【正文】 全國(guó)碩士研究生入學(xué)考試英語(yǔ)（二） National Entrance Test Of English for MA／ MS Candidates (2020) 考生注意事項(xiàng) ，得到監(jiān)考人員指令后方可開(kāi)始答題。 （一）、試題（二）。 （二），共 11 頁(yè)（ 515頁(yè)），含 有英語(yǔ)知識(shí)運(yùn)用、閱讀理解、寫作三個(gè)部分。英語(yǔ)知識(shí)運(yùn)用、閱讀理解 A節(jié)的答案必須用 2B 鉛筆按要求直接填涂在答題卡 1 上，如要改動(dòng)，必須用橡皮擦干凈。閱讀理解 B 節(jié)和寫作部分必須用藍(lán)（黑）圓珠筆在答題卡 2 上答題，注意字跡清楚。 ，考生應(yīng)將答題卡 答題卡 2 一并裝入原試卷袋中，將試題（一）、試題（二）交給監(jiān)考人員。 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 1. (10 points) 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 preelectronic 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 munications revolution 25 up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading 26 through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures 27 the 20thcentury 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 puter 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, puters became smaller and more powerful, and they became personal too, as well as 33 , with display being sharper and storage 34 increasing. They were thought of, like people, 35 generations, with the distance between generations much 36. It was within the puter age that the term information society began to be widely used to describe the 37 within which we now live. The munications revolution has 38 both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been 39 views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. Benefits have been weighed 40 harmful generalizations have proved difficult. 21. [A] between [B] before [C] since [D] later 22. [A] after [B] by [C] during [D] until 23. [A] means [B] method [C] medium [D] measure 24. [A] process [B] pany [C] light [D] form 25. [A] gathered [B] speeded [C] worked [D] picked 26. [A] on [B] out [C] over [D] off 27. [A] of [B] for [C] beyond [D] into 28. [A] concept [B] dimension [C] effect [D] perspective 29. [A] indeed [B] hence [C] however [D] therefore 30. [A] brought [B] followed [C] stimulated [D] characterized 31. [A] unless [B] since [C] lest [D] although 32. [A] apparent [B] desirable [C] negative [D] plausible 33. [A] institutional [B] universal [C] fundamental [D] instrumental 34. [A] ability [B] capability [C] capacity [D] faculty 35. [A] by means of [B] in terms of [C] with regard to [D] in line with 36. [A] deeper [B] fewer [C] nearer [D] smaller 37. [A] context [B] range [C] scope [D] territory 38. [A] regarded [B] impressed [C] influenced [D] effected 39. [A] petitive [B] controversial [C] distracting [D] irrational 40. [A] above [B] upon [C] against [D] with Section III Reading Comprehension Part A Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A,B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points) Text 1 If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disanized methods of their secretaries。 alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to ment on their disanized bosses. Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses39。 convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful acmodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himself. Who is that? the new arrival asked St. Peter. Oh, that39。s God, came the reply, but sometimes he thinks he39。s a doctor. If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are mon to all of you and it39。ll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman39。s notorious bad taste in ties. With other audiences you mustn39。t attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider making disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman. You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system. If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it bees more natural. Include a few casual and apparently offthecuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. Often it39。s the delivery which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a raised eyebrow