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?
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an event takes place, newspapers are on the streets
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the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, reports are on the spot to
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the news. Newspapers have one basic
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, to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to
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it.
Radio, telegraph, television, and
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inventions brought competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication.
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, this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the
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and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are
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and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out to many other fields.
Besides keeping readers
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of the latest news, today"s newspapers
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and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters. Newspapers influence readers" economic choices
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advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very
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. Newspapers are sold at a price that
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even a small fraction of the cost of production. The main
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of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The
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in selling advertising depends on a newspaper"s value to advertisers. This
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in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper? Circulation depends
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on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment
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in a newspaper"s pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspaper"s value to readers as a source of information
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the community, city, country, state, nation, and world—and even outer space.
【答案解析】[解析] 此题考查语义衔接。try to do sth. 尽力做某事；manage to do sth. 和succeed in doing sth. 都表示成功做成某事；fail to do sth. 没做成某事。后文even a small fraction表示对所提的事情没有办成，故答案为C。