Jobs in the news industry require writers to meet ______ deadlines.
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.
Good news: Olympic chiefs visit London. Bad news: they’ll be traveling by Tube
It’s crunch week for London’s bid to host the 2012 Games
BY ANDREW JOHNSON and JONATHAN THOMPSON
Commuters waiting at Stratford in East London, Which is the planned site of the 80,000-seat Olympic stadium
Senior government ministers and British sporting heroes will be on hand to extol the capital’s virtues when the 12-member International Olympic Committee (IOC) team visits this week to assess the London 2012 bid.
Although much of their four-day visit is expected to be spent in the exclusive Four Seasons Hotel in Canary Wharf grilling bid organisers in question and answer sessions, the evaluation commission will spend one day visiting London’s proposed venues—and will take a trip on the Tube. It could prove a costly journey.
London 2012 organisers, who have spent up to £20m on the project, have pencilled in trips to the proposed sites, including the planned stadium at Stratford, the Millennium Dome at Greenwich and the ExCel centre in Docklands.
However, the commission can insist on being taken anywhere, including the new Wembley stadium, which will host the football, or to the archery venue at Lord’s, or even to Wimbledon or
Hackney.
Earlier this month, the Madrid bid suffered a setback over lack of accommodations, which was criticised by IOC members. Will transport prove Londons’ Achilles’ heel? On Friday The Independent on Sundaysent four reporters on various journeys across London to put the transport infrastructure to the test.
Questions:
1.How many people can the London’s planned Olympic stadium hold?
2.How many International Olympic Committee (IOC) members will visit London and where are they going to have the question and answer sessions?
3.What does “tube” mean in American English?
4.Why was Madrid criticised by International Olympic Committee members?
5.What is the problem which the authors worried about London’s bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games?
I set off as soon as I got the news about my grandpa’s illness. Unfortunately, he ______ at the hospital before I ______ .
Practice 14 Five hundred years ago, news of important happenings—battles lost and won, kings or rulers overthrown or killed—took months and even years to travel from one country to another. The news passed by word of mouth and was never accurate. (1) Today we can read in our newspapers of important events that occur in faraway countries on the same day they happen.
Radio, television and press are ______ of conveying news and information.
Excuse me for breaking in,()I have some news for you
US Environmental Protection While the G8 summit was under way, and once the news of Wednesday’s London bombings became known, the American president George Bush was widely quoted on the subject of international terrorism. He spoke of his resolve to bring the perpetrators to justice, and to “spread an ideology of hope and compassion that will overwhelm” what he called “their ideology of hate”.
But as the G8 meeting drew to a close, the US President had rather less to say about the Plan of Action, announced by the world leaders, to tackle what they deemed the "serious and long-term challenge" of climate change.
Stephen Evans, who’s on a driving tour of the western United States, says many Americans remain unconvinced that this is an issue they need to take seriously: "I’ve just driven down from Salt Lake City, through the desert of Utah and Nevada. It is a magnificent sublime wilderness where horizons are wide when they’re not broken by the craggy splendour of an ancient volcanic landscape. As the sun sinks here, the rocks glow red and it’s hard to imagine a threat to the environment where space seems limitless. And yet, many of these escarpments hide sites where humans dispose of all sorts of waste. Just beyond the beauty is a land being violated. This is where America throws its trash over the back wall.
In Europe, insurance premiums rise as homes get built on flood plains in a search for every inch of exploitable space. In America, there is not this connection between wallets and weather. Extremes of climate seem natural.
Only on the crowded coasts is the environment an issue. California and New York have tough regulations. In between, they often can’t see what the fuss is about. It’s a big country they feel. The taxi-driver in Texas who told me that global warming was hokum is not a lone voice, some of the big oil companies that lobby Mr. Bush are also loathe to concede a link between their product and climate change.
The environment sometimes seems like the fashionable issue of the moment, the right badge to wear, the current political designer label.
Things are changing though. Neo-conservatives are worried that importing oil means relying on hostile regimes, which, moreover, might funnel some of the dollars to anti-American causes— what the neocons call a "terrorism tax on the American people."
So there is pressure on Mr. Bush over the environment but not as a grand cause. It’s a concern rather about importing an expensive fuel from hostile places. And Mr. Bush may respond with tax incentives for cleaner technology that the US market seems increasingly to want.
What is affecting the refugees in northern Yemen, according to the news?