职称英语考试

试题来源：2015年职称英语考试《理工类A级》模拟试卷(1)
【单选题】The Function of Adverts
Most people would protably agree that many individual consumer adverts function on the level of the daydream. By picturing quite unusually happy and glamorous people whose success in either career or sexual terms, or both, is obvious, adverts construct an imaginary world in which the reader is able to make come true those desires which remain unsatisfied in his or her everyday life.
An advert for a science fiction magazine is unusually explicit about this. In addition to the primary use value of the magazine, the reader is promised access to a wonderful universe through the product-access to other mysterious and tantalizing worlds and epochs, the realms of the imagination. When studying advertising, it is therefore unreasonable to expect readers to decipher adverts as factual statements about reality. Most adverts are just too meager in informative content and too rich in emotional suggestive detail to be read literally. If people read them literally, they would soon be forced to realize their error when the glamorous promises held out by the adverts didn't materialize.
The average consumer is not surprised that his purchase of the commodity does not redeem the promise of the advertisement, for this is what he is used to in life: the individual's pursuit of happiness and success is usually in vain. But the fantasy is his to keep; in his dream world he enjoys a "future endlessly deferred" .
The Estivalia advert company is quite explicit about the fact that advertising shows us not reality, but a fantasy; it does so by openly admitting the daydream but in a way which insists on the existence of a bridge linking daydream to reality-Estivalia, which is "for daydream believers", those who refuse to give up trying to make the hazy ideal of natural beauty and harmony come true.
If adverts function on the daydream level, it clearly becomes inadequate to merely condemn advertising for channeling readers' attention and desires towards unrealistic, paradisiacal ( 天堂似得 ) nowhere land. Advertising certainly does that, but in order for people to find it relevant, the Utopia ( 乌托邦 ) visualized in adverts must be linked to our surrounding reality by a causal connection.

36.The people in adverts are in most cases__________
A．glamorous
B．arrogant
C．obvious
D．sexy
37、 When the glamorous promises held out by the adverts didn't materialize the average consumer is not surprised, because__________
A．the consumer is used to the fact that the individual's pursuit of happiness and success is usually in vain
B．adverts are factual statements about reality
C．the consumer can come into the realms of imagination pictured by adverts
D．adverts can make the consumer's dream come true
38、 Why does the consumer accept the daydream in adverts?
A．Because the consumer enjoys a "future endlessly deferred" .
B．Because the consumer enjoys up trying to make his dream come true.
C．Because the Utopia is visualized in adverts.
D．Because his purchase of the commodity does not redeem the promise of the advertisement.
39、 What's the bridge linking daydream to reality in adverts?
A．The product.
B．Estivalia.
C．Pictures.
D．Happy and glamorous people.
40、 What is this passage mainly concerned with?
A．Many adverts can be read literally.
B．Everyone has a daydream.
C．Many adverts function on the level of the daydream.
D．Many adverts are deceitful because they can not make their promises.

网考网参考答案：A、A、A、A、C
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大数据分析：根据网考网考试中心的统计分析，该试题：
91%的考友选择了A选项
6%的考友选择了B选项
1%的考友选择了C选项
2%的考友选择了D选项