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