2015年成人高考英语挑错练习题三

The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm that

has recognized the need for change and done something about

it. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the diversity

of the communities to which they provide information.

It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or risk S1._______

losing their readers' interest and their advertisers' support.

Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial S2.________

minorities, the paper has put into place policies and

procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. The S3._______

underlying reason for the change is that for information to be

fair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by the S4._________

same kind of population that reads it.

A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, and

photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times' S5.________

content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff about

diversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a content S6.________

audit(审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner of

representation of woman and people of color in photographs. S7._________

Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far too

infrequently and were pictured with a disproportionate

number of negative articles. The audit results from S8.________

improvement in the frequency of majority representation and S9.________

their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with a S10._______

result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.

The diversity training and content audits helped the Seattle

Times Company to win the Personnel Journal Optimal Award

for excellence in managing change.

参考答案：

S1.it→they

S2.percents→percent

S3.maintain→maintaining

S4.subjective→objective

S5.meets→meet

S6.an→/

S7.woman→women

S8.from→in

S9.majority→minority

S10.with→as