报刊选读第二次离线作业答案

《报刊选读》第二次离线作业答案

I. Select from the lettered choice the one, which best completes the statement or answers the

question. Write the letter of your choice in the brackets.

parents complain about _____when they talk about their children’s

education.

A. campus violence

B. drug abuse

C. after-school assignments

D. basketball tryout

A１Where was John Kundereri Moriarty transported when he was 4 years old?

A. South B. North C. East

C2. Who was responsible to the Stolen Generation in Australia?

A. Terrorism B. White parents C. State and federal government

B3. Who was awarded the Order of Australia, the country’s highest civil medal of

honor?

A. Cathy B. Moriarty C. Ros

B4. About ____ Aboriginal and European parentage——were taken from their parents

from 1910 until the 1970’s.

A. 10,000 B. 100,000 C. 1,000,000

A5. The biggest problem for the continent’s Gypsies(or Roma) to be recognized as a

nation is ____ .

A. lack of a defined territory B. without other countries’ recognition

C. lack of a united government

C6. Gypsies’ language is related to ____.

A. Chinese B. English C. Hindi

A7. Nicholas Gheorge, an expert on Gypsy affairs at the OSCE, reckons that there

would be more ____ members in governments of European countries.

A. Gypsy B. Jewish C. Romanian

B8. The city hall auditorium in East London is a place for ____.

A. concert B. witness under Apartheid to release their pain

C. police office

B9. Who was hacked and shot to death in 1985 by unnamed members of apartheid-era

security forces?

A. Nombwyselo Mhlawuli B. Sicelo Mhlawuli C. Monica Godolozi.

C10. The duty of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is ____.

A. curing the pain under apartheid B. reconciling the survivals with the killers

C. all above

ing to the passage, who is excited Wynton Marsalis’s visit?

(A) The audience there

(B) The resident bluemen

(C) Harlem

(D) Both A and B

Olympiad is Beijing running for?

(A) Summer Olympiad 2000 (B) Summer Olympiad 2004

(C) Summer Olympiad 2008 (D) Summer Olympiad 2012

must local government keep his or her doors to every visitor?

(A) Economic development depends on it.

(B) In order to let more people enjoy the beauty of the sites.

(C) The central government forces them to do that.

(D) They are friendly and hospitable.

what does China spend the least money?

(A)Overhauling its command economy

(B)Dampening rising unemployment

(C)Taking care of an aging population

(D)Cultural conservation

did not the workers do in the run up to the last October’s celebration?

(A)They finished a network of expressways and ramps crisscrossing the city.

(B)They built a huge airport in nearby Pudong.

(C)They built a large-sized shopping mall in the center of city.

(D)They built a cross-river tunnels linking Shanghai to Pudong.

D16. Why do some drivers feel bad about Olympiad 2008 in Beijing?

(A) The road condition will be worse.

(B) There will be more customers.

(C) It will make Beijing more famous.

(D) They will be shut out because their pedicabs are shabby.

do radio talk shows advice people to do?

(A) Drivers can only overcharge a little.

(B) Industry managers must make sure company vans do not run on the road.

(C) People should not spit on the ground.

(D) All the people in Beijing should go to school to learn English very well.

B18. What did Engelhardt advise China to do in a conference last month?

(A) People should clean up the foul air.

(B) People should take some measures to preserve their heritage.

(C) People should built more expressway in the sites.

(D) People should allow more foreigners to visit China.

D19. What damaged the caves over the years?

(A) wind, rain and sand

(B) western plunderers

(C) tourists

(D) all of above

B20. The attitude of the author revealed in the article named “Exploding Tourism

Eroding China’s Riches” is__

(A) nostalgia (B)critical (C) pessimistic (D) optimistic

A21The child born between 1947 and 1961 is frequently referred to as ______

A.“ boom baby”

B. “boomer parents”

C. “ booming child”

D.”booming girl”

II. March the following words or phases on the left column with their

correspondent explanations on the right

e1. threw the inbounds pass a高难度进球

d2. give and take b英国政府，英国内阁

a3. hit big shots c英国王宫

b4. Downing Street d平等交易

c5. Buckingham Palace e球从界外投入界内

f. extinction of one nation’s culture

j7. Aborigines g. South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

f8. Cultural genocide h. the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

h9. OSCE i. the African National Congress

g10. SATRC j. relating to the original inhabitants in Australia

III. Write T in the bracket if the statement is true and F if the statement is false.

1. John Kundereri Moriarty, living happily in an aboriginal tribal community in

northern Australia, was transported south through Alice Springs. ( T )

2. The Australian government apologized for the Stolen generation. ( F )

3. Moriarty is a writer now. (F )

4. An unprecedented chance for Gypsies is to be recognized as a nation, albeit one

without a defined territory. ( T)

5. At the night when Sicelo Mhlawuli was killed, 4 others did meet the same fate. ( F )

Scots and the Welsh worry a lot about those Japanese companies.( F )

Taliban began as a group of seminary students. ( T )

8.U.S. estimates the Taliban now controls the whole country of Afghanistan. ( F )

Bush administration decided to make military or covert action against Saddam

Hussein without any conditions. ( F )

als in the USA held different views of their action to Iraq. (T )

of the crimes are not concerned with young people ( F )

12. Ecstasy, once a club drug for the élite, is suddenly flooding frat houses and high

schools. ( T )

13. Hug drug is good for people’s health (F )

14. Anger over children being killed and kids with guns has not faded. The moms

have not forgotten ( T )

15. The troubles with gangs are not so serious ( F )

16. (T) Winston Churchill often described parliamentary democracy and constitutional

monarchy as being imperfect----but the best that man had yet devised.

17.( T ) In Britain the monarch remains very much at the heart of its Constitution.

18.( F ) Queen Elizabeth2 cannot choose a prime minister, dissolve Parliament or

declare war.

19.( T) It is one of the great strengths of monarchy that it has never taken sides in any

political debate, that it shows itself, as an institution, to be evenhanded.

20.(F) British monarchy has served both the empire and the commonwealth with little

distinction.

IV．Fill in the blanks.

1. We may be _in danger of _loving our heritage to death.

of engineers _ pore over designs from international architects for a new

Olympic village in northern Beijing.

the material benefits of tourism for local residents are hard to overstate,

especially for people long _mired_ poverty and in desperate for_a way out.

, rain, sand and Western _plunderers__ have all damaged the caves over the

years.

Marsalis recently dropped by to jam, electrifying_ both the audience and

the resident bluesmen.

6 Consumers across the continent, panicked by fear of __mad-cow___ disease,

continue to shun steak and roasts.

panic mentioned in the first question began in __London

8. The _World Health Organization (the name of an organization) announced an

emergency meeting to be held in Geneva this week.

9. Prime Minister John Major belongs to _ Conservative Party.

10. Early last week the European Union (the name of an organization) imposed a

worldwide ban on exports of British beef and byproducts, from gelatin to

cosmetics.

11. it’s called the hug drug because it engenders gooey, rather gauche expressions

empathy of from users.

12. Thousands of children die every year from guns , and thousands more are injured.

’s called the hug drug because it engenders gooey, rather gauche expressions

empathy of from users.

V. Explain the following terms.

1 . Pipeline problem:

It refers to an undersupply of women and minorities enrolled in graduate programs. The more

stubborn problem is that the pipeline often empties into uninviting territory.

2. Well being ( according to Carol Ryff):

six qualities; independence, the ability to cope with complex demands, a feeling of growth as a

person, good relationships, goals that give life meaning, and an acceptance of the self and the

past.

3. Newsweek: a famous weekly published magazine concerning of news in and out

of the United States in the later week. It is the second largest weekly magazine

published in the States. It has its own characteristics. The passages these years have

become interesting and attractive.

and Doves

The two words represent two kinds of tendency. Hawks means anyone who

advocates an aggressive posture and policy in foreign relations. Coined as war hawks

in 1798 by Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president, to describe those who wanted a war 1812

with England. Hawk enjoyed a popular revival as the opposite of dove during the

Vietnam War and has been maintained in general use ever since. Doves means anyone

who prefers negotiation to armed conflict in international relations. coined by Stewart

Alsop and Charles Bartlett (U.S. political writers) in 1962.

VI．Answer the following questions.

1. What’s the difference between the drive-in theater and open-air cinema?

Key：( The drive-in theater is that you can watch the movie in the car, the other is in the open air)

2. How popular is the open-air cinema at Bryant Park?

Key：( There are usually several thousand people in this park, you have to show up hours in

advance to grab a spot)

3. what’s the selling point of other film series?

Key：(They are not the Bryant Park, there aren’t many people, it’s not too crowed.)

4. What did the coach say about Jordan?

Key：( He is being modest, amazing and he is getting his leg back.)

5. What did Jordan say about his team?

Key：( There is cohesiveness among them.)

6. What’s Jordan’s ambition of forthcoming season?

Key：( He wants his team to win the season.)

7. What’s Jordan’s influence in the team?

Key：( He played small forward, somehow he was a guide and leader)

8. Why can Great Britain assimilate some radical theories?

Key：( It is because of its apolitical stance)

9. Is it the monarch who chooses a prime minister? Why?

Key：(No, it isn’t . It is the parliament who choose the prime minister, the monarch just have to

accept it.)

10. If the monarchy were abolished, what would things in Britain be like?

Key：( The nation and the commonwealth would be turned upside down.)

11. . What role does Queen ElizabethⅡ have?

Key：( She carries out ceremonial duties, and she is the head of the state who foster the notion of

political accountability)

12. What is the people’s reaction to the mad-cow disease?

Key：( There is a panic among people)

13. . In Major’s view, who should take the responsibility for the beef scare?

Key：(The media, the opposite party, and the whole European)

14. How does France and Ireland fight the disease?

Key：( In France and Ireland, the entire herd is eliminated when a single case is discovered.)

15. What are the European leaders’ attitudes?

Key：( At first, they didn’t care much about it, and made a ban. But later when they found their

people stop to consume beef, they began to support major and want to battle on.)