中山大学240英语(单考)2019考研真题试卷
Section I:Use of English(10 points)Directions:Read the following text.Choose the best word(s)for each numbered blank and mark A,B,Cor Don the ANSWERSHEET.In our society, we must communicate with other people.A great deal of communicating is performedon a person-to-person _1_ by the simple means of speech.If we travel in buses, stand in footballmatch _2_, we are likely to have conversations _3_ we give information or opinions, andsometimes have our views _4_ by other members of society.Face-to-face contact is _5_ the only form of communication, and during the last two hundredyears the _6_ of mass communication has become one of the dominating factors of contemporarysociety.Two things,_7_ Others, have caused the enormous growth of the communication industry.Firstly, inventiveness has _8_ advances in printing, photography and so on.Secondly, speed hasrevolutionized the _9_ and reception of communications so that local news often _10_a backseat to national news.No longer is the possession of information _11_ to a privileged minority.Forty years agopeople used to _12_ to the cinema, but now far more people sit at home and turn on the TV to watcha program that _13_ into millions of house