Printed words are perhaps the most important way of people communicating with each other. __1__around you at the books in school, the newspapers at home and the stamps you stick on envelopes before__2__them. Think of the importance of being able to__3__the instructions printed on packets of food and medicine sold in shops.

　　In these and__4__ways, printed words have become so important that it it difficult to ima-gine how life could__5__on without them. In everyday life there are hundreds of __6__in which people need to communicate with one another. And the printed words are always the __7__way of communication, where large__8__ of people join.

　　As you may know, communication__9__ to reach a great many people called “mass communication”. The main__10__of mass communication using the printed words are newspapers, __11__and books. In the __12__of a modern national newspaper, thousands of copies of each issue(期)may be printed and __13__in a single day.

　　The best__14__modern mass communication which does not use the printed words is radio and television, __15__may also reach millions of people at__16__time.

　　In__17__, however, it was many centuries __18__man even had a language. Early cave men communicated with one another by sign language or by__19__on the walls of their caves. It was just when language was developed __20__man gradually improved their communication.

　　1. A. Walk B. Read C. Look D. Take

　　2. A. receiving B. delivering C. tearing D. posting

　　3. A. understand B. see C. write D. study

　　4. A. those B. most C. many other D. rest

　　5. A. go B. live C. depend D. feed

　　6. A. facts B. situations C. events D. lives

　　7. A. difficult B. best C. unusual D. oldest

　　8. A. crowds B. deals C. numbers D. areas

　　9. A. came B. went C. refused D. meant

　　10. A. forms B. ideas C. income D. plans

　　11. A. records B. movies C. magazines D. radios

　　12. A. need B. opinion C. result D. case

　　13. A. reported B. read C. broadcast D. prepared

　　14. A. known B. paid C. prepared D. made

　　15. A. it B. which C. they D. we

　　16. A. a B. the C. that D. this

　　17. A. short B. general C. fact D. other words

　　18. A. since B. before C. after D. because

　　19. A. leaning B. painting C. printing D. drawing

　　20. A. so B. that C. and D. therefore

　　[答案与解析]

　　1.C 2. D 3. A。印刷文字也许是人们相互交流的最重要的方式。看看你周围学校里的书、家里的报纸和你寄信前贴在信封上的邮票,想一想能够读懂印刷在食品包装和药店出售的药品上的使用说明的重要性。4. C 5. A。在上述和许多其他方面,印刷文字变得如此重要以至于很难想象没有印刷文字生活怎么才能继续。6. B 7. B 8. C。在日常生活中,有数百种情形人们需要相互交流,印刷文字一直是最好的交流方式,许多人都参与这种交流方式。9. D。mean to do sth.意为“意欲做某事”。 10. A 11. C。使用印刷文字的主要交流形式就是报纸、杂志和书籍。12. D。in the case of是固定词组,意为“就……情况来说”。13. B。printed和read是并列关系,与主语thousands of copies of each issue搭配。14. A。现代最知名的不使用印刷文字的交际群就是广播和电视。15. B。which引导非限制性定语从句。16. A。at a time是固定词组,意为“一次”。17. C 18. B。然而,事实上在人类有了语言前的几个世纪交流就存在了。19. D。早期的洞穴人通过手势语或在墙壁上画画来相互交流。20. B。这是强调句型。本句意为:只有当语言发展了,人类才逐渐地提高了交流水平。

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