For months Twitter, the micro-blogging service, has received the kind of free attention of which most companies can only dream. Politicians, corporate bosses, activists and citizens【C1】______the platform to catch every tweet of America's new president, who has become the service's【C2】______"The whole world is watching Twitter,"【C3】______Jack Dorsey, the company's chief executive,【C4】______he presented its results on February 9th. He has little else to brag about. But Donald Trump has not provided the kind of boost the【C5】______firm really needs. It reported【C6】______revenue growth and a loss of $ 167m. User growth has been sluggish, too; it added just 2m users in that period. Facebook added 72m. The day of the results, shares in Twitter dropped by 12%.【C7】______news outlets around the world already report【C8】______Mr Trump's most sensational tweets, many do not feel compelled to join the platform to【C9】______them. Others are【C10】______by mobs of trolls and large amounts of misinformation. And not【C11】______Mr Trump could change the cold, hard truth about Twitter: that it can never be Facebook. True, it has become one of the most important【C12】______for public and political【C13】______among its 319m monthly users. It played an important role in the Arab spring and【C14】______such as Black Lives Matter. But the platform's freewheeling nature makes it hard to spin gold from.【C15】______, really trying to do so—by packing Twitter feeds【C16】______advertising, say—would drive away users. Twitter's latest results are likely to encourage those who think it should never have become a【C17】______listed company, and want it to consider alternate models of ownership, such as a co-operative. They【C18】______Twitter as a kind of public utility—a "people's platform" —the management of which should concern public【C19】______rather more than commercial ones. If the company were cooperatively owned by users, it would be【C20】______from short-term pressure to please its investors and meet earnings targets.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】解析：词汇辨析题。[A]chairman主席，董事长；[B]director负责人；[C]spokesman代言人；[D]supervisor监管者。原文说America's new president，who has become the service's2 ．“这位美国新总统已然成为该服务商的______。”下文明确指出The whole world is watching Twitter．“全世界都在关注推特。”说明美国总统为推特进行了免费宣传，故该空最合适的答案为[C]。

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】解析：连词辨析题。[A]since自从；[B]after之后；[C]before之前；[D]as当……时。原文说“The whole world is watching Twitter，” 3 Jack Dorsey，the company’s chief executive， 4 he presented its results on February 9th．“2月9日，公司首席执行官杰克-多西在发布财报______夸口道：‘全世界都在关注推特’。”很显然，该空填入关于时间的词，只有as符合语境，故本题选择[D]。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】解析：形容词辨析题。[A]prosperous繁荣的；[B]innovative创新的；[C]struggling挣扎的；[D]unlucky倒霉的。该空填入一个形容词修饰firm“公司”一词，文中firm指的是“推特”。从第二段大量信息可以推断，本段关于推特的表述是负面的，其中第二句loss“损失”一词是最直接的体现。故可以判断，该空应该填入负面词汇，可以排除[A][B]两项。剩余两项中，[C]更加合理，因为下文说推特亏损巨大，说明该公司在苦苦挣扎，struggling为最合适的修饰词，故本题选择[C]。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：形容词辨析题。[A]slowing放缓的；[B]difficult困难的；[C]prompt迅速的；[D]resurgent复苏的。原文说It reported 6 revenue growth and a loss of $ 167m．根据and提示同义复现的原理，本空与下文的loss意思相近，故该空填入的词为负面词汇，选项[C]可以排除。而文章下一句有更直接的提示：User growth has been sluggish，too…其中，too一词也体现并列、同义复现，故sluggish为最直接提示词，该词表示“缓慢的”，与其同义复现的选项为[A]slowing放缓的，故[A]为正确答案。

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】解析：介词辨析题。[A]to到；[B]in在……里；[C]at在……；[D]on在……上，关于。原文说：report 8 Mr Trump's most sensational tweets．其中，report to表示“报告，报到”，对象往往是人，而本句的对象是tweets“推文”，故[A]可以排除。[B][C]与report不搭配，可以排除。故本题选择[D]。report on表示“就……作报道”。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：动词辨析题。[A]discover发现；[B]observe观察；[C]discuss讨论；[D]debate辩论。该空所在句子的大意为“由于世界各地的新闻媒体都已经报道了特朗普最具爆炸性的推文，很多人觉得没必要再到这一平台去查看了。”该空应填入discover一词，文中可以理解为“查看”。[B]显然无法搭配；[C][D]两项意思相近，可以排除。综上，本题选择[A]。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】解析：词组辨析题。[A]given up放弃；[B]taken away带走；[C]put off推迟，阻止，使对……失去兴趣；[D]sent back送回。该段最后两句讲述推特用户增长缓慢的原因，其中该句是第二个原因：Others are 10 by mobs of trolls and large amounts of misinformation．其中mobs of trolls可以理解为“网络喷子”，large amounts of misinformation意为“大量虚假信息”，该句说明其他人因为这些网络喷子和虚假信息对推特失去兴趣，故该空选择put off。注意：given up不能与by一起用，given up by变成“被放弃”，其他人被网络喷子和虚假信息放弃，显然不符合逻辑，故不选[A]。本题答案为[C]。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】解析：词汇辨析题。[A]websites网站；[B]services服务；[C]businesses生意；[D]industries产业。原文说：True，it has become one of the most important 12…其中it指“推特”，而原文第一句就提到Twitter，the micro-blogging service，可见推特是一个“微博服务商”，故该题选择service，本题属于原词复现。“用户交流”更多的是一种服务，而[A]websites表示“网站”，不正确。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：名词辨析题。本题关键提示为后文的such as Black Lives Matter，后文举例是为了说明上文，文中的Black Lives Matter“黑人生命不容忽视”显然是一项movement“运动”。activity“活动”，一般不指政治运动；migration强调“迁徙，移动，移民”；action则泛指“行动”，也与政治运动无关，故本题选择[A]。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】解析：逻辑关系题。[A]In a word总之；[B]As a result结果；[C]In fact事实上；[D]At least至少。该句是为了进一步说明上一句，原文说：But the platform's freewheeling nature makes it hard to spin gold from． 15 ，really trying to do so一by packing Twitter feeds16 advertising，say—would drive away users．“但是这个平台随心所欲的本质让人很难从中掘金。______，真试图这么做的话，例如将推特订阅跟广告捆绑，反而会把用户赶走。”选项[A]表示“总之”，是总结性逻辑词，显然此处并没有总结全文，故可以排除该项；选项[B]表示“结果”，属于因果逻辑，文中此处也没有强调因果；剩余[C][D]两项代入原文，符合语境的为in fact，故本题选择[C]。

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】解析：介词辨析题。[A]back往回；[B]against对抗；[C]for为了；[D]with与……一起。本题考查与pack形成搭配的介词，选项中唯有with能与之形成搭配，pack with表示“塞满，塞进”，文中意为“捆绑”，Twitter feeds表示“推特推送／推特订阅”，pack Twitter feeds with advertising表示“把推特订阅与广告进行捆绑”，故本题答案为[D]。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】解析：名词辨析题。[A]investments投资；[B]behaviors行为；[C]interests利益；[D]policies政策。原文提到：They view Twitter as a kind of public utility—a“people's platform”一the management of which should concern public 19 rather more than commercial ones．“他们将推特视为一种公共设施______一个‘大众平台’，认为它的管理应当以公共______为重，而非商业______。”既然推特被认为是“大众平台”，肯定是以大众“利益”为重，选项[C]最符合语境。