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问题     In the U.S., citizens tend to rely on electronic media such as TV rather than print media. TV news tends to provide numerous visuals and abbreviated textual information.【T1】Although TV news stories pitch "on-the-scene reporting," and other eye-catching images to viewers, the actual stories are generally so brief that were the reports transcribed into newspaper copy, no single story would have enough text to cover a third of a page. It is remarkable to consider how little information is conveyed between all the exciting visuals. 【T2】It is also remarkable to stop and think about how inadequately informed citizens may be if their primary source of political knowledge is the picture-rich and data-poor TV evening news.
    Moreover, because U.S. media companies are primarily privately   owned, 【T3】media professionals are under pressure to present news in an entertaining way in order to expand their audiences and corresponding advertising revenues. Large audiences create higher profits from advertising sales. With a few exceptions, U.S. TV and radio stations are like other businesses: They need to generate money to cover operating costs and make profits. If media professionals are convinced that viewers want entertaining news rather than in-depth details, this assumption affects the kind of news they produce. Not surprisingly, political scientists have found that news coverage of election campaigns tends to focus on the personal lives of candidates rather than on issues, and【T4】when issues are reported the emphasis is often on the immediate and most dramatic implications of the issues, not on the historical, long-term, or global dimensions of those issues.
    At the same time, insofar as television and Internet-based news must be generated quickly, time pressures impede extensive independent investigations. Because U. S. citizens conceptualize news as something occurring by the hour or minute, U.S. media professionals are often putting together news stories under severe time restraints. 【T5】Some analysts believe that this increases the tendency of reporters to get information from official sources rather than from the reporters’ own independent investigations of newsworthy events. Think about this issue from the standpoint of reporters and editors. If you are a reporter assigned the task of doing a story on a state’s new prison system, for example, you will find it is quicker and easier to get a governor’s press release on the new prison than it is to go to libraries, data banks, and university research centers to investigate the topic on your own. This does not suggest that investigative journalism never occurs; rather, many scholars believe that time pressures tend to encourage the use of information provided by official sources (for example, political leaders and their press secretaries) rather than the collection of facts through ongoing independent research.
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答案 虽然电视新闻故事多推崇“现场报道”或者其他吸人眼球的形象，但是实际上这些故事都很简短，要是把这些报道转写成报纸版面的话，它们任何一个都占不了三分之一的版面。解析：该句的理解难点有三，一是pitch；二是text；三是虚拟条件句中的省略。根据语境，可以把pitch理解为“推崇”；而text的意思是“文字稿”。至于虚拟条件句中的省略指的是，were the reports transcribed into newspaper copy这个虚拟条件句中省略了if并且还是个倒装句；如果不省略if，该句的顺序应是if the reports were transcribed into newspaper copy。在虚拟条件句中，有时可将引导虚拟条件句的连词if省略，但此时应使用倒装句型，即将从句中的were，should，had等提到句首。
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