【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[听力原文]14-17 A newspaper has a complex hierarchy. The easiest way to show this is in the form of a Chart. At the top of the chart there are four major positions. These are the Executive Editor, Who, talks to the unions and deals with legal and financial questions. Then there is the :actual Editor 6f the paper and his deputy. The Editor makes decisions about what goes in to the paper. The deputy has close contact with the House of Commons and the political' contact: Finally there is the Managing Editor, echo sees that everything runs smoothly. Below this there are three Assistant Editors and the heads of the five departments. Each of the three Assistant Editors has a different responsibility. For example, One is responsible for design. The five departments are City News, which deals with financial matters, then the Home, Foreign, Sports and Features. Features are the special sections including films, books and the Women's page. So on the Second level there are three Assistant Editors and the five Department Heads. Also on this level there is the Night Editor. He looks after the paper, especially the front page, in the afternoon and evening, preparing materials for publication the next m0ming. Below the second level there are the reporters and specialists, who write the reports and articles, and the subeditors, who check and prepare the copy for the printer. There is also full secretarial back-up.