(word)大学英语模拟试题(体验英语1-2册).docVIP

大学英语模拟试题（体验英语1-2册） Part I Reading comprehension (40 points) Directions: In this section there are four passages. Each passage is followed by five questions or incomplete statements. For each of them there are four choices. Choose the best answer. Passage 1 Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage. Every day from the time we wake up until the time we go to bed, we are bombarded with information from all sides, from TV, radio, newspapers and books; from family, friends, and colleagues. As a new cable television subscriber, I am absolutely amazed at the quantity and varying levels of information quality on cable television. Including the networks, there are eight TV “news” organizations vying to provide us with all the information we can possibly absorb. Newspapers, books, radio, email, snail mail, the telephone all compete for our attention and our minds. At the office conversations around the water cooler and coffee maker serve to spread even more items of information. There is valuable information out there about the world we live in, on topics as varied as health, safety, traffic, nutrition, business, finance, philosophy, nature, science, weather, history and the human condition. There is also a large amount of misleading and outright false information, not just on controversial subjects such as politics and religion but on any topic one can think of, including all of the topics mentioned above. With all this information coming at us from all directions, how does one sift through it all to sort out the facts from the fiction, the truth from the lies, the more important from the less important? Should we turn off the TV, cancel our newspaper subscriptions, disconnect our phones and modems to become information “hermits”? Probably not. A better method of sifting through the information wave without being overwhelmed and confused is to become a skeptical inquirer – or skeptic –with regard to the surrounding world. By “skeptic” I do not mean a c