单选题Directions:There are 20 blanks in the following passage.
For each blank there are four choices marked A) , B) , C) and D) on the right
side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage.
Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with
a single line through the center. Television
is the most effective brainwashing {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}}
{{/U}}ever invented by man. Advertisers know this to be {{U}} {{U}}
2 {{/U}} {{/U}}Children are {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}}
{{/U}}by television in ways we {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}}
{{/U}}understand. In the fall of 1971, I was {{U}} {{U}}
5 {{/U}} {{/U}}a story involving a young white woman living on the
{{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}of Boston's black ghetto. Her car had
{{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}out of gas. She had gone to a filling
station with a can and was returning to her car when she was {{U}} {{U}}
8 {{/U}} {{/U}}in an alley by a gang of black youths. The gang poured
gasoline over her and set fire {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}her.
She died of her bums. It was {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}}
{{/U}}established that some of the youths {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}}
{{/U}}had, on the night before the killing, {{U}} {{U}} 12
{{/U}} {{/U}}on television a rerun of an old movie in which a drifter is set
on fire by an adolescent gang. There is some kind of strange reductive process
{{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}work here. To see something on
television robs it of its reality, and then when the {{U}} {{U}}
14 {{/U}} {{/U}}thing is {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}out
it is like the reenactment of something unreal. {{U}} {{U}} 16
{{/U}} {{/U}}when the gang set fire to the girl, they were {{U}} {{U}}
17 {{/U}} {{/U}}what they had seen on a screen, {{U}} {{U}}
18 {{/U}} {{/U}}they themselves were on a screen, and in a story. I
don't think we have {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}begun to realize
how powerful a medium television is. It has already become very clear that
the candidate with the most television {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}}
{{/U}}win the election.