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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从41-60各题所给的四个选项(A，B，C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
Who won the World Cup 1994 football game? What happened at the United Nations? How did the critics like the new play? 41 an event takes place; newspapers are on the streets 42 the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, reporters are on the spot to 43 the news.
Newspapers have one basic __44 , to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to 45 it. Radio, telegraph, television, and 46 inventions brought competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication. 47 , this competition merely spurred(刺激,鞭策)the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the 48 and thus the efficiency of their own operations.
Today more newspapers are 49 and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out to many other fields. Besides keeping readers _50 of the latest news, today's newspapers _51_ and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters. Newspapers influence readers' economic choices _52_ advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very _53_. Newspapers are sold at a price that _54 _even a small fraction of the cost of production. The main _55__ of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The 56_ in selling advertising depends on a newspaper's value to advertisers. This __57 in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper? Circulation depends _58__ on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment _59_ in a newspaper's pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspaper's value to readers as a source of information __60 the community, city, country, state, nation, and world—and even outer space.
41.A. Just when B. While C. Soon after D. Before
42.A. give B. to give C. given D. being given
43.A.gather B. spread C. carry D. bring
44.A.reason B. cause C. problem D. purpose
45.A.make B. publish C. know D. write
46.A.another B. other C. one another D. the other
47.A.However B. And C. Therefore D. So
48.A.value B. ratio C. rate D. speed
49.A.spread B. passed C. printed D. completed
50.A.inform B. be informed C. to be informed D. informed
51.A.entertain B. encourage C. educate D. edit
52.A.on B. through C. with D. of
53.A.forms B. existence C. contents D. purpose
54.A.tries to cover B. manages to cover C. fails to cover D. succeeds in
55.A.source B. origin C. course D. wealth
56.A.way B. means C. chance D. success
57.A.measures B. measured C. is measured D. was measured
58.A.somewhat B. little C. much D. something
59.A.offering B. offered C. which offered D. to be offered
60.A.by B. with C. at D. about
参考答案： ABADC BADCD CBBCA DCCBD
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