四、閱讀測驗【請依照段落上下文意，選出最適當的答案】 第一篇：
Barbara Walters is an American journalist known particularly for her highly effective technique in television
interviews of world-renowned figures.
Walters graduated in 1951 from Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, and, after brief employment in
an advertising agency, she became assistant to the publicity director for New York City’s NBC-affiliated television
station. There she gained experience in writing and producing for television. Soon she was hired as a news and public
affairs producer and writer by the CBS television network. In 1961 she became a writer for the popular NBC morning
show Today and did occasional on-air feature stories.
Walters was hired in 1964 as the “Today Girl,” a job that had traditionally involved little more than being
attractive, making small talk, and reading commercials. She soon expanded that narrow role, making a place for
herself among the Today show’s panel of commentators and newsreaders. Her intelligence and camera presence,
together with the solid journalistic work she did on her feature stories, made her one of the most popular personalities
on the program, and in 1974 she was named cohost of Today with Hugh Downs. The following year she won an
Emmy for her work on the show.
In 1976 Walters made headlines by signing a five-year contract with ABC that made her the first woman to
co-anchor an evening network news program and, with a salary of $1 million per year, the highest-paid journalist at
that time. In 1978 she left the program. The following year she joined the ABC newsmagazine show 20/20 as
correspondent, becoming cohost with Downs in 1984; she remained with the program until 2004.
Walters was particularly known for her interviews with world notables. A tenacious pursuer of elusive figures in
the news, she obtained exclusive interviews for her popular Barbara Walters Specials, which premiered in 1976. Her
disarmingly direct questioning drew many subjects into frequently interesting and occasionally provocative moments
of self-revelation.
【題組】41. What is the main idea of this passage?
(A) Barbara Walters made millions of dollars as a successful anchorwoman.
(B) Barbara Walters was very effective interviewing world famous people.
(C) It gives a brief history about who Barbara Walters was and how she became a successful journalist and TV host.
(D) It describes how she made headlines by co-anchoring an evening network news program.
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