A good modem 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 ______.