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ypngzhang

3. Balance is particularly important when reporting the background of civil wars and conflicts. Facts must not be deliberately manipulated to show one party in a favorable light, and the views of each side should be fairly represented. This concept of balance, however, does not justify concealing or glossing over basic injustices in an effort to be even-handed. If all the media were to adopt such a perverse interpretation of balanced reporting, the public would be given a picture of a world where each party in every conflict had an equal measure of justice on its side, contrary to our experience of life and, indeed, our common sense.
Which one of the following best expresses the main point of the argument?
(A) Balanced reporting presents the public with a picture of the world in which all sides to a conflict have equal justification.
(B) Balanced reporting requires impartially revealing injustices where they occur no less than fairly presenting the views of each party in a conflict.
(C) Our experience of life shows that there are indeed cases in which conflicts arise because of an injustice, with one party clearly in the wrong.
(D) Common sense tells us that balance is especially needed when reporting the background of civil wars and conflicts.
(E) Balanced reporting is an ideal that cannot be realized, because judgments of balance are necessarily subjective.
答案B

麻烦解释一下原文，不懂是什么意思。多谢NN们。

dphxmg

In the stem, the author tries to explain the abstract conception - 'balance'. The first sentence points out the subject - balance. The second and third sentences are to define the very idea, and parallels to each other. The last sentence is an extention of the third sentence. So, the topic sentence is the first. The rest of the stem centres on it. The stimulus asks you to find out the main point. There are two possibilities. If the first sentence is a good summary of the whole passage, then the option repeating or paraphrasing is the key. Obviously, this is not the case here. Let's turn to the second - to look for the one among all options which best summarises the passage. Thus, compared with the other options, B is the key, although it's not exactly what the stem says about 'balance'.

If you see the purpose and structure of the stem, you will easily find the key. Even if you cannot pick out B immediately, you can easily exclude the other.

ypngzhang

谢谢 dphxmg牛牛！！！您解释的很清楚明白，而且您讲解得很有高度。 多谢！！

songgigi

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