The difference between "writer" and "reporter" or "journalist" isn’t that the journalist reports—she (1)_____ sources, calls peo

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问题     The difference between "writer" and "reporter" or "journalist" isn’t that the journalist reports—she (1)_____ sources, calls people, takes them out to lunch, and(2)_____ acts as an intermediary between her audience and the world of experts. The journalist also writes, of course, but anybody can write.(3)_____ few can get their calls returned by key congressmen, top academics, important CEOs. That is the powerful advantage that the journalist has(4)_____ her audience: She’s got sources and they don’t.
     (5)_____ the transaction between the journalist and the audience is that the journalist has the time, talent, and(6)_____ to clearly communicate the ideas of newsmakers and experts,(7)_____ then is the transaction between the journalist and those newsmakers and experts?(8)______, the journalist, and her institution, are profiting, hopefully handsomely, off their contribution to the enterprise. It’s not going too(9)_____ to say that the whole business would collapse without their(10)_____. Journalists without sources are, well,(11)_____ writers.
     (12)_____, those sources are giving up something of value. They’re giving up(13)_____, for one thing. Some fine folks have spent countless hours (14)_____ me through the details of the federal budget. They’re giving up information that, in other (15)_____, people pay them for—consider a CEO who gives paid lectures or a life-long academic at a private college. They are(16)_____ themselves to considerable professional risk, both by telling the journalist things they’re not supposed to share and simply by making themselves(17)_____ to being misinterpreted in public.
     (18)____ how does the journalist compensate these sources? Well, the(19)_____ answer in a market economy would be that the sources to get paid. But, in a brilliant maneuver, journalism as a profession has deemed it(20)_____ to pay sources for information.
(13)

选项 A、benefit
B、time
C、reputation
D、energy

答案B

解析 根据下一步的提示have spent countlesshours...判断,这里指专家们牺牲的时间。故用B。benefit“利益”;reputation“名誉”;energy“能量”。
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