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I can think of no better career for a young novelist than to be for some years a sub-editor on a rather conservative newspaper. The hours, from four till around midnight, give him plenty of time to do his own work in the morning when he is still fresh from sleep—let the office employ him during his hours of fatigue. He has the company of intelligent and agreeable men of greater experience than his own: he is not enclosed by himself in a small room tormented by the problems of expression; and, except for rare periods of rash, even his working hours leave him time for books and conversation (most of us brought a book to read between one piece of copy and another). Nor is the work monotonous. Rather as in the game of Scrabble the same letters are continually producing different words; no one knows at four o‘clock what the evening may produce, and death does not keep a conventional hour.
And while the young writer is spending these amusing and unexacting hours, he is learning lessons valuable to his own craft. He is removing the clichés of reporters; he is compressing a story to the minimum length possible without ruining its effect. A writer with a sprawling style is unlikely to emerge from such an apprenticeship. It is the opposite training to the penny-a-line.
The man who was of chief importance to me in those days was the chief sub-editor, George Anderson. I hated him in my first week, but I grew almost to love him before three years had passed. A small elderly Scotsman with a flushed face and a laconic humor, he drove a new sub-editor hard with his sarcasm. Sometimes I almost fancied myself back at school again, and I was always glad when five-thirty came, for immediately the clock marked the hour when the pubs opened, he would take his bowler hat from the coat-rack and disappear for thirty minutes to his favorite bar.
What is the main advantage for a young novelist working as a sub-editor?
文章第一段提到“He has the company of intelligent and agreeable men of greater experience than his own”， 可见， 年轻作家从事助理编辑的工作有助于他吸取经验， 更好地创作。 故选 A。
What could a sub-editor usually do when he was at work?
文章第一段指出“even his working hours leave him time for books and conversation”， 可见， 助理编辑在工作时间可以看书和聊天。 故选 C。
Why isn‘t the work of a sub-editor dull?
从文章第一段最后一句可以看出助理编辑工作期间随时可能传来爆炸性新闻， 使得这份工作一点都不无聊。
What is the useful lesson a young writer can learn as a sub-editor?
第二段第二句提到助理编辑写文章或报道时要避免陈腔滥调， 将故事写得简洁明了。故 B 选项最符合题意。
How did George Anderson train his assistants?
从文章最后一段第三句可以看出 George Anderson 总是用幽默的讽刺来提醒助理编辑。 故选 D。