题目内容
Hundreds of years ago, news was carried from place to place by people on foot or by horse. It took days, weeks and sometimes months for people to receive news. Now it is possible to send words and pictures around the world in seconds. Billions of people learn about news stories of their country and all over the world every day, by watching TV, reading newspapers or looking through something on the Internet.
Newspapers have been an important part of everyday life since 18th century. Many countries have hundreds of different newspapers. (1) How do newspaper editors decide which news stories to print(印刷)？ Why do they print some stories and not others? What makes a good newspaper story?
Firstly, it’s important to report new stories. The Internet and TV stations can report news much faster than newspapers. Yet, newspapers give more about the story. They may also look at the story in another way, (2) or they may print completely different stories to those on TV or the Internet.
Secondly, a news story has to be interesting and unusual. (3) life, do, stories, to, not, everyday, read, of, want, people . As a result, many stories are about some kinds of danger and seem to be “bad” news. For example, (4) newspapers never print stories about planes landing safely, instead of print stories about plane accidents.
Another factor(因素) is also very important in many news stories. Many people are interested in news in foreign countries, (5) but more prefer to read stories about people, places and events in their own country. So the stories on the front page in Chinese newspapers are usually very different from the ones in British, French and American newspapers.
任务一： 请将(1)处变为复合句。
71. _______________________________________________________？
任务二： 请写出(2)句中 “those” 指代的是什么？(用英语回答)
72. ____________ .
任务三： 请将(3)处连词成句。
73. ________________________________________________________.
任务四： 请将(4)处句中的一个错误找出,并改正在横线上。（不必写全句）
74. ________________________________________________________.
任务五： 请将(5)处翻译成汉语。
75. ________________________________________________________.
71. ① How do newspaper editors decide which news stories they should (may,can, could,) print？
或 ② How do newspaper editors decide which news stories should (may,can, could,) be printed？
72.(the) stories.
73. People don’t want to read stories of everyday life.
74. print 改为 printing
75. 但是，更多的人更喜欢（愿意）读有关他们自己国家的人、地方和事件的故事。
名校课堂系列答案
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the nine o’clock Mystery Hour. Today we’ll show you two British stories. We hope you’ll enjoy them.
About 900 years ago two green children arrived in a small village in south England. Their eyes and skin were green and they spoke a strange language. They were very tired and weak, so the people of the village looked after them. The boy died a year later, but the girl grew strong and lived the rest of her life there. And her skin color turned back to normal day by day. Scientists say that sometimes of people don’t have enough food to eat for a long time, their skin goes very pale and can turn green.
Loch Ness is the largest lake in Scotland. It’s a very deep and cold lake. For hundreds of years, people have talked about a monster(怪物) called Nessie which lives in the lake. About seventy years ago, two people saw something moving in the lake. They said that the animal was playing and rolling around in the water. Since then many people say they have seen the monster. Their descriptions are always the same. It looks like a dinosaur, with a very long neck and a small head. It has a big bump(肿块)on its back. People have tried to photograph the animal, but the pictures have not been very clear. Scientists don’t know whether there is a monster or not. Some say it may be a whale or a very large fish. Some think it’s a snake. Others say there’s nothing at all— nothing but people’s imagination. Maybe we’ll never know what’s in Loch Ness.
【小题1】What kind of story is talked about in this program?
| A．Romantic stories. | B．Mysteries. | C．Horror stories. | D．Comedies. |
| A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．They both enjoyed a long and happy life. |
| B．The girl’s eyes and skin were green all her life. |
| C．At first they spoke the same language as people in the small village did. |
| D．Maybe they hadn’t eaten enough for long before they reached the village. |
【小题5】What can we learn from the second story?
| A．Scientists are still not sure whether there is a monster or not in Loch Ness. |
| B．Loch Ness is very deep and warm lake in Scotland. |
| C．People have taken very clear pictures of Nessie. |
| D．In fact Nessie is a whale or a snake. |