Part Ⅴ Error Correction (15 minutes) 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 62. ______。 news coverage or risk losing their readers' interest and their advertisers' support. Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial 63. ______。 minorities, the paper has put into place policies and procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. The underlying reason for the change is 64. ______。 that for information to be fair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be 65. ______。 reported by the same kind of population that reads it。 A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, and photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times' content and to 66. ______。 educate the rest of the newsroom staff about diversity issues. In an 67. ______。 addition, the paper instituted a content audit (审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner of representation of woman and people of color in 68. ______。 photographs. Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far too infrequently and were pictured with a disproportionate number of negative articles. The audit has resulted from improvement in the frequency of 69. ______。 majority representation and their portrayal in neutral or positive 70. ______。
situations. And, with a result, the Seattle Times has improved as a 71. ______。 newspaper. The diversity training and content audits helped the Seattle Times Company to win the Personnel Journal Optimas Award for excellence in managing change。
Part Ⅴ Error Correction 62.通过上下文可以明白，在报业内，报纸在新闻报道面上应该反映社会的多样性。此处不是仅指一家报纸，而是泛指多家报纸，因此此处“it”其实应为上文中的“papers”，所以应为复数“They”。 63.此处为常规语法的考查。percent在与具体数字的百分比连接时，不必更改为复数，而是单数形式。 64.此处考查前后文的一致性。在前文的介词“for”之后，hiring为分词形式，因此对称位置的动词maintain也应该为分词形式。 65.此处考查对上下文的理解。根据上下文，本句的句意为“此变化的潜在的原因是若要信息能够公正、妥当并客观地被报道，那新闻就应该由与读者群相同的种族新闻人来报道”，而subjective表示“主观性的”，不符合上下文语境，应改为其反义词 objective，意为“客观的”。 66.此处考查词性的使用。根据上下文语意，该句含义为“由记者，编辑和摄影师组成的多元化委员会定期举行会议来评估西雅图时报的内容”，value作为动词时，其含义为“估价，计算……的价格”，而只有evaluate才能表达“评估”的含义。 67.此题考查常规用法。in addition表示“此外，另外”，使用时中间无需加an。 68.此处与后文的people of color(有色人种)一样，都是以复数形式来泛指这一类群的人，因此woman应改为复数形式women。 69.此处考查词组的使用。result from表示“因……而引起”，而result in表示“导致，造成”。本句的上下文语意为“早期的审查表明少数人群的报道频率过低而且被描述成负面文章，且这些文章的数量极其失衡。审查使得少数人群提高了报道频率并改善了他们在中性和正面报道情况下的形象”。因此，result from不符合句意。 70.本题考查对上下文一致性的理解。前后文甚至是通篇短文都在关注的是报业对少数人群的报道，所以此处根据对上下文的领会，也应保持统一。 71.固定用法，词组as a result，表示“结果”。
