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 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 6. [A] another [B] other [C] one another [D] the other 7. [A] However [B] And [C] Therefore[D] So 8. [A] value[B] ratio [C] rate [D] speed 9. [A] spread [B] passed [C] printed [D] completed 10. [A] inform [B] be informed [C] to be informed [D] informed 11. [A] entertain[B] encourage [C] educate [D] edit 12. [A] on [B] through [C] with [D] of 13. [A] forms[B] existence [C] contents [D] purpose 14. [A] tries to cover [B] manages to cover [C] fails to cover [D] succeeds in 15. [A] source [B] origin [C] course [D] finance 16. [A] way [B] means [C] chance [D] success 17. [A] measures [B] measured [C] Is measured [D] was measured 18. [A] somewhat [B] little [C] much [D] something 19. [A] offering [B] offered [C] which offered[D] to be offered 20. [A] by [B] with [C] at [D] about
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. 
