大学英语四级阅读理解练习 三

　　Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:
　　Much attention has been given in the media to the so-called information superhighway which is supposed to use computer and telecommunication technology to completely change the way Americans will do business and receive information and entertainment at home in the future. There have been countless newspaper and magazine articles, television and radio discussions, meetings and conferences about it. However, according to a public opinion poll, most Americans say they have never heard of it.
　　The people who conducted the poll didn't actually talk to most Americans, of course, but they did talk to 1255 individuals, and they say the result has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points. But even if it's off by three percentage points, it's still amazing. Two-thirds of Americans do not recall having heard of the information superhighway. And, even among the 34% who have heard of it，most say that they have little understanding of what it is. But even though most of those who have heard of it don't know what it is, six out of ten of them say that they are for it.
　　It seems very odd that people can admit that they don't know what something is and yet say they are for it, or against it, for that matter. It generally works out better when you find things out, rather than this business of linking something before finding out what it is. This is the way they know anything about it or not.
　　Unfortunately, this is the way political leadership works today: the so- called leaders read the polls to find out what the people want and here's the poll telling us that the people are ready to say what they want without knowing the first thing about it. This is the blind leading the blind. No wonder things are the way they are.
　　6. According to the passage, which of the following media covers the information superhighway?
　　 A) Television series
　　 B) Newspaper cartoons
　　 C) Speeches at the meetings
　　 D) Concerts
　　7．________ don't really know what the information superhighway is.
　　 A) Most Americans
　　 B) Two-thirds of Americans
　　 C) All Americans
　　 D) More than half Americans
　　8. What point is the writer of the article trying to make about the American people?
　　 A) They do not know the information superhighway though they pretend to.
　　 B) They say they agree with the leaders before they know who the leaders are.
　　 C) They don't know much about telecommunication technology though they say they do.
　　 D) They express an opinion on something before they know anything about it.
　　9. The passage is a criticism of _________ in the U.S. .
　　 A) the mass media
　　 B) the information superhighway
　　 C) the political leadership
　　 D) the general public
　　10. The expression " the blind leading the blind" in the last paragraph means ________.
　　 A) the ignorant leaders are taken in by the mass media
　　 B) both the media and Americans are blind
　　 C) ill-informed leaders are leading ignorant people
　　 D) both the people and the leaders are taken in by the media.