2013年職稱英語理工類B級閱讀理解練習題及答案(5)

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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 and 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 media 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 television 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 “l(fā)ive action” such as the fires or the rescue efforts. 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 realities.

　　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 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 (陪審團) was able to acquit (宣布無罪) the policemen involved. Media coverage of events as they occur also provides powerful feedback that influences events. This can have harmful 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 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 (展開) on television. The real healing, of course, will take much longer, but electronic media will continue to be a part of that process.

　　36　The best title for the passage is ____________.

　　A　The 1992 Los Angeles Riots

　　B　The Impact of Media on Current Events

　　C　The 1989 San Francisco Earthquake and 1992 Los Angeles Riots

　　D　How Media Cover Events ____________.

　　37　All of the following statements are true EXCEPT that

　　A　electronic media can extend one's contact with the world

　　B　those living far away from a certain event can also have some perception of realities by watching television

　　C　all the events occurring on the university campus at Berkeley were given national media coverage

　　D　video coverage of the 1989 San Francisco earthquake gave the viewers the impression of the total disaster

　　38　The term “electronic city” in Paragraph 2 refers to ____________.

　　A　Los Angeles

　　B　San Francisco

　　C　Berkeley

　　D　Earth

　　39　The 1992 Los Angeles riots broke out because ____________.

　　A　the jury acquitted the policemen who had beaten Rodney King

　　B　people can make their own judgements

　　C　video coverage from helicopters had made people angry

　　D　video coverage had provided powerful feedback

　　40　It can be inferred from the passage that ____________.

　　A　media coverage of events as they occur can have either good or bad results

　　B　most people who had seen the video of the Rodney King beating agree with the verdict of the jury

　　C　the 1992 Los Angeles riots lasted a whole week

　　D　Rodney King seemed very angry when he appeared on television on Friday

    參考答案：

　　36　B文章最恰當?shù)臉祟}是：A l992年洛杉磯騷亂;B媒體對時事的影響;C l989年舊金山地震和1992年洛杉磯騷亂;D媒體如何報道事件。

　　37　C下列陳述中不正確的是：A電子媒體可以擴大與外界的接觸;B遠離某個事件的人們也可以通過觀看電視對這一事件產(chǎn)生某些認識;C媒體對發(fā)生在伯克利大學校園里的所有事件進行了全國性的報道;D電視對1989年舊金山地震的報道讓觀眾對這場災(zāi)難有了一個總體印象。

　　38　D第二段中的電子城指的是：A洛杉磯;B舊金山;C伯克利;D世界。

　　39　A 1992年洛杉磯騷亂爆發(fā)的原因是：A陪審團宣布毆打羅德尼?金的警察無罪;B人們可以自己作出判斷;C從直升機上拍的攝像報道激怒了人們;D電視報道提供了有力的反饋。

　　40　A從本篇文章可以推斷出：A媒體對事件的現(xiàn)場報道可以產(chǎn)生好的或不好的結(jié)果;B大多數(shù)看過毆打羅德尼?金錄像的人同意陪審團的裁決;C l992年洛杉磯騷亂事件持續(xù)了整整一個星期。D羅德尼?金星期五在電視上露面時顯得很氣憤。

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