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
考研
How stupid does one need to be to get a job reading the television news? Is it actually beneficial for TV newsreaders to have, i
How stupid does one need to be to get a job reading the television news? Is it actually beneficial for TV newsreaders to have, i
admin
2017-04-13
80
问题
How stupid does one need to be to get a job reading the television news? Is it actually beneficial for TV newsreaders to have, instead of a brain, a plate of lemon jelly? Last week the debate was raging once again about the controversial and important point as to whether the newsreaders write their own copy, read someone else’s or simply make it up as they go along. Angela Rippon reckoned that she had never heard of a newsreader writing stuff, but her modern counterpart, the beautiful Sophie Raworth, claims that they do the writing and adds that she has a postgraduate degree in journalism.
This is the core of the issue: what on earth is there to learn about journalism at postgraduate level? The point and purpose of our lowly, occasionally useful, trade could be scribbled on the back of a postage stamp and would easily be comprehended by a 14-year-old boy with ADHD(attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). Who has decided that it must be dignified with a doctoral thesis?
Nor is reading the news even what one might call "journalism". It is an even simpler business called "reading". All that the BBC demands of its female newsreaders is an ability to read in an impartial way words like "Israel has murdered more Lebanese children again today" from the teleprompter without belching or lisping. It helps if they have the eminently presentable manner of a girl guide leader from Esher. They are forbidden to express an opinion. They are not required to go undercover, analyze the news or add witty asides. They are required to be that which they are known as in the trade—
"a gob on a stick"
. A penetrating intelligence is not merely unnecessary, it is counterproductive.
Newsreaders who are too intelligent soon stop being newsreaders, much as John Humphrys did, stifled by the commonplace of their duties. Or they give the game away by doing what that German newsreader did and end the programme, shaking their heads sadly, muttering, "it’s all lies, all lies".
Which is not to say BBC newsreaders are bad at their jobs: quite the reverse. But we should not confuse competence with intelligence. Newsreaders believe that because they are reading out serious stuff and everybody is listening to them, they must therefore be creatures possessed of a high IQ. They are confusing the message with the medium.
What does the author mean by saying "a gob on a stick"(Lane 7, Paragraph 3)?
选项
A、A newsreader is like a magician with a magic stick.
B、A newsreader only says what he/she is directed to say.
C、A newsreader possesses penetrating intelligence.
D、A newsreader does not usually express his/her opinion.
答案
B
解析
词义理解题。解题关键是利用语境推断词义。前面说到BBC女播音员只需要按照要求读出讲词提示机上的文字,不需要做其他的事情,然后归纳说她们被要求做业界的“a gob on a stick”。可见,B项中“只说该说的话”意义最接近。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/dBbZ777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Onhowtheworldhaschangedoverthelast50years,notallofithasbeengood.Asyouarelookingfororganicfoodinformatio
TheearlyretirementofexperiencedworkersisseriouslyharmingtheU.S.economy,accordingtoanewreportfromtheHudsonIn
Formorethantwodecades,U.S.courtshavebeenlimitingaffirmative-actionprogramsinuniversitiesandotherareas.Thelega
Whennextyear’scropofhigh-schoolgraduatesarriveatOxfordUniversityinthefallof2009,they’llbejoinedbyanewface
Boys’schoolsaretheperfectplacetoteachyoungmentoexpresstheiremotionsandinvolvetheminactivitiessuchasart,dan
OfallthechangesthathavetakenplaceinEnglish-languagenewspapersduringthepastquarter-century,perhapsthemostfar-re
Whatimpactcanmobilephoneshaveontheirusers’health?Manyindividualsareconcernedaboutthesupposedilleffectscaused
InanewstudyreleasedbyPew,researchersfindthatwhileMillennials—peoplewhowerebornafter1981—arebacktothepre-rece
Thriftyshoppersdonothavetolookfartofindabargain.Offersaboundinthecut-throatworldofBritishsupermarkets.Recei
随机试题
简述高层管理者在质量改进中承担的角色。
何谓侧支吻合?试述其意义。
影响全冠固位形固位力的重要因素不包括
房地产市场的特征是由房地产商品和房地产市场的()决定的。
在某市中心施工的工程,施工单位采取的下列环境保护措施,正确的有()。
在基金整个运作过程中,起核心作用的是()。
隋唐以后盛行的__________制度使得政治、思想、教育的联系更加制度化。
某校高一(1)班,学生40人,教学内容为侧手翻,新授课。韩老师设计的教学步骤如下:(1)集合整队后教师宣布本节课的学习内容,带领学生做准备活动。(2)完整示范后讲解动作过程,并总结为一句口令“地上一条线,空中一个面”来帮助学生理解
实行“廷议制度”的朝代是()。
He______thetrainifhehadn’tbeenstuckintrafficjamonthewaytotherailwaystation.
最新回复
(
0
)