Cloze Test 3
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,
reports 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 newspapers.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 outsintosmany 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 their very 13 .Newspapers are sold at a price that 14 even
a small fraction of the cost ofproduction.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, country, state, nation, and world—and even outer space.
1.A.Just when B.While C.Soon after D.Before
2.A.to give B.giving C.given D.being given
3.A.gather B.spread C.carry D.bring
4.A.reason B.cause C.problem D.purpose
5.A.make B.publish C.know D.write
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