Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
Video conferencing is nothing more than a television set or PC monitor with a camera. Through the video conferencing, not only your voice but also your face, the surroundings and any other graphic and physical (36) can be captured and transmitted through the communication system with or without wires. Of course, when you go into the details, the technology involved is very (37) and the subject matter littered with jargon. Such as ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network), POTS(Plain Old Telephone Service) or the (38) behind bandwidth, latency and is corny which are used to explain how videoconferencing works. Good people communication is (39) __ in any business, and the more interaction you can achieve, the more likely it is that your (40) will be the right ones. Videoconferencing not only allows you to speak to people in different locations, but also note (41) expressions and gestures that let you know what the other person is really thinking. Meetings are made more (42) __ by sharing documents and computer applications that a simple telephone cannot (43) . (44) , organizations are discovering the competitive advantages and the power of videoconferencing. With advances in performance, economical pricing, the ability to (45) __ essential meeting tools and connectivity to global telephone networks and stand and iced video conferencing protocols, videoconferencing is now a practical reality for any organization.
A) Fortunately
B) effective
C) images
D) ANTICULAT
E) facial
F) manage
G) decsions
H) connect
I) advanced
J) integrate
K) progressive
L) concepts
M) pictures
N) Increasingly
O) important
视频会议是一套电视设备或是配有摄像头的电子监视器。通过视频会议,不光是你的声音,还有你的面容、你所在的环境以及其他任何的图形和实物图像都可以通过有线或无线的信息传输系统收集并传送。当然,如果你深入了解视频会议,它实际上包含有相当关端的技术,并且会遇到很多的专门术语,比如ISDN(综合业务数字网),POTS(普通老式电话服务行业),或者是诸如带宽,待机和等时线等用于解释视频会议工作原理的概念。在任何事务中,良好的人际交流都是很重要的,你能得到的交互信息越多,铱所作的决策就越有可能是正确的。视频会议不仅可以让你跟不同地方的人说话,还能让你看见听众的面部表情和姿态,从而知道他们的真实想法。通过共享文档和计算机应用,能让会议更有效,而这仅仅依靠一个电话是不能实现的。越来越多的机构已逐步发现了视频会议具有竞争力的优势和影响。由于设备性能的不断提高,价格的实惠,并且具备了与基本会议工具较强的兼容能力和与全球电话网络系统的良好互通性,以及其协议的标准化,视频回忆已经成为任何一个组织的实用现实工具。
36.【解析】 C。此空应填名词。从后面的“…can be captured and trans『lfitted”可以选出选项中images和pictures,pictures指“画面,图片”,一般指静态的情景;而文中表达的意思是实时的视频会议,画面应该是动态的,images可以表示动态的形象,画面,故images正确。
37.【解析】 l。这里应填形容词,修饰the technology。选项中的advanced,progressive,important可以用 来修饰the technology,根据后文中说the technology中包含了展多行业术语,是很深奥的,排除im—portant;而progressive“上进的,进步的”,强调寻求更好的,advanced有“领先的,高深的,并非人人都能接受的”含义,根据上下文,advanced更符合题意。
38.【解析】 L。首先由空前的冠词the判断这里应填名词,再根据后文中说明是“用于解释视频会议工作原理的……”,从原文中的explain“解释,说明”可以推出,选项中的名词concepts最符合题意。故选L。
39.【解析l 0。此处应填形容词。这个分句后面说交流越多,你越可能成为正确的那一个,说明交流很重要,与本文的视频会议~种交流的工具主题一致,这里应该填important。
40.【解析l G。由空格后的0nes可知,这里应填名词的复数形式。前面提到the more interaction…the morelikely...be the right ones“得到的交互信息越多,你的……就更有可能是正确的”、人们通过视频会议谈判协商,了解的信息越多,自己的判断、决策才会更正确。故这里应填decisions;。
41.【解析】E。此处应填形容词修饰expressions。由上文Videoconfi renting not only,allowsyou to speak topeople in different locations“视频会议不仅可以让你跟不同地方的人说话”,--expressions and gesturesthatletyouknowwhatthe otherpersonisreallythinking,"——表情和.冬态,从而让你知道他们的真实想法”,很明显修饰expressions的应该是facial,意思是“面部表情”。
42.【解析】B。此处要填形容词,与more构成形容词比较级结构。从后文by sharing documentsand compu—ter application“通过共享文档和计算机应用,会议能更加--,这是视频会议的优势,也是其目的,即提高效率,故这里应填effective。progressive“进步的”并不是电话会议要达到的目的,故排除。
43.【解析】 F。此处应填动词原形。选项中的动词原形有articulate,ma rage,integrate,connect,由原文可知,视频会议可以“共享文档和计算机应用”,而电话是不能做到的,只推断这里填的词表示“做到,实现”的词,故只有manage“设法达成”符合文意。
44.【解析】 N。可以推断此处应填副词,选项中有Fortunately和Increasingly两个副词,本文全文都在说随着技术的发达,视频会议越来越受欢迎,所以应该是increasingh而不是fortunately“幸运地”。
45.【解析】 J。此处应填动词原型,宾语是各种重要的会议工具。选项中还有reticulate,integrate和connect三个动词原形。其中articulate作“接合”意思讲的时候指的是单独的事物由关节连接,connect“连接”表示将分离的东西连接在一起,而integrate强调的是各种事物结合,形成一个整体。integrate正确。