Unit 4

Acting Reading (1)

4

No, it is made more exciting in some way.

1.        A very long time, centuries.

2.        They should follow the guidelines.

3.        They should check the source.

4.        They live in poverty.

5.        It is image.

6.        It is element.

5

1.        Chase

2.        Trainee

3.        Erode

4.        Odd

5.        Horror

6.        Startle

7.        Echo

8.        Reaction

9.        Frame

6

1.        reactions; horror

2.        chase

3.        echoes

4.        startled

5.        trainees

6.        eroded

7.        oddest

8.        frame

7 a, b, a, b, b, a

Acting Reading (2)

2

1.        More and more readers are turning to the Internet for news.

2.        20 or more years ago.

3.        19 per cent.

4.        700.

5.        By closing down its foreign news bureaux.

6.        The pages have become smaller.

7.        Four billion.

8.        Sunday.

9.        Lifestyle journalism.

3

1.        assignment

2.        editorial

3.        revenue

4.        close down

5.        survey

6.        rely on

7.        feedback

8.        bureau

4 assignment; bureau; rely on; feedback; surveys; editorial; revenue

5

1.        capture

2.        established; Nevertheless

3.        estates

4.        integrity

5.        compact; Moreover

6.        journalism

6 b; a; a; b; b; a; a; a; b

7 a; a; b; b; a; b

Language in use

1

1.        downtown

2.        download

3.        downgrade

4.        downstairs

5.        downmarket

6.        downturn

2

1.        go down

2.        turned me down

3.        run down

4.        stand down

5.        go down

6.        handed down

7.        brought down

8.        broke down

3

1.        The late-night edition of the paper was bought by a lot of people interested in the result of the match.

2.        The princess was followed across the town by photographers determined to get a photo of her.

3.        The programme was watched by millions of people hoping to win the star prize.

4.        The alarm was set off by two children startled to hear a noise in the back room.

5.        The police were contacted by one of the boys’ mothers worried that he might have got lost.

6.        The front-page headlines were changed by the editor hoping to be the first to break the news.

7.        Online editions of the newspapers are being read by more and more people not wanting to buy the traditional edition.

4

1.        So odd was the newsreader’s accent that I couldn’t understand what she was saying.

2.        So incredibly bad was the language on that programme that I switched off the TV.

3.        So exaggerated was the story that it had to be completely rewritten.

4.        So careless was one of the trainees that he left his notebook at the scene of the crime

5.        So great was the distance from one region to the next that we had to ravel by plane.

6.        So slow were Frank’s reactions that he wasn’t able to avoid hitting the car in front.

5

1.        一个事件光有客观重要性显然还不够——世界上有大量全球性的大问题，都会造成戏剧性的后果，从贫穷问题到全球变暖问题——但由于它们都是进行中的，并不都会在同一天成为头条。对比之下，9/11不仅具有国际性，而且奇特怪异、出人意料，还（可能使读者对身陷那场悲剧中的人们的痛苦感同身受，从这个意义上讲）极具人性。

2.        但是，电视新闻未必比报纸报道更客观或更可靠，因为你在屏幕上看到的图像是经过记者或编辑根据特殊的目的，或至少是按照指示筛选过的；它们是从一个独特的视点展现给观众的。如果把摄像机移到别的地方，你就会看到另一番景象。

3.        互联网为任何有意见的人提供了一个便利的窗口；报纸编辑最喜欢的莫过于给它们提供各种不同的反馈和意见，他们能从中得到安慰。如今十几岁的少年已不记得曾经没有互联网的日子了；只有在写关于印刷新闻这一特定媒体的作业时他们才去读报。

4.        如此看来，报纸是不会轻易消失的。未来报纸发展的趋势包括对本地新闻需求的日益增长，而始于20世纪80年代后期的对生活方式新闻的持续开发利用——尤其在个人理财和旅游方面——将会创造新的收入来源。

6

1.        So sudden, so striking was the news that I sat motionless on sofa for a few minutes. My first instinct was to call our leaders to tell them what had happened and see what we could do for those colleagues who died or got injured in this traffic accident.

2.        Paper books for children have an enormous advantage over e-books. For children, a beautifully printed paper book is not only a book but also a toy they can play with. Reading a paper book is rather different from reading a book on the screen.

3.        In recent years, traditional media are in the tendency of decline and new media are developing rapidly. However, this does not necessarily mean that traditional media have lost the market. When it comes to reading things like news, people are still used to such traditional media as newspaper.

4.        With the explosion of the financial crisis, many enterprises find themselves in difficulties. For those who have no circulating fund to invest in new production and would not let the vicious circle continue, the only thing they can do is turn to government for help.

Reading across cultures

1

1.        The total number of copies has continued to rise by about one per cent per year.

2.        440 million in 2006.

3.        70 per cent.

4.        Online articles.

5.        Size.