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