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[单项选择]Cox Radio, one of the nation’s largest radio chains, plans to ______ its ties with independent record promoters to distance itself from a payola-like practice that runs rampant in the music business.
A. consolidate
B. tout
C. sever
D. splash
[单项选择] Radio and cinema had one novelty in common: they were forms of communication which dispensed with the written word. The written word had gone hand in hand with civilization from the beginning. Now, theoretically, an illiterate could be as well-informed about the world as the best-read man. Reading might have been expected to decline as a result, but this did not happen. Perhaps the habit was too inbred. Besides, primary education, now almost universal in Europe, made literacy also universal, which had greatly increased their circulation during the First World War, continued to do so after it. In Great Britain, which carried the process furthest, the press by 1930 ranked twelfth among British industries, ahead of shipbuilding. Newspapers now counted their readers by millions where they had previously counted their readers by thousands. They had bigger headlines, shorter paragraphs, simpler writing. They derived their incomes mainly from advertisements, not from the halfpennies or pe
A. used headlines
B. communicated news
C. did without writing
D. advertised through newspapers and magazines
[单项选择]My favorite radio song is the one I first heard on a thick 1923 Edison disc I （）at a garage sale.
A. trifled with
B. scraped through
C. stumbled upon
D. thirsted for
[单项选择]According to the radio program, which one of the following four sentences is wrong
[A] Stanford University lies in California.
[B] Stanford accepted less than eleven percent of the students who applied.
[C] Stanford has accepted an unusually low percentage of students for admission this fall.
[D] Stanford has accepted a lower percentage of students for admission, but not the lowest.
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Passage One
The improbable chain of events that
leads Alexander Fleming 1.______
to
discover penicillin in 1928 is the stuff which scientific myths
2.______
are made. It was a discovery that would change the course of
the
history, The active ingredient in that mold, which Fleming
named penicillin, turned to be an infection-fighting agent of
3.______
enormous potency. When it was finally
recognized as what it
was—the efficacious life-saving drug in the
world—penicillin 4.______
would alter
forever the treatment of bacterial infections. By the
middle of the century,
Fleming’s discovery spawned a huge phar-
5.______
maceutical industry, churning out synthetic penicillin that
would
conquer some of man-kind’s most ancient scourges,
including
syphilis, gangrene, and tuberculosis.
When he died
a heart attack in 1955, he was mourned by
6.______
the world and buried as a natio
