大三英语专业英美报刊选读期末考试卷子

Note: This exam should be completed in ENGLISH.

Part I: Explain the following phrases. (20 points, 2 for each)

Oprah Winfrey:

American Dream:

Filibuster：

Host Culture:

Stolen Nation:

Sooner:

Exit Polls:

Op-Ed Article:

Abramoff Effect:

Watergate:

Part II: Give answers to the following questions. (30 points, 10 for each)

1.Explain features of English newspaper headlines.

2.List at least eight types of compound adjective. (two examples for each type)

3.List at least ten types of journalistic leads and explain their functions respectively.

Part III: Re-organize the order of the following paragraphs according to the logical sequence of the story structure. Attention: all you need to do is to write in the box below the numbers for the corresponding paragraph. (20 points, 2 for each)

Program endorsed to develop shanghai

(1) “But more important, it should rely on the support and efforts of the people of Shanghai.”

(2) “Developing Pudong is an event of im portant strategic significance both to Shanghai and the whole country. The central government will provide necessary support and the whole country should give active support,” Wen said.

(3) “I hope the comrades in Shanghai will do a better job in developin g Pudong and gaining new momentum for Shanghai,” Wen said.

(4) “This is another important plan for us to deepen the country’s reform and expand its opening to the outside world, ”said Wen at a celebration for the fifth anniversary of the Shanghai V olkswagen Automotive Co. Ltd. yesterday morning.

(5) He said that the achievements of the two projects are the outcome of reform and open policy.

(6) In Shanghai, Wen also attended the celebrations for the start of production of the 300,000-ton ethylene project in the Shanghai Petro-chemical Complex and the start of cold-rolling mill in Baoshan Iron and Steel Complex.

(7) Wen said that the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council have agreed to “speed up the development of the Pudong area”.

(8) Wen welcomed overseas entrepreneurs and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to invest in developing Pudong. “We will provide favorable conditions for cooperation as well as an increasingly improving investment environment.” Wen said.

(9) SHANGHAI –An ambitious program to expand and develop China’s largest industrial city into the country’s top open economic zone has been endorsed by the State’s leadership.

(10) Shanghai has a broad industrial foundation and strong science and technological and economic management personnel. The city also has widespread overseas links. The transportation network here is linked to all parts of the country, the Premier said.

(11) Situated between the East China Sea and the Yangtze and Huangpu rivers, the Pudong area—because of its waterlocked position—has been the only underpopulated and least built-up area of Shanghai.

(12) The project is the last of the four such installations China imported from Japan in 1978 and moved to Shanghai in 1983.

(13) The Shanghai V olkswagen has built up an annual production capacity of 30,000 cars and 100,000 engines. About 58,000Santana cars have been produced so far. (14) The successful run of the Shanghai 300,000-ton ethylene project has increased China’s ethylene ou tput to some 2 million tons each year, ranking the eighth in the world.

(15) This was confirmed by Premier Wen Jiabao, who said yesterday that policies for economic and technological development zones and some policies for special economic zones will be c arried out in Shanghai’s Pudong area, on the east side of Huangpu River.

(16) This will help to ease the raw material shortage in China and boost the development of textile, chemical and building material industries.

(17) With these comprehensive advantages and the policies given by the central government, Shanghai could develop Pudong into a modern and export-oriented industrial base, Wen said.