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英语练习题3Section Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) from each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)T A recent poll indicated that half the teenagers in the United States believe that communication between them and their parents is_1_and further that one of the prime causes of this gap is _2_listening behavior. As a(an)_3_ in point, one parent believed that her daughter had a severe_4_problem. She was so _5_that she took her to an audiologist to have her ear tested. The audiologist carefully tested both ears and reported back to the parent:Theres nothing wrong with her hearing. Shes just _6_you out.A leading cause of the _7_divorce rate (more than half of all marriages end in divorce) is the failure of husbands and wives to _8_effectively. They dont listen to each other. Neither person_9_to the actual message sent by the other.In _10_fashion, political scientists report that a growing number of people believe that their elected and _11_officials are out of_12_with the constituents they are supposedly _13_. Why? Because they dont believe that they listen to them. In fact, it seems that sometimes our politicians dont even listen to themselves. The following is a true story: At a national_14_conference held in Albuquerque some years ago, then Senator Joseph Montoya was_15_a copy of a press release by a press aide shortly before he got up before the audience to_16_ a speech. When he rose to speak,_17_the horror of the press aide and the_18_of his audience, Montoya began reading the press release, not his speech. He began, For immediate release. Senator Joseph M. Montoya, Democrat of New Mexico, last night told the National. Montoya read the entire six-page release,_19_ with the statement that he was repeatedly _20_by applause.1.A scarce B little C rare D poor2.A malignant B deficient C ineffective D feeble 3.A case B example C lesson D suggestion4.A audio B aural C hearing D listening5.A believing B convinced C assured D doubtless6.A turning B tuning C tucking D tugging7.A rising B arising C raising D arousing 8.A exchange B interchange C encounter D interact9.A relates B refers C responds D resorts10.A like B alike C likely D likewise11.A nominated B selected C appointed D supported12.A connection B reach C association D touch13.A leading B representing Cdelegating D supporting 14.A legislative B legitimate C legalized D liberal15.A distributed B awarded C handed D submitted16.A present B publish C deliver D pursue17.A to B with C for D on18.A joy B enjoyment C amusement D delight19.A conclude B to conclude C concluding D concluded20.A disrupted B interfered C interrupted D stoppedSection Reading 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)Passage 1Executives at CBS News said today that Richard Thornburgh, a former governor of Pennsylvania, and Louis D. Boccardi, retired president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press, will conduct an independent investigation of how a flawed report about President Bushs National Guard service made its way onto the air. The two-person team will examine the process used to produce a report broadcast Sept. 8 that contended the president had received favorable treatment to enter the Texas Air National Guard and had not fulfilled all of the Guards requirements, the executives said in a statement.CBS News acknowledged this week that it cannot prove the authenticity of disputed memos featured in the report and that, therefore, it was a mistake to use them, they said. The two-person review panel will commence its work this week and will have full access and complete cooperation from CBS News and CBS, as well as all of the resources necessary to complete the task, the statement said. The panel will report its findings to CBS News and CBS. The findings also will be made public.In another measure of the troubles facing CBS lately, the Federal Communications Commission (F. C. C）. announced today that it will fine CBS a record $550,000 for this years Super Bowl halftime show, in which Janet Jackson the entertainer bared her breast while performing with Justin Timberlake. The Super Bowl incident, which Ms. Jackson termed a wardrobe malfunction, has prompted new scrutiny of indecency on the airwaves. And in the aftermath, the F.C.C. increased its maximum fines for broadcasting indecent material and many live broadcasts are now aired with delays of 5 to 10 seconds.The reputation of CBS News, and that of Dan Rather, the anchor who presented the report, have been on the line since questions about documents used to bolster the report began to surface immediately after its broadcast. Twice this week, the network has had to make on-air mea culpas about its work and news gathering practices regarding the National Guard report about the president. On Monday, the news division announced that Bill Burkett, the source for the questionable documents, had misled a CBS producer, Mary Mapes, and Mr. Rather, about the origins of the documents. In an interview with Mr. Rather shown earlier this week, Mr. Burkett admitted lying about their provenance, saying first that they came from a former Guard officer overseas and then that they came by way of a mysterious couple.Then, on Tuesday, CBS said that Ms. Mapes had violated network policy by putting Mr. Burkett in touch with Joe Lockhart, a top aide to Senator John Kerry. The rebuke of Ms. Mapes, also broadcast on The CBS Evening News, has come with some disappointments within the respected news organization about whether news executives have been vigilant enough in asking hard questions about how the producer obtained documents.1.An independent investigation will be conducted into a CBS report _. A to negate its authenticityB about how and when it was broadcastC about its production procedureD to restore CBS News credibility2.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A CBS News has admitted its mistake of using disputed memos.B CBS News and CBS will provide all the resources the review panel require.C The findings of the independent committee will be made public.D Bill Burkett told the truth about how he acquired the documents.23.Because of the Super Bowl incident, _.A CBS will face a severe fine for making a flawed reportB F.C.C. will have strict inspection of broadcasting indecent materialC CBS News will choose to create the independent committee D F. C. C. will increase its charge for the delayed live broadcasts4.Make on-air mea culpas (Line 3, Paragraph 4) probably means _.A acknowledging the errorB questioning the authenticityC finding excuses for the faults D rearranging the schedule 5.What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?A The questionable documents are provided originally by a mysterious couple.B It is against CBS News regulations to be associated with any political agenda.C There is a fatal flaw in the checking procedures of many reputable news organization.D CBS News executives had to resign for the untruthful story about the President.Passage 2An overturned bus lies on a rural highway, split open like a disjointed limb. Emergency workers slowly mill about, but the purpose of their activity is not clear. A line of cars stretches into the distance, their occupants gazing indifferently on this putative accident. The images come from Refraction, a video by the Dutch artist Aernout Mik that opens tomorrow at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in Chelsea. The solo exhibition could bring about a new prominence for Mr. Mik, whose work has been shown with increasing frequency in Europe during the last decade but is not widely known in the United States. Nothing in Refraction is quite what it seems. The images are dreamlike, but shot in high-definition video that suggests a newscast gone strangely twisted. The video is about 30 minutes long, with no sound; it runs in a continuous loop and has anything but a narrative arc. It was shot in a single day on a lonely road in rural Romania using participants who received only vague instructions on how to act. The work raises questions about our responses to catastrophe, tragedy and even traffic congestion. Mr. Mik says that collective consciousness is an important theme of his work, and he seems to approach his subjects as a sociologist - or entomologist - might. Its not about character, he said in an interview, after flying in from Amsterdam for the opening of the exhibition. Its always about the individual in a relatively small, or relatively bigger group, being in its environment. The images hint at contemporary anxieties, but cannot be easily fixed in space or time.Perhaps the most haunting aspect of the video is the view of men dressed in protective white bodysuits, wearing green vests and plucking, with tweezers, at the detritus inside the toppled bus. They appear to be placing the debris into clear plastic sample bags. A possible bioterrorist attack? No other cues provide an answer. Mr. Mik at first intended to make his accident entirely victimless, but at the last moment, he said, he decided to produce shots of a few people who, presumably, were on the bus. Several are wrapped in blue flannel blankets; one woman is in a shiny metallic sheet as an aid worker speaks to her. No one appears traumatized, so the extent and nature of these victims injuries are unknown. Less depressing, but equally memorable, is a moment when a herd of sheep and goats amble from the surrounding fields onto the road. Their origins and destination are unexplained, but the comparison to the human flock is pretty clear.Mr. Mik, who is 42 and based in Amsterdam, has had several dozen solo exhibitions across Europe since 1995, but until this year his work has been displayed in the United States only a handful of times. He resists being called a video artist, however, and prefers to describe the work as a mixture of media. I dont consider it as just video, he said. I sometimes call myself, provocatively, a sculptor, because I really bring the moving image to the space. Its very much a spatial intervention instead of just film projected somewhere. 1.The word putative (Line 3, Paragraph 1) most probably means _.A dreamy B strange C terrible D supposed2.Refraction seems to be the name of _.A a film B a performance C a sculpture D an exhibition3.The themes expressed in Aernout Miks work do Not include _.A disasters and tragedies B human unconcern about othersC group effectD overcrowdedness 4.Which of the following is true about the work Refraction?A It was produced and will be exhibited in Chelsea.B All the participants in it were photoed unconsciously.C There is no victim in the accident narrated.D Animals appear in it and are compared to human flock.5.It is true of Mr. Mik, the artist, that _. A he is increasingly prominent in the United StatesB he studies human group behavior from an artistic perspectiveC he intends to warn viewers against bioterrorist attacksD he considers himself a video artist and a sculptorPassage 3Scholastic thinkers held a wide variety of doctrines in both philosophy and theology, the study of religion. What gives unity to the whole Scholastic movement, the academic practice in Europe from the 9th to the 17th centuries, are the common aims, attitudes, and methods generally accepted by all its members. The chief concern of the Scholastics was not to discover new facts but to integrate the knowledge already acquired separately by Greek reasoning and Christian revelation. This concern is one of the most characteristic differences between Scholasticism and modern thought since the Renaissance.The basic aim of the Scholastics determined certain common attitudes, the most important of which was their conviction of the fundamental harmony between reason and revelation. The Scholastics maintained that because the same God was the source of both types of knowledge and truth was one of his chief attributes, he could not contradict himself in these two ways of speaking. Any apparent opposition between revelation and reason could be traced either to an incorrect use of reason or to an inaccurate interpretation of the words of revelation. Because the Scholastics believed that revelation was the direct teaching of God, it possessed for them a higher degree of truth and certainty than did natural reason. In apparent conflicts between religious faith and philosophic reasoning, faith was thus always the supreme arbiter; the theologians decision overruled that of the philosopher. After the early 13th century, Scholastic thought emphasized more the independence of philosophy within its own domain. Nonetheless, throughout the Scholastic period, philosophy was called the servant of theology, not only because the truth of philosophy was subordinated to that of theology, but also because the theologian used philosophy to understand and explain revelation.This attitude of Scholasticism stands in sharp contrast to the so-called double-truth theory of the Spanish-Arab philosopher and physician Averros. His theory assumed that truth was accessible to both philosophy and Islamic theology but that only philosophy could attain it perfectly. The so-called truths of theology served, hence, as imperfect imaginative expressions for the common people of the authentic truth accessible only to philosophy. Averros maintained that philosophic truth could even contradict, at least verbally, the teachings of Islamic theology.As a result of their belief in the harmony between faith and reason, the Scholastics attempted to determine the precise scope and competence of each of these faculties. Many early Scholastics, such as the Italian ecclesiastic and philosopher St. Anselm, did not clearly distinguish the two and were overconfident that reason could prove certain doctrines of revelation. Later, at the height of the mature period of Scholasticism, the Italian theologian and philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas worked out a balance between reason and revelation.1.With the Scholastics, the search for new knowledge _.A stopped completelyB slowed downC advanced rapidlyD awaked gradually2.Which of the following best illustrates the relation between reason and revelation?A They are simply identical.B Revelation guides reason.C They are occasionally contradictory.D Reason is used to perfect revelation.3.It can be inferred from Paragraph 2 of the text that _.A the position of philosophy as a humble servant was acceptedB religion had turned into a hamper to the functioning of philosophyC philosophers often quoted revelation to support themselvesD philosophers were sometimes referred to in religious practice4.Averros held that _.A Islamic theology was often subordinate to philosophyB religious truth was nothing but imaginative fantasyC real truth was inaccessible to many common peopleD imperfect expressions were result of flawed religion5.Which of the following is most likely to be discussed in the part succeeding this text?A Relations of St. T. Aquinas achievements to previous efforts.B How St. T. Aquinas worked out in the balance in discussion.C Other endeavors on the relationship of reason and revelation.D Outstanding features of the mature period of Scholasticism.Passage 4Without voluntary donations the NSPCCs work for abused children would stop within six months. Donations make up a massive 85% of the charitys income, yet research shows that many donors dont always feel their money makes much difference-although they continue to give generously. A fresh new approach to giving will leave donors in no doubt that their support makes all the difference. The NSPCCs Director of Fundraising, Giles Pegram, explains, In the past, donors tended to see their contribution as a mere drop in the ocean, and child abuse as a vast problem. We want to make them realize that there is a real link between how much money they give and the number of children we can help. We want people to feel connected to the work they are funding, by creating a direct link between their gift and what it will achieve for children.The new scheme establishes a transparent relationship between the NSPCC and its supporters. In return for a commitment from donors to give a regular monthly gift of 10 or more, the NSPCC promises to be fully accountable to them. Giles Pegram explains, Donors will get regular updates on how their money turns into practical help for children. Theyll be sent news direct from NSPCC projects and stories of individual children their money has helped. Well give feedback on how their donations are being used and the difference that they as individuals are making to abused children.This new approach means that individual donors will have a good idea of how their money is helping. They will also have control over the kinds of communication they get from the NSPCC-such as email or letters, for example-and how often they receive updates, as well as being given the direct phone number of an NSPCC staff member.Above all, donors know that the NSPCC, uniquely among childrens charities, has remained focused on one single goal throughout its 120-year history-to end cruelty to children. That is its stre