2016年上新闻英语期末测试卷

2016年上新闻英语期末测试卷

I. Read and choose appropriate answers. (5*2’)

1.The right orders of the top four newspapers in US according to circulation is as

follows:

A.The New York Times>USA Today>The Wall Street Journal>The Los. Angeles

Times

A Today> The New York Times>The Wall Street Journal> The Los. Angeles

Times

C.The Wall Street Journal>USA Today> The New York Times >The Los. Angeles

Times

D.The Wall Street Journal >> The New York Times >USA Today> The Los.

Angeles Times

2.What is the largest newspaper in circulation in UK?

A.The Daily Telegraph

B. The Times

C. Financial Times

D. The economist

3.What is the most used style when news report is written?

A. the Inverted Pyramid Structure

B.the Chronological Order

C.the Suspended Interest Form

D. the Champagne glass structure

4. News styles can be classified into three categories, which are:

A.News reports, editorials and features

B.Editorials, opinions and news reports

C.News reports, features and opinions

D.Features, reviews and opinions

5.What mainly constitutes a news story?

A. Headline, dateline, byline and body

B.Headline, dateline, byline and lead

C.Headline, dateline, lead and body

D.Lead, dateline, byline and body II. Fill in the blanks (4*3‘)

6.News stories are basically divided into two types: _______ and

__________according to the nature of the events covered.

________is a chronical of current events that are reported immediately.

7._______ and ______present the main idea of the news story(Choose from the

components of news stories).

8._______ is the most important journalistic opinion.

9.The most used tense in headlines for current news is ______________. .

III.Translation between Chinese and English. (4*3‘)

10. on the ropes ______

11. bury one’s head in the sand _______

12亲美的________

13. 顺时针的______________

IV.Translate the following sentences into Chinese. (13’)

14. If we human beings go on abusing the forest resources on the earth, we’ll soon kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

15. The risk is that you put enormous amounts of money into white elephants.

V. There are some flaws(缺点) with the headlines according to the features of headlines

of English news. Try to update them to make them more acceptable. (5*5’)

16. An Italian ex-mayor was murdered. ____________________________.

17. The United States of America is told not to exploit Tibet issue. ___________.

18. Rail chaos was getting worse. __________________________________.

19. China prohibits fishing in South Sea. ________________________.

20.Iran will export electricity to Syria and Lebanon

VI. News writing. (30’)

Write news according to the given clues.