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Two years
ago. Rupert Murdochs daughter, spoke at the unsettling dearth of integrity
across so many of our collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance
that the mechanismin society should be profit and the market we the people who
create the society we want, not profit.
Driving her
point home, she continuedIts increasingly absence of purpose，of a moral language
with in government, could become one of the most dangerous goals for capitalism
and freedom. This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies, such as
International, she thought, making it more likely that it would fore had with
widespread illegal telephone hacking.
As the
hacking trial concludes-finding guilty one ex-editor of the News of the World,
Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones, and finding the predecessor,
Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same charge-the wide dearth of integrity still
stands. Journalists are known to have hacked the phones of up to 5,500 people.
This is hacking on an industrial scale, as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the
man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone
hacking. Others await trial. This long story still unfolds.
In many
respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such
widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place. One of
the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on
in her newsroom, how little she thought to ask and the fact that she never
inquired how the stories arrived. The core of her successful defence was that
she knew nothing.
In todays
world, it has become normal that well-paid executives should not be accountable
for what happens in the organizations that they run. Perhaps we should not be
so surprised. For a generation, the collective doctrine has been that the
sorting mechanism of society should be profit. The words that have mattered are
efficiency, flexibility, shareholder value, business-friendly, wealth
generation, sales, impact and, in newspapers, circulation. Words degraded to
the margin have been justice, fairness, tolerance, proportionality and
accountability.
The purpose
of editing the News of the World was not to promote reader understanding, to be
fair in what was written or to betray any common humanity. It was to ruin lives
in the quest for circulation and impact. Ms Brooks may or may not have had
suspicions about how her journalists got their stories, but she asked no
questions, gave no instructions-nor received traceable, recorded answers.
36.
Accordign to the first two graphs, Elisabeth was upset by
(A) the
consequences of the current sorting mechanism.
(B)
companies financial loss due to immoral practices
(C)
governmental ineffectiveness on moral issues.
(D) the wide
misuse of integrity among institutions.
37. It can
be inferred from graph 3 that
(A) Glenn
Mulcaire may deny phone hacking as a crime.
(B) more
journalists may be found guilty of phone hacking.
(C) Andy
Coulson should be held innocent of the charge.
(D) phone
hacking will be accepted on certain occasions.
38. The
author believes that Rebekah Brookss defence
(A) revealed
a cunning personality.
(B) centered
on trivial issues.
(C) was
hardly convincing.
(D) was part
of a conspiracy.
39. The
author holds that the current collective doctrine shows
(A)
generally distorted values.
(B) unfair
wealth distribution.
(C) a
marginalized lifestyle.
(D) a rigid
moral code.
40 Which of
the following is suggested in the last graph?
(A) The
quality of writings is of primary importance.
(B) Common
humanity is central to news reporting.
(C) Moral
awareness matters in editing a newspaper.
(D)
Journalists need stricter industrial regulations.
36. A the
consequences of the current sorting mechanism
37. Bmore
journalists may be found guilty of phone hacking
38. C was
hardly convincing
39. A generally
distorted values
40. C moral
awareness matters in editing a newspaper
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journals are strengthening their statistical checks
32.B marked
33. D set an
example for other journals
34. C has
room for further improvement
35.A science
joins Push to screen statistics in papers
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