The difference between "writer" and "reporter" or "journalist" isn’t that the journalist reports—she【C1】______sources, calls peo

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问题     The difference between "writer" and "reporter" or "journalist" isn’t that the journalist reports—she【C1】______sources, calls people, takes them out to lunch, and generally【C2】______as an intermediary between her audience and the world of experts. The journalist also writes, of course, but anybody can write.【C3】______few can get their calls returned by key congressmen, top academics, important CEOs. That is the powerful advantage that the journalist has【C4】______ her audience: She’s got sources and they don’t【C5】______the transaction between the journalist and the audience is that the journalist has the time, talent, and【C6】______to clearly communicate the ideas of newsmakers and experts, 【C7】______then is the transaction between the journalist and those newsmakers and experts? 【C8】______the journalist, and her institution, are profiting, hopefully handsomely, off their contribution to the enterprise. It’s not going too【C9】______to say that the whole business would collapse without their【C10】______. Journalists without sources are, well,【C11】______writers.
    【C12】______, those sources are giving up something of value. They’re giving up【C13】______ , for one thing. Some fine folks have spent countless hours【C14】______me through the details of the federal budget. They’re giving up information that, in other【C15】______, people pay them for—consider a CEO who gives paid lectures or a life-long academic at a private college. They are【C16】______themselves to considerable professional risk, both by telling the journalist things they’re not supposed to share and simply by making themselves【C17】______to being misinterpreted in public.
    【C18】______how does the journalist compensate these sources? Well, the【C19】______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【C20】______ to pay sources for information.
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选项 A、mere
B、true
C、bare
D、simple

答案A

解析 填入的形容词修饰writer。上文提到,记者区别于一般作家的主要优势在于他们可以接触到新闻来源。那么如果一个记者没有了消息来源,她就跟作家差不多了,即她就只能被认为是一个作家了。A项mere“仅仅”填入此空,与上文语义吻合,为本题答案。
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