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1、 2002 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D onANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points).Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and thediffusion of printing in the
2、 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happenedbefore, it was not the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic，following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the of the periodical. It wasduring the same time that the communications revolution up, beginning with t
3、ransport, therailway, and leading through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures1. As was discussed234567the20th century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that Process inimportant to do so.8. It isIt is generally recognized,by the invention of the integrat
4、ed circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process,its impact on the media was not immediately 12 . As time went by, computers became smallerand more powerful, and they became “personal” too, as well as 13 , with display becomingsharper and storage 14 increasing. They were thought of, like p
5、eople, 15 generations,with the distance between generations much 16It was within the computer age that the term “information society” began to be widely used todescribe the 17 within which we now live. The communications revolution has 18 both9, that the introduction of the computer in the early 20t
6、h century,1011.work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been 19view about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. “Benefits” have been weighed20 “harmful” outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.- 1 - 1. Abetween2. AafterBbef
7、oreBbyCsinceDlaterCduringCmediumClightDuntil3. Ameans4. Aprocess5. Agathered6. AonBmethodBcompanyBspeededBoutDmeasureDformCworkedCoverDpickedDoff7. AofBforCbeyondCeffectDinto8. Aconcept9. Aindeed10.Abrought11.Aunless12.AapparentBdimensionBhenceBfollowedBsinceDperspectiveDthereforeDcharacterizedDalth
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9、eCscopeBimpressedCinfluencedCdistractingCagainst19.Acompetitive Bcontroversial20.AaboveBuponSection IIReading ComprehensionPart ADirections: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)- 2 - Text 1If you
10、intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identifyshared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help toshow them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy withtheir point of view. Dep
11、ending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If youare talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of their secretaries;alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses.Here is an example, which
12、I heard at a nurses convention, of a story which works well becausethe audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown aroundby St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on.Everyone is very peaceful, polite and frie
13、ndly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival issuddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food andstomps over to a table by himself. “Who is that?” the new arrival asked St. Peter. “Oh, thats God,”came the reply, “but sometimes he thinks
14、 hes a doctor.”If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know theexperiences and problems which are common to all of you and itll be appropriate for you to make apassing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairmans notorious bad taste in ties. Wit
15、h otheraudiences you mustnt attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider making disparagingremarks about their canteen or their chairman. You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoatslike the Post Office or the telephone system.If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it be
