YELLOW JOURNALISM
SOLUCIONES
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(A) COMPREHENSION (4 points) |
a) ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-2 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT. USE YOUR OWN WORDS. (1 point per answer)
1) How are facts treated by yellow journalism?
THEY ARE MANIPULATED, BADLY TREATED, EXAGGERATED, NOT CAREFULLY CHECKED, WITH DISTORTION OF FACTS, LACK OF OBJECTIVITY, MANIPULATION OF LANGUAGE.
2) Why is the sensationalist press known as “yellow journalism”?
BECAUSE TWO OF THE EARLIEST YELLOW PAPERS CARRIED A CARTOON CHARACTER CALLED ´THE YELLOW KID´
b) ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT. (0.5 points per answer)
3) The news published by the yellow press is always true.
FALSE: “Sometimes facts are not carefully checked and even entire incidents are falsified” (l. 2-3)
4) Hearst’s and Pulitzer’s papers were not read by many people.
FALSE: “These papers had large circulations and financial success” (l. 10)
5) Hearst and Pulitzer encouraged an anti-war atmosphere.
FALSE: “The war was preceded by intense campaigns in the yellow press encouraging the U.S. public’s patriotism and sympathy for Cuban rebels”. (l. 12-13).
Hearst sent his reporters to Cuba after the war had started.
FALSE: Hearst is said to have told his reporters in Cuba, when they found the situation peaceful: “You supply the pictures, and I’ll supply the war”. (l. 14-15)
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(B) USE OF ENGLISH (3 points) |
7) Find in the text one opposite for BORING (adjective).E (0.25 points)
EXCITING
8) Give one synonym for INCIDENT (line 3) (noun). (0.25 points)
EVENT, FACT
9) Find in the text one synonym for USE (verb). (0.25 points)
EMPLOY (l. 1)
10) Find in the text the word which has the following definition: (0.25 points)
“a familiar or humorous denomination for a person or thing” (noun). NICKNAME
11) Turn the following sentences into reported speech: (0.5 points)
“Buy me the paper if you’re going out”, Alice asked her brother.
ALICE ASKED HER BROTHER TO BUY HER THE PAPER IF HE WAS GOING OUT.
12) Turn the following sentence into the passive voice: (0.5 points)
Many people consider the yellow press dishonest.
THE YELLOW PRESS IS CONSIDERED DISHONEST BY MANY PEOPLE.
13) Join the following sentences using a relative. Make changes if necessary. (0.5 points)
Clark Kent worked for a newspaper. The newspaper was called ‘The Daily Planet’.
CLARK KENT WORKED FOR A NEWSPAPER WHICH WAS CALLED / WHOSE NAME WAS …
14) Give a question for the underlined words: (0.5 points)
The yellow press specializes in scandal and gossip.
WHAT DOES THE YELLOW PRESS SPECIALIZE IN?