英语报刊选读试题1

英语报刊选读试题 1

I. Translate the following into Chinese. (5 points for each; 30 points in total)

1. Ms. Stuart says her experience with online learing was wonderful but also served to challenge one of the false ideas about Internet study: the notion that it do esn’t require as much commitment and discipline as conventional classroom courses. If anything, Stuart believes she works harder than most traditional on-site students. She says she can provide firsthand evidence that the idea that distance learning is easy is a misconception.

2. The cover story of this winter’s alumni bulletin, which was designed partly by the University of California’s government relations office in Washington, was also a shrewd ploy to cement relations with Jerry Lewis, who is a key member of the House Appropriations Committee.

3. Individual professors and college administrators have also been increasing their political donations, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Gifts by university employees to presidential candidates totaled more than ＄2.4 million in the first three quarters of 2003, according to the center. The leading recipient was Howard

Dean, who collected ＄719, 000, and close behind was George W. Bush, who received ＄680, 000.

4. In effect, the Bush doctrine establishes two classes of sovereignties: the sovereignty of the United States, which takes precedence over international treaties and obligations; and the sovereignty of all other countries, which is subject to the will of the United States. This is reminiscent of Geo rge Orwell’s Animal Farm: all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

5. Colleges and universities still shy away from organized political fundraising and campaign advertising –the stock in trade of modern lobbying. Nonprofit status or state laws prohibit many of them from engaging in it.

6. Don Wise wandered into the living room of his home in Leewood one evening last Semptember. His ten-year-old son, Mike, and a 12-year- old friend were sitting in front of a large-screen television set. They were playing a vedio game they had rented called 00

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II. Read the passage and choose the right answer to each question.（5 points for each; 20 points in total）

Campaign strategists have agreed to focus on the Senate, where leaders hope to complete work on the budget package by May 1. “We felt that if the Senate defeated the proposal, it would not even come up in the House,” says John Rother, legislative director for the 18-million-member American Association of Retired persons.

Targeted mainly are Republicans, who control the Senate, with particular emphasis on the 21 who face re-election next year. The next election looms l arge in the lobbyists’ strategy. “We shall not forget if Congress behaves in an unfriendly fashion to the senior citizens of the United States,” warns Jacob Clay man, president of the NCSC, which represents 4.5 million persons. “We shall remember—and 1986 is just around the corner.”

Eric Shulman, legislative director for the NCSC, explains: “Those up for reelection will have their ears closest to the ground—and we are making as much of a rumble as we can. We see this issue being won or lost not in Washington but out in the countryside.” Adds Arthur Flemming, former U. S. commissioner on aging and now a lobbyist for the elderly:” “It’s the grass roots that convey the message most effectively.”

1．In the sentence“…… where leaders hope to complete… ,”leaders refer to .

A．House leaders B．floor leaders

C．Congressional D．Senate leaders

2．In the sentence “… it would not even come up in the House …,”the House ref ers to .