1、I．Fill in the blanks in each sentence taken from the textbooks with the words or expressions shown below. 　　Calculate for a moment what could be done with even a part of those hours. Five thousand hours, I am told, are （1） a typical college undergraduate spends working on a bachelor's （2）. In 10,000 hours you could have learned （3） to become an astronomer or engineer. You could have learned several languages （4）. If it appealed to you, you could be reading Homer in the （5） Greek or Dostoyevsky in Russian. If it didn't, you could have walked around the world and written a book about it. 填空题 5分

2、II.There are four choices marked A,B,C, and D for each incomplete sentence. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. The government's annual （ ） on arms has been reduced. 单选题 1分

3、The newspaper printed a（an） （ ） for their previous error. 单选题 1分

4、III. Translate the following sentences into Chinese. By the age of 20 you will have been exposed to at least 20， 000 hours of television. 简答题 2分

5、Television's variety becomes a narcotic, not a stimulus. 简答题 2分

6、Forced feeding on trivial fare is not itself a trivial matter. 简答题 2分

7、Yet its dominating communications instrument, its principal form of national linkage, is one that sells neat resolutions to human problems that usually have no neat resolutions. 简答题 2分

8、Much of it is what has been aptly described as“machine-gunning with scraps”. 简答题 2分

9、IV. Translate the following sentences into English. 美国人比看电视做得更多的事只有工作和睡眠。 简答题 2分

10、电视的毛病在于它鼓励人们不去集中精力。生活中几乎任何一件有趣的、有价值的事都需要一定的建设性的、持之以恒的努力。我们中最迟钝最没有天资的人也能做出对那些从来不在任何事情上专心致志的人来说奇迹一般的事情来。但电视却鼓励我们不做任何努力。 简答题 2分

11、人类历史上什么时候有这么多人一起把闲暇时间耗在一种玩具——电视上？ 简答题 2分

12、我怀疑晚间电视新闻的内容中有多少是真正可吸收和可理解的。 简答题 2分

13、读写能力可能算不上一项不可剥夺的人权但我们极有学问的开国元勋们可能并不觉得它不合道理，甚至遥不可及。从统计数字看，我们不仅没有在全国范围内达到人人都能读写的目标，而且离这个目标越来越远。尽管我不会简单地认为电视是造成这一局面的直接原因，我却相信它起了一定作用，是一个影响因素。 简答题 2分

14、V. There are four choices marked A, B, C and D for each incomplete sentence. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. 　　The case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation. All high school graduates ought to go, says conventional wisdom and statistical evidence, because college will help them earn more money, become “better” people, and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who don't go. 　　But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending, those who don't fit the pattern are becoming more numerous, and more obvious. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students interfere with each other's experiments and write false letters of recommendation in the intense competition for admission to graduate school. Others find no stimulation in their studies, and drop out—often encouraged by college administrators. 　　Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves—they are spoiled and they are expecting too much. But that is a condemnation of the students as a whole, and doesn't explain all campus unhappiness. Others blame the state of the world, and they are partly right. We have been told that young people have to go to college because our economy can't absorb an army of untrained eighteen-year-olds. But disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer absorb an army of trained twenty-two-year-olds, either. 　　Some adventuresome educators and watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best, the proper, the only place for every young person after the completion of high school. We may have been looking at all those surveys and statistics upside down, it seems, and through the rosy glow of our own remembered college experiences. Perhaps college doesn't make people intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, or quick to learn things—may it is just the other way around, and intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, quick-learning people are merely the ones who have been attracted to college in the first place. And perhaps all those successful college graduates would have been successful whether they had gone to college or not. This is heresy to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if a little schooling is good, more has to be much better. But contrary evidence is beginning to mount up. 1.According to the author, （ ）. A.people used to question the value of college education. B.people used to have full confidence in higher education. C.all high school graduates went to college. D.very few high school graduates chose to go to college. 2.In the 2nd paragraph, “those who don't fit the pattern” refer to （ ）. A.high school graduates who aren't suitable for college education. B.college graduates who are selling shoes and driving taxis. C.college students who aren't any better for their higher education. D.high school graduates who failed to be admitted to college. 3.The dropout rate of college students seems to go up because （ ）. A.young people are disappointed with the conventional way of teaching at college. B.many people are required to join the army. C.young people have little motivation in pursuing a higher education. D.young people don't like the intense competition for admission to graduate school. 4.According to the passage, the problems of college education partly originate in the fact that （ ）. A.society cannot provide enough jobs for properly trained graduates. B.High school graduates do not fit the pattern of college education. C.Too many students have to earn their own living. D.College administrators encourage students to drop out. 5.In this passage the author argues that （ ）. A.more and more evidence shows college education may not be the best thing for high school graduates. B.College education is not enough if one wants to be successful. C.College education benefits only the intelligent, ambitious, and quick-learning people. D.Intelligent people may learn quicker if they don't go to college. 简答题 5分