Which of the following best completes the passage below? the most serious flaw in television’s coverage of election campaigns is its tendency to focus on the horse-race side of politics—that is, to concentrate on the question “Who’s winning?” at the expense of substantive coverage of the issues and the candidates’ positions on them. The endless interviews with campaign managers, discussions of campaign strategies, and, especially, the obsession with opinion polls have surrounded elections with the atmosphere of a football game or a prizefight. To reform this situation, a first step might well be______ (A) a shortening of the length of election campaigns to a period of six weeks (B) a stringent limit on campaign spending (C) a reduction in the television coverage of opinion polls during election campaigns (D) the publication and distribution of voter-education literature to inform the public about each candidate’s position on the major issues (E) a limit on the length and number of political advertisements broadcast on television
正确答案是c,我做错了。我想请大家确认下我的思路是否正确了:passage里面说因为电视广告都强调了竞选的竞争性,而竞争性并不是真正应该被强调和关注的,所以要改变这种局面,就要从改变对竞争性的强调入手。我当时选的是e,但E的措施并不能有针对性地削弱电视对竞选竞争性的强调,这一措施有一点“一竿子全部打死”的意味,从某种程度上来说也是扩大了需要解决的问题的范围。而opinion polls作为强调竞争性的最常用手段之一(从espeicially这个词可以看出),减少了了opinion polls,就可以更有针对性地削弱电视对竞选的竞争性的过于强调。不知道我的理解对不对。谢谢! |