2016職稱英語考試《衛(wèi)生類》A級閱讀判斷練習(xí)題（6）

TV Game Shows

One of the most fascinating things about television is the size of the audience.A novel can be on the "best seller" lists with a sale of fewer than 100，000 copies,but a popular TV show might have 70 million TV viewers.TV can make anything or anyone well-known overnight.

This is the principle behind "quiz" or "game" shows,which put ordinary people on TV to play a game for prizes and money.A quiz show can make anyone a star,and it can give away thousands of dollars in the U.S.and almost everyone watched them.Charles Van Doren,an English instructor,became rich and famous after winning money on several shows.He even had a career as a television personality.But one of the losers proved that Charles Van Doren was cheating.It turned out that the show's producers who were pulling the strings,gave the answers to the most popular contestants beforehand.Why？ Because if the audience didn't like the person who won the game,they turned the show off.The result of this cheating was a huge scandal.Based on his story,a movie under the title "Quiz Show" is on 40 years later.

Charles Van Doren is no longer involved with TV.But game shows are still here,though they aren't taken as seriously.In fact,some of them try to be as ridiculous as possible.There are shows that send strangers on vacation trips together,or that try to cause newly-married couples to fight on TV,or that punish losers by humiliation them.The entertainment now is to see what people will do just to be on TV.People still win money,but the real prize is to be in front of an audience of millions.

注釋：

1、the size of the audience：觀眾的數(shù)目、規(guī)模。size指規(guī)模、數(shù)量等；audience是集合名詞，當(dāng)它表達(dá)一個整體概念時，后面的動詞用單數(shù)；若表達(dá)整體中的具體的成員時，動詞用復(fù)數(shù)形式。

2、best seller：暢銷書，暢銷品

3、…with a sale of fewer than 100，000 copies：……其發(fā)行量已不到10萬冊

4、TV viewer：電視觀眾

5、overnight：是副詞，意為"一夜之間"。又如：Byron became famous overnight.拜倫一夜成名。

6、This is the principle behind…for prizes and money：這就是存在于電視"智力競賽"表演背后的原理，這些表演促使普通老百姓為了獎品和獎金走上電視玩游戲。

7、give away：送掉，發(fā)給，贈給

8、for fun：為了好玩，為了開心。類似的表達(dá)法還有：for a change 為了改變一下，為了換換花樣。

9、文中的famous意為"著名的"。同義詞有noted，renowned，popular，distinguished等。

10、television personality：電視明星

11、It turned out that the show's producers who were pulling the strings,gave the answers to the most popular contestants beforehand.原來，在幕后操縱的節(jié)目制片人已提前將問題的答案告訴類那些最受（觀眾）歡迎的參賽者。

12、scandal：丑聞，丑事

13、to be on：在文中是"上演"之意

14、Charles Van Doren is no longer involved with TV：Charles Van Doren不再參與電視節(jié)目了。

練習(xí)：

1、TV can make a beggar world-famous overnight.

A.Right

B.Wrong

C.Not mentioned

2、The principle behind "quiz" and "game" shows is to put ordinary people on TV to play a game for prizes and money.

A.Right

B.Wrong

C.Not mentioned

3、Prizes and money are usually provided by TV stars and large companies for winners.

A.Right

B.Wrong

C.Not mentioned

4、One of the TV personalities,Charles Van Doren was proved to be cheating by persuading the Show's producers to give him the answers beforehand.

A.Right

B.Wrong

C.Not mentioned

5、The huge scandal of cheating in TV game shows was not exposed until 40 years later in the movie "Quiz Show"。

A.Right

B.Wrong

C.Not mentioned

6、Nowadays game shows are not treated as seriously as they used to be.

A.Right

B.Wrong

C.Not mentioned

7、Winners of present-day TV game shows no longer get money from the shows.

A.Right

B.Wrong

C.Not mentioned

答案與題解：

1、A 文章第一段最后一句講電視可以使任何事物或任何人一夜成名。

2、B 第二段第一句話提到的有獎"電視智力比賽"背后運(yùn)作的原理，指的是第一段最后一句話所講的"電視可以使任何事物或任何人一夜成名"。而不是所謂"讓普通人上電視參加有獎比賽"。This 一詞作為一種銜接手段，常用來指上文剛剛提到的內(nèi)容。

3、C 文中只提到"電視智力競賽"的獲勝者會得到價值不等的獎品和獎金，并未提到其來源。

4、B 文中第三段提到為了吸引觀眾，節(jié)目制片人主動把答案事先告訴了Charles Van Doren.

5、B Charles Van Doren在"電視智力競賽"中作弊的丑聞早在20世紀(jì)50年代就被當(dāng)時比賽中的一位失敗者揭發(fā)出來，"智力競賽"這部電影只是在40年后從中汲取類素材。

6、A 第三段中講"電視智力競賽"仍舊在電視上放映，只是人們對它的態(tài)度不再像從前那樣認(rèn)真。

7、B 文章結(jié)尾處說今天"電視智力競賽"的獲獎?wù)邆儷@得的真正的獎勵是在數(shù)百萬的觀眾面前亮相，但他們?nèi)耘f能得到一些錢。