[自学考试密押题库与答案解析]高级英语自考真题2012年10月.docxVIP

[自学考试密押题库与答案解析]高级英语自考真题2012年10月 [自学考试密押题库与答案解析]高级英语自考真题2012年10月 PAGE1 / NUMPAGES1 [自学考试密押题库与答案解析]高级英语自考真题2012年10月 高级英语自考真题2012年10月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.When I was graduating from college, my generation also found the world in a 1 . The economic machinery had broken 2 almost everywhere: In this country nearly a quarter of the 3 was out of work. A major war seemed all 4 likely. As a college newspaper editor at that time, I protested against this 5 as vehemently as student activists are protesting today. I wonder if this blandness of our diet doesnt explain 6 so many of us are overweight and even dangerously so. When things had flavor, we knew what we were eating all the 7 —and it satisfied us. A 8 of my mother-in-laws wild strawberry jam will entirely satisfy your jam desire. But, of the 9 tinned or glass-packed strawberry jam, you need half a cupful to get the 10 of what youre eating.  Literacy may not be an inalienable human night, but it is 11 that the highly literate Founding Fathers might not have found unreasonable or even 12 . We are not only not attaining it 13 a nation, statistically speaking, but we are falling further and further 14 of attaining it. And while I would not be so simplistic as to suggest that television is the cause, I believe it 15 and is an influence.  To share a bedroom with one of these fellows is to lose ones 16 in human nature, for, even after the 17 eventful day, there is no comparing notes with them, no midnight confidence, no casting 18 the balance of the days pleasure and pain. They sink, 19 once, into stupid, heavy slumb