英语专八听力练习难度不大，尤其和mini-lecture比起来，简单很多，提前可以看到问题和选项。带着这些预读信息去进行target-oriented 的听力，命中率一般都很高，练习到后期不希望考生失掉哪怕一分。有可能成文满分绊脚石的就是一些 \"纸老虎\" 般的新闻听力特定词汇，请大家提前预热。其实出题考这些词汇的几率特别小，只是形式上吓人罢了。
1.accredited journalist n.特派记者
2.advance n.预发消息;预写消息
They have got advance information of the storm\'s approach.他们事前已得到将有暴风雨的消息。
3.affair n.桃色新闻;绯闻
4.anecdote n.趣闻轶事
He departs from the text to tell an anecdote.他没讲课文而讲了一段轶事。
5.aignment n.采写任务
He\'s going to India on an aignment for his newspaper.他将去印度为他的报纸完成某项工作。
6.attribution n.消息出处，消息来源
7.back alley news n.小道消息
8.backgrounding n.新闻背景
9.Bad news travels quickly.坏事传千里。
10.banner n.通栏标题
11.beat n.采写范围
12.body n.新闻正文
13.boil 压缩(篇幅)
The reporter boiled the story down to half the original length.报告人把原稿压缩了一半。
14.box n.花边新闻
15.brief n.简讯
16.bulletin n.新闻简报
17.Here is the latest bulletin about the President\'s health.这是总统健康情况的最新报告。
18.byline n.署名文章
19.caption n.图片说明
I didn\'t understand the drawing until I read the caption.直到我看到这幅画的说明才弄懂其意思。
20.caricature n.漫画
21.carry vt.刊登
22.cartoon n.漫画
His cartoon mercilely lampoon the leading politician of the day.他的讽刺漫画无情地挖苦了当今的政界要人。
23.censor vt.审查(新闻稿件)，新闻审查
Several words have been deleted from the article by the censor.那篇文章中有好几个字被新闻检查官删去了。
1.chart n.每周流行音乐排行版
That song has been in the charts for weeks.那首歌已有好几周都上了流行榜。
2.clipping n.剪报
I wish to apply for the position advertised in the enclosed clipping from the morning Herald.本人欲申请上广告招聘剪报随函寄去的职位。
3.column n.专栏;栏目
There are two columns on each page of this dictionary.这本词典每一页有两栏。
4.columnist n.专栏作家
She\'s a columnist for USA Today.她是《今日美国报》的专栏作家。
5.continued story 连载故事;连载小说
6.contributing editor 特约编辑
contribution n.(投给报刊的)稿件;投稿
7.The editor is short of contribution for the May iue.编辑缺少五月号一期上的稿件。contributor n.投稿人
My friends in the Chinese pre tell me that at present, there is no lack of contributors, but because of limitations in space, not all their works can be published.华文报朋友告诉我，现阶段仍不乏投稿人士，但因篇幅不足未能全部刊登
8.copy desk n.新闻编辑部
9.copy editor n.文字编辑
10.correction n.更正(启事)
The teacher wrote the proposed correction at foot.老师将修改意见写在页底空白处。I\'m speaking under correction.我说的不一定正确。
11.correspondence column读者来信专栏
It seems from your correspondence column that Harold Wilson is a sacred cow.从你的读者来信专栏看，哈罗德·威尔逊好像是个批评不得的人。
12.correspondent n.驻外记者;常驻外埠记者
I\'m handing you over now to our home affairs correspondent.现在请听本台记者报道的国内新闻。
Your correspondent had only touched upon the fringe of the matter.你的报导只谈到了问题的边缘。
13.cover vt.采访;采写
14.cover girl n.封面女郎
1.covert coverage 隐性采访;秘密采访
2.crop vt.剪辑(图片)
3.crusade n.宣传攻势
The college students are active to crusade against the nuclear weapons.大学生们积极投入开展反对核武器的运 动。
4.cut n.插图 vt.删减(字数)
Before this play is broadcast several cuts must be made.这个剧目播出前必须经过数次剪辑。
5.cut line n.插图说明
6.daily n.日报
He writes exclusively for China Daily.他专给《中国日报》写稿。
7.dateline n.新闻电头
The stories of newsmen on the scene have been wrapped up under a Paris dateline.在现场的记者们的报导已经综合成一篇发自巴黎的电讯。
8.deadline n.截稿时间
9.dig vt.深入采访;追踪(新闻线索)：\"挖\"(新闻)
10.digest n.文摘
11.editorial n.社论
I am on the editorial staff of the newspaper.我在这家报纸的编辑部工作。
The editorial is entitled \"...\" .这篇社论的题目是《。。。》。
12.editorial office 编辑部
13.editor\'s notes 编者按
14.exclusive n.独家新闻
15.expose n.揭丑新闻;新闻曝光
16.extra n.号外
17.eye-account n.目击记;记者见闻
18.faxed photo 传真照片
19.feature n.特写;专稿
20.feedback n.信息反馈
21.file n.发送消息;发稿
22.filler n.补白
23.First Amendment (美国宪法)第一修正案(内容有关新闻、出版自由等)
24.five \"W\'s\" of news 新闻五要素
25.flag n.报头;报名
26.folo (=follow-up) n.连续报道
27.Fourth Estate 第四等级(新闻界的别称)
28.freedom of the Pre 新闻自由
29.free-lancer n.自由撰稿人
30.full position 醒目位置
1.Good news comes on crutches.好事不出门
2.grapevine n.小道消息
They were told to desist from spreading grapevine news.已告诉他们停止散布小道消息。
3.gutter n.中缝
4.hard news 硬新闻;纯消息
5.headline n.新闻标题;内容提要
A sports headline reads, \"Curling stone start sliding Monday.\" 一条体育新闻大字标题这样写道:\"冰上掷石赛将于周一开始\"。
6.hearsay n.小道消息
7.highlights n.要闻
8.Judgment should be based on facts, not on hearsay.判断应该以事实为依据，而不应该依靠道听途说。
9.hot news 热点新闻
10.human interest 人情味
11.in-depth reporting 深度报道
12.insert n.& vt.插补段落;插稿
13.interpretative reporting 解释性报道
14.invasion of privacy 侵犯隐私(权)
15.inverted pyramid 倒金字塔(写作结构)
16.investigative reporting 调查性报道
17.journalism n.新闻业;新闻学
When he left school he took up journalism.他离开学校后开始从事新闻工作。
Journalism is literature in a hurry 新闻是急就文学.
18.journalist n.新闻记者
He has broken into a career as an international journalist.他开始了他作为国际新闻记者的生涯。
19.kill vt.退弃(稿件);枪毙(稿件)
20.layout n.版面编排;版面设计
Please fax me the layout for the new catalogue.请用传真机把新目录的版面编排图样传送给我.
1.lead n.导语
2.libel n.诽谤(罪)
The difference between libel and slander is that libel is printed while slander is spoken.诽谤和流言的区别在于前者是书面的，而后者是口头的。
3.makeup n.版面设计
4.man of the year 年度新闻人物，年度风云人物
5.ma communication 大众传播(学)
From 1986 to 1987 I was teaching English training courses for students in international trade and ma communication.1986年至1987年，我教过英语培训班，学员来自外贸和大众传播单位
6.ma media 大众传播媒介
The play received the approbation of the ma media.这个剧本受到大众媒体的欢迎。
7.master head n.报头;报名
8.media n.媒介，媒体
Viewers here have reaped the benefits of media liberalisation.当然，本地媒体开放，观众也看到了好处
Mere report is not enough to go upon 仅是传闻不足为凭。
9.morgue n.报刊资料室
10.news agency 通讯社
That foreign news agency report hashed up the account of the accident.那家外国通讯社对此事件的报导简直是乱说一通，牛头不对马嘴。
11.news clue 新闻线索
12.news peg 新闻线索，新闻电头
13.newsprint 新闻纸
Final award has already been made on the first newsprint paper antidumping case.首例新闻纸反倾销案已经终裁。
14.news value 新闻价值
15.No news is good news.没有消息就是好消息
No, but I suppose no news is good news.没有。不过我认为没有消息就是好消息。
16.nose for news 新闻敏感
17.obituary n.讣告
I read Sewell\'s obituary in the Daily News.我在《每日新闻》上读到了休厄尔的讣告。
18.objectivity n.客观性
19.off the record 不宜公开报道
The President told the reporters his remarks were strictly off the record.总统告诉记者们他的谈话不得公开发表。
