考研英语阅读,20 Distrust of new media

考研英语阅读，这样做才有效20 Distrust of newspapers
1)Why so many Americans distrust what they read in their newspapers? The American Society of Newspaper Editors is trying to answer this painful question. The organization is deep into a long self-analysis known as the journalism credibility project.
2)Sad to say, this project has turned out to be mostly low-level findings about factual errors and spelling and grammar mistakes, combined with lots of head-scratching puzzlement about what in the world those readers really want.
3)But the sources of distrust go way deeper. Most journalists learn to see the world through a set of standard templates (patterns) into which they plug each day’s events. In other words, there is a conversational story line in the newsroom culture that provides a backbone and a ready-made narrative structure for otherwise confusing news.
4)There exists a social and cultural disconnect between journalists and their readers, which helps explain why the “standard templates” of the newsroom seem alien to many readers. In a recent survey, questionnaires were sent to reporters in five middle-size cities around the country, plus one large metropolitan area. Then residents in these communities
were phoned at random and asked the same questions.
5)Replies show that compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, had maids, own Mercedeses, and trade stocks, and they are less likely to go to church, do volunteer work, or put down roots in a community.
6)Reporters tend to be part of a broadly defined social and cultural elite, so their work tends to reflect the conventional values of this elite. The astonishing distrust of the news media isn’t rooted in inaccuracy or poor reportorial skills but in the daily clash of world views between reporters and their readers. This is an explosive situation for and industry, particularly a declined one. Here is a troubled business that keeps hiring employees whose attitudes vastly annoy the customers. Then it sponsors lots of symposiums and a credibility project dedicated to wondering why customers are annoyed and fleeing in large number. But it never seems to get around to noticing the cultural and class biases that so many former buyers are complaining about. If it did, it would open up its diversity program, now focused narrowly on race and gender, and look for reporters who differ broadly by outlook, values, education, and class.
Questions:
1 What is the passage mainly about?
2 What does the author intend conveying by “...this project has turned out to be mostly low-level findings ...”?
3 What helps explain why the “standard templates” of the newsroom seem alien to many reader?
4 According to the author, what seems to be the real cause of the public distrust of news media?
5 According to paragraph 6, what is the author’s advice on the solution to the problem?
For your references:
1 The passage mainly discusses the reasons for the public distrust of newspapers.
本题答案可以从开篇句找到相关信息。

Why so many Americans distrust what they read in their newspapers?
2 The author intend to mean the results of the journalism credibility project (a long self-analysis) turned out to be
superficial.
本题可以结合文章第一段的结尾部分和第二段的相关信息回答。

The organization is deep into a long self-analysis known as the journalism credibility project.（该组织正深入进行一次长期的自我分析，名为新闻报道可信度调查。

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...this project has turned out to be mostly low-level findings about factual errors and spelling and grammar mistakes...(结果表明，该项目调查的不够深入，只发现一些事实误差、拼写及语法错误)
3 The existence of social and cultural disconnect between journalists and their readers helps explain it.
文章第四段指出新闻记者与读者之间存在着的“社会和文化的断层”有助于解释为什么新闻编辑室的“standard templates(标准模板)”让读者看起来很alien（异己的，不相容的）。

4 According to paragraph 6, the real cause of the public distrust of news media lies in different world views between reporters and there reader.
文章第六段讨论的公众对新闻媒体的不信任来自于新闻记者和读者在社会地位和文化上的不同。

The astonishing distrust of the news media isn’t rooted in inaccuracy or poor reportorial skills but in the daily clash of world views between
reporters and their readers. （公众对新闻媒体的极度的不信任不是由于报道不准确或蹩脚的报导技能，而是新闻记者和读者之间存在着的世界观的日常冲突。

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5 The author’s advice is: to open up its diversity program and hire reporters who differ broadly by outlook, values, education and class.
文章第六段末尾提到：If it did, it would open up its diversity program, now focused narrowly on race and gender, and look for reporters who differ broadly by outlook, values, education, and class.（如果它意识到了这点，它就会开设多样化栏目，而不会把焦点只放在种族和性别上，就会去雇佣那些世界观、价值观、教育背景和阶层背景不同的记者。

）。