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  3. No company likes to be told it is contributing to the moral decline of a nation. "Is this what you intended to accomplish with y

No company likes to be told it is contributing to the moral decline of a nation. "Is this what you intended to accomplish with y

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问题     No company likes to be told it is contributing to the moral decline of a nation. "Is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers?" an American senator asked Time Warner executives recently. "You have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well?" At Time Warner, however, such questions are simply the latest manifestation of the soul-searching that has involved the company ever since the company was born in 1990. It’s a self-examination that has, at various times, involved issues of responsibility, creative freedom and the corporate bottom line.
    At the core of this debate is chairman Gerald Levin, 56, who took over from the late Steve Ross in the early 1990s. On the financial front, Levin is under pressure to raise the stock price and reduce the company’s mountainous debt, which will increase to $ 17. 3 billion after two new cable deals close. He has promised to sell off some of the property and restructure the company, but investors are waiting impatiently.
    The flap over rap is not making life any easier for him. Levin has consistently defended the company’s rap music on the grounds of expression. In 1992, when Time Warner was under fire for releasing Ice-T’s violent rap song Cop Killer, Levin described rap as a lawful expression of street culture, which deserves an outlet. "The test of any democratic society," he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column, "lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be. We won’t retreat in the face of any threats. "
    Levin would not comment on the debate last week, but there were signs that the chairman was backing off his hard-line stand, at least to some extent. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month’s stockholders’ meeting, Levin asserted that "music is not the cause of society’s ills" and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students. But he talked as well about the "balanced struggle" between creative freedom and social responsibility, and he announced that the company would launch a drive to develop standards for distribution and labeling of potentially objectionable music.
    The 15-member Time Warner board is generally supportive of Levin and his corporate strategy. But insiders say several of them have shown their concerns in this matter. "Some of us have known for many, many years that the freedoms under the First Amendment are not totally unlimited," says Luce. "I think it is perhaps the case that some people associated with the company have only recently come to realize this. "
Questions:
According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
选项 A、Luce is a spokesman of Time Warner.
B、Gerald Levin is liable to compromise.
C、Time Warner is united as one in the face of the debate.
D、Steve Ross is no longer alive.
答案D
解析 第3题问根据本文内容下面哪种说法正确。此题为判断是非题。可以先浏览一下四个选项，针对所给选项采用相应的阅读方法。我们发现四个选项均为涉及人名的具体细节性的内容。因此，可以利用查阅式阅读法，采取排除法依次将错误答案排除。答案A说“鲁斯是时代一华纳公司的发言人”。此种说法不对，文章中说他是董事会15个成员之一，没明确讲他是公司的发言人。选项B：杰拉尔德·列文会妥协也不对。因为在文章第三段中他曾明确表明强硬态度：“对任何一个民主社会的检验不在于它如何严格地控制言论的自由表达，而在于它能否尽可能宽松地给予人们思考和表达的自由。不管其结果可能引起多么大的争议和愤怒。面对威胁，我们决不退却。”第四段中其强硬态度虽然有所缓和，但并未妥协。答案C：在争执面前，时代一华纳公司团结一致。显然与最后一段不符，因为文章最后一段指出，虽然董事会的15人总的来说是支持列文的，但包括鲁斯在内的几个董事会成员表示担忧。D：史蒂夫·罗斯已经死了，是由第二段第一句“who took over from the late Steve Ross in 1992”推断得出的，“late”的意思是“已故的”。因此，本题的正确答案是D。
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