專(zhuān)八改錯(cuò)練習(xí)第十二篇：

Times Company is one newspaper firm that hasrecognized the need for change and done somethingabout it. In the newspaper industry, papers mustreflect the diversity
of the communities for which they provide information.It must __1__
reflect that diversity with their news coverage or risklosing their readers’ interest and their advertisers’support. Operating
within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial minorities, the __2__
paper has put into place polices and procedures for hiring
and maintain a diverse workforce. The underlying reason for __3__
the change is that for information to be fair, appropriate, and
subjective, it should be reported by the same kind of population __4__
that reads it.
A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, and
photographers meets regularly to evaluate The Seattle Times’ __5__
content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff about
diversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a content __6__
audit that evaluates the frequency and manner of representation
of woman and people of color in photographs. Early audits __7__
showed that minorities were pictured far too infrequently and
were pictured with a disproportionate number of negative articles.
The audit results from improvement in the frequency of __8__
majority, representation and their portrayal in neutral or positive __9__
situations. And, with a result, The Seattle Times has improved __10__
as a newspaper. The diversity training and content audits helped
The Seattle Times Company to win the Personal Journal Optima’s
Award for excellence in managing change.

答案及解析(反白可見(jiàn)):
1 將it改為they
這里先行詞為復(fù)數(shù)名詞papers,故應(yīng)用復(fù)數(shù)代詞they
2 percents改為percent
在表示分?jǐn)?shù)時(shí),percent總是用單數(shù).
3 將maintain改為maintaining
這里maintaining和hiring并列,并共同作介詞for的賓語(yǔ).
4 將subjective改為objective
根據(jù)上下文,此處應(yīng)該表示 “客觀的”之意.
5 將meets改為meet
committee為集合名詞,如果看作一個(gè)整體,謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞要用復(fù)數(shù).
6 刪除an
固定短語(yǔ) in addition 作 “另外”解.
7 將woman改為women
8 將from改為in
result in 作 “導(dǎo)致引起”講.
9 將majority改為minority
10 with改為as
固定搭配 as a result 作“因此,結(jié)果”講.?