Newspapers and publishing

Parts of the newspaper: headlines, news reports, the editorial feature articles (about fashion or social trends), horoscope, cartoons, crossword, small ads, business, news, sports, reports, scandal, the letters page

A popular or tabloid newspaper focuses more on sensation than real news whereas a quality newspaper professes to be more interested in real news than in sensation.

A tabloid usually has a smaller format than a quality paper, it has larger headlines and shorter stories and, in Britain, it prefers stories about film stars, violent crimes and the royal family.

A journal is the name usually given to an academic magazine.

A colour supplement is a magazine which comes out once a week (often on Sundays) as an addition to a newspaper.

A comic is a magazine, usually for children or teenagers, with lots of picture stories and/or cartoons.

1.3 Make sure you know the verbs: to broadcast throughout the world, to receive / pick up broadcast from Moscow on the radio, to show a good film on TV, to be published by.., to be printed in…, to be shot / made on location in Spain (film), to cut / censored the film, to be edited (article, programme).

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Grammar

1. The brothers ___ _ had a camera. One of the brothers’ camera was broken, but ____ was in good condition.

1) each, another      

2) both, other

3) every, other’s

4) each, the other’s

2. “You see my dilemma. ____ I must find the man who stole the examination papers ____ the examination must be postponed until new papers ____ prepared.”

1) Either, or, are

2) Either, nor, must be

3) Neither, nor, will have been

4) Either, or, will be

 

3. If ____ David or Jane comes, she or he will want a drink.

1) neither

2) both

3) either

4) none

4. “My mother died when I was ten. My father has had three ____ wives: two of them were only two years older than I am now, and ____ was younger.”

1) other, another

2) others, the other

3) another, other

4) other, the other

 

5. Holding the case in my hand, I hurried on. ____ fifty yards further on the path suddenly twisted and ran into a thick wood.

1) Other

2) Another

3) The other

4) Others

 

6. She captured ____ attention instantly, even ____ and Helen’s.

1) everyone, mine

2) everyones, my

3) everyone’s, mine

4) everyones’, my

 

7. “Shall I give him ____ book as ____ present? ”

1) some, a birthday

2) B any, birthday

3) a, birthday’s

4) the, birthdays’

8. He made ____ parcel of the suit and ____ parcel of the shoes and put them in the hall.

1) the, the other

2) a, another

3) -, -

4) some, other

9. Father received ____ good news yesterday but he won’t tell ____ what ____.

1) no, anybody, they were

2) some, anybody, it was

3) -, somebody, it is

4) a, nobody, they are

 

10. Although he’s seventy he looks ____ more than fifty.

1) few

2) any

3) a few

4) little

 

11. Wednesday is ____ the first ____ the last day of the week.

1) neither, nor

2) neither, or

3) either, nor

4) either, or

 

12. Can you tell me something about this man for ____ I shall work?

1) which

2) that

3) what

4) whom

 

13. Then it dawned upon him that ____ no ____ need to escape the doctor.

1) it was, farther

2) there was, further

3) there is, real

4) it was, further

 

14. The two brothers parted. ____ felt upset that ____ had not changed his habits.

1) Each, the other

2) Every, the other

3) Both, another

4) One, other

 

15. The people on the quay shouted with excitement, ____ did the passengers.

1) neither

2) so

3) either

4) nor     

16. The tall man, Flannigan, ____ his companion called him, looked through the hole for ____ minutes.

1) like, a few

2) as, several

3) that, a little

4) which, the number of

 

17. Death stared me in the face and I could not do ____.

1) nothing

2) something

3) anything

4) not a thing              

 

18. ____ something in his hand. It looked ____ a pistol.

1) It was, like

2) There was, as

3) There was, like

4) It was, as

 

19. “We hope that ____ such competitions will make pigeon-flying more popular in America.”

1) a few

2) few

3) little

4) a little

 

20. People walking along the street were astonished, seeing two cabs ____ one after ____.

1) racing, the other

2) to race, another

3) race, other

4) to be racing, others

21. He told me that ____ no more money coming from home and he wanted to work.

1) there were

2) it was

3) there was

4) there wasn’t

 

22. “It was ____ idea, not ____, ” she said angrily.

1) somebody else, mine

2) somebody else’s, mine

3) somebody’s else, my

4) of somebody else, of me

 

23. ____ people out in the street at that hour.

1) There was a number of

2) There were few

3) It was several

4) There was the number of

 

 

24. I would like to see your library. It’s always fun looking at ____ books.

1) others people’s

2) another people

3) the other peoples’

4) other people’s

 

25. English grammar is very difficult and ____ writers have avoided ____ mistakes in it.

1) a few, making

2) little, to make

3) few, making

4) hardly some, make

 

26. ____ quite a number of people watching the game. The police ____ there too.

1) It was, was

2) There was, were

3) There were, were

4) He saw, was

 

27. “I never drink ____ for luncheon, ” she said. “____ do I, ” I answered promptly.

1) something, So

2) anything, Neither

3) a lot, Either

4) nothing, Neither

 

28. ____ was ____ early morning when I arrived at Positano.

1) It, -

2) There, -

3) It, an

4) There, the

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