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《英语报刊选读》平时作业1

Unit One Questions

Lesson One P9

Please answer the following questions in simple words.

1. What activities are harming ancient Buddhist grottoes?

2. Who turned the caves into the painted shrines?

3. Are murals in good shape?

4. Why is it difficult for the authorities to prevent them from being destroyed?

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2 5. Does the Chinese government value the preservation of those historical and cultural sites?

6. Why did Mr. Neville Agnew say “ tourism and conservation are good partners”?

Lesson Two P18

Please answer the following questions in simple words.

1. What is Beijing running for?

2. When will the site be chosen for the games?

3. Did China get fair play in choosing the site for the 2000 games?

4. What are the reasons listed by the Bid Committee of Beijing for choosing it for the 2008

games?

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5. What is the goal of the English-speaking drive in Beijing?

Lesson Three P29

Please answer the following questions in simple words.

1. Why did some of the HBS grads choose to come back to China although they had received

lucrative offers from America’s top companies?

2. What profession do they usually like to go in for?

3. Why did most of them choose to take in IT industry?

4. Why did some of them decide to stay in the US while some chose to come back?

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6. What does the title of this article “ Home At Last” mean?

Unit Two Questions

Lesson Four P38

Please answer the following questions in simple words.

1. Why are virtual institutions thought of as best graduate schools?

2. Why is the huge upsurge of interest in remote learning?

3. Will the distance education substitute the traditional education? Explain.

4. What’s the advantage of remote learning?

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5. What’s the opposite idea about remote learning?

6. What are the factors you should consider before you choose a distant-education school?

Lesson Five P57

Please answer the following questions in simple words.

1. Do researchers agree with each other on the correlationship between college selectivity

and future income of the graduates? Cite examples to answer the question.

2. Are all state-run universities less competitive than private universities? Please give

examples.

3. If a candidate is admitted to Harvard University, but decides to go to a state university,

will his future earnings be affected?

4. For students from poor backgrounds, does it affect their future earning to choose an elite 课 程 作 业

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5. Where do most top companies go to recruit their employees? Why?

6. What has influenced the old pattern of employee recruiting for companies?

7. What is the attitude of the author of the article toward the issue of college selectivity?

Lesson Six P70

Please answer the following questions in simple words.

1. How many American colleges do you know? Which of them are the best?

2. What are admissions quotas?

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7 3. State the reasons for Asian-American children’s success at school. What is their chief

motivation?

4. Do all American college administrators adopt the policy of acceptances based purely on merit?

Why or why not?

5. Why do Asian-American children tend to major in math and science? What is your view about

their inclination?

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英语报刊选读(第一册)参考答案

英语报刊选读(第一册)参考答案

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BOOK ONE ............................................................................................................................................... 2

UNIT 1 Campus ............................................................................................................................................. 2

UNIT 2 Entertainment .................................................................................................................................. 3

UNIT 3

Entertainment .................................................................................................................................. 5

UNIT 4 Food .................................................................................................................................................. 6

UNIT 5 Crime ................................................................................................................................................ 8

《英美报刊选读》综合作业

《英美报刊选读》综合作业

《英美报刊选读》综合作业

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To finish this comprehensive assignment, students are expected to refer to China Daily. The

assignment is scheduled to hand in at the 12th week. Print documents and digital version are both

needed.

I. Stylistic Features of Headlines (1.5’*30=45’)

1. The grammatical features of headlines

Directions: identify 10 headlines that show the grammatical features specially used in headlines.

For each feature, provide two examples. For example, Deposits, Loans Rising In Shanghai

(omission of and , be).（5 after class and 5 in class）

1) ____________________________________________________________________________

2) ____________________________________________________________________________

3) ____________________________________________________________________________

报刊选读作业

报刊选读作业

Title:The Best Invention of the Year: NASA's Ares

Rockets

By JEFFREY KLUGER Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009

Lead:

Metal has no DNA; machines have no genes. But that doesn't mean they don't

have pedigrees — ancestral lines every bit as elaborate as our own. That's surely

the case with the Ares 1 rocket. The best and smartest and coolest thing built in

2009 — a machine that can launch human beings to cosmic destinations we'd

never considered before — is the fruit of a very old family tree, one with

branches grand, historic and even wicked.

Body:

There are a lot of reasons astronauts haven't moved beyond the harbor lights of

low-Earth orbit in nearly 40 years, but one of them is that we haven't had the machines to take us anywhere else. The space shuttle is a flying truck: fine for the

lunch-bucket work of hauling cargo a couple of hundred miles into space, but

英语报刊阅读作业练习1

英语报刊阅读作业练习1

《英语报刊阅读》作业练习1

Assignment 1

Read the following passage and answer the questions：

Tuition Reform for Higher Education

Chinese institutions of higher learning have quickened their pace of reform in recent years.

Changing enrollment practices and higher tuition fees constitute and important part of the reform.

Schools which once admitted students almost exclusively according to state plans are becoming

more accepting of students sent by work groups for further training and those who pay their own

fees.

Regular universities and colleges plan to enroll about 786 200 students this year, up 158

200 or 25 percent over last year‟s figure. Of these, 216 000, or 27.4 percent, will be sent by their

work groups or will pay their own way.

In the past, the state paid all tuition and school fees for university students, a matter of