2018-2020学年名校高二下期末汇编——阅读C篇.docxVIP

PAGE 1 PAGE 1 2018-2020学年名校二下期末汇编——阅读C篇 【2020七宝中学高二下期末】 ( C ) There are few spectacles more unpleasant than a television presenter trying to hang on to a job. When one of the presenters of the BBC program Crimewatch resigned recently, rather than suffer the inevitable indignity of being unfinished and replaced by a younger version, he made the usual hurt noises about his masters’ overemphasis on youth. People in the media listened sympathetically before he slid from view to join the ranks of television’s has- beens. The presenter’s argument, that the viewers don’t care how old you are so long as you can do the job,” unfortunately is not backed up by the evidence. When you’re on TV, viewers are always thinking about whether you’re losing your hair or your figure and, lately, whether you’ve had cosmetic work done. This is what they’re actually doing when you think they’re listening to the wise things you say. Viewers actually don’t understand much of what the job involves, they just see you sitting there look the part. Like the ability to pat one’s head while rubbing one’s stomach, TV presenting is just one of those skills. Some of those who possess this skill can hit the big time. Inevitably as they become more attached to the lifestyle this brings, however, the more likely they are to overstate the skill. In reality, if somebody is paying you a lot of money to do a job, it’s often on the tacit 心照不宣的understanding that you may be fired suddenly it’s part of the deal. Unlike football managers, TV presenters pretend not to understand this. If they’ve had many years being paid silly sums to read a script form an auto-cue自动题词机,it’s difficult for them to accept that they have been the beneficiary of good fortune rather than anything else; even harder to face the fact that an editor could all too easily send them to the shopping channels. Something similar eventually awaits all the people who are currently making fortunes that would have been unimaginable t