英语报刊阅读练习题（一）
I.Translate the following words into Chinese.
2. Time
Times
Angeles
1. Los
Society
and
3. Sun
Statesman
4. New
Homeland
of
Security
5. UPI
6. Secretary
7. Department of the Interior 8. State Legislature
9. Lieutenant-Governor 10. Lord President of the Council
State    12.
Council
Borough
of
11.
Minister
Silicon
Valley
Leader    14.
13.
Deputy
15. parliamentary democracy 16. AIDS
League
AL/Arab
17.
NSA      18.
19. ICJ 20. SC (UN)
II.Translate the following two short paragraphs.
1.We also recognize the challenges that America now faces. We are winning the war against
enemies of freedom, yet more work remains. We will prevail in this noble mission. Liberty has the power to turn hatred into hope.
2.以和平方式实现祖国统一，最符合台湾海峡两岸同胞的根本利益。国家以最大的诚意，
尽最大的努力，实现和平统一。
III.Rewrite the following headlines if necessary.
1.Italian Ex-Mayor Murdered
2.Rail Chaos Getting Worse
3.How America Sees the World
4.Woman Kills Husband, Self
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.
News Item 1
At least 29 people are reported dead and even more are missing after severe storms in the State of Florida.  Many of the fatalities occurred in the central part of the state where powerful tornadoes damaged hundreds of buildings. Widespread power outages delayed the efforts of rescue crews.  Florida has been hit by hail, heavy rains, and wind gusts as high as 20 kilometers per hour since Sunday afternoon.  Many areas remain under a tornado watch.
1.What is the condition in the state of Florida?
A.It has been attacked by severe drought.
B.It has been hit by powerful tornadoes.
C.It has been damaged by wind only.
D.It has been struck by heavy rain only.
2.When did such weather begin?
A.Saturday morning.
B.Since Saturday afternoon.
C.Since Sunday morning.
D.Since Sunday afternoon.
News Item 2
Authorities in the Philippines are searching for a missing passenger jet.  The civil Pacific Air DC9 failed to land on schedule Monday on a flight form Manila to Cagayan de Oro in the southern island of Mindanao.  Flight 387 is believed to be carrying 99 passengers and a crew of five.  Weather conditions are reported to have been good and the pilot did not report any trouble before contact with him was lost.
3.When is the Air DC9 scheduled to land?
A.Monday
B.Tuesday
C.Wednesday
D.Thursday
4.How many people are there in Flight 387?
A.99
B.104
C.103
D.105
News Item 3
In central Asia, forestry officials in China say they've put out a fire which spread into Chinese territory fr
om Mongolia.  The official news agency said that in nine days the fire had spread across 300,000 hectares in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia.  The thousands of people fighting the fire were hampered by a lack of transport and by strong winds fanning the flames.In Mongolia itself, officials said fires were continuing to blaze across the country.  They said 16 people have now died.  Several countries and international aid agencies have promised funding to help fight the fire and to house people made homeless by it.
5.What happened in the province of Inner Mongolia?
A.  A fire was attacking it caused by an explosion.
B.16 people died because of the fire.
reportedC.  A fire lasted for a week.
D.  A fire was spreading into it from Mongolia.
6.What prevented the fight with the fire?
A.  A lack of water.
B.  A lack of transport.
C.Strong winds.
D.Both B and C.
News Item 4
The United States has confirmed that it plans to sell anti-aircraft weapons worth 84 million dollars to Taiwan. The package will include nearly 500 stinger anti-aircraft missiles as well as
launching systems and training missiles.  The US Defense Department has sent details of the arms to Congress which had to approve the sale.  Initial agreement for the deal was reached in March shortly before a Presidential election in Taiwan, and while China was conducting maneuvers in the Taiwan Strait. China said the exercises were a warning against moves by Taiwan to seek independence.
7.How much are the weapons worth?
A.80 million.
B.84 million.
C.18 million.
D.50 million.
8.When was the initial agreement first made?
A.May
B.April
C.March
D.Not mentioned.
News Item 5
With a national strike by shopkeepers and businessmen in Zimbabwe going into its second day, further serious disruption is expected across the country.  The government has said it intends to punish all those who have supported the illegal action against tax increases as the closures have denied employees the right to work.  It said action would also be taken against civil servants and head teacher
s who closed their schools.  Zimbabwean business leaders have called the statement threatening and without a legal basis.
9.What has caused the national strike in Zimbabwe?
A.Employees demanding higher pay.
B.Tax increases by the government.
C.Head teachers closing their schools.
D.Employees being denied the right to work.
10.The government has said it intends to punish _____.
A.those who supported the illegal tax increases
B.shopkeepers and businessmen
C.whoever has supported the strike
D.Zimbabwean business leaders
V.Read the following article and then answer the questions below.
Breaking Up is Hard to Do
When Texans Russell Smith and John Anthony traveled to Vermont to join in a civil union in February 2002, they had all the romantic intentions of any couple exchanging “I do’s.” But like the 50 percent of Americans whose marriages end in divorce, Smith and Anthony later decided to call it quits. Because the two had shared business deals. Smith worried he might one day face financial obligations from his ex. So he filed fro divorce in a Texas court. Though a district judge initially agreed to grant one, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott intervened. He feared granting a divorce would signal that the state recognized the union in the first place — a step Texas and other
states aren’t yet willing to take. “A court cannot grant a divorce where no marriage existed,” Abbott argued. The judge reversed the divorce and the couple was forced to hash things our on their own. “They were just wanting to legally terminate this relationship,” says Anthony’s lawyer, Tommy Gunn. “Obviously the divorce route did not work.”
If gay couples think it’s tough to get married, they may find it’s ever harder to spite up. Few want to think about it on the way to the altar, but “we’re not immune to relationship problems,” says David Buck
el, an attorney who directs the marriage project at Lambda legal. Though all it takes is a romantic weekend to tie the knot under Canada’s just-passed same-sex marriage law or get linked by civil union in Vermont, both places requires at least one member of the couple to establish residency for a year before granting a divorce or official dissolution. Of the roughly 5,000 civil unions performed so far in Vermont, the only state that legally recognizes the same-sex commitments, 85 percent went to out-of-staters.
That has left other states grappling with what to do when civil unions sour — and whether standard divorce laws can apply. A West Virginia family-court judge agreed to use divorce laws to dissolve a civil union there last year. But Connecticut courts dismissed the divorce case filed by Glen Rosengarten, who decided to end his 15-year relationship shortly after he and his partner got a civil union in Vermont. Dying of AIDS, Rosengarten wanted to preserve his estate for children from an earlier marriage, says his lawyer Gary I. Cohen. “He had incredible anxiety about it — he really wanted closure in his life,” Cohen says. Rosengarten appealed to the state Supreme Court, but died before the case was heard. Medical bills ate up his estate, so inheritance became a moot point, too.
Without access to divorce, all the benefits gay couples get with a civil union — shared property, adoption rights, insurance — must be undone one by one. If they can’t dissolve the union, they may no
t be free to enter into a new union or marriage, either. “It shoves gay people into a no man’s land where they have to fight it out for themselves,” says Evan Wolfson, director of Freedom to Marry. “Because it’s not marriage, people don’t have one of the automatic protections that comes with marriage,” Gay couples can’t hope to erase the pain that comes with parting. But after last week, there’s at least a chance they may one day get a little more help when things fall apart.
Comprehension
1.According to Para. 2, _____.
A.both Canada and Vermont have passed same-sex marriage law
B.both Canada and Vermont will not grant a divorce until the couple resides for one year
C.there are About 5,000 same-sex civil unions in Vermont
D.attorneys at Lambda Legal never handled any marriage problems
2.Which of the following statement is NOT true?
A.Smith and Anthony established a civil union in February 2002.
B.Texas would acknowledge civil union.
C.One out of two Americans divorces.
D.Vermont is the only state that admits same-sex marriage.
3.Which of the following statement is NOT true about Rosengarten?
A.He entered a civil union Vermont.
B.He was once married and had children.
C.He filed for divorce and the case was dismissed by both the Connecticut court and the
Supreme Court.
D.His children cannot inherit his legacy because AIDS consumed his estate completely.
4.When civil unions failed, _____.
A.  a gay couple can not enter into a new union or marriage without being granted a divorce.
B.standard divorce laws are invalid
C.standard divorced laws can be used to solve the problem
5.According to the passage, which of the following benefits can gay couples get with a civil
union?
A.victim’s compensations rights
B.worker’s compensation benefits
C.family leave benefits
D.adoption rights
Word Study
Complete each sentence with a word or phrase given below (in its appropriate form if necessary). erase    fall apart    legal    agree    tough
incredible    initially    access    financial    appeal to
1.Tokyo and New York are major _____ centers.
2.She came _____ to spend a few days, but in the end she stayed for a whole month.
3.It’s _____ finding a job these days.
4.Should euthanasia be made _____?
5.He _____ to let me go home early.
6.He gave an _____ explanation of the cause of the accident.
7.She _____ the high court against her sentence.
8.Nowadays students in rural areas have _____ to the Internet.
9.She couldn’t _____ the accident from her memory.
10.Their marriage finally _____.
VI.The following questions are connected to your reading course studies. Write down in English your own opinions, using 100-120 words each.
Question: Write down what you think of both the problems and the benefits that can be brought to the native community, by the immigration of people of alien race, colour
and religion.
英语报刊阅读练习题（一）答案
I.Translate the following words into Chinese.
1. 《洛衫矶时报》
2. 《时代》