Part II Cloze (20 points)

Directions: There are 20 numbered blanks in the following passage. For each blank, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D, choose the one that best completes the dialogue and mark your answer on the ANSEWR SHEET.

The Voice of America began during the World WarⅡ. When Germany was broadcasting a radio program to get international 21___American officials believed they should 22___the German broadcast with words that they thought were the facts of world events. The first VOA news report began with words in 23___ “The 24___ may be good or bad, but we shall tell you the truth.” Within a week, other VOA 25____ were broadcasting in Italian, French and English.

After the World WarⅡended in 1945, some Americans felt VOA‘s 26____ had to be changed, 27 ____the Soviet Union became enemy of AmericA.They wanted to 28 ____Soviet listeners. Then VOA began broadcasting in Russian.

In the early years VOA began adding something new to its broadcast that was 29__________ “ Music USA”. Another new idea came along in 1959.VOA knew that many listeners did not know 30__________ English to completely understand its 31__________ English broadcast. So VOA 32 __________a simpler kind of English, 33__________ uses about 1，500 words and is spoken 34 __________of course, it is special English.

In the 35__________ of most VOA listeners, the most 36__________ program is the news report. News fromaround the world 37__________ into the VOA news rooms in Washington 24 hours a day. It comes from VOA reporters in 38__________ cities and also from other 39__________ like BBC.VOA writers and editors use these materials to 40__________ news reports, which are being broadcast in 43 languages.

21. A.business B.culture C.support D.information

22. A.reply B.answer C.join D.interrupt

23. A.same B.short C.English D.German

24. A.news B.problems C.effects D.opinions

25. A.stations B.news C.announcers D.officials

26. A.home B.position C.purpose D.results

27. A.if B.supposing C.considering D.in order that

28. A.reach B.satisfy C.attack D.support

29. A.known B.reported C.called D.printed

30.A.American B.British C.standard D.enough

31.A.normal B.fast C.good D.exact

32.A.invented B.discovered C.taught D.stopped

33.A.it B.who C.which D.that

34.A.slowly B.rapidly C.normally D.loudly

35.A.pleasure B.course C.opinion D.advice

36.A.difficult B.important C.various D.common

37.A.flies B.sends C.delivers D.pasts

38.A.all B.major C.American D.news

39.A.broadcasts B.forms C.newspapers D.countries

40.A.broadcast B.announce C.translate D.prepare

【參考答案】

21—25 CBDAC 26—30 CCACD 31—35 AACAC 36—40 BABAD

21.選C.二戰(zhàn)期間，德國做廣播節(jié)目的初衷應(yīng)是呼吁國際“支持(support)”，而不可能是另三項(xiàng)。

22.選B.由with words可以想到answer.reply后接賓語時(shí)要加to.

23.選D.要回復(fù)德國電臺(tái)，得用“德文”來播，這樣德國人能聽懂。

24.選A.前文已說了播出的是news report.

25.選C.播音的主體當(dāng)然是announcers(播音員)了。

26.選C.VOA電臺(tái)成立之初的目標(biāo)主要是對(duì)二戰(zhàn)中的一些敵對(duì)進(jìn)行宣傳，隨著二戰(zhàn)結(jié)束，敵對(duì)有所改變，那么廣播的目的與對(duì)象的也應(yīng)隨之而改變。

27.選C.considering“考慮到……”，表示改變廣播目的背景。

28.選A.reach是中性詞，其他三詞要么是褒義，要么是貶義，在此不合語境。

29.選C.be called “被稱做…”。

30.選D.對(duì)英語不是很精通才導(dǎo)致不能完全聽懂英文廣播的。

31.選A.區(qū)別于后文提到的special English.

32.選A.原來沒有的東西，現(xiàn)在有了，故用invent.

33.選C.引導(dǎo)非限制性定語從句，指物。

34.選A.正常英語聽不懂，除了詞匯問題，更重要的還有語速問題，即速度要“慢”。

35.選C.后面敘述的就是看法、觀點(diǎn)。

36.選B.后面的內(nèi)容體現(xiàn)了新聞報(bào)道的重要性。

37.選A.flies表達(dá)了新聞的及時(shí)、快速的特點(diǎn)，其余的詞沒有這種意思。

38.選B.major cities指大城市。根據(jù)常識(shí)可排除A、D，根據(jù)around the world，可排除C.

39.選A.由like可知，所選詞須與BBC同類。

40.選D.由后面的定語從句可以推知，這里指新聞報(bào)道的前期“準(zhǔn)備”工作。