《英语报刊选读》期末复习指导

《英语报刊选读》期末复习指导

一、课程说明

本课程为本科开放教育英语专业的选修课程之一，开设时间为第五学期。教学对象是广播电视大学英语本科学生或具有同等水平的自学者。本课程采用的教材为《美英报刊文章阅读》和《〈美英报刊文章阅读〉学习辅导》（周学艺主编，北京大学出版社出版，2001年10月第2版）。

二、考试说明

本课程终结性考核方式为闭卷考试，考生不得携带任何形式的参考资料和电子读物或工具。考核范围为:

第1单元Chinese Affairs

Lesson One Exploding Touris m Eroding China’s Riches

Lesson Two Beijing Dreams of 2008

Lesson Three Home at Last

第2单元American Affairs (I)

Lesson Four Best Graduate Schools

Lesson Five Is Harvard Worth It ?

第3单元American Affairs (II)

Lesson Eight Judge Sees Politics in Los Alamos Case

Lesson Ten Big Crimes, Small Cities

Lesson Eleven Hollywood Demons

第4单元American Affairs (III)

Lesson Thirteen Lobbyist Out Of Shadow Into The Spotlight

Lesson Fourteen The Rich Get Richer and Elected

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第5 单元American Affairs (IV)

Lesson Nineteen Free-talking and Fast Results

第6单元British Affairs

Lesson Twenty Why the Monarchy Must Stay

Lesson Twenty-one Anything But Beef?

第7单元Asian Affairs

Lesson Twenty-four Giant on The Move

第8单元Australian, Brazilian, European & African Affairs

Lesson Twenty-eight Killing in the Name of God

Lesson Twenty-nine Testimony to S. African Catharsis

题型及分数比例：

I.补上标题中省略或被代替的单词（10%）

II、阅读理解部分：

选择题（30%）

正误判断题（20%）

问题回答（20%）

III. 翻译题（20%）

三、复习要点

本考试重点考查学生对英语报刊的阅读理解能力和对时事政治新闻词语的掌握，并适当考查课程中所介绍的读报知识。课程终结考试的命题根据教材所涵盖的有关中国、美国、英国以及亚洲、非洲的新闻内容以及与教材难度相当阅读材料，涉及教材内容不少于40%。

复习要点：第一单元中有关中国的教育与文化的内容

第二单元中有关美国教育的内容

第三、四单元中涉及美国政治的内容

第五单元中有关美国贸易的内容

第六单元主要是有关英国政治的内容

第七单元主要是有关印度的内容

第八单元主要是有关非洲的宗教和种族歧视的内容

四、综合复习题（试题范例）

本科开放教育英语专业《英语报刊选读》考试模拟试题

I. Reconstruct the messages of the following headlines of news stories: (10 points)

Example: Italian Ex-Mayor Murdered

---An Italian Ex-Mayor Is Murdered

told not to exploit Tibet issue

2.Rubin, Greenspan at odds

3.Visitors flocking to Mao’s birth place

4.Man quizzed after wife is knifed in sports store

II. Read the following passage and answer the Questions A 5-34 (30 points) and B 35-45 (20 points).

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 policy since New China was established in 1949. Although this practice guaranteed the supply of qualified personnel, it brought a heavy burden to the sate, hindering further development of higher education. Since higher education is non—compulsory education in China, to charge appropriate fees will help improve school facilities and expedite the development of education in this stage. As an added benefit, paying their own way will encourage students to study harder.

The reform will take effect in two directions. State—financed students will begin paying part of the costs of their education, and more self—paying students will be accepted.

In August 1989, under the direction of the State council, the State Education Commission, the Ministry of Finance and the Sate Price Bureau drew up stipulations concerning the amount of charges on tuition, accommodation and other expenses for students of institutions of higher learning. Beginning from that year, freshmen at regular universities and colleges and professional schools (including cadres taking special training courses and students working on a second degree) were charged 100 yuan (about us $17) each for their tuition fee, and this low charge is expected to be raised gradually. The figure was higher in special economic zones and economically developed regions such as Guangdong Province and Shanghai, but was capped at 300 yuan. Students living on campus paid about 20 yuan per year for