下面有3篇短文,每篇短文后有5道题。请根据短文内容,为每题定1个最佳选项。第一篇The News Industry in US Why do so many Americans distrust what they read in their newspapers The American Society of Newspaper Editors is trying to answer this painful question. The organization is deep into a long serf-analysis known as the journalism credibility project. Sad to say, this project has turned out to be mostly low-level findings about factual errors and spelling and grammar mistakes, combined with lots of head-scratching puzzlement about what in the world those readers really want. But the sources of distrust go way deeper. Most journalists learn to see the world through a set of standard templates (patterns) into which they plug each day’s events. In other words, there is a conventional story line in the newsroom culture that provides a backbone and a ready-made narrative structure for otherwise confusing news. There exists a social and cultural disconnect between journalists and their readers, which helps explain why the "standard templates" of the newsroom seem alien to many readers. In a recent survey, questionnaires were sent to reporters in five middle-size cities around the country, plus one large metropolitan area. Then residents in these communities were phoned at random and asked the same questions. Replies show that compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedeses, and trade stocks, and they’re less likely to go to church, do volunteer work, or put down roots in a community. Reporters tend to be part of a broadly defined social and cultural elite, so their work tends to reflect the conventional values of this elite. The astonishing distrust of the news media isn’t rooted in inaccuracy or poor reportorial skills but in the daily clash of world views between reporters and their readers. This is an explosive situation for any industry, particularly a declining one. Here is a troubled business that keeps hiring employees whose attitudes vastly annoy the customers. Then it sponsors lots of symposiums and a credibility project dedicated to wondering why customers are annoyed and fleeing in large numbers. But it never seems to get around to noticing the cultural and class biases that so many former buyers are complaining about. If it did, it would open up its diversity program, now focused narrowly on race and gender, and look for reporters who differ broadly by outlook, values, education, and class. The basic problem of journalists as pointed out by the writer lies in their ______.
A. working attitude
B. conventional lifestyle
C. world outlook
D. educational background
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下面的短文有15处空白,请根据短文内容为每处空白确定1个最佳选项。Computer and School Education There was a time when parents who wanted an educational present for their children would buy a typewriter, a globe or an encyclopedia set. Now those (51) seem hopelessly old-fashioned; this Christmas, there were a lot of personal computers under the tree. (52) that computers are the key to success, parents are also financially insisting that children (53) taught to use them in school—as early as possible. The problem for schools is that when it (54) computers, parents don’t always know best. Many schools are (55) parental impatience and are purchasing hardware without sound educational planning so they can say, "OK, we’ve moved into the computer age. " Teachers found themselves caught in the middle of the problem—between parent pressure and (56) educational decisions. Educators do not even agree (57) how computers should be used. (58) money is going for computerized educational materials (59) research has shown can be taught just as well with pencil and paper. (60) those who believe that all children should have access to computers, warn of potential dangers to the very young. The temptation remains strong largely because young children (61) so well to computers. First graders have been seen willing to work for two hours on math skills. Some have an attention span of 20 minutes. (62) school can afford to go into computing, and creates yet another problem: a division between the haves and have-nots. Very (63) parents are agitating (64) computer instruction in poor school districts, (65) there may be barely enough money to pay the reading teacher.
A. for
B. against
C. to buy
D. use
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下面的短文有15处空白,请根据短文内容为每处空白确定1个最佳选项。Computer and School Education There was a time when parents who wanted an educational present for their children would buy a typewriter, a globe or an encyclopedia set. Now those (51) seem hopelessly old-fashioned; this Christmas, there were a lot of personal computers under the tree. (52) that computers are the key to success, parents are also financially insisting that children (53) taught to use them in school—as early as possible. The problem for schools is that when it (54) computers, parents don’t always know best. Many schools are (55) parental impatience and are purchasing hardware without sound educational planning so they can say, "OK, we’ve moved into the computer age. " Teachers found themselves caught in the middle of the problem—between parent pressure and (56) educational decisions. Educators do not even agree (57) how computers should be used. (58) money is going for computerized educational materials (59) research has shown can be taught just as well with pencil and paper. (60) those who believe that all children should have access to computers, warn of potential dangers to the very young. The temptation remains strong largely because young children (61) so well to computers. First graders have been seen willing to work for two hours on math skills. Some have an attention span of 20 minutes. (62) school can afford to go into computing, and creates yet another problem: a division between the haves and have-nots. Very (63) parents are agitating (64) computer instruction in poor school districts, (65) there may be barely enough money to pay the reading teacher.
A. adopt
B. keep
C. adapt
D. devote