[单项选择]The chief force that motivated John Bunyan to write The Pilgrim's Progress was his ______.


A. political commitment
B. religious fervency
C. artistic pursuit
D. long suffering in the prison

[单项选择]The chief force that motivated John Bunyan to write The Pilgrim' s Progress was his ______.


A. political commitment
B. religious fervency
C. artistic pursuit
D. long suffering in the prison

[单项选择]Which of the following has contributed to the writer's divorce
A. Her former husband went out to watch football games.
B. She started to play racquetball at a health club.
C. They spent too much time together and got bored with each other.
D. They spent so little time together that they could not talk to each other.

[单项选择]Although their lives changed, they（）continued writing to one another.
A. ever
B. never
C. still
D. rather

[单项选择]From the last paragraph we can infer that the writer is ______.


A. indifferent to the harmful influence of the mass media
B. happy about the drastic changes in the mass media
C. pessimistic about the future of the mass media
D. concerned about the wrong use of the mass media

[单项选择]According to the passage, the two very famous writers of advice are____________.


A. doctors with much experience
B. educators with special training
C. experienced housewives with no special training
D. women with much experience but no special training

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Text 2
Does using a word processor affect a writer s style
The medium usually does do something to the message after all, even if Marshall McLuhan’ s claim that the medium simply is the message has been heard and largely forgotten now. The question matters. Ray Hammond, in his excellent guide The Writer and the Word Processor, predicts that over half the professional writers in Britain and the USA will be using word processors by the end of 1985. The best known recruit is Leu Deighton, from as long ago as 1968, though most users have only started since the microcomputer boom began in 1980.
Ironically word processing is in some ways psychologically more like writing in rough than typing, since it restores fluidity and provisionality to the text. The typist’ s dread of having to get out the Tippex, the scissors and paste, or of redoing the whole thing if he has any substantial second thoughts, can make him consistently choose the sa
A. is understating the problem
B. exaggerates one drawback
C. is too skeptical about the advantage ,
D. overestimates the danger of losing text