2016职称英语综合类A级阅读理解预测题
Characteristics of Publicity
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 releases, 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 believability 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 example, The Women's Wear Daily has both fashion reports and advertisements. Readers spend time reading the stories, but they flip through (浏览) 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 their 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 example, in 1982, Procter & Gamble faced a substantial publicity problem over the meaning of its 123-year-old company logo (标志). A few ministers and other private citizens believed that the symbol was sacrilegious (亵渎的). These beliefs were covered extensively by the media and resulted in the firm receiving 15,000 phone calls about the rumor in June alone. To combat this negative publicity, the firm issued news releases featuring prominent clergy (神父) that refuted (消除) 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 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 opening 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 unreported or receive three-sentence coverage in a local newspaper.
6 The word "mass" in Line 5 could best be replaced by
A grouped.
B crowded.
C gathered.
D large.
7 The second paragraph implies that people are more likely to believe stories
A in a newspaper than in a women's daily.
B in a newspaper than in a 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 can either control or time publicity accurately.
D In most cases a firm can control and time publicity accurately.
9 The example in Paragraph 4 is intended to demonstrate
A 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 that
A the placement of a story is not quite important.
B the report of a crime may not be true.
C local newspapers are not interested in company-sponsored programs
D publicity is not always necessary.
参考答案:6.D 7.C 8.B 9.A 10.D
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