ПКОЯз. Англ. Практикум по культуре речевого общения. Часть 1

CNN stands for …

• Canadian News Network
• Continental News Agency
• Computer Numerical Network
• Cable News Network

A television broadcast is called …

• telemark
• telecast
• telecourse
• telecommunication

Newspapers in Great Britain can say what they like about anyone and anything, provided they say nothing …

• irrelevant and meaningless
• unimportant and trivial
• shocking and outrageous
• libellous and obscene

A piece of writing that gives the views of the editors on events, etc, is called …

• domestic articles
• local news
• leading article
• editorial comments

Detailed drawings made to show where all cameras and lights will need to be are called the …

• Lighting Floor and Plan of the Plot
• Floor Plot and Lighting Plan
• Planning Floor and Floor Light
• Floor Plan and Lighting Plot

The synonym of ‘radio’ is …

• wireless
• willow
• whip-lash
• wigwam

The facts behind a story or event is called …

• relevant data
• background information
• information need
• further information

There are three commercial TV networks that broadcast nationwide through local stations in the U.S. — …

• NPR, AP, NTV
• ITV, BBC and BBS
• BBC, NBS and CNN
• NBC, CBS, and ABC

The Associated Press has received 47 …

• Oscars
• Pulitzer Prizes
• MTV Awards
• Nobel Prizes

The Prime Minister’s speech will be …

• broadcaster
• broadcasted
• broadcasting
• broadcast

To increase the volume of the radio means to turn the radio …

• up
• off
• down
• on

A play broadcast in parts, or instalments is called …

• live show
• wild life programme
• serial
• forecast

A person who prepares somebody else’s writings for a publisher is called …

• circulation manager
• editor
• bookseller
• author

CBS is one of the American …

• rock groups
• comities
• networks
• parties

A person who is in charge of sales is called …

• the director
• the executive manager
• the circulation manager
• the advertising manager

A person who controls the paper’s visual style, its typefaces, the size of headlines, where to put photos, etc is …

• the designer
• the news editor
• the editor in chief
• the picture editor

A person who turns sub-edited text into type is…

• the secretary
• the typesetter
• the printer
• the editor

Various federal networks, a set of regional networks, and some foreign networks, etc, make up …

• the Intranet
• ARPA-net
• the mass media
• the Internet

Autocue is a kind of …

• computer
• car
• TV monitor
• processor

A person who chooses photographs, maps and illustrations is …

• the printer
• news editor
• the picture editor
• the designer

A publication with a paper cover containing articles, stories, illustrations and advertising is called …

• brochure
• magazine
• leaflet
• handout

Because TV time costs so much, actors (and/or presenters) rehearse away from the studio itself. Such rehearsals are called …

• preliminary rehearsals
• inside rehearsals
• preparatory rehearsals
• outside rehearsals

A national television company that produces or sponsors programmes that are broadcast by affiliated stations in different cities is called …

• network
• entertainment
• outlet
• guild

A person who makes metal ‘plates’ of the completed paper is …

• the editor of the collection
• the printer
• the editor
• the designer

The act of publishing means …

• edition
• publication
• printer
• presentation

I want to watch the match, but I don’t know when it’s …

• over
• in
• up
• on

The Times is …

• one of the US’s oldest and most influential TV channels
• one of the US’s oldest and most influential newspapers
• one of Britain’s oldest and most influential newspapers
• one of Britain’s oldest and most influential magazines

A person who is in overall charge of the newspaper and what it prints is …

• the sub-editor
• the news editor
• the editor in chief
• main editor

When the paper is finally complete, it goes to the …

• writers
• printers
• critics
• designers

A profession concerned with organising collections of books in libraries and servicing them to readers is called

• liberality
• librarianship
• libration
• libetrinism

Modern technology means that twenty-first century televisions will be linked to computer …

• keyboards
• processing units
• data-banks
• mainframes

TV advertisements that may interrupt the shows as often as every ten minutes are called …

• soap operas
• commercials
• sound tracks
• blockbusters

The final stage a programme goes through is …

• rehearsing
• screening
• filming
• showing

Programmes for schools, language programmes for those learning a language on their own are called …

• preparatory programmes
• request programmes
• documentaries
• educational programmes

A television station is called …

• network
• cable
• channel
• net

To make each story fit the images which will appear on the screen means to…

• write a ‘shot list’
• shoot the film
• collect information
• ‘write the picture’

The popular papers tend to make news …

• positive
• informative
• sensational
• obscene

Example of hard news include …

• major sport competitions
• political end economic conferences
• plane crashes and assassinations
• elections and weddings

Reuters is the name of …

• information bureau
• news agency
• TV channel
• newspaper

The programme is divided into sections by the …

• filming
• technical run
• outside rehearsal
• running order

Live show means …

• re-recorded
• not pre-recorded
• sophisticated
• pre-recorded

A short, concise news broadcast is called …

• resume
• bulletin
• serial
• summary

The making of accusations which can be proved to be false and which are harmful to a person’s reputation is …

• craft
• nonsense
• rumour
• libel

Words in big letters at the top of a printed story are called…

• headstones
• head-hunters
• headlines
• headquarters

News about events, etc., at home (i.e. in Great Britain) is called …

• home-born news
• domestic news
• homage news
• homespun news

This programme went on the air means it was …

• created
• broadcast
• sold out
• supported

All the copies (of a newspaper, book, etc) printed for sale at the same time or from the same type are called …

• editing
• edition
• editorial
• editors

Randolph Hearst, the American newspaper publisher, said ‘News is what someone, somewhere, does not want reported. All the rest is …’

• information
• advertisement
• nonsense
• fiction

Examples of soft news include …

• elections and weddings
• major crimes
• assassinations
• plane crashes

In 1967, the US Congress passed the Public Broadcasting Act, authorizing the creation of …

• Cable News Network
• Associated Press
• the British Broadcasting Corporation
• the Corporation for Public Broadcasting