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As a related study describes, Twitter has come to play a crucial role in the way that news functions during events like the Egyptian revolution—like an overloaded newswire filled with everything from breaking news to rumor and everything in between.
The evolution of what media theorist Jeff Jarvis and others have called "networked journalism" has made the business of news much more chaotic, since it now consists of thousands of voices instead of just a few prominent ones who happen to have the tools to make themselves heard. If there is a growth area in media, it is in the field of "curated news," where real-time filters verify and redistribute the news that comes in from tens of thousands of sources, and use tools like Storify to present a coherent picture of what is happening on the ground.
One of the additional points the study makes is that the personal Twitter accounts belonging to journalists were far more likely to be retweeted or engaged with by others than official accounts for the media outlets they worked for. The point here is one we have tried to make repeatedly: Social media are called social for a reason. They"re about human beings connecting with other human beings around an event, and the more that media outlets try to stifle the human aspect of these tools—through repressive social-media policies, for example—the less likely they will be to benefit from using them.
Another benefit of a distributed or networked version of journalism is one sociologist Zeynep Tufekci has made in the course of her research into how Twitter and other social tools affected the events in Tunisia, Egypt, and elsewhere. As she wrote in a recent blog post, one of the realities of mainstream media is what is often called "pack journalism": the kind that sees hundreds of journalists show up for official briefings by government or military sources, but few pursue their own stories outside the official sphere. Tufekci says social media and "citizen journalism" can be a powerful antidote to this kind of process, and that"s fundamentally a positive force for journalism.
As we look at the way news and information flows in this new world of social networks, and what Andy Carvin has called "random acts of journalism" by those who may not even see themselves as journalists, it"s easy to get distracted by how chaotic the process seems, and how difficult it is to separate the signal from the noise. But more information is better-even if it requires new skills on the part of journalists when it comes to filtering that information—and journalism, as Jay Rosen has pointed out, tends to get better when more people do it.
单选题
It can be inferred from Para. 1 that ______.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 题干已经明确指示本题是对第一段的考查。
推理判断题。解题关键是对Twitter has come to play a crucial role in the way that news functions during events like the Egyptian revolution这一句的理解和把握。该句意为“在埃及革命等类似事件的发生过程中，Twitter在新闻运作方式中开始起到关键性作用”，因此选项D为正确答案。
选项A和选项B都是关于埃及革命的起因问题，但原文中并未提及该方面的内容，所以均应排除；选项C是说埃及革命对于Twitter的影响，文中并未提到Twitter的广泛应用是由埃及革命造成的，故也应排除。
单选题
Which of the following is true according to Para. 2?
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 题干已经明确指出本题是对第二段的考查。
推理判断题。文章第二段第一句提到The evolution of what media theorist Jeff Jarvis and others have called "networked journalism" has made the business of news much more chaotic, 该句意为“被媒体理论家杰夫·贾维斯和其他人称为‘网络化新闻’的这场演变使得新闻业变得更加混乱”，选项A正好符合该句的内容，因此为正确答案。
选项B是说“杰夫·贾维斯认为‘网络化新闻’是新闻媒体的主流”，但原文并未提到贾维斯对“网络化新闻”的看法，而且第四段提到，“pack journalism(一窝蜂式的新闻)”是目前主流媒体的现实情况；选项C是根据文中出现的细节词a few prominent ones设置的干扰项，第二段第一句提到，新闻业目前充斥着成千上万的声音，而不再仅仅是为数不多的几位知名人士，所以该选项也不正确；新闻业可能会随着Twitter的广泛应用而快速发展，但这是最后一段中提到的观点，在第二段中并未涉及，故选项D也可排除。
单选题
The word "retweeted" in Para. 3 probably means ______.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 题干已经明确指示本题是对第三段的考查。
推理判断题。这一单词出现在第三段第一句中的that宾语从句里：the personal Twitter accounts belonging to journalists were far more likely to be retweeted or engaged with by others than official accounts...，该从句的语态为被动，施动者others，受动者是the personal Twitter accounts belonging to journalists(记者的个人Twitter报道)，retweet和Hengage with是两个并列的动作。tweet和Twitter的发音很相似，“re-”这一词缀表示“又，再”的含义，再结合语境以及Twitter(微博)的使用方式，我们可以推断retweet的意思即是“转发”，四个选项中，只有选项D中forwarded含有此意，因此为正确答案。forward一词的常用义是“向前”，“转发”是其动词义项，在电子邮件中可能会见到，常缩写为Fw。整个句子意为：“记者的个人Twitter报道被转发或被吸引他人参与的可能性要远远高于他们所在的媒体机构的官方报道。”
选项A中retreated是利用形近词设置的干扰项，其意为“撤回；撤退”；选项B中hailed意为“欢呼，拥护”，可与engaged在意思上衔接，但与整体句意不匹配；选项C中sent仅指“发送”，不含“转发”的含义，可能会对不了解forward动词含义的考生造成干扰。
单选题
By saying "pack journalism" the author probably means ______.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 根据题干中的关键词“pack journalism”可定位到第四段。
细节理解题。第四段第二句提到“...what is often called "pack journalism": the kind that sees hundreds of journalists show up for official briefings by government or military sources(……常常被称为‘一窝蜂式新闻’的现象，这种新闻指的是数百名记者出席由政府或军方举行的官方发布会，但报道内容能超出官方口径的却寥寥无几)”，选项D与本句内容属于同义表达，因此为正确答案。
选项A“新闻可以像行李一样被打包”是根据pack一词的字面理解设置的干扰项，和原文中的意思不相符；选项B“‘全民新闻’将取代‘网络化新闻’”属于无中生有，原文虽然分别提到过“网络化新闻”和“全民新闻”，但并未提及谁会取代谁，故应排除；原文第四段虽然同时提到了“一窝蜂式新闻”和“全民新闻”，但并未说明记者们是否更喜欢网络化新闻，所以选项C“新闻记者更喜欢‘网络化新闻’”在文中并无依据。
单选题
Which of the following can best state the main idea of the passage?