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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.

[A] another [B] other [C] one another [D] the other

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参考答案:B

解析:[考点] 语法知识
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。)

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