2021-22学年度第39期总第869期 (3版)
Cutting through lies (Page 3)

I. Read the text and answer the following questions. 
1. What was Gwen Ifill when she was alive?
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2. Why did Ana Rodriguez win the 2021 Gwen Ifill High School Student of the Year Award?
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3. What does Rodriguez think we should do before we spread a news item?
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4. What does the underlined word “skepticism” probably mean?
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5. Why did Leffel nominate Rodriguez?
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II. Useful expressions
Can you find these expressions in the text?
1.为社会正义而奋斗
2.为了纪念她 
3. 由于
4. 伪装成真新闻
5.培养一种怀疑精神 
6. 对……做出回应 
7. 试图做某事
8. 分发
9.  副作用

III. Complete the following sentences with proper conjunctions.
1.This is an old computer ______works much slower.
2.They stayed with me for three weeks during ____ they drank all my wine.
3.The picture _____ we are looking at was drawn by a fifteen-year-old student.
4.The picture _____ we are looking at was drawn by a fifteen-year-old student.

参考答案：
I.
1. She was a famous African-American journalist who fought for social justice through her news stories.
2. She won due to her real passion for fighting fake news about COVID-19 vaccines, medical studies and other social media dramas.
3. We need to cultivate a certain type of skepticism before we either react to the news or spread it. We also need to double-check the sources by checking other websites.
4. Doubt.  
5. Matthew Leffel nominated Rodriguez for the award because of her enthusiasm and “purposefulness” while working on a multi-disciplinary class project on disinformation. Rodriguez went very deep with her research and she was able to demonstrate the kind of media literacy skills that the school had intended to build. She was not just doing her research project as a class assignment, but as something that had an important meaning for her life.

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III.
1. which/that   2. which   3. which/that    4. which