Hotlines have become common in China. Some radio broadcasting stations use hotlines to encourage the listeners to take part in the talk shows.
That’s a good idea. Yet, the fact is, some people do nothing but break the whole program.
Some people know little about the topic under discussion. Sometimes they do not even know what the host is talking about. So the host has to tell the caller what the show is about. Usually the caller will ask a few questions which express his hope and show his ignorance (無知). Then the host has to answer and explain—how silly this is! It wastes a lot of time.
It seems that some people phone the hotlines for fun. They just want to let the listeners hear them. They don’t care what the topic is, whether they themselves are interested or how silly they appear to be.
I’m totally bored by those people. It’s necessary for radio stations to improve the hotline programmers. In my opinion, if a caller does not know what is going on, the operator should not let the caller take part in it

  1. 1.

    The sentence “some people do nothing but break the whole program” may tell us that _____

    1. A.
      radio stations use hotlines in a wrong way
    2. B.
      it is a fact
    3. C.
      it is a good idea
    4. D.
      some people have unclear thoughts
  2. 2.

    Some calls waste the host’s time __________

    1. A.
      because the host works hard
    2. B.
      because of the caller’s ignorance
    3. C.
      because the host likes talking to the caller
    4. D.
      because of a lot of questions raised by the caller
DB
試題分析：本文介紹了一些熱線節(jié)目鼓勵聽眾參與節(jié)目，但很多聽眾只是在浪費主持人的時間，作者認為不應該讓這些人參與節(jié)目。
1.考查句意理解：該句句義是“一些人除了打斷節(jié)目什么也沒有做”，說明這些人根本不清楚節(jié)目在談論什么，只有選項D符合題意。
2.細節(jié)題。由第三段的句子Usually the caller will ask a few questions which express his hope and show his ignorance (無知).可知選擇B。
考點：考查社會現(xiàn)象類短文
點評：本題只有兩題，要求考生要根據(jù)文章的細節(jié)要求和上下文的語義關(guān)系確定推理的內(nèi)容，準確判斷和推測。
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