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? (1) an event takes place, newspapers are on the streets (2) the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, reporters are on the spot to (3) the news. Newspapers have one basic (4) , to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to (5) it. Radio, telegraph, television, and (6) inventions brought competition for newspaper. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication. (7) , this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the (8) and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are (9) and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out into many other fields. Besides keeping readers (10) of the latest news, today's newspapers (11) and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters. Newspapers influence readers' economic choices (12) advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for very (13) . Newspapers are sold at a price that (14) even a small fraction of the cost of production. The main (15) of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The (16) in selling advertising depends on a newspaper's value to advertisers. This (17) in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper? Circulation depends (18) on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment (19) in a newspaper's pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspaper's value to readers as a source of information (20) the community, city, county, state, nation, and world—and even outer space.
单选题
[A] Just when [B] While [C] Soon after [D] Before
单选题
[A] to give [B] giving [C] given [D] being given
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[考点] 语法知识 [解析] 比较四个选项,“are to give”表目的,意为:会提供或给提供;“are...giving”表现在进行,意为:正在提供;“are given”、“are being given”均表被动,意为:被提供、正在被提供。报纸提供详情是符合逻辑的主动表达,因此newspapers和details间不应用被动,可排除C、D选项;上句说在事件发生不久后,这句如果用一般现在进行时和上句无法搭配也不合文意,因此B选项也可排除。
【答案解析】[考点] 词义辨析 [解析] 本题空格后跟的动词不定式是对空格处需填入名词的解释,空格后的大致句意是“报纸尽可能快地使消息传达……”,比较四个选项,只有D选项意为“报纸的一个基本目的或意图是……”,和后句的意思吻合,因此正确答案为D选项。 [干扰项分析] A、B选项显然不合文意,但应注意两者的区别:reason着重指解释或说明某事发生的理由或原因,cause着重指产生或造成某事发生的原因,往往指造成不好的影响。例如:①The reason for which he was late was that he got up late.②The cause of the accident was his carelessness.
单选题
[A] another [B] other [C] one another [D] the other
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[考点] 语法知识 [解析] 解答本题的要点是辨析什么样的词可以直接修饰复数名词。空格后的inventions是复数名词,比较四个选项只有other可直接修饰复数名词,因此正确答案是B选项。本句的意思是:电台、电报、电视以及其他发明给报纸带来了竞争。 [干扰项分析] another泛指同类事物中三者或三者以上的“另一个”,其后接单数名词或of加复数名词、数字加复数名词。例如:Would your like another drink?(还想喝一杯吗?)I have got another three questions to do.(我还有三个问题要解答。)other泛指“其他的(人或物)”,其后可接复数名词;the other是限定范围的修饰,指两个人或物中的另一个,后接单数名词;one another后不接名词,意为彼此、相互,例如:The sea and the sky seem to melt into one another.(大海和蓝天似乎融为一体。)
单选题
[A] however [B] And [C] Therefore [D] Furthermore
单选题
[A] forms [B] existence [C] contents [D] purpose
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[考点] 语义辨析 [解析] 依据下文的提示信息“newspapers are sold at a price...”(报纸售出的价格……)、“...income for most newspapers...”(……大多数报纸的收入……)可推断出本句意指“多数报纸依赖广告的目的是为了生存,由此可知B选项为正确答案。 [干扰项分析] form还有一层意思指“体能,良好的健康状态”,但这层意思通常指人或动物的状态,所以用在原句不符合表达习惯;而C、D选项放入原文语义不通顺。
单选题
[A] tries to cover [B] manages to cover [C] fails to cover [D] succeeds in covering
【答案解析】[考点] 词义辨析 [解析] 空格所在句子的大致意思为“对于多数报纸而言,其收入的主要______是商业广告”。通读该句,不难推出四个选项中只有“来源”符合语义,“来源”和income搭配也符合表达习惯,因此正确答案为A选项。 [干扰项分析] source和origin易被混淆,一定要分清。source指来源,origin指起源,例如:Your local library will be a useful source of information.(你们当地图书馆就是很好的资料来源。)the origins of life on earth(地球上生命的起源)。
单选题
[A] somewhat [B] little [C] much [D] something
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[考点] 语篇分析,词义辨析 [解析] 解答本题的关键是判断出“发行量取决于发行部的工作……”的程度,依据下旬中的but for the most part...(但在很大程度上……),我们可以推出空格处应填入的是小于很大程度的词,所以首先可排除C选项,A选项放入原文意思是“在一定程度上……”,完全符合语义,因此A选项是正确答案。 [干扰项分析] 如选B选项,意为“发行量很少取决于……”,这既不合常识,也和后面的“但在很大程度上……”衔接不上;something指某事,某物,不表示程度,因此也不合要求。
单选题
[A] offering [B] offered [C] which offered [D] to be offered
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[考点] 语法知识及背景知识 [解析] 本题考查非谓语动词offer(提供)做后置定语的用法。句中的services or entertainment后接定语对其修饰,服务或娱乐不可能是自己主动的出现在版面上,因此应用offer表被动的形式,由此首先可排除A选项;而过去分词可做后置定语表被动,因此正确答案为B选项。 [干扰项分析] 若用定语从句,则应用which are offered,所以C选项的语态错误;to be offered表示“将要被提供的”,意思与常识不符。