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 bad word
anchor worm
Armco Inc.
bargain basement
be hung up on sth
Beard protective system
Belgian Laekenois
bending moment
Bernard Hinault
Bernese mountain dog
bnr diode
British ton
Bromus mollis
brownetta
carmined
cheer ship
circuit and bumpa
class gasteropodas
coil crossover
concentrated charge
controllable output table of generating equipment
cottesloes
crack tip stress intensity factor
crosshatching line
cruise-missiles
Des Lacs
dirt floor
disacknowledging
double elephant size
easy child
emissive material
eSupplyChain
examiner of interference
external abdominal hernia
fair-isles
ferrite-plate memory
fluoxetine hydrochloride
fogmachine
Fresnel lens magnifier
gayed
generalized prior distribution
glycerolize
gondwana continent
ground insulation
Gulf of
human resource strategy
in a fair way of business
industrial leather
intestinal perforation
iterates
KCM
keep a place warm of someone
lezza
limbic
litter-inhabiting
living-quarters
low-levels
lrs
macrobiotic diet
Mastersia
military cartography
mint julip
muff dyeing
node initialization block list
nonacidotic
off-limit detector
placing machine
Polyaziridine
Potentilla pamiroalaica
prolongeth
queests
radial network
radio-telegraphic transmission
realistic painter
Roman mosaic
salix blandas
schopfs
sclerenchymas
selkhorn
semitopological
semuloparin
sensor information
shaft alley
Shums'k
Sibbaldia purpurea
Sinopodophyllum hexandrum
sle-band
specifies
staggered conformation
Sumner.
surplus load
tapas
tax reliefs
terminal installation
thymidil
tie-molecule
unstable control
V-shaped valley
Wamala, L.
waressche
woo (waiting on order)
Zsana