问题 单项选择题

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.

[A] reason [B] cause [C] problem [D] purpose

答案

参考答案:D

解析:[考点] 词义辨析
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.

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