【正文】 For example, the video coverage of the1989 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 (陪審團(tuán)) was able to acquit (宣布無(wú)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, A. The1989 San Francisco Earthquake and the i992 Los Angeles RiotsB. How Media Cover EventsC. The 1992 Los Angeles Riotss contact with the worldD. those living far away from a certain event can also have some perception of realities byPassage Four Although the threat of global warming has been known to the world for decades and all countries and leaders agree that we need to deal with the problem, we also know that the effects of measures, especially harsh measures taken in some countries, would be nullified (抵消) if other countries do not control their emissions. Whereas the UN team on climate change has found that the emissions of carbon dioxide would have to be cut globally by 60% to stabilize the content of CO, in the atmosphere, this path is not feasible for several reasons. Such deep cuts would cause a breakdown of the world economy. Important and populous (人口眾多的 ) low –or mediumine countries are not yet willing to undertake legal mitments about their energy uses. In addition, the state of world technology would not yet permit us to make such a big leap. B. the problem of global warming has largely been solved B. it would cause a collapse of the world economy B. They should provide advanced technology. The objectives of science are primarily the discovery and the subsequent understanding of the unknown. Man cannot be satisfied with recognizing that secrets exist in nature or that questions are unanswerable。 however, one should remember that the construction of the microscope had to precede the discovery of the cell. The host of scientists dedicating their lives to pure science are not apologetic (抱歉) about ignoring the practical side of their discoveries。 A. the study of unrelated fields A. is not always as pure as we suppose The principal argument advanced by those opposed to the death penalty, basically, is that it is cruel and inhuman punishment, that it is the mark of a brutal society, and finally that it is of questionable effectiveness as a deterrent to crime anyway. In our opinion, the death penalty is a necessary evil. Throughout recorded history there have always been those extreme individuals in every society who were capable of terribly violent crimes such as murder. But some are more extreme than others. For example, it is one thing to take the life of another in a fit of blind rage, but quite another to coldly plot and carry out the murder of one or more people in the style of a butcher. Thus, murder, like all other crimes, is a matter of relative degree. While it could be argued with some conviction that the criminal in the first instance should be merely isolated from society, such should not be the fate of the latter type murderer. The value of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime may be open to debate. But the overwhelming majority of citizens believe that the death penalty protects them. Their belief is reinforced by evidence which shows that the death penalty deters murder. For example, from 1954 to1963, when the death penalty was consistently imposed in California, the murder rate remained between three and four murders for each 100 000 population. Since 1964 the death penalty has been imposed only once, and the murder rate has risen to murders for each 100 000 population. The sharp climb in the state39。 A. speak for the majority A. the murder rate and the imposition of the death penalty A. negative B. friendly A. analyzing a problem objectively B. settling s dispute D. describing an event65. It can be inferred that the author thinks that D. the value of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime is not to be debatedPart IV Cloze (15 minutes, 10 points)Directions: In this part, there is a passage with twenty blanks. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer for each blank and mark the corresponding letter on your ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. What39。 67 events muchearlier than the year or so before entering school, just as children younger than three or four 6971 as in a novel or film. But when they search through their mental 76 forchildhood amnesia. She argues that there simply spoken description of their personalexperiences in order to turn their own shortterm, quickly , children have to talk about their experiences and hear others talk about looking for seashells at the beach or Dad asking them about their day at Ocean Park. Without this C. recall C. merely C. proposed D. refer73. A. narratives D. descriptions74. A. the rest B. patt