2012年考研英语一真题

Section IUse of EnglishDirections:Read the following text.Choose the best word(s)for each numbered blank and markA,B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points)The ethical judgments of the Supreme Court justices have become an importantissue recently.The court cannot I its legitimacy as guardian of the rule oflaw 2 justices behave like politicians.Yet,in several instances,justices acted inways that 3 the court's reputation for being independent and impartial.Justice Antonin Scalia,for example,appeared at political events.That kind ofactivity makes it less likely that the court's decisions will be 4 as impartialjudgments.Part of the problem is that the justices are not 5 by an ethics code.At the very least,the court should make itself 6 to the code of conductthat 7 to the rest of the federal judiciary.This and other similar cases 8 the question of whether there is stilla 9 between the court and politics.The framers of the Constitution envisioned law 10 having authority apartfrom politics.They gave justices permanent positions 11 they would be freeto 12 those in power and have no need to 13 political support.Our legalsystem was designed to set law apart from politics precisely because they are soclosely 14Constitutional law is political because it results from choices rooted infundamental social 15 like liberty and property.When the court deals withsocial policy decisions,the law it 16 is inescapably political which is whydecisions split along ideological lines are so easily 17 as unjust.The justices must 18 doubts about the court's legitimacy by makingthemselves 19 to the code of conduct.That would make rulings more likely tobe seen as separate from politics and,20,convincing as law..2.