医院文化建设英语-阅读理解(六)
(总分100,考试时间90分钟)
电脑入门基础知识Reading Comprehension
公司评价Passage 1
In the world of entertainment, TV talk shows have undoubtedly flooded every inch of space on daytime television. And anyone who watches them regularly knows that each one varies in style and format. But no two shows are more profoundly opposite in content, while at the same time standing out above the rest, than the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey shows.
Jerry Springer could easily be considered the king of "trash talk (frigid)". The topics on his show are as shocking as shocking can be. For example, the show takes the **mon talk show themes of love, x, cheating, guilt, hate, conflict and morality to a different level. Clearly, the Jerry Springer show is a display and exploitation of society's moral catastrophe
s (灾难), yet people are willing to eat up the intriguing predicaments (困境) of other people's lives.
Like Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey takes TV talk show to its extreme, but Oprah goes in the opposite direction. The show focus on the improvement of society and an individual's quality of life. Topics range from teaching your children responsibility, managing your work week, to getting to know your neighbors.
Compared to Oprah, the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste being dumped on society. Jerry ends every show with a "final word". He makes a small speech that sums up the entire moral of the show. Hopefully, this is the part where most people will learn something very valuable.
Clean as it is, the Oprah show is not for everyone. The show's main target audience are middle-class Americans. Most of the people have the time, money, and stability to deal with life's tougher problems. Jerry Springer, on the other hand, has more of an association with the young adults of society. The are 18-to-21-year-olds who main tr
oubles in life involve love, relationship, x, money and peers. They are the ones who e some value and lessons to be learned underneath the show's exploitation.
While the two shows are as different as night and day, both have ruled the talk show circuit for many years now. Each one caters to a different audience while both have a strong following from large groups of fans. Ironically, both could also be considered pioneers in the talk show world.
1. Compared with other TV talk shows, both the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey are ______.
A. more family-oriented B. more profound
C. relatively formal D. unusually popular
高山安可仰2. Though the social problems Jerry Springer talks about appear distasteful, the audience ______.
A. remain indifferent to them B. are willing to get involved in them
C. remain fascinated by them D. are ready to face up to them
3. Which of the following is likely to be a topic of the Oprah Winfrey show?
A. Street violence. B. Racist hatred.
C. A new type of robot. D. Family budget planning.
4. Despite their different approaches, the two talk shows are both ______.
A. cynical B. instructive C. nsitive D. ironical
5. We can learn from the passage that the two talk shows ______.
A. are targeted at different audiences
B. appear at different times of the day
C. have monopolized the talk show circuit
D. exploit the weakness in human nature
Passage 2
Traffic statistics paint a gloomy picture. To help solve their traffic woes, some rapidly growing U.S. cities have simply built more roads. But traffic experts say building more roads is a quick-fix solution that will not alleviate the traffic problem in the long run. Soaring land costs, increasing concern over social and environmental disruptions caud by road-building, and the likelihood that more roads can only lead to more cars and traffic are powerful factors bearing down on a 1950s-style construction program.双塔山
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The goal of smart-highway technology is to make traffic systems work at optimum efficiency by treating the road and the vehicles traveling on them as an integral transportation system. Proponents of the advanced technology say electronic detection systems, clod circuit television, **munication, ramp metering, variable message signing, and other smart-highway technology can now be ud at a reasonable cost to **munication between drivers and the people who monitor traffic.
汽车追尾>排毒养颜胶囊 Pathfinder, a Santa Monica, California-bad smart-highway project in which a 14-mile
stretch of the Santa Monica Freeway, making up what is called a "smart corridor", is being instrumented with buried loops in the pavement. Clod-'circuit television cameras survey the flow of traffic, **munications linked to properly equipped automobiles advi motorists of the least congested routes or detours.
