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
外语
It’s hard to know who to trust these days. When we see people staging protests we think, Wow! These folks are passionate about t
It’s hard to know who to trust these days. When we see people staging protests we think, Wow! These folks are passionate about t
admin
2013-05-29
71
问题
It’s hard to know who to trust these days. When we see people staging protests we think, Wow! These folks are passionate about their cause-otherwise, why would they stand in the rain for hours? But sometimes it’s a show: You and even your Congressman may have been raised to power by manipulative marketers who pay serious money to hire protesters.
It’s a mean trick. Let’s say you want to stage a political rally, but you just can’t find enough people for a good turnout. What you need are folks with lots of time on their hands, who can be persuaded to make a fuss over almost anything. Solution: Head down to a homeless shelter and take out cash.
No joke-hiring the homeless is catching on. Last October, a Georgia activist pushing a state law to crack down on illegal immigrants paid 14 homeless men $10 each to hold signs and march around. It worked. People thought the rally was genuine-a local radio station even broadcast it live. But listeners had no idea this was just a crowd for hire.
Pay for rage works--the homeless get a little income and the lobbying group gets a crowd. The only losers are citizens and the media, who think the whole show is legitimate. After a Phoenix TV station recently noticed rallies featuring the homeless, they asked some of the protesters, who were holding signs about a local labor dispute, what they were upset about. Many had no idea. ’All we do is stand out here and hold the signs," said one.
Some bold organizers have been known to "borrow" people’s names. In one case a few years ago, members of Congress were swamped with telegrams about a telecom bill. But some constituents were confused when they got phone calls from their concerned Congressmen-because they’d never written in to begin with. It turned out that thousands of the telegrams were faked by a telecom- industry PR firm. And guess what? No aspect of this campaign appears to have violated Postal Service regulations. That means your name could be used next in support of a corporate cause you’ve never heard of.
All of this amounts to a corruption of our democratic system: You can’t trust someone who’s calling you about a political issue, and ff you write to your Congressman, he might not trust that you haven’t been manipulated.
Maybe the solution starts with unmasking all those protest rallies that are just outrage-for-hire purchased down at the local shelter.
The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 "pay for rage works" means that ______.
选项
A、organizers of such rallies have to pay the participants
B、expressing anger can lead to good solutions
C、the homeless have to be paid more
D、hiring people to show your outrage is effective
答案
D
解析
“work”的意思是“to have the desired effect or outcome;prove successful:起作用,有成效”。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/hoHO777K
0
研究生英语学位课统考(GET)
相关试题推荐
Theteacherthreatenedto______theirX-boxiftheykeptplayinginclassroom.
Untillastspring,NiaParkerandtheotherkidsinherneighborhoodcommutedtoschoolonBus59.Butasfuelpricesrose,the
Thebraincentersthatprocessnumbersseemtobedifferentforexactand______calculations.
Asyoureadthis,nearly80,000Americansarewaitingforanewheart,kidneyorsomeotherorganthatcouldsavetheirlife.T
Drinkingwastewater?Theideamaysounddistasteful,butnewfederallyfundedresearchsaysmoreAmericansaredoingso—whethe
Exceptionalchildrenaredifferentinsomesignificantwayfromothersofthesameage.Forthesechildrentodeveloptotheirf
Americansnolongerexpectpublicfigures,whetherinspeechorinwriting,tocommandtheEnglishlanguagewithskillandgift.
Thirty-onemillionAmericansareover60yearsofage,andtwenty-ninemillionofthemarehealthy,busy,productivecitizens.B
Nowhereinnatureisaluminumfoundfree,owingtoitsalways______withotherelements,mostcommonlywithoxygen.
TheJapanesedesireformarriagehadbeenverystrong.Inthefifth""worldyouthattitudesurvey""【C1】______bytheManagementa
随机试题
经营决策系统内部可以分为若干子系统,这些子系统包括
Aα受体Bβ1受体Cβ2受体DM受体EN受体导致支气管平滑肌舒张的肾上腺素能受体是
急腹症患者腹透见膈下游离气体,提示腹内的病变是
患者,男,26岁,鼻渊头痛,嗅觉无味,浊涕长流,治疗首选药物为()
下列哪些是快速接地开关的选择依据条件?
在人寿保险的定价方法中,( )是将保费与保险给付和费用的差额用利率积累到未来某点的方法。
你是某景区负责人,天降暴雨引发泥石流,大石块落下砸伤很多人,请问你怎么办?
我国的全民义务植树节是每年的( )。
“风来花自舞,春到鸟能言。”这句话用的修辞格是__________。(兰州大学2015)
文档“word素材.docx”是一篇从互联网上获取的文字资料,打开该文档并按下列要求进行排版及保存操作:在封面页与正文之间插入目录,目录要求包含标题第1一3级及对应页号。目录单独占用一页,且无须分栏。
最新回复
(
0
)