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This year isn’t the first time an overwhelmingly white field of nominees has led to an Academy Awards protest. The run-up to the

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问题     This year isn’t the first time an overwhelmingly white field of nominees has led to an Academy Awards protest. The run-up to the Academy Awards always includes the usual debate over who got snubbed. This year, however, that conversation has taken on a new level of gravity: for the second year in a row, every nominated actor is white.
    That situation has led Hollywood insiders and fans alike to speak out. On Twitter, observers started to voice their outrage. Whatever the solution may be, it’s clear that the protest is being heard—which is a marked change from earlier protests over the exact same thing. In fact, it was exactly 20 years ago, in 1996, that a protest over Oscars diversity erupted and led to a very different response; ridicule.
    The 68th Academy Awards featured a lineup of actors that was just as white as this year’s is. By the time the nominees were announced, Time was already in the middle of conducting an exhaustive investigation into the state of black Hollywood. The week before the ceremony, the results ran as a cover story headlined "What’s Wrong With This Picture?" that pulled back the curtain on the fact that, though African-American faces were getting easier to find on the big screen, the success of a few big stars masked an industry that was still largely segregated. For example, at the time, Academy membership was only 3.9% black.
    One of the people who read that article was Rev. Jesse Jackson. The issue of media equality was not new to Jackson, but it was that story that inspired him to focus a protest on that year’s Oscars. But the protest wasn’t met with the same thoughtfulness that today’s has been. The president of the Academy met with Jackson, but said that that year’s Oscars were an anomaly and didn’t mean anything.
    Perhaps most tellingly, the protest was mocked on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update. Darrell Hammond’s impression of Jackson, is pretty cringeworthy in retrospect. Today, Oscars diversity is the subject of satirical television news that makes fun of the absurdity of the situation. Two decades ago, the satire was at the expense of those who wanted to change that situation.
    Jackson, for his part, said that the consciousness-raising that had been done was worth all the mockery. Whether or not 1996 made a difference, it’s clear 20 years later that Hollywood’s level of awareness of the issue has never been higher.
Jackson’s attitude toward the current situation can be said to be that of
选项 A、tolerance.
B、indifference.
C、dissatisfaction.
D、appreciation.
答案D
解析 (1)本题可定位在最后一段。(2)根据文章，“曾经就增强意识所做的工作，就是受到取笑也值”(第6段：worth all the mockery)。“20年之后，好莱坞的意识水平提高到了前所未有的高度”(第6段：never been higher)。可知选项[D]为最佳答案。
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