单选题
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 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 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 modem newspaper is remarkable for all the following except its ______. A. wide coverage B. uniform style C. speed in reporting news D. popularity
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】本题是是非题。本题问及现代报纸值得注意的原因，但问的是for all the following except its。四个选项的意思分别是：wide coverage广泛的新闻报道(范围)；uniform style统一的风格；speed in reporting news新闻报道的速度；popularity大众性，普及性。依据文中第二句“...the range of news from local crime to international poetics, from sports to...as well”可知A选项是原因。依据文中中间“What brings this variety together in one place is its topicality, its immediate relation to what is happening in your world and your locality now.”可知C选项是原因。再依据此前一句“A good modem newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers. But far more than any one reader is interested in.”可知D选项也是原因。只有B选项在文章中没有提及，所以B选项正确。
单选题
According to the passage, the reason why no two people really read the same newspaper is that ______. A. people scan for the news they are interested in B. different people prefer different newspapers C. people are rarely interested in the same kind of news D. people have different views about what a good newspaper is
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】本题是细节题。文中倒数第二句“For all these reason, 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.”认为没有两个读者真正阅读了“相同的”报纸，是因为：每个人所做的都是从当天的报纸中按他自己的选择和顺序把他自己想看的内容放在一起，也就是说人们看报是看他们自己感兴趣的内容。所以A选项是正确答案。B选项“不同的人喜欢不同的报纸”和文中所说的“在当天的报纸中找到他感兴趣的部分”不是一回事。而C选项“人们很少对同一种新闻感兴趣”也不对，作者隐含的意思是“人们所感兴趣的东西很少会完全一样”，而C选项并不是这个意思。D选项“至于什么是好的报纸，人们对此看法不一。”文中并没有谈到人们对报纸好坏的看法，而是指出由于人们不同的兴趣，所以每个人所读的报纸各不相同，所以D选项不符合题意。
单选题
It can be conclude from the passage that newspaper readers ______. A. apply reading techniques skillfully B. jump from one newspaper to another C. appreciate the variety of a newspaper D. usually read a newspaper selectively
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】本题是推断题。根据第37题的讨论，可以看出：没有两个读者阅读同样的报纸，是因为每个读者都有自己感兴趣的内容。再根据文中最后一句“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.”可以得出结论“读者看报通常是有选择性的”。所以D选项是正确答案。A选项“熟练地应用阅读技巧”和文中所说的“当你在修正和应用阅读技巧时要求阅读技巧熟练和自我意识”不是一个意思。
单选题
A good newspaper offers a variety to readers because ______. A. it tries to serve different readers B. it has to cover things that happen in a certain locality C. readers are difficult to please D. readers like to read different newspapers
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】本题是细节题。依据文章中间“A good modem newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far more than any one reader is interested in.”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。所以A选项正是正确答案。
单选题
The best title for this passage would be ______. A. The importance of Newspaper Topicality B. The Characteristics of a Good Newspaper C. The Variety of a Good Newspaper D. Some Suggestions on How to Read a Newspaper