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In the world of entertainment, TV talk shows have undoubtedly flooded every inch of space on daytime television. And anyone who watches them regularly knows that each one varies in style and format. But no two shows are more profoundly opposite in content, while at the same time standing out above the rest, than the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey shows.
Jerry Springer could easily be considered the king of “trash talk (废话)”.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 audience 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, has more of an association with the young adults of society. These are 18 to 21-year-olds whose main troubles in life involve love, relationship, sex, money and peers. They are the ones who see some value and lessons to be learned underneath the show’s exploitation.
While the two shows are as different as night and day, both have ruled the talk show circuit for many years now. Each one caters to a different audience while both have a strong following from large groups of fans. Ironically, both could also be considered pioneers in the talk show world.
1
Compared with other TV talk shows， both the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey are _____.
A.
more family-oriented
B.
more profound
C.
relatively formal
D.
unusually popular
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
D
系统解析：
根据文章第1段第3句“但是没有两个节目能像Jerry Springs和Oprah Winfrey那样，在内容上完全不同却又都比其他所有节目突出”和文章最后一段中的“数年来，在电视访谈节目中，这两个节目一直处于领 先地位……并拥有庞大而固定的观众群”，可知只有D与文中所陈述的意思相符。
2
Though the social problems Jerry Springer talks appear distasteful, the audience _____.
A.
remain indifferent to them
B.
are willing to get involved in them
C.
remain fascinated by them
D.
are ready to face up to them
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
C
系统解析：
根据文章第2段最后一句说“显然，Jerry Springer的访谈节目展示和揭露了社会的道德灾难，但人们却乐意关注别人生活中遇到的困难”，特别是eat up, intriguing等词说明了人们对该节目十分着迷，因此，A与 文中所陈述的意思相悖;C与文中所表达的意思相符;B、D文中没有提及。
3
Which of the following is likely to be a topic of the Oprah Winfrey show?
A.
Street violence
B.
Racist hatred
C.
A new type of robot
D.
Family budget planning
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
D
系统解析：
文章第3段第2、3句说“Oprah访谈节目集中探讨社会状况的改善和个人生活质量的提高。其话题包括培养孩子的责任感，安排自己一周的工作日程及认识你的邻居等”，D属于前面所提到的内容，与文章所陈述的意思相符;A和B都极有可能是Jerry访谈节目的内容，与题意不符;C文中并没有提及。
4
Despite their different approaches, the two talk shows are both ____.
A.
cynical
B.
instructive
C.
sensitive
D.
ironical
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
B
系统解析：
从全文来看，Oprah节目谈论的是社会和家庭问题，从第3段末句可知此节目能教会人一些东西；虽然 Jerry的节目谈论都是社会的阴暗面，但在每集节目结束前，Jerry都要作简短的发言，总结该集节目的道德意义，而大部分观众，特别是年轻人能从中学到一些非常有用的东西，也能得到一些经验和教训。因此，这 两个节目均具有启发性和教育意义，故选B “有益的；教育性的”。
5
We can learn from the passage that the two talk shows ____.
A.
are targeted at different audiences
B.
appear at different times of the day
C.
have monopolized the talk show circuit
D.
exploit the weakness in human nature
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
A
系统解析：
根据文章第5段“Oprah的节目主要是针对中产阶级”和“Jerry的节目针对的则是年轻人”可知，这两个节目分别迎合不同观众的口味，A与文章内容相符；文中并没有提到这两个节目的具体播出时间，B错；根据文章第1段：在美国娱乐界，电视访谈节目充斥了日间电视屏幕，而这两个节目只是处于领先而非“垄断”地位，故C错;D无原文依据。
While the mission of public schools has expanded beyond education to include social support and extra-curricular activities, the academic schedule has changed little in man, than a century.
Reclaiming the school day for academic instruction and escaping the time-bound traditions of education are vital steps in the school-reform process, says a report released today by the National Education Commission on Time and Learning.
The commission’s report, titled “Prisoners of Time,” calls the fixed clock and calendar in American education a “fundamental design flaw” in desperate need of change. “Time should serve children instead of children serving time," the report says.
The two-year commission found that holding American students to “world-class standards,” will requite more time for classroom instruction. “We have been asking the impossible of our students-that they learn as much as their foreign peers while spending half as much as in core academic subjects," it states.
The Commission compared the relationships between time and learning in Japan, Germany, and the United States and found that American students receive less than half the basic academic instruction that Japanese and German students are provided. On average, American students can earn a high school diploma if they spend only 41 percent of their school time on academics, says the report.
American students spend an average of three hours a day on “core” academics such as English, math, science, and history, the commission found. Their report recommends offering a minimum of 5.5 hours of academics every school day.
The nine-member commission also recommends lengthening the school day beyond the traditional six hours.
“If schools want to continue offering important activities outside the academic core, as well as serving as a hub for family and community services, they should keep school doors open longer each day and each year,” says John Hodge Jones, superintendent of schools in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and chairman of the commission.
The typical school year in American public schools is 180 days. Eleven states allow school years of 175 days or less, and only one state requires more than 180 day.
“For over a decade, education reform advocates have been working feverishly to improve our schools,” says Milton Goldberg, executive director of the commission. “But... if reform is to truly take hold， the six-hour, 180-day school year should be relegated (归属于）to museums—an exhibit from our education past.”
6
Compared with the academic courses more than a hundred years ago, the academic courses now ___.
A.
include some extra-curricular activities
B.
focus more on education of social support
C.
demand students’ more contribution of time
D.
remain more or less what they used to be
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
D
系统解析：
首段主句中changed little与选项D为近义替换，因此选项D为本题答案。选项A中的extra-curricular activities和选项B中的social support都在第1段提到过，但是它们和该段提到的academic schedule是并列于整个教育系统之下的三个平行的成分,答案与A、B无关。选项C“要求学生花更多时间”不是academic courses对学生的要求，而是文中调查组的看法。
7
The researches by the commission mentioned in the passage are most concerned about _____.
A.
the time attributed to academic learning
B.
the components of school education
C.
the changes in education in the recent century
D.
the fashion of education management
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
A
系统解析：
从第2段到最后一段，都是讨论调查组的研究结果。而且通篇都在对时间进行讨论，故选A。本文首段只是引出话题，而文章的主体——调查组的研究——从第2段才开始阐述，选项B “学校教育的组成部分”和选项C “最近这个世纪教育的变化”与文章首段有关，因此都不是正确答案。选项D在文中没有提及。
8
As it is mentioned in the passage, schools in the United States do the following except _____.
A.
provide important outside-academic activities
B.
serve social units such as family and community
C.
arrange six-hour teaching and learning every day
D.
have competition with school of other countries
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
D
系统解析：
由第8段可知，学校教育包括了学术教育、课外活动和社区服务，只有选项D没有被包括在内。文中并没有提到美国在教育上主张和别国竞争。
9
American students differ from those in Japan, Germany in that ____.
A.
they stay at school for a shorter time every day
B.
they do not learn as much as their counterparts abroad
C.
they devote less time to academic learning
D.
they earn a high school diploma more easily
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
C
系统解析：
第5段第1句提到了美日德学生在时间安排与学习关系上的对比，C为本题答案。选项D最具干扰性，第5段末句提到美国学生只要把在校时间的41%用于学术科目就可以得到中学毕业证了，但是，时间用得少并不意味着毕业容易，而且此细节与美日德学生之间的比较无关，因此，选项D犯了过度概括的错误。选项A不正确是因为文中并没有提到美日德学生在这一方面的比较。选项B与第4段末句提到的事实相反。
10
Executive director of the commission Milton Goldberg would most probably agree that ____.
A.
what the education reform advocates have done is not good enough
B.
the time of school day and school year should be extended
C.
visiting museums can improve students' academic learning ability
D.
social support and extra-curricular activities should be cancelled
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
B
系统解析：
文章末段表明Milton Goldberg认为将来教育时间应比现在更长，因此选项B为本题答案。选项A与末段首句提到的事实不符；选项C中提到的museums虽在该段末句也有提到，但整个选项的陈述只是出题人抓住museums—词的发挥，因此当然也不对了 ；选项D与Milton Goldberg无关。
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