Directions: Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A-F for each paragraph.
There is one extra heading which you do not need.
A. Manufacturing industry in information economy.
B. News in the age of information.
C. Argument about individual accounts and their reliability.
D. Be your own investigative journalist.
E. Don't believe everything you read in the newspapers.
F. Information is presented in an entertaining way.
1. ______
With the arrival of the age of "information economy", intellectual work is becoming a more important
source of wealth than manufacturing. Organizations in all walks of life are doing more to spread their
information. So people of the Public Relations are hired to speak for them. A lot of our news is actually
collected from press releases and reports of events intentionally staged for journalists. In the information
age, journalists spend their time, not investigating, but passing on the words of a spokesperson.
2. ______
There is a joke in the novel Scoop about the newspaper's owner, Lord Copper. The editors can never
disagree with him. When he's right about something they answer "definitely", and when he's wrong they
say "to some extent, Lord Copper." It seems reasonable to suppose that, in the real world, the opinions of
such powerful people still influence the journalists and editors who work for them.
3. ______
In countries where the news is not officially controlled, it may be provided by commercial organizations
who depend on advertising. The news has to attract viewers and maintain its audience ratings. I suspect that
some stories get air-time just because there happen to be exciting pictures to show. In Britain, we have the
tabloid newspapers which millions of people read simply for entertainment. There is progressively less room
for historical background, or statistics, which are harder to present as a sensational story.
4. ______
There is an argument that with spreading access to the internet and cheap technology for recording sound
and images we will all be able to find exactly the information we want. People around the world will be able to
publish their own eye-witness accounts and compete with the widely-accepted news-gatherers on equal terms.
But what it will mean also is that we'll be subjected to a still greater amount of nonsense and lies. Any web log
may contain the latest information of the year, or equally, a made-up story that you will never be able to check.
5. ______
Maybe the time has come to do something about it, and I don't just mean changing your choice of TV
channel or newspaper. In a world where everyone wants you to listen to their version, you only have two
choices: switch off altogether or start looking for sources you can trust. The investigative journalist of the
future is everyone who wants to know the truth.
1-5: BEFCD
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要做好这类阅读，平时就要注意了解国内外发生的政治经济大事，掌握一定背景知识，对这类文章的叙述特点及内容安排有一定了解，还要扩展这方面的词汇。阅读这类文章，要抓住文章的核心，即文章整体和各段主要在说什么，也要注意段落之间的逻辑关系。
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