Section B
Directions: In this section, there are fifteen incomplete sentences. For each sentence there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and[D]. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
31.My feelings were ______ when he didn’t ask me to his birthday party.
[A] injured [B] destroyed
[C] hurt [D] damaged
32.We are now in an age where the public can have ______ to information that enables it to make its own judgments.
[A] access [B] reach
[C] approach [D] touch
33.Some Americans ______ China for the trade imbalance.
[A] accused [B] charged
[C] blamed [D] complained
34.The workers had no ______ in how their factory was run.
[A] say [B] tale
[C] speech [D] remark
35.Even in the true sciences distinguishing fact from fiction is not always easy. For this reason great care should be taken to______ between beliefs and truths.
[A] define [B] detect
[C] distinguish [D] differ
36.We are allowed to ______ our notes now & then in answering these questions.
[A] contribute to [B] attribute to
[C] respond to [D] refer to
37.The decision was taken for ______ economic reasons, without considering its social effects.
[A] powerless [B] delicate
[C] narrow [D] brief
38. Visiting friends and relatives at Spring Festival is a(n) ______ in China.
[A] institution [B] habit
[C] rule [D] law
39. I prefer ______ coffee to tea.
[A] immediate [B] instant
[C] instance [D] instinct
40. We were given two weeks to ______ solutions to this problem.
[A] come up with [B] come across
[C] come out [D] come up
41. We resumed our work after the long summer holiday with ______ energy.
[A] relieved [B] renewed
[C] refined [D] reinforced
42.Gazing at others' eyes generally signals a request for information and perhaps affection, but embarrassment can ______ too long a mutual gaze.
[A] bring forward [B] result in
[C] bring out [D] result from
43.This cave could ______a family of ten in times of emergency.
[A] reside [B] possess
[C] embrace [D] accommodate
44.If I may be allowed to______ an opinion, I think we should carryout the plan at once.
[A] expose [B] venture
[C] indicate [D] represent
45.He was arrested because the police had found a large sum of ______money in his suitcase.
[A] illiterate [B] forged
[C] hypothetical [D] lethal
Part III Reading Comprehension (50 minutes, 30 points)
Directions: There are 6 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
Passage One
We are told the mass media are the greatest organs for enlightenment that the world has yet seen; that in Britain, for instance, several million people see each issue of the current affairs programme, Panoroma. It is true that never in human history were so many people so often and so much exposed to so many intimations about societies, forms of life attitudes other than those which obtain in their own local societies. This kind of exposure may well be a point of departure for acquiring certain important intellectual and imaginative qualities, width of judgement, a sense of the variety of possible attitudes. Yet in itself such exposure does not bring intellectual or imaginative development . It is no more than the masses of stone which lie around in a quarry and which may, conceivably, go to the making of a cathedral. The mass media cannot build the cathedral, and their way of showing the stones does not always prompt others to build. For the stones are presented within a self-contained and self-sufficient world in which, it is implied, simply to look at them, to observe fleetingly individually interesting points of difference between them is sufficient in itself.
Life is indeed full of problems on which we have to—or feel we should try to—make decisions, as citizens or as private individuals. But neither the real difficulty of these decisions, nor their true and disturbing challenge to each individual, can often be communicated through the mass media. The disinclination to suggest real choice, individual decision, which is to be found in the mass media is not simply the product of a commercial desire to keep the customer happy. It is within the grain of mass communications. The organs of the Establishment, however well-intentioned they may be and whatever their form (the State, the Church, voluntary societies, political parties), have a vested interest in ensuring that the public boat is not violently rocked, and will so affect those who work within the mass media that they will be led insensibly towards forms of production which, though they go through the motions of dispute and enquiry, do not break through the skin to where such enquiries might really hurt. They will tend to move, when exposing problems, well within the accepted cliché-assumptions of democratic society and will tend neither radically to question these clichés nor to make a disturbing application of them to features of contemporary life. They will stress the “stimulation” the programs give, but this soon becomes an agitation of problems for the sake of the interest of that agitation itself; they will therefore, again, assist a form of acceptance of the status quo (现状). There were exceptions to this tendency, but they are uncharacteristic.
The result can be seen in a hundred radio and television programs as plainly as in the normal treatment of public issues in the popular press. Different levels of background in the readers or viewers may be assumed, but what usually takes place is a substitute for the process of arriving at judgement. Programs such as this are noteworthy less for the “stimulation” they offer than for the fact that stimulation (repeated at regular intervals) may become a substitute for and so a hindrance to judgements carefully arrived at and tested in the mind and on the pulses. Mass communications, then, do not ignore intellectual matters; they tend to castrate (使…丧失活力) them, to allow them to sit on the side of the fireplace, sleek and useless, a family plaything.
46. According to the passage, the mass media present us with ______.
[A] insufficient diversity of information
[B] too restricted a view of life
[C] a wide range of facts and opinions
[D] a critical assessment of our society
47. What effect is it claimed the mass media can have on our intellectual and imaginative development?
[A] They are likely to frustrate this development.
[B] They can form a basis for it.
[C] They can distort our judgement.
[D] They can stimulate too much mental activity.
48. How are the mass media said to influence our ability to make decisions?
[A] They disturb us by their prejudices.
[B] They make us doubt our own judgements.
[C] They make no contribution in this area.
[D] They make decisions appear too complicated.
49. The author says that a natural concern of the Establishment is to ______.
[A] perform a good service to society
[B] arouse strong emotions in the public
[C] maintain its position in society
[D] change the form of public institutions
50. What is the author's final judgement on how mass communications deal with intellectual matters?
[A] They regard them as unimportant.
[B] They see them as a domestic pastime.
[C] They consider them to be of only domestic interest.
[D] They rob them of their dramatic impact.
