首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
It happened in the late fall of 1939 when, after a Nazi submarine had penetrated the British sea defense around the Firth of For
It happened in the late fall of 1939 when, after a Nazi submarine had penetrated the British sea defense around the Firth of For
admin
2010-12-06
87
问题
It happened in the late fall of 1939 when, after a Nazi submarine had penetrated the British sea defense 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’s editors in New York, having first sent a message instructing the editors to regard only the last word of each sentence. 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 controversy that led to an investigation by Scotland Yard and British Military Intelligence. But it took the investigators eight weeks to decipher The Times’s reporters’ code, an embarrassingly slow bit of detective work, and when it was finally solved the incident 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 censorship seemed both an irresponsible and unpatriotic thing to do.
The passage indicates that eventually everyone involved came to regard the publication of the story in The Times as a ______.
选项
A、regrettable error
B、cheap journalistic trick
C、brilliant journalistic maneuver
D、proper exercise of the freedom of the press
答案
A
解析
短文暗示,每个卷入该事件的人最终把该报道刊登在《时代》周刊上看作是一个令人后悔的错误。文章最后一句说,尽管美国尚未参战,但英国已被确立为美国最亲密的同盟国。因此,突破英国的审查制度似乎是一种不负责任的行为而且是一种不爱国的行为。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/NdIO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
•Lookatthenotesbelow.•Someinformationismissinq.•Youwillhearamancontactinganemploymentagencyabouttherecruit
•Lookatthenotesbelow.•Someinformationismissinq.•Youwillhearamancontactinganemploymentagencyabouttherecruit
Howmanypeoplearecomingfordinner?Whichofthepiechartsiscorrect?
•Readthearticlebelowaboutworkingindifferentsizedcompanies.•Aresentences16-22ontheoppositepage’Right’or’Wrong’
•ReadthearticlebelowabouttheBritishlongerworkinghours.•Foreachquestion23-28ontheoppositepage,choosetheco
Questions11-15•Lookatthechartsbelow.TheyshowthesalesoftelephonesindifferentdepartmentstoresfromMondaytoWedne
Inaperfectlyfreeandopenmarketeconomy,thetypeofemployer—governmentorprivate—shouldhavelittleornoimpactonthe
(1)书籍引导我们进入优秀的社会群体,将我们带到伟大的思想家面前。读书中我们耳闻目睹他们的言行举止,仿佛见到了他们活生生的身影,我们同情他们的遭遇,与他们有乐共享、有难同当。他们的遭遇似乎也成为了我们的经历,使我们感到我们自己有点像在他们所描绘的情景中扮演
随机试题
相同条件下,K2Cr2O7的氧化能力比KMnO4的氧化能力()。
乳腺囊性增生病的乳头溢液呈
肝硬化患者最严重的并发症是
根据我国宪法规定,公民的政治自由包括以下哪几项内容。()
安全生产监督管理的内容包括()
根据下述材料,回答下面题目:给定4年内远期利率,如表10-2所示。假定债券的票面价值均为1000元,且远期利率保持不变。假定某投资者刚买了一张4年期的零息票债券,该投资的第一年的回报率是( )。
地方各级政府编制的土地利用总体规划中的建设用地总量,应()上一级土地利用总体规划确定的控制指标。
按技术等级划分,导游人员可以分为()。
这些年来党中央多次提出建立科学发展观和正确的政绩观,而且把这些作为关系到国家经济、社会发展的大事,对这个问题你是怎样理解的?
根据法律规定,继承开始后,遗产处理前,继承人未作出任何表示,则()
最新回复
(
0
)