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.

11()

A.entertain

B.encourage

C.educate

D.edit

答案

参考答案:C

解析:

[考点] 背景知识

空格处所在句子的大致意思为:今天的报纸还在政治以及其他重要且严肃的问题方面对读者进行______和施加影响。按照常识,报纸是政治的喉舌,由此可推知在政治以及其他重要且严肃的问题方面,报纸教育、影响其读者,比较四个选项只有C选项符合要求,故C选项为正确答案。

[干扰项分析] 空格后的宾语是readers,D选项和readers搭配,不合逻辑,首先应排除;而B选项意为在政治……方面鼓励读者,显然意义表达不清晰,所以也不能入选;A选项是相对娱乐而言的,用在政治方面也不恰当。

单项选择题
单项选择题