[A] been shifted around the country.

[B] had difficulty being promoted.

[C] enjoyed a happier life.（B）

[D] tasted little bitterness of disgrace.

You now have 5 minutes to transfer all your answers from your test booklet to ANSWER SHEET 1.

THIS IS THE END OF SECTION I

DO NOT READ OR WORK ON THE NEXT SECTION

UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO CONTINUE

全国硕士研究生入学考试英语试题 (二)

National Entrance Test of English for MA/MS Candidates (2002)

考生注意事项

1.    考生必须严格遵守各项考场规则，得到监考人员指令后方可开始答题。

2.    全国硕士研究生入学考试英语分为试题 (一) 、试题 (二) 。

3.    本试题为试题 (二)，共11页(5～15页)，含有英语知识运用、阅读理解、写作三个部分。英语知识运用、阅读理解A节的答案必须用2B铅笔按要求直接填涂在答题卡1上，如要改动，必须用橡皮擦干净。阅读理解B节和写作部分必须用蓝 (黑) 圆珠笔在答题卡2上答题，注意字迹清楚。

4.    考试结束后，考生应将答题卡1、答题卡2一并装入原试卷袋中，将试题 (一)、试题 (二) 交给监考人员。

Section II  Use of English

Directions:

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（A）

[D] later

22.  [A] after

[B] by

[C] during（D）

[D] until

23.  [A] means

[B] method

[C] medium（C）

[D] measure

24.  [A] process

[B] company

[C] light（B）

[D] form

25.  [A] gathered

[B] speeded

[C] worked（B）

[D] picked

26.  [A] on

[B] out

[C] over（A）

[D] off

27.  [A] of

[B] for

[C] beyond（D）

[D] into

28.  [A] concept

[B] dimension

[C] effect（D）

[D] perspective

29.  [A] indeed

[B] hence

[C] however（C）

[D] therefore

30.  [A] brought

[B] followed

[C] stimulated（B）

[D] characterized

31.  [A] unless

[B] since

[C] lest（D）

[D] although

32.  [A] apparent

[B] desirable

[C] negative（A）

[D] plausible

33.  [A] institutional

[B] universal

[C] fundamental（A）

[D] instrumental

34.  [A] ability

[B] capability

[C] capacity（C）

[D] faculty

35.  [A] by means of

[B] in terms of

[C] with regard to（B）

[D] in line with

36.  [A] deeper

[B] fewer

[C] nearer（D）

[D] smaller

37.  [A] context

[B] range

[C] scope（A）

[D] territory

38.  [A] regarded

[B] impressed

[C] influenced（C）

[D] effected

39.  [A] competitive

[B] controversial

[C] distracting（B）

[D] irrational

40.  [A] above

[B] upon

[C] against（C）

[D] with

Section III Reading Comprehension

Part A

Directions:

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 1

If 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 inedib