Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
A) Can you foresee any difficulties with assessing a company’s market share?
B) Which do you consider the most influential medium and why?
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
A) Does who owns a particular media organization have any effect on what gets reported?
B) Do the issues change if the owner is the State rather than a private company?
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
A) Found in 1848, the Associated Press is the oldest and largest news organization in the world, serving as a source of news, photos, graphics, audio and video for more than one billion people a day.
B) The AP is the backbone of the world’s information system.
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
A) How often do you use Internet?
B) What kind of information do you usually look for?
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
A) Looking forward, the anniversary is a milestone in the transformation Reuters is undertaking and signals the exciting and dynamic times ahead.
B) Founded as a news agency in London in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter, the company quickly established a reputation as a prime source of fast, accurate and unbiased foreign news.
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
A) Perhaps the best way of wrapping your mind around the Internet is to recall the old joke about blind men all giving their impression of an elephant based on what they can feel.
B) Some people may to think of the Internet in terms of the people that are on the net (this is my favorite way of looking at it).
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
A) This year Reuters celebrates its 158th anniversary – an important milestone in their history.
B) In the last 158 years, Reuters breaking new ground to deliver news and information significantly faster than anyone else
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
A) What do the Internet’s information resources include?
B) What is World Wide Web?
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
A) What make up the Internet?
B) What is the size of Internet?
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
A) With 3,700 employees working in 242 bureaus around the world, AP operates as a not-for-profit cooperative with its subscribing member organizations.
B) Around the clock, AP supplies a steady stream of news (20 million words a day) to its domestic members and foreign subscribers.
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
А) About half of a newspaper is either ‘soft news’ or ‘hard news’.
В) Soft news include all the events which a paper can predict; for example, major sports competitions, political conferences, elections and weddings.
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
А) Almost every industrialized nation has at least one machine on the Internet, and more countries come online all the time.
В) But geographical distance means little on the net.
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
А) And if a major event will suddenly happen, entire pages of the paper can change from one minute to the next.
В) Because of this, there’s a second editor’s conference every afternoon too.
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
А) AP’s mission is to provide factual coverage to all parts of the globe for use by the media around the world.
В) News bearing the AP logotype can be counted on to be accurate, balanced and informed.
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
А) Both in British and the US media there is a freedom of speech.
В) Libel is the making of accusations which can be proved to be false and which are harmful to a person’s reputation; obscene describes something that shocks because it is improper or very nasty.
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
А) Do ‘news’ always have to mean ‘bad news’?
В) Where do you draw the line between informing people and depressing them?
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
А) Does the presence of TV cameras sometimes creates news?
В) Can demonstrations become riots because the demonstrators knows they’re being filmed?
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
А) Each morning editor-in-chief or editor of a collection and his or her senior staff have a meeting.
В) They discuss which stories, headlines and pictures use.
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
А) How can you tell the whole story in forty-five seconds?
В) Do TV news make complex issues seem too simple?
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
А) How independent are TV news?
В) When there is a war, should governments have the right to censor news to protect national security?
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
А) More so than any other human endeavor, the Internet is an incredible, happy accident.
В) Unlike the library at Alexandria (the one that burned down) or the Library of Congress, the Internet’s information resources follow no master plan (although the Library of Congress, as do many other large university and public libraries, has its catalog and some of its contents on the Internet.
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
А) Over the past 158 years, Reuters led the way with new innovations in the dissemination and use of news and information.
В) The next 158 years hold as much promise, as we continue to delivering our vision to make financial markets work on the Internet.
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
А) The Associated Press has received 47 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization in the categories for which it can compete.
В) It has 28 photo Pulitzers, most of any news organization.
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
А) The BBC is basing at Broadcasting House in London, although it has studios in many other parts of the country.
В) It is control by a board of governors appointed be the government, but once appointed this board has complete freedom and the government cannot interfere.
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
А) The newspapers, television, and the radio are mass media.
В) The media, which is in a continual search for new ideas and formats, has a lot of power nowadays.
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
А) The popular papers tend to make news sensational, and to publish ‘personal’ articles which shock and excite.
В) The News of the World has the largest circulation in the western world.
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
А) The reporting of news, whether in the spoken or written media, reflects one of the most difficult constraints in the battle against the pressures of time and space.
В) Only those who has tried to write something for a newspaper or a radio/TV programme know just how crippling these pressures can be.
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
А) There were a revolution in the printing of newspapers.
В) Now, journalists can to type their articles into a computer system which then prints the articles automatically and cheaply.
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
А) When the paper finally complete, it goes to the printers.
В) These days, that happens electronically, too.
The popular newspapers naturally have ____________ larger circulations than the serious newspapers.
"Quality" papers appeal to the more serious reader, who __________ to read about politics and foreign affairs.
A _____________ found that while 40 percent of Americans chose television as "their favourite way of spending an evening" in 1984, only 33 percent did in 1996.
Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this is why they're always __________ in for criticism.
All television stations in the United States, public or private, educational or commercial, large and small, ___________ be licensed to broadcast by the Federal Communications Commission.
As in __________ countries, newspapers in Great Britain vary greatly in their ways of presenting the news.
At home, people first listened in on primitive “crystal” sets with the help of a cat’s __________ (a fine wire) which was moved until it made best contact with a crystal.
Big Ben time signals and the ____________ “pips” entered the national psyche in 1924.
British TV has an international reputation ___________ producing programmes of a high quality such as documentaries, nature programmes, comedies and drama series
By the 1970s in soap operas characters of various racial and ethnic backgrounds ________ introduced into a previously all-white, Anglo-Saxon population.
By __________ 1930s there were mains power sets contained in the familiar Bakelite cases.
Chat show is a television or radio programme __________ which the presenter, or host, interviews well-known people.
Computers and Internet __________ us to send instant messages, deal with the knowledge explosion and data processing.
Daily newspapers are ____________ that are published daily from Monday to Saturday.
ESPN stands __________ Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.
First shown on BBC1 in 1985, EastEnders enjoys regular half hour primetime viewing ___________, originally twice and more recently three times a week, repeated in an omnibus edition at the weekend.
Fleet Street has been the meeting place for newspaper men __________ the 18th century, when writers met to talk in its coffeehouses.
How ____________ the media obtain information?
How ______________ the media represent the world?
In the rural areas, sometimes you'll only get the three major national __________ and perhaps the public broadcasting.
John Reith, the BBC’s ____________ father, looked westwards in the 1920s to America’s unregulated, commercial radio, and then east to the fledgling Soviet Union’s rigidly controlled state system.
King George V was first ___________ on radio during a broadcast from the British Empire Exhibition of 1924.
More __________ one million ten shilling (50p) licences had been issued by November 14, 1922 when the British Broadcasting Company started daily transmissions.
Of the people questioned 16% claimed they listen ______ the radio every day and almost half watch a movie on video at last once a week.
Radio 3’s position __________ the nation’s leading classical music patron extended into the 1990s with over 50% of the network’s output being live or specially-recorded music.
Since it was first formed as a company in 1922, five years before it received its first Royal Charter and became the British Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC __________a world leader in programme production.
Sitcom is a television or radio __________ series in which the same characters appear in different stories each week.
Soap opera is a television or radio programme about the continuing daily life and troubles of a group of characters, broadcast every day, two or three times __________ a week.
Soap opera is so called in the US because most of its major sponsors for many years were manufacturers of __________ and detergents.
Television _________ is less popular in summer than in winter and more popular with old people than with any other age group.
The Manchester Guardian’s_________, “Facts are sacred, comment is free,” is famous.
The London newspaper that is ___________ known outside Great Britain is probably The Times.
The national papers are the ones _________ all over the country, with a large circulation, giving general news.
The programme is set in Walford, a __________ borough of London's East End.
The soap opera has been described as an "open text", a term relating to the simultaneous development and indeterminate nature of the storylines, and the variety of issue positions presented through the different
The standard of programmes may drop in the future with companies concentrating on making programmes with a ________ such as soap operas, quiz shows and situation comedies.
There are newspapers whose ____________ are largely filled with news of sport – football, boxing and racing – and with stories of film stars, or accounts of crime and law-court trials.
There are no fees, charges, taxes, or licenses in the US for owning radio and television receivers or for receiving anything that is broadcast __________ the air.
What choice do the British people have __________ regards TV viewing?
Why is ___________ BBC External Service important?
Within the last hundred years we ___________ the creation of wireless telegraphy, the telephone, radio, television, electronic recording of sound and image.
__________ Radio 2 Terry Wogan returned in triumph to re-occupy the breakfast show seat.
__________ was regarded as the ideal location for an alluring and long-running series as its historical significance in Britain renders it instantly recognizable, and as illustrative of modern urban Britain.
___________ show is a television or radio competition in which the players can win prizes if they answer questions correctly.
____________ to the British government there should be a combination of 'competition, quality and choice' in any plans for the future of TV.
_____________ is an automatic system of communication designed for?
_____________ lasts about an hour and a half every day.
“Listening_________ ” to the wireless in the United Kingdom quickly became a social and cultural phenomenon as the BBC in London, and regional stations around the country, gave birth to a new form of mass communication.
Major commercial networks in the US are not television stations or channels or programs: they are not ______________ to broadcast.
The Times does not publish the strip ________ that are so common in the cheaper and popular papers.
