1. (2022高一下·上海期中) After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word. Fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fit.

Today, getting information is as easy as browsing a webpage. (type) in a question and you will get a long list of links within a second. These websites promise to answer your questions. But actually, they may not be all that trustworthy. What do you do?

(figure) out which site is believable takes work. Fact-check is not impossible, though. In fact, it's what good journalists do every day. You can learn from the methods reporters use to determine the truth of what they get.

(check) a new claim, a reporter contacts experts on the topic. In journalism, such experts are known as "sources." A source may be a scientist who has discovered new in a lab. Or it could be a witness to a crime. The more strange or controversial(有争议的) a claim is, the more sources a reporter may need to contact.

Just because I read something doesn't mean I believe it. You should ask questions and double-check every factoid(令人信以为真的报导) as the reporters do.

Reporters who don't have much time or motivation may just quote the first scientist they encounter who (involve) in a study they are reporting on. They may believe all this scientist says. If the reporter doesn't get an outside comment, the reader will not know to what extent they should be able to trust the original source. Keep that in mind you read news reports.

Also, some "news" stories are written by organizations that are (interested) in promoting a certain viewpoint than they are in accurately reporting on a given event or situation. Also, there is a chance that the entire site may be biased(有偏见的), from the owners down to the journalists themselves, can cause them to willfully mislead their readers. You might search for the writer online and figure out who pays them.

What's more, was the person who had written the story or who had interviewed a given source named? Was this writer a journalist or just someone who had heard about some new claims? Did they describe what made the sources (qualify) to be experts in support of their story? You should be skeptical (怀疑的)— of everything you read, even here. That's acting like a journalist.