《英美报刊选读》练习题一二

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《英美报刊选读》练习题一
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.
1.The Bush administration wanted to have         percent of Medicare patients in H.M.O.’s by 2005.                                                                                                                  
A. 13                        
B. 14                       
C. 30                  
D. 33                                      (           )
2.In a 2000 survey by the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute, fewer than ______of college freshman rated magazine rankings “very important.”                                      (            )
A. 10%                 B. 15%                C 20%                   D 25%
3.The author believes that the rankings have become ____in higher education .　     (            )　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
A. a healthy force       B.an unhealthy force        C. a great benefit             D. an advantage
4.Many parents complain about _____when they talk about their children’s education.   (           )
A. campus violence      B. drug abuse      C. after-school assignments         D. basketball tryout
5.According to the spokeswoman for the American Association of Health Plans,         has outstripped the increase in Medicare reimbursement.                                                   (            )
A. Medicare inflation        B. drug cost          C. Mediaid inflation        D. medical service fee
6.The child born between 1947 and 1961 is frequently referred to as ______                 (            )
A.“ boom baby”         B. “boomer parents”          C. “ booming child”         D.”booming girl”
7. The advantages of Harvard confer _____ benefits on the class slacker                        (            )
A. many                   B. few                C. some                 D. any
8. In 1981, 6-8 –year-olds averaged ______minutes of homework per week.
A. 45                B. 50               C. 44                D.60
9. From the article we know that many HMOs are leaving________.
A. the medical a　association                   B. Medicare
C. the General Accounting Office             D. the United Health Group
10. The increase in Medicare payments ______ enough to make up for cuts made in 1997.
A. had been         B. will have been          C. was not            D. had not been
11Where was John Kundereri Moriarty transported when he was 4 years old?
A. South     B. North    C. East
12.、Who was responsible to the Stolen Generation in Australia?
A. Terrorism    B. White parents    C. State and federal government
13.、Who was awarded the Order of Australia, the country’s highest civil medal of honor?
A. Cathy    B. Moriarty    C. Ros
14.、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
15.、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
16.、Gypsies’ language is related to ____.
A. Chinese    B. English    C. Hindi
17.、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
18. The city hall auditorium in East London is a place for ____.
A. concert    B. witness under Apartheid to release their pain
C. police office
19. 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.
20. 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
21. Joseph Lieberman is ____________.
  a. Gore’s vice presidential running mate
  b. Bush’s vice presidential running mate
  c. governor of Texas
22. The candidate of the president of the United States often mention God, because ________
  a. they are superstitious
  b. they want to be blessed by God
  c. they just make use of religion for their political purpose
23. ______ a Catholic among the following Presidents.
           a. Eisenhower was
           b. John F. Kennedy was
           c. Gorge W. Bush Jr. is
24. In the 2000presidential election, the most important state which decides the political fates of Bush and Gore is ________.
   a. California    b. Florida    c. Maine  
25.　Richard Nixon thinks that the cooperation between the East and the West will be ______.
   a. possible      b. impossible   c. unknown
26. The reason that Nixon wrote Richard Nixon is _______.
      a. to make money   
b. he wants to be a famous people  
c. to improve the odds that posterity will see things his way
27. The vice presidential running mate of Gorge W. Bush Jr. in the 2000 Election was ______
     a. Gore     b. Power    c. Cheney
28. What do you think the people’s attitude to the rule ”Don’t mention sex, politics
and religion”?
               a. People today still think it is right.
               b. Nobody cares about it.
               c. People today strictly obey this rule during their social conversations.
  29. Gorge W. Bush Jr. and Gorge W. Bush Sr. are the _____ father-and-son president.
    a. first     b. second    c. third
  30. Which one do you think is more important during a Presidential Election after having read the three pieces of news?
    a. Financial support   b. Religion policy   c. Both A and B
II. March the following words or phases on the left column with their correspondent explanations on the right


A                                          B
1.        scourg                             a.  scattered fragments; wreckage
2.        debris                              b.  money or property left to sb in a will
3.        expunge                          c.  remove or wipe out
4.        egacy                              d.  person or thing that causes suffering
5  desperately                       e.  to give little hope of success


            A                                     B
                                       
1. threw the inbounds pass                           a高难度进球
2. give and take                                    b英国政府，英国内阁
3. hit big shots                                     c英国王宫
4. Downing Street                                  d平等交易
5. Buckingham Palace                               e球从界外投入界内


A                                                 B
1. ANC                                      a. extinction of one nation’s culture
2. Aborigines                             b. South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
3. Cultural genocide                  c. the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
4. OSCE                                    d. the African National Congress
5. SATRC                                  e. 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. 1221 is located at 1221 Yan’an Xi Road.
(         )2. Commemorative coins have been issued.
(         )3. Dublin is the finalist city for 2008.
(         )4. To build a highway is to bring visitors convenience and safety.
(        )5. Many people want to make the sites as modern as possible.
(   ) 6. The old rule for a polite conversation is: Never mention the topic of sex, religion and politics.
(   ) 7. The reason Gore lost in the election is that he was not a devotional follower of a religion.
(   ) 8. The candidate often mentioned God during the election, because they wanted to be blessed by God.
(   ) 9. Nixon still believes that Communist party will be the enemy of the United States forever.
(   ) 10. Nixon thinks that the cooperation between the East and the West is impossible.
11. An entrepreneurial is someone who starts or organizes a commercial enterprise (    )
12. “Soothe” means to make someone uncomfortable (    )
13. Poverty rates among Hispanics remain low (    )
14. An optimist is someone who expects the best to happen (    )
15. All the old woman of advanced age are living a happy and satisfying life (    )
IV．Fill in the blanks.
1.        The EC named Glasgow as_____.
2. Officials said perhaps as many as six coup attempts after the 1991 Persian _____war ended in failure.
3. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called____ “the enemy of the entire free world”.
        4.In his speech on Sunday night, Mr. Sharon promised to strike “the _____   infrastructure”   at its foundations.
5. Mr. Arafat’s close aide Nabil Aburdeineh said that the Palestinian People would be ____ and would not surrender.
6As the academic year gets underway at our nation’s colleges, the student body will be fairly ________.
7The academy has long attributed the slow progress in diversifying faculty to a “_______” —an undersupply of women and minorities enrolled in graduate programs.
8More provocative still might be a _______by top-ranked high school athletes and students of the one university, within each major athletic conference, with the worst record in faculty diversity
9This is a recipe for happiness for anyone at any age, but for _______the ingredients appear to be most readily available during middle age
10Many women of that era were bemused by the male medical establishment’s response to “_______troubles.”
11. Nearly 10 years passed before Moriarty was able to re-establish contact with his mother by  ____.
12. Moriarty figures the meeting with his mother as beginning to complete _____.
13. The design depicts the movement of ______ people across the Australian landscape when it was being formed, eons ago in the Aboriginal Dreamtime.
14. The International Romany Union is probably the most representative of the outfits that speak for _____, but that is not saying a lot.
15. The city hall auditorium in _____ has become the theater of South Africa’s pain, its heavy, blood-red curtains a somber backdrop for the saga of the severed hand.
V. Explain the following terms very briefly.
1.        crying jag:
2.        SAT:
3.        the non-partisan research:
4.        prescription drug:
5.        H.M.O.:  
6.        alma mater :
7.        UCLA:
8.         out-of –pocket costs:
9.        the Medical program:
10.  Sputnik:
Explain the following terms.
11Hispanic:
12Out-of-date stereotype of midlife:
13. Stolen generation
14. South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
VI．Answer the following questions
1. What is the main problem for Gypsies in establishing a new country?
2. What can South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission do for South
        African people?
3Why is “M on the Bund” so popular?
4 What are the reasons listed by the Bid Committee of Beijing for choosing it for   the 2008 games?
5. Why do so many nominees often say in a religious way?
6. Do you think Mr. Al Gore will be nominated in the 2004 presidential election by the Democrats?








《英美报刊选读》练习题二
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.
1. In an economic slump, who is more likely to bear the brunt?（       ）
A. the layoff workers    B. the bosses   C. the U.S. citizens    D. the temps
2.        The device used for the survey is（       ）
A. E-mail     B. mail     C. telephone     D. telegraph
3. Since 1996, the number of people collecting food stamps has sunk by one-third, to （    ）million.
A. 3           B. 17            C. 22           D. 20
4. What cannot a couple resort to when their marriage was in trouble?（      ）
A. churches           B. community mental-health centers      
C. marriage affair class            D. therapist
5.        Where can you get therapy for marital problems?（       ）
A. free counseling groups            B. a doctor                           
C. marriage-education course         D. your neighbour
6.        According to Clifford Notarius, ___ causes problems in marriage（        ）
A.difference         B.pressure   
C. the misunderstanding      D. the way to deal with the difference  
7.        Most supervisors are willing to meet employees’  （      ）
A. sensible requests   B. any requirements    C. all vacations   D. paid leave time
8.        If Sheila Lindsey’s going to be away for more than a day, she will.（       ）
A. never be found        B. change her mail        
C. be contacted on very important affairs      D. come back at once
9.        A pink slip is （         ）
A. a notice of unemployment       B. a notice of promotion
C. a notice of employment         D. a notice of pay increase
10.        When the economy goes down, the most visible problem is probably to come with（     ）
A. welfare reform   B. unemployment insurance  
C. Medicaid     D. food stamp
11.The challenge of programming outdoor movies is to match the film to the ________.
A.        settings B. conditions C. weather  D. rivers
12. The suburban ________ was the ultimate symbol of 1950s car culture.
A.        jeeps B. families  C.drive-in D. falls
13. The Mall in _______ offers a Monday night series.
A.        Baltimore  B. Washington C. Newyork  D. California
14. What is singular about open-air cinema in New York City is the sheer scope of ______.
A.        buying B. going to see the film C. resting  D. offerings
15. There are films with a ________ flavor at the Brooklyn Bridge.
A.        Californian B. Brooklyn C. Washington D. Nebraska
16. In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a clutch of loft-dwellers mount a homemade sheet-metal screen on their roof every other _______.
A.        Friday B. Wednesday C. Monday D. Sunday
17. “Metropolis,” is _______’s 1926 silent homage to city living.
A.        Kamero B. Spiereburg C. Fritz Lang D. Lukas
18. Jordan, playing _______ in the team.
A.        forward  B. back forward C. small forward D. no role
19. Jordan, in his first action in front of the media, tried to keep the beginning stages of his _______entrance into the N BA in perspective.
A.        third B. second  C. first D. fourth
20. Jordan’s being _______, Coach Doug Collins said.
A.        proud  B. modest C. humble D. great
II. March the following words or phases on the left column with their correspondent explanations on the right
     A                                            B
           deteriorate                           ragged


            tattered                               become worse


            void                          action taken to solve a difficulty


            flounder                             to struggle


             initiative                           blank
A                                                      B
1. rekindle                                             a. temporary
2. decrepit                                             b. relight
3. interim                                             c. destroy            
4. wrack                                              d. impaired
5. covert                                              e. secret or hidden


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.
2. The Australian government apologized for the Stolen generation.
3. Moriarty is a writer now.
4. An unprecedented chance for Gypsies is to be recognized as a nation, albeit one without a defined territory.
5. At the night when Sicelo Mhlawuli was killed, 4 others did meet the same fate.
6. (   ) Winston Churchill often described parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy as being imperfect----but the best that man had yet devised.
7.(    ) In Britain the monarch remains very much at the heart of its Constitution.
8.(    ) Queen Elizabeth2 cannot choose a prime minister, dissolve Parliament or declare war.
9.(    ) 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.
10.(    ) British monarchy has served both the empire and the commonwealth with little distinction.
IV．Fill in the blanks.
1. Law enforces are coming across gigantic stashes of _____ in places where it was rarely seen.
2. it’s called the hug drug because it engenders gooey, rather gauche expressions ____    __ of from users.
3. They are drawn by the ____  __ . After setup, the marginal cost of each pill is may be 10 ￠. It’s a sold in New York City clubs for $30.
4. In fact, e’s popularity is largely due to its __      ___ of noticeable downsides.
5. Thousands of children on campus die every year from ___      __, and thousands more are injured.
6. If the economy tips into recession and the jobless rate_______, America’s already frayed social safety net will be sorely tested.
7. If you can be _______in the face of competing requests from co-workers, offer to change your dates if you can.
8. As some of the nation’s largest firms announce fresh_______, workers may be more nervous than ever about asking to use their vacation time.
9 When emotions are_______, typically, each person just sees what the other person is doing, not how he or she is contributing to the problem.
10. The college dating scene leaves many women with two choices when it comes to men; launch intense but vague relationships, or “_______”, for casual physical encounters.
V. Explain the following terms very briefly.
1. let sth go  
2. “Silicon Glen”
3. power lunches in Edinburgh
4. drop off
5. till the ground
6. top brass
7. a tough go
8. Easter message
9. qualified blessing
10. wanted men
11. sexual revolution:
12. hook up:
13. crisis-proof:.
14blow up:
VI．Answer the following questions
1. What have political candidates been made aware of about the possibility of losing more votes?
2. How do we deal with the trouble of gangs?
3What’s the most important reason why so many Hispanics have come to the United States?
4. The text says that signs of the changing face of America can be found all over the place, can you find some examples


《英美报刊选读》练习题一答案
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.
1-5 D A B C A    6-10 A B C B D
11. A   12. C   13. B   14. B   15. A   16. C   17. A   18. B   19. B   20. C
21-25. a c b b a  26-30.c c b b c
II. March the following words or phases on the left column with their correspondent explanations on the right
1—5 d a c  b e
1.(e)  2.(d)  3.(a)  4.(b)   5.(c)
1-d; 2-e; 3-a; 4-c; 5-b
III. Write T in the bracket if the statement is true and F if the statement is false.
1.T    2.F    3.F    4.T    5.F
6-10T. F. F T F
11-15T  F   F    T    F
IV．Fill in the blanks.
  1. “European City of Culture”
2. Gulf
3. Yasir Arafat
4. terror
5. steadfast
6diverse; 7pipeline problem ;8boycott; 9women; 10female
11. letter    12. the jigsaw puzzle      13. the Kangaroo Spirit      14. Gypsies      15. East London


V. Explain the following terms very briefly.
1.    crying jag: a short period of time when one suddenly cries without control
2         SAT:  Scholastic Aptitude Test
3   the non-partisan research: the research not influenced by any group
4.        prescription drug: drug which can only be obtained with a doctor’s prescription
5.        H.M.O.:  Health Maintenance Organization
6.        alma mater : the school, college, or university that one has attended.
7.        UCLA: the University of California at Los Angeles.
8.         out-of –pocket costs: small amounts of money that one has to spend as part of medical care
9.        the Medical program: a program provided by the American Government for people who are at least 65 years old
10.        Sputnik: any of a series of Soviet satellites sent into Earth orbit, especially the first, launched in 1957.
11 “Hispanic” is a government-invented term for people of Latin American or Spanish descent    or Spanish-language background. There are no clear criteria to determine who is Hispanic; census takers simply accept a person’s self-description.
12. The term “out-of-date stereotype of midlife” often conjures up images of middle-aged men trading in their wives and station wagons for sportier models while middle-age matrons weep and rust in the junkyard.


13. Australian government carried on a plan, which goal is the extinction of aboriginal culture, they picked up the aboriginal children from their parents and sent to white parents to receive the western education. Therefore, this generation is called the stolen generation.
14. South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is an organization to find the truth under apartheid, compensate the survivals and reconcile the opposite sides in South Africa.


VI．Answer the following questions
答题要点：
1. Whether Gypsies are a nation is a main problem. Because Gypsies are extremely heterogeneous. They belong to many different, and often antagonistic, clans and tribes, with no common language or religion.
2.  They help them escaping from the past memory and gain a new better life.
答题要点：
3. Because an international culinary magazine named it one of the best restaurants on the planet.
4.  China, which has one-fifth of the world’s population, has never held the event;
China ranked fourth in medals at the past two summer Olympics; Stable politics and a low crime rate; Independent surveys show that 94.6 percent of Beijing’s residents want the Olympics there.
答题要点：
5. They want to get the support of those who strongly believe this or that kind of religion. In fact, some of them are not believers of a certain religion, or they do not believe any religion.
6. Yes. Because he has outpolled Mr. Bush in the popular vote, and he has undisputed   experience and expertise.






《英美报刊选读》练习题二答案
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.
1—5     D C B C A           6—10   D A C A B
11.(A)
12.(C)
13.(B)
14..(D)
15.(B)
16..(A)
17.(C)
18.(C)
19..(A)
20.(B)


II. March the following words or phases on the left column with their correspondent explanations on the right
（1）
A                               B
deteriorate                          ragged


tattered                             become worse


void                               action taken to solve a difficulty


flounder                            to struggle


       initiative                                       blank
（2）
Rekindle(relight)  decrepit (impaired)  interim(temporary) wrack(destroy) covert (secret)


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


1. T    2. F   3. F   4. T   5. F
6.(T)    7.(T)    8..(F)     9.(T)   10..(F)


IV．Fill in the blanks.


1ecstasy;   2empathy;   3profits;   4lack;   5guns
6climbs; 7flexible;8 layoffs; 9raw; 10hook up


V. Explain the following terms very briefly.
1. to release or dismiss
2  refers to the Silicon valley which is now the center of electronic industry in the U.S.A.
3. Lunches of the powerful people in Edinburgh
4. reduce or decrease
5 clearly investigate the situation in Iraq
6 people who hold the most important positions
7. very difficult thing
8  The addressing for Easter
9  blessing with some reservation
10  men who are being searched for by the police in connected with a crime
11that of the 1960s and ’70s which swept away a concept of dating in which there was an implicit understanding that each party was shopping for a mate and not just for sex.
12. meaning engage in physical relationships often fueled by alcohol that are devoid of commitment and sometimes even of affection.
  13 to treat or make sth. so that it cannot be harmed by crisis
14. to lose one’s temper
VI．Answer the following questions


答题要点：
(1.) They could lose more votes by antagonizing the one-issue, pro-gun minority than they could gain from the antigun majority simply because the votes of the majority are determined by a wider range of issues — and antigun anger has tended to dissipate by Election Day.

  (2).  First, law enforcement agency should resolve the problems of public security in a local communal circumstance.
         Secondly, the government should carry out successful intervention programmes to prevent the youths at 12 or 13 from the gangs.
           Finally, decent jobs are a help.


答题要点：(3) The fundamental reason is work. And a powerful work ethic. Workforce participation among Hispanic males is 80 percent, the highest of any measured group. “You go to New York,” says Antonio Martinez, an immigrant from Puebla, Mexico, “to work, eat, and sleep.” Even those in poverty receive welfare far less often than poor blacks or whites. Though many work in low-wage jobs, the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies says Hispanic household incomes have been growing 7.5 percent year over the past five years.


(4). Hispanics are streaming into the Hosier state—and most of the other 49 states as well; the number of Hispanics doubled in states like Virginia and Wisconsin. In Hamilton Country, where Westfield sits, the Hispanic population has increased 143 percent in 10 years. Behind the dry columns of numbers in last week’s Census Bureau population report lies a story of profound and dramatic change in American life. Census takers last year counted 35.3 million Hispanics—1 out of 8 people in the United States—an astonishing 58 percent increase over the 22.4 million Hispanics counted 10 years earlier. The number of Hispanics here today is greater than the entire population of Canada. It’s also, for the first time, more than the 34.7 million people who identify themselves as black. An additional 1.7 million said they were partly black and party another race.