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职称英语考试理工类阅读理解必备练习题(1)

发布时间：2016-03-01 编辑：查字典英语网小编

　　TV Game Shows 　　This is the principle behind quiz or game shows, which put ordinary people on TV to play a game for prizes and money. A quiz show can make anyone a star, and it can give away thousands of dollars in the U.S. and almost everyone watched them. Charles Van Doren, an English instructor, became rich and famous after winning money on several shows. He even had a career as a television personality. But one of the losers proved that Charles Van Doren was cheating. It turned out that the shows producers who were pulling the strings, gave the answers to the most popular contestants beforehand. Why? Because if the audience didnt like the person who won the game, they turned the show off. The result of this cheating was a huge scandal. Based on his story, a movie under the title Quiz Show is on 40 years later. 　　1. TV can make a beggar world-famous overnight. 　　B. Wrong 　　2. The principle behind quiz and game shows is to put ordinary people on TV to play a game for prizes and money. 　　B. Wrong 　　3. Prizes and money are usually provided by TV stars and large companies for winners. 　　B. Wrong 　　4. One of the TV personalities, Charles Van Doren was proved to be cheating by persuading the Shows producers to give him the answers beforehand. 　　B. Wrong 　　5. The huge scandal of cheating in TV game shows was not exposed until 40 years later in the movie Quiz Show. 　　B. Wrong 　　6. Nowadays game shows are not treated as seriously as they used to be. 　　B. Wrong 　　7. Winners of present-day TV game shows no longer get money from the shows. 　　B. Wrong 　　KEYS: ABCBBAB

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