单选题
Who won the World Cup 1994 football game? What happened at the United Nations? How did the critics like the new play?【C1】______en event takes place, newspapers are on the street【C2】______the details.【C3】______anything happens in the world, reporters are on the spot to gather the news. Newspapers have one basic【C4】______. to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to【C5】______it. Radio, telegraph, television, and【C6】______inventions brought competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication.【C7】______. this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the【C8】______and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are【C9】______and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to【C10】______out into many other fields. Besides keeping readers informed of the latest news, today's newspapers entertain and influence readers about politics and other important and serious【C11】______. Newspapers influence readers' economic choices【C12】______advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very【C13】______. Newspapers are sold at a price that【C14】______even a small fraction of the cost of production. The main【C15】______of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The【C16】______in selling advertising depends newspaper's value to advertisers. This【C17】______in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper? Circulation depends【C18】______on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment【C19】______in a newspaper's pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspaper's value to readers as a source of information【C20】______the community, city, county, state, nation and world — and even outer space.