Unit 4 News 24/7
Active Reading (1)
Reading and Understanding
3. Choose the best answer to the questions
1.c
2.a
3.c
4.d
5.a
6. a
7.c
Dealing with unfamiliar words
4. Answer the questions about the words in the box.
1. No, it is made more exciting in some way.
2. A very long time, centuries.
3. They should follow the guidelines.
4. They should check the source.
5. They live in poverty.
6. It is image.
7. It is element.
5. Match the words in the box with their definitions.
1.chase
unfamiliar
4.odd
5.horror
6.startle
9.frame
6. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in Activity 5.
2.chase
4.startled
7.oddest
8. frame
7. Answer the questions about the words.
1.a
2.b
3.a
4.b
5.b
6.a
Reading and interpreting
8. Decide what evidence there is for the following statements. If there is no evidence, decide what the passage really says.
1. This is not the passage. It is noted that bad news is common, but no judgment as to the desirability or otherwise of this is given.
2. Many people, we are told, reacted in the same way to bad news in the case of 9/11 and the assassination of President Kennedy, so such a reaction is normal.
3. Yes, as and example is given of people feeling a need to pass on the bad news they had heard. (See pare 2: Their first instinct was to go and tell someone else about it.)
4. Yes. (See para4: We seek the odd and unexpected.)
5. Not stated – the passage says such issues never seem to have the same impact because the stories are ongoing and not reported in all newspapers on the same day, but bit by bit here and there.
6. Immediacy is part of news so such an item is certainly potentially news, but of course it might be too trivial to really be considered such.
7. Yes, mostly.
8. No. Paragraph 8 says the camera position has an important effect on how viewers understand the story.
9. The passage mentions people talk of the power of the press, but does not really comment on it; though the use of the rather negative covertly might hint disapproval.
9. Decide why italics are used in the sentences.
1. To take the place of quotation marks.
2. For emphasis.
3. To give the name of a newspaper.
4. To introduce a new term.
Active Reading (2)
Dealing with unfamiliar words
3. Match the words and expressions in the box with their definitions.
1.assignment
2.editorial
4.close down
5.survey
7. feedback
8.bureau
4. Complete the conversation with the correct form of the words and expressions in Activity3.
1.assignment
2.bureau
4.feedback
5.surveys
6.editorial
8.close down
5. Replace the underlined words with the correct form of the words in the box.
1.capture
3.estates
4.integrity
5pact; Moreover
6.journalism
6. Answer the questions about the words and expressions.
1.b
2.a
3.a
4.b
5.b
6.a
7.a
8.a
9.b
Reading and interpreting
7. Look at the sentences from the passage and choose the best meaning.
1.a
2.a
3.b
4.b
5.a
6.b
Language in use
Word formation
1.Replace the underlined words with compounds made from down and the words in
brackets.
1.downtown
2.download
3.downgrade
4.downstairs
5.downmarket
6.downturn
2. Replace the underlined words with phrasal verbs made from the verbs in brackets and down.
< down
2.turned me down
3.run down
4.stand down
< down
6.handed down
7.brought down
8.broke down
3. Rewrite the sentences using by someone + participle.
1.The late-night edition of the paper was bought by a lot of people interested in the results 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 tow 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 news papers are being read by more and more people not wanting to buy the traditional edition.
So + inversion + that
4. Rewrite the sentences using So + inversion + that.
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.
5. So great was the distance from one region to the next that we had to travel by plane.
6. So slow were Frank’s reactions that he wasn’t able to avoid hitting the car in front.
5. Translate the sentences into Chinese.
1. 一个事件光有客观重要性还不够—世界上有大量全球性的大问题，都会造成戏剧性的后
果，从贫困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记
者或编辑根据特殊的目的，或至少是按照预定指示筛选过的；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他们提
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．Translate the sentences into English.
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 to turn to government for help.
Reading across cultures
The press across the world
1.Read the passage and answer the questions.
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.
2.Work in pairs and discuss the questions.
1.I read quite some papers:China Youth Daily, Beijing Evening News, Reference News,
Guangming Daily, 21st Century and some others.
2.The top three newspapers that sell the most copies in China are: Reference News,
People’s Daily, Yangcheng Evening News.
3.Not many newspapers are given away free in China, but there are indeed some, like
Hand in Hand which is given away free at subway.
4.Chinese Teenager News, Chinese Children’s News.
5.One of the big changes to the press has been that almost all newspapers have had their
online edition. Many people, esp. the young, are going online for news instead of reading paper newspapers. Another big change is that the newspapers today are more varied in contents.
6.As far as I know, the most widely known English language press in China are China
Daily and 21st Century.
Guided writing
1.Summarize the data.
1.Nearly eight per cent of the population
2.More than two million readers.
3.One third of television programmes.
4.Around half of the US total population.
2.Write a short summary comparing sales of four major newspapers in the UK. Example:
The Sun leads The Mail by close on a million copies a day, reaching well over three million people. The Mail in turn leads the Mirror, reaching up to 4 per cent of the population in comparison with only 4 per cent for the latter. The Telegraph sells less than a million a day, just 30 per cent of the sales of The Sun.

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