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1、 2022年职称英语理工类阅读理解练习题2其次篇 Media and Current Events The media can impact current events. As a graduate student at Berkeley in the 1960s, I remember experiencing the events related to the People”s park that were occurring on campus. Some of these events were given national media coverage in the press a
2、nd on TV. I found it interesting to compare my impressions of what was going on with perceptions obtained from the news media. I could begin to see events of that time feed on news coverage. This also provided me with some healthy insights into the distinctions between these realities. Electronic me
3、dia are having a greater impact on the people”s lives every day. People gather more and more of their impressions from representations. Television and telephone communications are linking people to a global village, or what one writer calls the electronic city. Consider the information that televisi
4、on brings into your home every day. Consider also the contact you have with others simply by using telephone. These media extend your conscious-ness and your contact. For example, the video coverage of the 1989 San Francisco earthquake focused on “live action” such as the fires or the rescue efforts
5、. This gave the viewer the impression of total disaster. Television coverage of the Iraqi War also developed an immediacy. CNN reported events as they happened. This coverage was distributed worldwide. Although most people were far away from these events, they developed some perception of these real
6、ities. In 1992, many people watched in horror as riots broke out on a sad Wednesday evening in Los Angeles, seemingly fed by video coverage from helicopters. This event was triggered by the verdict (裁定) in the Rodney King beating. We are now in an age where the public can have access to information
7、that enables it to make its own judgments, and most people, who had seen the video of this beating, could not understand how the jury (陪审团) was able to acquit (宣布无罪) the policemen involved. Media coverage of events as they occur also provides powerful feedback that influences events. This can have h
8、armful results, as it seemed on that Wednesday night in Los Angeles. By Friday night the public got to see Rodney King on television pleading, “Can we all get along?” By Saturday, television seemed to provide positive feedback as the Los Angeles riot turned out into a rally for peace. The television
9、 showed thousands of people marching with banners and cleaning tools. Because of that, many more people turned out to join the peaceful event they saw unfolding (绽开) on television. The real healing, of course, will take much longer, but electronic media will continue to be a part of that process. 36
10、The best title for the passage is _. AThe 1992 Los Angeles Riots BThe Impact of Media on Current Events CThe 1989 San Francisco Earthquake and 1992 Los Angeles Riots DHow Media Cover Events _. 37All of the following statements are true EXCEPT that Aelectronic media can extend one”s contact with the
11、world Bthose living far away from a certain event can also have some perception of realities by watching television Call the events occurring on the university campus at Berkeley were given national media coverage Dvideo coverage of the 1989 San Francisco earthquake gave the viewers the impression o
12、f the total disaster 38The term “electronic city” in Paragraph 2 refers to _. ALos Angeles BSan Francisco CBerkeley DEarth 39The 1992 Los Angeles riots broke out because _. Athe jury acquitted the policemen who had beaten Rodney King Bpeople can make their own judgements Cvideo coverage from helicop
13、ters had made people angry Dvideo coverage had provided powerful feedback 40It can be inferred from the passage that _. Amedia coverage of events as they occur can have either good or bad results Bmost people who had seen the video of the Rodney King beating agree with the verdict of the jury Cthe 1992 Los Angeles riots lasted a whole week DRodney King seemed very angry when he appeared on television on Friday
