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Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.

  
The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm that
has recognized the need for change and done something about
it. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the diversity
of the communities to which they provide information.
It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or risk______
losing their readers’ interest and their advertisers’ support.
Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial         ______
minorities, the paper has put into place policies and
procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. The    ______
underlying reason for the change is that for information to be
fair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by the______
same kind of population that reads it.
A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, and
photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times’     ______
content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff about
diversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a content______
audit (审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner of
representation of woman and people of color in photographs.     ______
Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far too
infrequently and were pictured with a disproportionate
number of negative articles. The audit results from             ______
improvement in the frequency of majority representation and     ______
their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with a  ______
result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.
The diversity training and content audits helped the
Seattle Times Company to win the Personal Journal
Optimas Award for excellence in managing change.

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