Media mogul Ted Turner yesterday sold more than half of his ..

第1题

Media mogul Ted Turner yesterday sold more than half of his AOL Time Warner Inc. holdings

for about $ 780 million, a move that reflects his efforts to slash his financial stake in the media giant.

After the close of regular trading yesterday, Turner sold a block of 60 million shares to Goldman Sachs & Co. for $ 13.07 per share, or 31 cents below the stock's closing price yesterday. Goldman was said by Wall Street sources to be offering the stock to major investors for $ 13.15.

An outspoken critic of the corporation, Turner remains AOL Time Warner's largest individual shareholder, with 45 million shares, and a member of its board of directors. A spokeswoman for Turner referred questions to AOL Time Warner.

At his peak Turner owned about 130 million shares, but he lost billions of dollars in wealth and grew bitter after the stock plunged following the merger of America Online and Time Warner in January 2001.

Turner, who initially supported the merger, later expressed outrage over revelations that America Online had manipulated its financial results. The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating AOL, and the corporation has acknowledged discovering tens of millions of dollars of overstated revenue.

Turner resigned as vice chairman earlier this year and has been spending less of his time on AOL Time Warner matters. He stepped down after achieving his goal of pressuring America Online founder Steve Case to resign as the corporation's chairman. Case said he was giving up the post to avoid a braising public battle for reelection at next week's annual meeting.

In the effort to oust Case, Turner teamed up with Gordon Crawford, the senior media portfolio manager at Capital Research & Management, the largest institutional shareholder in AOL Time Warner. Capital Research has indicated it will vote against Case's election to remain on the board of directors next week--a position that analysts said should not affect the outcome. Turner, meanwhile, has said he will support the management slate that includes Case and will make Richard D. Parsons the company's chairman and chief executive.

Turner, a visionary who started Cable News Network, is in the midst of rolling out a new chain of restaurants, Ted's Montana Grill, featuring bison burgers. He recently moved his residence from Georgia to Florida for estate planning purposes and is spending time and money on his independent film company, which lost millions of dollars on a lengthy movie about the Civil War.

From the first three paragraphs, we learn that ______.

A．Goldman has made a profit from this transaction of shares with Turner

B．Turner always expresses his dissatisfaction with the corporation openly

C．Goldman bought the block of shares in order to become a member of the board

D．Turner sold a large portion of his shares to retreat from the media business

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Section BDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by som

Section B

Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.

Media mogul (显要人物) Ted Turner yesterday sold more than half of his AOL Time Warner Inc. holdings for about $780 million, a move that reflects his efforts to slash his financial stake in the media giant.

After the close of regular trading yesterday, Turner sold a block of 60 million shares to Goldman Sachs & Co. for $13.07 per share, or 31 cents below the stock's closing price yesterday. Goldman was said by Wall Street sources to be offering the stock to major investors for $13.15.

An outspoken critic of the corporation, Turner remains AOL Time Warner's largest individual shareholder, with 45 million shares, and a member of its board of directors. A spokeswoman for Turner referred questions to AOL Time Warner.

At his peak Turner owned about 130 million shares, but he lost billions of dollars in wealth and grew bitter after the stock plunged following the merger of America Online and Time Warner in January 2001.

Turner, who initially supported the merger, liner .expressed outrage over revelations that America Online had manipulated its financial results. The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating AOL, and the corporation has acknowledged discovering tens of millions of dollars of overstated revenue.

Turner resigned as vice chairman earlier this year and has been spending less of his time on AOL Time Warner matters. He stepped down after achieving his goal of pressuring the founder of America Online--Steve Case--to resign as the corporation's chairman. Case said he was giving up the post to avoid a bruising public battle for reelection at next week's annual meeting.

In the effort to oust Case, Turner teamed up with Gordon Crawford, the senior media portfolio manager at Capital Research & Management, the largest institutional shareholder in AOL Time Warner. Capital Research has indicated it will vote against Case's election to remain on the board of directors next week--a position that analysts said should not affect the outcome. Turner, meanwhile, has said be will support the management slate (候选人) that includes Case and will make Richard D. Parsons the company's chairman and chief executive.

Turner, a visionary who started Cable News Network, is in the midst of rolling out a new chain of restaurants, Ted's Montana Grill, featuring bison burgers. He recently moved his residence from Georgia to Florida for estate-planning purposes and is spending time and money on his independent film company, which lost millions of dollars on a lengthy movie about the Civil War.

From the first three paragraphs, we learn that _________.

A．Goldman has made a profit from this transaction of shares with Turner

B．Turner always expresses his dissatisfaction with the corporation openly

C．Goldman bought the block of shares in order to become a member of the board

D．Turner sold a large portion of his shares to retreat from the media business

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The "Real" Piryanka Sundarajan By Ranjit Singh, Staff ReporterWhile much has been written

The "Real" Piryanka Sundarajan

By Ranjit Singh, Staff Reporter

While much has been written about famous media mogul Piryanka Sundarajan, little is known about many aspects of her private life.

Ms. Sundarajan is married and has two sons. (145) her childhood in Indonesia, where her father was posted with the National Bank of India.

Ms. Sundarajan retains fond memories of the country. "I was (146) by everything about Indonesia—especially the architecture."

At United Media Corporation, (147) Ms. Sundarajan founded as a young college graduate, she is recognized as a tough negotiator. However, she is even better known for her ability to (148) quality employees satisfied: hardly one person from the company's senior staff—be it director, general manager, or deputy general manager—has left the organization in the last fifteen years. Employees attribute this to Ms. Sundarajan's outstanding leadership qualities.

(45)

A．To spend

B．When she had spent

C．While spending

D．She spent

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第4题

The history of cancer research has shown thatA．miracle cancer drugs often turn up unexpect

The history of cancer research has shown that

A．miracle cancer drugs often turn up unexpectedly,

B．the mass media can work wonders.

C．curing cancers in mice is much easier than in humans.

D．animals and humans are similar in behaviour.

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第5题

The history of cancer research has shown thatA．miraclecancerdrugsoftenturnupunexpec

The history of cancer research has shown that

A．miracle cancer drugs often turn up unexpectedly.

B．the mass media can work wonders.

C．animals and humans are similar in behaviour.

D．curing cancers in mice is much easier than in humans.

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第6题

Which of the following statements is NOT true about blogs？

A、Apart from online newspapers or other digital press, blogs also have enormous impact on people’s daily life.

B、Blogging has become a new way to transmit news and ideas.

C、Blogs in new media age are characterized by most up-to-the-minute stories and personalized narrative style.

D、More and more people turn to blogs for entertainment rather than news or other useful information.

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听力原文：Welcome to this year's national tennis championship tournament. We're pleased tha

听力原文： Welcome to this year's national tennis championship tournament. We're pleased that you will be here throughout the week to cover the championship matches. Remember that you are required to wear and display your press identification cards at all times. This promises to be an exciting and historic week. Following the play each day, selected players will be brought to the media center, where all of you will have an opportunity to ask questions in the interview area. In consideration of both players and fellow members of the media, we ask that you kindly turn off all mobile phones and pagers in the interview area. When you are called upon, please wait for a microphone to be handed to you before asking your question. Now I am pleased to welcome Sergio Padova, last year's champion. He'll talk about this year's tournament and answer questions.

Who is the intended audience for this talk？

A．Athletes

B．Film stars

C．Journalists

D．Politicians

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第8题

听力原文：When you turn on the radio, you hear an advertisement. When you watch television,

听力原文： When you turn on the radio, you hear an advertisement. When you watch television, you hear and see an advertisement. If you turn the pages of a newspaper or magazine, again you find an advertisement. If you walk down the street, you see one advertising board after another. All day, every day, people who want to sell you something competent to catch your attention. As a result, advertisements are almost everywhere. In the West, advertisements are the fuel that makes mass media work. The government does not give money to mass media such as TV stations, newspapers, magazines and radio stations. They are all owned privately. So where does the money come from？ From advertisements. Without advertisements, there would not be these private businesses.

Have you ever asked yourself what advertising is？ Through the years, people have given different answers to the question. For some time it was felt that advertising was a means of "keeping your name before the public." And some people thought that advertising was "truth well told." Now more and more people describe it in this way: Advertising is the paid, nonpersonal, and usually persuasive description of goods, services and ideas through various media.

All advertisements try to make people believe that the product, idea, or service advertised can do well to them. Advertisements exist everywhere in our lives.

(30)

A．The importance of advertisement.

B．The society's great need of advertisement.

C．The origin of advertisement.

D．The prosperity of advertisement.

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第9题

A) girl B) pm C) tyro D) mogul

A) girl

B) pm

C) tyro

D) mogul

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