北外放榜已经有一段时间了，大家都很积极的分享自己的经验，国传的帖子已经铺天盖地了，而国新的却很少有人着笔一二。本来是轮不到我来写这个经验帖的，因为十分肯定自己绝对是最后一名进的，怎么好意思写呢。但是群里面催得紧，小生又是国新唯一的一个男生，只好斗胆胡诌上几句了。
听说明年的国新考试方法会大变，具体怎么变乔老爷也没说，所以仅按照今年的情况来写，写的不好诸位手下留情。
小生的初试分数如下：
英语 80 政治69 国际新闻事务115 写作131
复试分数线为：
{英语(>=48)+政治(>=52)+[国际新闻事务+写作](>=245)}>=345，公式中的四个分数要求都应达到。虽然是只有345分的总分要求，但是专业分很高，估计进如复试的同学没有低于390分的。
国新考试的四门科目是：统考英语、政治、国际新闻事务和写作。一下就按照这个顺序来写准备的方法。
1.统考英语。考国际新闻专业的大半都是英语专业出身，自然不怕区区的统考。况且英语的分数是在低的可怜。小生的复习方法其实就是做真题，截止到考研当天，共做了5套真题。当然除此之外也作了很多基础工作，基本每天都要泛读三篇经济学人，精读两篇。泛读主要是练习自己阅读的专注度和速度，精读是为了理解句子的含义和增加词汇量。当时并没想着押题，所以经济学人也是很久前在淘宝上买的，都是xx年的老杂志，满篇经济危机的文章，每天读完心情必定抑郁不已。
2.政治。政治9月份才开始复习。只买了一套红宝书，一本肖秀荣的1000题。不过在考研前才将将看完红宝，1000题也只做了不到20道。所以大家不要学我。正确的做法应该是九月十月看完红宝书，十一月做强化练习，十二月背诵重要知识点，我一个政治考了近80分的哥们就是这么做的。
3.国际新闻实务。说实话，这门考试也是最不知道如何准备的，新人在问的最多的问题也是 如何练习新闻编译。
其实这门专业一考的不仅是编译：
首先是对新闻写作的基本知识的理解，详见黎信老师的蓝皮书 英语对外新闻报到指南 的前两章内容；
第二是新闻写作的一些手法和技巧的了解，题型可能会是对一篇报道的分析，因为我全是自学，这方面没有接触过所以答得时候只好自由发挥了；
最后就是汉英新闻编译。在练习之前需要学习刘其中老师的 汉英新闻编译 一书。而我当时的练习方法很简单，首先我做了从08到xx年的真题，因为xx年不考这个所以没有那年的真题。通过做真题我把自己的练习方法确定为以练习导语编译和500字内的领导人的讲话稿编译为主。因为观察到这几年的材料都是温家宝总理的讲话，所以我从新华网上把温总理从20xx年x月开始的讲话稿全部打印了出来（结果今年考的是胡锦涛主席的...），长的就用来做编译，短的就用来写导语。就这样，我上午学习经济学人，背单词（这个是为了下一门写作），下午就写三个导语，一篇500字内的汉英编译。本来开始还想练习英汉编译，但是时
间实在不够就放弃了。练习的时候一定要注意提高自己的速度，之后注意总结新闻的写作范式和用词。其实新闻英语的语言真的是很简单的，需要的不是高深的词汇，只不过是选择恰当的信息，进行合适的翻译。自己练完之后还要比对新华网上对应讲稿的英文新闻是怎么写的。本来是想模仿Chinadaily的，但是它的文章实在信息量太大，难度较高，所以选取的都是新华网上的新闻。后来在复试之后有好心的研友告诉我新华网上的英文新闻都是汉语新闻直接翻译过去的，顿时晕倒。这个尴尬的经历告诉我可能重要的不是你到底选了什么材料，而是你有没有去大量的练习，去认真的总结。我不是北外的，也没有老师帮忙看过我的编译到底怎么样，但是在自己的练习中确实会感到自己在慢慢的提高。
4.写作。写作考试又为：summary+commentary+issue。当时我也不知道该怎么写，后来看了一篇师姐的经验帖顿时茅塞顿开。十分感谢这位师姐。全文如下
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[转]来自一位北外国际新闻的师姐
很多准备考北外的同学心中对作文很疑惑：到底什么样的作文是符合要求的，应该是什么样子的作文呢？其实我到现在还不知道这个答案。当时我是写了一下让老师看了看。在考试的时候我也是按照这种思路写的，得了136分，让我喜出望外，因为当时有些紧张，写得有些乱了，质量还不及练笔的作文，因为练笔的作文我用了很长时间写的，而考试时就是在3小时 之内写完的。大家可以参考一下（难免会有错误，只是给大家看个可行的形式而已，不要太关注内容了，相信大家会写得更好的）。不要给自己太大的压力了，想不通的时候就想想类似这样的文章都可以，还有什么不行啊。加油吧！
Summary of the two views
The author holds the view that the model minority thesis, claiming Asian Americans to be successful judging from their high educational attainment levels, high median incomes and so forth, doesn’t make sense. The figures the thesis based on are misleading and he enumerates and analyzes 6 points to support his view. First, most Asian Americans live in states with higher incomes as well as higher costs of living and their high incomes are attributed to more workers per family. Second, Asian Americans are unevenly distributed in the economy and are concentrated in occupations that don’t pay as well as other jobs in the same industry. Third, Asian Americans have a camouflaged high underemployment. Forth, the high participation rate in works of Asian American women is in fact due to the fact that their husbands’ low wages and their earnings don’t go with their full-time work and education. Fifth, Asian Americans’ educational attainments stress educational level rather than returns to education. Sixth, the “model minority” image homogenizes Asian Americans and hides their difference and obscures the poverty within their ranks. The author also believes that the model minority thesis is a kind of political rhetoric which perpetuates Asian Americans’ inequality and exacerbates relations between them and other minorities.
And the view the author criticizes is that Asian Americans are viewed as model minority and other minorities should learn from Asian Americans. They should work hard to pull themselves up by the bootstraps instead of using militant protests to obtain their rights.
Commentary
It’s undeniable that the status quo of Asian Americans has been enhanced. The model minority thesis mentioned in this article to some extent exaggerates the success, so I’m in part approval of the author’s analysis on that stereotype. Asian Americans are not as successful as claimed, they are still interior in some respects by comparison, uneven occupation distribution, camouflaged high underemployment, to name but a few. There is still much to do to be the real model minority.
However, the model minority thesis is not built in one day. It must have been shaped and colored through a long run and there must be reasons for its coming into existence. For my part, one of the main reasons lies in the predominant character of Asian Americans, decedent from their Asian ancestors, that is, industriousness. It’s wildly acknowledged that Asians are more diligent and hard-working than their counterparts. People better their lives and earn their fortunes by working hard. Diligence by nature is a good thing, but it may work the other way when impose diligence on people who nudge diligence into the last word to talk about. What’s worse is that people of this kind don’t work hard and they are envious of those who make a fortune by working hard. Keeping pets with good stuffs has always been disputable in the present stage. In my view, that discussion initially results from some people’s instinct that we intelligent human beings, as primate, are superior to any other animals and this superiority should be distinguished by means of material stuffs. For instance, we human are expected to have premium food, wear beautiful clothes, live in decent houses while animals deserve treating with leftovers, rags and derelict cartons, as their endearing houses. People are born this way. They make comparisons all the time, even between human and animals, let alone between one and another. And this is the case in the U.S.A. Because of some historical reasons, Asian Americans and other minorities were once in a lower position than that of the Americans, which gives rise to the superiority of the Americans. And nowadays, the once interior nations are emerging as stronger and stronger powers. The Americans are losing their superiority and they cannot take this reality. As a result, they sometimes make biased and distorted comments on the rising power. Some radicals even rob and destroy Asian Americans’ businesses. And a smart group of people just try to take advantage of Asian Americans’ merit, industriousness and the success they have achieved. On one hand, they dodge the responsibility of trouble other minorities are involved in and say to them, “Your bad conditions are none of our business. Learn from Asian Americans to work hard instead of complaining.” And on the other hand, this will result in the conflict between Asian Americans and other minorities so as to hinder each other. You know, people hate to be compared, especially when they don’t have the advantage.
History has taught us a lesson that to be left behind is to be bullied by others. It’s in particular conspicuous when it comes to living in another country. As far as I’m concerned, Asian Americans ought to continue their way of life to improve their livelihoods through hard-working. In addition, make model minority real model minority. Once they are strong enough, it will spare much trouble.