新乐市二中高中英语Unit4Makingthenews课时追踪练习1新人教版必修.docVIP

Unit 4 Making the news 课时跟踪 1 Ⅰ.阅读理解 A When people find out that I am a journalist，they often ask me：What do you think about the future of newspapers？ I tell them that I think the future of communications is moving online.People expect me to be fearful for the future of print.After all，in some people’s minds I wouldn’t be able to build a career in journalism(新闻业，strangely enough，I’m actually comforted by the fact that online journalism is becoming usual.I am a blogger who has always been able to find a home for my writing online. Since I began writing blogs，I have become aware of how many people you can reach with online writing.Compare this to the newspaper’s circulation base(发行基地)，and you will have a strong reason for online journalism. In her successful blog post titled The Job I Have Spent the Last Year Learning Is Not the One I Will Have，author Jenny Surane states，“Print is an expensive product to love.And general managers，publishers and editors must now figure out a profitable way to get their news into readers’ heads.” She goes on to state that people don’t feel like picking up a newspaper now and would rather scroll(滚屏) through their Twitter feed，and get news from many different sources. If print is dying，then a new form of communicating information is being born.The need for information has not died.If anything，it has increased.What has died，rather，is the way in which information is presented. Now more than ever，in this age of information，there is a desire for stories on the same topic from different points of view.The printing industry can keep pace with the need of providing a variety of sources，if it chooses to. Is the future of print grim？Maybe.But is the future of journalism of communicating information to people grim as well？Definitely not. 语篇解读　本文是一篇议论文，主要探讨了在互联网日益发达的今天，报纸的未来堪忧，但是新闻行业会不会也没有前途呢？ 1．According to Paragraph 2，the author feels . A．confident about the future of his career B．worried about the future of print C．tired of being a newspa