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The torrid market conditions, coupled with one-off charges for ongoing legal action relating to allegations of historical phone hacking, resulted in pre-tax losses more than tripling from ￡67.8m in 2019 to ￡201.4m last year. As a result, News Group Newspapers,

the subsidiary of News UK that operates the Sun and the Sun on Sunday, moved to write down the value of the titles to zero. The ￡84m non-cash “impairment of publishing rights” essentially means that the publisher does not believe the titles will return to positive growth.

思考题：

News Group Newspapers wrote down the value of the Sun and the Sun on Sunday because______.

A.they have lost publishing rights

B.their pre-tax losses have tripled

C.they have been impaired legally

D.their content quality has dropped

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句子解析：

第一句：

The torrid market conditions, coupled with one-off chargesfor ongoing legal action relating to allegations of historical phone hacking, resulted in pre-tax lossesmore than tripling from ￡67.8m in 2019 to ￡201.4m last year.

参考译文：糟糕的市场状况，加上持续的与过去电话窃听指控相关的法律诉讼的一次性费用，导致税前损失从 2019 年的6780万英镑增加到去年的2.01

4亿英镑，增幅超过两倍。

第二句：

As a result, News Group Newspapers, the subsidiary of News UKthat operates the Sun and the Sun on Sunday, moved to write down the value of the titles to zero.

参考译文：因此，经营《太阳报》和《星期日太阳报》的新闻集团（英国新闻集团的子公司）将报纸的价值减记为零。

第三句：

The ￡84m non-cash “impairmentof publishing rights”essentiallymeans that the publisher does not believe the titles will return to positive growth.

参考译文：8400万英镑的非现金“出版权减值”意味着实质上出版商不相信报纸能恢复正增长。

思考题解析：

News Group Newspapers wrote down the value of the Sun and the Sun on Sunday because______.

就是钱的事！

读懂了吗？！

A. the87y have lost publishing rights

（它们失去了出版权）

A选项错误。

B. their pre-tax losses have tripled

（它们的税前损翻了三倍）

B选项正确。

C. they have been impaired legally

（它们在法律上受到了损害）

C选项错误。

D. their content quality has dropped

（它们的内容质量下降了）

D选项错误。

Murdoch writes down value of pandemic-hit Sun to zero

默多克将受疫情影响的太阳报价值减记为零

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jun/11/rupert-murdoch-writes-down-value-of-sun-newspapers-to-zero

背景：英国的《太阳报》是默多克拥有的一份旗舰大众报纸，曾是全英国销量最高的报刊之一（去年被《每日邮报》打败）。但2013年该报的管理人员和记者涉及非法窃听和收买新闻，因而欠下了巨额的司法费用，再加上疫情对市场的冲击，营收也显著下滑。虽然近两年，该企业采取了不少措施降低销售和市场成本40%，将员工人数从605减少至546，但仍不能阴止损失。鉴于种种不利因素，《太阳报》的所有者新闻报纸集团将其出版权价值减记为零，表示不再对其长期前景积极展望。

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