Hundreds of years ago, news was carried from place to place by people on foot or by horse. It took days, weeks and sometimes months for people to receive news. Now it is possible to send words and pictures around the world in seconds. Billions of people learn about news stories of their country and all over the world every day, by watching TV, reading newspapers or looking through something on the Internet.

     Newspapers have been an important part of everyday life since 18^th century. Many countries have hundreds of different newspapers. (1) How do newspaper editors decide which news stories to print(印刷)？ Why do they print some stories and not others? What makes a good newspaper story?

   Firstly, it’s important to report new stories. The Internet and TV stations can report news much faster than newspapers. Yet, newspapers give more about the story. They may also look at the story in another way, (2) or they may print completely different stories to those on TV or the Internet.

   Secondly, a news story has to be interesting and unusual. (3) life, do, stories, to, not, everyday, read, of, want, people . As a result, many stories are about some kinds of danger and seem to be “bad” news. For example, (4) newspapers never print stories about planes landing safely, instead of print stories about plane accidents.

  Another factor(因素) is also very important in many news stories. Many people are interested in news in foreign countries, (5) but more prefer to read stories about people, places and events in their own country. So the stories on the front page in Chinese newspapers are usually very different from the ones in British, French and American newspapers.

任务一： 请将(1)处变为复合句。

71.   _______________________________________________________？

任务二： 请写出(2)句中 “those” 指代的是什么？(用英语回答)

72.   ____________ .     

任务三： 请将(3)处连词成句。

73.   ________________________________________________________.

任务四： 请将(4)处句中的一个错误找出,并改正在横线上。（不必写全句）

74.   ________________________________________________________.

任务五： 请将(5)处翻译成汉语。

75.   ________________________________________________________.

Failure(失败) is what often happens. It is everywhere in our life. Students may fail in exams, scientists may fail in their research work, and players may fail in competitions. (A) Although failure happens to everyone, but different people’s attitudes(态度) towards failure are different.
Some people don’t think that their failure is an important thing at all. So they pay no attention to it. As a result, they will have the (B)_____ failure later. Some people think they themselves are fools and lose their hearts in everything after they get a failure. Then they(C)____their time and energy on useless things. At last, they may really be fools as they have thought.（D）Other people are quite different from these two kinds of people mentioned above. Instead of being hopeless and lost, they draw a lesson from every failure and become more experienced. （E） they, after, will ,hard, in, work, be , the, successful , end. So we should draw a lesson from every failure and become more experienced.
【小题1】任务一: (A)处句中有一处错误，请找出并改正。（可用文字叙述）
【小题2】任务二:在( B )、(C )处的横线上分别填上一个单词（B）    （C）   
【小题3】任务三: 将(D)处句子译成汉语：
【小题4】任务四: 将(E)处的单词连成句子：
【小题5】任务五:请从下面的选项中给短文选个标题，将答案标号填在此横线上：

Failure is what often happens. It is everywhere in our life. Students may fail in exams, scientists may fail in their research work, and players may fail in competitions. (A) Although failure happens to everyone, but different people’s attitudes(态度) towards failure are different.

Some people don’t think that their failure is an important thing at all. So they pay no attention to it. As a result, they will have the (B)      failure later. Some people think they themselves are fools and lose their hearts in everything after they get a failure. Then they(C)      

their time and energy on useless things. At last, they may really be fools as they have thought.

（D）Other people are quite different from these two kinds of people mentioned above. Instead of being hopeless and lost, they draw a lesson from every failure and become more experienced. (E) they, after, will ,hard, in, work, be , the, successful , end. So we should draw a lesson from every failure and become more experienced.

任务一: 1. (A)处句中有一处错误，请找出并改正。（可用文字叙述）

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任务二: 2. 在( B )、(C )处的横线上分别填上一个单词（B）        （C）           

任务三：3.将(D)处句子译成汉语：                                              。

任务四: 4.将(E)处的单词连成句子：                                           

任务五: 5.请从下面的选项中给短文选个标题，将答案标号填在此横线上：             

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