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  3. For those who regard the al-Jazeera TV channel as a biased, anti-western mouthpiece for Osama bin Laden, the announcement that i

For those who regard the al-Jazeera TV channel as a biased, anti-western mouthpiece for Osama bin Laden, the announcement that i

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问题     For those who regard the al-Jazeera TV channel as a biased, anti-western mouthpiece for Osama bin Laden, the announcement that it will start broadcasting 24 hours a day in English next year will be unwelcome. Its likeliest audience is Muslims (1)_____ the Middle East who do not speak Arabic. Will al-Jazeera’s reports of suffering and rage in Iraq and beyond inspire anger (2)_____ America and its (3)_____ at home, too?
    The new service may prove a bit less (4)_____ than its Arabic sibling. Nigel Parsons, its managing editor, says that al-Jazeera has been too strident on (5)_____ in the past, and that the English channel will (6)_____ to redress that. It will strive (7)_____ balance, credibility and authority, he says, and it will signal a new maturity for al-Jazeera, which was started by the emir of Qatar in 1996.
    It will broadcast its own original content—news, documentaries and talk shows—(8)_____ studios in Doha, London and Washington, (9)_____ international news beyond the Middle East. especially the developing countries often (10)_____ by existing English-language channels.
    A1-Jazeera is already enjoying a fresh burst of (11)_____ outside the Middle East. Around the same time that the interim government in Iraq ordered it to shut its bureau in Baghdad, westerners started watching "Control Room", a film sympathetic (12)_____ the station directed by Jehane Noujaim. At a screening in London last week an audience of local journalists laughed along (13)_____ al-Jazeera’s reporters and editors (14)_____ the (15)_____ of the American military.
    The biggest mystery about al-Jazeera surround its funding, which "Control Room" sadly did not (16)_____. Qatar has a new (17)_____ in the world (18)_____ to the station. That may be why the emir is willing to spend (19)_____ an English-language channel even (20)_____ the original Arabic one is probably losing money.

选项 A、dealing
B、containing
C、covering
D、involving
答案C
解析 涵盖了中东以外地区的国际新闻。本题测试点为动词词义辨析。deal作涉及讲是不及物动词，应加介词with；contain意为"包括"；cover意为"包括，覆盖"；involve意为"涉及，包括"。虽然其他三个选项在词义上虽可以吻合，但在本句中，新闻用cover有"涵盖"的含义，是最佳答案。
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