单选题
Who won the World Cup 2006 football game? What happened at the United Nations? How did the critics like the new play? (21) an event takes place, newspapers are on the streets (22) the detail. Wherever anything happens in the world, reporters are on the spots to (23) the news. Newspapers have one basic (24) , to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to (25) it. Radio, telegraph, television, and (26) inventions brought competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication. (27) , this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the (28) and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are (29) and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out into many other fields. Besides keeping readers (30) of the latest news, today's newspapers (31) and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters. Newspapers influence readers' economic choices (32) advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very (33) . Newspapers are sold at a price that (34) even a small fraction of the cost of production. The main (35) of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The (36) in selling advertising depends on a newspaper's value to advertisers. This (37) in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper? Circulation depends (38) on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment (39) in a newspaper's pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspaper's value to readers as a source of information (40) the community, city, county, state, nation, and world and even outer space.
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查名词辨析。该句句末为动词不定式“to give the news…”作目的状语,不难猜出前文所指应是:报纸的基本意图或办报纸的基本目的;reason“理由”;cause“起因”;problem“问题”词意均与文意不符;purpose“目的,意图”与文意相符。
单选题
A. make B. publish C. know D. write
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查动词辨析。根据句意:报纸从记者(those who make it)手里得到新闻的目的是给读者(those who want to read it)看。四选项分别为:make“制造”;publish“出版”;know“了解”;write“写作”,其中只有know的词义与句意相符。
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A. another B. other C. one another D. the other
单选题
A. inform B. be informed C. to be informed D. informed
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查语法。句子“keeping readers ______ the latest news”中的空格处应为readers的补足语,补充说明读者所处的状态;从上下文看,inform与readers之间的关系为被动关系,因此要选用表示被动意义的过去分词“informed”;选项[A]和[B]语法结构不对,因为句中缺的不是谓语动词;“to be informed”是动词不定式的被动态,但动词不定式表示一种将来的打算,而原句没有这种意思。综上所述,正确选项为[D]。
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A. entertain B. encourage C. educate D. edit
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查上下文理解。四词语意思分别为:entertain“娱乐”; encourage“鼓励”;educate“教育”;edit“编辑”。主语为“today's newspapers”,空格处与influence形成并列谓语,宾若为“readers”,介词短语“about politics and other important and serious matters”作状语,整句话的意思是“如今的报纸在政治及其他重大事件方面教育和影响着读者”。故educate是正确选项。
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查名词用法辨析。form“形式”;existence“存在,生存”;content“内容”;purpose“目的”。句子主干部分意为“报纸依赖广告”,后面是介词for引导的短语“for their very…”,for表示目的, very用于强调空格处所指的意思。比较四选项,existence与句意符合。整句话意思是“正是为了报纸的生存,报纸依赖于广告”。
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A. tries to cover B. manages to cover C. fails to cover D. succeeds in covering
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查上下文理解及词组辨析。try to cover“试图支付”; manage to cover“勉强支付”;fail to cover“不能支付”;succeed to cover“成功支付”。下文提到:“报纸的主要收入来自商业广告”,据此不难推断正确答案为[C]。
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A. offering B. offered C. which offered D. to be offered
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查语法。分析句子结构得知,动词offer的逻辑主语是“the services or entertainment”,它们之间为被动关系,因此表示主动意义的offering和which offered不合语法要求。to be offered是动词不定式,表示将来的打算,报纸上将要提供的服务与娱乐,在时间关系上不合逻辑。offered是过去分词,即表示被动又表示已存在的状态,符合原文。