A．seek the truth

　　B．check the facts

　　C．see every issue from different angles

　　D．be unwilling to say no to others

　　答案：D　细节理解题。根据第五段可知，A、B、C三项都是一个好记者应该做的。由"and he's willing to say no"一个好记者愿意说不，可知选D。

　　4．As for Richard, which of the following is the most important to a good reporter?

　　A．Honesty. B．Quickness.

　　C．Courage. D．Curiosity.

　　答案：C　细节理解题。根据最后一段中的"the big thing is courage"可知，在他看来，勇气是一名优秀的记者最应具备的素质。故选C。

　　B

　　Robert Michael Lipsyte is an American sports journalist and author. He was born on January 16, 1938 in New York. Lipsyte's father was a school head teacher, his mother a teacher. Instead of sharing a game of catching with his father, the two often visited the library and read books. One of Lipsyte's children, Sam Lipsyte, is also an author and teacher at ColumbiaUniversity in New York.

　　In the first chapter of his book SportsWorld, Lipsyte points out that he did not even attend his first Major League Baseball game until he was thirteen years old. Lipsyte says he was very disappointed with his experience at the game and went to only one more game "as a paying customer". His third Major League Baseball game was as a sports reporter for TheNewYorkTimes.

As a boy, Lipsyte did play sports, but he felt acute pressure to do better than others at sports which discouraged his interest. This experience later developed into a major theme in some of Lipsyte's non­fiction works such as SportsWorld and novels like JockandJill and