英语报刊阅读练习题(五)及答案

1、英语报刊阅读练习题（五）英语报刊阅读练习题（五） i. translate the following words into chinese. 1. washington post 2. readers digest 3. financial times 4. the economist 5. reuters 6. speaker 7. secretary of state 8. department of justice 9. district court 10. house of lords 11. prime minister 12. chief whip 13. labour part

2、y 14. constitutional monarchy 15. electoral college 16. asean 17. unesco 18. the commonwealth 19. ioc 20. fbi ii. translate the following two short paragraphs. 1. i do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of the president of the united states, and will to the best of my ability,

3、preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. so help me god. 2. 世界上只有一个中国，大陆和台湾同属一个中国，中国的主权和领土完整不容分割。 iii. rewrite the following headlines if necessary. 1. rail chaos getting worse 2. no survivors in gulf air crash 3. how america sees the world 4. thailand, malaysia ink sea tr

4、eaty 5. chinese cooks: masters at turning a turnip into a flower iv. read the following news and then choose the right answer to each question. new item 1 a wide-ranging conference is due to begin in the ethiopian capital addis ababa shortly, which will look at somalias political future and review j

5、anuary cease-fire and disarmament agreement. the un-sponsored meeting which is due to last for five days is being attended not only by the warring fractions and political representatives, but also by community leaders, intellectuals and womens groups. it comes amid growing international pressure to

6、bring peace to somalia. a bbc correspondent in addis ababa says if no workable agreement is reached, some un representatives have speculated that the un which has postponed its decision on a mandate to take over from the us forces may withdraw from the country. 1. the aim of the conference is all of

7、 the following but _. a. to review a cease-fire agreement. b. to appeal to the world for aid. c. to review a disarmament agreement. - 1 - d. to look at somalias political future. 2. the conference is proposed by _. a. the ethiopian government. b. the united states. c. the united nations. d. the warr

8、ing factions. 3. if no agreement can be reached, _. a. the us forces will withdraw from the country. b. the us forces will take over from the un. c. the un will postpone its decision. d. the un forces will move away from the country. news item 2 the un says a un team is close to destroying iraqs lar

9、gest complex capable of producing biological weapons. a un official in baghdad said the team should finish dismantling the factory by mid-june. iraq insists the plant produces animal feed. but the un official says the site near baghdad can also be used to produce materials for germ warfare and there

10、fore must be dismantled. under the terms that ended the 1991 gulf war, iraq is to be stripped of weapons of mass destruction and the means to produce them. 4. the iraq factory must be dismantled because it can _. a. produce animal feed capable of being used as biological weapons. b. produce material

11、s for weapons of mass destruction. c. produce massive weapons for germ warfare. d. produce biological weapons. new item 3 italy was sharply criticized for allowing the kurdish guerrilla leader abdullah ocalan to leave the country on jan. 6 and disappear again. turkish officials urged their countrys

12、neighbors in the caucasus not to harbor the kurdistan workers party leader, who is said to be now in nagorna karabakh, an american enclave within azerbaijian. any such protection, prime minister bulent ecevit said, would be regarded as a hostile act for which turkey would take necessary measures. 5.

13、 for what was italy criticized? a. putting ocalan to prison. b. setting ocalan free. c. letting ocalan leave italy. d. harboring ocalan. 6. turkey would take necessary measures if _. a. ocalan were given protection. b. ocalan were treated badly. c. ocalan disappeared. d. ocalan took a hostile action

14、. news item 4 - 2 - economic experts now estimate that the indonesian forest fires which have been blazing intensely for nearly a year could cost the region up to six billion dollars. this includes direct losses, such as agricultural output and indirect costs like medical bills and a drop in tourism

15、. figures were arrived at by the world-wide fund for nature and research group funded by western governments, the economy and the environment program for southeast asia. 7. how long has the indonesian forest been on fire? a. six months. b. over a year. c. almost one year. d. six years. 8. the fires

16、have caused direct or indirect losses in all of the following areas except _ as mentioned in the news. a. heavy industry. b. medicine. c. tourist industry. d. agriculture output. news item 5 a team of surgeons has begun operating on a seven-week-old baby girl in the dominican republic who was born w

17、ith a second head. the operation to remove rebecca martinezs second head is expected to last 13 hours. rebecca was thought to be only the eighth known case of parasitic twins, a condition which happens when one of a pair of conjoined twins fails to develop properly. her second head has partially dev

18、eloped ears, eyes and lips, but is growing faster than her own. doctors say if they dont do the operation now, by the age of three months she would be barely able to lift her head. surgeons have now begun to cut away the veins leading to the second head. the 18-strong team of medics expect to be wor

19、king in shifts for around 13 hours. if that is successful, they expect rebecca will be able to lead a normal life. 9. the phrase parasitic twins means _. a. conjoined twins that live on each other b. conjoined twins one of whom is partially developed c. conjoined twins that both fail to develop prop

20、erly d. conjoined twins that both develop properly 10. the operation to remove rebecca martinezs second head _. a. is simple but very risky b. is very urgent c. will be 100 successful d. has little chance of success v. read the following article and then answer the questions below. when the young ta

21、ke their lives a few weeks ago, while on neurosurgery call, i received a particularly disturbing page. “a 22-year-old woman is in the emergency room with a gunshot wound to the head,” my chief - 3 - resident told me. “oh, and it looks self-inflicted,” he added. the woman, a recent college grad, was

22、in a coma and starting to show signs of brain death. i knew that an immediate operation was her best chance for survival. over the next several hours, we worked feverishly to preserve the life she had tried to throw away. her predicament made me wonder, once again, what drives people to suicide and

23、why young people resort to such a desperate measure. in the 30 years from 1950 to 1980 (the latest period for which there is reliable information), the annual suicide rate among u.s. college-age women has almost doubled, from 3.9 deaths per 100,000 to 7.0 per 100,000, while the rate among collegeage

24、 men has tripled, from 10 per 100,000 to 32 per 100,000 a year. this years toll for adults ages 19 to 24 is expected to reach 1,000 deaths. students kill themselves at all times of year, but attempted suicides which fail owing to luck, ambivalence or good medicine begin to go up late in the year, ac

25、cording to the national institute of mental health. often the immediate cause seems to be a recent rejection, disappointment or academic failure. trying to determine whether a young person is suicidal can be difficult. even trained mental-health professionals have made mistakes. but there are warnin

26、g signs you can watch for in friends and loved ones that may signal more than just a simple case of the blues, such as withdrawing from all social activities, dramatic changes in personality or demeanor including suddenly becoming much happier or calmer significant shifts in sleeping or eating habit

27、s and giving away cherished personal items. dont get fooled into thinking that all people who commit suicide have carefully worked out a plan in advance. studies of suicide survivors, says thomas simon, a behavioral scientist at the u.s. centers for disease control, show that often just five minutes

28、 elapse from the time someone thinks about committing suicide until the actual attempt. this sometimes impulsive nature of the act is often facilitated by drinking alcohol. finally, it is o.k. to come right out and ask friends or family members whether they are thinking of suicide. you wont be givin

29、g them any ideas. be sure to let them know that they are not alone and that help is available through school counselors and mental-health hot lines, in hospitals and now online. through the years, i have treated many patients who have attempted suicide. i do it with the sincere hope that they will g

30、et better. our 22-year-old patient is awake now and even talking a bit. im optimistic about her physical recovery but disquieted about her chances overall. the experts will tell you that having tried to kill herself once, she is at greater risk of trying again. what no one knows is whether we will b

31、e able to pick up the pieces one more time. comprehension 1. what happened a few weeks ago? a. a 22 year-old woman graduate was shot by a gunman. b. a 22 year-old woman was shot in the emergency room. c. a 22 year-old woman was shot by a gunman and sent to the emergency room. d. a 22 year-old woman

32、graduate shot herself and was sent to the emergency room. 2. according to the passage _. a. the suicide rate of every decade among us college-age women has almost doubled from 1950 to 1980 - 4 - b. from 1950 to 1980, the suicide rate of us college-age men has also doubled annually c. the suicide rat

33、e of us college-age men is three times higher than that of college-age women during the period from 1950 to 1980 d. from 1950 to 1980, the suicide rate of us college-age women has almost doubled annually 3. the main reasons for college students killing themselves are _. a. failure in their loving af

34、fairs, disappointment or academic pressure b. disappointment, academic failure or a state of being rejected c. academic pressure, hardship in their college life or disappointment d. academic failure, rejection or depression because of competition 4. the behavioral scientist thomas simon says _. a. a

35、ll people who commit suicide usually have made a careful plan before they kill themselves b. few people committing suicide have made a plan but alcohol drinking usually gives them an irresistible impulse to kill themselves c. some people make a plan before they kill themselves, and some not, but peo

36、ple kill themselves in no time if they drink alcohol d. all people who commit suicide have a habit of drinking alcohol before they kill themselves 5. according to the passage, to help those who are thinking of suicide, _. a. we should not let them alone, tell them to go to school counselors or get s

37、ome advice from mental-health hot-lines b. we had better help them to find the reason whey they want to commit suicide, and let them know its illegal to kill ones own life c. we should tell their family members to accompany those students to go to school counselors or to get advice from mental-healt

38、h hot-lines d. we had better make sure that they know they are not alone and they can get help from many people such as school counselors and mental-health hot-lines. word study complete each sentence with a word or phrase given below (in its appropriate form if necessary). inflict facilitate predic

39、ament ambivalence coma elapse (v.) disquiet demeanor feverishly elapse (n.) toll counselor 1. he went back to college after a (n) _ of ten years. 2. the sons criticism greatly _ the mother. 3. such a port would _ the passage of soil from middle east to japan. 4. he didnt know how to extract himself

40、from his _. 5. three years _ before he returned home. 6. the wounded soldier was in a _ as a result of excessive loss of blood. 7. they wont let any foreign power _ any further blow on their national pride. 8. she fell in a heightened _ of alternating love and hate. 9. the war took a heavy _ of the nations manhood during those years. 10. according to what he said and did we may conclude that his _ is beyond reproach. - 5 - vi. the following questions are connected to your reading course