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
Accadia
acceptor exhaustion
Adelshofen
afterview
amlapura
antineoplastic drug
appeal against finding
applicature
articular crescent
Batmaniac
beechlike
Bennebroek
beretta
birnbaum-raymond-zuckerman inequality
blancmange
ca1(cornu ammonis 1)
camber ratio
Camellia omeiensis
Cantharellus cinnabarinus
constructive criticism
Dabilja
double aperture core
finance department
Fleischmann's follicle
gite
glowing cloud
ground stake
Harvard Monthly Index Chart
hendawi
herrman
hot driving
hydrocarbon black
i and
in someone's fingers
ingemar
injection therapy of internal hemorroid
international economic order
isurus paucuss
laminar flow extent
legal consultancy service
long-branched
lower ... guard
magnetotelephone set
mardies
mecodium okadai shieh
mesobacterium
muffiny
mulitiparous cyme
needle-leaf forest
net-veined leaf
NSPN
null-hypothesis
OMS (overpressure mitigation system)
on-board modem
ordinal adjective
Ouakaro
overchlorinated
parabolic transformation
Pastia's lines
peak suction
phycoporphyrin
physaloptera massino
playshops
playsong
prepartory grinding
private Idahos
pyramid roof
questionmasters
range of possibility
ratio intelligence quotient
reconsulting
red liquor
River Cocytus
roast chicken
rociclovir
Rokitansky's disease
sandfort
sea crawfish
sebileau's band
shearing effect
silicate binder
silverbells
Simplex stern tube stuffing box
single leaf spring
soldat
sport utilities
steady brace
stepped reflector
stratifications
systemic toxic symptoms
systemise
telarc
transilluminating
transportins
trifocal spectacle
unsuccessive
untweetable
ven? pulmonales
verge escapement
vertical mining
Winside
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