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For those who regard the al-Jazeera TV channel as a biased, anti-western mouthpiece for Osama bin Laden, the announcement that i
For those who regard the al-Jazeera TV channel as a biased, anti-western mouthpiece for Osama bin Laden, the announcement that i
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2011-10-20
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For those who regard the al-Jazeera TV channel as a biased, anti-western mouthpiece for Osama bin Laden, the announcement that it will start broadcasting 24 hours a day in English next year will be unwelcome. Its likeliest audience is Muslims (1)_____ the Middle East who do not speak Arabic. Will al-Jazeera’s reports of suffering and rage in Iraq and beyond inspire anger (2)_____ America and its (3)_____ at home, too?
The new service may prove a bit less (4)_____ than its Arabic sibling. Nigel Parsons, its managing editor, says that al-Jazeera has been too strident on (5)_____ in the past, and that the English channel will (6)_____ to redress that. It will strive (7)_____ balance, credibility and authority, he says, and it will signal a new maturity for al-Jazeera, which was started by the emir of Qatar in 1996.
It will broadcast its own original content—news, documentaries and talk shows—(8)_____ studios in Doha, London and Washington, (9)_____ international news beyond the Middle East. especially the developing countries often (10)_____ by existing English-language channels.
A1-Jazeera is already enjoying a fresh burst of (11)_____ outside the Middle East. Around the same time that the interim government in Iraq ordered it to shut its bureau in Baghdad, westerners started watching "Control Room", a film sympathetic (12)_____ the station directed by Jehane Noujaim. At a screening in London last week an audience of local journalists laughed along (13)_____ al-Jazeera’s reporters and editors (14)_____ the (15)_____ of the American military.
The biggest mystery about al-Jazeera surround its funding, which "Control Room" sadly did not (16)_____. Qatar has a new (17)_____ in the world (18)_____ to the station. That may be why the emir is willing to spend (19)_____ an English-language channel even (20)_____ the original Arabic one is probably losing money.
选项
A、contentious
B、controversial
C、competitive
D、competent
答案
B
解析
与其他阿拉伯同类节目相比,这个新项目争议少些。本题测试点为形容词词义辨析。contentious意为"好争论的,有异议的";controversial意为"引起争议的";competitive意为"竞争的";competent意为"有能力的"。根据句意,应选controversial。
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考研英语一
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