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。
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AAF
accretion cutting
adverbialists
all - time high
allosteric theory
alpheratz
arginosuccinates
arrabbiata
athyrium strigillosum
Atlanthropus
be full of pep
bravais law
capillary circuIation
catfood
chainet
children's palace of culture
close temperature control
confederateship
Crane L.
craniofacial dysjunction
cytoscoph
data abstraction language
dead-alive
Dean of Faculty
diffuse front
Ductus thyroglossalis
eClinicalWorks
embossed plate printer
estimated date of completion
exceptional child
expurgated bound
free-molecular flow
geodetic reference spheroid
geographic information communication
George, Stefan
gimballed electrostatic aircraft navigation system (geans)
go pills
hemistola taiwanensis
Heterpstraci
HF-IF
hydrogen isocyanide (hnc)
hydrostatic gage
inboard derrick
Justus
kill devil
koshari
kotai
Köditz
Lay Direction
library parameter
low oil pressure trip
lower-right
machine language code
Mahonia shenii
majoritarians
manaconda
milk vessels
mobile belt
monser
multiple defined symbol
natraemia
not but that
obstructive shock
orbiton
pack animals
patroclinous
Polygonum caespitosum
postpericardiotomic syndrome
pressure ventilation
prime debtor
provisional schedule of property
public utility undertaking
rail end welding
reflux tank
release hand
resultant metal
sadder
Saint-Laurent du Maroni
salmine sulfate
searment
septentrionale
serpentinizing
shaddap
speak in one's beard
spirare
spoken up for
spring-loaded cultivator
stainless alloy
Stark active cavity
supinator crest
Taravao, Baie de
thermolens effect
travel actuated switch
two-tail test
uniformitarian
unreduced design
unsaturated link
vergier
waiveth
ween
weldable structural steel