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Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) from each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
T A recent poll indicated that half the teenagers in the United States believe that communication between them and their parents is__1__and further that one of the prime causes of this gap is __2__listening behavior. As a(an)__3__ in point, one parent believed that her daughter had a severe__4__problem. She was so __5__that she took her to an audiologist to have her ear tested. The audiologist carefully tested both ears and reported back to the parent:"There's nothing wrong with her hearing. She's just __6__you out."
A leading cause of the __7__divorce rate (more than half of all marriages end in divorce) is the failure of husbands and wives to __8__effectively. They don't listen to each other. Neither person__9__to the actual message sent by the other.
In __10__fashion, political scientists report that a growing number of people believe that their elected and __11__officials are out of__12__with the constituents they are supposedly __13__. Why? Because they don't believe that they listen to them. In fact, it seems that sometimes our politicians don't even listen to themselves. The following is a true story: At a national__14__conference held in Albuquerque some years ago, then Senator Joseph Montoya was__15__a copy of a press release by a press aide shortly before he got up before the audience to__16__ a speech. When he rose to speak,__17__the horror of the press aide and the__18__of his audience, Montoya began reading the press release, not his speech. He began, "For immediate release. Senator Joseph M. Montoya, Democrat of New Mexico, last night told the National..." Montoya read the entire six-page release,__19__ with the statement that he "was repeatedly __20__by applause."
1.[A] scarce [B] little [C] rare [D] poor
2.[A] malignant [B] deficient [C] ineffective [D] feeble
3.[A] case [B] example [C] lesson [D] suggestion
4.[A] audio [B] aural [C] hearing [D] listening
5.[A] believing [B] convinced [C] assured [D] doubtless
6.[A] turning [B] tuning [C] tucking [D] tugging
7.[A] rising [B] arising [C] raising [D] arousing
8.[A] exchange [B] interchange [C] encounter [D] interact
9.[A] relates [B] refers [C] responds [D] resorts
10.[A] like [B] alike [C] likely [D] likewise
11.[A] nominated [B] selected [C] appointed [D] supported
12.[A] connection [B] reach [C] association [D] touch
13.[A] leading [B] representing [C]delegating [D] supporting
14.[A] legislative [B] legitimate [C] legalized [D] liberal
15.[A] distributed [B] awarded [C] handed [D] submitted
16.[A] present [B] publish [C] deliver [D] pursue
17.[A] to [B] with [C] for [D] on
18.[A] joy [B] enjoyment [C] amusement [D] delight
19.[A] conclude [B] to conclude [C] concluding [D] concluded
20.[A] disrupted [B] interfered [C] interrupted [D] stopped
Section ⅡReading Comprehension
Part A
Directions:
Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)
Passage 1
Executives at CBS News said today that Richard Thornburgh, a former governor of Pennsylvania, and Louis D. Boccardi, retired president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press, will conduct an independent investigation of how a flawed report about President Bush's National Guard service made its way onto the air. The two-person team will examine the process used to produce a report broadcast Sept. 8 that contended the president had received favorable treatment to enter the Texas Air National Guard and had not fulfilled all of the Guard's requirements, the executives said in a statement.
"CBS News acknowledged this week that it cannot prove the authenticity of disputed memos featured in the report and that, therefore, it was a mistake to use them," they said. "The two-person review panel will commence its work this week and will have full access and complete cooperation from CBS News and CBS, as well as all of the resources necessary to complete the task," the statement said. "The panel will report its findings to CBS News and CBS. The findings also will be made public."
In another measure of the troubles facing CBS lately, the Federal Communications Commission (F. C. C). announced today that it will fine CBS a record $550,000 for this year's Super Bowl halftime show, in which Janet Jackson the entertainer bared her breast while performing with Justin Timberlake. The Super Bowl incident, which Ms. Jackson termed a "wardrobe malfunction", has prompted new scrutiny of indecency on the airwaves. And in the aftermath, the F.C.C. increased its maximum fines for broadcasting indecent material and many live broadcasts are now aired with delays of 5 to 10 seconds.
The reputation of CBS News, and that of Dan Rather, the anchor who presented the report, have been on the line since questions about documents used to bolster the report began to surface immediately after its broadcast. Twice this week, the network has had to make on-air mea culpas about its work and news gathering practices regarding the National Guard report about the president.
On Monday, the news division announced that Bill Burkett, the source for the questionable documents, had misled a CBS producer, Mary Mapes, and Mr. Rather, about the origins of the documents. In an interview with Mr. Rather shown earlier this week, Mr. Burkett admitted lying about their provenance, saying first that they came from a former Guard officer overseas and then that they came by way of a mysterious couple.
Then, on Tuesday, CBS said that Ms. Mapes had violated network policy by putting Mr. Burkett in touch with Joe Lockhart, a top aide to Senator John Kerry. The rebuke of Ms. Mapes, also broadcast on "The CBS Evening News", has come with some disappointments within the respected news organization about whether news executives have been vigilant enough in asking hard questions about how the producer obtained documents.
1.An independent investigation will be conducted into a CBS report _____.
[A] to negate its authenticity
[B] about how and when it was broadcast
[C] about its production procedure
[D] to restore CBS News' credibility
2.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
[A] CBS News has admitted its mistake of using "disputed memos".
[B] CBS News and CBS will provide all the resources the review panel require.
[C] The findings of the independent committee will be made public.
[D] Bill Burkett told the truth about how he acquired the documents.
23.Because of the Super Bowl incident, _____.
[A] CBS will face a severe fine for making a flawed report
[B] F.C.C. will have strict inspection of broadcasting indecent material
[C] CBS News will choose to create the independent committee
[D] F. C. C. will increase its charge for the delayed live broadcasts
4."Make on-air mea culpas" (Line 3, Paragraph 4) probably means _____.
[A] acknowledging the error
[B] questioning the authenticity
[C] finding excuses for the faults
[D] rearranging the schedule
5.What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?
[A] The questionable documents are provided originally by a mysterious couple.
[B] It is against CBS News regulations to be associated with any political agenda.
[C] There is a fatal flaw in the checking procedures of many reputable news organization.
[D] CBS News executives had to resign for the untruthful story about the President.
Passage 2
An overturned bus lies on a rural highway, split open like a disjointed limb. Emergency workers slowly mill about, but the purpose of their activity is not clear. A line of cars stretches into the distance, their occupants gazing indifferently on this putative accident.
The images come from "Refraction", a video by the Dutch artist Aernout Mik that opens tomorrow at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in Chelsea. The solo exhibition could bring about a new prominence for Mr. Mik, whose work has been shown with increasing frequency in Europe during the last decade but is not widely known in the United States. Nothing in "Refraction" is quite what it seems. The images are dreamlike, but shot in high-definition video that suggests a newscast gone strangely twisted. The video is about 30 minutes long, with no sound; it runs in a continuous loop and has anything but a narrative arc. It was shot in a single day on a lonely road in rural Romania using participants who received only vague instructions on how to act.
The work raises questions about our responses to catastrophe, tragedy and even traffic congestion. Mr. Mik says that "collective consciousness" is an important theme of his work, and he seems to approach his subjects as a sociologist - or entomologist - might. It's not about character, he said in an interview, after flying in from Amsterdam for the opening of the exhibition. "It's always about the individual in a relatively small, or relatively bigger group, being in its environment." The images hint at contemporary anxieties, but cannot be easily fixed in space or time.
Perhaps the most haunting aspect of the video is the view of men dressed in protective white bodysuits, wearing green vests and plucking, with tweezers, at the detritus inside the toppled bus. They appear to be placing the debris into clear plastic sample bags. A possible bioterrorist attack? No other cues provide an answer. Mr. Mik at first intended to make his accident entirely victimless, but at the last moment, he said, he decided to produce shots of a few people who, presumably, were on the bus. Several are wrapped in blue flannel blankets; one woman is in a shiny metallic sheet as an aid worker speaks to her. No one appears traumatized, so the extent and nature of these victims' injuries are unknown. Less depressing, but equally memorable, is a moment when a herd of sheep and goats amble from the surrounding fields onto the road. Their origins and destination are unexplained, but the comparison to the human flock is pretty clear.
Mr. Mik, who is 42 and based in Amsterdam, has had several dozen solo exhibitions across Europe since 1995, but until this year his work has been displayed in the United States only a handful of times. He resists being called a video artist, however, and prefers to describe the work as a mixture of media. "I don't consider it as just video," he said. "I sometimes call myself, provocatively, a sculptor, because I really bring the moving image to the space. It's very much a spatial intervention instead of just film projected somewhere."
1.The word "putative" (Line 3, Paragraph 1) most probably means _____.
[A] dreamy [B] strange [C] terrible [D] supposed
2."Refraction" seems to be the name of _____.
[A] a film [B] a performance [C] a sculpture [D] an exhibition
3.The themes expressed in Aernout Mik's work do Not include _____.
[A] disasters and tragedies
[B] human unconcern about others
[C] group effect
[D] overcrowdedness
4.Which of the following is true about the work "Refraction"?
[A] It was produced and will be exhibited in Chelsea.
[B] All the participants in it were photoed unconsciously.
[C] There is no victim in the accident narrated.
[D] Animals appear in it and are compared to human flock.
5.It is true of Mr. Mik, the artist, that _____.
[A] he is increasingly prominent in the United States
[B] he studies human group behavior from an artistic perspective
[C] he intends to warn viewers against bioterrorist attacks
[D] he considers himself a video artist and a sculptor
Passage 3
Scholastic thinkers held a wide variety of doctrines in both philosophy and theology, the study of religion. What gives unity to the whole Scholastic movement, the academic practice in Europe from the 9th to the 17th centuries, are the common aims, attitudes, and methods generally accepted by all its members. The chief concern of the Scholastics was not to discover new facts but to integrate the knowledge already acquired separately by Greek reasoning and Christian revelation. This concern is one of the most characteristic differences between Scholasticism and modern thought since the Renaissance.
The basic aim of the Scholastics determined certain common attitudes, the most important of which was their conviction of the fundamental harmony between reason and revelation. The Scholastics maintained that because the same God was the source of both types of knowledge and truth was one of his chief attributes, he could not contradict himself in these two ways of speaking. |
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发表于 2016-7-14 16:03:36