题目内容
Hundreds of years ago, news was carried from place to place by people on foot or by horse, which 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 mother country and all over the world every day, either by watching TV or reading newspapers.
Newspapers have been an important part of everyday life since the 18th century. Many countries have hundreds of different newspapers. How do newspaper editors decide which news stories to print?
Why do they print some stories and not others? What makes a good newspaper story?
Firstly, it is important to report new stories. TV stations can report news much faster than newspapers. Yet, newspapers give more about the same story. They may also look at the story in another way, or they may print completely different stories to those on TV.
Secondly, a news story has to be interesting and unusual. People don't want to read stories about everyday life. As a result, many stories are about some kind of danger and seen to be
“bad”news.Another factor is also very important in many news stories. Many people are interested in news in foreign countries, 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.
(1)In old days it was hard to get news, because _________.
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A
.people didn't care about newsB
.the transportation was not as fast as nowC
.nobody paid for newsD
.there wasn't anything so interesting as today(2)According to the passage, newspapers __________.
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A
.report news faster than TVB
.give the same thing about the same story as TVC
.give the same ideas about the news as TVD
.sometimes choose different stories from TV(3)According to the passage, which story will a newspaper editor choose to print on newspaper?
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A
.A train arrived at the station on time.B
.Students liked to go to school.C
.The advertisement of a TV program.D
.A bus fell into the river.(4)If we are in French, what will we see in the newspapers?
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A
.A Chinese leader gave an important speech about China.B
.An Englishman was lost in the rain forest.C
.The French team won the champion.D
.The American attacked the Iraq.(5)A possible title for the passage would be _________.
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.The NewsB
.How to Print NewsC
.News in the Past and NowD
.Newspapers解析:
(3) 因为文章中说了,新闻要选取不平常的事,有时甚至是不好的事。(4) 由文章推断法国人对本国的人和事更感兴趣。(5) 文章大部分还是在讲报纸,涉及电视的内容也是为了说明报纸的性质。 |
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阅读下列短文,从所给的四个选项中,选出最佳答案
Dear Peter,
I've 1 here in Beijing for half a year now. Beijing is 2 the north of China, so it's quite 3 in winter.
Thank you 4 your wonderful present! I have learned over three 5 Chinese works since I 6 here. I am working hard at it. Now I can even 7 a little Chinese. 8 you looked at the words on the Christmas card? I wrote 9 .
I have to finish this letter now. Please write back to me 10 you receive it.
1. A. been |
B. gone |
C. had |
D.come |
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2. A. on |
B. to |
C. in |
D. of |
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3. A. hot |
B.warm |
C.cool |
D. cold |
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4. A. from |
B.about |
C.for |
D. of |
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5. A. hundred |
B. hundreds |
C. hundred of |
D. hundreds of |
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6. A. come |
B. came |
C. comes |
D. have come |
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7. A. to write |
B. written |
C. writing |
D. write |
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8. A. Have |
B. Are |
C. Will |
D. Did |
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9. A. me |
B. you |
C. yourself |
D. myself |
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10. A. because |
B. so |
C. as soon as |
D. but |
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完形填空
通读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后在所给的四个选项中,选出一个最佳答案。
Light travels very fast. It moves 1 300,000 kilometres a 2 . Light 3 us from the moon in less than a second and a half. The moon is about 382,000 kilometres 4 .
Light from the sun reaches us 8.5 minutes. The sun is about 149,640,000 kilometres from the earth.
The other stars are farther away than the sun. Light from the nearest 5 reaches us in about four years. When you look at a star, you do not 6 its present condition(目前现状). You see it as it 7 to be. Light from some stars 8 hundreds of years to reach us. We never see a star as it is 9 . We see it as it was long ago, perhaps (也许) hundreds or thousands of years ago.
Astronomers(天文学家)watch stars 10 big telescopes (望远镜). With these telescopes astronomers can see stars and other things very far away.
(1) A.on |
B.at |
C.with |
D.by |
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(2) A.minute |
B.hour |
C.second |
D.day |
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(3) A.reaches |
B.gets |
C.arrives |
D.comes |
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(4) A.high |
B.far |
C.long |
D.away |
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(5) A.star |
B.moon |
C.sun |
D.earth |
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(6) A.look at |
B.see |
C.touch |
D.reach |
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(7) A.use |
B.used |
C.is used |
D.using |
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(8) A.takes |
B.take |
C.spends |
D.spend |
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(9) A.before |
B.after |
C.now |
D.future |
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(10) A.in |
B.through |
C.into |
D.onto |
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