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April was an unusual, if not the cruelest, month for New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, who in September will mark t

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问题     April was an unusual, if not the cruelest, month for New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, who in September will mark two years on the job. On Monday afternoon, April 15, Abramson—who, at 59, is the first woman to serve as top editor in the Times’ 160-year history— had barely begun savoring the four Pulitzer Prizes that her staff had just won when the Boston Marathon bombings occurred. Pulling an all-nighter at one point in the third-floor newsroom of the Times’ Renzo Piano-designed Manhattan skyscraper, she presided over a breathless week of "flooding the zone", while her reporters and editors managed to avoid the sort of embarrassing errors committed by the Associated Press, CNN, and even the Times Co. -owned Boston Globe.
    Then, the night of April 23, Politico—the Washington trade paper that aims to "drive the conversation"—published a story suggesting that Abramson’s young editorship was already a failure. Quoting anonymous former and current Times employees, Politico claimed she was widely considered "stubborn," "condescending," "difficult to work with," "unreasonable," "impossible," "disengaged," and "uncaring"—"on the verge of losing the support of the newsroom."
    A petite woman who speaks in an exaggerated Upper West Side drawl that evokes The Nanny Meets Harvard, Abramson was home alone in Tribeca the night the story broke. Her husband of 32 years, Henry Griggs, was out, as were their two adult children, when she read it online.
    Running The New York Times has never been for the faint of heart. Abramson’s 23 months at the wheel have been punctuated by the death in Syria of Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid, a bitter contract dispute with the Newspaper Guild, and, seven months ago, forced buyouts of around 30 midlevel editors, including some of the Times’ most beloved veterans.
    Yet, unique in an industry plagued by cutbacks and shutdowns, Abramson’s newsroom is staffed at the same level as it was a decade ago, and boasts 14 national and six regional bureaus, plus 25 foreign bureaus—more than at any moment in the paper’s history. This is in complete contrast to such newspapers as The Washington Post, which over the past decade closed all its domestic bureaus and reduced drastically the head count in its newsroom, once more than 900, by nearly a fourth. Meanwhile, the Times’ risky transition from free to metered online access appears to be working: the Web edition boasts more than 700,000 paying subscribers.
    Abramson, for her part, might have to leave her current job in six years, but she doesn’t see herself ever stopping work. "In terms of my professional life, I always felt a little happy that my husband and I never had much money. I never had to go through the should-l-stay-at-home conversation. I also wanted to work, because I really liked it. " She adds: "They’re gonna have to take me out feet first, or chop off my head. "
What is Jill’s attitude towards her current job?
选项 A、She was reluctant to take the job at first.
B、She will remain at the post as long as possible.
C、She enjoys the generous payment of the job.
D、She looks forward to leaving the job.
答案B
解析 推理判断题。根据题干关键词Jill’s attitude定位到第六段。本段提到吉尔喜欢她的工作，并且在最后一句说：“他们要么把我抬出去，要么砍下我的头。”由此可知，虽然对她的评价褒贬不一，但她不会轻易放弃，会一直坚持到最后一刻，因此选[B]。文章没有说吉尔最初曾表示不愿意接受这份工作，故排除[A]；文章中也没有提到这份工作的报酬是否很有吸引力，故排除[C]；由第六段最后一句可知，吉尔绝对不会轻易离开目前的工作岗位，故排除[D]。
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