Passage 4
A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It is remarkable first for what it contains: the range of news from local crime to international politics, from sport to business to fashion to science, and the range of comment and special features (特写) as well, from editorial page to feature articles and interviews to criticism of books, art, theatre and music. A newspaper is even more remarkable for the way one reads it: never completely, never straight through, but always by jumping from here to there, in and not glancing at one piece, reading another article all the way through, reading just a few paragraphs of the next. A good modern newspaper offers variety to attract many different readers, but far more than any one reader is interested in. What brings this variety together in one place is its topicality (时事性), its immediate relation to what is happening in your world and your locality now, but immediacy and the speed of production that goes with it mean also that much of what papers in a newspaper has no more than transient (短暂的) value. For all these reasons, no two people really read the same paper: what each person does is to put together out of the pages of that day's paper, his own selection and sequence, his own newspaper. For all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently, which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need but without wasting time, demands skill and self-awareness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading.
A modern newspaper is remarkable for all the following except its ________.
文章中提到报纸好的原因在于其覆盖面广、随性的阅读方式、 时事性等,并未提及统一的风格。故选B。
According to the passage, the reason why no two people really read the “same” newspaper is that ________.
文章倒数第二句提到“For all these reasons, no two people really read the same paper: what each person does is to put together out of the pages of that day's paper, his own selection and sequence, his own newspaper.”。由此可知,由于人们的兴趣不同,人们对阅读内容的选 择也会不同,因此没有人能真正阅读同一份报纸。故选C。
It can be concluded from the passage that newspaper readers ________.
文章中间部分提到人们阅读报纸的方式“never completely, never straight through, but always by jumping from here to there, in and not glancing at one piece, reading another article all the way through, reading just a few paragraphs of the next”。由此可知,人们读报都是挑着阅读的。故选D。
A good newspaper offers “a variety” to readers because ________.
文章中间部分提到“A good modern newspaper offers variety to attract many different readers”,一份好的报纸提供多样化的内容的原因是为了吸引不同的读者。故选A。
The best title for this passage would be “________”.
通读全文可知,本文介绍了一份好的报纸所拥有的几大特点。 故选B。