精选考博英语完型填空练习题

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__1__ an event takes place; newspapers are on the streets __2__ the details. vP x/&x  
Wherever anything happens in the world, reports are on the spot to __3__ the news. 4^uSW&`;/  
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. Z/
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Radio, telegraph, television, and __6__ inventions brought competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication. jB(+9?;1${  
__7__ , this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. -Y@tx fu-  
They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the __8__ and thus the efficiency of their own operations. 8'u9R~})
 
Today more newspapers are __9__ and read than ever before.  ][wb4$2  
Competition also led newspapers to branch out to many other fields. +9w[/n^,G  
Besides keeping readers __10__ of the latest news, today's newspapers __11__ and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters. gzIx!sc  
Newspapers influence readers' economic choices __12__ advertising. k?Z:=.YW  
Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very __13__ . (oi:lC@h*  
Newspapers are sold at a price that __14__ even a small fraction of the cost of production. EW|$qLg  
The main __15__ of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. /QY F|%7!  
The __16__ in selling advertising depends on a newspaper's value to advertisers. eJ99W=  
This __17__ in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper? nd]SI;<  
Circulation depends __18__ on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment __19__ in a newspaper's pages. g3z/yj  
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. ZU73UL  
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