The New Presidential lnterview

王琴若

閱讀理解

1. What's the meaning of the underlined sentence in the first paragraph？

A. We could hardly find any news in an interview with other presidents.

B. We could always find gold news in an interview with other presidents.

C. We sometimes have difficulty finding nuggets in an interview with Trump.

D. We couldn't find nuggets of news in the interviews with any presidents.

2. Which of the following evaluation of Bill Clinton agrees with the author's opinion？

A. Bill Clinton was charming and journalists loved to interview him.

B. Bill Clinton's large information attracted journalists very much.

C. To interview Bill Clinton is a hard job for the journalists.

D. To interview Bill Clinton could get lots of news.

3. According to the third paragraph we can infer that _______.

A. reporters like to play a trick on George W. Bush in the interviews

B. George W. Bush has never said his real thought when facing reporters

C. George W. Bush loves playing tricks on reporters when answering questions

D. facing the reporters' questions， George W. Bush always loves following his own routines

4. Why does the author say Obama enjoyed more give than take？

A. Because he answered the questions professorially and fully.

B. Because he was smart， logical and impressive that he answered questions quickly.

C. Because he answered the questions so comprehensive lyas to be forced to stop.

D. Because he just answered a few questions though having prepared many.

5. The author mentions the Russia matter in order to indicate that ______.

A. Mr Trump differs from other presidents

B. Mr Trump sometimes intends to say provocative things

C. Mr Trump had trouble in dismissing questions by saying no

D. Mr Trump could not comment on a continuing investigation

答案與解析

1.A。細節(jié)理解題。第一段劃線的句子和分號后面的句子成對比，所以是說采訪別的總統(tǒng)得不到新聞，才能和“采訪特朗普先生讓我們應接不暇”語境符合，故A正確。

2.C。推理判斷題。第二段最后一句意思是：“這樣的采訪始終是很有意思的，但不見得有新聞，很難用提問來限定他的思路?！惫蔆正確。

3.D。推理判斷題。文章第三段最后一句可以看出記者需要竅門“設計一個讓他感到意外的問題，讓他脫離腳本，說說他對某事的真實想法。”由此推斷D正確。

4.C。推理判斷題。文章第四段最后一句意思是“記者……要硬著頭皮去禮貌地打斷這個掌握當今世界無上權力的人，以便讓更多的問題得到回答?！彼訡正確。

5.B。推理判斷題。文章倒數(shù)第二段第二句：“…it's fair to conclude that the provocative（挑撥的）things he said on the record were intentionally so.”可以知道B正確。

長難句分析

1.Bill Clinton was discursive（東拉西扯的），ranging widely over a variety of topics and citing at length arguments， anecdotes（趣聞）or pieces of information that had recently fascinated him，whether or not they related to the day's news.比爾·克林頓喜歡東拉西扯，廣泛談及各種話題，長篇大論地提及最近引起他興趣的觀點、趣聞或零散的信息，不管這和當前的新聞是否有關。

這是個復合句。句中分詞短語ranging... and citing...做狀語，其中that引導定語從句，后面whether or not引導的是狀語從句。如：

I don't agree with his decision whether Or not he is right.=I don't agree with his decision whether he is right or not.無論他是否正確我都不同意他的決定。

2. Clearly he was conscious that some things would be problematic if quoted， so it's fair to conclude that the provocative（挑撥的）things he said on the record were intentionally so.他顯然明白，自己的一些話如果被引用是有問題的，因此可以公允地判定，他公開發(fā)表一些易于引發(fā)爭議的言論時是有意為之。

這是個復合句。兩個that引導的是賓語從句，分別做was conscious和conclude的賓語。其中be conscious that...；be conscious of...是常用的結構。如：

①We are conscious that meaningful progress against great global challenges is the work of years，not days.我們認識到，應對全球性的挑戰(zhàn)取得有意義的進展需要經過多年的努力，并非指日可待。

②Be conscious of what your body is telling you to eat， sometimes it might want somethingyou don't have in the fridge.你要清楚身體所需要的食物，有時候你身體可能會想要一些你冰箱里沒有的食物。