全国2011年10月高等教育自学考试高级英语试题

全国2011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(英译汉题目除外)，请将答案填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)

One of the best current examples of what Horowitz is talking    1    is John Denver. His most    2    songs—“Sunshine on My Shoulders”, “Rocky Mountain High”, and “Country Road”—   3    the musical drive and power of    4    rock, while the lyrics celebrate the simple    5    of“the good old days”.

It is all symbolized in my mind by the hugely successful art    6    that television has made    7    to the culture, the 30-second commercial: the tiny drama of the    8    housewife who finds happiness    9    choosing the right toothpaste. When before in human history has so much humanity    10    surrendered so much of its leisure to one toy, one mass diversion?

They had no    11    of comparison and assumed that this was a    12    of his class, just as a traveler stepping off the liner at a foreign    13    for luncheon sums up a nation’s character forever in the    14    businessman who happens to    15    the table with him.

Each week, for example, a record of the sales results of the    16    week for each sales office and for Sales Department as a    17    for each division of the company is kept and    18    to the sales results for the    19    week of the year    20   .

But by and large the news reports and commentaries on CBS and NBC and ABC make every   21   to present viewers with more than one   22   of an issue， either by letting   23   spokesmen have their   24   or by outlining the positions held by both major parties on the subject   25  .