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北京外国语大学英语学院同等学力课程研修班 英语语言文学专业基础英语试卷（样题） 考试日期 年 月 成绩 I II III IV 总分 阅卷负责人 I. Reading comprehension: Each passage is followed by 5 questions, and for each of them there are 4 possible answers. Please choose one of the answers as the best choice according to your reading (40%). 得分（满分40） 阅卷人 Passage one In?the?world?of?entertainment,?TV?talk?shows?haveundoubtedly?flooded?every?inch?of?space?on?daytimetelevision.?And?anyone?who?watches?them?regularly?knows?that?each?one?varies?in?style?andformat.?But?no?two?shows?are?more?profoundly?opposite?in?content,?while?at?the?same?timestanding?out?above?the?rest,?than?the?Jerry?Springer?and?the?Oprah?Winfrey?shows. Jerry Springer could easily be considered the king of “trash talk”. The topics on his show are as shocking as shocking can be. For example, the show takes the ever-common talk show themes of love, sex, cheating, guilt, hate, conflict and morality to a different level. Clearly, the Jerry Springer show is a display and exploitation of society’s moral catastrophes (灾难), yet people are willing to eat up the intriguing predicaments (困境) of other people’s lives. Like Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey takes TV talk show to its extreme, but Oprah goes in the opposite direction. The show focuses on the improvement of society and an individual’s quality of life. Topics range from teaching your children responsibility, managing your work week, to getting to know your neighbors. Compared to Oprah, the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste being dumped on society. Jerry ends every show with a “final word”. He makes a small speech that sums up the entire moral of the show. Hopefully, this is the part where most people will learn something very valuable. Clean as it is, the Oprah show is not for everyone. The show’s main target audiences are middle-class Americans. Most of these people have the time, money, and stability to deal with life’s tougher problems. Jerry Springer, on the other hand,