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2002年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题(二)
2002年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题(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。
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 ).
