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(特定) 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 out, glancing at one piece, reading another article all the way through, reading just a few paragraphs of the next. A good modern newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far more than any one reader is interesied 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 appears 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 news paper. 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.
单选题 A modern newspaper is remarkable for all the following except its ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:四个选项的意思分别是:"覆盖面大";"统一的风格";"时效性";"大众性,普及性"。文章第二行中提到了A项。第一段第十一行中提到了C项。第九行提到了D项。
单选题 According to the passage, the reason why no two people really read the "same" newspaper is that ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:文章认为没有两个读者真正阅读了相同的报纸,其原因是:依据文章倒数第六行,人们看报是看他们自己感兴趣的内容。C项扩大了范围,应排除。
单选题 It can be conclude from the passage that newspaper readers ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:根据第上题的讨论可以看出:没有两个读者阅读同样的报纸,是因为每个读者都是选择自己感兴趣的内容。再根据文章最后四行并综合以上得山的结论读者看报通常是有选择性的。
单选题 A good newspaper offers "a variety" to readers because ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:依据文章第九行可以看出,报纸提供各种各样的内容,是为了满足不同类型有不同阅读需求的读者。
单选题 The best title for this passage would be" ______".
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:选项A、C都有是文章涉及到的具体方面,不足用来概括整个文章的内容。D项与文章也无多大关系。至于文中提到了读者多半是有选择性的阅读报纸这一点,并非是给读者的建议。