2021银行校园招聘每日一练9.29(二)

　　These days Rebekah Brooks is keeping a low profile. Two years on from her acquittal of an event relating to the phone hacking scandal --- and 10 months after she returned to head New Corp’s British newspaper ---Rupert Murdoch’s protégé is avoiding the sort of political and social events where she would have once been a regular citizen.

　　“She has had her head down since she’s been hack ,” says a News Corp source.” Her priority is to make a difference to the business. Once you’ve been through the cycle of fame, normality can be appealing.”

　　Last week Ms. Brooks made the biggest splash since she returned last September, with News Corp’s £220m acquisition of Wireless Group, the owner of Talksport radio.

　　The deal followed the group’s £114m purchase of Unruly, a digital advertising start-up, which came last autumn, 10 days after Ms. Brooks return.

　　While small sums for a global media business with a market capitalization of more than £6bn, the two acquisitions show how Ms. Brooks is looking to unearth new revenue streams to offset the decline in revenues from newspaper advertising.

　　In common with all newspaper groups, News Corp is facing a structural shift as readers and advertisers abandon newspaper for online platforms such as Google and Facebook. This year analysts are predicting a 20 percent fall in print advertising revenues, and newspaper industry executives are concerned these revenues will never come back.

　　In the four years between Ms. Brooks’ 2011 resignation and her return in the 2015, News Corp’s revenues in the UK and Ireland fell form £1.3bn to £1.1bn. Other newspaper groups have witnessed similar falls, as income from digital growth has failed to plug the gap left by the decline of traditional print.

　　1.What problem did Rebekah have two years ago? ( )

　　A. She was charged with phone-hacking.

　　B. She was exiled from News Corp.

　　C. She lost her job.

　　D. She kept a low profile.

　　【答案】A。细节题。关键词Rebekah定位至第一段，提到两年前的phone hacking scandal.可知与phone hacking有关。所以答案选A。B项：她被News Corp赶出来了，根据原文10 months after she returned to head New Corp’s British newspaper，可知她并没有被赶出来，后来还是回到了News Corp;C项：她失去了工作，同样还是根据那句话，她既然能回到公司，说明她并没有丢掉工作，排除;D项：以前她很低调，根据原文These days Rebekah Brooks is keeping a low profile，可知她是这几天比较低调，并没有说是两年前，排除;故答案选A。

　　2.What did Rebekah Brooks do after her return to her company? ( )

　　A. She changed the company’s name.

　　B. She formulated new strategies.

　　C. She cleared of her charges.

　　D. She completed two acquisitions.

　　【答案】D。细节题。A项：她改变了公司的名称;B项：她构想出新的策略;C项：她扫除了自己所有的指控;D项：她完成了两次并购。根据原文第三、第四、第五段，with News Corp’s £220m acquisition of Wireless Group, the owner of Talksport radio.，提到了她完成了两个企业的并购重组，所以答案选D。ABC选项均不符合，不选。

　　3.What do Rebekah Brooks’ actions after her return to the company show? ( )

　　A. They show Brooks’ irrational strategies.

　　B. They show Brooks’ concern about the loss.

　　C. They show Brooks’ ambition to expand the company.

　　D. They show Brooks’ attempt to look for new sources of profits.

　　【答案】D。细节题。题干问的是“Rebekah Brooks回到公司的行为表明来了什么”，根据原文第五段的内容，the two acquisitions show how Ms. Brooks is looking to unearth new revenue streams to offset the decline in revenues from newspaper advertising，即这两场收购展示了她在寻找一种新的收益流来平衡报纸广告收益的减少。选项D正确。A项：它们表明了Brooks不明智的策略;B项：它们展现出Brooks对经济亏损的担忧;C项：它们表现出Brooks扩大公司的野心。只有D项符合题干意思，故答案选D。

　　4.According to the article, which of the following is True? ( )

　　A. Normality has become Ms. Brooks’ priority most since she’s been back.

　　B. News Corp is faced with a structural change because more readers turn to online platform.

　　C. News Corp’s £114m purchase of Unruly is the biggest splash Ms. Brooks’ has made.

　　D. News Corp revenues in the UK and Ireland declined about 18 percent from 2011 to 2015.

　　【答案】B。是非题。A项根据关键词priority可定位到原文的第二段Her priority is to make a difference to the business，由此可知，her priority是make a difference，排除A;B项可以对应到原文倒数第二段的News Corp is facing a structural shift as readers and advertisers abandon newspaper for online platforms such as Google and Facebook，因此B项符合原文，因此答案选B。C项根据biggest splash定位到原文的第三段，根据Ms. Brooks made the biggest splash since she returned last September, with News Corp’s £220m acquisition of Wireless Group可知，C项错误;D项根据UK和Ireland可定位到原文的最后一段，News Corp’s revenues in the UK and Ireland fell from £1.3bn to £1.1bn，经计算，最后结果是15%左右，D项错误;故最后答案选B。

　　5.The word “plug” in paragraph 7 is closest in meaning to? ( )

　　A. connect to

　　B. widen

　　C. block up

　　D. Wedge

　　【答案】D。猜词题。定位至第七段，“其他的报纸行业也面临着同样的回落，因为数字化经济收入的增加已经不能( )传统印刷行业收入的下降”，A项：连接;B项：扩大;C项：封闭、堵塞;D项：嵌入、楔入，指用某个东西填满一个狭小的空间，据此，wedge能够非常形象地表达出“弥补空缺”的意思，所以答案选D。