2018年成人英語三級《完形填空》精選練習(xí)題(2)

2018年成人英語三級《完形填空》精選練習(xí)題(2)

The Voice of America began during the World WarⅡ. When Germany was broadcasting a radio program to get international 1 , American officials believed they should 2 the German broadcast with words that they thought were the facts of world events. The first VOA news report began with words in 3 . “The 4 may be good or bad, but we shall tell you the truth.” Within a week, other VOA 5 were broadcasting in Italian, French and English.

After the World WarⅡended in 1945, some Americans felt VOA’s 6 had to be changed, 7 the Soviet Union became enemy of AmericA.They wanted to 8 Soviet listeners. Then VOA began broadcasting in Russian.

In the early years VOA began adding something new to its broadcast that was 9 “ Music USA”. Another new idea came along in 1959.VOA knew that many listeners did not know 10 English to completely understand its 11 English broadcast. So VOA 12 a simpler kind of English, 13 uses about 1,500 words and is spoken 14 of course, it is special English.

In the 15 of most VOA listeners, the most 16 program is the news report. News fromaround the world 17 into the VOA news rooms in Washington 24 hours a day. It comes from VOA reporters in 18 cities and also from other 19 like BBC.VOA writers and editors use these materials to 20 news reports, which are being broadcast in 43 languages.

1. A.business B.culture C.support D.information

2. A.reply B.answer C.join D.interrupt

3. A.same B.short C.English D.German

4. A.news B.problems C.effects D.opinions

5. A.stations B.news C.announcers D.officials

6. A.home B.position C.purpose D.results

7. A.if B.supposing C.considering D.in order that

8. A.reach B.satisfy C.attack D.support

9. A.known B.reported C.called D.printed

10.A.American B.British C.standard D.enough

11.A.normal B.fast C.good D.exact

12.A.invented B.discovered C.taught D.stopped

13.A.it B.who C.which D.that

14.A.slowly B.rapidly C.normally D.loudly

15.A.pleasure B.course C.opinion D.advice

16.A.difficult B.important C.various D.common

17.A.flies B.sends C.delivers D.pasts

18.A.all B.major C.American D.news

19.A.broadcasts B.forms C.newspapers D.countries

20.A.broadcast B.announce C.translate D.prepare

參考答案及解析

1—5 CBDAC 6—10 CCACD 11—15 AACAC 16—20 BABAD

1.選C。二戰(zhàn)期間，德國做廣播節(jié)目的初衷應(yīng)是呼吁國際“支持(support)”，而不可能是另三項。

2.選B。由with words可以想到answer。reply后接賓語時要加to。

3.選D。要回復(fù)德國電臺，得用“德文”來播，這樣德國人能聽懂。

4.選A。前文已說了播出的是news report。

5.選C。播音的主體當然是announcers(播音員)了。

6.選C。VOA電臺成立之初的目標主要是對二戰(zhàn)中的一些敵對國家進行宣傳，隨著二戰(zhàn)結(jié)束，敵對國家有所改變，那么廣播的目的與對象的也應(yīng)隨之而改變。

7.選C。considering“考慮到……”,表示改變廣播目的背景。

8.選A。reach是中性詞，其他三詞要么是褒義，要么是貶義，在此不合語境。

9.選C。be called “被稱做…”。

10.選D。對英語不是很精通才導(dǎo)致不能完全聽懂英文廣播的。

11.選A。區(qū)別于后文提到的special English。

12.選A。原來沒有的東西，現(xiàn)在有了，故用invent。

13.選C。引導(dǎo)非限制性定語從句，指物。

14.選A。正常英語聽不懂，除了詞匯問題，更重要的還有語速問題，即速度要“慢”。

15.選C。后面敘述的就是看法、觀點。

16.選B。后面的內(nèi)容體現(xiàn)了新聞報道的重要性。

17.選A。flies表達了新聞的及時、快速的特點，其余的詞沒有這種意思。

18.選B。major cities指大城市。根據(jù)常識可排除A、D，根據(jù)around the world，可排除C。

19.選A。由like可知，所選詞須與BBC同類。

20.選D。由后面的定語從句可以推知，這里指新聞報道的前期“準備”工作。