2007年12月英語六級考試短文改錯沖刺訓練(18)

　　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，故應當用代詞的第三人稱復數。

　　2. percents -> percent
　　在表達“百分之幾”時，只需用基數詞加上單數percent即可。

　　3. maintain -> maintaining
　　Hire與maintain為并列成分，作介詞for的賓語，都應當用-ing形式。

　　4. subjective -> objective
　　本題考查對文章邏輯的把握。句子主干為：根本原因在于 + (賓語從句)。從句以for引導的目的狀語開頭，“為了然信息公正、恰當、主觀(subjective)”，顯然subjective這詞與文意相背，應當使用“客觀(objective)”。

　　5. value -> evaluate
　　動詞value有兩個含義：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。不論哪個含義，用于此都不適合。從文中可以推測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，這是固定搭配。

　　7. woman -> women
　　不定冠詞a(n)或定冠詞the加上單數個體名詞可以指一類事物，若不用冠詞，則名詞須為復數。此處woman與people并列作為of 的賓語，由于people是集體名詞，單數形式表復數意義，從平衡角度出發(fā)，應該將woman改為women。

　　8. from -> in
　　result in“導致”，result from“源于”。句中主語“審查”是因，“進步”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，應該是關于minority的報道增加了。

　　10. with -> as