时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:中级类英语听力


英语课

On the morning of November 14, 1889, John Brisben Walker, the wealthy publisher of the monthly magazine The Cosmopolitan 1, boarded a New Jersey 2 ferry bound for New York City. Like many other New Yorkers, he was carrying a copy of The World, the most widely read and influential 3 newspaper of its time. A front-page story announced that Nellie Bly, The World's star investigative reporter, was about to undertake the most sensational 4 adventure of her career: an attempt to go around the world faster than anyone ever had before. Sixteen years earlier, in his popular novel, Jules Verne had imagined that such a trip could be accomplished 5 in eighty days; Nellie Bly hoped to do it in seventy-five.


1. John Brisben Walker was the publisher for what monthly magazine?


 Time


 The New Yorker


 The Cosmopolitan


 The World


 


2. What was Nellie Bly's job?


 Editor


 Publisher


 Secretary


 Investigative reporter


 


3. What was Nellie Bly attempting to do?


 Go around the world faster than anyone had before her


 Win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism 6


 Be the first female publisher of a magazine


 Get a job as an investigative reporter


 


 


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1. The Cosmopolitan


2. Investigative reporter


3. Go around the world faster than anyone had before her



1 cosmopolitan
adj.世界性的,全世界的,四海为家的,全球的
  • New York is a highly cosmopolitan city.纽约是一个高度世界性的城市。
  • She has a very cosmopolitan outlook on life.她有四海一家的人生观。
2 jersey
n.运动衫
  • He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
  • They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致,都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
3 influential
adj.有影响的,有权势的
  • He always tries to get in with the most influential people.他总是试图巴结最有影响的人物。
  • He is a very influential man in the government.他在政府中是个很有影响的人物。
4 sensational
adj.使人感动的,非常好的,轰动的,耸人听闻的
  • Papers of this kind are full of sensational news reports.这类报纸满是耸人听闻的新闻报道。
  • Their performance was sensational.他们的演出妙极了。
5 accomplished
adj.有才艺的;有造诣的;达到了的
  • Thanks to your help,we accomplished the task ahead of schedule.亏得你们帮忙,我们才提前完成了任务。
  • Removal of excess heat is accomplished by means of a radiator.通过散热器完成多余热量的排出。
6 journalism
n.新闻工作,报业
  • He's a teacher but he does some journalism on the side.他是教师,可还兼职做一些新闻工作。
  • He had an aptitude for journalism.他有从事新闻工作的才能。
学英语单词
a.c.-d.c.receiver
after-sensation
Aizpute
Am-Zoer
antivehicular
arabonic r-lactone
Armoni
attendance order
backscatterer thick-ness
bagon
be watching the clock
bed necessaries
blast furnace tar
carboradiant kiln
cholestases
chromium materials/devices
ciliately
circumferential seam joint
claras
closilate
coiled coil lamp
craaling
crank extension
dahurian buckthorn
Didam
dorrey
electron energy loss spectrometer
epaulements
flanged radiator
flexi-bacteria
fornarina
get a word in edgewise
gold-lettered signboard
graphic tellarium
group incentive plan
heading side
high expansion foam-extinguishing system
high grade registry
implosive
incontinentia pigmenti achromians of ito
inspection gas valve
inward-turning
khran
konoes
lang-
leftmost sytmbol
lid on price
locomotive tractive characteristic
longitudinal overturned car
male animals
Marampa
mechanical component design
methyluramine
middle-dimentional
millss
movable carriage
multicomponent fractionating
myriam
neutral phosphorus-based extractant
operational definition
optical fiber cord
over current time relay
passive interrogation
pilenta
Pine Barrens
point tool
porogamy
pranck
private relocatable library
progib
pulse encode modulation
pulse-position modulation system
punching forceps
pure nickel
Puschendorf
pusher-type stock guide
relationist
return of foreign trade
rompering
rootcap
sakura
sandwich copolymer
scrap-press
secular culture
semi automatic gas cutting machine
semi cantilever
serum iron determination
sociotherapists
somets
stimulus/response
subcoxal pleurites
successful bid
supensions
tally methods
Tclidine
termination of a block
theater lighting
transportation allowance
unchaotic
United States Naval harbour
ustilagic acid
window treatment