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Rebel uprising kills seventy! Plane crash leaves no survivors! Rock star dies of overdose! Evening newscasts and metropolita

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问题     Rebel uprising kills seventy! Plane crash leaves no survivors! Rock star dies of overdose!
    Evening newscasts and metropolitan newspapers scream the bad news, the sensational, and the action.
    Audiences of today focus upon the sensational action, the violence, the loss, the terror. Individually, our lives are redirected, our worlds reshaped, and our images changed. While wary of the danger of change, we human beings surrender daily to exploitation of values, opportunities, and sensitivity. The evolution has brought us to the point that we believe little of what is presented to us as good and valuable; instead, we opt for suspicion and disbelief, demanding proof and something for nothing.
    Therein lies the danger for the writer seeking to break into the market of today. Journalists sell sensationalism. The journalist who loses sight of the simple truth and opts only for the sensation loses the audience over the long run. Only those seeking a short-term thrill are interested in following the journalistic thinking.
    How, then do we capture the audience of today and hold it, when the competition for attention is so fierce? The answer is writing to convey action, and the way to accomplish this is a simple one — action verbs.
    The writer whose product suspends time for the reader or viewer is the successful writer whose work is sought and reread. Why?
    Time often will melt away in the face of the reality of life’s little responsibilities for the reader. Instead of puzzling over a more active and more accurate verb, some journalists often limp through passive voice and useless tense to squeeze the life out of an action-filled world and fill their writing with missed opportunities to appeal to the reader who seeks that moment of suspended time.
    Recently, a reporter wrote about observing the buildings in a community robbed by rebel uprising as "thousands of bullet holes were in the hotel. " A very general observation. Suppose he had written, "The hotel was pocked with bullet holes. " The visual image conjured up by the latter is far superior to the former. Here is the reader... comfortable in the easy chair before the fire with the dog at his feet. The verb "pocked" speaks to him.
    The journalist missed the opportunity to convey the reality.
According to the author, which of the following might be true of the journalists?
选项 A、They seek the easy way out.
B、Language is the tool of them.
C、The truth is never conveyed in their report.
D、They only want to exploit the readers.
答案B
解析 观点态度题。本题实际考查的是作者对记者的看法。第五段中作者曾指出，抓住读者的关键是以“文字传达动作”，“使用行为动词”；接着，第七段分析为什么生动而逼真的描写能够抓住读者的心；第八段给的例子更说明了语言对于新闻写作有多么重要。因此符合作者观点的只有[B]“语言是记者的工具”。[A]具有干扰性，但它太泛，the easy way具体指什么不清楚；[C]的说法太绝对；[D]“他们只想利用读者”在原文找不着依据。
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