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1、徐绽考研网校2002年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题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 on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing
2、 in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened 1 . As was discussed before, it was not 2 the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic_ 3 _ ，following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the 4 of the periodical. It was during the same time that the commun
3、ications revolution 5 up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading 6 through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures 7 the 20th century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that Process in 8 . It is important to do so. It is generally recognized, 9 ,
4、 that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, 10 by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, 11 its impact on the media was not immediately 12 . As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became “personal”
5、 too, as well as 13 , with display becoming sharper and storage 14 increasing. They were thought of, like people, 15 generations, with the distance between generations much 16 . It was within the computer age that the term “information society” began to be widely used to describe the 17 within which
6、 we now live. The communications revolution has 18 both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been 19 view about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. “Benefits” have been weighed 20 “harmful” outcomes. And generalizations have prov
7、ed difficult.1. Abetween Bbefore Csince Dlater2. Aafter Bby Cduring Duntil3. Ameans Bmethod Cmedium Dmeasure4. Aprocess Bcompany Clight Dform5. Agathered Bspeeded Cworked Dpicked6. Aon Bout Cover Doff7. Aof Bfor Cbeyond Dinto8. Aconcept Bdimension Ceffect Dperspective9. Aindeed Bhence Chowever Dther
8、efore10. Abrought Bfollowed Cstimulated Dcharacterized11. Aunless Bsince Clest Dalthough12. Aapparent Bdesirable Cnegative Dplausible13. Ainstitutional Buniversal Cfundamental Dinstrumental14. Aability Bcapability Ccapacity Dfaculty15. Aby means of Bin terms of Cwith regard toDin line with16. Adeepe
9、r Bfewer Cnearer Dsmaller17. Acontext Brange Cscope Dterritory18. Aregarded Bimpressed Cinfluenced Deffected19. Acompetitive Bcontroversial Cdistracting Dirrational20. Aabove Bupon Cagainst DwithSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions belo
10、w each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Text 1If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you ar
11、e one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of their secretaries; alternatively if you are
12、 addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses.Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonder
13、ful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by hims
14、elf. “Who is that?” the new arrival asked St. Peter. “Oh, thats God,” came the reply, “but sometimes he thinks hes a doctor.” If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and itll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible cant
