考研英语（阅读）模拟试卷217 (题后含答案及解析)
全部题型 2. Reading Comprehension 嫁不出去
Section II Reading Comprehension
七步诗拼音版Part ADirections: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)
How stupid does one need to be to get a job reading the television news? Is it actually beneficial for TV newsreaders to have, instead of a brain, a plate of lemon jelly? Last week the debate was raging once again about the controversial and important point as to whether the newsreaders write their own copy, read someone el’s or simply make it up as they go along. Angela Rippon reckonedthat she had never heard of a newsreader writing stuff, but her modern counterpart, the beautiful Sophie Raworth, claims that they do the writing and adds that she has a postgraduate degree in journalism. This is the core of the issue: what on earth is there to learn about journalism at postgraduate level? The point and purpo of
our lowly, occasionally uful, trade could be scribbled on the back of a postage stamp and would easily be comprehended by a 14-year-old boy with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). Who has decided that it must be dignified with a doctoral thesis? Nor is reading the news even what one might call “journalism”. It is an even simpler business called “硬币歌词reading”. All that the BBC demands of its female newsreaders is an ability to read in an impartial way words like “Israel has murdered more Lebane children again today工程测量培训” from the teleprompter without belching or lisping. It helps if they have the eminently prentable manner of a girl guide leader from Esher. They are forbidden to express an opinion. They are not required to go undercover, analyze the news or add witty asides. They are required to be that which they are known as in the trade—”a gob on a stick父亲的节日”.A penetrating intelligence is not merely unnecessary, it is counterproductive. Newsreaders who are too intelligent soon stop being newsreaders, much as John Humphrys did, stifled by the commonplace of their duties. Or they give the game away by doing what that German newsreader did and end the programme, shaking their heads sadly, muttering, “it韩国壁纸’乌鸦与狐狸s all lies, all lies”. Which is not to say BBC newsreaders
are bad at their jobs: quite the rever. But we should not confu competence with intelligence. Newsreaders believe that becau they are reading out rious stuff and everybody is listening to them, they must therefore be creatures possd of a high IQ. They are confusing the message with the medium.
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