Question

 The Voice of America began during World War II,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 3       . The first VOA news report began with these words in 4       The 5        may be good or bad,but we shall tell you the truth. " Within a week,other VOA 6       were broadcasting in Italian,French and English. After the World War II 7       in 1945,some Americans felt VOA's 8       had to be changed,9       the Soviet Union became enemy of America. They wanted to reach Soviet listeners. Then VOA began broadcasting in Russian.

  In the early years VOA began 10        something new to its broadcast that was 11 "Music USA". Another new idea came 12        in 1959. VOA knew that many listeners did not know 13        English to completely understand its normal English broadcast. So VOA 14       a simpler kind of English,which uses about 1 ,500 words and is spoken 15       ,of course,it is Special English.

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

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

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

(   ) 3. A. accidents   B. incidents   C. events   D. peace

(   ) 4. A. time   B. short   C. English   D. German

(   ) 5. A. news   B. problems   C. effects   D. opinions

(   ) 6. A. stations   B. news   C. announcers   D. officials

(   ) 7. A. began   B. developed   C. won   D. ended

(   ) 8. A. home   B. position   C. purpose   D. result

(   ) 9. A. if   B. supposing   C. considering   D. in order that

(   ) 10. A. connecting   B. adding   C. sticking   D. leading

(   ) 11. A. known   B. reported   C. called   D. printed

(   ) 12. A. into   B. across   C. down   D. along

(   ) 13. A. American   B. British   C. standard   D. enough

(   ) 14. A. invented   B. discovered   C. taught   D. stopped

(   ) 15. A. slowly   B. rapidly   C. normally   D. loudly

(   ) 16. A. pleasure   B. course   C. opinion   D. advice

(   ) 17. A. difficult   B. important   C. various   D. common

(   ) 18. A. flies   B. sends   C. delivers   D. passes

(   ) 19. A. all   B. major   C. American   D. news

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

Answer 1

1-5  CBCDA    6-10 CDCCB 

11 -15  CDDAA   16 -20 CBABD

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1. C以获取国际(舆论) 支持。D表示"用无线电节目来获取信息"是不可能的。

2. B answer the German broadcast意为"对德国广播作出反应，与德国广播针锋相对"。

A项reply,不及物动词；C项join ,有"同流合污" 之嫌;D项interrupt"干扰"。从下半句看是为了澄清事实，应选B.

3. C world events = world affairs '表示"国P示性事件"。incident "小事";accident "事故"; peace"和平"。均不妥。

4. D从第二句目的和第七句意思看，应选Ger?man表示"用德语进行报道"，与上文一致。

in time"及时"和in short"简而言之"，意思不符合上下文。

5. A news与events和truth一致。effects和opinions与下文意思不相符。

6. C其他VOA播音员也用意大利语、法语和英语进行广播。

7. D 1945年二战结束。

8. C从第一段和第二段明显看出，VOA具有明确的政治目的。

9. C considering..."考虑到..... 情况"；in order that..."为......... 目的"；supposing..."假设……"。

10. B表示"开始增加一些新节目"。

11. C表示"被称之为"。A项正确的说法是that was known as " Music USA "，表示"以……而闻名"。

12. D come along = follow,指接着"Music USA"。

13. D能听VOA就肯定掌握了一定的Ameri?can/standard English ,但不"enough",所以不能完全听懂它的正常(normal) 播音。

14. A invent"发明(原没有的) "。discover"发现(原来存在的) "。

15. A结合上文，指"语速慢"。

16. C in the opinion of sb.或in sb's opinion表示"依照某人的看法或观点"。

17. B结合上下文，这里指的是"VOA中最重要的节目"。

18. A fly into ,这是比喻的说法。send语态不对。deliver不可能世界各地都亲自送，且语态不对。

19. B major cities指"各主要大城巿"。

20. D prepare news reports ,包括筛选、修改、翻译等程序。