专八阅读理解精读训练附答案和解析 第3篇:Advertisers Perform to the Community
Advertisers Perform a Useful Service to theCommunity
Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this iswhy they're always coming in for criticism. Theircritics seem to resent them because they have a flairfor self-promotion and because they have so much money to throw around. It' siniquitous,'they say, `that this entirely unproductive industry (if we can call it that) shouldabsorb millions of pounds each year. It only goes to show how much profit the big companiesare making. Why don' t they stop advertising and reduce the price of their goods? After all, it' sthe consumer who paysw'The poor old consumer! He' d have to pay a great deal more ifadvertising didn't create mass markets for products. It is precisely because of the heavyadvertising that consumer goods are so cheap. But we get the wrong idea if we think the onlypurpose of advertising is to sell goods. Another equally important function is to inform. Agreat deal of the knowledge we have about household goods derives largely from theadvertisements we read.
Advertisements introduce us to new products or remind us of the existence of ones we alreadyknow about. Supposing you wanted to buy a washing machine, it is more than likely you wouldobtain details regarding performance, price, etc., from an advertisement.
Lots of people pretend that they never read advertisements, but this claim may be seriouslydoubted. It is hardly possible not to read advertisements these days. And what fun they oftenare, too! Just think
what a railway station or a newspaper would be like without advertisements. Would you enjoygazing at a blank wall or reading railway byelaws while waiting for a train? Would you like to readonly closely printed columns of news in your daily paper? A cheerful, witty advertisementmakes such a difference to a drab wall or a newspaper full of the daily ration of calamities.
We must not forget, either, that advertising makes a positive contribution to our pockets.Newspapers, commercial radio and television companies could not subsist without this sourceof revenue. The fact that we pay so little for our daily paper, or can enjoy so many broadcastprogrammes is due entirely to the money spent by advertisers. Just think what a newspaperwould cost if we had to pay its full price!
Another thing we mustn't forget is the'small ads.'which are in virtually every newspaper andmagazine. What a tremendously useful service they perform for the community! Just aboutanything can be accomplished through these columns. For instance, you can find a job, buy orsell a house, announce a birth, marriage or death in what used to be called the `hatch, matchand dispatch'column but by far the most fascinating section is the personal or `agony'column.No other item in a newspaper provides such entertaining reading or offers such a deep insightinto human nature. It' s the best advertisement for advertising there is!
【阅读练习题】
1.What is main idea of this passage?
A. Advertisement.
B. The benefits of advertisement.
C. Advertisers perform a useful service to communities.
D. The costs of advertisement.
2.The attitude of the author toward advertisers is
A. appreciative.
B. trustworthy.
C .critical.
D. dissatisfactory.
3.Why do the critics criticize advertisers?
A. Because advertisers often brag.
B. Because critics think advertisement is a "waste of money".
C. Because customers are encouraged to buy more than necessary.
D. Because customers pay more.
4.Which of the following is Not True?
A. Advertisement makes contribution to our pockets and we may know everythir
B. We can buy what we want.
C. Good quality products don't need to be advertised.
D. Advertisement makes our life colorful.
5.The passage is
A. Narration.
B. Description.
C. Criticism.
D. Argumentation.
【答案详解】
1.C.广告对社会的服务很有用。作者从三方面来叙述广告作用:第二段点出如果广告不为产品开辟广大的市场，我们就得付出很多钱，正是因为大量的广告费用，消费者的商品才会那么便宜。
广告除销售商品外，其重要的功能在通知/告诉信息，有关家用商品的许多只是来白广告，还有新产品的介绍。
第三段讲了美化环境功能。如果火车站的墙上和报上没有广告，那会怎么样。一幅悦人心目，机智的广告将改变一切。
第四段讲了它为我们省钱:别忘了广告对我们口袋作出积极的贡献。报纸、电台、电视台司没有这笔收入很难生存。我们的报纸，我们付给很少，或者说，我们能享受那么多的节目完全是因为广告商花的钱。如果要我们付报纸的全价，那我们要花多少钱!
最后一段讲了各种专栏的功能。人们可以在这些栏目找工作、买卖房了、宣布婚丧嫁娶信息。这些都围着一个中心:广告对社会服务的有用性。
2.A.广告。太笼统。B.广告之优点。文章不是讲优点，而是讲服务于社会的功能。D.广告费用。
3.A.欣赏/赞赏。从上述注释也可推知是A项。最重要的，作者提出种种功能，是为了反驳第一段内提到的论点:完全是非生产企业每年吸收儿白万镑，这说明这些大公司利润有多高。最重要的是消费者付的广告费等。反驳更说明了A项对。B.值得信任。C.批评。D.不满意。A.因为广告商常常爱吹，。见难句译注1.。B.因为批评者认为广告浪费钱。C.因为广告促使消费者购买不必要的东西。D.因为消费者支付更多。
4.C.优质产品不需要广告。一切产品都需要广告，新产品、老产品都需要。A.广告对我们的口袋作出贡献。B.我们可以买到我们所需的。D.广告使我们生活丰富多彩。这三条都提到也是真实的。
5.C.文章一开始就提到对广告的批评，然后作者以对比的手法说明其功能。A.叙事。B.描写。D.议论。
