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The first time I saw Jim Wooten I really understood him. He was a great TV news reporter. When he was reporting in Rwanda, one heartbreaking moment made a deep impression on me. When the camera showed all of the children who were dying, suffered from terrible diseases, Jim ended his piece by saying that when he got home, the first thing he was going to do was to put his arms around his own children. Then I realized that he was different, that he didn’t fall into any of the modern television-news tricks, that he was not giving us any awful, artificial(假的) television-journalist reports out of(出于) pity. Instead, I was watching a real reporter with a gift(天赋) for both words and slight differences.

Then I read his book, We Are All the Same, about his friendship with Xolani Nkosi, a South African boy who became the international spokesman for AIDS(艾滋病). It is about the friendship between Wooten and a black child who was ten years old and already dying of AIDS. It is also a book about a great teacher and his student. But the teacher-the one with real wisdom and understanding about life-is the little boy, not the journalist. And, finally, it’s about a love story of Gail Johnson, Nkosi’s white mother who does her best to save the boy, and their love for each other. When reading the book, I felt touched from time to time.

小题1:How did Jim Wooten feel when he saw the dying children in Rwanda?

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小题2:What would an ordinary journalist do on TV when he saw these dying children?

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小题3:How did Jim end his piece when he saw the dying children in Rwanda?

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小题4:Who is the teacher in the book, the little boy or the journalist?

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小题5:Why did Nkosi’s mother do everything possible to save the boy?

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小题6:What’s the writer’s attitude to Jim Wooten? How do you know that?

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答案

小题1:He felt very sad./He was heartbroken.

小题2:He would give us some awful, artificial television-journalist reports out of pity./He would fall into some of the modern television-news tricks.

小题3:By saying that when he got home, the first thing he was going to do was to put his arms around his own children.

小题4:The little boy. (1分题)

小题5:Because she loved the boy./Because the boy was dying of AIDS.

小题6:He respected Jim./He admired Jim. The writer wrote/mentioned that Jim was a great TV news reporter.(3分题)

题目分析:短文大意:这篇是关于一名伟大的电视新闻记者吉姆伍滕的文章。他在卢旺达的报道,给作者留下了深刻的印象。

小题1:此题问“Jim Wooten看到卢旺达面临死亡孩子时的感觉”,所以答案需要填一个表达当时感觉的形容词,答案可以根据第一段内容进行提炼,所以答案可以为He felt very sad./He was heartbroken.等。

小题2:此题问“如何做普通的新闻工作者”,在文章第一段中讲述Jim Wooten的做法跟一般不同,所以需要将其中的否定句改成肯定句。即He would give us some awful, artificial television-journalist reports out of pity./He would fall into some of the modern television-news tricks.

小题3:此题问“方式”,回答时一般需要用介词by来引导。根据文章第一段“Jim ended his piece by saying that when he got home, the first thing he was going to do was to put his arms around his won children.”所以本题答案为By saying that when he got home, the first thing he was going to do was to put his arms around his won children.

小题4:此题的问题是“选择疑问句”,这也是整篇文章相对简单的一题(1分题),根据文章第二段中内容“But the teacher-the one with real wisdom and understanding about life—is the little boy, not the journalist.”,可知本题答案为The little boy。

小题5:此题问的是“为什么尽力救这个孩子”,文章第二段最后讲述的是“a love story”,所以答案可以是Because she loved the boy./Because the boy was dying of AIDS.

小题6:此题是一个开放题。首先问的是作者对Jim Wooten的态度,即崇拜或尊敬Her espected/love/admired him. 原因也可以从文章中找到,如:He was a great TV news reporter。

单项选择题

People don’t want to buy information online. Why Because they don’t have to. No more than that because they’re used to not paying for it. That’s the conventional wisdom. Slate, Microsoft’s online politics-and-culture magazine, is an oft-cited example of the failed attempts to charge a fee for access to content. So far, for most publishers, it hasn’t worked.

But nothing on the Web is a done deal. In September graphics-soft-ware powerhouse Adobe announced new applications that integrate commerce into downloading books and articles online, with Simon & Schuster, Barnes and Noble, and Salon. corn among its high-profile partners. Some analysts put the market for digitized publishing at more than $100 billion. Of course, if the Internet can generate that kind of money—some might say almost any kind of money—people want in. And this couldn’t come at a better time. Newspaper and magazine writers in particular are increasingly frustrated by their publishers, which post their writings online but frequently don’t pay them extra.

So here’s the good news: Fathrain. com, the third biggest book-seller on the Net—after Amazon. com and Barnesandnoble. corn—is now doing just what the publishing industry that made it a success fears., it’s offering a secure way to pay for downloadable manuscripts online. Fatbrain calls it offshoot eMatter. With it, the company’s executives have the radical notion of ousting publishers from the book-selling business altogether by giving writers 50% of each and every sale (To reel in authors, eMatter is running a 100% royalty promotion until the end of the year. ) Suggested prices to consumers range from a minimum $ 2 to $ 20, depending on the size of the book to download.

"This will change publishing forever!" Chris MaeAskill, co-founder and chief executive of Fatbrain, declares with the bravado of an interior decorator. "With eBay, anybody could sell antiques. Now anybody can be published. "

There’s been no shortage of authors wanting in. Within a few weeks, according to the company, some 2,000 writers signed on to publish their works. Some of this is technical stuff—Fatbrain got where it is by specializing in technical books—but there are some well-known writers like Catherine Lanigan, author of Romancing the Stone, who has put her out-of-print books and a new novella on the site. Another popular draw is Richard Bach, who agreed to post a 23-page short story to the site.

Not everyone thinks downloadable documents are the biggest thing in publishing since Oprah’s Book Club. "I think it will appeal to sellers more than buyers," says Michael May, a digitalcommerce analyst at Jupiter Communications, which released a report that cast doubt on the market’s potential. "A lot of people are going to publish gibberish. The challenge is to ensure the quality of the work. "

Blaine Mathieu, an analyst at Gartner Group’s Dataquest, says, "Most people who want digital content want it immediately, I don’t know if this model would satisfy their immediate need. Even authors may not find that Web distribution of their works is going to bring them a pot of gold. For one thing, it could undermine sales rather than enhance them. For another, anybody could e-mail downloaded copies of manuscripts around town or around the world over the Net without the writer’s ever seeing a proverbial dime. " Softlock. com, Authentica and Fatbrain are trying to head this problem off by developing encryption padlocks that would allow only one hard drive to receive and print the manuscripts. For now, the problem persists.

Which of the following can serve as an appropriate title for the passage ?()

A.Who’s in E-commerce

B.Mind over eMatter

C.Sharing Brains on Net

D.E-publishing and Traditional Publishers

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