单选题 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 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 modem 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 modern newspaper is remarkable for all the following except its ______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。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。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“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 ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。文中倒数第二句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。

单选题 It can be conclude from the passage that newspaper readers ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 推理题。根据上一小题的讨论，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。

单选题 A good newspaper offers a variety to readers because ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。依据文中“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选项是正确答案。