This year isn't the first time an overwhelmingly white field of nominees has led to an Academy Awards protest. The run-up to the Academy Awards always includes the usual debate over who got snubbed. This year, however, that conversation has taken on a new level of gravity: for the second year in a row, every nominated actor is white. That situation has led Hollywood insiders and fans alike to speak out. On Twitter, observers started to voice their outrage. Whatever the solution may be, it's clear that the protest is being heard—which is a marked change from earlier protests over the exact same thing. In fact, it was exactly 20 years ago, in 1996, that a protest over Oscars diversity erupted and led to a very different response; ridicule. The 68th Academy Awards featured a lineup of actors that was just as white as this year's is. By the time the nominees were announced, Time was already in the middle of conducting an exhaustive investigation into the state of black Hollywood. The week before the ceremony, the results ran as a cover story headlined "What's Wrong With This Picture?" that pulled back the curtain on the fact that, though African-American faces were getting easier to find on the big screen, the success of a few big stars masked an industry that was still largely segregated. For example, at the time, Academy membership was only 3.9% black. One of the people who read that article was Rev. Jesse Jackson. The issue of media equality was not new to Jackson, but it was that story that inspired him to focus a protest on that year's Oscars. But the protest wasn't met with the same thoughtfulness that today's has been. The president of the Academy met with Jackson, but said that that year's Oscars were an anomaly and didn't mean anything. Perhaps most tellingly, the protest was mocked on Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update. Darrell Hammond's impression of Jackson, is pretty cringeworthy in retrospect. Today, Oscars diversity is the subject of satirical television news that makes fun of the absurdity of the situation. Two decades ago, the satire was at the expense of those who wanted to change that situation. Jackson, for his part, said that the consciousness-raising that had been done was worth all the mockery. Whether or not 1996 made a difference, it's clear 20 years later that Hollywood's level of awareness of the issue has never been higher.
单选题
"That situation" (Para. 2) refers to
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】解析：(1)根据题干关键词定位至第2段，而That situation部分起到承上启下的作用。(2)根据第1段内容，“被提名的人中，绝大多数是白人”(第1段：overwhelmingly)，“这引发了人们的争议”(第1段：debate)，“而且争议更加激烈”(第1段：gravity)，“连续第2年出现这种情况了”(第1段：in a row)”。那么引起业内人士和支持者抗议(第2段：to speak out)的原由便是“明显缺乏的多样性”。(3)从全文结构来看，第2段起到了承上启下的作用，而全文谈论的中心便是好莱坞提名过程中“缺乏多样性”。根据这些线索，确定选项[D]为最佳答案。
单选题
Paragraph 2 suggests that the current protest
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析：(1)根据题干关键词定位至第2段。文章中出现了过去抗议和现在抗议的对比情形，但本题需就现在的情况做出回答。(2)根据文章，“(对于多样性的缺乏)，局内人和狂热仰慕者发表观点”(第2段：speak out)，“观察者们表达了愤怒”(第2段：outrage)。“不论怎样，这次的抗议正在被人们听见”(第2段：is being heard)，“与原先的抗议相比，的确有明显的变化”(第2段：marked change)。据此，确定选项[B]为最佳答案。