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2002考研英语一真题及答案Section II Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark [A], [B], [C] or [D] on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened ___21___. As was discussed before, it was not ___22___ the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic ___23___, following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the ___24___ of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution ___25___ up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading ___26___ through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures ___27___ the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that process in ___28___. It is important to do so.It is generally recognized, ___29___, that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, ___30___ by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, ___31___ its impact on the media was not immediately ___32___. As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became “personal” too, as well as ___33___, with display becoming sharper and storage ___34___ increasing. They were thought of, like people, ___35___ generations, with the distance between generations much ___36___.It was within the computer age that the term “information society” began to be widely used to describe the ___37___ within which we now live. The communications revolution has ___38___ both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been ___39___ views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. “Benefits” have been weighed ___40___ “harmful” outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.21. [A] between[B] before[C] since[D] later22. [A] after[B] by[C] during[D] until23. [A] means[B] method[C] medium[D] measure24. [A] process[B] company[C] light[D] form25. [A] gathered[B] speeded[C] worked[D] picked26. [A] on[B] out[C] over[D] off27. [A] of[B] for[C] beyond[D] into28. [A] concept[B] dimension[C] effect[D] perspective29. [A] indeed[B] hence[C] however[D] therefore30. [A] brought[B] followed[C] stimulated[D] characterized31. [A] unless[B] since[C] lest[D] although32. [A] apparent[B] desirable[C] negative[D] plausible33. [A] institutional[B] universal[C] fundamental[D] instrumental34. [A] ability[B] capability[C] capacity[D] faculty35. [A] by means of[B] in terms of[C] with regard to[D] in line with36. [A] deeper[B] fewer[C] nearer[D] smaller37. [A] context[B] range[C] scope[D] territory38. [A] regarded[B] impressed[C] influenced[D] effected39. [A] competitive[B] controversial[C] distracting[D] irrational40. [A] above[B] upon[C] against[D] withSection III 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)Text 1If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with 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 their secretaries; alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses.Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses’ convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown 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 new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himself. “Who is that?” the new arrival asked St. Peter. “Oh, that’s God,” came the reply, “but sometimes he thinks he’s a doctor.”If you are part of the group, which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it’ll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman’s notorious bad。