文档介绍：1991年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题
Section ⅠUse of English
Directions: For each numbered blank in the following passage there are four choices labelled [A], [B], [C] and [D]. Choose the best one and put your choice in the ANSWER SHEET. (15 points)
When television first began to expand, very few of the people who had e famous as mentators were able to be equally effective on television. Some of the difficulties they experienced when they were trying to ___1___ themselves to the new medium were technical. When working ___2____ radio, for example, they had e ___3___ to seeing on behalf of the listener.
This ___4___ of seeing for others means that mentator has to be very good at talking. ___5___ all, he has to be able to ___6___ a continuous sequence of visual images which ___7___ meaning to the sounds which the listener hears. In the ___8___ of television, however, mentator sees everything with the viewer. His role, therefore, is ___9___ different. He is there to make ___10___ that the viewer does not miss some point of interest, to help him ___11___ on particular things, and to ___12___ the images on the television screen. ___13___ his radio colleague, he must know the ___14___ of silence and how to use it at those moments ___15___ the pictures speak for themselves.
1.[A] turn [B] adapt [C] alter [D] modify
[解析]本题考核知识点:动词的搭配
本题空格处的动词须能够搭配成“…oneself to + 名词”的形式,选项中只有[B]可以。Adapt oneself to意为to gradually change one’s behavior and attitudes so that one get used to a new situation and can deal with it essfully“(使)适应,(使)适合(新情况)”。代入adapt之后,空格所在句大意为:他们(收音机评论员)努力去适应(电视机)这种新媒体的时候,遇到了一些技术方面的困难。[B]符合文义。
[A] turn to sb/sth意为ask help from“求助于”,如:I tried to stand on my own rather than turned to my 。[C] Alter意为cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 改变,如:He altered one of the rooms into a bedroom. 他把一间屋子改建成了卧室。[D] Modify 意为to make small changes to sth in order to improve it and make it more suitable or effective “(略微地)修改,更改,改进”,如:Furthermore, humans