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It happened in the late fall of 1939 when,after a Nazi submarine had penetra
It happened in the late fall of 1939 when,after a Nazi submarine had penetra
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It happened in the late fall of 1939 when,after a Nazi submarine had penetrated the British sea defense around the Firth of Forth and damaged a British cruiser, Reston and a colleague contrived to get the news past British censorship. They cabled a series of seemingly harmless sentences to the Times editors in New York,having first sent a message instructing the editors to regard only the last word of each sen-tence. Thus they were able to convey enough words to spell out the story. The fact that the news of the submarine attack was printed in New York before it had appeared in the British press sparked a big con-troversy that led to an investigation by Scotland Yard and British Military Intelligence. But it took the inves-tigators eight weeks to decipher the Times reporters’ code, an embarrassingly slow bit of detective work,and when it was finally solved the incident had died and little was done about it. The Times editors in New York,though they had given the story very prominent play, later expressed dismay that the reporters had risked so much for so little;and the incident left Reston deeply distressed. It was so out of character for him to have become involved in such a thing. The tactics were questionable and,though the United States was not yet in the war,Britain was already established as America’s close ally and breaking British cen-sorship seemed both an irresponsible and unpatriotic thing to do. [br] The episode recounted in the passage took place_____.
选项
A、just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War
B、before Britain entered the Second World War
C、before the United States entered the Second World War
D、while the United States was in the Second World War
答案
C
解析
题目问:文章所叙述的小插曲发生在什么时候?最后一句“The tactics were questionable and,though the United States was not yet in the war,Britain was already established as America’s closeally and breaking British censorship seemed both an irresponsible and unpatriotic thing to do.”通过这段话可知,1939年,当时的美国还没有公开参与到第二次世界大战中。据此判断,应选择C。
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