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  3. The drama critic, on the other hand, has no such advantage. He cannot be selective; he must cover everything that is offered for

The drama critic, on the other hand, has no such advantage. He cannot be selective; he must cover everything that is offered for

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问题     The drama critic, on the other hand, has no such advantage. He cannot be selective; he must cover everything that is offered for public scrutiny in the principal playhouses of the city where he works. The column space that seemed, yesterday, so pitifully inadequate to contain his comments on Long Day’s Journey Into Night is roughly the same as that which yawns today for his verdict on the latest scrap of milk-fed Kitsch that has chanced to find for itself a numbskull hacker with a hundred thousand dollars to lose. This state of affairs may help to explain why the New York theater reviewers are so often, and so unjustly, stigmatized as baleful and destructive fiends.  They spend most of their professional lives attempting to pronounce intelligent judgments on plays that have no aspiration to intelligence. It is hardly surprising that they lash out occasionally; in fact, what amazes me about them is that they do not lash out more violently and more frequently. As Shaw said of his fellow-critics in the nineties, they are "a culpably indulgent body of men." Imagine the verbal excoriations that would be inflicted if Lionel Trilling, or someone of comparable eminence, were called on to review five books a month of which three were novelettes composed of criminal confessions. The butchers of Broadway would seem lambs by comparison.  
Tile passage suggests that as a play Long Day’s Journey into Night was ______.
选项 A、inconsequential
B、worthwhile
C、poorly written
D、long
答案B
解析 本文暗示，作为戏剧，《日夜兼程》是值得的。第三句暗示，如果不是篇幅所限，戏剧评论家对《日夜兼程》的评论会更充分一些。这说明，戏剧《日夜兼程》是值得的。
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