Section Ⅰ Listening Comprehension Section Ⅱ Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET Ⅰ. Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened (21) As was discussed before, it was not (22) the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre - electronic (23) , following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the (24) of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution (25) up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading (26) through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures (27) the 20th - century world of the motor car and the airplane] Not everyone sees that process in (28) . It is important to do so. It is generally recognized, (29) , that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, (30) by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, (31) its impact on the media was not immediately (32) . As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they be came "personal" too, as well as (33) , with display becoming sharper and storage (34) increasing. They were thought of, like people, (35) generations, with the distance between generations much (36) . It was within the computer age that the term "information society" began to be widely used to describe the (37) within which we now live. The communications revolution has (38) both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been (39) view about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. "Benefits" have been weighed (40) "harmful" outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult. Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.26()
A. on
B. out
C. over
D. off
Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was proud of the fact (61) she had never, in her thirty-five-year driving, been punished a (62) driving offence(违法).Then one day she nearly (63) her recorD.A police car (64) her, and the policemen in it saw her (65) a red lighr without stopping. Of course, she was stopped.It seemed (66) that she would be punished. (67) Mrs. Jones come up to the judge, he looked at her seriously and said that she was (68) old to drive a car, and that the (69) why she had not stopped at the red (70) was most probably that her eyes had become weak (71) old age, so that she had simply not seen it. When the judge had finished what he was (72) , Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag she was (73) and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she (74) a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt.When she had (75) done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed (76) the needle and the thread to the judge, saying," Now it is your (77) . I suppose you drive a car, and that you are quite sure about your own eyesight. "The judge took the (78) and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he had still not succeeded.The case against Mrs. Jones was (79) , and her record (80) unbroken. 63()
A. kept
B. won
C. missed
D. broke