第二节:完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)

   The Voice of America began during the World War II, when Germany was broadcasting a radio program to get international  36   American officials believed they should   37   the German broadcast with words that they thought were the facts of world events. The first VOA news report began with words in  38  , "The  39   may be good or bad, but we shall tell you the truth." Within a week, other VOA  40   were broadcasting in Italian, French and English.

   After the World War II ended in 1945, some Americans felt VOA's  41  had to be changed,  42   the Soviet Union(苏联) became enemy of America. They wanted to   43  Soviet listeners. The VOA began broadcasting in Russian.

   In the early years VOA began adding something new to its broadcast that was  44   "Music USA". Another new idea came along in 1959. VOA knew that many listeners did not know  45   English to completely understand its   46   English broadcast. So VOA  47  a simpler kind of English,  48   uses about 1,500 words and is spoken   49  . Of course, it is special English.

   In the  50   of most VOA listeners, the most  51   program is the news report. News from around the world   52   into the VOA news mom in Washington 24 hours a day. It comes from VOA reporters in  53   cities and also from other  54   like BBC. VOA writers and editors use these materials to  55   news reports, which are being broadcast in 43 languages.

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

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

38. A. time          B. short           C. English            D. German

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

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

41. A. home         B. position         C. purpose            D. result

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

52. A. fly           B. send            C. deliver             D. past

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

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

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

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