2015年考研英语一:阅读真题TEXT 4（附答案）

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　　1) Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter ,Elisabeth ,spoke of the “unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions” Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism ”in society should be profit and the market .But “it’s us ,human beings ,we the people who create the society we want ,not profit ”.

　　2) Driving her point home, she continued: “It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose, of a moral language within government, media or business could become one of the most dangerous foals for capitalism and freedom.” This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International ,shield thought ,making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking .

　　3) As the hacking trial concludes – finding guilty ones-editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones ,and finding his predecessor, Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same charge –the winder issue of dearth of integrity still standstill, Journalists are known to have hacked the phones of up to 5,500 people .This is hacking on an industrial scale ,as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking. Others await trial. This long story still unfolds.

　　4) In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place .One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, wow little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired wow the stories arrived. The core of her successful defence was that she knew nothing.

　　5) In today’s world, title has become normal that well—paid executives should not be accountable for what happens in the organizations that they run perhaps we should not be so surprised. For a generation, the collective doctrine has been that the sorting mechanism of society should be profit. The words that have mattered are efficiency, flexibility, shareholder value, business–friendly, wealth generation, sales, impact and, in newspapers, circulation. Words degraded to the margin have been justice fairness, tolerance, proportionality and accountability.

　　6) The purpose of editing the News of the World was not to promote reader understanding to be fair in what was written or to betray any common humanity. It was to ruin lives in the quest for circulation and impact. Ms Brooks may or may not have had suspicions about how her journalists got their stories, but she asked no questions, gave no instructions—nor received traceable, recorded answers.

　　36. According to the first two paragraphs, Elisabeth was upset by _____.

　　[A] the consequences of the current sorting mechanism

　　[B] companies’ financial loss due to immoral practices.

　　[C] governmental ineffectiveness on moral issues.

　　[D]the wide misuse of integrity among institutions.

　　37. It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that _____.

　　[A] Glem Mulcaire may deny phone hacking as a crime

　　[B] more journalists may be found guilty of phone hacking.

　　[C] Andy Coulson should be held innocent of the charge.

　　[D] phone hacking will be accepted on certain occasions.

　　38. The author believes the Rebekah Brooks’s deference _____.

　　[A] revealed a cunning personality

　　[B] centered on trivial issues

　　[C] was hardly convincing

　　[D] was part of a conspiracy

　　39. The author holds that the current collective doctrine shows _____.

　　[A] generally distorted values

　　[B] unfair wealth distribution

　　[C] a marginalized lifestyle

　　[D] a rigid moral code

　　40. Which of the following is suggested in the last paragraph?

　　[A] The quality of writing is of primary importance.

　　[B] Common humanity is central news reporting.

　　[C] Moral awareness matters in exciting a newspaper.

　　[D] Journalists need stricter industrial regulations.

       参考答案：

　　36.选项[A]正确。

　　由题干中的the first two paragraphs定位到、二段。 这两段介绍了伊丽莎白提出的当前社会出现的诚信缺失现象。段句指出,伊丽莎白认为我们的诸多机构中都存在让人不安的(unsettling)诚信缺失。题干中的upset意为"心烦意乱的"，与unsettling 相对应。第二句进一步解释这种让人不安的诚信缺失是当前社会"分选机制”带来的后果。第二段详细解释这一观点。由此可确定答案为[A]。

　　37.选项[B]正确。

　　由题干中的Paragraph3定位到第三段。第三段第四、五句表明，窃听案仍未完结,还有人在等待审判。也就是说,会有更多记者可能因电话窃听被判有罪。由此可以确定本题答案为[B]。

　　38.选项[C]正确。

　　由题干中的Rebekah Brooks's defence定位到第四段第二、三句。第三句指出，丽贝卡·布鲁克斯成功为自己辩护的核心是她什么都不知道。第二句指出，丽贝卡·布鲁克斯对新闻编辑室内发生的事知之甚少，也没有什么想问的问题，并且从不询问故事是怎么来的，这个事实让人震惊。言外之意，丽贝卡.布鲁克斯的辩护没有说服力，由此可以确定本题答案为[C]。

　　39.选项[A]正确。

　　由题干中的the current collective doctrine定位到第五段。本段第四、五句列举了在目前的集体信条下重要的和已经被边缘化的词语。重要的词语有效率，灵活性、股东价值、亲商、财富创造、销售、影响和发行量等。正义、公平、宽容、均衡和责任等词语却被边缘化。由此可见，社会价值观已被扭曲,因此本题答案为[A]。

　　40.选项[C]正确。

　　由题干中的the last paragraph定位到最后一段。本段、二句论述了编辑《世界新闻报》的目的:不再是为了增进读者的理解,不再是确保所写内容的公平或是流露任何共同的人性，而是不惜糟蹋生命以追求销量和影响。由此可见,道德意识对报纸编辑是非常重要的，由此可以确定本题答案为[C]。

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