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It is the natural and perhaps understandable tendency of newspapers to concentrate on bad news and by doing so to contribute to
It is the natural and perhaps understandable tendency of newspapers to concentrate on bad news and by doing so to contribute to
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2012-10-20
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It is the natural and perhaps understandable tendency of newspapers to concentrate on bad news and by doing so to contribute to a rising spiral of tension. War is more【C1】______ than peace, just as criminals are more exciting than law-abiding people, traffic deaths are more interesting than campaigns . 【C2】______ courtesy on the roads and violence sells more newspapers than brotherly love. No one, it seems, has discovered a way of 【C3】______ good will, harmony and reason 【C4】______ and sensational. It is hard to 【C5】______ of any modern newspaper giving over its front page 【C6】______ banner headlines to the gradual improvement of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. 【C7】______ , the most 【C8】______ incident of friction between the two is often inflated and distorted 【C9】______ a good story. Indeed, this phenomenon has its most unfortunate effect 【C10】______ the reporting of international affairs.
Relations between the national states are conducted in this age of power politics in an atmosphere of real or threatened violence. The newspaper editor publishes his newspaper for a community in which other nation states 【C11】______ represented at all or are represented only by small diplomatic 【C12】______ . It is 【C13】______ easy and almost inevitabler for the newspaper to take a strong or, 【C14】______ , 【C15】______ stand in any international dispute. Such a stand makes everybody’ feel better and 【C16】______ the basic nationalism of all the newspaper’s readers. It risks 【C17】______ to any significant section of the readership and presents no great danger to the circulation 【C18】______ . The attitude of the dove, on the other hand, carries with it great dangers for the circulation-conscious editor. It means that he 【C19】______ thought which is pale 【C20】______ to lusts which are strong.
【C4】
选项
A、drastic
B、dreary
C、dramatic
D、drowsy
答案
C
解析
此处是与sensational并列的形容词,drastic(激烈的、猛烈的),一般强调的是药性比较强,dreary:沉闷的;dramatic:戏剧性的、生动的;drowsy:昏昏欲睡的,沉寂的,所以正确答案是C。
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