四级英语阅读提高练习

　　Perhaps the PR industry might take a lesson from Ted Turner of CNN (Cable News Network).Turner recently announced that the word “foreign”would no longer be used on CNN newsbroadcasts. According to Turner, global communications have made the nations of the world sointerdependent that there is no longer any such things as foreign.

　　四级英语阅读提高练习题目：

　　1. According to the passage, America's relations is being threatened because of________.

　　A. an unparalleled increase in the number of public relations companies

　　B. shrinking cultural differences and new communications technologies

　　C. the decreasing number of multinational corporations in the U.S.

　　D. increased efforts of other countries in public relations

　　2. London could soon replace New York as the center of PR because ________.

　　A. British companies are more ambitious than U.S. companies

　　B. British companies place more importance on PR than U.S. companies

　　C. British companies are heavily involved in planning activities

　　D. four of the world’s top public relations agencies are British-owned

　　3. The word “provincial” (Line 2, Para. 3) means “________”.

　　A. limited in outlook

　　B. like people from the provinces

　　C. rigid in thinking

　　D. interested in world financial affairs

　　4. We learn from the third paragraph that employees in the American PR industry________.

　　A. speak at least one foreign language fluently

　　B. are ignorant about world geography

　　C. are not as sophisticated as their European counterparts

　　D. enjoy reading a great variety of English business publications

　　5. What PR industry take from Ted Turner of CNN?

　　A. American PR companies should be more internationally-minded.

　　B. The American PR industry should develop global communications technologies.

　　C. People working in PR should be more fluent in foreign languages.

　　D. People involved in PR should avoid using the word “foreign”.

　　四级英语阅读提高练习答案：

　　1.[D] 事实细节题。由第2段第1句美国在公关方面威胁是来自其他国家在这方面的努力，故得知D为正确答案。

　　2.[B] 事实细节题。第2段最后两句提到，最近的研究调查发现，英国有超过一半的公司将PR作为其公司的计划活动的一部分,而美国只有三分之一的公司这样做，不久伦敦将取代纽约成为PR的中心。因此B为正确答案。

　　3.[A] 词义理解题。provincial是province“省;区域;范围”的派生词，可见它与“区域性的、一定范围的”的意思有关。文中提到美国人相当provincial，更关心的是本地的事情，因此provincial的意思与A最为接近。

　　4.[C] 推理判断题。第3段提到了美国在全球公共竞赛中与其欧洲对手相比落后的三个主要原因：美国人视野较窄，只关心本地的事物，关于世界地理的知识了解不多(但并不是一无所知，因此B不正确);外语流利的人很少(可见A是不正确的);阅读面很窄，只读《华尔街日报》(可见D也不正确)。由此可推断出美国人与其欧洲对手相比，没有那么老练，因此C为正确答案。

　　5.[A] 事实细节题。文章最后两句提到，特纳宣称在CNN的新闻广播中“foreign”一词将不再被使用，全球化的通讯已经使得世界各国相互依靠，从而不再需要“foreign”这类东西，也就是说所有人都应当具有国际观念，因此A为正确答案。