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In the fall of 1971, I was () a story involving a young white woman living on the fringe (边缘) of Boston’s black ghetto.Her car had () out of gas.She had gone to a filling station () a can and was returning to her car when she was () in an alley by a gang of black youths.The gang () gasoline over her and set fire to her.She died () her burns.It was later established () some of the youths involved had, on the night before the killing, () on television a rerun of an old movie in which a drifter (流浪汉) is () on fire by an adolescent gang.There is some kind of strange reductive process (还原过程) at work here.To see something on television robs it () its reality, and then when the same thing is () out it is like the reenactment (重演) of something unreal.
() other words when the gang set fire to the girl, they were imitating () they had seen on a screen, as if they themselves were on a screen, and in a ().I don’t think we have () begun to realize how powerful a(n) () television is.It has already () very clear that the candidate with the most television () wins the election.
1.A.trueB.sincereC.dependantD.exact
2.A.methodsB.waysC.directionsD.respects
3.A.arrangedB.allottedC.appointedD.assigned
4.A.leftB.runC.stayedD.stopped
5.A.forB.byC.withD.in
6.A.tracedB.followedC.trappedD.hit
7.A.putB.pouredC.droppedD.sprayed
8.A.ofB.withC.inD.over
9.A.whenB.thatC.becauseD.as
10.A.lookedB.watchedC.experienceD.gone
11.A.setB.seenC.watchedD.burned
12.A.ofB.fromC.byD.for
13.A.actedB.playedC.putD.taken
14.A.OnB.InC.ByD.At
15.A.thatB.whichC.whatD.those
16.A.sceneB.fictionC.televisionD.story
17.A.evenB.alreadyC.muchD.little
18.A.equipmentB.applianceC.sourceD.medium
19.A.becomeB.turnedC.seemedD.looked
20.A.appearanceB.appealC.practiceD.experience