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] value [B] ratio [C] rate [D] speed
参考答案:C
解析:[考点] 词汇辨析能力
解答本题的关键是根据已知句意推断出所缺单词的意思,进而进行单词辨析。在原文中说的是“他们迅速利用那些更新、更快的通讯手段来改进自身的运作速度”,可见原文指的是相对于价值、成本、质量等因素而言的速度,因此正确答案是C选项。
[干扰项分析] 本句中表目的的动词不定式to improve后跟了由并列连词and连接的两个并列宾语,由已知的宾语部分的句意“进而提高其运作的效率”可推知空格处应是在说运作速度,因为提高速度才会进而提高效率,由此可排除A、B选项。rate和speed都有速度的意思,但rate表示“速率、速度”时一般是相对于价值、成本、质量等因素而言的,speed表示“速度”时侧重指运动的、发生或正在进行的速度,带有“快速”,“高速”之含义。