公共英语四级辅导：PETS4阅读精讲（47）

　　Use of English
　　Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase marked A, B, C or D for each numbered blank.
　　The spread of culture to all people is one part of the _1_ cultural revolution. A second _2_ is the mixing of cultures of different parts of the world. Today, teenagers in Japan listen _3_ records made in the United States. people in India go to movies made in italy and Germany. If you walk into an American _4_ museum, you will probably _5_ examples of African sculpture and Chinese and Mexican paintings.
　　Television also has led to, cultural _6_. Television programs that _2_ see in one year are shown in Europe, Africa, and Asia the next year. Americans, _8_ the other hand, can sit home and see on television a dance from Java, an opera from Germany, or an orchestra from Brazil. They can see s bullfight from _9_, or perhaps the olympic Games _10_ Montreal, Tokyo, or Rome.
　　Modern art, music, and literature are always changing. Some of these _11_ are difficult to understand. A person who looks at a modern painting of sculpture will often feel that it does not make sense. Modern _12_ may sound strange and unmusical. If a person reads a book written _13_ a modernistic style, he or she may have trouble _14_ it. _15_ today’s movies are sometimes hard to understand.
　　In the _16_, many scientists and inventions were called fools because they seemed to have _17_ ideas. Yet they opened new _18_ in sciences. It is much the same _19_ many modern artists, musicians, and writers. They have new and new and different ideas. They are opening new artistic roads. They have _20_ new to say about our world.
　　1.A. medieval B. ancient C. old D. modern
　　2.A. part B. range C. sphere D. ingredient
　　3.A. on B. from C. to D. at wｗw.ExamＷ.CoM
　　4.A. history B. military C. musical D. art
　　5.A. find B. encounter C. face D. meet
　　6.A. shock B. gap C. mixing D. pollution
　　7.A. European B. African C. Asian D. American
　　8.A. in B. by C. on D. at
　　9.A. Spain B. Greece C. Italy D. Norway
　　10.A. in B. from C. to D. at
　　11.A. differences B. changes C. ideas D. concepts
　　12.A. art B. performance C. image D. music
　　13.A. in B. on C. at D. by
　　14.A. understand B. Understanding C. understood D. to understand
　　15.A. Even B. Thus C. Hence D. Therefore
　　16.A. present B. nowadays C. future D. past
　　17.A. sound B. strange C. profound D. appropriate
　　18.A. roads B. ways C. methods D. streets
　　19.A. of B. at C. of D. with
　　20.A. nothing B. something C. everything D. anything