2017.11學位英語考試完型填空每日練習及答案（5.23）
The Voice of America began during the World WarⅡ. When Germany was broadcasting a radio program to get international 1__________ , American officials believed they should 2__________ the German broadcast with words that they thought were the facts of world events. The first VOA news report began with words in 3__________ . “The 4__________ may be good or bad, but we shall tell you the truth.” Within a week, other VOA 5__________ were broadcasting in Italian, French and English.
After the World WarⅡended in 1945, some Americans felt VOA‘s 6__________ had to be changed, 7 __________the Soviet Union became enemy of AmericA.They wanted to 8 Soviet listeners. Then VOA began broadcasting in Russian.
In the early years VOA began adding something new to its broadcast that was 9__________ “ Music USA”. Another new idea came along in 1959.VOA knew that many listeners did not know 10__________ English to completely understand its 11__________ English broadcast. So VOA 12 __________a simpler kind of English, 13__________ uses about 1，500 words and is spoken 14 __________of course, it is special English.
In the 15__________ of most VOA listeners, the most 16__________ program is the news report. News fromaround the world 17__________ into the VOA news rooms in Washington 24 hours a day. It comes from VOA reporters in 18__________ cities and also from other 19__________ like BBC.VOA writers and editors use these materials to 20__________ news reports, which are being broadcast in 43 languages.
1. A.business B.culture C.support D.information
2. A.reply B.answer C.join D.interrupt
3. A.same B.short C.English D.German
4. A.news B.problems C.effects D.opinions
5. A.stations B.news C.announcers D.officials
6. A.home B.position C.purpose D.results
7. A.if B.supposing C.considering D.in order that
8. A.reach B.satisfy C.attack D.support
9. A.known B.reported C.called D.printed
10.A.American B.British C.standard D.enough
11.A.normal B.fast C.good D.exact
12.A.invented B.discovered C.taught D.stopped
13.A.it B.who C.which D.that
14.A.slowly B.rapidly C.normally D.loudly
15.A.pleasure B.course C.opinion D.advice
16.A.difficult B.important C.various D.common
17.A.flies B.sends C.delivers D.pasts
18.A.all B.major C.American D.news
19.A.broadcasts B.forms C.newspapers D.countries
20.A.broadcast B.announce C.translate D.prepare
【參考答案】
1—5 CBDAC 6—10 CCACD 11—15 AACAC 16—20 BABAD
1.選C.二戰期間，德國做廣播節目的初衷應是呼吁國際“支持(support)”，而不可能是另三項。
2.選B.由with words可以想到answer.reply后接賓語時要加to.
3.選D.要回復德國電臺，得用“德文”來播，這樣德國人能聽懂。
4.選A.前文已說了播出的是news report.
5.選C.播音的主體當然是announcers(播音員)了。
6.選C.VOA電臺成立之初的目標主要是對二戰中的一些敵對國家進行宣傳，隨著二戰結束，敵對國家有所改變，那么廣播的目的與對象的也應隨之而改變。
7.選C.considering“考慮到……”，表示改變廣播目的背景。
8.選A.reach是中性詞，其他三詞要么是褒義，要么是貶義，在此不合語境。
9.選C.be called “被稱做…”。
10.選D.對英語不是很精通才導致不能完全聽懂英文廣播的。
11.選A.區別于后文提到的special English.
12.選A.原來沒有的東西，現在有了，故用invent.
13.選C.引導非限制性定語從句，指物。
14.選A.正常英語聽不懂，除了詞匯問題，更重要的還有語速問題，即速度要“慢”。
15.選C.后面敘述的就是看法、觀點。
16.選B.后面的內容體現了新聞報道的重要性。
17.選A.flies表達了新聞的及時、快速的特點，其余的詞沒有這種意思。
18.選B.major cities指大城市。根據常識可排除A、D，根據around the world，可排除C.
19.選A.由like可知，所選詞須與BBC同類。
20.選D.由后面的定語從句可以推知，這里指新聞報道的前期“準備”工作。
考試報名：2017年成人學位英語考試報名時間及入口