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.
The best title for this passage would be ______.
A. The importance of Newspaper Topicality
B. The Characteristics of a Good Newspaper
C. The Variety of a Good Newspaper
D. Some Suggestions on How to Read a Newspaper
参考答案：B
解析：本题是主旨题。A、C选项都有文章涉及的具体方面，但不足以用来概括整个文章的内容。D选项“关于如何读报纸的一些建议”并不是文章的主要内容，只是在文章末尾涉及的基于好的现代报纸的特点而对阅读提出的要求。至于文中提到了读者多半是有选择性地阅读报纸这一点，也是作者分析得出的实际结果，并不是给读者的建议。进一步分析，如果文章前面讨论的是所有报纸的特点，而不是好的现代报纸的特点，进而以建议的口气提出“读者应该有选择性地阅读报纸”，那么D选项似乎也尚可考虑。B选项概括了整个文章的大意，反映了文章的主题和作者的写作意图，是作为文章题目的最佳选择。