原考试中心组编《英语考试参考书》的六套模拟试题及其练习题，除使用了一篇翻译的练习题作为2007年的考试题外，大部分试题因为没有做详细的分析和介绍，因而给使用这些试题的老师和学生带来了很大的不便。尽管在最近两年里，由张剑、曾鸣主编的《考研英语最后冲剌8套题》和《考研英语最后预测5套题》曾经对上述部分试题进行了分析，但仍然没有完整地对上述试题进行详细地分析和解答。
如何分析考试中心的上述试题，考生有两种对立的观点，有的考生建议全盘照搬考试中心的这些试题，他们认为这些试题既然是考试中心组编的，因而极具权威性和指导性，对这些试题进行分析和解答非常必要。而另外一些考生则认为，上述试题绝大部分在文章的选材和试题的命制方面的确极具权威性和指导性，但是也有个别试题在选材和试题命制方面存在一些问题。个别试题过于时政化和生活化。因此，对考试中心的这些试题进行精选后进行分析和解答更有必要。
针对考生的不同意见，我们决定对考试中心的上述试题进行如下处理：
（1）对考试中心的上述试题，并不按照考试中心原有的试题编排顺序进行出版。而是精选了考试中心的部分试题，并结合我们编辑部最近几年出版的《考研英语最后冲刺8套题》和《考研英语最后预测5套题》的一些经典试题进行重新编排，最后形成6套题。精选的这些试题的材料来自最新的英文外刊，试题命制完全切合现有的研究生考试试题，在难度上又略高于真题。适合考生做模拟检测。
（2）对没有公开出版的试题，我们对其也进行了全部的分析和解答后，放在“www．kaoyanren．com（高教考研网）”供对这些试题感兴趣的考生免费下载阅读和练习。考生只要凭借我们随书赠送的学习卡就可以免费下载使用。与此同时，凡是购买本书正版的同学均可以凭借学习卡享受编辑部提供的诸如修改作文或其他的增值服务。因此，为了考生自身的利益着想，请您远离盗版，拒绝盗版。
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Oxford University is planning to set up a journalism institute. The scheme is not an attempt to cash in on the popularity of "media studies", but a high-minded plan to use the university's influence to improve standards in British journalism. This week, the vice-chancellor set up a working group to get the idea going. The idea has some heavyweights behind it——Timothy Garton Ash, an Oxford professor and journalist, Alan Rusbridger, edi- tor of the Guardian, and John Lloyd, a senior journalist at the Financial Times.
All believe that there is a problem with the quality of British journalism. One issue is its silliness—— the obsession with celebrity gossip and manufactured scandal that has spread from the popular papers to the qualities. Last week, the British Press Awards, the industry's annual party, gave its "Newspaper of the Year" award to the country's most downmarket Sunday paper "News of the world". DrUnkenness at the awards, and their downmarket tone, have led 11 editors to say they will boycott them in future. Some backers of the new Oxford outfit would like it to have its own awards, on the lines of America's Pulitzer prizes.
Another issue is intrusion. The Press Complaints Commission, recently criticized the Mail on Sun- day for a story it wrote about a government minister and his wife who adopted a baby in America. The newspaper argued, in all seriousness, that by speaking to a family friend it had gained consent to publish details of the couple's medical history. A third problem is accuracy. Lies of the sort the editor of the New York Times resigned over in 2003 barely raise an eyebrow in Britain.
Why is the British press so lowbrow？ Presumably because of the shape of the newspaper market. American papers enjoy local quasi-monopolies, and can therefore afford to be high-minded. In Britain, ten na- tional papers slug it out daily, competing for readers who seem more interested in exciting stories than accurate ones, and in sensationalism than in sensitivity. Editors mostly ignore criticism, or strike back by hurling mud at critics. In this atmosphere, having a finely developed ethical sense may be a handicap.
Will academic criticism temper the drive for circulation？ Just possibly. Regular rubbishings by high- profile critics may threaten commercial interests. After it was revealed that the editor of the mass-market Daily Mirror had published faked photos to show British troops abusing Iraqi prisoners, shareholders
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