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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 1. “And I 2to myself at the men and the ladies. Who never 3of us billion-dollar babies.” The 4“culture hero” who 5that is Alice Cooper. If I said that being black is a greater 6than being a woman, probably no one would 7me. Why? Because “we all know” there is 8against black people in America. That there is prejudice against women is an idea that still 9nearly all men—and, I am afraid, most women—as 10. There is, however, another 11possessed by the best work, which is even more important as a 12of happiness than is the exercise of 13. This is the element of constructiveness. In some work, though by no 14 in most, something is built up which remains as a 15whenthe work is completed. My own state of mind, when I left Watts eight years ago to take up the 16year at Whittier College, was 17. It was to me less of a 18; 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 19then, as now, to make Watts my 20. Well, it’s a good life and a good 21, all said and 22, if you don’t 23, and if you know that the big wide world hasn’t 24from 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 25on his face, he began to wind in the reel. A. handicap B. element C. weaken D. means E. heard F. question G. freshman H. home I. strikes J. done K. source L. different M. conceived N. particular O. grin R skill Q. laughed R. prejudice S. monument T. sings U. rewards V. departure W. intended