2002考研英语二真题及答案

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2002 考研英语二真题及答案

Section II: Use of English

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)

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__ view about its

economic, political, social and cultural implications. “Benefits” have been

weighed __40__ “harmful” outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.

21. [A] between

[B] before

[C] since

[D] later

22. [A] after

[B] by

[C] during

[D] until

23. [A] means

[B] method

[C] medium

[D] measure

24. [A] process

[B] company

[C] light

[D] form

25. [A] gathered

[B] speeded

[C] worked

[D] picked

26. [A] on

[B] out

[C] over

[D] off

27. [A] of

[B] for

[C] beyond

[D] into

28. [A] concept

[B] dimension

[C] effect

[D] perspective

29. [A] indeed

[B] hence

[C] however

[D] therefore

30. [A] brought

[B] followed

[C] stimulated

[D] characterized

31. [A] unless

[B] since

[C] lest

[D] although

32. [A] apparent

[B] desirable

[C] negative

[D] plausible

33. [A] institutional

[B] universal

[C] fundamental

[D] instrumental

34. [A] ability

[B] capability

[C] capacity

[D] faculty

35. [A] by means of

[B] in terms of

[C] with regard to

[D] in line with

36. [A] deeper

[B] fewer

[C] nearer

[D] smaller

37. [A] context

[B] range

[C] scope

[D] territory

38. [A] regarded

[B] impressed

[C] influenced

[D] effected

39. [A] competitive

[B] controversial

[C] distracting

[D] irrational

40. [A] above

[B] upon

[C] against

[D] with

Section III: Reading Comprehension

Part A

Directions:

Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing

[A], [B], [C] or [D] Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)

Text 1

If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how

to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the

audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you

understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view.

Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you

are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods

of their secretaries; alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may

want to comment on their disorganized bosses.

Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses’ convention, of a story which

works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man

arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful

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