2013年1月自考高级英语试题

全国2013年1月自考高级英语试题

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 I. Each of the following sentences is given four choices of words or expressions. Choose the right one to complete the sentence and blacken the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (15 points, 1 point for each)

1 . The development of netnews has formed a(n) ______ challenge to traditional journalism transmitted by newspapers, broadcasting stations and televisions.

 A. united  B. uniform

 C. unpleasing  D. unprecedented

2.It is easy to ______a spear in the daylight, but it is difficult to avoid an arrow in the dark.

 A. dodge  B. evade

 C. escape  D. invade

3. We were annoyed by his ______ reply, for we had been led to expect definite assurances of his approval.

A . nonsense  B. noncurrent

 C. noncommittal  D. nonsacred

4. The patient has the right to considerate and ______care.

 A. respectable  B. respectful

 C. respective  D. respected

 5 . Rosie's wonderful world came to a(n) ______ end when her parents' marriage broke up.

 A. fast  B. snap

 C. abrupt  D. hasty

 6 . His evidence was a blend of smears, half truths and ______ lies.

 A. downright  B. upright

 C. thorough  D. radical
 7. His report was attacked as a gross______ of the truth.

  A. retort  B. illusion

 C. resolution  D. distortion

 8 . His success is a classic case of thrifty and ______businessmen.

  A. crafty  B. shrewd

 C . tricky  D. cunning

 9 . He interpreted her condemnation of recent political development as an______ criticism of the govemment.

 A. implicit  B. explicit

 C.impatient D.explored

 10. When someone is angry because they recognize an abuse being committed to another person, that is ______ anger.

 A. jealous  B. ridiculous

 C. contemptible  D. justifiable

 11. Many large companies seem totally _________ about the environment.

 A. unbent  B. unbalanced

 C. unconcerned  D. unconnected

 12. You'll never finish the job if you ____________over details.

 A. fuss  B. mess

 C. boss  D. miss

13 .Instructors should ______ new movements before letting the class try them.

 A. demolish  B. manifest

 C. demonstrate  D. manipulate

14. It is very unpleasant to have to_______ the smoke from other people's cigarettes.

 A. inhale  B. exhale

 C. import  D. export

15. The government has ______ its refusal to compromise with terrorists.

 A. retold  B. redeemed

 C. reacted  D. reiterated

Read the following passage carefully and complete the succeeding three items ll , lll, IV.

World's Rich Nations Miss a Golden

Opportunity to Back Fair Trade

(1) Perhaps the defining moment of Tony Blair's premiership was the speech that he gave to the Labour Party conference in October 2001. In June his party had returned to office with a huge majority. In September two planes were flown into the World Trade Centre in New York. The speech appeared to mark his transition from the insecure prime minister to a visionary and a statesman, determined to change the world. The most memorable passage was his declaration on Africa. "The state of Africa", he told us, "is a scar on the conscience of the world. But if the world as a community focused on it, we could heal it. And if we don't, it will become deeper and angrier."

(2) This being so, I would like to ask Britain's visionary prime minister to explain what he thinks he was doing at the G8 summit in France. A few weeks ago President Jacques Chirac did something unprecedented. After years of opposing any changes to European farm subsidies（补贴）, he approached the US government to suggest that Europe would stop subsidising its exports of food to Africa if America did the same.

(3) His offer was significant, not only because it represented a major policy reversal for France, but also because it provided an opportunity to abandon the perpetual agricultural arms race between the European union   and the US, in which each side seeks to offer more subsidies than the other. The West's farm subsidies, as Blair has pointed out, are a disaster for the developing world, and particularly for Africa.

(4) Farming accounts for some 70% of employment on that continent, and most of the farmers there are desperately poor. Part of the reason is that they are unfairly undercut by the subsidised products dumped on their markets by exporters from the US and the EU. Chirac' s proposals addressed only part of the problem, but they could have begun the process of dismantling the system that does so much harm to the West's environment and the lives of some of the world's most vulnerable people.

(5) We might, then, have expected Blair to have welcomed Chirac's initiative. Instead the prime minister has single-handedly destroyed it. The reason will by now be familiar. George Bush, who receives substantial political support from US agro-industrialists, grain exporters and pesticide manufacturers, was not prepared to make the concessions required to match Chirac's offer. If the EU, and in particular the UK, had supported France, the moral pressure on Bush might have been irresistible. But as soon as Blair made it clear that he would not support Chirac's plan, the initiative was dead.

(6) So, thanks to Mr Blair and his habit of doing whatever Bush tells him to, Africa will continue to suffer. Several of the food crises from which that continent is now suffering are made worse by the plight of its own farmers. The underlying problem is that the rich nations set the global trade rules. The current world trade agreement was supposed to have prevented the EU and the US from subsidising their exports to developing nations. But, as the development agency Oxfam has shown, the agreement contains so many loopholes that it permits the two big players simply to call their export subsidies by a different name.

 (7) So, for example, the EU has, in several farm sectors, stopped paying farmers according to the amount they produce and started instead to give them direct grants, based on the amount of land they own and how much they produced there in the past. The US has applied the same formula, and added a couple of tricks of its own. One of these is called "export credit": the state reduces the cost of US exports by providing cheap insurance for the exporters. These credits, against which Chirac was hoping to trade the European subsidies, are worth some $'7.7bn to US grain sellers. In combination with other tricks, they ensure that American exporters can undercut the world price for wheat and ma