The Voice of America began during the World WarⅡ. When Germany was broadcasting a radio program to get international 1, American officials believed they should 2 the German broadcast with words that they thought were the facts of world events. The first VOA news report began with words in 3 . “The 4 may be good or bad, but we shall tell you the truth.” Within a week, other VOA 5 were broadcasting in Italian, French and English.
After the World WarⅡended in 1945, some Americans felt VOA’s 6 had to be changed, 7 the Soviet Union became enemy of AmericA.They wanted to 8 Soviet listeners. Then VOA began broadcasting in Russian.
In the early years VOA began adding something new to its broadcast that was 9 “ Music USA”. Another new idea came along in 1959.VOA knew that many listeners did not know 10 English to completely understand its 11 English broadcast. So VOA 12 a simpler kind of English, 13 uses about 1,500 words and is spoken 14 of course, it is special English.
In the 15 of most VOA listeners, the most 16 program is the news report. News from around the world 17 into the VOA news rooms in Washington 24 hours a day. It comes from VOA reporters in 18 cities and also from other 19 like BBC.VOA writers and editors use these materials to 20 news reports, which are being broadcast in 43 languages.
1. A.business B.culture C.support D.information
2. A.reply B.answer C.join D.interrupt
3. A.same B.short C.English D.German
4. A.news B.problems C.effects D.opinions
5. A.stations B.news C.announcers D.officials
6. A.home B.position C.purpose D.results
7. A.if B.supposing C.considering D.in order that
8. A.reach B.satisfy C.attack D.support
9. A.known B.reported C.called D.printed
10.A.American B.British C.standard D.enough
11.A.normal B.fast C.good D.exact
12.A.invented B.discovered C.taught D.stopped
13.A.it B.who C.which D.that
14.A.slowly B.rapidly C.normally D.loudly
15.A.pleasure B.course C.opinion D.advice
16.A.difficult B.important C.various D.common
17.A.flies B.sends C.delivers D.pasts
18.A.all B.major C.American D.news
19.A.broadcasts B.forms C.newspapers D.countries
20.A.broadcast B.announce C.translate D.prepare
參考答案及解析
1―5 CBDAC 6―10 CCACD
11―15 AACAC 16―20 BABAD
1.選C。二戰(zhàn)期間,德國(guó)做廣播節(jié)目的初衷應(yīng)是呼吁國(guó)際“支持(support)”,而不可能是另三項(xiàng)。
2.選B。由with words可以想到answer。reply后接賓語(yǔ)時(shí)要加to。
3.選D。要回復(fù)德國(guó)電臺(tái),得用“德文”來播,這樣德國(guó)人能聽懂。
4.選A。前文已說了播出的是news report。
5.選C。播音的主體當(dāng)然是announcers(播音員)了。
6.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)國(guó)家進(jìn)行宣傳,隨著二戰(zhàn)結(jié)束,敵對(duì)國(guó)家有所改變,那么廣播的目的與對(duì)象的也應(yīng)隨之而改變。
7.選C。considering“考慮到……”,表示改變廣播目的背景。
8.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(yǔ)境。
9.選C。be called “被稱做…”。
10.選D。對(duì)英語(yǔ)不是很精通才導(dǎo)致不能完全聽懂英文廣播的。
11.選A。區(qū)別于后文提到的special English。
12.選A。原來沒有的東西,現(xiàn)在有了,故用invent。
13.選C。引導(dǎo)非限制性定語(yǔ)從句,指物。
14.選A。正常英語(yǔ)聽不懂,除了詞匯問題,更重要的還有語(yǔ)速問題,即速度要“慢”。
15.選C。后面敘述的就是看法、觀點(diǎn)。
16.選B。后面的內(nèi)容體現(xiàn)了新聞報(bào)道的重要性。
17.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。
18.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。
19.選A。由like可知,所選詞須與BBC同類。
20.選D。由后面的定語(yǔ)從句可以推知,這里指新聞報(bào)道的前期“準(zhǔn)備”工作。
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