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Passage Four

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 sports to business to fashion to science, and the range of comment and special features(特写)as well, from editorial page to feature article and interviews to criticism of books, art, theater, 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 interested in. What bring 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 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.

单选题

A modern paper is remarkable for all the following expect its ________.

【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】

文中第一段第二句话"It is remarkable first for what it contains: the range of news from local crime to international politics, from sports to business to fashion to science, and the range of comment and special features(特写)as well, from editorial page to feature article and interviews to criticism of books, art, theater, and music.提到的是 A 项的内容,即 wide coverage;第四句话 A good modern newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers…吻合了 popularity 的特点;第 五句...its topicality 揭示了其 speed in…(C 项)的特点,只有 B 项文中未体现。”故选择 B。

单选题

According to the passage, the reasons why no two people really read the "same" newspaper is that ________.

【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】

根据文中倒数第二句"For all these reasons, no two people really read the same paper"。

单选题

It can be concluded from the passage that newspaper readers ________.

【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】

根据文中第三句"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",可知读者读报纸时都是很有选择性的。故选 D。

单选题

A good newspaper offers “a variety” to readers because ________.

【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】

根据文中"A good modern newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far more than any one reader is interested in",故选 A。

单选题

The best title for this passage would be ________.

【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】

根据文章中心句,即开头第一句 A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading 可得出 B 是正确答案。