2013年12月英语六级改错训练（4）
The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm thathas 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 1.____
losing their readers’ interest and their advertisers’ support.
Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial 2.____
minorities, the paper has put into place policies and
procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. The 3.____
underlying reason for the change is that for information to be
fair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by the 4.____
same kind of population that reads it.
A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, and
photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times’ 5.____
content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff about
diversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a content 6.____
audit (审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner of
representation of woman and people of color in photographs. 7.____
Early audits showed that minorities were pictured
far too infrequently and were pictured with a disproportion
ate number of negative articles. The audit results from 8.____
improvement in the frequency of majority representation and 9.____
their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with a 10.____
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】
1. 把 it 改为 they
2. 把 percents 改为 percent
3. 把 maintain 改为 maintaining
4. 把 subjective 改为 objective
5. 把 meets 改为 meet
6. 去掉an
7. 把 woman 改为 women
8. 把 from 改为 in
9. 把 majority 改为 minority
10. with 改为 as
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