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
3.
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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V. Read the following article and then answer the questions below. Comprehension
1.C
2.B
3.D
4.A
5.C
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.。
