大英4网测泛读lesson10.docx

问题 1 1 分 保存 The author agrees with the view that relations between nations become one of harmonious cooperation due to globalism. 对错问题 2 1 分 保存 Christianity that has dominated the West has its utopia. 对错问题 3 1 分 保存 Mcluhan refers to the age of electricity, jet travel, and computers as the White Age. 对错问题 4 1 分 保存 In our century, the U. S. is trying to build a utopia built on its military power and democracy. 对错问题 5 1 分 保存 The author thinks that Mcluhan underestimates the power of history, tradition, language and autonomy. 对错问题 6 1 分 保存 The invention of the “three Ts” in the nineteenth century was as revolutionary as the advent of the Internet in the late twenties century. 对错问题 7 1 分 保存 We obtain our sense of well-being and connection from drifting from job to job and floating from city to city. 对错问题 8 1 分 保存 The Global Village Utopia is governed by corporate capitalism and a free-market economy. 对错问题 9 1 分 保存 Americas big guns are more powerful than its Big Mac in the Electronic Age. 对错问题 10 1 分 保存 Today, the power of a nation has shifted from the battlefield and the steel mills to Silicon Valley and the Internet. 对错问题 11 10 分 保存 For each blank in the passage, select one word from the list of choices following the passage. Each word can be used only once. Write the corresponding letter (for example, H) in the blank. The term “global village was _ _ by Marshall McLuhan. He was the first to popularize the notion that we could be everywhere at once. If we try to be everywhere at once, in the Congo, in Iraq, in North Korea, we make a mess of things. _ _ wont succeed because it cant correct the prejudices, the misunderstandings, and especially the class warfare. Globalism will disappear; instead well have _ _. Regions will be very strong. A European region will extend from England down to Italy. An Asian region will be very strong with a few countries dominating. The whole world will not come along with this idea of a global village. I dont think were going to make any real progress with much of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia unfortunately. I wish we could, but I think the _ _ idea is a _ _ dream. Most _ _ look better on paper than they do when you get there. The people who stand to make the great money and achievement out of the global _ _ are, for example, bankers and the traders in the stock _ _. We see what happens when the corporation moves in. Take Nike, the tennis shoe people. Theyre becoming very suspect. They make shoes in South America or wherever for five or six dollars a pair and sell them in America for a hundred dollars. The point is the people who do the real work dont get the money. The corporation takes the lions share. Thats what happens when a corporation runs amuck. The collapse of our _ _ and especially our stock market in 2001 shows us that the system is flawed. The stock _ _ is global and look what we got. Three years of depression. A) inheritedI) inventedB) globalJ) globalismC) celebrationK) villageD) economyL) utopiasE) regionalismM) marketF) tribalismN) capitalismG) utopianO) championH) cultural问题 12 1 分 保存 The dynamo driving us forward is technology coupled with consumer capitalism. America still has big guns, but it is Big Mac that is leading our attack.The example of Americas big guns and Big Mac is used to illustrate that _. A.Britain fell behind America in the twentieth century because it failed to embrace consumer capitalism B.manpower and firepower are as important as technology and consumer capitalism in building empires today C.a countrys strength lies not only in its military power but also in its social system D.a strong economy is playing a more important role in a countrys strength than its military power 问题 13 1 分 保存 1. Our Global Village Utopia, half a millennium later, would be governed by corporate capitalism and a free-market economy. What is the so-called “Global Village Utopia” according to the text? A.It is a place in which everyone drifts from job to job and from city to city and finds that every place is like the last one. B.It is the ideal world in which information can be shared simultaneously by everyone. C.It is a global village in which we are driven forward by technology and consumer capitalism. D.It is a dream that we can build a global village in which different economies are interconnected by international companies and a free market economy dominates. 问题 14 1 分 保存 McLuhans poetic concept was effective and seductive. But it ignored tribalism, regionalism, nationalism, love of language, and fear of change. People are reluctant to give up their cultural cocoons.According to the author, Mcluhans dream of a Global Village where all walls between people, art, religions, and philosophies come tumbling down will never come true because _. A.the power of history, tradition, language, and nationalism is strong B.many people in backward areas have no access to the Internet C.intellectual-property abuse deprives people of their trust in the Internet D.with the Global Village relations between nations become more friendly 问题 15 1 分 保存 The Black Age of coal, mines, and factories was endingthe White Age of electricity, jet travel, and computers was coming. The Electronic Age is returning to oral and tribal culture, abandoned in the Age of Print. We are being hurled back into the tribal and oral pattern with its seamless web of kinship and global interdependencea world in which the electronic extensions of everyones nerves involve them in all other peoples lives.Oral and tribal culture is picked up in _. A.the Electronic Age B.the Black Age C.the White Age D.the Age of Print 问题 16 1 分 保存 We are left with ruined cities, monuments, and piles of rubble. Poets and historians know this. The English poet Shelley described two vast legs of stone, alone in an endless desert, bearing this inscription: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: /Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” The pronoun “this” in “Poets and historians know this” probably refers to _. A.poets and historians have supported functioning utopias B.mighty powers rise and fall but no utopia has really existed C.Shelly sings praise of the great king Ozymandias D.great kings and generals have conquered the world 问题 17 1 分 保存 Globalization means more money and more products; but does it mean less freedom, less real security, less meaningful information? By asking the question, the author implies that _. A.globalization means more freedom, more security and more meaningful information B.globalization means less freedom, less real security and less meaningful information C.globalization means more money, more products and more freedom D.globalization means more information, more freedom but less security 问题 18 1 分 保存 Hi His 1964 book called Understanding Media was a fire bell in the night. Master of a new pop-hop style, full of punning and funning, he created an intellectual firestorm.The tone of Mcluhan in his book Understanding Media is _. A.serious B.pessimistic C.ironic D.humorous 问题 19 1 分 保存 People everywhere have prayed “that we may all be one of one heart and of one soul, with one mind.” That noble prayer has never been answeredneither has it ever disappeared. The utopian dream is a perennial one that changes but always eludes us. According to the statement, the utopian dream _ A.has never been attained but it never disappears B.has been cherished and prayed for and has been realized in human history C.of human beings throughout history has been the same