headline/'hɛdlaɪn/()
A.大标题;头版头条新闻
B.创立;设立
C.学院,研究所
D.修改;订正
A、大标题;头版头条新闻
A.大标题;头版头条新闻
B.创立;设立
C.学院,研究所
D.修改;订正
A、大标题;头版头条新闻
A.The local newspaper headline was written by the author incorrectly.
B.The headline can be read backwards and forwards as the same thing.
C.The headline didn't say it was the Queen who sent a telegram to Sharon.
D.The editor didn't put Sharon's sisters, Marjorie and Norah into the headline
The Canfield Times used the headline like this in order to make its readers think______.
A.hotels in Beldon often catch fire
B.hotels in Beldon don't often catch fire
C.this was the second fire at the Seabreeze Hotel
D.Beldon was a good place except that hotels there are not quite safe
A.have read
B.was reading
C.had read
D.am reading
What can you learn from the passage?
A.The by-line tells when the story happened.
B.The headline tells what the story is about.
C.Newspaper reports stories only.
D.All news stories have datelines.
听力原文: (24) The Reserve Bank of Australia said yesterday that it would cut official interest rates by 0.5 percentage points to around 7.0 percent, following falls in inflation and in an attempt to help buoy the economy.
(25) The cut is the first change in rates since December 1994, when the bank increased rates to slow the economy, but the bank warned it would lift rates again if wages grew too fast.
"The Bank's forecasts suggest that both underlying and headline inflation will be in the 2.3 percent range for some time," the central bank's governor, Bernie Fraser said, adding that wages and salaries would be the key influence on inflation.
What were the official interest rates before the Reserve Bank of Australia announced a cut?
A.Around 7.0 percent.
B.Around 7.5 percent.
C.Around 6.5 percent.
D.Around 0.5 percent.
【C1】
A.slow
B.swift
C.mild
D.emotional
Another issue: in a True Mirror you seem to have far less control over the figure in the glass than you do in a normal mirror. If you turn to the right in front of a normal mirror, the image turns with you and ends up facing in the same direction, completing the visual palindrome (回文). In a True Mirror the image faces the other way, as if you were about to begin pacing off for a duel with yourself; and when you take a step, the image steps away from you. In a normal mirror your reflected finger comes out to meet your real one until they touch, like Michelangelo's God and Adam. In a True Mirror the reflected finger comes at you from the other side of the glass, as if pointed by the other hand. Ordinarily, you have no difficulty looking at a normal mirror and guiding your hand to an object reflected in it. Try this with a True Mirror, and your grasp will prove errant. Shaving becomes a blood sport. If all the review mirrors in America's cars were suddenly replaced by True Mirrors, there could be a very special episode of ER (美国电视剧《急诊室》).
In an ordinary mirror your right eye stares at your right eye and your left eye at your left eye--the opposite of the right-left, left-right connection we employ for assessing one another in the wild. The image in a True Mirror (which shows what you look like to others) can come as something of a shock. You tend to look the way you do in photographs, which for many people is also a shock. (This is the flip side (反面) of the start you sometimes get when looking at the reflected image of someone you are accustomed to seeing in person.) A newspaper headline held up to a True Mirror doesn't appear backward--it reads just fine. But your own face may seem oddly asymmetrical. Facial mannerisms nurtured in front of a normal mirror may in a True Mirror be revealed in a different light. "It is a wholly new view for many," the True Mirror's promotional literature concedes, "and not surprisingly, some don't like or feel uncomfortable with the new look."
Another issue: in a True Mirror you seem to have far less control over the figure in the glass than you do in a normal mirror. If you turn to the right in front of a normal mirror, the image turns with you and ends up facing in the same direction, completing the visual palindrome (回文). In a True Mirror the image faces the other way, as if you were about to begin pacing off for a duel with yourself; and when you take a step, the image steps away from you. In a normal mirror your reflected finger comes out to meet your real one until they touch, like Michelangelo's God and Adam. In a True Mirror the reflected finger comes at you from the other side of the glass, as if pointed by the other hand. Ordinarily, you have no difficulty looking at a normal mirror and guiding your hand to an object reflected in it. Try this with a True Mirror, and your grasp will prove errant. Shaving becomes a blood sport. If all the review mirrors in America's cars were suddenly replaced by True Mirrors,
A.as reflected in water
B.what we look like to others
C.in photographs
D.in a True Mirror
"If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket."
"I can't write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so."
I looked down the counter and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, "What do all the people do?"
"We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not."
"So when it goes down, you go down with it."
"That’s what happens, sir."
"How long will the computer be down?" I wanted to know.
"I have no idea. Sometimes it's down for ten minutes, sometimes for two hours. There is no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it’s down it won’t answer us."
After the girl told me they had no backup computer, I said, "Let's forget the computer. What about your planes? They're still flying, aren't they?"
"I couldn't tell without asking the computer."
"Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he’s flying to Washington." I suggested.
"I wouldn’t know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to ' Washington', he couldn’t take you if you didn’t have a ticket."
"Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours.'?"
"I wouldn't know," she said, pointing at the dark screen. "Only 'IT' knows. 'it' can't tell me."
By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went white, some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage(行李).
The best headline for the article is ______.
A.When the Computer Is Down
B.The Most Frightening Words
C.The Computer of the Airport
D.Asking the Computer