2000年全国英语专业四级考试试题(9)

专四

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A. failure B. hesitation C. trouble D. fail

64. As the director can’t come to the reception, I’m representing the c ompany

A. on his account B. on his behalf  C. for his part D. in his interest 

65. Dreams are___ in themselves, but when combined with other data, they can tell us much

about the dreamer.

A. uninformative B. startling C. harmless D.

uncontrollable

阅读理解 A

Part Ⅵ READING COMPREHENSION ［30 MIN.］

SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION［25 MIN.］

In this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished stat ements, each

with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one th at you think is the best

answer.

Mark your answers on your answer sheet.

TEXT A

 Clearly if we are to participate in the society in which we live we must communi cate with

other people. A great deal of communicating is performed on a person-t o-person basis by the

simple means of speech. If we travel in buses, buy things in shops, or eat in restaurants, we are

likely to have conversations where we gi ve information or opinions, receive news or comment,

and very likely have our vi ews challenged by other members of society.

Face-to-face contact is by no means the only form of communication and during th e last two

hundred years the art of mass communication has become one of the dom inating factors of

contemporary society. Two things, above others, have caused t he enormous growth of the

communication industry. Firstly, inventiveness has led to advances in printing,

telecommunications, photography, radio and television. secondly, speed has revolutionised the

transmission and reception of communicat ions so that local news often takes a back seat to

national news, which itself i s often almost eclipsed by international news.

No longer is the possession of information confined to a privileged minority. In the last

century the wealthy man with his own library was indeed fortunate, but today there are public

libraries. Forty years ago people used to flock to the c inema, but now far more people sit at home