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Rebel uprising kills seventy! Plane crash leaves no survivors! Rock star dies of overdose! Evening newscasts and metropolita

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问题     Rebel uprising kills seventy! Plane crash leaves no survivors! Rock star dies of overdose!
    Evening newscasts and metropolitan newspapers scream the bad news, the sensational, and the action.
    Audiences of today focus upon the sensational action, the violence, the loss, the terror. Individually, our lives are redirected, our worlds reshaped, and our images changed. While wary of the danger of change, we human beings surrender daily to exploitation of values, opportunities, and sensitivity. The evolution has brought us to the point that we believe little of what is presented to us as good and valuable; instead, we opt for suspicion and disbelief, demanding proof and something for nothing.
    Therein lies the danger for the writer seeking to break into the market of today. Journalists sell sensationalism. The journalist who loses sight of the simple truth and opts only for the sensation loses the audience over the long run. Only those seeking a short-term thrill are interested in following the journalistic thinking.
    How, then do we capture the audience of today and hold it, when the competition for attention is so fierce? The answer is writing to convey action, and the way to accomplish this is a simple one — action verbs.
    The writer whose product suspends time for the reader or viewer is the successful writer whose work is sought and reread. Why?
    Time often will melt away in the face of the reality of life’s little responsibilities for the reader. Instead of puzzling over a more active and more accurate verb, some journalists often limp through passive voice and useless tense to squeeze the life out of an action-filled world and fill their writing with missed opportunities to appeal to the reader who seeks that moment of suspended time.
    Recently, a reporter wrote about observing the buildings in a community robbed by rebel uprising as "thousands of bullet holes were in the hotel. " A very general observation. Suppose he had written, "The hotel was pocked with bullet holes. " The visual image conjured up by the latter is far superior to the former. Here is the reader... comfortable in the easy chair before the fire with the dog at his feet. The verb "pocked" speaks to him.
    The journalist missed the opportunity to convey the reality.
Some works are sought and reread because
选项 A、they save time for the readers and viewers.
B、they are responsible for the readers.
C、they report international incidents.
D、they are pieces of active writing.
答案D
解析 事实细节题。由题干关键词将信息定位于第六段；由段尾的why可知，答案应在下文找。在接下来的第七段，作者谈到：“一些新闻工作者不愿绞尽脑汁地去思索一个意义更积极主动，表达更准确的动词”，而“用被动语态和一些无用的时态勉强凑合…他们的作品将失去吸引读者的机会”。由此可见，与之相反的active writing就能紧紧吸引住读者；故答案为[D]。[A]，[B]分别是对第六段和第七段首句的错误理解；[C]在原文找不到依据。
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