2007年全国研究生入学考试英语一真题完美打印版.pdf

2007 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题 Section Ⅰ Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A , B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) By 1830 the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies had become independent nations. The roughly 20 million _____1_____ of these nations looked ______2_____ to the future. Born in the crisis of the old regime and Iberian Colonialism, many of the leaders of independence ____3_____ the ideals of representative government, careers ____4____ to talent, freedom of commerce and trade, the ______5____ to private property, and a belief in the individual as the basis of society. ____6___ there was a belief that the new nations should be sovereign and independent states, large enough to be economically viable and integrated by a _____7______ set of laws. On the issue of ______8_____ of religion and the position of the Church, ____9_____, there was less agreement _____10____ the leadership. Roman Catholicism had been the state religion and the only one _____11___ by the Spanish crown. ______12______ most leaders sought to maintain Catholicism _____13_____ the official religion of the new states, some sought to end the ______14_____ of other faiths. The defense of the Church became a rallying ___15_____ for the conservative forces. The ideals of the early leaders of independence were often egalitarian, valuing equality of everything. Bolivar had received aid from Haiti and had ____16_____ in return to abolish slavery in the areas he liberated. By 1854 slavery had been abolished everywhere except Spain’s ____17_____ colonies. Early promises to end Indian tribute and taxes on people of mixed origin came much ___18___ because the new nations still neede