2012年1月自考高級英語試題

2012年1月（全國）自考高級英語試題

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)
This strategy also has ancient antecedents. Ever since civilization began， certain 1 have tried to run away from it in hopes of finding a simpler， more 2 ，and more peaceful life. Unlike the dropouts， they are not 3 . They are willing to support themselves and to 4 something to the general community， but they simply don’t like the environment of civilization; that is， the city， with all its 5 and tension.
I had the lonely child’s habit of 6 stories and holding conversations with 7 persons， and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and 8 . I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing 9 facts， and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my 10 in everyday life.
Only two people shared her “special” seat: a fine old man in a velvet coat， his hands 11 over a huge carved walking-stick， and a big old woman， sitting 12 ， with a roll of knitting on her embroidered apron. They did not speak. This was 13 ， for Miss Brill always looked forward 14 the conversation. She had become really quite 15 ， she thought， at listening as though she didn’t listen， at sitting in other people’s lives just for a minute while they talked round her.
Our research shows that no company can succeed today by trying to be all things to all people. It must instead find the 16 value that it alone can deliver to a chosen market. We have identified three distinct value 17 ， so called because each discipline produces a different kind of 18 value. Choosing one discipline to master does not mean that a company 19 the other two， only that it picks a dimension of value on which to 20 its market reputation over the long term.
The value of snobbery in general， its humanistic “point”， consists in its power to 21 activity. A society with plenty of snobberies is like a dog with plenty of 22 : it is not likely to become comatose. Every snobbery demands of its devotees 23 efforts， a succession of sacrifices. The society-snob must be perpetually lion-hunting; the modernity-snob can never rest 24 trying to be up-to-date. Swiss doctors and the Best that has been thought or said must be the daily and nightly preoccupation of all the snobs respectively of 25 and culture.

II. Each of the following sentences is given four choices of words or expressions. Choose the right one to complete the sentence and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (15 points， 1 point for each)
26. What you say is far ______ from what you said before.
A. moved
B. removed
C. proved
D. disproved
27. There will be live ______ of the concert on TV and radio.
A. transaction
B. transition
C. transmission
D. transportation
28. The first priority for a government is to enable its citizens to live in peace and ______ .
A. tranquility B. altitude
C. complexity
D. attitude
29. The pianist was ______ with the most extravagant applause from the audience.
A. loaded
B. burdened
C. pressed
D. weighed
30. The problem of poverty didn’t ______ itself until the earthquake.
A. manifest
B. demonstrate
C. emerge
D. exhibit
31. They got their just ______ when the scheme was finally uncovered.
A. desert
B. dessert
C. deserts
D. desserts
32. The tail of the whale ______ their boat and they all fell into water.
A. plucked
B. flicked
C. pecked
D. flapped
33. In time of prosperity， friends will be plenty; in time of ______ ， not one among twenty.
A. dilemma
B. adversity
C. insomnia
D. deadlock
34. He refused to ______ of such a solution to his problem.
A. deceive
B. receive
C. conceive
D. perceive
35. He felt proud to proclaim that he knew only English and somehow ______ of his native culture.
A. contemporary
B. temporary
C. contemptuous
D. contemptible
36. There is a growing recognition that we should abolish racial ______.
A. segregation
B. separation
C. integration D. evaporation
37. It is desirable to ______ the chemicals before the plant is seriously damaged.
A. splash
B. spill
C. pour D. spray
38. I didn’t expect him to descend to ______ abuse.
A. common
B. personal
C. ordinary
D. individual
39. Make a phone call if you are wishing to renew your ______ to our magazine.
A. contribution
B. distribution
C. subscription D. attribution
40. He began to ______ as the intense cold pervaded the room.
A. shake B. quake