03.6

　　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　 S1._______

　　losing their readers' interest and their advertisers' support.

　　Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial　 S2.________

　　minorities, the paper has put into place policies and

　　procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. The S3._______　 underlying reason for the change is that for information to be

　　fair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by the　 S4._________

　　same kind of population that reads it.

　　A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, and

　　photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times'　 S5.________

　　content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff about

　　diversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a content　 S6.________

　　audit(審查) that evaluates the frequency and manner of

　　representation of woman and people of color in photographs.　 S7._________

　　Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far too

　　infrequently and were pictured with a disproportionate

　　number of negative articles. The audit results from　 S8.________

　　improvement in the frequency of majority representation and　 S9.________

　　their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with a　 S10._______

　　result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.

　　The diversity training and content audits helped the Seattle

　　Times Company to win the Personnel Journal Optimal Award

　　for excellence in managing change.

　　03.9

　　"Home, sweet home" is a phrase that expresses an essential attitude

　　in the United States. Whether the reality of life in the family

　　house is sweet or no sweet. The cherished ideal of home has great S1.________

　　importance for many people.

　　This ideal is a vital part of the American dream. This dream,

　　dramatized in the history of nineteenth-century European settlers of the

　　American West, was to find a piece of place, build a house for one's S2.________

　　family, and started a farm. These small households were portraits of S3.________

　　independence: the entire family--mother, father, children, even

　　grandparents—live in a small house and working together to support　 S4.________

　　each other. Anyone understood the life and death importance of family S5.________

　　cooperation and hard work.

　　Although most people in the United States no longer live on

　　farms, but the ideal of home ownership is just as strong in the twentieth　 S6.________

　　century as it was in the nineteenth.

　　When U.S, soldiers came home before World War II, for　 S7.________

　　example, they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there S8.________

　　was a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically

　　in the suburbs, were often small and more or less identical, but it S9.________

　　satisfied a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of　 S10.________

　　their way of life.