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英美报刊选读期末复习提要

2003
年
12
月
11
日




英美报刊选读期末复习提要



责任教师聂光华


根据大纲规定，本课程的教学目的在于培养学生阅读 英语报刊的基本能
力。通过该课程的学习，使学生掌握一定数量的英语报刊词汇，熟悉英语新
闻 报道的结构和体裁、
了解美英几大报刊的背景、
立场、
影响及版面编排等，
并 逐渐积累阅读英美报刊所必备的政治、军事、经济、外交、法律、宗教、
文教和社会知识。
< br>为方便同学们进行期末复习，特将有关期末考试的范围、题型等作一简
要说明，并附上一份自测题 供复习用。

1
．考试范围及分数比例


教材内容（
1-- 15
课，
）与课外内容各占
50%
左右，课外

内容的难度低于教材内容。

2
．试题的构成和题型

试题由三部分组成：

Part One Turn the following into Chinese (20%)

该题选自教材以外。

Part Two

Turn the uderlined parts
（
or some terms
）
into Chinese
(30%)

该题共
15
小题
,
选自教材。

Part Three Reading Comprehension (50%)

该题共
1 5
小题
,5
个问答题，
10
个选择题
,
大部分出自 课外文章。

第二部分

自测题

Part One Turn the following into Chinese (20%)

A bomb exploded at a crowded street market in Paris near the Place
de
la
Bastille
Sunday
morning,
leaving
four
people
slightly
hurt.
The
police said that the bomb, packed into a pressure cooker and hidden
in
a
bag
under
a
vegetable
stand,
did
not
cause
greater
damage
because
of a malfunctioin. But the incident clearly left a deep impact on
Government
officials
who
are
facing
what
they
believe
to
be
a
campaign
of terrorism directed by Islamic militants from Algeria. Police did
not
immediately
link
the
bomb
to
three
devices
planted
in
recent
weeks,
which killed seven and wounded scores of others in Paris.






Part Two
（
A
）

Turn the uderlined parts into Chinese (30%)

6. UNESCO
7.
They
were
just
taking
a
break
from
the
students
and
most
exhilarating work of their lives.
8
、
Senate Majority Whip

9,

Westinghouse Science Talent Search

10. They dressed her up in a prim gray suit.
11. Chicago Tribune

12. Daily Telegragh

13.
The classroom
is
a virtual one, with students logging
in
from
all over the globe.
14
．
Free Press

15
．
Shao
Yibo
scribbled
down
a
business
proposal,
sold
his
belongings
and left for Shanghai.
Part Two
（
B
）
Turn the following into Chinese (30%)

1
．
lobbyist 2 . Congress

3 . the Capitol 4 .senate

5 .Watergate 6. G.O.P.

story 8 .whiz kid

9
．

appeals
court












10.
a
law
withholding taxes on interest payment

11.
diversity
of
democracy





12.
political
realignment

13.
Free
Press 14.
the
budget
package
15. Wall Street Journal

Part Three Reading Comprehension (50%)


Passage One

Many parents who welcome the idea of turning off the TV and spending
more
time
with
the
family
are
still
worried
that
without
TV
they
would
constantly
be
on
call
as
entertainers
for
their
children.
They
remember
thinking up all sort of things to do when they were kids. But their
own
kids
seem
different,
less
resourceful,
somehow.
When
there
nothing to do, these parents observe regretfully, their kids seem
unable to come up with any thing to do besides turning on the TV.
One
father, for example, says. “When I was a kid, we were always
thinking up things to do, projects and games. We certainly never
complained
in
an
annoying
way
to
our
parents,
‘I
have
nothing
to
do!’
He compares this with his own children today: “They
y lazy.
If
someone
doesn
entertain
them,
they
happily
sit
there
watching
TV all day. ”

There
is
one
word
for
this
father
disappointment:
unfair.
It
is
as
if
he
were
disappointed
in
them
for
not
reading
Greek
though
they
have
never studied the language. He deplores(
哀叹
)his children
inventiveness, as if the ability to play were something innate(
天生
的
)that
his
children
are
missing
.
In
fact,
while
the
tendency
to
play
is built into the human species, the actual
ability to play-to imagine, to invent, to elaborate on reality in a
playful way-and the ability to gain fulfillment from it, these are
skills that have to learned and developed.
Such
disappointment,
however,
is
not
only
unjust,
it
is
also
destructive.
Sensing
their
parents
disappointment,
children
come
to
believe
that
they
are,
indeed,
lacking
something,
and
that
this
makes
them
less
worthy
of
admiration
and
respect.
Giving
children
the
opportunity to develop new resources, to enlarge their horizons and
discover the pleasures of doing things on their own is, on the other
hand,
a
way
to
help
children
develop
a
confident
feeling
about
themselves as capable and interesting people.
Questions:
ing to many parents, without TV, their children would like
them to


parents think that, instead of watching a lot of TV, their
children should




father
often
blames
his
children
for
not
being
able
to
entertain
themselves. This is
unfair because they



parents show constant disappointment in their children, the
destructive effect is
that the children will



ping children