中大研究生考试2019年240英语(单考)考研真题下载
2019年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试240英语(单考)试题Section I: Use of English(10 points)
Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, Cor D on the ANSWER SHEET.
In our society we must communicate with other people. A great deal of communicating is performedon a person-to-person__1__by the simple means of speech. If we travel in buses, stand in football match__2__, we are likely to have conversationswe__3__ we give information or opinions, and sometimes have our views __4 __by other members of socjety.
Face-to-face contact is __5__ the only form of communication, and during the last two hundred years the __6__of mass commumication has become one of the dominationg factors of contemporary society. Two things,__7__ Others, have caused the enormous growth of the communication industry Firstly, inventiveness has __ 8__advances in printing, photography and so on. Secondly, speed has revolutionized the__9__ and reception of communications so that local news often __10__a back seat to national news.
No longer is the possession of information__11__ to a privileged minority. Forty years ago people used to__12__to the cinema, but now far more people sit at home and turn on the TV to watch a program that __13__ into millions of houses. Communication is no longer merely concernede __14__ the transmission of information. The modern communications industry influences the way people live in society and broadens their horizons by allowing__15__ to information, education and entertainment. The printing, broadcasting and advertising industries are all __16__with ingeducating and entertaining__17__ a great deal of the material communicated by the mass media is very valuable to the individual and to the society__18 __which he is a part, the vast modern network ofis__ 19__to abuse. However, the mass media are with us for better, for worse, andere is no turning __20__
1.A. basis B. base C.level D. ground
2.A.Hi B.queues C rows D.files
3.A.whereas B. which C. that D. where
4.A.expressed B challenged C.agreed D. voiced
5.A. by some meansB by any means C, by no means D.by all means
6.A. art B. device C.way D. method
7.A below B.above C over D. beyond
8.A. resulted fromB. translated into C. led to D, converted into
9.A.circulation B, diffusion C. transmissionD transportation
10.A. offers B. chooses C.takes D. leaves
11.A. prohibited B, provided C allowed D.confined
12.A.stroll B.pour C, flock D. rush
13.A is being channeled B.isbroadcasting
C. is being dischargedD. is transmitting
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