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　　Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter ,Elisabeth ,spoke of the “unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions” Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism ”in society should be profit and the market .But “it’s us ,human beings ,we the people who create the society we want ,not profit ”.

　　Driving her point home, she continued: “It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose, of a moral language within government, media or business could become one of the most dangerous foals for capitalism and freedom.” This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International ,shield thought ,making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking .

　　As the hacking trial concludes – finding guilty ones-editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones ,and finding his predecessor, Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same charge –the winder issue of dearth of integrity still standstill, Journalists are known to have hacked the phones of up to 5,500 people .This is hacking on an industrial scale ,as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking. Others await trial. This long story still unfolds.

　　In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place .One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, wow little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired wow the stories arrived. The core of her successful defence was that she knew nothing.

　　In today’s world, title has become normal that well—paid executives should not be accountable for what happens in the organizations that they run perhaps we should not be so surprised. For a generation, the collective doctrine has been that the sorting mechanism of society should be profit. The words that have mattered are efficiency, flexibility, shareholder value, business–friendly, wealth generation, sales, impact and, in newspapers, circulation. Words degraded to the margin have been justice fairness, tolerance, proportionality and accountability.

　　The purpose of editing the News of the World was not to promote reader understanding to be fair in what was written or to betray any common humanity. It was to ruin lives in the quest for circulation and impact. Ms Brooks may or may not have had suspicions about how her journalists got their stories, but she asked no questions, gave no instructions—nor received traceable, recorded answers.

　　36. According to the first two paragraphs, Elisabeth was upset by

　　[A] the consequences of the current sorting mechanism

　　[B] companies’ financial loss due to immoral practices.

　　[C] governmental ineffectiveness on moral issues.

　　[D]the wide misuse of integrity among institutions.

　　【答案】[A] the consequences of the current sorting mechanism

　　【解析】通過題干可以將此題鎖定在前兩段。第一段指出Elisabeth談到了“我們很多機構(gòu)都面臨著令人沮喪的正直感的喪失”。接下來第二句指出這種正直感的喪失是因為大家普遍認為社會中唯一的分類機制(sorting mechanism)應該是利益和市場。而從第一段最后一句我們看出，她認為“應該是我們?nèi)祟愖约簞?chuàng)造我們想要的社會，而不應該是利益”�？梢�，Elisabeth很不認可目前的這種分類機制(sorting mechanism)以及所造成的不良后果，這也正是她感到沮喪的原因。故A選項consequence of the current sorting mechanism(目前這種分類機制的后果)是真正讓她沮喪的原因。

　　37. It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that

　　[A] Glem Mulcaire may deny phone hacking as a crime

　　[B] more journalists may be found guilty of phone hacking.

　　[C] Andy Coulson should be held innocent of the charge.

　　[D] phone hacking will be accepted on certain occasions.

　　【答案】[B] more journalists may be found guilty of phone hacking

　　【解析】第三段第一句指出，Andy Coulson因為參與手機黑客案件被裁定有罪，然而他的前任卻被認定是無罪的。通過這一事件，作者得出由此造成的道德淪喪廣泛問題依然存在(the wider issue of dearth of integrity still stands)。即仍然存在一些人沒有被裁定有罪。接著文章指出了在新聞業(yè)中，已經(jīng)有記者被認定非法侵入用戶手機。而還有一些在等待審判(others await trial)，由此可以推出，將會有更多的記者因為涉及手機黑客案件而被裁定有罪。故正確答案為選項B。

　　38. The author believes the Rebekah Books’s deference

　　[A] revealed a cunning personality

　　[B] centered on trivial issues

　　[C] was hardly convincing

　　[D] was part of a conspiracy

　　【答案】[C] was hardly convincing

　　【解析】根據(jù)題干中的“defence”可以回文定位到文章第四段最后一句話。該句指出Ms. Brooks辯護成功的關(guān)鍵在于她對這個事件一無所知(she knew nothing)。而作者在該段第一句話中指出，道德喪失不僅體現(xiàn)在普遍存在的手機黑客這一事實上，更體現(xiàn)在一些審判案件所使用的條款上，其中最震驚的就是對Ms. Brooks的審判�？梢�，作者對該案的審判持否定態(tài)度。因此，認為她的辯護是不可信的。故正確答案為C。

　　39. The author holds that the current collective doctrine shows

　　[A] generally distorted values

　　[B] unfair wealth distribution

　　[C] a marginalized lifestyle

　　[D] a rigid moral cote

　　【答案】[A] (generally distorted values)

　　【解析】通過題干中的“collective doctrine”可以直接定位到文中第五段第三行。該句指出“collective doctrine”是社會的分類機制應該是利益。接下來可以看出，那些真正起作用的是那些表示利益的詞“efficiency，flexibility，shareholder value，business-friendly，wealth generation…”，而表示公平、正義的詞(Justice，fairness，tolerance…)則被置于邊緣�？梢�，這種教義(collective doctrine)只關(guān)注利益，而忽略了公平與正義，這顯然是一種扭曲的價值觀。故A選項正確。

　　40. Which of the following is suggested in the last paragraph?

　　[A] The quality of writing is of primary importance.

　　[B] Common humanity is central news reporting.

　　[C] Moral awareness matters in exciting a newspaper.

　　[D] Journalists need stricter industrial regulations.

　　【答案】[C] moral awareness matters in editing a newspaper

　　【解析】這是一道開放式推理題。作者在最后一段前兩句話指出，新聞報道的目的不是為了促進讀者的理解，也不是為了追求公平或者違背人類共有的人性，而是通過追求發(fā)行量的影響率來破壞人們的生活。即文章從一開始指出的一個問題，為了追求利益而造成了正值感的喪失。從“ruin”一詞可以看出，作者對新聞記者的這一行為持否定的態(tài)度。并且通過Ms. Brooks女士的行為加以佐證。作者通過正話反說的方式，突出新聞報道過程中正值感的重要性。故正確答案為C，moral awareness matters in editing a newspaper(在新聞報道中，道德意識很重要)，其中moral awareness和integrity是同義互換。

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