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.
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A.Just when
B.While
C.Soon after
D.Before
参考答案：C
解析：
[考点] 逻辑推理
解答本题的要点是符合逻辑的推断出新闻报道和事情发生之间的时间关系，按照常理新闻总是始于事情发生之后，由此可推出答案为C选项。
[干扰项分析] D选项意为事件发生在新闻之前，显然违反逻辑；A、B选项意思相近，都强调连接的两件事情同步发生，分别意为：正在事件发生时，街头便有报纸______新闻、在事件发生时，街头的报纸______新闻。依据常理，报纸不能像电视那样进行现场直播，所以不可能是和事件同步进行，因此A、B选项也不正确。