The media can impact current events. As a graduate student at Berkeley in the 1960s, I remember experiencing the events related to the People's Park that were occurring on campus. Some of these events were given national media coverage in the press and on TV. I found it interesting to compare my impressions of what was going on with perceptions obtained from the news media. I could begin to see events of that time feed on news cover-age. This also provided me with some healthy insights into the distinctions between these realities. Electronic media are having a greater impact on the people's lives every day. People gather more and more of their impressions from representations. Television and telephone communications are linking people to a global village, or what one writer calls the electronic city. Consider the information that television brings into your home every day. Consider also the contact you have with others simply by using telephone. These media extend your consciousness and your contact. For example, the video coverage of the 1989 San Francisco earthquake focused on "live action" such as the fires or the rescue efforts. This gave the viewer the impression of total disaster. Television coverage of the Iraqi War also developed an immediacy. CNN reported events as they happened. This coverage was distributed worldwide. Although most people were far away from these events, they developed some perception of these realities. In 1992, many people watched in horror as riots broke out on a sad Wednesday evening in Los Angeles, seemingly fed by video coverage from helicopters. This event was triggered by the verdict(裁定)in the Rodney King beating. We are now in an age where the public can have access to information that enables it to make its own judgments, and most people, who had seen the video of this beating, could not understand how the jury(陪审团)was able to acquit(宣布无罪)the policemen involved. Media coverage of events as they occur also provides powerful feedback that influences events. This can have harmful results, as it seemed on that Wednesday night in Los Angeles. By Friday night the public got to see Rodney King on television pleading, "Can we all get along?" By Saturday, television seemed to provide positive feedback as the Los Angeles riot turned out into a rally for peace. The television showed thousands of people marching with banners and cleaning tools. Because of that, many more people turned out to join the peaceful event they saw unfolding(展开)on television. The real healing, of course, will take much longer, but electronic media will continue to be a part of that process.

单选题 The best title for the passage is______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】解析：本题要选出文章的最佳标题，也就是考查对文章主旨的把握。综观全文，第一段讲：媒体能够影响时事，列举了与人民公园有关的事件的例子；第二段指出：电子媒体对人们的日常生活的影响，列举了1989年旧金山大地震的例子；第三段讲了媒体对事件的发展的影响，列举了1992年发生在洛杉矶骚乱的例子。可见，全文主要讲的是“媒体对事件的影响”。只有B项符合文章全文要表达的主题。A和C两项都只是媒体对事件影响的一个例子。D项的意思与文章不符，文章指出媒体报道与事实有差别，并没有说掩盖了事实，D项不对，所以应该选B。

单选题 All the following statements are true EXCEPT that______."

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】解析：在本题中要选出说法不对的一项，可以用排除法。文章第二段讲到：“These media extend your consciousness and your contact．”可见A项正确，电子媒体是可以扩大个人与世界的联系的。第二段的最后一句话说：尽管大多数人远离这些事件，但是他们对这些事实还是有所了解，可见B项也正确。在第二段中也讲到了电视对1989年旧金山大地震的有关报道，使观众对整个地震情况有所了解，可见D项也正确。所以在本题中我们可以排除A、B、D三项。至于C项，文章第一段只是说电台对其中的一些事件但不是所有的事件做了全国性的报道。可见C项不对。所以本题的正确答案为C。

单选题 The term "electronic city" in Paragraph 2 refers to______.

单选题 The 1992 Los Angeles riots broke out because______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：文章第三段讲到，1992年，大多数看过法官对罗德尼·金殴打案事件不公平裁决引起骚乱事件的录像。人们不明白陪审团为什么会宣判涉嫌的警察无罪。可见， 1992年发生在洛杉矶的骚乱是由于陪审团的裁决引发的。A项与文章的意思相符。通过文章的描述可知，人们有获取信息的权利，对事件作出自己的判断并不是骚乱的原因。所以B项不对。文中讲到的人们以一种惊恐的态度观看了从直升机上拍摄的发生在洛杉矶骚乱的录像，但没说人们愤怒了。所以C项不对。D项也不是导致骚乱的原因。所以本题的正确答案应为A。