Who won the World Cup 1998 football game? What happened at the United Nations? How did the critics like the new play? ___ 1 ___ an event takes place, newspapers are on the streets giving the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, reporters are on the spot to gather the news. Newspapers have one basic ___ 2 ___, to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to ___ 3 ___ it. Radio, telegraph, television , and ___ 4 ___ inventions brought competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication. ___ 5 ____, this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. They quickly make use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the ___ 6 ___ and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are ___ 7 ___ and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out into many other fields. Besides keeping readers ___ 8 ___ of the latest news, today’s newspapers educate and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters. Newspapers influence readers’ economic choices ___ 9 ___ advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very ___ 10 ___. Newspapers are sold at a price that ___ 11 ___ even a small fraction of the cost of production. The main ___ 12 ___ of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The success in selling advertising depends on a newspaper’s value to advertisers. This ___ 13 ___ in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper? Circulation depends somewhat on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment ___ 14 ___ in a newspaper’s pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspaper’s value to readers as source of information___ 15 ___ the community, city, country, state, nation and world .

1. A. Just when B. While C. Soon after D. Before

2. A. reason B. cause C. problem D. purpose

3. A. make B. publish C. know D. write

4. A. another B. other C. one another D. the other

5. A. However B. And C. Therefore D. So

6. A. value B. ratio C. rate D. speed

7. A. spread B. passed C. printed? D. completed

8. A. inform B. be informed C. to be informed D. infor med

9. A. on B. through C. with D. of

10.A. forms B. existence C. contents D. purpose

11.A. tries to cover B. manages to cover C. fails to cover D. succeeds in

12.A. source B. origin C. course D. finance

13.A. measures B. measured C. is measured D. was measured

14. A. offering B. offered C. which offered D. to be offered

15.A. by B. with C. at D. abou

參考答案

1. C) 根據(jù)上下文，此空應(yīng)為介詞，故AB被排除，因它們后邊不能直接跟名詞短語。根據(jù)句義，C正確

2. D) 根據(jù)語義線索（報紙有一個基本目的就是以最快速度從新聞來源處得到新聞）可知D正確

3. C) 根據(jù)語義線索C正確

4. B) 此題涉及other, another 兩詞的用法。Other可以單獨使用也可以和定冠詞the一起使用，other一般用來修飾表示不確定所指的復(fù)數(shù)可數(shù)名詞，意為 “其他”；the other用來指代或修飾特定范圍內(nèi)的第二者或第三者等，不妥。Another一般修飾可數(shù)名詞單數(shù)，不合適。One another是相互代詞，不能作限定詞。綜上，根據(jù)語法線索，B正確

5. A) 根據(jù)上下文，該句句義有轉(zhuǎn)折，故表示轉(zhuǎn)折意義的關(guān)系副詞A However正確。其它三詞：and為表示并列關(guān)系的并列連詞；therefore和so為表示因果關(guān)系的關(guān)系副詞

6. D) 根據(jù)上下文，報紙報道新聞應(yīng)該發(fā)展更新更快的通訊方式，可知其目的是為提高速度從而提高效率。D正確

7. C) 排除法。根據(jù)語義線索（今天印刷的和人們閱讀的報紙比以往任何時候都多）可將A，B和D排除

8. D) 此題涉及動詞keep的用法。動詞keep后可接復(fù)雜賓語結(jié)構(gòu)，即賓語+賓語補語的結(jié)構(gòu)。形容詞， ed分詞，ing分詞等都可作賓補。其中 ed分詞表示被動含義，ing分詞表示主動含義。此句句義為“除了使讀者知悉最新的新聞外 … ”，因此根據(jù)語法線索，含有被動意義的D正確

9. B)根據(jù)句義可知此空應(yīng)使用意為“通過”的介詞。故選項B through 為正確答案

10. B) 根據(jù)上下文可推斷此句大概句義為“報紙通過廣告維持它們的存在”，故B existence“存在”正確

11. C) 根據(jù)上下句句義可以推斷，報紙不是通過出售其本身所得來維持其生存，而是通過刊登廣告的收入來維持其生存，并且對于大多數(shù)的報紙來說主要的經(jīng)費來源是商業(yè)廣告，而不是出售報紙，因此可以猜測出報紙的售價不能涵蓋其制作印刷成本，因此C正確。其它三項意義不符

12. A) 根據(jù)上句可推斷此句的答案只能從A、B兩項之間產(chǎn)生。Origin意為“起源，根源”不合適。故A source“來源”正確

13. C) 根據(jù)此句義“這（報紙對廣告商的價值）是以報紙的發(fā)行量來衡量” 及上下文可推斷此空應(yīng)填動詞的被動形式，C正確

14. B) B為 ed分詞作后置定語

15. D) 根據(jù)詞匯線索和語義線索可知，此處需要使用介詞about，表示“關(guān)于社區(qū)、國家和世界的信息”