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Passage 2

It was a dark and stormy night. Somewhere, Gary Bettman was seething. All these events being cancelled, and not by him.

On TV, anticipation was so animated it was heatedly debated and, in the way that television is ghastly in its predilections, the coverage was both ghoulish and foolish. On CNN, it went like this--in the studio, an anchor lady talking to a weather guy who noted, "it will be onshore in less than three hours," at which point anchor lady declared, "and there he is, All Velshi! " Cut to All Velshi, barely upright and ankle-deep in water in Atlantic City, in a fierce, whipping wind.

"All, at any point in time we will yank this, if you are in any danger at all," anchor lady announced helpfully. Then, "what else do you see, All?" To which he answered, "There's some siding flying off buildings. Unless you're kinda like us and reporting, there's no reason to be out here."

Too true. On channel after channel, reporters standing in howling winds and pouring rain to illustrate that, yeah, the storm was arriving and it was wicked, just as predicted. In case anyone thought it was a con "job.

Then the Hurricane Sandy devastation in New Jersey and New York. Footage of flooded

subways, as if massive waves of water finding an outlet in large holes in the ground was a surprise.

In Toronto's east end, a tree fell. Power went out. CP24 savoured i_t all, at last some real, honest-to-God disaster effects.

For all the raw footage and dramatic scenes of flooding, fires, rescue workers waist-deep in water and darkened buildings lashed by wind, television struggles to convey the authenticity of disaster-inducing storms. The fallback position is disaster-movie cliche and panicked voices in a studio commanding viewers to look (just look!) at this footage of flooding! The term "weather porn" doesn't do it justice.

Few live TV shows were taped in New York on Monday. But David Letterman wen

A.hoax
B.hard work
C.irksome task
D.special mission

正确答案及解析

正确答案

解析

题干中问在第四段中“conjob”的含义，因此需要联系上下文推断其含义。“con job”之前的句子为“On channel after channel，reporters standing in howling winds and pouting rain to illustrate that，yea，the storm was arriving and it was wicked，just as predicted．”，讲述的是一个频道接一个频道都是记者站在咆哮的大风和倾盆的大雨中进行现场报道，正如预报的那样，暴风雨来临，疯狂肆虐。接下来作者写道“In case anyone thought it was a con job．”即“以防任何人认为这是__________”。四个选项中，A项“骗局，恶作剧”，B项“努力工作”，C项“令人厌倦的任务”，D项“特殊使命”，根据句意可知，应为“以防任何人认为这是骗人的”，故选A。