单选题   SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
    In this section there are four passages followed by ten multiple choice questions. For each mutiple choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
    PASSAGE ONE
    (1) No company likes to be told it is contributing to the moral decline of a nation. Is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers? Senator Robert Dole asked Time Warner executives last week. You have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well? At Time Warner, however, such questions are simply the latest manifestation of the soul-searching that has involved the company ever since the company was born in 1990. It's a self-examination that has, at various times, involved issues of responsibility, creative freedom and the corporate bottom line.
    (2) At the core of this debate is chairman Gerald Levin, 56, who took over for the late Steve Ross in I992. On the financial front, Levin is under pressure to raise the stock price and reduce the company's mountainous debt, which will increase to $17. g billion after two new cable deals close. He has promised to sell off some of the property and restructure the company, but investors are waiting impatiently.
    (3) The flap over rap is not making life any easier for him. Levin has consistently defended the company's rap music on the grounds of expression. In 1992, when Time Warner was under fire for releasing Ice-T's violent rap song Cop Killer, Levin described rap as lawful expression of street culture, which deserves an outlet. The test of any democratic society, he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column, lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be. We won't retreat in the face of any threats.
    (4) Levin would not comment on the debate last week, but there were signs that the chairman was backing off his hardline stand, at least to some extent. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month's stockholders' meeting. Levin asserted that music is not the cause of society's ills and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students. But he talked as well about the balanced struggle between creative freedom and social responsibility, and he announced that the company would launch a drive to develop standards for distribution and labeling of potentially objectionable music. The 15-member Time Warner board is generally supportive of Levin and his corporate strategy. But insiders say several of them have shown their concerns in this matter. Some of us have known for many, many years that the freedom under the First Amendment are not totally unlimited, says Luce. I think it is perhaps the case that some people associated with the company have only recently come to realize.
    PASSAGE TWO
    (1) In the world of entertainment, TV talk shows have undoubtedly flooded every inch of space on daytime television. And anyone who watches them regularly knows that each one varies in style and format. But no two shows are more profoundly opposite in content, while at the same time standing out above the rest, than the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey shows.
    (2) Jerry Springer could easily be considered the king of 'trash talk'. The topics on his show are as shocking as shocking can be. For example, the show takes the ever-common talk show themes of love, sex, cheating, guilt, hate, conflict and morality to a different level. Clearly, the Jerry Springer show is a display and exploitation of society's moral catastrophes, yet people are willing to eat up the intriguing predicaments (困境) of other people's lives.
    (3) Like Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey takes TV talk show to its extreme, but Oprah goes in the opposite direction. The show focuses on the improvement of society and an individual's quality of life. Topics range from teaching your children responsibility, managing your work week, to getting to know your neighbors.
    (4) Compared to Oprah, the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste being dumped on society. Jerry ends every show with a 'final word'. He makes a small speech that sums up the entire moral of the show. Hopefully, this is the part where most people will learn something very valuable.
    (5) Clean as it is, the Oprah show is not for everyone. The show's main target audiences are middle-class Americans. Most of these people have the time, money, and stability to deal with life's tougher problems. Jerry Springer, on the other hand, has more of an association with the young adults of society. These are 18-to 21-year-olds whose main troubles in life involve love, relationship, sex, money and peers. They are the ones who see some value and lessons to be learned underneath the show's exploitation.
    (6) While the two shows are as different as night and day, both have ruled the talk show circuit for many years now. Each one caters to a different audience while both have a strong following from large groups of fans. Ironically, both could also be considered pioneers in the talk show world.
    PASSAGE THREE
    (1) An expert suggested that certain criminals should be sent to prison in their own home. When the scheme was first put forward publicly, many people opposed it or hand serious reservations about it. One very experienced social worker opposed the scheme in a television interview. When asked to explain the basis for his opposition, he thought for a moment and finally confessed, 'Well, I guess, because it's new. That's my only reason.'
    (2) Advocates of the scheme pointed out that courts frequently sentenced first offenders to community service of some kind rather than send them to prison. The stigma of having a criminal record was an adequate deterrent, and nothing positive was achieved by sending some types of convicted people to prison.
    (3) Some critics rushed to take extreme cases. 'If a murderer is allowed free in the community like this, what is to prevent him from killing somebody else?' This argument ignored the fact that nobody proposed to allow convicted murderers to use the bracelet system. One criticism put forward was that an offender could take off his bracelet and leave it at home or give it to a friend to wear while he himself went off to commit another crime. The reply to this was that the bracelet would be made so that the computer would immediately detect any attempts to take it off or tamper with it.
    (4) A more serious objection to the scheme was that the harsh life of prison was intended to be part of the deterrent to crime. A prisoner who was allowed to live at home would suffer no particular discomfort and thus not be deterred from repeating his crime.
    (5) No immediate action was taken on the proposal. It was far too revolutionary and needed to be examined very carefully. However, the idea was not rejected. Several governments appointed experts to investigate the scheme and made recommendations for or against it.
    PASSAGE FOUR
    (1) The process of perceiving others is rarely translated (to ourselves or others) into cold, objective terms. 'She was 5 feet 8 inches tall, had fair hair, and wore a colored skirt.' More often, we try to get inside the other person to pinpoint his or her attitudes, emotions, motivations, abilities, ideas, and characters. Furthermore, we sometimes behave as if we can accomplish this difficult job very quickly—perhaps with a two-second glance.
    (2) We try to obtain information about others in many ways. Berger suggests several methods for reducing uncertainties about others; who are known to you so you can compare the observed person's behavior with the known others' behavior, observing a person in a situation where social behavior is relatively unrestrained or where a wide variety of behavioral responses are called for, deliberately structuring the physical or social environment so as to observe the person's responses to specific stimuli, asking people who have had or have frequent contact with the person about him or her, and using various strategies in face-to-face interaction to uncover information about another person—question, self-disclosures, and so on.
    (3) Getting to know someone is a never-ending task, largely because people are constantly changing and the methods we use to obtain information are often imprecise. You may have known someone for ten years and still know very little about him. ff we accept the idea that we won't ever fully know another person, it enables us to deal more easily with those things that get in the way of accurate knowledge such as secrets and deceptions. It will also keep us from being too surprised or shocked by seemingly inconsistent behavior. Ironically, those things that keep us from knowing another person too well (e.g. secrets and deceptions) may be just as important to the development of a satisfying relationship as those things that enable us to obtain accurate knowledge about a person (e. g. disclosures and truthful statement).

单选题     According to the passage, which of the following is true?(PASSAGE ONE)

单选题     In face of the recent attacks on the company, the chairman ______.(PASSAGE ONE)

单选题     The best title for this passage could be ______.(PASSAGE ONE)

单选题     Compared with other TV talk shows, both the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey are ______.(PASSAGE TWO)

单选题     Which of the following is likely to be a topic of the Oprah Winfrey show?(PASSAGE TWO)

单选题     We can learn from the passage that the two talk shows ______.(PASSAGE TWO)

单选题     People's opinions are divided on the suggestion that ______.(PASSAGE THREE)

单选题     The supporters of the scheme will probably agree that ______.(PASSAGE THREE)

单选题     Some people are often surprised by what other people do. According to Berger, that is mainly because ______.(PASSAGE FOUR)

单选题     This passage mainly concerns ______.(PASSAGE FOUR)

单选题     SECTION B SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
    In this section there are five short answer questions based on the passages in Section A. Answer the questions with NO more than TEN words in the space provided on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
    Why did Senator Robert Dole criticize Time Warner?(PASSAGE ONE)

单选题     According to the passage, what do Jerry Springer show and Oprah Winfrey show have in common?(PASSAGE TWO)

单选题     Why did the social worker oppose the proposal?(PASSAGE THREE)

单选题     According to the author, what is the prospect of the advice?(PASSAGE THREE)

单选题     Why is that we may have known someone for a long time and but still know very little about him?(PASSAGE FOUR)