五月练习宫(宫东风每日词汇测试).docVIP

上期答案来啦~ (1) “I believe too many of us editors and reporters are out of touch with our readers,” Rupert Murdoch, the boss of News Corporation, one of the world’s largest media companies, told the American Society of Newspaper Editorn last week. No wonder that people, and in particular the young, are ditching their newspapers. Today抯 teens, twenty- and thirty-somethings 揹on抰 want to rely on a god-like figure from above to tell them what抯 important,?Mr Murdoch said, 揳nd they certainly don抰 want news presented as gospel2.?And yet, he went on, 揳s an industry, many of us have been remarkably, unaccountably, complacent.? （1）上周，世界最大传媒公司之一的“新闻集团”的老板鲁伯特?默多克对美国报纸编辑协会说:“我认为我们许多编辑和记者都脱离了读者。”难怪大家都丢弃报纸不愿看了，尤其是年轻人。默多克先生说，现在的十多岁、二十多岁和三十多岁的青年人“不想依靠一个上帝似的人物居高临下地告诉他们什么是重要的，他们当然不希望新闻报道读起来像耶稣的训诫似的。”他接着说，然而“作为一个产业，我们中的许多人却无缘由地特别沾沽自喜。” (2) The speech—astonishing not so much for what it said as for who said it梞ay go down in history as the day that the stodgy newspaper business officially woke up to the new realities of the Internet age. Talking at times more like a pony-tailed, new-age technophile than a septuagenarian old-media god-like figure, Mr Murdoch said that news 損roviders?such as his own organisation had better get web-savvy, stop lecturing their audiences, 揵ecome places for conversation?and 揹estinations?where 揵loggers?and 損odcasters?congregate to 揺ngage our reporters and editors in more extended discussions.” He also criticised editors and reporters who often “think their readers are stupid”. （2）这番话让人惊讶。其所以如此，不是因为讲话的内容，而是因为讲话的人。到了墨守成规的报业界真正醒悟过来、面对互联网时代这一新现实时，这番话也许将载人史册。耿多克先生有时说起话来不像一个七十多岁的旧媒体时代的权威人物，而是像扎着马尾辫的新时代的技术爱好者。他说像他自己公司一样的新闻“提供者”最好通晓网络，停止向他们的受众说教，使新闻公司“成为对话的地方”，成为“博客”和“播客”会集一堂、“与我们的记者和编辑进行更加广泛讨论的目的地。”他还批评了那些经常“认为读者愚蠢的”编辑和记者。 (3) Mr Murdoch’s argument begins with the fact that newspapers worldwide have been-and seem destined to keep on-losing readers, and with them advertising revenue. In 1995-2003, says the World Association of Vewspapers, circul