在职艺术硕士（MFA）全国联考英文阅读理解-试卷12
(总分：50.00，做题时间：90分钟)
box office mojo一、 英文阅读理解题(总题数：5，分数：50.00)
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 (废话)". The topics on his show are as shocking as shocking can be. For example, the show takes the ever-common 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 catastrophes (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 o
f 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 troubles 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. (388 words)（分数：10.00）
(1).Compared with other TV talk shows, both the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey are______.（分数：2.00）
摩登英语& family-oriented
B.unusually popular √
& profound
&latively formal
解析：aut
(2).Though the social problems Jerry Springer talks about appear distasteful, the audience ______.（分数：2.00）
英文26个字母表&ain fascinated by them √
B.are ready to face up to them
&ain indifferent to them
D.are willing to get involved in them
解析：
(3).Which of the following is likely to be a topic of the Oprah Winfrey show?（分数：2.00）
A.A new type of robot.
B.Racist hatred.
C.Family budget planning. √
D.Street violence.
解析：
(4).Despite their different approaches, the two talk shows are both______.（分数：2.00）
A.ironical
B.nsitive
C.instructive 杂货店里的老师√
&ical
解析：
(5).We can learn from the passage that the two talk shows______.（分数：2.00）bloodhound
六级听力满分多少 A.have monopolized the talk show circuit
&ploit the weakness in human nature
C.appear at different times of the day
D.are targeted at different audiences √
解析：
Take the ca of public education alone. The principal difficulty faced by the schools has been the tremendous increa in the number of pupils. This has been caud by the advance of the legal age for going into industry and the impossibility of finding a job even when the legal age has been reached. In view of the technological improvements in the last few years, business will require in the future proportionately fewer workers than ever before. The result will be still further raising of the legal age for going into employment, and still further difficulty in finding employment when that age has been attained. If we cannot put our children to work, we must put them in school. We may also be quite confident that the prent trend toward a shorter day and a shorter week will be maintained. We have developed and shall continue to have a new leisure class. Already the public agencies for adult education are swamped by the tide that has swept over them since the depression began. They will be little better off when it is over. Their support must come from the taxpayer. It is surely too much to hope that the increas in the cost of public education can be borne by the local communities. They cannot care f
or the prent restricted and inadequate system. The local communities have failed in their efforts to cope with unemployment. They cannot expect to cope with public education on the scale on which we must attempt it. The answer to the problem of unemployment has been Federal relief. The answer to the problem of public education may have to be much the same, and properly so. If there is one thing in which the citizens of all parts of the country have an interest, it is in the decent education of the citizens of all parts of the country. Our income tax now goes in part to keep our neighbors alive. It may have to go in part as well to make our neighbors intelligent. We are now attempting to prerve the prent generation through Federal relief of the destitute (贫民). Only a people determined to ruin the next generation will refu such Federal funds as public education may require. (378 words)（分数：10.00）
(1).What is the passage mainly about?（分数：2.00）
A.How to persuade local communities to provide more funds.
B.How to cope with the shortage of funds for public education. √
C.How to improve the public education system.
D.How to solve the rising unemployment problem.
解析：
(2).What is the reason for the increa in the number of students?（分数：2.00）
A.The requirement of educated workers by business.
B.Raising of the legal age for going to work. √
C.The trend toward a shorter workday.
D.People"s concern for the future of the next generation.
解析：
(3).The public agencies for adult education will be little better off becau______.（分数：2.00）
A.the unemployed are too poor to continue their education
aeroplane什么意思 B.a new leisure class has developed √
C.they are still suffering from the depression
D.an increa in taxes could be a problem
解析：
(4).According to the author, the answer to the problem of public education is that the Federal government______.（分数：2.00）
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A.should allocate Federal funds for public education 休假英文√
B.should demand that local communities provide support
C.should rai taxes to meet the needs of public education
D.should first of all solve the problem of unemployment
解析：
(5).Why does the author say "Only a people determined to ruin the next generation will refu such Federal funds as public education may require" (Lines 11~ 12, Para. 3)?（分数：2.00）
A.Only by appropriating adequate Federal funds for education can the next generation have a bright future.
B.Citizens of all parts of the country agree that the best way to support education is to u Federal funds.
C.People all over the country should make contributions to education in the interest of the next generation. √
