单选题
There are hundreds of TV channels (频道) in the United States. Americans get a lot of entertainment (娱乐) and information from TV. Most people probably watch it for entertainment only. For some people, however, TV is where they get the news of the day. But some new TV programs or shows put entertainment and news together. This new kind of program in the United States is called "infotainment", which means information (info-) and entertainment (taitmaent). These kinds of programs use actors to act out news stories, making the news of the day more interesting and exciting to people. The shows also use special effects. An example of infotainment is the show "America' s Most Wanted". The producers of this program get stories from real cases that the police have dealt with. In most of these cases, the police never found the person who committed the crime (犯罪). Sometimes they caught the criminal, but he or she ran away again. The people who make "America' s Most Wanted" film it in the city where the crime happened. They use actors to play the parts of all the people in the case. At the end of the story, however, they always show "mug shots", or police photographs, of the real criminals.
单选题
The purpose of the first paragraph is to introduce ______.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[精析] 细节题。题干意为“文章第一段的主要目的是介绍什么的”。从文章的第一段最后一句话But some new TV programs or shows put entertainment and news together可知,作者在这里要为读者提出一类新的电视节目,这句话是为引出下面节目的名字做铺垫。名字就是在第二段中出现的infotainment。所以本题的正确答案为B。
单选题
One important difference between an infotainment and an ordinary TV news program is that it ______.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[精析] 细节题。题干意为“传统意义上的电视新闻节目与‘信娱’节目的一个重要区别在哪里”。从文章的第二段第二句话These kinds of programs use actors to act out news stories… 可知,这种新型电视节目与传统意义上的新闻节目不一样的地方就是它是用演员来表演新闻的。选项A、B、D并不是“信娱”节目特有的,在一般的新闻节目中也会出现这样的情况,也是为警局抓住罪犯服务的。所以本题的正确答案为C。
单选题
We can infer from the text that the producers of "America's Most Wanted" ______.