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Unit 3 —— Active Reading 2 课后习题答案及参考译文 3 Match the words and phrases in the box with their definitions. 1 work that you must do as part of a course of study or as part of your job (assignment) 2 a newspaper article in which the editor gives their opinion on an issue in the news (editorial) 3 income from business activities or taxes (revenue) 4 to stop doing business or operating permanently (close down) 5 a set of questions that you ask a large number of people or organizations (survey) 6 to trust someone or something to do something for you (rely on) 7 comments about how well or how badly someone is doing something, which are intended to help them do it better (feedback) 8 an office where information is collected, for example for a news organization (bureau) 4 Complete the conversation with the correct form of words and phrases in Activity 3. A What was your first (1) assignment as a journalist? B It was to cover a local football match. It rained all afternoon, I remember. A And your most exciting experience? B Probably the years I spent in the paper’s foreign (2) bureau in Asia. That was before the days of the Internet, and we had to (3) rely on the telephone, and telex machines, to get the story back to London. A How important is it for a newspaper to have (4) feedback from its readers? B Very important, but I think editors have only just begun to realize this. Today reader (5) surveys, especially in the online editions, are very common. And online editions have their own blogs, too. If you don’t agree with what you read in the (6) editorial you can let the whole world know about it immediately. A What do you see as the main problem for newspapers in the future? B Their source of (7) revenue. Traditionally most of a newspaper’s income comes from advertising, not directly from sales. And I’m afraid that these days advertisers are more interested in the Internet than in paper editions. Yes, I’m afraid that a number of smaller newspapers may have to (8) close down i