Water the flowers! I have already ( just) watered the flowers! Cut the bread please. I have already ( just) cut the bread. Ann, lay the table for breakfast. I have already ( just) laid the table for breakfast. These boys are playing football. Those boys have already ( just) played football. I am drinking tea. Granny has already ( just) drunk tea. Bobby is drawing animals. Nelly has already ( just) drawn animals. Mary, dust the furniture, please. I have already ( just) dusted the furniture. Do your home task, Alice. I have already ( just) done it. Marry is cleaning the room. Lizzy has already ( just) cleaned the room. My sister is looking through the newspaper. My father has already ( just) looked through the newspaper. They are having dinner. We have already ( just) had dinner. Father, give Fred the magazine, please. I have just given him the magazine.
1. False. -The nature of news is a favourite subject of discussion among journalists.
2. False. -To be news an item of information must have a bearing on the affairs of the moment, it must be new to those who hear or read it, and it must arouse the interest of a considerable number of those hearers or readers.
3. True.
4. False. -"and it must arouse the interest of a considerable number of those hearers or readers."
5. True.
6. False -"To be news an item of information must have a bearing on the affairs of the moment"-so that journalists always give an enormous attention to current affairs.
7. True.
8. True.
9. False. It`s a quality that must be improved step-by-step, through a lot of experience.
10. False. -To acquire this sense the journalist must have a wide acquaintance with men and affairs, a sound educational background and a very considerable stock of general knowledge.
11. True.
12. False. -"Journalists must have a wide acquaintance with men and affairs, a sound educational background"
13. True . -" ..and what is of topical interest from what is of little concern to the majority of this readers.."
14. True.
15. False. -""And this knowledge he must keep constantly up to date by being himself an assiduous reader of newspapers and magazines."
1. False. -The nature of news is a favourite subject of discussion among journalists.
2. False. -To be news an item of information must have a bearing on the affairs of the moment, it must be new to those who hear or read it, and it must arouse the interest of a considerable number of those hearers or readers.
3. True.
4. False. -"and it must arouse the interest of a considerable number of those hearers or readers."
5. True.
6. False -"To be news an item of information must have a bearing on the affairs of the moment"-so that journalists always give an enormous attention to current affairs.
7. True.
8. True.
9. False. It`s a quality that must be improved step-by-step, through a lot of experience.
10. False. -To acquire this sense the journalist must have a wide acquaintance with men and affairs, a sound educational background and a very considerable stock of general knowledge.
11. True.
12. False. -"Journalists must have a wide acquaintance with men and affairs, a sound educational background"
13. True . -" ..and what is of topical interest from what is of little concern to the majority of this readers.."
14. True.
15. False. -""And this knowledge he must keep constantly up to date by being himself an assiduous reader of newspapers and magazines."
16. True.
17. True.
18. False.
19. False.
20. False.