職稱英語綜合類A級閱讀理解預(yù)測題

1、第 第 頁職稱英語綜合類A級閱讀理解預(yù)測題Publicity offers several benefits. There are no costs for message time or space. An ad in prime-time television may cost $250,000 to $500,000 or more per minute, whereas a five-minute report on a network newscast would not cost anything. However, there are costs for news release

2、s, a publicity department, and other items. As with advertising, publicity reaches a mass audience. Within a short time, new products or company policies are widely known.Credibility about messages is high, because they are reported in independent media A newspaper review of a movie has more believa

3、bility than an ad in the same paper, because the reader associates independence with objectivity. Similarly, people are more likely to pay attention to news reports than to ads. For e*ample, The Womens Wear Daily has both fashion reports and advertisements. Readers spend time reading the stories, bu

4、t they flip through (閱覽) the ads. Furthermore, there may be 10 commercials during a half-hour television program or hundreds of ads in a magazine. Feature stories are much fewer in number and stand out clearly.Publicity also has some significant limitations. A firm has little control over messages t

5、heir timing, their placement, or their coverage by a given medium. It may issue detailed news releases and find only portions cited by the media; and media have the ability to be much more critical than a company would like.For e*ample, in 1982, Procter Gamble faced a substantial publicity problem o

6、ver the meaning of its 123-year-old company logo (標(biāo)識). A few ministers and other private citizens believed that the symbol was sacrilegious (褻瀆的). These beliefs were covered e*tensively by the media and resulted in the firm receiving 15,000 phone calls about the rumor in June alone. To combat this n

7、egative publicity, the firm issued news releases featuring prominent clergy (神父) that refuted (清除) the tumors, threatened to sue (控告) those people spreading the stories, and had a spokesperson appear on Good Morning America. The media cooperated with the company and the false rumors were temporarily

8、 put to rest. However, in 1985, negative publicity became so disruptive that Procter Gamble decided to remove the logo from its products.A firm may want publicity during certain periods, such as when a new product is introduced or new store opened, but the media may not cover the introduction or ope

9、ning until after the time it would aid the firm. Similarly, the media determine the placement of a story; it may follow a report on crime or sports. Finally, the media determine whether to cover a story at all and the amount of coverage to be devoted to it. A company-sponsored jobs program might go

10、unreported or receive three-sentence coverage in a local newspaper.6 The word mass in Line 5 could best be replaced byA grouped.B crowded.C gathered.D large.7 The second paragraph implies that people are more likely to believe storiesA in a newspaper than in a womens daily.B in a newspaper than in a

11、 magazine.C In an Independent newspaper than in a dependent newspaper.D in a magazine than in a local newspaper.8 According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?A A firm can control and time publicity accurately.B A firm can neither control nor time publicity accurately.C A firm

12、 can either control or time publicity accurately.D In most cases a firm can control and time publicity accurately.9 The e*ample in Paragraph 4 is intended to demonstrateA the power of publicity.B the victim of publicity.C the terrible effects of rumors.D the vulnerability of people to publicity.10 The passage implies thatA the placement of a story is not quite impor