For the last fifteen or twenty years the fashion in criticism or appreciation of the arts have been to deny the existence of any valid criteria and to make the __1__ words “good” or “bad” irrelevant, immaterial, and inapplicable. There is no such thing, we are told, like a set of standards first acquired through experience and __2__ knowledge and late imposed on the subject under discussion. This has been a __3__ popular approach, for it relieves the critic of the responsibility of judgment and the public by the necessity of knowledge. It pleases those resentful of disciplines, it __4__ flatters the empty-minded by calling him open-minded, it comforts the __5__ confused. Under the banner of democracy and the kind of quality which our forefathers did no mean, it says, in effect, “Who are you to tell us what is good or bad?” This is same cry used so long and so effectively by the producers of mass __6__ media who insist that it is the public, not they, who decide what it wants to hear __7__ and to see, and that for a critic to say that this program is bad and that program is good is pure a reflection of personal taste. Nobody recently has expressed this __8__ philosophy most succinctly than Dr. Frank Stanton, the highly intelligent __9__ president of CBS television. At a hearing before the Federal Communications Commission, this phrase escaped from him under questioning: “One man’s mediocrity __10__ is another man’s good program”.
参考答案及解析: 1. 将have改为has 该句的主语 the fashion是单数.
2. 将like改为as such as 是固定搭配.
3. 将late改为later later和上文first对应.
4. 将by改为of或者from relieve sb of/ from sth 是固定搭配, 意思为 “减轻某人(的负担等)”
5. 将him改为them 因为其先行词为 the empty-minded,而 “the adj/p.p” 表示一类人时,通常表示复数概念.
6. 在same前加the the same 表示 “唯一,独一无二”的概念,因此必须加定冠词.
7. 将decide改为decides 该句的主语 the public 表示的是单数概念.,这一点从后面的代词it 可以看得出来.