| For many people the New York Times is the greatest
newspaper anywhere. But there has long been a small pool of conservative
dissenters in its hometown. For them. the Times is left-wing, inaccurate, devoid
of humor, and, worst of all. unopposed (they never seem to count the Wall
Street Journal. which, to be fair, doesn’t write that much about the Big Apple).
Now these criticisms are being made, daily, and often wittily, by a flee
web-based publication. The publisher, reporting staff and editor of smartertimes.com is Ira Stoll. a 28-year-old former managing editor of Forward, a Jewish weekly. At 6 o’clock every morning he picks up a copy of the Times at a Brooklyn news-stand and, within four hours, unleashes an invariably scathing report on something he thinks either ridiculous or wrong. Categories on the website range from the peda A. extremist B. humourous C. unfaithful D. unopposed [单项选择]Since ancient times, people have dreamed of leaving their home planet and exploring other worlds. In the later half of the 20th century, that dream became reality. The space age began with the launch of the first artificial satellites in 1963. A human first went into space in 1963. Since then, astronauts and cosmonauts have ventured into space for ever greater lengths of time, even living aboard orbiting space stations for months on end. Two dozen people have circled the moon or walked on its surface. At the same time, robotic explorers have journeyed where humans could not go, visiting all but one of the solar system’s major worlds. Unpiloted spacecraft have also visited a host of minor bodies such as moons, comets, and asteroids. These explorations have sparked the advance of new technologies, from rockets to communications equipment to computers. Spacecraft studies have yielded a bounty of scientific discoveries about the solar system, the Milky Way Galaxy, and the universe. And the
A. Those explorations. B. The advance of new technologies. C. Spacecraft studies. D. Scientific discoveries. [单项选择]For many people the New York Times is the greatest newspaper anywhere. But there has long been a small pool of conservative dissenters in its hometown. For them. the Times is left-wing, inaccurate, devoid of humor, and, worst of all. unopposed (they never seem to count the Wall Street Journal. which, to be fair, doesn’t write that much about the Big Apple). Now these criticisms are being made, daily, and often wittily, by a flee web-based publication.
The publisher, reporting staff and editor of smartertimes.com is Ira Stoll. a 28-year-old former managing editor of Forward, a Jewish weekly. At 6 o’clock every morning he picks up a copy of the Times at a Brooklyn news-stand and, within four hours, unleashes an invariably scathing report on something he thinks either ridiculous or wrong. Categories on the website range from the pedantic—"New York, lack of basic familiarity with" (noting unbearable geographic errors) and "Misspelling of names" (including that of the Sulzberger f A. are smart B. are sharp C. are foolish D. have foresight 我来回答: 提交
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