[英语]2006年湘潭市直学校英语教师招聘考试真题

65. Information age means _____________.
A. the service industry is depending more and more on women workers
B. heavy industries are rapidly increasing
C. people find it harder and harder to earn a living by working in factories
D. most of the job chances can now be found in the service industry.
66. Knowledge society brings about a great change that __________.
A. the difference between the workers and employers has become smaller
B. people’s old ideas about work no longer exist
C. most people have to take part-time jobs
D. people have to change their jobs from time to time
67. The future will probably belong to those who _________.
A. own and know how to make use of information
B. can read and write well
C. devote themselves to service industries
D. look ahead instead of looking back
(C)
Among various programmes, TV talk shows have covered every inch of space on daytime television. And anyone who watches them regularly knows that each one is different in style(风格). But no two shows are more 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 “rubbish talk”. The contents on his show are as surprising as can be. For example, the show takes the ever-common talk show titles of love, sex, cheating, and hate, to a different level. Clearly, the Jerry Springer show is about the dark side of society, yet people are willing to eat up the troubles of other peoples lives. ?
Like Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey takes TV talk show to its top, but Oprah goes in the opposite direction. The show is mainly about the improvement of society and different quality of life. Contents are from teaching your children lessons, managing your work week, to getting to know your neighbors.
Compared to Oprah, the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste being poured into society. Jerry ends every show with a “final word”. He makes a small speech about the entire idea 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 shows main viewers are middleclass Americans. Most of these people have the time, money, and ability to deal with lifes tougher problems. Jerry Springer, on the other hand, has more of a connection with the young adults of society. These are 18-to-21-year-olds whose main troubles in life include love, relationship, sex, money and drug. They are the ones who see some value and lessons to be learned through the shows exploitation. ?
68. Compared with other TV talk shows, both the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey are_____.
A. more interesting B. unusually popular C. more detailed D. more formal?
69. Though the social problems Jerry Springer talks about appear unpleasant, people who watch the shows_____.
A. remain interested in them? B. are ready to face up to them?
C. remain cold to them? D. are willing to get away from them? 70. Which of the following is likely to be a topic of the Oprah Winfrey show?
A. A new type of robot. B. Nation hatred. ?
C. Family income planning. D. Street accident. ?
71. We can learn from the passage that the two talk shows_______.
A. have become the only ones of its kind? B. exploit the weaknesses in human nature?
C. appear at different times of the day? D. attract different people
(D)
Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this is why they’re always coming in for criticism. Their critics seem to resent them because they have a flair for self-promotion and because they have so much money to throw around. “It’s iniquitous,” they say, “that this entirely unproductive industry (if we can call it that) should absorb millions of pounds each year. It only goes to show how much profit the big companies are making. Why don’t they stop advertising and reduce the price of their goods? After all, it’s the consumer who pays…”
The poor old consumer! He’d have to pay a great deal more if advertising didn’t create mass markets for products. It is precisely because of the heavy advertising that consumer goods are so cheap. But we get the wrong idea if we think the only purpose of advertising is to sell goods. Another equally important function is to inform. A great deal of the knowledge we have about household goods derives largely from the advertisements we read. Advertisements introduce us to new products or remind us of the existence of ones we already know about. Supposing you wanted to buy a washing machine, it is more than likely you would obtain details regarding performance, price, etc. , from an advertisement.
Lots of people pretend that they never read advertisements, but this claim may be seriously doubted. It is hardly possible not to read advertisements these days. And what fun they often are, too! Just think what a railway station or a newspaper would be like without advertisements. Would you enjoy gazing at a blank wall or reading railway byelaws while waiting for a train? Would you like to read only closely printed columns of news in your daily paper? A cheerful, witty advertisement makes such a difference to a drab wall or a newspaper full of the daily ration of calamities.