Two years ago,Rupert Murdoch’s daughter,

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问题 Two years ago,Rupert Murdoch’s daughter,Elisabeth,spoke of the“unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions”Integrity had collapsed,she argued,because of a collective acceptance that the only“sorting mechanism”in society should be profit and the market.But“it’s us,human beings,we the people who create the society we want,not profit”.Driving her point home,she continued:“It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose,of a moral language within government,media or business could become one of the most dangerous foals for capitalism and freedom.”This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International,shield thought,making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking.As the hacking trial concludes–finding guilty ones-editor of the News of the World,Andy Coulson,for conspiring to hack phones,and finding his predecessor,Rebekah Brooks,innocent of the same charge–the winder issue of dearth of integrity still standstill,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,wow little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired wow the stories arrived.The core of her successful defence was that she knew nothing.In today’s world,title 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.According to the first two paragraphs,Elisabeth was upset byA.the consequences of the current sorting mechanismB.companies’financial loss due to immoral practices.C.governmental ineffectiveness on moral issues.D.the wide misuse of integrity among institutions.

选项 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.

答案

解析事实细节通过题干可以将此题锁定在前两段。第一段指出Elisabeth谈到了“在很多机构中都存在着令人沮丧的诚信缺失”。接下来第二句指出造成这种诚信缺失的原因是：大家普遍认同了社会中唯一的分类机制（sorting mechanism）应该是利益和市场。即诚信缺失是由社会的分类机制所导致的，这正是让Elizabeth感到烦心的事情。故正确答案为A the consequences of the current sorting mechanism（目前这种分类机制的后果）。其中题干中的upset是原文

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