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] on [B] through[C] with [D] of
参考答案：B
解析：[考点] 词语搭配
解答本题的关键是判断出报纸影响读者在经济方面的选择和广告之间的关系，进而选择贴切的介词。显然，报纸是凭借广告对读者在经济方面有影响，空处through与influence搭配，表示“通过(某种手段或途径)”来施加影响，因此B选项符合要求。
[干扰项分析] with也常与动词搭配，表示用……，但其后面一般接某种工具；若用on，则此句表达的意思是“……影响读者在广告方面的经济选择”，这与上下文意思不符；若用of，语义不通。