【正文】 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。s the delivery which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a raised eyebrow or an unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a lighthearted remark. Look for the humor. It often es from the unexpected. A twist on a familiar quote If at first you don39。s cunning tackling of dangerous and boring work. 47. The word gizmos (line 1, paragraph 2) most probably means [A] programs. [B] experts. [C] devices. [D] creatures. 48. According to the text, what is beyond man39。t intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death. If you39。s report, one of the problems in endoflife care is [A] prolonged medical procedures. [B] inadequate treatment of pain. [C] systematic drug abuse. [D] insufficient hospital care. 59. Which of the following best defines the word aggressive (line 4, paragraph 7)? [A] Bold. [B] Harmful. [C] Careless. [D] Desperate. 60. Gee Annas would probably agree that doctors should be punished if they [A] manage their patients inpetently. [B] give patients more medicine than needed. [C] reduce dmg dosages for their patients. [D] prolong the needless suffering of the patients. Part B Directions: Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points) Almost all our major problems involve human behavior, and they cannot be solved by physical and biological technology alone. What is needed is a technology of behavior, but we have been slow to develop the science from which such a technology might be drawn. 61) One difficulty is that almost all of what is called behavioral science continues to trace behavior to states of mind, feelings, traits of character, human nature, and so on. Physics and biology once followed similar practices and advanced only when they discarded them. 62) The behavioral sciences have been slow to change partly because the explanatory items often seem to be directly observed and partly because other kinds of explanations have been hard to find. Th