There is one more point I feel I ought to touch on. Recently I heard a well-known television personality declare that he was against advertising because it persuades rather than informs. He was drawing excessively fine distinctions. Of course advertising seeks to persuade.

　　If its message were confined merely to information-and that in itself would be difficult if not impossible to achieve, for even a detail such as the choice of the colour of a shirt is subtly persuasive----advertising would be so boring that no one would pay any attention. But perhaps that is what the well-known television personality wants.

　　51. By the first sentence of the passage the author means that__.

　　[A] he is fairly familiar with the cost of advertising

　　[(B) everybody knows well that advertising is money consuming

　　[C]) advertising costs money like everything else

　　[D] it is worthwhile to spend money on advertising

　　[答案] C

　　[解题思路]

　　本题可以直接从分析该句的角度解题。原句是“Money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any I know of”，as well as的意思是“也，和……一样”，而“spent as well as any I know of”用来形容该词组前面的money这个词，此外any 后面为了避免重复省略了money这个词。因此整个句子的译文是“把钱花在做广告上是我所知道的最好的花钱方式”，可见C选项符合原文意思。其余三个选项的意思都包含了原句之外的信息。

　　[题目译文]

　　作者通过本文第一句想表达的意思是 。

　　[A] 他对于广告成本的状况相当了解

　　[B] 每个人都清楚地知道打广告要用很多钱

　　[C] 打广告就像任何其他事情一样需要花钱

　　[D] 在广告上花钱是值得的