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全国2010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(翻译题除外)，并将答案写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) Today’s heroes—some of them, anyway—tell us they enjoy their ｒｅｗａｒｄｓ　 1 . “And I ｃｏｎｃｅｉｖｅｄ2 to myself at the men and the ladies. Who never 3 ｌａｕｇｈｅｄ of us billion-dollar babies.” The 4ｐａｒｔｉｃｕｌａｒ “culture hero” whoｓｉｎｇｓ　5 that is Alice Cooper. If I said that being black is a greater ｈａｎｄｉｃａｐ 6 than being a woman, probably no one would 　　 　ｑｕｅｓｔｉｏｎ 7 me. Why? Because “we all know” there is ｐｒｅｊｕｄｉｃｅ8 against black people in America. That there is prejudice against women is an idea that still ｓｔｒｉｋｅｓ9 nearly all men—and, I am afraid, most women—as ｂｉｚａｒｒｅ 10 . There is, however, another ｅｌｅｍｅｎｔ11 possessed by the best work, which is even more important as a 12ｓｏｕｒｃｅ of happiness than is the exercise of ｓｋｉｌｌ13 . This is the element of constructiveness. In some work, though by no ｍｅａｎｓ 14 in most, something is built up which remains as a 　　　　　　　 ｍｏｎｍｕｍｅｎｔ 15 when 　the work is completed. My own state of mind, when I left Watts eight years ago to take up the ｆｒｅｓｈｍａｎ 16 year at Whittier College, was ｄｉｆｆｅｒｅｎｔ 17 . It was to me less of a ｄｅｐａｒｔｕｒｅ18 ; it was the stepping off point of an Odyssey that was to take me through Whittier College and Oxford University, to Yale Law School, and back to Watts. I had ｉｎｔｅｎｄｅｄ 19 then, as now, to make Watts my ｈｏｍｅ 20 . Well, it’s a good life and a good ｗｏｒｌｄ 21 , all said and ｄｏｎｅ 22 , if you don’t ｗｅａｋｅｎ23 , and if you know that the big wide world hasn’t ｈｅａｒｄ24 from you yet, no, not by a long way, though it won’t be long now. The float bobbed more violently than before and, with a ｇｒｉｎ 25 on his fa