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
A、Doing something worthwhile and rewarding. B、Scaring the people walking in the street. C、Attracting people’s attention. D、Criti
A、Doing something worthwhile and rewarding. B、Scaring the people walking in the street. C、Attracting people’s attention. D、Criti
admin
2018-05-24
43
问题
M: Have you seen this story in The Herald? It says The Times is closing down in three months’ time.
W: Gary, that’s good news, that newspaper is terrible. I won’t miss it.
M: What do you mean? The Times is the best newspaper in the city. If that closes, we’ll only have The Herald and that City Journal which is too awful for words.
W: You only like The Times because it takes up to 20 pages every day with sports. This is a newspaper which puts the horoscopes on the bottom of the front page. I think that tells you how serious it is.
M: Come on. That’s hardly fair now, is it? Remember the campaign they did last year to save the children’s hospital. You can’t tell me you didn’t think that was a worthwhile thing to do.
W: They only did that because they knew it would strike a nerve with the average guy in the street. You know, saving a children’s hospital. It’s like the ultimate in populist journalism. Do you remember reading their article a couple of months before criticizing the local authorities wasting money on out-of-date healthcare facilities, including the very same children’s hospital? They have only ever written what they think will sell more newspapers.
M: Well, it obviously didn’t work if they’re closing, did it?
W: No, and thank heavens for that. The City Journal is a great paper and you don’t like it because it doesn’t devote 5 pages every day to baseball stats.
M: This is a baseball city. We’ve got a great team. Why shouldn’t we read about it? Where are we going to get the results now? The Journal puts all the results in one tiny box on the back page and The Herald gives them maybe a half page. It’s almost as if they feel ashamed at having a successful team here. I just don’t see why people buy The Journal.
W: Err, maybe because it has authentic journalists working there, journalists who know something about what is going on in the rest of the country and the rest of the world. I think a newspaper needs to meet all the needs of its readers, not just those who like sports. The Journal did a great piece on famine in Africa last week, did you read it?
M: No, I can’t say I did. I think they should leave that stuff for the national papers or for the TV news. If I buy a local newspaper, I don’t want to read about the famine in Africa Those articles are only written by the ambitious journalists who are fishing for jobs in the national press.
W: Oh, you’re so cynical.
1. Why does Gary prefer The Times to The Herald and City Journal?
2. According to the woman, what is the purpose of The Times’ campaign of saving the children’s hospital?
3. According to the conversation, what can we learn about the City Journal?
4. What can we learn from the conversation?
5. In the man’s view, what should local papers report?
选项
A、Doing something worthwhile and rewarding.
B、Scaring the people walking in the street.
C、Attracting people’s attention.
D、Criticizing the authorities.
答案
C
解析
关于“拯救儿童医院”的报道,女士认为这只是一个噱头,因为这样的事件能够刺激到每一个人的神经。言外之意是,The Times这样做只是为了吸引更多读者。故选C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/zkoK777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
A、Anexperiencedteacher.B、Afriendofthetargetlanguage.C、Aregularlearningprogram.D、Aninborntalentoflanguage.C对话中,
FiveCommonMistakesinConversationsandTheirSolutionsI.NotlisteningA.Problem:mostpeople【T1】______【T1】______—waitea
TheJourneyofSelfImprovementI.PhasesofthejourneyofselfimprovementA.Thefirstphase:relyingon【T1】______,speakers
TheJourneyofSelfImprovementI.PhasesofthejourneyofselfimprovementA.Thefirstphase:relyingon【T1】______,speakers
JourneyinCatastrophes:ThreeFormsofViolentStormsI.WindsandstormsA.Winds’movinginviolentstorms—bringingabout
JourneyinCatastrophes:ThreeFormsofViolentStormsI.WindsandstormsA.Winds’movinginviolentstorms—bringingabout
Intheolddays,historians—atleastsomeofthem—werepatrioticandmoralistic.Nolonger.WeliveinwhatAndrewFerguson,in
Intheolddays,historians—atleastsomeofthem—werepatrioticandmoralistic.Nolonger.WeliveinwhatAndrewFerguson,in
IhavebeenteachingforlongerthanIcaretosay,andalwaysofferacourseforenteringfreshmen.AndI’vediscoveredsomet
随机试题
教育的相对独立性主要表现在()。
理想气体状态方程适用于高压低温下气体的计算。()
糖尿病治疗错误的是
A.同步直流电除颤B.非同步直流电除颤C.静脉注射阿托品、肾上腺素D.静脉注射异丙肾上腺素E.高压氧对于心搏停顿,为迅速恢复有效心律,应用
牙龈切除术的适应证不包括
A、(4.09~5.74)×1012/LB、(4.0~4.5)×1012/LC、(3.68~5.74)×1012/LD、(6.0~7.0)×1012/LE、(5.0~6.0)×1012/L新生儿红细胞计数的参考值为(
某住宅楼工程,该工程招标文件中有关评标定标的内容如下:(1)开标时间按本招标文件中的《建设工程施工招投标工作日程安排》进行。开标会议由公证机构组织并主持,在投标单位法人代表或授权代理人在场的情况下举行开标会议,并由招标管理机构进行监督。开标程序及
对同一投资项目而言,下列关于投资决策方法的说法中,错误的有()。
教学过程是一种特定的()。
在体育心理学中,把推动学生参与运动学习与身体锻炼的内部心理动因称为()
最新回复
(
0
)