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  3. 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.
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 题目考查大家最终对此事件的评价。“The Times editors in New York，though they had given thestory 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．”通过这段话可知，此消息虽然有很轰动的效果，但事后表明，冒如此大的风险，对于两位记者以及《纽约时报》来讲，都是不划算的。据此判断，应选择A。
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