PDF《2018 年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语（一） 考前冲刺试卷 5》

2005 and 2009. But those global figures mask a sharp decline in readership in rich countries. Over the past decade, throughout the Western world, people have been giving up newspapers and TV news and keeping up with events in profoundly different ways. Most strikingly, ordinary people are increasingly involved in compiling, sharing, filtering, discussing and distributing news. Twitter lets people anywhere report what they are seeing. Classified documents are published in their thousands online. Mobile-phone footage of Arab uprisings and American tornadoes is posted on social-networking sites and shown on television newscasts. Social-networking sites help people find, discuss and share news with their friends. And technology firms including Google, Facebook and Twitter have become important conduits of news. The Internet lets people read newspapers or watch television channels from around the world. The web has allowed new providers of news to rise to prominence in a very short space of time. And it has made possible entirely new approaches to journalism, such as that practiced by WikiLeaks, which provides an anonymous way for whistleblowers to publish documents. The news agenda is no longer controlled by a few press barons and state outlets. In principles, every liberal should celebrate this. A more participatory and social news environment, with a remarkable diversity and range of news sources, is a good thing. The transformation of the news business is unstoppable. Although this transformation does raise concerns, there is much to celebrate in the noisy, diverse, vociferous, argumentative and stridently alive environment of the news business in the ages of the Internet. The coffee house is back. Enjoy it. 21. According to the author, what enlightened the switch of coffee-house news to mass-media news? [A] The appearance of big mass media firms. [B] The prevalence of radio and television. [C] The emergence of advertising in newspapers. [D] The growing number of newspaper audience. 22. The underlined word discursive in Paragraph

2 refers to ______. [A] diverging [B] concentrating [C] challenging [D] diverse 23. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT a role played by Internet? [A] Challenging the conventional media. [B] Planning the return to coffee-house news. [C] Offering people the access to classified documents. [D] Giving ordinary people the opportunity to distribute news. 24. The author'

s attitude towards new mass media is . [A] positive and cautious [B] detest and skeptical [C] skeptical and reserved [D] ambiguous and negative 25. What is the best title of this passage? [A] Mass-Audience Newspaper [B] Unstoppable and Diverse Online News [C] The Future of News ― Back to the Coffee House [D] The Transformation of the News Business Text

2 If you want to know why Denmark is the world'

s leader in wind power, start with a three-hour car trip from the capital Copenhagen to the small town of Lem on the far west coast of Jutland. You'

ll feel it as you cross the 6.8 km-long Great Belt Bridge: Denmark'

s bountiful wind, so fierce. But wind itself is only part of the reason. In Lem, workers in factories the size of aircraft hangars build the wind turbines. Most impressive are the turbine'

s blades, which scoop the wind with each sweeping revolution. But technology, like the wind itself, is just one more part of the reason for Denmark'

s dominance. In the end, it happened because Denmark had the political and public will to decide that it wanted to be a leader―and to follow through. Beginning in 1979, the government began a determined programme of subsidies and loan guarantees to build up its wind industry. It also mandated that utilities purchase wind energy at a preferential price―thus guaranteeing investors a customer base. As a result, wind turbines now dot Denmark. The country gets more than 19%of its electricity from the breeze and Danish companies control one-third of the global wind market, earning billions in exports and creating a national champion from scratch. The challenge now for Denmark is to help the rest of the world catch up. With Copenhagen set to host all-important U.N. climate change talks in December ― where the world hopes for a successor to the expiring Kyoto Protocol, Denmark'