六、补充练习

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    Children in the United States are exposed to many influences other than __1__ of their families. Television is the most significant of these influences, because the habit of watching television usually begins __2__ children start __3__ school. And, __4__ the time that the average child finishes high school, he or she will have spent 18,000 hours in front of a television et as __5__ to 12,000 hours in a classroom.

    Parents are __6__  about these figures. They are also concerned about the lack of __7__ in television programs for children. The degree of violence in many of these shows also worries them, __8__ it is unreal--- a cartoon cat beating up a cartoon mouse __9__ a baseball bat--- this violence may have a __10__ effect on the young minds exposed to it. Studies indicate that, when children are __11__ to violence, they may become aggressive or insecure.

    Parents are also concerned about the commercials that their children set on television. Many parents would like to see __12__ commercials during programs for children. And some parents feel that these shows should not have commercials at all __13__ young minds are not mature enough to __14__with the claims made by advertisers. Educational television has no commercials and has programs for children that many parents __15__ of. The most famous of these is “Sesame Street”, which tries to teach children useful things about the world in which they live.

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    Amtrak---the largest railway company in the U.S.--- was experiencing a declining in ridership (乘客数). __1__ major concern to Amtrak and its advertising agency, DDB Needham, was the long-distance western routes __2__ ridership had been declining __3__.

    At one time, trains were the only practical way to __4__ the vast areas of the west. Trains were fast, very luxurious, and quite convenient __5__ to other forms of transportation existing at the time. However, times changed and the automobile became America’s standard of convenience. Also, air travel had easily __6__ itself as the fastest method of traveling great distances. __7__, the task for DDB Needham was to__8__ consumers to consider other aspects of train travel in order to __9__ their attitudes and increase the likelihood that trains would be considered __10__ travel in the west.

    Two portions of the total market were targeted: anxious fliers---  those concerned with __11__, and travel-lovers--- those __12__ themselves as relaxed, casual, and interested in the travel experiences as part of __13__ vacation. The agency then developed a campaign that focused on travel __14__ such as freedom, relaxation, and enjoyment of the great western outdoors. It __15__ experiences gained by using the trains and portrayed western train trips as wonderful adventures.

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Historically, humans get serious about avoiding disasters only after one has just struck them. __1__ that logic, 2006 should have been a breakthrough year for rational behavior. With the memory of 9/11 still __2__ in their minds, Americans watched hurricane Katrina, the most expensive disaster in I.S. history, on __3__ TV. Anyone who didn’t know it before should have learned that bad thins can happen. And they are made __4__ worse by our willful blindness to risk as much as our __5__ to work together before everything goes to hell.

Granted, some amount of delusion (错觉) is probably part of the __6__ condition. In A.D. 63, Pompeii was seriously damaged by an earthquake, and the locals immediately went to work __7__, in the same spot--- until they were buried altogether by a volcano eruption 16 years later. But a __8__ of the past year in disaster history suggests that modern Americans are particularly bad at __9__ themselves from guaranteed threats. We know more than we __10__ did about the dangers we face. But it turns __11__ that in times of crisis, our greatest enemy is __12__ the storm, the quake or the __13__ itself. More often, it is ourselves.

 So what has happened in the year that __14__ the disaster on the Gulf Coast? In New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has worked day and night to rebuild the flood walls. They have got the walls to __15__ they were before Katrina, more or less. That’s not enough we can now say with confidence. But it may be all that can be expected from one year of hustle (忙碌).

参考答案

完形填空一

1. C   2. D   3. C   4. B   5. A   6. D   7. C   8. B   9. A   10. D  

11. C  12. B  13. B  14. A  15. B

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1. C   2.  A   3. C   4. B   5. C   6. A   7. B   8. C   9. C   10. A  

11. A  12. C   13. D  14. B  15. A

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1. B   2.  A   3. C   4. D   5. A   6. D.  7. C   8. A   9. C   10. B