12002 年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题Section IUse of EnglishDirections：Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, COR D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and thediffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened1. As wasdiscussed before, it was not2the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominantpre-electronic_ 3 _，following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the4ofthe periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution5up,beginning with transport, the railway, and leading6through the telegraph, the telephone,radio, and motion pictures7the 20thcentury world of the motor car and the air plane. Noteveryone sees that Process in8. It is important to do so.It is generally recognized,9, that the introduction of the computer in the early 20thcentury,10by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed theprocess,11its impact on the media was not immediately12. As time went by,computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became “personal” too, as well as13, with display becoming sharper and storage14increasing. They were thought of,like people,15generations, with the distance between generations much16.It was within the computer age that the term “information society” began to be widely used todescribe the17within which we now live. The communications revolution has18both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been19view about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. “Benefits” have beenweighed20“harmful” outcomes.And generalizations have proved difficult.1. AbetweenBbeforeCsinceDlater2. AafterBbyCduringDuntil3. AmeansBmethodCmediumDmeasure4. AprocessBcompanyClightDform5. AgatheredBspeededCworkedDpicked6. AonBoutCoverDoff7. AofBforCbeyondDinto8. AconceptBdimensionCeffectDperspective9. AindeedBhenceChoweverDtherefore10. AbroughtBfollowedCstimulatedD characterized11. AunlessBsinceClestDalthough12. AapparentBdesirableCnegativeDplausible13. AinstitutionalBuniversalCfundamentalDinstrumental14. AabilityBcapabilityCcapacityDfaculty15. Aby means ofBin terms ofCwith regard toDin line with全国硕士研究生入学考试英语（二）真题第 1 页，共 41 页216. AdeeperBfewerCnearerDsmaller17. AcontextBrangeCscopeDterritory18. AregardedBimpressedCinfluencedDeffected19. AcompetitiveBcontroversialCdistractingDirrational20. AaboveBuponCagainstDwithSection IIReading ComprehensionPartADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C orD. 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 identifyshared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help toshow them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathywith 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 theirsecretaries; alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on theirdisorganized bosses.Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses convention, of a story which works wellbecause the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is beingshown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather,and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the newarrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabshis food and stomps over to a table by himself. “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 theexperiences and problems which are common to all of you and itll be appropriate for you to makea passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairmans notorious bad taste in ties.With other audiences you mustnt attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsidermaking disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman.You will be on safer groundif you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system.If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it becomes more natural.Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed andunforced manner. Often its the delivery which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly andremember that a raised eyebrow or an unbelieving look may help to show that you are making alight-hearted remark.Look for the humor. It often comes from the unexpected. A twist on a familiar quote “If atfirst you dont succeed, give up” or a play o