最新15篇文章贯通英语四级词汇MP3 Unit3-Part3
时间：2018-12-30 作者：英语课 分类：英语四级听力练习集锦
[00:00.00]Both the Hearst and Pulitzer newspapers
[00:03.82]started to include sensational 1 stories
[00:06.56]about the Cuban Insurrection.
[00:09.08]The stories greatly exaggerated claims
[00:13.56]of Spanish troops placing Cubans
[00:16.08]in concentration camps,
[00:18.05]forcing them to live
[00:20.34]under substandard conditions,
[00:22.09]diseaseridden, starving and dying.
[00:25.16]This style of reporting
[00:28.11]became known as “Yellow Journalism”.
[00:29.75]The newspapers were transformed
[00:33.58]as the scope of the news broadened
[00:35.88]and became less conservative.
[00:38.72] Circulation soared as the public could
[00:42.00]get enough of the banner headlines
[00:44.41]and abundant illustrations.
[00:45.95]At the time, many people
[00:49.45]believed William actually might
[00:51.20]have initiated 2 the SpanishAmerican War
[00:54.58]to encourage sales.
[00:56.99]According to one report,
[00:59.62]when one of his correspondents,
[01:01.81]Frederick Remington,
[01:03.88] requested to return from Havana,
[01:06.08]William responded
[01:07.83]that if Remington would
[01:09.47]furnish the pictures, William
[01:11.00]would furnish the war.
[01:13.29]He was once quoted in an editorial
[01:15.60] as saying, “Make the news
[01:18.87]thorough Print all the news.
[01:21.17]Condense it if necessary.
[01:24.23]Frequently it is better
[01:25.99]when intelligently condensed.”
[01:28.72]Another classic example of his influence
[01:31.79]occurred when, merely months
[01:34.30]after he advocated political assassination 3
[01:37.37] in an editorial,
[01:39.22] American President McKinley was assassinated 4.
- 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。
- The assassination of the president brought matters to a head.总统遭暗杀使事态到了严重关头。
- Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the whole nation.1865年，林肯遇刺事件震惊全美国。
- The prime minister was assassinated by extremists. 首相遭极端分子暗杀。
- Then, just two days later, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. 跟着在两天以后，肯尼迪总统在达拉斯被人暗杀。 来自辞典例句