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unit 1 总论Day 3 题型及应对策略二(推论题)
　　题型及应对策略二(推论题)
　　这类问题的难度相对较大,需要我们不仅读懂字面含义,而且理解其字里行间的隐含意思。
　　一般题目形式为:
　　The author seems to be in favor of/against...
　　We can infer/assume that...
　　It can be concluded from the passage that...
　　The passage suggests that...
　　The author of the passage would most likely imply...
　　It can be learned that...
　　请读下面的文章,做出推论题。
　　Exercise 1
　　The biggest safety threat facing airlines today may not be a terrorist with a gun, but the man with the portable computer in business class. In the last 15 years, pilots have reported well over 100 incidents that could have been caused by electromagnetic interference. The source of this interference remains unconfirmed, but increasingly, experts are pointing the blame at portable electronic devices such as portable computers, radio and cassette players and mobile telephones.
　　RTCA, an organization which advises the aviation(航空)industry, has recommended that all airlines ban(禁止)such devices from being used during “critical” stages of flight, particularly take-off and landing. Some experts have gone further, calling for a total ban during all flights. Currently, rules on using these devices are left up to individual airlines. And although some airlines prohibit passengers from using such equipment during take-off and landing, most are reluctant to enforce a total ban, given that many passengers want to work during flights.
　　The difficulty is predicting how electromagnetic fields might affect an aircraft’s computers. Experts know that portable devices emit radiation which affects those wavelengths which aircraft use for navigation and communication. But, because they have not been able to reproduce these effects in a laboratory, they have no way of knowing whether the interference might be dangerous or not.
　　The fact that aircraft may be vulnerable(易受损的)to interference raises the risk that terrorists may use radio system in order to damage navigation equipment. As worrying, though, is the passenger who can’t hear the instructions to turn off his radio because the music’s too loud.
　　Q: It can be inferred from the passage that the author .
　　A) is in favor of prohibiting passengers’ use of electronic devices completely
　　B) has overestimated the danger of electromagnetic interference
　　C) hasn’t formed his own opinion on this problem
　　D) regards it as unreasonable to exercise a total ban during flight
　　【题目译文】从本文推断出作者 。
　　【答案解析】A。纵观全文我们知道,作者对电磁干扰影响飞行安全感到担忧,所以应该是倾向于完全禁止乘客使用电子设备的。
　　Exercise 2 (1999.6)
　　The rise of multinational corporations(跨国公司), global marketing, new communications technologies, and shrinking cultural differences have led to an unparalleled increase in global public relations or PR.
　　Surprisingly, since modern PR was largely an American invention, the U.S. leadership in public relations is being threatened by PR efforts in other countries. Ten years ago, for example, the world’s top five public relations agencies were American-owned. In 1991, only one was. The British in particular are becoming more sophisticated and creative. A recent survey found that more than half of all British companies include PR as part of their corporate(公司的)planning activities, compared to about one-third of U.S. companies. It may not be long before London replaces New York as the capital of PR.
　　Why is America lagging behind in the global PR race? First, Americans as a whole tend to be fairly provincial and take more of an interest in local affairs. Knowledge of world geography, for example, has never been strong in this country. Secondly, Americans lag behind their European and Asian counterparts(相对应的人)in knowing a second language. Less than 5 percent of Burson-Marshall’s U.S. employees know two languages. Ogilvy and Mather has about the same percentage. Conversely, some European firms have half or more of their employees fluent in a second language. Finally, people involved in PR abroad tend to keep a closer eye on international affairs. In the financial PR area, for instance, most Americans read the Wall Street Journal. Overseas, their counterparts read the Journal as well as the Financial Times of London and The Economist, publications not often read in this country.
　　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 news broadcasts. According to Turner, global communications have made the nations of the world so interdependent that there is no longer any such thing as foreign.
　　Q: 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