The joke about doctors implies that, in the eyes of nurses, they are ________.

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• 1To make your humor work, you should ________.

  A.take advantage of different kinds of audience

  B.make fun of the disorganized people

  C.address different problems to different people

  D.show sympathy for your listeners

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• 2   THIS IS THE END OF SECTION I    DO NOT READ OR WORK ON THE NEXT SECTION    UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO CONTINUE全国硕士研究生入学考试英语试题 (二)National Entrance Test of English for MA/MS Candidates (2002)    考生注意事项    1 考生必须严格遵守各项考场规则，得到监考人员指令后方可开始答题。    2 全国硕士研究生入学考试英语分为试题 (一) 、试题 (二) 。    3 本试题为试题 (二)，共11页(5～15页)，含有英语知识运用、阅读理解、写作三个部分。英语知识运用、阅读理解A节的答案必须用2B铅笔按要求直接填涂在答题卡1上，如要改动，必须用橡皮擦干净。阅读理解B节和写作部分必须用蓝 (黑) 圆珠笔在答题卡2上答题，注意字迹清楚。    4 考试结束后，考生应将答题卡1、答题卡2一并装入原试卷袋中，将试题 (一)、试题 (二) 交给监考人员。<br class="bogusBR"></div><div class="blockBox part">Section II    Use of English<br class="bogusBR">Directions:Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark [A], [B], [C] or [D] on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)<br class="bogusBR">    Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened _21_. As was discussed before, it was not _22_ the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic _23_, following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the _24_ of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution _25_ up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading _26_ through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures _27_ the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that process in _28_. It is important to do so.    It is generally recognized, _29_, that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, _30_ by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, _31_ its impact on the media was not immediately _32_. As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became “personal” too, as well as _33_, with display becoming sharper and storage _34_ increasing. They were thought of, like people, _35_ generations, with the distance between generations much _36_.    It was within the computer age that the term “information society” began to be widely used to describe the _37_ within which we now live. The communications revolution has _38_ both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been _39_ views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. “Benefits” have been weighed _40_ “harmful” outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.

  A.between

  B.before

  C.since

  D.later

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• 3Years ago a divorced man in a company would have ________.

  A.been shifted around the country.

  B.had difficulty being promoted.

  C.enjoyed a happier life.

  D.C.enjoyed a happier lif

  E.D.tasted little bitterness of disgrace.

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• 4Why did some people choose not to divorce 20 years ago、

  A.They feared the complicated procedures.

  B.They wanted to go against the trend.

  C.They were afraid of losing face.

  D.C.They were afraid of losing fac

  E.D.they were willing to stay together.

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• 5What do people nowadays desire to do concerning their marriage、

  A.To embrace changes of thought.

  B.To adapt to the disintegrated family life.

  C.To return to the practice in the ‘60s and ‘70s.

  D.To create stability in their lives.

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• 6It can be inferred from the text that public services ________.

  A.have benefited many people

  B.are the focus of public attention

  C.are an inappropriate subject for humor

  D.have often been the laughing stock

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• 7To achieve the desired result, humorous stories should be delivered ________.

  A.in well-worded language

  B.as awkwardly as possible

  C.in exaggerated statements

  D.as casually as possible

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• 8The best title for the text may be ________.

  A.Use Humor Effectively

  B.Various Kinds of Humor

  C.Add Humor to Speech

  D.Different Humor Strategies

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• 9Human ingenuity was initially demonstrated in ________.

  A.the use of machines to produce science fiction

  B.the wide use of machines in manufacturing industry

  C.the invention of tools for difficult and dangerous work

  D.the elite’s cunning tackling of dangerous and boring work

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• 10The word “gizmos” (Line 1, Paragraph 2) most probably means ________.

  A.programs

  B.experts

  C.devices

  D.creatures

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