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问题　Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter, Elisabeth, spoke at 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 goals for capitalism and freedom.” This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International, she 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 one ex-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 wider issue of dearth of integrity still stands. 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, how little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired how the stories arrived. The core of her successful defence was that she knew nothing.　In today’s world, it 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.The author believes that Rebekah Brooks’s defense ______.A. revealed a cunning personalityB. centered on trivial issuesC. was hardly convincingD. was part of a conspiracy

选项 A. revealed a cunning personality
B. centered on trivial issues
C. was hardly convincing
D. was part of a conspiracy

答案 C

解析推理判断题，第四段中作者对Rebekah Brooks在庭审中的表现表示惊讶，她对编辑室里发生的一切几乎一无所知，而且完全不询问事实和故事来源，对此，作者讽刺Rebekah Brooks，说“The core of her successful defense was that she knew nothing.（她成功辩护的核心就是她一无所知）”。可见作者对是在讽刺其辩护，认为这样的辩护没有说服力，因此C项正确。作者只是评价Rebekah Brooks的辩护本身没有意义，并未引申到Rebekah Brooks本人个性狡猾，A项推理过度，应排除。B、D项在文中找不到依据。

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