真题演练
The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm
that has recognized the need for change and done something
about it. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the
diversity of the communities to which they provide information.
It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or risk ____1____
losing their readers’ interest and their advertisers’ support
Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial ___2____
minorities, the paper has put into place policies and
procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. The ___3___
underlying reason for the change is that for information to be
fair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by the ___4___
same kind of population that reads it.
A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, and
photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times’ ___5___
content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff about
diversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a content ____6___
audit (审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner of
representation of woman and people of color in photographs. ___7___
Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far too
infrequently and were pictured with a disproportionate
number of negative articles. The audit results from ___8___
improvement in the frequency of majority representation and ___9___
their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with a ___10___
result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.
The diversity training and content audits helped the
Seattle Times Company to win the Personal Journal
Optimas Award for excellence in managing change.
参考答案及解析：
1. It -> They
此处的代词指代的是前面一句提到的papers，故应当用代词的第三人称复数。
2. percents -> percent
在表达“百分之几”时，只需用基数词加上单数percent即可。
3. maintain -> maintaining
Hire与maintain为并列成分，作介词for的宾语，都应当用-ing形式。
4. subjective -> objective
本题考查对文章逻辑的把握。句子主干为：根本原因在于 + （宾语从句）。从句以for引导的目的状语开头，“为了然信息公正、恰当、主观（subjective）”，显然subjective这词与文意相背，应当使用“客观（objective）”。
5. value -> evaluate
动词value有两个含义：第一，to think that someone or something is important，比如I value our friendship。第二，to decide how much money something is worth，比如we decide to get this house valued。不论哪个含义，用于此都不适合。从文中可以推测这些人碰头人是为了judge how good, useful, or successful the paper is，因此要用evaluate。
6. an -> /
In addition“另外”表递进，这是固定搭配。
7. woman -> women
不定冠词a(n)或定冠词the加上单数个体名词可以指一类事物，若不用冠词，则名词须为复数。此处woman与people并列作为of 的宾语，由于people是集体名词，单数形式表复数意义，从平衡角度出发，应该将woman改为women。
8. from -> in
result in“导致”，result from“源于”。句中主语“审查”是因，“进步”是果，所以要用result in。
9. majority -> minority
前文提到Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far too infrequently….，从上下文逻辑看，通过改进，应该是关于minority的报道增加了。
10. with -> as
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