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高考英语阅读系列（8） A Geraldo Rivera is well known for his compassionate investigative reports on WABC-TV Eyewitness News. He has done exposes of New York Citys welfare hotels, the over-pricing of prescription drugs, and drug abuse. In 1971, he received the Associated Press Broadcaster of the Year award for the program Drug Crisis in East Harlem. He received the award again in 1972 for the program Migrants, Dirt Cheap. His most famous expose however was done on the horrible conditions at Staten Islands Wil-lowbrook State School. It is the worlds largest institution for the mentally disabled. His investigation began when he and his camera crew gained access to one of the buildings. Geraldos emotionally charged reports exposed the unsanitary conditions and neglectful, of ten abusive, treatment of the patients. He cried over what he discovered, and he made his viewers cry, too. The programs created a public plea for reform, and changes were made. Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York restored $ 20 million to the schools slashed budget. The programs_ Willow brook earned him the Scripps-Howard Award, an Emmy,and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. Geraldo Rivera has continued working for the mentally disabled. He founded One-to-0ne,a charity that provides small group homes for the care of the mentally disabled in the community. He hosts huge outdoor festivals for the mentally disabled in New York Citys Central Park. He also wrote a book about some of the courageous people he has met as an investigative journalist. It is called A Special Kind of Courage. As he himself says,! make no pretense of objectivity. But Im not just in the business of making people cry. Im in the business of change. 1. Geraldo Rivera is working as a(n) _____. A) news reporter for a newspaper in New York B) investigative reporter for a special TV program C) investigative officer of the New York government D) philanthropist for the welfare of the mentally disabled Key：B。从文章第一句“… well known fo