News Summary

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y of the news item. What is the goal of the G20 meeting What has the IMF done to its forecast for global economic growth What is the best way for China to get out of the downward pressure What has the governor of China’s central bank hinted in terms of tackling the economic problem Please give a brief summary of the news item. （）

A.Summary lead

B.Descriptive lead

C.Quotation lead

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This passage is probably ______.

A．a news report or magazine article

B．a financial report of a certain department

C．a research paper of global temperature

D．a summary of a research

Task Two--Summary of the news

？For questions 18-22, match the extracts with the summaries of the business news, listed A-H.

？For each extract, choose the summary reported.

？Write one letter (A-H) next to the number of the text.

A China and Russia are going to build hi-tech parks.

B The U.S, and China issued a joint statement on economic and financial issues.

C The Pan-Pearl River Delta region is willing to strengthen cooperation with the U. S. tourism players.

D Shanghai gets western gas that pumps through the huge West-to-East Natural Gas Pipeline.

E Shanghai Volkswagen Corporation plans to out the price of its car parts aiming to have more market share in China.

F China plans to build a third scientific research station on Antarctica during the 11th five-year-plan period.

G China plans to regulate fireworks industry.

H China strives to build the "remanufacturing' industry as one of its pillar manufacturing industries.

he commonest are 【B2】 We get them in newspapers, over radio and 【B3】 television. Sometimes 【B4】 also show us newstreel.

The main purpose of a newspaper 【B5】 provide news. If you 【B6】 a newspaper closely, you will find that there are all types of news. accidents, floods, fires, wars, sports, books, etc. The news 【B7】 everything that 【B8】 to people and their surroundings. Sometimes there are news items which are very 【B9】

The big 【B10】 bold words above the news items 【B11】 headlines. Their purpose is to 【B12】 attention so that people will buy the newspaper because they want to read 【B13】 of the news.

A news report is usually very short, 【B14】 when it is about something very important, but it 【B15】 a lot of information. It is also 【B16】 in short paragraphs. The first paragraph is in 【B17】 a summary of the news item. It gives all the necessary information: what, when, where, how, why. The other paragraphs give 【B18】 of the subject. There may also be interviews 【B19】 people. The words actually spoken by them are within inverted commas.

Often there are photographs to go 【B20】 the news to make it more interesting.

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A．a count

B．an account

C．an accident

D．an incident

Please complete the text summary with appropirate words based on your understanding of the text: The annual Australian marathon is one of the toughest races in the world, a harsh test of __________ for the world’s top athletes. Cliff Young, a __________ 61-year-old famer with rubber boots, was to take part in the race. People first assumed Cliff was there to _________ the race. When they learned of his intention, the athletes around him reacted with ____________ and ___________. The press were _________, focused the cameras on Cliff and shouted questions at him. The marathon started and Cliff was _________________with the strangest running style. Everyone was _____________ the next morning when the news showed Cliff was still in the race. Cliff , though behind others, kept running just like gathering his sheep and trying to __________________. By the fifth night, he had overtaken all the other runners and ________the record by finishing the 875-kilometer race in 5 days, 15 hours and 4 minutes—9 hours faster than anyone before! Cliff Young became ______________________. He distributed his first prize to 5 other runners. Cliff came to ___________ again in 1997, at age 76, when he ran around Australia to raise money for homeless children. He kept running for the rest of his life and never ______________. It was not until the year 2000 when he had _____________ that he stopped running. To this day, Cliff Young remains a ____________ reminder and brilliant example of how ordinary ___________ can inherently achieve remarkable results.