Unit 1 Part I 大众媒体 Mass Media

Cloze

1、填空题:
‎ You are almost always better off if you could listen to the             of your elders.‍
答案: 【 counsel

2、填空题:
‏ Her             was left to her brother as her husband had died and she didn’t have any children‍
答案: 【 estate

3、填空题:
‍Some           that the distant planet could sustain life. But so far there is no solid evidence for any signs of life there.‏
答案: 【 have conjectured##%_YZPRLFH_%##conjecture

4、填空题:
‍ It emerged that the         young hijacker was a survivor of a massacre of street children by off-duty Rio policemen in 1993. ‏
答案: 【 crazed

5、填空题:
‏ In local elections the year after, the conservatives won a(n)              majority and left the reformists with none. But after the nuclear deal and the lifting of sanctions, the situation got reversed.‎
答案: 【 outright

6、填空题:
​The double-digit inflation that          in 2011 has subsided, and exports of textiles and electronics are booming.‌
答案: 【 prevailed

7、填空题:
​ The usual explanation for this lack of adventure is that Mrs. Watanabe, the            housewife who holds the family purse strings, has been averse to risk, especially since the stock market bubble burst in 1990. ​
答案: 【 archetypal

8、填空题:
‏A(n)             of gardeners tended lawns by a lake, while chauffeur-driven black Mercedes awaited the officials who were emerging from meetings.‏
答案: 【 phalanx

9、填空题:
‌The reading wasn’t bad; she just needs to tweak it a bit,          the funny stuff and learn how to deliver punch lines. ‍
答案: 【 play up

10、填空题:
‌ It is impossible to say at what point along the               a dialect becomes a separate language. ‏
答案: 【 continuum

11、填空题:
‎ In the middle of town, a(n)          brick building provides a clue as to what makes the place unusual.‎‎‎
答案: 【 unobtrusive

12、填空题:
‌ Medical care in the U.S. is generally              the well-being and financial health of hospitals, doctors, nurses, medical associations, pharmaceutical firms.​
答案: 【 geared to

13、填空题:
‍ The current trend for migrant populations is to           urban centers in search of access to services and employment opportunities. ‏
答案: 【 gravitate towards

14、填空题:
‌            testing uses one single exam to measure students’ performance and decide the course of their life. This has caused much stress for students, parents, teachers, and school administrators.‍
答案: 【 High-stakes

15、填空题:
‏ The confrontations between the Democrats and Republicans are inevitable due to the           nature of the two-party system.‏
答案: 【 adversarial

16、填空题:
‏In order to           enough profits to satisfy their shareholders, banks have slashed costs and increased prices; their return on equity has turned out to be unimpressive.‍
答案: 【 grind out

17、填空题:
‏ One approach to address multiple-choice questions is to first        all the unsuitable choices or answers.‍
答案: 【 weed out

18、填空题:
‍While there is some at least theoretical logic here, it is a highly              claim and an extraordinarily difficult calculation.‌
答案: 【 speculative

19、填空题:
‎ The imperial government was a political labyrinth of personal, provincial, regional, racial, ideological and functional groupings and relationships — confusing to the novice and             to the foreigner.​
答案: 【 baffling

20、填空题:
​                is a term used to describe ideas or explanations that are generally accepted as true by the public or by experts in a field.‎
答案: 【 Conventional wisdom

Reading for specific information

1、判断题:
‏  To Chomsky, it is almost impossible to study the media in the manner of scholarship.‌
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误

2、判断题:
‎ Almost all work in media analysis is on making assumptions about the nature and structure of the media.‍
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误

3、判断题:
​ The real mass media are basically trying to divert people and the important contents are reserved for the elite media to manage.‌
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确

4、判断题:
‎ There are filtering devices in academic institutions such as universities to weed out people who think independently and don’t conform to the power system. ‎
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确

5、判断题:
‎ The New York Times makes money via two channels: selling newspapers to its audience and selling advertisements to big corporations. ‌
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误

Unit 1 Part II 技能拓展 Business-oriented Skills

Idioms, phrasal verbs and fixed expressions

1、填空题:
‏ Donald Trump faced a new conservative challenger — a former CIA counter-terrorism officer who launched an independent presidential bid            him. ‎‏‎
答案: 【 against

2、填空题:
‌ Mall walking began in the age of innocence, back in the early 1960s, when physicians figured         that the only way to persuade people to take exercise was to combine it with shopping.‍
答案: 【 out

3、填空题:
‏ The press has been speculating on whether the Trump Administration will weed         medical marijuana.‎
答案: 【 out

4、填空题:
‏  While some stockbrokers were dealing yesterday with small investors, others were geared       big institutions.‏
答案: 【 to

5、填空题:
‎ The senator told the reporters that his remarks were strictly        the record so they cannot go public.​
答案: 【 off

6、填空题:
‌ All of us have moments when we simply can’t help ourselves and blurt         things we ultimately regret.‍
答案: 【 out

7、填空题:
‍ Rabbi Norman Lamm, the spiritual leader of the Jewish Center in New York, cautioned that Jewish religious schools “must not be biased                  the policy of teaching of the holocaust,” adding that “many millions were killed in World War II — non-Jews and Jews, religious and secularists, believers and atheists.”‌
答案: 【 towards

8、填空题:
‎ Leaked speech excerpts showed a Hillary Clinton        ease with Wall Street and embracing unfettered trade in paid speeches to financial firms. ‌
答案: 【 at

9、填空题:
‎What’s           the heart of policy decisions on welfare — and what should be? The researcher considers fundamental questions about the welfare safety net.‍
答案: 【 at

10、填空题:
​ The racial issue is truly a pain      the neck for the presidential candidates to deal with.‏
答案: 【 in

Unit 1 Word family

1、填空题:
‏ Volkswagen said the software allowing its diesel vehicles to evade emissions rules is in          with European law, as the carmaker aims to toughen its legal defenses in view of a possible rise in compensation claims in its home region. ​
答案: 【 conformity

2、填空题:
‌  Maine’s new liquor law caused dissatisfaction all over the state; it is a statute which is regarded as            and as putting a premium of corruption. ‍
答案: 【 tyrannical

3、填空题:
‍  Last September, Archer Malmo in Memphis sponsored a contest among its employees to create campaigns for          clients, which led to an agency’s landing of a real client‎
答案: 【 hypothetical

4、填空题:
‏ The companies working to bring               television to the United States are endlessly optimistic that the big breakthrough for their industry is just around the corner, despite nearly 50 years of miscast experimentation and failure. ​
答案: 【 interactive

5、填空题:
‏ Like an astrological chart, the concept of the genogram can be made to fit any case, and it works better retrospectively than                   . ‌
答案: 【 predictively

6、填空题:
​ The Legislature today approved a bill that would make the deduction and other provisions of the commuter income tax            with those in the New York income tax law.‌
答案: 【 conform

7、填空题:
‌ The claim that chief executives’ pay has soared in recent years because C.E.O.s have figured out how to game the corporate compensation system is sometimes referred to as the fat cat         , which needs further refinement. ‎‌‎
答案: 【 hypothesis

8、填空题:
‎ A start-up in California is studying how self-driving vehicles will communicate with the world around them, as well as                 with their passengers.‎‎‎
答案: 【 Interact

Unit 2 Part I 知识产权 Intellectual Property

words and phrases

1、填空题:
‌Experts often place non-experts in a(n)                      situation by claiming  legitimacy for their own contribution.‎
答案: 【 exploitable

2、填空题:
‏Competition could cut the size of phone bills and end the                 of  unreasonable bank charges on small businesses.​
答案: 【

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