1、【 精品教育资源文库 】 Unit 4 Making the news 单元加餐练 .阅读理解 A The best reporters I know are bright, persistent, honest, curious and courageous. If you asked them to explain their success, this is what they might say： Helen: A good reporter is a generalist, able to deal with a number of topics and talk with a v
2、ariety of people. He or she can see the unusual, the ironic (讽刺的 ) in the everyday things. She can think through all the possibilities and organize a large amount of information to find the important parts. Jack: A good reporter is quick. Once he is assigned a story, he goes after it. He makes the c
3、alls and keeps trying if he doesnt make contact with the people he wants to interview. Besides, a good reporter is curious. He or she takes pleasure in the new, and in the old, in the history or previous examples that got us where we are. He enjoys reading and appreciates the details. Susan: A good
4、reporter is pleasant. She adopts a friendly nature with those she meets. She is a grateful guest, with a belief in the basic goodness of people. She conveys to those she meets that she is tolerant of them and their ideas, even though she doesnt like them or what they stand for. Tom: A good reporter
5、is honest. He seeks the truth and acts independently. He does what he says hes going to do, and doesnt do anything he promised to avoid. He returns his calls, and hes willing to say no. He is obsessed with accuracy and double checks his facts with callbacks. He sees both sides to every issue. Richar
6、d: As Jon Franklin, reporter, author and teacher, said, “Back when I first started, I thought intelligence was the most important attribute a reporter could have. I have since changed my mind. You do have to be intelligent, but the big thing is courage. Courage to open your mind and let the whole co
7、nfusing world in. Courage to take criticism. Courage to grow with your experiences. Courage to accept what you dont understand. Most of all, courage to see what is there and not what you 【 精品教育资源文库 】 want to think is there.” 篇章导读：本文是一篇说明文。文章通过不同的人的描述，说明了一名优秀 的记者所具备的基本素质 乐观，坚韧，诚实，好奇，有勇气。 1 What woul
8、d be the best title of the text? A How a reporter makes good news B What a reporter does C Newspaper D How to be a good reporter 答案： D 标题判断题。本文讲述的是作为一名好记者应具备的基本素质，即如何成为一名好记者。故选 D。 2 Who thinks a good reporter should find unusual news from daily life? A Helen. B Jack. C Susan. D Tom. 答案： A 细节理解题。根据 H
9、elen 所说的 “He or she can see the unusual, the ironic (讽刺的 ) in the everyday things.” 可知， Helen 认为一名优秀的记者应会从日常事件中发现不同寻常的消息。故答案为 A。 3 In the eyes of Tom, a good reporter should not _ . A seek the truth B check the facts C see every issue from different angles D be unwilling to say no to others 答案： D 细节
10、理解题。根据第五段可知， A、 B、 C 三项都是一个好记者应该做的。由 “and hes willing to say no” 一个好记者愿意说不，可知选 D。 4 As for Richard, which of the following is the most important to a good reporter? A Honesty. B Quickness. C Courage. D Curiosity. 答案： C 细节理解题。根据最后一段中的 “the big thing is courage” 可知，在他看来，勇气是一名优秀的记者最应具备的素质。故选 C。 B Rober
11、t Michael Lipsyte is an American sports journalist and author. He was born on January 16, 1938 in New York. Lipsytes father was a school head teacher, his mother a teacher. Instead of sharing a game of catching with his father, the two often visited the library and read books. One of Lipsytes childr
12、en, Sam Lipsyte, is also an author and teacher at Columbia University in New York. In the first chapter of his book SportsWorld, Lipsyte points out that he did not even attend his first Major League Baseball game until he was thirteen years old. Lipsyte says he was very disappointed with his experie
13、nce at the game and went to only one more game “as a paying customer”. His third Major League Baseball game 【 精品教育资源文库 】 was as a sports reporter for The New York Times. As a boy, Lipsyte did play sports, but he felt acute pressure to do better than others at sports which discouraged his interest.
14、This experience later developed into a major theme in some of Lipsytes nonfiction works such as SportsWorld and novels like Jock and Jill and One Fat Summer. The main character of One Fat Summer, Bobby Marks, is an adolescent in the 1950s. He is overweight and does something about it. In 1952, Lipsy
15、te took a summer job as a lawn (草坪 ) boy and lost forty pounds, ridding himself of the youthful reputation for being fat. In 1978, Robert Lipsyte was diagnosed (诊断 ) with cancer. His experience with the illness led to another novel for young adults, The Chemo Kid. Fred Bauer, the main character, is
16、an ordinary high school junior and discovers he has cancer. Amazingly, Fred acquires superpowers, apparently due to the treatments， and becomes “The Chemo Kid” ， fighting for the environment and against drug dealers. Lipsyte was given a position in the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame (名人堂 ) in 1993
17、. The Margaret A. Edwards Award is an American Library Association literary award that annually recognizes an author and a specific body of his or her work for “significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature”. Lipsyte won the award in 2001, citing (表彰 ) four books published from 1967
18、 to 1993. According to the citation, “Lipsytes books focus on the search for selfdefinition by young adults.” 篇章导读：本文是一篇记叙文。罗伯特 迈克尔 科普斯特不仅是一名体育记者，还是一名作家，他写了很多青少年读物。 5 What can we learn about Lipsyte? A He devoted his childhood to sports. B He taught at Columbia University. C He came from an educated
19、 family. D He has only one child in his life. 答案： C 细节理解题。根据第一段第三句 “Lipsytes father was a school head teacher, his mother a teacher.” 可知，利普斯特来自书香门第。 6 What did Lipsyte do the second time he went to a Major League Baseball game? A He watched the game. B He reported the game. C He played the game and
20、lost it. D He collected material for his book. 答案： A 推理判断题。根据第二段第二句中的 “. went to only one more game as a paying customer” 可知，利普斯特第二次参与美国职业棒球大联盟比赛是作为观众，买票观赛。故选 A。 7 What do Bobby Marks and young Lipsyte have in common? 【 精品教育资源文库 】 A They didnt play sports. B They didnt like summer. C They dealt wit
21、h their weight problem. D They reached adulthood in the 1950s. 答案： C 细节理解题。根据第三段中的 “Bobby Marks . is overweight . In 1952, Lipsyte . ridding himself of the youthful reputation for being fat.” 可知，鲍比 马克斯和青少年时期的利普斯特都受肥胖困扰并积极解决这个问题。故选 C。 8 Why was Lipsyte given the Margaret A. Edwards Award in 2001? A B
22、ecause he has achieved widespread fame. B Because he has written good books for teens. C Because he has talked about hot topics in his books. D Because he has published a significant number of books. 答案： B 细节理解题。根据最后一段第二句 “The Margaret A. Edwards Award . recognizes an author and a specific body of h
23、is or her work for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature ” 可知，利普斯特获奖是因为他写的青少年读物对青少年产生了深远影响。故选 B。 .七选五 “Youre hired ！ ” Youve probably already been filling out job applications or talking to family or friends about getting a parttime job. And good for you! Youll get an early start learning how to work. So how, exactly, do you get a parttime job? _1_ It sounds strange, but it will put you in
