单选题 Which of the following could be Newman's view?
A．It is writers' duty to entertain their readers.
A．It is writers' duty to entertain their readers.
B．It is contemptible for writers to be journalists.
B．It is contemptible for writers to be journalists.
C．Writers are likely to be tempted into journalism.
C．Writers are likely to be tempted into journalism.
D．Not all writers are capable of journalistic writing.
D．Not all writers are capable of journalistic writing.
细节题。根据关键词“Newman’S view”定位到第三段，根据该段中的“‘So fewauthors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism…that I am temptedto define‘journalism’as‘a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are”’可知．在Newman看来，很少有作家有足够的智慧或文学天赋来坚持新闻写作，以至于Newman忍不住想把“新闻工作”定义为“作品没人读的作家用来形容作品有人读的作家的一个轻蔑之词”。D项“并非所有的作家都能胜任新闻写作”与Newman的观点相符，D项正确。A项“给读者带来娱乐是作家的职责”、B项“作家成为新闻工作者是可鄙的”和c项“作家容易被新闻界吸引”均与Newman的观点不符。故本题选D。
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3根据下面资料，回答题
Americans today don't place a very high value on intellect. Our heroes are athletes,entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not scholars. Even our schools are where we send our children to geta practical education~ot to pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Symptoms of pervasiveanti-intellectualism in our schools aren't difficult to find.
"Schools have always been in a society where practical is more important than intellectual,"says education writer Diane Ravitch. "Schools could be a counterbalance." Ravitch's latest book,Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms, traces the roots of anti-intellectualism in ourschools, concluding they are anything but a counterbalance to the American distaste for intellectualpursuits.
But they could and should be. Encouraging kids to reject the life of the mind leaves themvulnerable to exploitation and control. Without the ability to think critically, to defend their ideasand understand the ideas of others, they cannot fully participate in our democracy. Continuing alongthis path, says writer Earl Shorris, "We will become a second-rate country. We will have a less civilsociety."
"Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege," writes historian and professor RichardHofstadter in Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, a Pulitzer Prize winning book on the rootsof anti-intellectualism in US politics, religion, and education. From the beginning of our history,says Hofstadter, our democratic and populist urges have driven us to reject anything that smellsof elitism. Practicality, common sense, and native intelligence have been considered more noblequalities than anything you could learn from a book.
Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalist philosophers thought schooling and rigorousbook learning put unnatural restraints on children: "We are shut up in schools and college recitationrooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing."Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn exemplified American anti-intellectualism. Its hero avoids beingcivilized--going to school and learning to read--so he can preserve his innate goodness.
Intellect, according to Hofstadter, is different from native intelligence, a quality we reluctantlyadmire. Intellect is the critical, creative, and contemplative side of the mind. Intelligence seeksto grasp, manipulate, reorder, and adjust, while intellect examines, ponders, wonders, theorizes,criticizes, and imagines.
School remains a place where intellect is mistrusted. Hofstadter says our country's educationalsystem is in the grips of people who "joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect andtheir eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise."
What do American parents expect their children to acquire in school?
A．The confidence in intellectual pursuits.
B．The habit of thinking independently.
C．Practical abilities for future careers.
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