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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 教师资格《高中英语》备考试题5 教师资格考试模拟题：2019教师资格《高中英语》备考试题5 教师资格考试精英通关课程  Passage 1  Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter, Elisabeth, spoke of the “unsettling dearth of integrity　across so many of our institutions”. Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance  that the only “sorting mechanism” in society should be profit and the market. But “it’s us, human beings, we the people who create the society we want, not profit”. Driving her point home, she continued: “It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose, of a　moral language within government, media or business could become one of the most dangerous goals for　capitalism and freedom.” This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News　International, she thought, making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal　telephone hacking. As the hacking trial concludes—finding guilty one ex-editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones, and finding his predecessor, Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same　charge—the wider issue of dearth of integrity still stands. Journalists are known to have hacked the phone　of up to 5,500 people. This is hacking on an industrial scale, as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the　man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking. Others await trial. This long story still unfolds. In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone　hacking but the terms on which the trial took place. One of the astonishing revelations was how little　Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, how little she thought to ask and the fact that she　never inquired how the stories arrived. The core of her successful defence was that she knew nothing. In today’s world, it has become normal that well-paid executives should not be accountable for what　happe