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Three makes a trend. The Washington Post Co. Friday announced that it would look to sell its headquarters building in downtown W

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问题     Three makes a trend. The Washington Post Co. Friday announced that it would look to sell its headquarters building in downtown Washington, D. C. In January, the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News announced they would put up for sale their headquarters. The same month, Frank Gannett said it will sell the building that houses the Rochester, N.Y., Democrat & Chronicle. The building was the place where Gannett started and built his vast newspaper empire.
    It’s no secret that newspapers are in crisis. Advertising revenues have fallen by half in the past decade and are back to where they were in 1983; circulation revenues are back to where they were in 1996. The digital numbers are rising, but not fast enough. Print media is hampered by high fixed costs incurred in the pre-digital era—pensions and union contracts, equipment like printing presses, large numbers of employees, and big office buildings.
    Virtually every newspaper company has engaged in drastic measures—laying off experienced employees, eliminating sections, cutting back printing from daily to a few days per week. Those efforts are all meant to lower day-to-day operating costs. But we’ve also seen newspaper companies seek onetime injections of cash by selling off non-core assets. Increasingly, the headquarters building—typically located right in the middle of town—is falling into the non-core asset category.
    Traditionalists may find these sales and the continued shrinking of newspapers’ real-estate footprints to be depressing. But it’s actually a positive development. Call it creative destruction, or adaptive reuse. In cities around the country, investors are finding better uses for properties. In lower Manhattan, Class B office buildings that used to house financial firms have been converted into expensive separate apartments. "It’s a great thing, because it drives more tax revenue to the cities. And it gives the suburbs a run for the money," said Jonathan Miller, president of appraisal company MillerSamuel.
    In D. C, the Washington Post will likely fetch an excellent price for its headquarters because Washington is a boomtown. Throughout D. C, investors are plowing cash into housing, office, and retail developments. The building that housed the organization that exposed the Watergate scandal may become the next Watergate complex.
    Of course, progress inevitably displaces the prior tenants. It’s likely the new homes that will be occupied by newspapermen and newspaperwomen in Washington, Rochester, and Detroit will be less grand, less central, and less historic than their current homes. And the sale of these properties alone won’t solve the newspapers’ financial problems. But it will buy them a very valuable commodity: time.
It can be inferred from Paragraph 4 that ________.
选项 A、traditionalists are strongly against the sales of newspapers’ buildings
B、the destruction of newspapers’ buildings is actually creative
C、the trading of buildings can increase the urban revenue
D、money flows are running quickly from suburbs to big cities
答案C
解析 根据题干可直接定位到第四段。该段第六七句双引号中提到米勒的意见：because it drives more tax revenue to the cities，即地产买卖可以为城市带来更多的税收，也就是增加了城市收入，故C项正确。第四段第一句说，在传统人士眼里，报业大厦的出售和报业地产的持续缩水状况令人沮丧，但是A项中的are strongly against“强烈反对”与原文中的depressing“令人沮丧的”语义不同，A项属于过度推断。第三句提到了creative destruction“创造性破坏”，它指的是“卖掉办公大楼的做法是creative的”，而非指拆毁一幢大楼，B项利用原文中的distraction这个词制造干扰。第七句中的a run for the money是指积极争取资金，而不是指现金流动，D项曲解了run的意思。
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