【段1】①Of all the changes that have taken

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【段1】①Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century, perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.

【段2】①It is difficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers. ②Yet a considerable number of the most significant collections of criticism published in the 20th century consisted in large part of newspaper reviews. ③To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.

【段3】①We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper reviews published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War Ⅱ, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the publications in which it appeared. ②In those far-off days, it was taken for granted that the critics of major papers would write in detail and at length about the events they covered. ③Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman, could be trusted to know what they were about. ④These men believed in journalism as a calling, and were proud to be published in the daily press. ⑤“So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,” Newman wrote, “that I am tempted to define journalism’ as ‘a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are’.”

【段4】①Unfortunately, these critics are virtually forgot ten. ②Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardianfrom 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975, is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket. ③During his lifetime, though, he was also one of England’s foremost classical-music critics, and a stylist so widely admired that his Autobiography(1947) became a best-seller. ④He was knighted in 1967, the first music critic to be so honored. ⑤Yet only one of his books is now in print, and his vast body of writings on music is unknown save to specialists.

【段5】①Is there any chance that Cardus’s criticism will enjoy a revival? ②The prospect seems remote. ③Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern readers have little use for the richly upholstered Vicwardian prose in which he specialized. ④Moreover, the amateur tradition in music criticism has been in headlong retreat.

What would be the best title for the text?

[A]Newspapers of the Good Old Days

[B]The Lost Horizon in Newspapers

[C]Mournful Decline of Journalism

[D]Prominent Critics in Memory

答案：B

问：C选项不适合作为本文标题的原因是什么？

A : 选项以偏概全，不能覆盖全文，“新闻业的衰落”只在前三段有所提及

B : 选项将文中描述的“报纸艺术评论的衰落”扩大为“新闻业的衰落”，超过了文章所描述的范围

C : 选项偏离了文章主题，文章的重点不是“新闻业的衰落”，而是“新闻业的兴衰”

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