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  3. In the world of entertainment, TV talk shows have undoubtedly flooded every inch of space on daytime television. And anyone who

In the world of entertainment, TV talk shows have undoubtedly flooded every inch of space on daytime television. And anyone who

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问题      In the world of entertainment, TV talk shows have undoubtedly flooded every inch of space on daytime television. And anyone who watches them regularly knows that each one varies in style and format. But no two shows are more profoundly opposite in content, while at the same time standing out above the rest, than the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey shows.
     Jerry Springer could easily be considered the king of "trash talk". The topics on his show are as shocking as shocking can be. For example, the show takes the ever-common talk show themes of love, sex, cheating, guilt, hate, conflict and morality to a different level. Clearly, the Jerry Springer show is a display and exploitation of society’s moral catastrophes, yet people are willing to eat up the intriguing predicaments of other people’s lives.
     Like Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey takes TV talk show to its extreme, but Oprah goes in the opposite direction. The show focuses on the improvement of society and an individual’s quality of life. Topics range from teaching your children responsibility, managing your work week, to getting to know your neighbors.
     Compared to Oprah, the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste being dumped on society. Jerry ends every show with a "final word". He makes a small speech that sums up the entire moral of the show. Hopefully, this is the part where most people will learn something very valuable.
     Clean as it is, the Oprah show is not for everyone. The show’s main target audiences are middle-class Americans. Most of these people have the. time, money, and stability to deal with life’s tougher problems. Jerry Springer, on the other hand, has more of an association with the young adults of society. These are 18- to 21-year-olds whose main troubles in life involve love, relationship, sex, money and peers. They are the ones who see some value and lessons to be learned underneath the show’s exploitation.
     While the two shows are as different as night and day, both have ruled the talk show circuit for many years now. Each one caters to a different audience while both have a strong following from large groups of fans. Ironically, both could also be considered pioneers in the talk show world.  
The Jerry Springer show is especially fascinating to audiences because ______.
选项 A、the topics in the show are quite usual in common life
B、it deals with serious morality problems in the society
C、it explores the adverse effect that catastrophes bring the society
D、it carters for people’s curiosity of learning the troubles in other people’s lives
答案D
解析 细节题。文章第二段介绍了杰瑞·斯波瑞格访谈节目的内容和特点，说它主要是展示和挖掘社会的道德灾难(society’s moral catastrophes)，最后一句解释节目受欢迎的原因是人们对他人生活中令人好奇的困境兴趣盎然，因此D正确。
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