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] tries to cover [B] manages to cover [C] fails to cover [D] succeeds in covering

答案

参考答案:C

解析:[考点] 语义辨析、背景知识
解答本题的关键是推断出报纸售出的价格能否支付其一小部分的生产成本。由下文提到报纸的收入主要源于商业广告及常识(报纸的售价一般很低)可推断出报纸售出的价格甚至不能支付其一小部分的生产成本,选项中只有C是否定的意思,所以答案是C选项。
[干扰项分析] 如选A、B选项,原句的意思为“报纸以能设法支付其一小部分的生产成本的价格售出”,显然表达的意思不合常识;同理,D选项意为“……成功地支付……”,既不合常识也不合文意。

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