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It happened in the late fall of 1939 when,after a Nazi submarine had penetrated the British sea de-fense around the Firth of For
It happened in the late fall of 1939 when,after a Nazi submarine had penetrated the British sea de-fense around the Firth of For
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问题
It happened in the late fall of 1939 when,after a Nazi submarine had penetrated the British sea de-fense around the Firth of Forth and damaged a British cruiser, Reston and a colleague contrived to get the news past British censorship. They cabled a series of seemingly harmless sentences to the Times editors in New York,having first sent a message instructing the editors to regard only the last word of each sen-tence. Thus they were able to convey enough words to spell out the story. The fact that the news of the submarine attack was printed in New York before it had appeared in the British press sparked a big con-troversy that led to an investigation by Scotland Yard and British Military Intelligence. But it took the inves-tigators eight weeks to decipher the Times reporters’ code, an embarrassingly slow bit of detective work,and when it was finally solved the incident had died and little was done about it. The Times editors in New York,though they had given the story very prominent play, later expressed dismay that the reporters had risked so much for so little; and the incident left Reston deeply distressed. It was so out of character for him to have become involved in such a thing. The tactics were questionable and,though the United States was not yet in the war,Britain was already established as America’s close ally and breaking British cen-sorship seemed both an irresponsible and unpatriotic thing to do.
According to the author,the British did little about the story’s publication mainly because____.
选项
A、everyone responsible had apologized for what had happened
B、it took the authorities too long to figure out how the censors had been outwitted
C、Scotland Yard and British Military Intelligence disagreed about who was at fault
D、they were afraid to admit that the censors had been so easily fooled
答案
B
解析
题目问:作者为什么认为英国对该出版物知道的太少?第五句“But it took the investigators eightweeks to decipher the Times reporters’code,an embarrassingly slow bit of detective work,and when itwas finally solved the incident had died and little was done about it.”通过这段话可知,英国当局对此次事件进行调查,但他们花费了太长的时间才得出想要的答案。据此判断,应选择B。
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