1 2007 年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语(一)试题 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text
Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark [A], [B], [C] or [D] on ANSWER SHEET 1
(10 points) By 1830, the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies had become independent nations
The roughly 20 million 1 of these nations looked 2 to the future
Born in the crisis of the old regime and Iberian colonialism, many of the leaders of independence 3 the ideals of representative government, careers 4 to talent, freedom of commerce and trade, the 5 to private property, and a belief in the individual as the basis of society
6 there was a belief that the new nations should be sovereign and independent states, large enough to be economically viable and integrated by a 7 set of laws
On the issue of