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April was an unusual, if not the cruelest, month for New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, who in September will mark t

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问题     April was an unusual, if not the cruelest, month for New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, who in September will mark two years on the job. On Monday afternoon, April 15, Abramson—who, at 59, is the first woman to serve as top editor in the Times’ 160-year history— had barely begun savoring the four Pulitzer Prizes that her staff had just won when the Boston Marathon bombings occurred. Pulling an all-nighter at one point in the third-floor newsroom of the Times’ Renzo Piano-designed Manhattan skyscraper, she presided over a breathless week of "flooding the zone", while her reporters and editors managed to avoid the sort of embarrassing errors committed by the Associated Press, CNN, and even the Times Co. -owned Boston Globe.
    Then, the night of April 23, Politico—the Washington trade paper that aims to "drive the conversation"—published a story suggesting that Abramson’s young editorship was already a failure. Quoting anonymous former and current Times employees, Politico claimed she was widely considered "stubborn," "condescending," "difficult to work with," "unreasonable," "impossible," "disengaged," and "uncaring"—"on the verge of losing the support of the newsroom."
    A petite woman who speaks in an exaggerated Upper West Side drawl that evokes The Nanny Meets Harvard, Abramson was home alone in Tribeca the night the story broke. Her husband of 32 years, Henry Griggs, was out, as were their two adult children, when she read it online.
    Running The New York Times has never been for the faint of heart. Abramson’s 23 months at the wheel have been punctuated by the death in Syria of Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid, a bitter contract dispute with the Newspaper Guild, and, seven months ago, forced buyouts of around 30 midlevel editors, including some of the Times’ most beloved veterans.
    Yet, unique in an industry plagued by cutbacks and shutdowns, Abramson’s newsroom is staffed at the same level as it was a decade ago, and boasts 14 national and six regional bureaus, plus 25 foreign bureaus—more than at any moment in the paper’s history. This is in complete contrast to such newspapers as The Washington Post, which over the past decade closed all its domestic bureaus and reduced drastically the head count in its newsroom, once more than 900, by nearly a fourth. Meanwhile, the Times’ risky transition from free to metered online access appears to be working: the Web edition boasts more than 700,000 paying subscribers.
    Abramson, for her part, might have to leave her current job in six years, but she doesn’t see herself ever stopping work. "In terms of my professional life, I always felt a little happy that my husband and I never had much money. I never had to go through the should-l-stay-at-home conversation. I also wanted to work, because I really liked it. " She adds: "They’re gonna have to take me out feet first, or chop off my head. "
The author’s attitude towards Jill’s work so far is one of
选项 A、affirmative.
B、understanding.
C、appreciative.
D、compromising.
答案A
解析 观点态度题。本题需要对全文进行综合理解。文章开头第一段描述的是吉尔从容应对波士顿爆炸案这一突发事件，接下来在第二、三段中提到了《政客》对她的批评，最后两段着重描述了她在任期间所解决的难题和取得的成就。由此可知，总体来说，作者对吉尔的工作持肯定态度，因此选[A]。[B]“理解的”、[C]“欣赏的”和[D]“妥协的”均与作者通篇语气不符，故排除。
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