There are many types of reports. A report is simply an account of something that has happened. The commonest are news reports. We get them in newspapers, over radio and on television. Sometimes cinemas also show us newsreels(新闻影片).
The main purpose of a newspaper is to provide news. If you examine a newspaper closely, you will find that there are all types of news: accidents, floods, fires, wars, fashions, sports, books, etc. The news covers everything that happens to people
and their surroundings. Sometimes there are news items which are very amusing.
A news report is usually very short, except when it is about something very important, but it contains a lot of information. It is also written in short paragraphs. The first paragraph is in fact a summary of the news item. It gives all the necessary information, what, when, where, how and why. The other paragraphs give full details of the subject. There may also be interviews with people. The words actually spoken by them are within inverted commas(引号).
Often there are photographs to go with the news to make it more interesting.
1.The easiest way to get today’s news is____.
A. to go to the cinema
B. to watch a color TV
C. to read today’s newspaper
D. to listen to the music over radio
2.Newspapers sell well mainly because____.
A. They cost very little
B. They are easy to get
C. They have got pictures to go with news
D. They provide all sorts of news in them
3.If you want to get enough information about yesterday’s traffic accident within a very short time, you’d better____.
A. read the first paragraph of the news report in today’s newspaper
B. start from the second paragraph of the news report in today’s newspaper
C. look through the whole news report in today’s newspaper
D. talk with people who have seen the accident
4.This passage mainly talks about____.
A. different types of reports
B. news reports
C. happenings to people and their surroundings
D.the length of a news report
Elizabeth lived on the other side of a valley. One winter there was a very big flood, and a lot of houses down below Elizabeth’s were washed away. Elizabeth’s house was 21 enough to escape the flood, so when the water 22 and the other houses were standing there with no 23 and no walls and all covered with 24 ,her house was still quite all right.
Her house was quite small, her husband was 25 and she had six children to support. Ten dollars a week, which was the total of their income, didn’t leave much for 26 . Expenses were always greater than Elizabeth had 27 , but she didn’t hesitate to help one of the families that lost everything in the flood and she 28 her house with them until it was 29 for them to move into their own houses.
Elizabeth’s friend was very 30 when she saw Elizabeth do this. She couldn’t understand why Elizabeth wanted to give 31 so much work and trouble to help others.
“Well,” Elizabeth 32 to her friend, “at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I then lived found herself 33 , because her husband had been killed in the war in Germany and she had a lot of 34 , as I have now.”
“The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have 35 presents for all of us. I’ll go and get it.’ She came back with a little girl who was in 36 clothes and crying in deep sorrow. The girl was an orphan(孤儿). ‘Here’s our 37 . She said to the children.
“The children were very 38 to have such a present. They 39 the little girl, and she grew up as their sister. I was that 40 present.”
1.A. low B. tall C. high D. strong
2. A. raised B. risen C. disappeared D. appeared
3. A. windows B. doors C. roofs D. floor
4. A. mud B. plastics C. trees D. water
5. A. living B. dead C. angry D. pleased
6. A. sharing B. saving C. remaining D. sparing
7. A. gave B. thought C. hoped D. completed
8. A. divided B. separated C. shared D. spared
9. A. possible B. satisfying C. necessary D. important
10. A. happy B. interested C. puzzled D. sad
11.A. her B. herself C. her children D. her friend
12. A. talked B. apologized C. explained D. described
13.A. living B. wounded C. rich D. poor
14. A. friends B. children C. neighbours D. relatives
15. A. many B. enough C. beautiful D. expensive
16.A. suitable B. nice C. old D. new
17.A. home B. flood C. present D. daughter
18.A. excited B. worried C. disturbed D. disappointed
19.A. comforted B. welcomed C. taught D. educated
20.A. Christmas B. New Year C. birthday D. Thanksgiving
It is reported that Russia uses____ energy as Uklaine.
A. as twice much B. twice as much C. twice much as D. twice much
----Have you seen Tom and Mary?
----I haven’t seen____ of them.
A. neither B. any C. either D. none
I rang you several times yesterday but couldn’t____.
A. get on B. get in C. get along D. get through
----I think you look nice in the red dress.
----____.
A.Thank you
B.I’m glad you think so
C.Oh, no, I don’t look nice at all
D.I don’t like red but my mom made me wear it
