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 sports 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 interested 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 news paper. 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.
A modem newspaper is remarkable for all the following except its ______.
A. wide coverage
B. uniform style
C. speed in reporting news
D. popularity
参考答案：B
解析：本题是是非题。本题问及现代报纸值得注意的原因，但问的是for all the following except its。四个选项的意思分别是：wide coverage广泛的新闻报道(范围)；uniform style统一的风格；speed in reporting news新闻报道的速度；popularity大众性，普及性。依据文中第二句“...the range of news from local crime to international poetics, from sports to...as well”可知A选项是原因。依据文中中间“What brings this variety together in one place is its topicality, its immediate relation to what is happening in your world and your locality now.”可知C选项是原因。再依据此前一句“A good modem newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers. But far more than any one reader is interested in.”可知D选项也是原因。只有B选项在文章中没有提及，所以B选项正确。