《英語報刊選讀》復(fù)習(xí)題.doc

Exercises on News Publications(2)I Put the following terms into Chinese1. Weekly News 2. New York Daily News 3. Wall Street Journal 4. San Francisco Chronicle 5. Fortune 6. Readers Digest7. Financial Times 8. Morning Star 9. Independent 10. Boston Globe 11.Guardian 12. Economist 13. National Geographic 14. Times 15. Newsweek 16. Daily Star 17. Spectator 18. Daily Telegraph 19. Family Circle 20. People Weekly 21. Chicago Sun-Times 22. Dalas Morning News 23. Business Week 24. Newsweek 25. Daily Star26 American Legion 27. Tribune 28. The Sun 29. Time 30. Far Eastern Economic Review II. Write out the full name of the following initials and put them into Chinese respectively1. VOA 2. APEC 3. SC(UN) 4. OPEC 5. UNESCO 6. IMF 7. EC/EU 8. NATO 9. WEU 10. CIS 11. WTO 12. EP 13. WIPO 14. CD 15. TC 16. G-7 17. UN 18. IOC 19. ADB 20. CE 21 AL/Arab League 22 IAEA 23 ICJ 24 UNDC 25 EFTA 26 CHR 27OECD 28 UNHCR 29World Bank 30 UNCTAD 31NAM III. Translate the following into Chinese 1.The US is an attractive market. Its business culture, which has brought the world “shareholder value” and “IPOs”, has been leading commercial thinking in recent years and will continue to do so. But whoever wants to succeed in the US needs to remember the rules of the game.US business is described by the lyrics of the song New York, New York: “If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere!” Yet a euphoric approach to business is by no means enough. Although business communication in the US is pleasant and easygoing, it is at the same time ruthlessly focused.Communicating is natural talent of Americans. When negotiating partners meet, the emphasis is on small talk and smiling. There is liberal use of a sense of humour that is more direct than it is in the UK. If you give a talk in America, you should speak in a relaxed way and with plenty of jokes to capture your audiences attention. 2.Graying Armies March to Defend Social SecurityOrganized, strong and angry-lobbyists for the elderly are warning lawmakers not to tamper with their benefits.Aiming for a late-April showdown in the Senate, advocates for the elderly are waging all-out against a budget proposal that would limit cost-living increases for Social Security.The unusually intense effort-expected to cost 2 million dollars and involving thousands of volunteersis threatening to unravel the deficit-reduction plan worked out by President Reagan and Senate Republicans. It is also providing new insights into how one emotionally charged and well-organized group can bring maximum pressure to force Congress around to its way of thinking.For weeks, defenders of the elderly have swamped congressional offices with phone calls, mil and personal visits. One effort alone, masterminded by the National Council of Citizens with the help of a private group, Villers Advocates, prompted senior citizens to send some more 800,000 postcards to Capitol Hill.Local groups also organized 200 meetings with lawmakers and their staffs during Congresss Easter recess. They staged scores of public forums, press conferences and other events to dramatize the grievances of the elderly. 3.Whatever happened to the Margaret Thatcher who was tearful and adrift, nonplused by her forced retirement from the world stage? Lately she has been jetting about to all the usual capitals, confident and assertive as ever. Last month she made a weeklong tour of South Africa, where she was feted lavishly by President F. W. de Klerk and taunted by protesters carrying signs saying SMELT THE IRON LADY. Two weeks ago she was in Moscow, and her private meeting with President Gorbachov, whom she warned about backsliding on perestroika (reform), topped the main Soviet TV evening news broadcast. Next week Thatcher travels to the United States, where she is expected to issue a spiritual defense of British national sovereignty within the European Community. September takes her to Japan, where she will lecture on the environment and Japans role in the world. “To decide all that as drifting,” says novelist Jeffrew Archer, a former M. P. and Thatcher confident, “takes a great deal of imagination.” For John Majors six-month-old government, Thatchers new energy could pose some serious problems. When Thatcher travels, she speaks. When she speaks, it is not to articulate Majors more moderate view of the path Britain should take in the 1990s. Rumors that Thatcher has grown disenchanted with Major over his warmer attitude to Europe and his speedy demolition job on her widely loathed poll tax have been circulating at Westminster for weeks. Last week the rumors exploded into a frontpage story in The Sunday Telegraph about a widening Thatcher-Major rift: “He is grey. He has no ideas. I have been totally deceived,” the paper quoted Thatcher as telling a