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2024年4月高等教育自学考试高级英语试题

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Each of the following sentences is given four choices of words or expressions. Choosethe right one to complete the sentence and write the corresponding letter on your

Answer Sheet. (15 points, 1 point for each)

1.I was bored to death as I had to sit through severalspeeches the wholeaternoon.

B.courageous

A. pretentious

C. tedious

D.precarious

2. Somehow the small butwoman fought her way through the crowd toreach her son after the earthguake.

B.formidable

A. notorious

C.sinister

D.strenuous

3.He strode on stage, and then proceeded tothe sweetest possible soundsout of his violin.

A.coax

C. solicit

B.coerce

D.summon

4. The young man threw himself in front of a train in aeffort to save the

girl.

A. valid

C. yaliant

B.vicious

D.vibrant

5. To the people taking the evening air on the boulevards, the patrol is asource of delight.

A.never-setting

B. never-failing

C.non-competitive

D.non-attributable

6. Traders on the New York Stock Exchange monitored their screens and took a

wait-and-see approach as prices

A. slipped

C.fossilized

B. differed

D. fluctuated

by his extraordinary performance,

7. Any doubts about his leadership were

B. scraped

A. purged

D.scrubbedC. purified

8. Thebenefits of this job include a car and free health insurance.

A. bond

C. fringe

B.mortgage

D.pension

9. The store earned 20 percent more this month than it did in themonthlast year.

B.correlative

A. analogous

D.correspondingC.equivalent

10.Hein front of the girls, head up and chest out, trying to get their

attention.

A.sneaked

B. strutted

C.staggered

D.stomped

11. She resigned for fear that her initiative would beby the cumbersome

bureaucracy in the organization.

A. strangled

C.straightened

B.strained

D.strapped

12. The project was so diffcult that all the other teams thought we would give itup. But weit and eventually it was done.

B.iumped at

A. came at

C. kept at

D. picked at

13.The current status ofrobot evolution willtechnophiles, sci-fi fans andthose with an interest in the social sciences.

B.disenchant

A.manipulate

C.contrive

D.intrigue

14. Being a narcotics agent, Lucy's husband often has to work for over twentyhours

A. up to date

B. at a stroke

C. up to scratch

D. at a stretch