一、单项选择题（共 10 道试题，共 60 分。Choose the best one to complete each statement or question.）
1. If you want to join the medical ____C_____ , you need to master a whole body of medical knowledge and receive systematic training.
A. occupation
B. vocation
C. profession
D. trade
2. I’m afraid we shouldn’t go on chatting like this. The new manager could arrive out of blue. What does out of blue mean? (D)
A. with an angry expression
B. extremely pleased
C. thinking deeply
D. unexpectedly; without warning
3. Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs. What does the sentence mean? (C)
A. It is better to accept something small than to reject it and hope to get more later on.
B. If too many people try to do the same thing at the same time, there will be chaos.
C. Anyone who claims more than he has already got is very likely to get nothing at all in the future.
D. There must be something better after every piece of unpleasantness.
4. Some forms of human communication from a primitive tribe to a global village (mentioned in the course book) include ___(D)______.
A. computer network, TV stations, drumbeats, chopsticks
B. smoke signals, pigeons, peacocks, mobile phones, emails …
C. gestures, TV, email, fire, horns, flags, animals …
D. shouting to each other, printing, telegraph, radio, internet …
5. According to Sir Richard Paget, the right order of development of human communication is _____(A)____.
A. sounds, food, hunting, writing, gambling, online chatting
B. gestures of the hands, gestures of the mouth, whispered speech, voiced speech
C. gestures, eye movements, writing, speech, telegraph, internet
D. shouting, whispers, hands movements, horse riding, computers
6. Language may be ____(B)_____ to our own species, the capacity of mean, to transmit messages vital to survival, and to understand them, certainly is not.
A. effective
B. unique
C. relative
D. misunderstanding
7. Communication through writing emancipates man from the constraints imposed by the face-to-face distance and the ___(A)______ of time.
A. spontaneity
B. responsibility
C. complexity
D. confusion
8. A digital computer is a system composed of four distinct elements: a central processing unit, input devices, memory storage devices, and ___(B)______ devices.
A. hard ware
B. hard disk
C. output
D. monitor