共用题干 The Great Newspaper WarUp until about 100 years ago,newspapers in the United States appealed only to the most se-rious readers.They used______(51)illustrations and the articles were about politics or busi- ness。Two men changed that-Joseph Pulitzer______(52)The New York World and Randolph Hearst of The New York Journal.Pulitzer bought The New York World______(53)1883.He changed it from a traditional newspaper into a very______(54)one overnight.He added______(55)illustrations and cartoons.And he told his reporters to write articles on______(56)crime or scandal they could find. And they did.One of them even pretended she was crazy and then she______(57)to a mental hospital. She then wrote a series of articles about the poor treatment of______(58)in those hospitals.In 1895,Hearst came to New York from______(59)California.He wanted The Journal to be more sensational and more exciting______(60)The World. He also wanted it to be.______(61),so he reduced the price by a penny.Hearst attracted attention because his headlines were bigger than______(62).He often said,"Big print makes big news."Pulitzer and Hearst did anything they______(63)to sell newspapers.For example,Hearst sent Frederic Remington,the famous illustrator,______(64)pictures of the Spanish-American War. When he got there,he told Hearst that no fighting was______(65).Hearst answered,"You furnish the pictures.I'll furnish the war."53.________

考题［A］ For example, the Moche lords of Sipán in coastal Peru were buried in about AD 400 in fine cotton dress and with exquisite ornaments of bead, gold, and silver. Few burials rival their lavish sepulchres. Being able to trace the development of such rituals over thousands of years has added to our understanding of the development of human intellect and spirit.［B］ By 40,000 years ago people could be found hunting and gathering food across most of the regions of Africa. Populations in different regions employed various technological developments in adapting to their different environments and climates.［C］ Archaeological studies have also provided much information about the people who first arrived in the Americas over 12,000 years ago.［D］ The first fossil records of vascular plants—that is, land plants with tissue that carries food—appeared in the Silurian period. They were simple plants that had not developed separate stems and leaves.［E］ Laetoli even reveals footprints of humans from 3.6 million years ago. Some sites also contain evidence of the earliest use of simple tools. Archaeologists have also recorded how primitive forms of humans spread out of Africa into Asia about 1.8 million years ago, then into Europe about 900,000 years ago.［F］ One research project involves the study of garbage in present-day cities across the United States. This garbage is the modern equivalent of the remains found in the archaeological record. In the future, archaeologists will continue to move into new realms of study.［G］ Other sites that represent great human achievement are as varied as the cliff dwellings of the ancient Anasazi (a group of early Native Americans of North America) at Mesa Verde, Colorado; the Inca city of Machu Picchu high in the Andes Mountains of Peru; and the mysterious, massive stone portrait heads of remote Easter Island in the Pacific.

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考题 DThe American newspaper has been around for about three hundred years. In 1721, the printer James Franklin. Benjamin's older brother, started the New England Courant, and that was what we might recognize today as a real newspaper. He filled his paper with stories of adventure, articles on art, on famous people, and on all sorts of political subjects.Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's Courant. few believe that newspapers in their present printed form. will remain alive for long Newspaper complies are losing advertisers （广告商）, readers, market value. and. in some cases, their sense of purpose at a speed that would not have been imaginable just several years ago The chief editor （主编） of the times said recently, "At places where they gather, editors ask one another, 'How are you?', as if they have just come out of the hospital or a lost law came. “An article about the newspaper appeared on the website of the Guardian, under the headline “NOT DEAD YET.”perhaps not, but the rise of the Internet which has made the daily newspaper look slow and out of step with the world, has brought about a real sense of death. Some American newspapers have lost 42% of their market value in the past thee years The New York Times Company has seen its stock （股票） drop by 54% since the end of 2004, with much of the loss coming in the past year A manager at Deutsche Bank suggested that stock-holders sell off their Times stock The Washington Post Comply has prevented the trouble only by changing part of its business to education its testing and test-preparation service now brings in at least half the company's income.53. What can we learn about the New England Curran?A. It is mainly about the stock market.B. It marks the beginning of the American newspaper.C. It remains a successful newspaper in America.D. It comes articles by political leaders.

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考题 Passage FiveAustralia is nearly as large as the United States, but most of it is too dry for people to live in. Aroundthis dry part are large sheep and cow farms. A few of them are as large as the smallest states: of America.Often the nearest neighbours are several hundred kilometers away.The two-way radio is very important to people who live on these great Australian farms. It works much like atelephone. A person can listen to someone else talk and then gives an answer. For example, people onthe large farms could talk to a doctor far away. They could tell the doctor about someone who was ill,and the doctor could let them know how to look after the sick person.As the large farms were so far from towns, the children could not go to school. Radio schools werestarted for them in some places. At a certain time each day, boys and girls turn on their radios andlisten to teachers in cities far away.Families on the large farms wanted to give news to their neighbours. The programme Round RobinTalks by radio was started to keep families in touch with each other. They could talk about who wasgoing away and who was iii. The men could talk about their sheep and cows and how much moneythe markets would pay for them. In many ways the radio became a newspaper for the farm people of Australia.52. In the passage "the two-way radio" is______.A. important to AmericansB. useful for children onlyC. used as a telephoneD. only used by doctors

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考题根据下面，回答 53 ~56 题：DThe American newspaper has been around for about three hundred years. In 1721, the printer James Franklin. Benjamin's older brother, started the New England Courant, and that was what we might recognize today as a real newspaper. He filled his paper with stories of adventure, articles on art, on famous people, and on all sorts of political subjects.Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's Courant. few believe that newspapers in their present printed form. will remain alive for long Newspaper complies are losing advertisers （广告商）, readers, market value. and in some cases, their sense of purpose at a speed that would not have been imaginable just several years ago The chief editor （主编） of the times said recently, "At places where they gather, editors ask one another, 'How are you?', as if they have just come out of the hospital or a lost law came. “An article about the newspaper appeared on the website of the Guardian, under the headline “NOT DEAD YET.”Perhaps not, but the rise of the Internet which has made the daily newspaper look slow and out of step with the world, has brought about a real sense of death. Some American newspapers have lost 42% of their market value in the past thee years The New York Times Company has seen its stock （股票） drop by 54% since the end of 2004, with much of the loss coming in the past year A manager at Deutsche Bank suggested that stock-holders sell off their Times stock The Washington Post Comply has prevented the trouble only by changing part of its business to education its testing and test-preparation service now brings in at least half the company's income.第13题：What can we learn about the New England Curran?A．It is mainly about the stock market.B．It marks the beginning of the American newspaper.C．It remains a successful newspaper in America.D．It comes articles by political leaders.

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考题 After the Civil War, the United States saw great developments in (). A.agricultureB.economicsC.cultureD.politics

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考题 these are articles about ordinary people rather than about politics or national ____________. A. accidentsB. affairsC. thingsD. matters

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考题 The role of women in Britain has changed a lot in this century, () in the last twenty years. The main change has been () giving women greater equality with men. Up to the beginning of this century, women seem to have had () rights. They could not vote and were kept at home. () , as far as we know, most women were happy with this situ ation. Today, women in Britain certainly () more rights than they used to. They were () the vote in 1919. In 1970 a law was passed to give them an equal () of wealth in the case of divorce, () the Equal Pay Act gave them the right of equal pay with men for work of equal value in the same year. Yet () these changes, there are still great difference in status between men and women. Many employers seem to () the Equal Pay Act, and the average working women is () to earn only about half that a man earns for the same job. () a survey, at present, only one-third of the country’s workers are () women. This small percentage is partly () a shortage of nurseries. If there were () nurseries, twice as many women might well go out to workA.butB.andC.becauseD.although

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考题共用题干 The Great Newspaper WarUp until about 100 years ago,newspapers in the United States appealed only to the most se-rious readers.They used______(51)illustrations and the articles were about politics or busi- ness。Two men changed that-Joseph Pulitzer______(52)The New York World and Randolph Hearst of The New York Journal.Pulitzer bought The New York World______(53)1883.He changed it from a traditional newspaper into a very______(54)one overnight.He added______(55)illustrations and cartoons.And he told his reporters to write articles on______(56)crime or scandal they could find. And they did.One of them even pretended she was crazy and then she______(57)to a mental hospital. She then wrote a series of articles about the poor treatment of______(58)in those hospitals.In 1895,Hearst came to New York from______(59)California.He wanted The Journal to be more sensational and more exciting______(60)The World. He also wanted it to be.______(61),so he reduced the price by a penny.Hearst attracted attention because his headlines were bigger than______(62).He often said,"Big print makes big news."Pulitzer and Hearst did anything they______(63)to sell newspapers.For example,Hearst sent Frederic Remington,the famous illustrator,______(64)pictures of the Spanish-American War. When he got there,he told Hearst that no fighting was______(65).Hearst answered,"You furnish the pictures.I'll furnish the war."59._________A:. anB: theC: aD: /

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考题共用题干 The Great Newspaper WarUp until about 100 years ago,newspapers in the United States appealed only to the most se-rious readers.They used______(51)illustrations and the articles were about politics or busi- ness。Two men changed that-Joseph Pulitzer______(52)The New York World and Randolph Hearst of The New York Journal.Pulitzer bought The New York World______(53)1883.He changed it from a traditional newspaper into a very______(54)one overnight.He added______(55)illustrations and cartoons.And he told his reporters to write articles on______(56)crime or scandal they could find. And they did.One of them even pretended she was crazy and then she______(57)to a mental hospital. She then wrote a series of articles about the poor treatment of______(58)in those hospitals.In 1895,Hearst came to New York from______(59)California.He wanted The Journal to be more sensational and more exciting______(60)The World. He also wanted it to be.______(61),so he reduced the price by a penny.Hearst attracted attention because his headlines were bigger than______(62).He often said,"Big print makes big news."Pulitzer and Hearst did anything they______(63)to sell newspapers.For example,Hearst sent Frederic Remington,the famous illustrator,______(64)pictures of the Spanish-American War. When he got there,he told Hearst that no fighting was______(65).Hearst answered,"You furnish the pictures.I'll furnish the war."51._________A:. noB: manyC: a lotD: little

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考题共用题干 Life Expectancy in the Last Hundred YearsA hundred years ago,life expectancy in developed countries was about 47;in the early 21 st century,men in the United States and the United Kingdom can expect to live to about 74,women to about 80, and these______(51)are rising all the time .What has brought______(52) these changes?When we look at the life______(53)of people 100 years ago,we need to look at the greatest______(54)of the time .In the early 20th century,these were the acute and of-ten______(55)infectious diseases such as smallpox.Many children died very young from these diseases and others,and the weak and elderly were always at risk.In the______(56)world these diseases are far______(57)today,and in some cases have almost disappcarcd.A number of______(58)have led to this:improvements in sanita- tion and hygiene,the discovery and use of antibiotics,which______(59)bacterial diseases much less dangerous,and vaccinations______(60)common diseases.______(61), people's general health has improved with improvements in our general environment:cleaner air,better means of preserving food,better and warmer housing,and better understanding of nutrition.Genetically,we should all be able to live to about 85 but______(62)people do live longer today,there are still some big killers around that are preventing us from consistently reaching that age .The problems that affect people today are the more chronic illnesses,such as heart disease and strokes,and those______(63)by viruses,such as influenza and AIDS.Of course,cancer is a huge killer as well.In most cases these diseases affect______(64)people,but there are worrying trends in the developed world with problems such as obesity______(65)more heart disease and illnesses such as diabetes at younger ages.The killers today can be classed as"lifestyle diseases",which means that it may be possiblem to halt their progress.51._________A: countriesB: livesC: yearsD: ages

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考题共用题干 Life Expectancy in the Last Hundred YearsA hundred years ago,life expectancy in developed countries was about 47;in the early 21 st century,men in the United States and the United Kingdom can expect to live to about 74,women to about 80, and these______(51)are rising all the time .What has brought______(52) these changes?When we look at the life______(53)of people 100 years ago,we need to look at the greatest______(54)of the time .In the early 20th century,these were the acute and of-ten______(55)infectious diseases such as smallpox.Many children died very young from these diseases and others,and the weak and elderly were always at risk.In the______(56)world these diseases are far______(57)today,and in some cases have almost disappcarcd.A number of______(58)have led to this:improvements in sanita- tion and hygiene,the discovery and use of antibiotics,which______(59)bacterial diseases much less dangerous,and vaccinations______(60)common diseases.______(61), people's general health has improved with improvements in our general environment:cleaner air,better means of preserving food,better and warmer housing,and better understanding of nutrition.Genetically,we should all be able to live to about 85 but______(62)people do live longer today,there are still some big killers around that are preventing us from consistently reaching that age .The problems that affect people today are the more chronic illnesses,such as heart disease and strokes,and those______(63)by viruses,such as influenza and AIDS.Of course,cancer is a huge killer as well.In most cases these diseases affect______(64)people,but there are worrying trends in the developed world with problems such as obesity______(65)more heart disease and illnesses such as diabetes at younger ages.The killers today can be classed as"lifestyle diseases",which means that it may be possiblem to halt their progress.56._________A: developedB: less developedC: undevelopedD: developing

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考题共用题干 Life Expectancy in the Last Hundred YearsA hundred years ago,life expectancy in developed countries was about 47:in the early 21st century,men in the United States and the United Kingdom can expect to live to about 74. Women to about 80, and these___1___ are rising all the time. What has brought___2___ these changes?When we look at the life___3___of people 100 years ago,we need to look at the greatest___4___of the time. In the early 20th century,these were the acute and often ___5___ infectious diseases such as smallpox. Many children died very young from these diseases and others,and the weak and elderly were always at risk. In the ___6 ___world these diseases are far___ 7 ___today,and in some cases have almost disappeared. A number of ___8 ___have led to this:improvements in sanitation and hygiene,the discovery and use of antibiotics,which ___9___ bacterial diseases much less dangerous,and vaccinations___10___ common diseases. ___11___ ,people's general health has improved with improvements in our general environ-ment:cleaner air,better means of preserving food,better and warmer housing,and better understanding of nutrition. Genetically,we should all be able to live to about 85 but ___12___ people do live longer today,there are still some big killers around that are preventing US from consistently reaching that age. The problems that affect people today are the more chro-nic illnesses,such as heart disease and strokes,and those ___13___ by viruses,such as influen- za and AIDS. Of course,cancer is a huge killer as well. In most cases these diseases affect ___14___ people,but there are worrying trends in the developed world with problems such as obesity ___15___ more heart disease and illnesses such as diabetes at younger ages.The killers today can be classed as“lifestyle diseases”,which means that it may be possi- ble to halt their progress.13._________A: spreadB: affectedC: producedD: created

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考题 It was about 100 years ago____this beautiful clock was madeA.Neither B.since C.then D.when

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考题共用题干 Changes of Women's RoleThe role of women in Britain has changed a lot in this century,______(51)in the last twenty years.The main change has been______(52)giving women greater equality with men.Up to the beginning of this century,women seem to have had______(53)rights.They could not vote and were kept at home.______(54),as far as we know,most women were happy with this situation. Today,women in Britain certainly______(55)more rights than they used to.They were ______(56)the vote in 1919._________(1919.)In 1970 a law was passed to give them an equal______(57)of wealth in the case of divorce,______(58)the Equal Pay Act gave them the right of equal paywith men for work of equal value in the same year.Yet______(59)these changes,there are still great difference in status between men and women.Many employers seem to______(60)the Equal Pay Act,and the average working women is______(61)to earn only about half that a man earns for the same job.______(62) a survey,at present,only one-third of the country's workers are______(63)women.This small percentage is partly______(64)a shortage of nurseries.If there were______(65)nurseries, twice as many women might well go out to work._________(52)A:towards B:againstC:upon D:through

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考题共用题干 Changes of Women's RoleThe role of women in Britain has changed a lot in this century,______(51)in the last twenty years.The main change has been______(52)giving women greater equality with men.Up to the beginning of this century,women seem to have had______(53)rights.They could not vote and were kept at home.______(54),as far as we know,most women were happy with this situation. Today,women in Britain certainly______(55)more rights than they used to.They were ______(56)the vote in 1919._________(1919.)In 1970 a law was passed to give them an equal______(57)of wealth in the case of divorce,______(58)the Equal Pay Act gave them the right of equal paywith men for work of equal value in the same year.Yet______(59)these changes,there are still great difference in status between men and women.Many employers seem to______(60)the Equal Pay Act,and the average working women is______(61)to earn only about half that a man earns for the same job.______(62) a survey,at present,only one-third of the country's workers are______(63)women.This small percentage is partly______(64)a shortage of nurseries.If there were______(65)nurseries, twice as many women might well go out to work._________(51)A:certainly B:especiallyC:apparently D:practically

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考题共用题干 Changes of Women's RoleThe role of women in Britain has changed a lot in this century,______(51)in the last twenty years.The main change has been______(52)giving women greater equality with men.Up to the beginning of this century,women seem to have had______(53)rights.They could not vote and were kept at home.______(54),as far as we know,most women were happy with this situation. Today,women in Britain certainly______(55)more rights than they used to.They were ______(56)the vote in 1919._________(1919.)In 1970 a law was passed to give them an equal______(57)of wealth in the case of divorce,______(58)the Equal Pay Act gave them the right of equal paywith men for work of equal value in the same year.Yet______(59)these changes,there are still great difference in status between men and women.Many employers seem to______(60)the Equal Pay Act,and the average working women is______(61)to earn only about half that a man earns for the same job.______(62) a survey,at present,only one-third of the country's workers are______(63)women.This small percentage is partly______(64)a shortage of nurseries.If there were______(65)nurseries, twice as many women might well go out to work._________(61)A:likely B:willingC:ready D:about

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考题共用题干 Verne's Accurate Previw of the FutureSince the beginning of time,man has been interested in the moon.The Romans designed a special day to show admiration and respect to the moon.They called it“Moonday”,or “Monday”,as we know it today.Later,the great mind of Leonardo da Vinci studied the moon and designed a machine to carry a human to the moon.Leonardo said that one day a great machine bird would take a person to the moon and bring great honor to the home where it was born.Four and a half centuries later,Leonardo's idea was realized.Apollo Ⅱ took threeAmericans一Collins,Aldrin,and Armstrong一to the moon.The mission did fill the whole world with great surprise,as Leonardo had said it would.Numerous essays,articles,and books were written about man's first moon mission.But perhaps the most interesting story was one written before the event一over 100 years ago.In 1865,French author Jules Verne wrote a story about the first journey to the moon.His story was very similar to the 1969 Apollo Ⅱ mission.Verne's spacecraft also contained three men一two Americans and a Frenchman.The spacecraft was described as being almost the same size as Apollo Ⅱ .The launch site in Verne's story was also in Florida.The spacecraft in Verne's story was named the“Columbiad”aa.The Apollo Ⅱ command ship was called“Columbia”.His account of sending the space-craft into the space could easily have been written about how Apollo Ⅱ was sent into the space.Verne's story was the same as the actual event in several other respects.The speed of Verne's spacecraft was 36,000 feet per second；Apollo's was 35,533 feet per second.Verne's spacecraft took 97 hours to reach the moon；Apollo's time was 103 hours.Like Apollo's spacemen,Verne's spacemen took pictures of the moon's surface,relaxed on their seats, cooked with gas,and experienced weightlessness.They also came down in the Pacific and were picked up by an American warship.What were the reasons for Jules Verne's extreme accuracy in describing an event 100 years or more before it actually occurred?He based his writings on the laws of physics and astronomy（天文学）.Nineteenth-century science and the vivid Verne's imagination gave people an unbelievable accurate preview of the greatest events of the 20th century.Jules Verne wrote his story of a man's visit to the moon about______.A:100 years before the Apollo Ⅱ missionB:10 years before the Apollo Ⅱ missionC:four and one-half centuries agoD:100 years ago

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考题共用题干 Rise in Number of Cancer SurvivorsCancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States,after heart disease. In the__________(1),it was often considered a death sentence.But many patients now live longer_________(2)of improvements in discovery and treatment.Researchers say death_________(3)in the United States from all cancers combined have fallen for thirty years.Survival rates have increased for most of the top fifteen cancers in both men and women,and for cancers in_________(4).The National Cancer Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied the number of cancer survivors.A cancer survivor is defined________(5) anyone who has been found to have cancer. This would include current patients.The study covered the period________(6)1971 to 2001.The researchers found there are three__________(7)as many cancer survivors today as there were thirty years ago.In 1971, the United States had about three million cancer__________(8).Today there are about ten million.The study also found that 64% of adults with cancer can expect to still be_______ (9)in five years,Thirty years ago,the five-year survival rate was 50%.The government wants to________(10)the five-year survival rate to 70% by 2010.The risk of cancer increases with age.The report says the majority of survivors are 65years and ________(11).But it says medical improvements have also helped children with cancer live ________(12)longer.Researchers say 80% of children with cancer will survive at least five years after the discovery.About 75% will survive at________(13)ten years.In the 1970s,the five-year survival rate for children was about 50%.In the 1960s,most children did not survive cancer. Researchers say they ________(14)moreimprovements in cancer treatment in the future.In fact,they say traditional cancer-prevention programs are not enough anymore.They say public health programs should also aim to support the_______(15)numbers of cancer survivors and their families._________(11) A:older B:old C:younger D:young

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考题共用题干 How Two Great Conflicts Helped to Change EuropeNinety years ago on a sunny morning in Northern France,something happened that changed Britain and Europe for ever. At half past seven on the morning of July 1,1916 , whistles（哨子） blew and thousands of British soldiers left their positions to attack their German enemies. By the end of the day,20,000 of them were dead,and another 30,000 wounded or missing. The Battle of the Somme,______(51)it is called,lasted for six months.When it ended,125,000 British soldiers were dead. They had gained five kilometers of ground.This was one of a series of great battles during WWI.The attack on the Somme was staged to relieve______(52)on the French,who were engaged in a great battle of their own at a place called Verdun. By the time the battle ended,over a million French and German troops had been killed.About 17 million people were killed in WWI. There have been wars with greater numbers of dead .But there has never been one in______(53)most of the dead were concentrated in such a small area. On the Somme battlefield,two men died for every meter of space.Local farmers working in the land still______(54)the bodies of those who died in that battle .The dead of all nations were buried in a series of giant graveyards along the line of the bor- der______(55)France and Belgium.Relatives and descendants（子孙)of those who died still visit these graveyards today.What the French call the"tourism of death"______(56)an im- portant contribution to the local economy.It took a second great conflict before Europe was to turn______(57)war itself. Twenty-eight years after the Somme battle,a liberating army of British,American and Canadian troops took back______(58)from another German invasion. More than 500,000 people were killed.New______(59)were built.Two great conflicts across two generations helped to change the European mind about war. Germany,once the most warlike country in Europe,is now probably more in______(60)of peace than any other. One major cause of war in Europe was rivalry（竞争）between France and Germany .The European Union was specifically formed to end that______(61).According to US commentator William Pfaff,"Europeans are interested in a slow development of civilized and tolerant international relations,______(62)on problems while avoiding catastrophes（灾难）along the way. They have themselves only recently______(63)from the catas-trophes of WWI and WWII,when tens of millions of people were destroyed.They don't want______(64)."The last British veteran of the Somme battle died in 2005,aged 108.And WWI is passing out of memory and into history. But for anyone who wants to understand how Europeans ______(65),it is still important to know a little about the terrible events of July 1,1916.65._________A:. behaveB: assumeC: knowD: think

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考题问答题Power and Cooperation: An American Foreign Policy for the Age of Global Politics　　The age of geopolitics in American foreign policy is over; the age of global politics has begun. Throughout the twentieth century, traditional geopolitics drove U. S. thinking on foreign affairs: American security depended on preventing any one country from achieving dominion over the Eurasian landmass. That objective was achieved with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now the United States finds itself confronting a new international environment, one without a peer competitor but that nonetheless presents serious threats to American security. The terrorists who struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon neither represented a traditional state-based threat nor were tied to a specific geographical location. Nevertheless, nineteen people with just a few hundred thousand dollars succeeded in harming the most powerful nation on earth.　　For more than three centuries, the dynamics of world politics was determined by the interplay among states, especially the great powers. Today, world politics is shaped by two unprecedented phenomena that are in some tension with each other. One is the sheer predominance of the United States. Today, as never before, what matters most in international politics is how—and whether—Washington acts on any given issue. The other is globalization, which has unleashed economic, political, and social forces that are beyond the capacity of any one country, including the United States, to control.　　American primacy and globalization bring the United States great rewards as well as great dangers. Primacy gives Washington an unsurpassed ability to get its way in international affairs, while globalization enriches the American economy and spreads American values. But America’s great power and the penetration of its culture, products, and influence deep into other societies breed intense resentment and grievances. Great power and great wealth do not necessarily produce greater respect or greater security. American leaders and the American people are now grappling with the double-edged sword that is the age of global politics.

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考题问答题Practice 2　　One of the most important developments in newspaper organization during the first part of the twentieth century (1)______, which are known as wire services. Wire service companies employed reporters, who covered stories all over the world. Their news reports were sent to papers throughout the country by telegraph. The papers paid an annual fee for this service. Wire services continue (2)______. Today the major wire services are the Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (UPI). You will frequently find AP or UPI at the beginning of a news story.　　Newspaper chains and mergers began to appear in the early 1900s. A chain consists of two or more newspapers (3)______. A merger involves combining two or more papers into one. During the nineteenth century many cities had more than one competitive independent paper. Today in most cities there are only one or two newspapers, and (4)______. Often newspapers in several cities belong to one chain. Papers have combined (5)______. Chains and mergers have cut down production costs and brought the advantages of big-business methods to the newspaper industry.[A] to play an important role in newspaper operations[B] was the growth of telegraph services[C] and they usually enjoy great prestige[D] they are usually operated by a single owner[E] in order to survive under the pressure of rising costs[F] owned by a single person or organization animation[G] fails to raise enough money.

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考题单选题He has come to work for a local newspaper about ten years ago, when he graduated from Peking University.A has comeB forC whenD from

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考题单选题More than two hundred years ago the United States _____ from the British Empire and became an independent country.A got offB pulled downC broke awayD dropped off

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考题问答题Practice 2　　The British are the most voracious newspaper readers in the world. They read newspapers at breakfast; they walk to the bus reading a newspaper; they read a newspaper on the bus, as they go to work; and on the way back home, after work, they are engrossed in an evening newspaper. There are many “morning papers”, both national and provincial. The most famous is The Times. Contrary to what many foreigners believe, this is not a government newspaper. The various newspapers usually have their own views on politics, but they are not organs of the political parties, with the exception of the Communist Morning Star.　　Bold headlines and a variety of photographs are features of the British press. Some newspapers, such as the sober Daily Telegraph and The Times (which belong to the “quality press’’) use photographs sparingly. The more “popular” newspapers, using the small or “tabloid” format, such as the Daily Express, the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror and The Sun, use pictures extensively and also run strip-cartoons and humorous drawings, some of which present striking pictorial comment on politics.　　Besides offering features common to newspapers all over the world, British newspapers specialize in pages devoted to criticism of the arts and a woman’s page. One feature found in many foreign newspapers is missing in British papers: the serial.　　Nearly all papers pay special attention to the reporting of sport and athletics. The evening newspapers (the first editions of which appear in the morning!) are often bought because the purchaser wants to know the winner of a race, or to get a good tip for a race that is still to be run.　　There is no censorship of the press in Britain (except in wartime), though of course all newspapers-like private persons-are responsible for what they publish, and be sued for libel for publishing articles that go beyond the bounds of decency, or for “contempt for court” (e. g. calling man a murderer while he is still being tried). Such lawsuits are infrequent.　　The population of the United Kingdom is now over 55,000,000. About 17,500,000 newspapers are sold every day. The British people, therefore, are great readers of newspapers. There are few homes to which one newspaper is not delivered every morning. Many households have two, or even three, newspapers every day. One newspaper may be delivered at the house, a member of the family may buy one at the station bookstall to read in the train as he goes to town, and someone else in the family may buy an evening newspaper later in the day.

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