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2012 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语 （一）试题 Section IUse of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the bestword(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) The ethical judgments of the Supreme Court justices have become an important issuerecently.Thecourtcannot_1_ itslegitimacyasguardian of the rule of law _2_ justicesbehave like politicians. Yet, in several instances, justices acted in ways that _3_ the court’s reputation for being independent and impartial. 师 教 Justice Antonin Scalia, for example, appeared at political events. That kind of activity makes it less likely that the court’s decisions will 考 be _4_ as impartial judgments. Part of the problem is that the justices are not _5_by an ethics code. At the very least, the court should make itself _6_to the code of conduct that _7_to the rest of the federal 熊 judiciary. 大 This and other similar cases _8_the question of whether there is still a _9_between the court and politics. 着 TheframersoftheConstitutionenvisioned law_10_havingauthorityapart 跟 from politics. They gave justices permanent positions _11_they would be free to _12_ those in power and have no need to _13_ political support. ： Our legal system was designed to set law apart from politics precisely because they are so closely _14_. 号 Constitutional law is political because it results from choices rooted infundamentalsocial_15_ likelibertyandproperty.Whenthecourtdeals 众 with social policy decisions, the law it _16_ is inescapably political-which is why decisions split along ideological lines are so 公 e