单选题
[2011年典型真题]America’s most popular newspaper website today announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a close．The New York Times has become the biggest publisher yet to【B1】_____ plans for a paywall around its digital offering，【B2】_____ the accepted practice that internet users will not pay for news． Struggling【B3】_____an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street corner sales，The New York Times【B4】_____to introduce a“metered”model at the beginning of 2011．Readers will be required to pay when they have【B5】_____a set number of its online articles per month． The decision puts the 159-year-old newspaper【B6】_____the charging side of an increasingly wide chasm(鸿沟)in the media industry．But others，including the Guardian，have said they will not【B7】_____internet readers，and certain papers，【B8】_____London’s Evening Standard，have gone further in abandoning readership revenue by making their print editions 【B9】_____． The New York Times’s publisher，Arthur Sulzberger，【B10】_____that the move is a gamble：“This is a【B11】_____，to a certain degree，in where we think the web is going．” Boasting a print【B12】_____of 995000 on weekdays and 1．4 million on Sundays，The New York Times is the third bestselling American newspaper，【B13】_____the Wall Street Journal and USA Today．【B14】_____most US papers focus on a single city，The New York Times is among the few that can【B15】_____national scope-as well as 16 bureaus in the New York area．it has 11 offices around the US and【B16】_____26 bureaus elsewhere in the world． But【B17】_____ many in the publishing industry，the paper is in the grip of a【B18】_____financial crisis．Its parent company，the New York Times Company，has 15 papers，but【B19】_____a loss of$70 million in the nine months to September and recently accepted a$250 million【B20】_____from a Mexican billionaire。Carlos Slim，to strengthen its balance sheet．