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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.
Which of the following serves as the best title for the text?
选项 A、Return to Vivid Description
B、Audience Distracted by Journalists
C、Journalists: Sensationalism Sellers
D、How to Become a Competent Reporter
答案A
解析 主旨大意题。综观全文，本文是一篇先驳后立的议论文。文章前四段先批驳了媒体和新闻工作者利用轰动性新闻来吸引读者的做法；接着从第五段开始，提出了长久地吸引读者的方法应该是使用生动的动作语言。显然“立”才是文章的重心所在，因此，能做本文标题的只有[A]，它正是作者呼吁的。[B]“新闻工作者分散观众注意力”显然偏离了文章的主题；而[C]都是作者“驳”的内容，是为“立”做出的铺垫，也不选；[D]更像是一篇说明文的题目。在做这类题的时候，还可以使用假设法，即，假设为该题目，那么这篇文章将怎样写。
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