【題目】This year, Facebook, the social media website, announced that it would cooperate with several news organizations —including The New York Times, The Guardian, and the BBC —to place news stories directly into users’ personal Facebook webpage. Stories published using Facebook Instant will load more quickly and keep the style of the original publisher, who will keep all the advertising income the stories earn —at least for now. The deal shows how important social media has become to news organizations, and it is a clear sign of how the world of news is changing —and has been for a while.

Many thought of it as the death of the newspaper, when Google News began in 2002. It had no human editor. Instead, Google used, and still uses, a secret computer program that selects and displays news stories according to the reader’s personal interests. More recently, Associated Press and Yahoo have been punishing computer-written articles. Both use special software to automatically produce stories about company financial results and sports reports —areas where the quality of writing is felt to be of secondary importance to the accuracy of the data.

I think we should be concerned about such developments. One concern is that Facebook, Google and other social media websites see journalism as a sideline(副業(yè)), a way of putting people in front of advertisements. It isn’t their primary function —so if it stops making them lots of money, they're likely to stop doing it.

There’s another concern that computer-written articles are not actually journalism at all, because what a human news team produces is actually quite complex. A well-written news story puts information in context, offers a voice to each side of an argument and brings the public new knowledge.

Though economics and speed of delivery mean readers will probably choose a computer-written story over a carefully shaped article — at least for daily news —I don’t think the computers will be writing any in-depth articles for a while yet.

【1】What is the main purpose of the article?

A. To report on a new computer service offered by Facebook.

B. To advise readers against reading computer-written news.

C. To express concern about recent trends in online news.

D. To describe the process of online news reporting.

【2】Computer-written news reports have so far focused on sports and finance because ________.

A. these are the most popular topics for online readers

B. writing style is less important than accuracy in these areas

C. information on these topics is more easily available

D. there are fewer journalists specializing in these areas

【3】What does the underlined word “It” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A. Journalism.B. Advertising.C. Facebook.D. Business.

【4】In Paragraph 4, which of the following is mentioned as a characteristic of a well-written news article?

A. The information presented is up-to-date.

B. The author's opinion is clear

C. The language used is vivid.

D. Different views on the topic are presented.

【答案】

【1】C

【2】B

【3】A

【4】D

【解析】

試題分析: 本文介紹了在線新聞最新發(fā)展趨勢(shì)。

【1】C 推理判斷題。通讀全文可知，本文主要表達(dá)對(duì)在線新聞最新發(fā)展趨勢(shì)的關(guān)注。故C正確。

【2】B 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段內(nèi)容Both use special software to automatically produce stories about company financial results and sports reports —areas where the quality of writing is felt to be of secondary importance to the accuracy of the data可知，因?yàn)樵谶@些領(lǐng)域，寫作質(zhì)量沒(méi)有數(shù)據(jù)的準(zhǔn)確性重要，所以這兩個(gè)領(lǐng)域最容易使用電腦寫的文章。故選B。

【3】A 推理判斷題。根據(jù)上句句意One concern is that Facebook, Google and other social media websites see journalism as a sideline(副業(yè))（一個(gè)擔(dān)心是Facebook, Google和其他的社交媒體網(wǎng)站把新聞看作一個(gè)副業(yè)。）可知，這里的句子It isn’t their primary function（這并不是他們的主要功能），劃線單詞It指代journalism。故選A。

【4】D 推理判斷題。根據(jù)第四段中的句子A well-written news story puts information in context, offers a voice to each side of an argument and brings the public new knowledge可知，一篇寫得好的新聞故事把信息放在文章中，陳述爭(zhēng)論雙方不同的觀點(diǎn)以及給公眾帶來(lái)新的知識(shí)。故這里答案D正確。

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