2007年12月英語(yǔ)六級(jí)短文改錯(cuò)(十八)

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真題演練
    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 (審查) 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.
    參考答案及解析:
    1. It -> They
    此處的代詞指代的是前面一句提到的papers,故應(yīng)當(dāng)用代詞的第三人稱復(fù)數(shù)。
    2. percents -> percent
    在表達(dá)“百分之幾”時(shí),只需用基數(shù)詞加上單數(shù)percent即可。
    3. maintain -> maintaining
    Hire與maintain為并列成分,作介詞for的賓語(yǔ),都應(yīng)當(dāng)用-ing形式。
    4. subjective -> objective
    本題考查對(duì)文章邏輯的把握。句子主干為:根本原因在于 + (賓語(yǔ)從句)。從句以for引導(dǎo)的目的狀語(yǔ)開頭,“為了然信息公正、恰當(dāng)、主觀(subjective)”,顯然subjective這詞與文意相背,應(yīng)當(dāng)使用“客觀(objective)”。
    5. value -> evaluate
    動(dòng)詞value有兩個(gè)含義: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。不論哪個(gè)含義,用于此都不適合。從文中可以推測(cè)這些人碰頭人是為了judge how good, useful, or successful the paper is,因此要用evaluate。
    6. an -> /
    In addition“另外”表遞進(jìn),這是固定搭配。
    7. woman -> women
    不定冠詞a(n)或定冠詞the加上單數(shù)個(gè)體名詞可以指一類事物,若不用冠詞,則名詞須為復(fù)數(shù)。此處woman與people并列作為of 的賓語(yǔ),由于people是集體名詞,單數(shù)形式表復(fù)數(shù)意義,從平衡角度出發(fā),應(yīng)該將woman改為women。
    8. from -> in
    result in“導(dǎo)致”,result from“源于”。句中主語(yǔ)“審查”是因,“進(jìn)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….,從上下文邏輯看,通過改進(jìn),應(yīng)該是關(guān)于minority的報(bào)道增加了。
    10. with -> as