新東方：大學英語四級考試閱讀講義(九)

　　Questions: (注意:答題盡量簡短，超過10個詞要扣分。每條橫線限寫一個英語單詞，標點符號不占格。) ��

　　S1. What comment did the author make about the highly successful people travelling with him?

　　S2. Why was it easy for boats to tumble over in the Colorado?��

　　S3. What happened to the New York Knicks in the 1980s?��

　　S4. What caused the sharp conflict in the GM plant in the late 1970s?��

　　S5. What spirit was encouraged in the reopened GM plant?��

　　Unit 3 ��

　　Part Ⅳ Short Answer Questions ��

　　(15 minutes)��

　　Directions: In this part there is a short passage with five questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words (not exceeding 10 words).����

　　Most Americans spend far more of their leisure time with the mass media than in any other occupation. In addition, most of us hear, see, or read some of the media while engaged in other activities. Thus an extremely large number of our waking hours are spent with the mass media. Of all the media, television is clearly dominant, with newspapers a close second, at least as a source of news and other information. Our exposure to all media is important, however, because all of them contribute materials for the construction of that world in our heads. For most people, increased use of one medium does not decrease use of another. In fact, in certain cases, and especially for certain purposes, the more one uses one medium, the more likely one is to use others.

　　There are various factors that can cause you to expose yourself to the media selectively, avoiding much of the material with which you disagree. Some of that selective exposure is probably due to the psychological pressure you feel to avoid the discomfort caused by confrontation with facts and ideas contrary to your beliefs, attitudes, or behavior. However, some selective exposure is not due to the pressure for consistency but to other factors, such as your age, education, and even the area in which you live and the people with whom you associate.��

　　Quite a different sort of factor that affects your media experiences is the social context of exposure: whether you are alone or with others when you are exposed to a medium; whether you are at home, at the office, in a theater, and so on. These contexts are as much as a potential part of the message you will form as film images on the screen or words on the page. In addition, that social context affects — both directly and indirectly — the media and the media content to which you become exposed. New friends or colleagues get you interested in different things. Other members of the family often select media content that you would not have selected, and you become exposed to it.��

　　These various factors have so much influence on your media exposure that so little of that exposure is planned.��

　　Questions: (注意：答題盡量簡短，超過10個詞要扣分。每條橫線限寫一個英語單詞，標點符號不占格。) ��

　　S1. Exposure to all media is important and people sometimes tend to use more media if��

　　S2. Why are newspapers considered as an important medium according to the passage?��

　　S3. For one reason or another, people's exposure to the media is often��

　　S4. Apart from personal preferences, what determines one's choice of the media and media content?

　　S5. The last sentence of the passage indicates that one's exposure to the media is��

　　Unit 4 ��

　　Part Ⅳ Short Answer Questions ��

　　(15 minutes)��

　　Directions: In this part there is a short passage with five questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words (not exceeding 10 words).���お�

　　Many parents who welcome the idea of turning off the TV and spending more time with the family are still worried that without TV they would constantly be on call as entertainers for their children. They remember thinking up all sorts of things to do when they were kids. But their own kids seem different, less resourceful, somehow. When there's nothing to do, these parents observe regretfully, their kids seem unable to come up with any thing to do besides turning on the TV.�� One father, for example, says, “When I was a kid, we were always thinking up things to do, projects and games. We certainly never complained in an annoying way to our parents, ‘I have nothing to do!’” He compares this with his own children today:“They're simply lazy. If someone doesn't entertain them, they'll happily sit there watching TV all day.”