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【单选题】For those who regard the al-Jazeera TV channel as a biased, anti-western mouthpiece for Osama bin Laden, the announcement that it will start broadcasting 24 hours a day inEnglish next year will be unwelcome. Its likeliest audience is Muslims (1) the MiddleEast who do not speakArabiC、Will al-Jazeera’s reports of suffering and rage in Iraq and beyond inspire anger (2) America and its (3) at home, too
The new service may prove a bit less (4) than itsArabic sibling. Nigel Parsons, its managing editor, says that al-Jazeera has been too strident on (5) in the past, and that theEnglish channel will (6) to redress that. It will strive (7) balance, credibility and authority, he says, and it will signal a new maturity for al-Jazeera, which was started by the emir of Qatar in 1996.
It will broadcast its own original content—news, documentaries and talk shows— (8) studios inDoha, London and Washington, (9) international news beyond the MiddleEast. especially the developing countries often (10) by existingEnglish-language channels.
A1-Jazeera is already enjoying a fresh burst of (11) outside the MiddleEast.Around the same time that the interim government in Iraq ordered it to shut its bureau inBaghdad, westerners started watching "Control Room," a film sympathetic (12) the station directed by Jehane Noujaim.At a screening in London last week an audience of local journalists laughed along (13) al-Jazeera’s reporters and editors (14) the (15) of theAmerican military.
The biggest mystery about al-Jazeera surround its funding, which "Control Room" sadly did not (16) . Qatar has a new (17) in the world (18) to the station. That may be why the emir is willing to spend (19) anEnglish-language channel even (20) the originalArabic one is probably losing money.
A．forgotten
B．neglected
C．deserted
D．disregarded

网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：
特别是英语频道经常忽略的发展中国家。本题测试点为动词词义辨析。A意为“忘记”；B意为“忽视，忽略”；C意为“遗弃”；D意为“不理，漠视”。根据句意，B为正确答案。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>