英语报刊阅读练习题（二）
I. 1. 3. 5. 7. 9.
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Translate the following words into Chinese. International Herald Tribune
Daily Telegraph
IRN
National Economic Council
Federal Judicial Center
Solicitor-General
High Court of Justice
running mate
CHR
G-7
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U.S. News & World Report
New Scienti st
Secretary of the Treasury
Governor
Lord Pricy Seal
Metropolitan County
distance education
ADB
GATT
UNDP
II. Translate the following two short paragraphs.
1.America’s strength and prosperity are testaments to the enduring power of our founding
ideals, among them, that all men are created equal, and that liberty is God’s gift to humanity, the birthright of every individual.
台湾是中国的一部分。国家绝不允许“台独”分裂势力以任何名义、任何方式把台湾从中国分裂出去。
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III. Rewrite the following headlines if necessary.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.Married Women to Get Care Allowance
No Survi vors in Gulf Air Crash
Killing in the Name of God
Thailand, Malaysia Ink Sea Treaty
Mao: We Should Support Third World Countries
IV. Read the following news and then choose the right answer to each question.
News Item 1
Important talks have been taking place between the Prime Minister and Trade Union leaders. They have agreed to work together to find ways of combating inflation and reducing the present
level of unemployment in industry. Meanwhile, the Government has failed to prevent a national bus strike, and the bus drivers’ union ha s announced that no buses will run from Monday. The
deci sion to go ahead with the strike was announced by a union spokesman at the end of a meeting
earlier this afternoon during which Government representatives failed to persuade the union and the employers to agree on a new wage plan.
1. The Prime Minister and Trade Union agreed to _____.
A. rebuild industry
B. reduced unemployment
C. stop a bus drivers’ strike
2. 3.D. work out a new wage plan
The bus drivers’ union has decided to _____.
A. go on the national bus strike
B. accept the Government’s plan
C. agree on a new wage plan
D. stop the strike from next Monday
The decision for the bus strike was announced _____.
A. earlier thi s afternoon
B. last Monday
C. last night
D. this morning
News Item 2
Local police in the Yangtze River port of Chongqing, China have seized a total of 6 kilograms of drugs in an anti-narcotics campaign during the year. Since July 1996, 1,200
drug-related cases have been cracked and around 200 drug traffickers arrested, said public security bureau drugs officers in the city. Chongqing is the largest inland industrial center in China, and its port is the largest on the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River.
4. How many drug-related cases have been cracked by Chongqi ng local police since July 1996?
A. 20.
B. 100.
C. 1,200.
D. 600.
News Item 3
In a significant reversal for the IRA, the Clinton administration has denied a visa to Berry Adams, the Sinn Fein leader and a prominent member of the organization’s ruling army council. Now the administration believes neither Adams nor the IRA i s to be trusted. In recent months, Private discussion between Sinn Fei n leaders and the administration have been tough, with American officials warning that unless action was taken to enforce a ceasefire official contact would be broken.
5. We can know from the news that _____.
A. Gerry Adams was denied a vi sa by the administration
B. private talks have been going on very smoothly
C. the administration trusts the IRA and Adams
D. there has been no change in their relationship
6. Official contact between the U.S. and the IRA can be kept if _____.
A. Gerry Adams i s allowed into the country
B. the IRA takes action to cease fire
C. they hold more private discussion
D. the U.S. changes its attitude
News Item 4
Seven members of an extreme right-wing terrorist group involved in a plot send letter bombs
to addresses in London were arrested following a series of raids by armed police in Denmark. A Danish police officer was shot and wounded during one of the raids. The targets in London are understood to have been two right-wing activities and a journalist. Three letter bombs, disguised as videotapes, believed to have been made in Denmark, were also intercepted in Sweden. Six men and a women, all aged between 20 and 22, were arrested.
7. To whom were the letter bombs intended to send?
A. The Danish Police.
B. Six Swedish people.
C. A Danish woman.
D. Three right-wingers.
8. What can be inferred from the news?
A. There has been an internal struggle among right-wingers.
B. These letter bombs were all made in Sweden.
C. There has been no injury during the raids.
D. The Letter bombs have caused great damage.
News Item 5
An army denti st was killed and another soldier injured when they fell 500ft during an expedition to climb North America’s highest peak. Major Mark Trevillyan, attac hed to the Royal Army Dental Corps at Bicester and believed to be in his early thirties, died after falling on Mount Mckinley in Alaska. He was attached by rope to Lance Corporal Paul Holmes, 27, who suffered concussion.
9. The accident took place _____.
A. in Alaska.
B. in South America.
C. at Bicester.
D. in the army camp.
10. What does Mark Trevillyan do?
A. A scienti st.
B. A chemist.
C. A dentist.
D. A student.
V. Read the following article and then answer the questions below.
Ice May Hold Clues to Life on Mars
Nick Hoffman of the University of Melbourne sai d the latest images taken by the Mars Odyssey orbiter had revealed curious hotspots in the Hellas Basin that could be similar to ice towers in Antarctica, where microbial life forms live on chemical energy.
These hotspots, he said, could prove a better place to find signs of life than gullies that some speculate may have been gouged by running water.
“I don’t personally believe that (finding life) is a c redible possibility, but nonetheless, if you are going to find life on Mars, this is probably the place it will be,” he said.
Tracking bacteria
Hoffman has worked on potential Mars ice towers with Professor Phil Kyle of the New Mexico Institute of Mi ning and Technology in the United States.
Their research, based on NASA imagery and the study of the Mount Erebus volcano on Antarctica’s Ross Island, was presented at the 6th international Mars conference in Pasadena, California, in July.
On Ross Island, steam from volcanic vents is converted directly into ice as it touches the frigid air, building tall, hollow chimneys where a microclimate allows bacteria to live.
“On Mars, similar structures could be doubly valuable for potential Mars microbes,”Hoffman said, dubbing the prospect of finding life on the planet “a remote possibility”.
NASA’s latest Mars mission, carrying two rovers to probe for signs that conditions on Mars once favored life, will not go anywhere near Hellas Basin, a deep impact crater about the size of Australia in the southern hemisphere of the planet.
Nor will the European Space Agency’s Mars Express, which blasted off in June.
Searching for water
Scientists hope the two expeditions, pl us a Japanese mission, will find evidence that liquid water once existed on Mars and may have left long gullies or channels in the inhospitable terrain.
Hoffman said infrared images taken by the Odyssey showed the hotspots in the Hellas Basin — laid out in a chain — were hotter than the surrounding environment both during the day and at night.
Once the Odyssey’s companion satellite, the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, takes
high-resolution images of the formations in clear light, it will be possible to identify them definitivel y as ice towers or somethi ng el se.
Hellas Basi n is the deepest part of Mars and has the highest air pressure, a prerequisite for liquid water. Elsewhere, the planet’s atmosphere i s so thin that wat er cannot form so heated ice i s likely to become vapor, missing out the liquid phase.
“There will not be a convenient hot spring of liquid water flowing on the surface but there will be a steamy, moist vent in the ground with a lot of ice present and possi bly an ice tower.”Hoffman said.
Comprehension
1.According to Hoffman, _____.
A. there was a great possibility to find life on Mars
B. it is impossi ble to find life on Mars
C. infrared images taken by the Odyssey showed the hotspots in Hellas Basi n were hotter
than the surrounding area all the time
D. Hellas Basin is the deepest part of Mars, thus has liqui d water
Latest images take by the Mar Odyssey orbiter revealed _____.
A. hotspots where microbial forms live
B. hotspots in the Hellas Basin similar to ice towers in Antarctica
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C. gullies gouged by running water
D. potential life on Mars
Structures on Mars _____.
A. similar to those on Ross Island are suitable for microbial life forms
B. similar to those on Ross Island are of valueless for potential Mars microbes
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4. 5.C. are not so valuable for potential Mars microbes than those on Ross Island
D. are much more val uable for potential Mars microbes than those on Ross Island
On Ross Island, steam from volcanic vents is converted to ice as it touches the following except _____.
A. caves
B. hollow chimneys with a microclimate
C. cold air
D. tall building
Which of the following statement is true?
A. The formations of the hotspots in the Hellas Basin are identified as ice towers.
B. Scientists have found long gullies left by liquid water on Mars.
C. NASA’s latest Mars mission will try to find out evidence that conditions on Mars once
facilitate life.
D. NASA’s latest Mars mission will probe places around the Hellas Basin.
Word Study
Complete each sentence with a word or phrase given bel ow (in its appropriate form if necessary). inhospitable prerequi site live ondubreveal
blast offbase onsimilarconventprobe
1. The uncurtai ned window _____ a cluttered room.
2. The room was _____ from a kitchen to a lavatory.
3. The region _____ the paradi se on earth.
4. Searchlights _____ the night sky.
5. Apollo 11 _____ at noon.
6. The camel travels around the _____ desert.
7. This novel is _____ hi storical facts.
8. A master’s degree i s _____ for employment at this level.
9. We have _____ tastes in music.
10. She _____ fruits and vegetables.
VI. The following questions are connected to your reading course studies. Write down in English your own opinions, using 100-120
words each.
Question:What do you consider to be the advantages of motor car possession, and also the social and environmental problems connected with its use?
英语报刊阅读练习题（二）答案
I. 1. 3.
Translate the following words into Chinese.
《国际先驱论坛报》
《每日电讯报》
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《美国新闻与世界报道》
《新科学家》
5. 7. 9.（英）独立广播新闻社
国家经济委员会
联邦司法中心
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州长
财政部长
10. 掌玺大臣
12. 都市郡
14. 远程教育
16. 亚洲开发银行
18. 关税和贸易协定
20. 联合国开发计划署
11. 副检察长
13. 高等法院
15. 竞选伙伴（搭档）
17. （联合国）人权委员会
19. （西方）七国集团
II. Translate the following two short paragraphs.
参考译文：
1.美国的强大和繁荣证明了我们建国理想的源源不绝的力量。这些理想包括人人生而平
等，自由是上帝赐给人类的礼物，是每个人天赋的权利。
2.Taiwan is part of China. The state shall never allow the “Taiwan independence” secessi oni st
forces to make Taiwan secede from China under any name or by any means.
III. Rewrite the following headlines if necessary.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.Married Women Are to Get Care allowance
There are No Survivors in the Gulf Air Crash unchanged
Thailand and Malaysia Ink a Sea Treaty
Mao Says We Should Support the Third World Countries
IV. Read the following news and then choose the right answer to each question.
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B
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D
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V. Read the following article and then answer the questions below. Comprehension
1.C
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3.D
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Word Study
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inhospitable
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converted
based on
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is dubbed
prerequi site
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probe
similar
5.blasted off
10. lives on
VII. The following questions are connected to your reading course studies. Write down in English your own opinions, using 100-120 words each.
Omitted.
【Lesson 1 Good News about Racial Progress The remaining divisions in American society should not blind us to a half-century of dramatic change By Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom In the Perrywood community of Upper Marlboro, Md.1, near Washington, D.C., homes cost between $160,000 and $400,000. The lawns are green and the amenities appealing—including a basketball court. Low-income teen-agers from Washington started coming there. The teens were black, and they were not welcomed. The homeowners? association hired off-duty police as security, and they would ask the ballplayers whether they “belonged” in the area. The association? s newsletter noted the “eyesore” at the basketball court. But the story has a surprising twist: many of the homeowners were black t oo. “We started having problems with the young men, and unfortunately they are our people,” one resident told a re porter from the Washington Post. “But what can you do?” The homeowners didn?t care about the race of the basketball players. They were outsiders—in truders. As another resident remarked, “People who don?t live here might not care about things the way we do. Seeing all the new houses going up, someone might be tempted.” It?s a t elling story. Lots of Americans think that almost all blacks live in inner cities. Not true. Today many blacks own homes in suburban neighborhoods—not just around Washington, but outside Atlanta, Denver and other cities as well. That?s not the only common misconception Americans have ab out race. For some of the misinformation, the media are to blame. A reporter in The Wall Street Journal, for instance, writes that the economic gap between whites and blacks has widened. He offers no evidence. The picture drawn of racial relations is even bleaker. In one poll, for instance, 85 percent of blacks, but only 34 percent of whites, agreed with the verdict in the O.J. Simpson murder trial. That racially divided response made headline news. Blacks and whites, media accounts would have us believe, are still separate and hostile. Division is a constant theme, racism another. To be sure, racism has not disappeared, and race relations could —and probably will —improve. But the serious inequality that remains is less a function of racism than of the racial gap in levels of educational attainment, single parenthood and crime. The bad news has been exaggerated, and the good news neglected. Consider these three trends: A black middle class has arrived. Andrew Young recalls the day he was mistaken for a valet at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. It was an infuriating case of mistaken identity for a man who was then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. But it wasn?t so long ago that most blacks were servants—or their equivalent. On the eve of
英语报刊常见栏目名称 Ad/Advertisement广告Agony ['?g?n? Column答读者问专栏；私事广告专栏Anecdote ['? n/kd??t]趣闻轶事Around Nation 国内新闻 Around The Country国内新闻版Around The World国际新闻版 Backgrounding 新闻背景Blurb [bl??b]Sj 品信息 Book Page书评专页Book Review书评 Books书评Brief简讯；简明新闻Briefing简报 Budget 要闻索引Bulletin['b?l??i]新闻简报Business/Trade商业/ 贸易 Business商业版Campus Life校园生Candid ['k?nd?] Camera抓拍镜头；有照为凭Caricature [k?r??t??漫画；讽刺画Chitchat ['t?tt?? t] Column 闲话栏 City本市新闻版City Edition本埠新闻版；地方新闻版City Page＞融和商业新闻版Classified Ads/Classified Advertising类广告Column 专栏；栏目 Comic Strip连环画Continued Story连载故事 Correspondence Column读者来信栏Cover Story （杂志）封面报道 Critique [kr?'ti?有论（区别: critic，批评家/评论家） Crossword猜字游戏；纵横填字字谜Culture/Science文化/科技 Digest [da?d??st]文摘document 文件摘要Domestic 国内新闻 Domestic News国内新闻Double Dayoff Supplement双休特刊 Economics And Business贸版Editor's Note 编者按 Editorial Page/Editorials 社论版；言论版 英文报刊常用术语
《英美报刊选读》 一、教学目的 通过本课程的学习，使学员对英美报刊有一个清晰的了解,认识英美报刊语言、文体、词汇、语法等基本特点,掌握英美报刊阅读的基本知识及技巧,为独立阅读英美报刊打下良好的基础。 二、教材特点 与该课程旧教材（第1版)相比，本教材具有以下特点： １．为使学生改变以往依赖教师和英汉词典的学习习惯,培养他们独自排解疑难词语的能力，编者不但向他们推荐工具书，并教授他们使用方法;为使他们能加深对词汇的记忆，还介绍词法和重要词根及词缀。 2．为使学生掌握必要的新闻词语和扩大词汇量，本书在“新闻词语解说”中尽量结合课文，讲透疑难词语。此外还列出一些与这些词语或课文内容有关的课外词汇。 ３．为使学生掌握必要的读报知识，本书在“背景知识”中尽量结合课文，介绍重要的并时常见诸报端的人物、党派和组织机构等,并举例说明其重要性。 4．为使学生对新闻写作有一个大致的认识,加深对课文的理解，编者较系统地说明标题的若干特点，对新闻体裁的分类、导语和写作特点及常语等做了简介。 三、教学内容 《英美报刊选读》为省开课程。 １．授课内容：重点为第１、3、4、５、6、８、13、15、17、１9、20、21、2４、28、３0课（共15课),其它内容主要供自学。 2．课时安排: ａ) 学员自学:2学时/周，共３0学时学完15课。 b)面授辅导:4学时/次,共4次。每学时辅导一课,最后一学时复习。 3．作业：共四次,在湖北电大网站英语本科网页上下载,课后完成,交辅导教师批改,评分，作为平时成绩的主要依据。学员完成作业后,可浏览网页上的“答案及详解”，以加深理解,检查自己掌握的情况 四、教学建议 教师授课时应以学生为中心，鼓励学生自己去探索和获取知识。在上课时,可要求学生先回答每课后的练习题——Questions，使他们基本了解课文的主要内容。然后,再逐段或跳跃式选段对学生需要掌握的内容、新闻词语和背景知识进行阅读和问答式方式讲解。如果备课充分，学生的英语水平又高,教员可采用美英教员教授母语的方法，抛开课本或讲义,只讲有关课文的重点词语、背景知识和写作手法等。这样，学生除预习外，课后还要结合教员
报刊杂志常见的英语缩略语 APEC - Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 亚太经济合作组织 BBS - Bulletin Board System 电子布告栏系统，现在国内统称为论坛 CBD - Central Business District 中心商务区 CET - College English Test （中国）大学英语等级考试 CEO - Chief Executive Officer 首席执行官 CIA - Central Intelligence Agency （美国）中央情报局 DIY - Do It Yourself 自己动手做 DJ - Disc Jockey 电台的音乐节目主持人 EMS - Express Mail Service 邮政特快专递服务 FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation 美国联邦调查局 GDP - Gross Domestic Product 国内生产总值 GNP - Gross National Product 国民生产总值 GPS - Global Positioning System 全球定位系统 GSM - Global System For Mobile Communications 全球移动通讯系统 HSK - Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi 汉语水平考试 IT - Information Technology 信息技术 ISO - International Organization for Standardization 国际标准化组织 IQ - Intelligence Quotient 智商 MBA - Master Of Business Administration 工商管理硕士 NASDAQ - National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations 全美证券商协会自动报价系统，但目前已成为纳斯达克股票市场的代名词。 OPEC - Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries 石油输出国组织 VIP - Very Important Person 贵宾, 大人物
英美報刊文章閱讀 外國語學院英語師範三班何宇20104033023 1.The inverted pyramid should put the most important point at the top of the article, followed by your next most important point, and so on, in diminishing order of importance. The lead includes the five “W”( what where why when and who).that made the readers read the article immediately.The writer then provides the rest of the information and supporting contextual details in descending order of importance, leaving the least essential material for the very end. This gives the completed story the form of an inverted pyramid, with the most important elements, or the 'base' of the story, on top.For example, if I write, 'Two children were injured when fire swept through the First Community Church, Detroit, Michigan, on May 10. The fire is believed to have started from unattended candles.' That's complete, but a lot of details can be added in succeeding paragraphs. If space is tight, an editor can cut from the bottom and still save the essential elements." 2.To create an inverted pyramid structure, follow these guidelines: 1, Use clear, meaningful headings or lists at the beginning of a topic. 2. Create separate paragraphs or topics to emphasize important points. 3, Do not bury your main point in the middle of a paragraph or topic.. 3.the journalist English has three important features :firstly-the reporters are sammilar to the article of the report content ,so the reporters can apply to appropriate words and express the relative contents which including some professional words. second :the news usually used the short and active voice sentence third , the structure of news is always loose, at the same time, there is closely among the paragraphs. 4.- A museum commemorating the Flying Tigers, a US air squadron that helped the Chinese fight the Japanese in World War II, opened to the public in central China's Hunan Province on Tuesday. The Flying Tigers Museum, located at the Shining Airport in Shining County, houses 1,387 pieces of historical artifacts from the Flying Tigers, which are on public display for the first time. The Shining Airport was an important base for the Flying Tigers under the leadership of Claire Lee Chennai, a retired US Army Air Corps officer who started working in China in 1937. Construction of the museum took five years. During this time, the museum received precious items from living members of the Flying Tigers and their families, including Anna Chan Chennault, wife of Claire Lee Chennault, said Wu Jonahing, curator of the museum. The cultural relics in the museum will help younger generations remember the glorious history of the Flying Tigers and
英美报刊阅读教程1 Language Features 电子报纸 electronic newspaper = e-paper 电子杂志electronic magazine = e-zine 1.英语新闻报刊的种类：日报、晨报、晚报 周报、半周报 semiweekly 、双周报 biweekly 城市报metropolitan newspaper 报纸newspaper 郊区报suburban newspaper 乡村报rural newspaper 大报quality newspaper 通俗小报tobloid 2.新闻英语的限制因素：大众性、节俭性、趣味性、时新性、客观性 3.拼词缀 （1）前词部首+后词部尾 boat +hotel=botel 水上旅馆 taikong +astronaut=taikonaut 宇航员 medical +suicide = medicide 医助安乐死 digital +literati = digirati 电脑联通网 guess + estimate=guestimate 约略估计 corporation + bureaucrate=corporcrat 公司官僚主义 （2）前词全部+后词部尾 jazz + discotheque = jazzotheque 爵士音乐夜总会 screen + teenager = screenager 屏幕青少年 eye + analyzer = eyelzer 远不测醉器 work +welfare = workfare 工作福利 guess + kingdom = filmdom 电影王国 news + program = newsgram 新闻节目
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Lesson5 Food and Obesity Being fat is be coming the norm for Americans.As it will soon be come in this country, I have seen the future, and it's extra large. By Joan Smith A friend who happens to be both American and a superb cook-his poulet de Bresse en deuil is one of the most memorable dishes I have tasted--called me a couple of days ago,enthusing about a lecture he had just at ended.The thesis,he said,was that the human body has changed irrevocably over the last quarter of a century and that the physical environment—chairs,beds, airline seats-will gradually adapt to accommodate the new shape.It is,of course,in the US, where my friend no longer lives,that this evolutionary experiment is most advanced;for years now, millions of people have been gorging themselves on vast helpings of fast food, with the consequence that about 60 percent of the population is overweight. According to Greg Critser, author of Fat Land：How Americans Became the Fattest People in the Word, none of this has happened by accident. Critser argues that the challenge to the US food industry in the 1970s was that the population was growing more slowly than the food supply, so people had to be persuaded to change their eating habits. Fast food, invented after the Second World War as an affordable way of getting families to eat together, became a means of selling surplus fat and sugar to the far-from-unwilling masses. This is a social revolution on a grand scale as scarcity, with which most human beings have had to struggle throughout history, has given way to an apparently permanent state of plenty. It may also help to explain why the magician David Blaine, suspended without food in a Perspex box beside Tower Bridge,has such a grip on people's imaginations.In an astonishingly short period of time, starvation has metamorphosed from a threat to a spectacle, and families are turning out en mass eat weekends to see how his hunger strike is going. For the fifth of the British population who are obese, and unused to doing without food for more than a few hours, the notion of someone giving it up for 44 days is unthinkable, some normal-size people have turned up to mock, throwing egg, cooking food and even trying to cut off the water supply to the hung American. Perhaps this is the point, that there are so few starving Americans in the world, which makes his self-imposed ordeal appear ludicrously self-indulgent. Yet it is possible to take Critser’s argument a stage further and suggest that millions of Americans are trapped between two industries, fast food and slimming, which enjoy a cosily symbiotic relationship. Research by a fast-food chain showed that what customers cared about was neither taster nor quality but portion size; what they have come to expect from food, and what their neighbours are beginning to want as well-obesity has increased by 158 per cent in Mexico in a decade, since fast food outlets began to replace the traditional diet-is a feeling of being stuffed to the gills. Cooking has become a spectator sport, something to watch famous people do on telly, as the populations of affluent countries rely increasingly on supermarket meals and takeaways. For many people, eating has become an addiction rather than a pleasure, and going on a diet merely replaces on morbid habit with another. In the circumstances, it is not really surprising that people are confused and
Lesson Nine. Iraq: Who won the war? Not the 90,000 Iraqi civilians or the 4,200 US and UK troops killed since 2003. The big winners are the money men who have made billions. Raymond Whitaker and Stephen Foley report 1.Five years ago today, Britain stood on the brink of war. On 16 March 2003, United Nations weapons inspec-tors were advised to leave Iraq within 48 hours, and the "shock and awe" bombing campaign began less than 100 hours later, on 20 March. The moment the neocons around President George Bush had worked so long for, aided by the moral fervour of Tony Blair, was about to arrive. 2."I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk," Kenneth Adelman, a leading neocon, had said a few weeks before, and so it proved. Within barely a month, Saddam's bronze statue in Baghdad's Firdaus Square was scrap metal. But every other prediction by the Bush administration's hawks proved wrong. 3.No weapons of mass destruction –Britain's key justification for war –have been found. The Pentagon acknowledged last week that a review of more than 600,000 captured Iraqi documents showed "no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al-Qa'ida terrorist network". 4.In 2008, there are still more American troops in Iraq than during the invasion, with no exit yet in sight. Britain's Ministry of Defence has just admitted that it has been unable to withdraw as many British troops as it planned – there are 4,000 still based just outside Basra, instead of the projected 2,500. So far 3,987 American soldiers and 197 British troops have died in Iraq. 5.So, five years on, who can be said to have won the war? Certainly not Iraqi civilians, at least 90,000 of whom have died violently since 2003, at the most conservative estimate. Other studies have multiplied that figure by five or six. Two million Iraqis have fled the country, and at least as many again are internally displaced. Baghdad households suffered power cuts of up to eight hours a day in Saddam's time; now they can expect less than eight hours of electricity a day on average. The US troop "surge" has cut the number of murders, but there are still 26 a day in the capital. The list goes on. 6.Nor have the eager promotors of the war, such as Mr Adelman, fared well. (By October 2006 he was admitting: "We're losing in Iraq.") The most arrogant of them all, Donald Rumsfeld, the ex-secretary of defence, was reluctantly dropped by Mr Bush in his second term. His former deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, who famously said that WMD had been used as the excuse for war because it was the only topic Washington's bureaucracy could agree on, was forced to resign as president of the World Bank after arranging a pay rise for his girlfriend. The Senate refused to confirm John Bolton
第一单元 When the University of California at Los Angeles put Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) on the cover of this winter’s alumni bulletin, it was a tribute to a distinguished graduate who is so close to his alma mater that he named his dog Bruin, after UCLA’s revered symbol. 美国加州大学洛杉矶分校在今年冬季毕业生期刊封面刊登美国国会议员杰尔. 刘易斯（加州共和党人），对与其母校的关系密切得能用美国加州大学洛杉矶分校吉祥物将其宠狗取名为布轮熊的杰出毕业生大肆颂扬。 But the cover story, which was engineered in part by the University of California’s government relation office in Washington, was also a shrewd ploy to cement relations with a key member of the House Appropriations Committee. 但是在某种程度上由加州大学华盛顿政府关系办公室策划的这一封面故事也是密切与美国国会众院拨款委员会某一关键委员的精明手段。 As Congress takes up President Bush’s fiscal 2005 budget proposal, which cuts some basic research programs vital to universities, the higher education community is using every lobbying tool at its disposal to protect its interests. 在美国国会受理布什总统提交的砍掉了对大学至关重要的一些基本
课程代码：212930000 课程名称：英语报刊阅读 英文名称：English Newspaper and Magazine Reading 学时：36 学分：2 开课学期：第五学期 先修课程：《综合英语》《英语阅读》《英语翻译》《英美概况》?《英语写作》等 一、课程的性质、目的与要求 该课程属于英语专业专业课。目的在于培养学生的英语报刊阅读理解能力。通过熟悉英美报刊杂志的文章的一般特点，分析文章的思想观点，篇章布局，语言技巧及文体修辞等，进一步提高学生的阅读理解能力和思想表达能力。本课程要求教学内容选材广泛且具有一定的难度，如英美主要报刊杂志中的时事评论、社论、政论、专题报道等方面的文章，题材涉及社会、政治、经济、战争、环保、人口、国际关系、科学技术等方面。阅读课教学应注重阅读理解能力与提高阅读速度并重。力求在基础阶段的基础上，把原有的语言基本功转化为真正的工具，尽多尽快地获取课堂上所提供的教材内的和课堂以外所读材料的信息。 专业课程教学是实施全面素质教育的主要途径。专业课程教学不但要提高学生的业务素质，而且要培养他们的思想道德素质，文化素质和心理素质。在专业课程教学中要正确处理好业务素质教育和其他素质教育的关系，使它们有机地，和谐地融为一体。 在专业课程的教学中要注重培养学生对文化差异的敏感性，宽容性以及处理文化差异的灵活性。加强学生思维能力和创新能力的培养。专业课程教学中要有意识地训练学生分析与综合，抽象与概括，多角度分析问题等多种思维能力以及发现问题，解决难题等创新能力。在教学中要正确处理语言技能训练和思维能力，创新能力培养的关系。 二、课程的主要内容和基本要求 最新报刊杂志文章。教学的重点与难点在于文化背景，文章用典，对文章的客观报道和主观报道的把握。 （1）?????? 英语宣传媒体：谈论、询问信息的主要来源；阅读报刊；了解版面、文体格式；阅读新闻事件以及对其的反应。 （2）?????? 英语新闻标题：标题的语言特征。 （3）?????? 文化异同：熟悉新闻标题；指出并比较文化特征与趋向；解释趋向的原因。（4）?????? 教育制度：叙述教育体制；描述成长过程中的一段经历；讨论教育问题；提出解决办法；给报纸写一封表达自己看法的正式信函；比较传统的与现代的教育体制。（5）?????? 和平与发展：描述当前的形势、发展趋势以及变化；谈论未来的发展模式；争辩；写文章总结。 （6）?????? 国际财经。 （7）?????? 环境：查询目录；讨论环境问题；解释原因；提出解决方案；表达恐惧、担忧；批评与辩护；给报纸写批评信。 （8）?????? 社会问题：讨论社会问题；探讨问题的原因；询问、描述未来的局势；交换意见；权衡问题的相对严重性；提出、评价解决措施；写一篇陈述问题、分析其原因并提出一个可能的解决方案的文章 （9）?????? 平等：谈论男女作用；讨论平等问题；比较角色与行为；给杂志写信；陈述问题，给予帮助。 （10）?? 信息高速公路：扩充与信息技术有关的词汇；区分语言的不同功能；学习信息交流的方法；给出结论；陈述论点；论证构思。 三、所用教材：