英美报刊选读期末复习提要

2003年12月11日

英美报刊选读期末复习提要

责任教师聂光华

根据大纲规定，本课程的教学目的在于培养学生阅读英语报刊的基本能力。通过该课程的学习，使学生掌握一定数量的英语报刊词汇，熟悉英语新闻报道的结构和体裁、了解美英几大报刊的背景、立场、影响及版面编排等，并逐渐积累阅读英美报刊所必备的政治、军事、经济、外交、法律、宗教、文教和社会知识。

为方便同学们进行期末复习，特将有关期末考试的范围、题型等作一简要说明，并附上一份自测题供复习用。

1．考试范围及分数比例

教材内容（1--15课，）与课外内容各占50%左右，课外内容的难度低于教材内容。

2．试题的构成和题型

试题由三部分组成：

Part One Turn the following into Chinese (20%)

该题选自教材以外。

Part Two Turn the uderlined parts（or some terms）into Chinese (30%)

该题共15小题,选自教材。

Part Three Reading Comprehension (50%)

该题共15小题,5个问答题，10个选择题,大部分出自课外文章。

第二部分自测题Part One Turn the following into Chinese (20%)

A bomb exploded at a crowded street market in Paris near the Place

de la Bastille Sunday morning, leaving four people slightly hurt. The police said that the bomb, packed into a pressure cooker and hidden in a bag under a vegetable stand, did not cause greater damage because of a malfunctioin. But the incident clearly left a deep impact on Government officials who are facing what they believe to be a campaign of terrorism directed by Islamic militants from Algeria. Police did not immediately link the bomb to three devices planted in recent weeks, which killed seven and wounded scores of others in Paris.

Part Two（A）Turn the uderlined parts into Chinese (30%)

6. UNESCO

7. They were just taking a break from the students and most exhilarating work of their lives.

8、Senate Majority Whip

9,Westinghouse Science Talent Search

10. They dressed her up in a prim gray suit.

11. Chicago Tribune

12. Daily Telegragh

13. The classroom is a virtual one, with students logging in from

all over the globe.

14．Free Press

15．Shao Yibo scribbled down a business proposal, sold his belongings and left for Shanghai.

Part Two（B）Turn the following into Chinese (30%)

1．lobbyist 2 . Congress

3 . the Capitol

4 .senate

5 .Watergate 6. G.O.P.

7.cover story 8 .whiz kid

9．appeals court 10. a law withholding taxes on interest payment

11. diversity of democracy 12. political realignment

13. Free Press 14. the budget package 15. Wall Street Journal

Part Three Reading Comprehension (50%)

Passage One

Many parents who welcome the idea of turning off the TV and spending more time with the family are still worried that without TV they would constantly be on call as entertainers for their children. They remember thinking up all sort of things to do when they were kids. But their own kids seem different, less resourceful, somehow. When there"s nothing to do, these parents observe regretfully, their kids seem unable to come up with any thing to do besides turning on the TV. One father, for example, says. “When I was a kid, we were always thinking up things to do, projects and games. We certainly never complained in an annoying way to our parents, ‘I have nothing to do!’ He compares this with his own children today: “They"re simpl y lazy. If someone doesn"t entertain them, they"ll happily sit there watching TV all day. ”

There is one word for this father"s disappointment: unfair. It is as if he were disappointed in them for not reading Greek though they have never studied the language. He deplores(哀叹)his children"s lack of inventiveness, as if the ability to play were something innate(天生的)that his children are missing . In fact, while the tendency to play is built into the human species, the actual

ability to play-to imagine, to invent, to elaborate on reality in a playful way-and the ability to gain fulfillment from it, these are skills that have to learned and developed.

Such disappointment, however, is not only unjust, it is also destructive. Sensing their parents" disappointment, children come to believe that they are, indeed, lacking something, and that this makes them less worthy of admiration and respect. Giving children the opportunity to develop new resources, to enlarge their horizons and discover the pleasures of doing things on their own is, on the other