改错练习题

　　The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm that
　　has recognized the need for change and done something about it.
　　In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the diversity of
　　the communities to which they provide information.
　　It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or risk (S1)
　　losing their readers' interest and their advertisers’ support.
　　Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial (S2)
　　minorities, the paper has put into place policies and
　　procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. The (S3)
　　underlying reason for the change is that for information to be
　　fair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by the (S4)
　　same kind of population that reads it.
　　A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, and
　　photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times’ (S5)
　　content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff about
　　diversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a content (S6)
　　audit (审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner of
　　representation of woman and people of color in photographs. (S7)
　　Early audits showed that minorities were pictured
　　far too infrequently and were pictured with a disproportion
　　ate number of negative articles. The audit results from (S8)
　　improvement in the frequency of majority representation and (S9)
　　their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with a (S10)
　　result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.
　　The diversity training and content audits helped the Seattle Times Company
　　to win the Personnel Journal Optimal Award for excellence in managing change.

参考答案

　　参考答案：
　　71. it → they
　　72. percents → percent
　　73. maintain → maintaining
　　74. subjective → objective
　　75. meets → meet
　　76. 去掉an
　　77. woman → women
　　78. from → in
　　79. majority → minority
　　80. with → as