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  3. America’s most popular newspaper website today announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a close. The New Y

America’s most popular newspaper website today announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a close. The New Y

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问题     America’s most popular newspaper website today announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a close. The New York Times has become the biggest publisher yet to【C1】______ plans for a pay wall around its digital offering, 【C2】______ the accepted practice that internet users will not pay for news.
    Struggling 【C3】______an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street corner sales, The New York Times【C4】______to introduce a "metered" model at the beginning of 2011. Readers will be required to pay when they have【C5】______a set number of its online articles per month.
    The decision puts the 159-year-old newspaper【C6】______the charging side of an increasingly wide chasm in the media industry. But others, including The Guardian, have said they will not【C7】______internet readers, and certain papers, 【C8】______London’s Evening Standard, have gone further in abandoning readership revenue by making their print editions【C9】______.
    The New York Times’ publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, 【C10】______that the move is a gamble: "This is a【C11】______, to a certain degree, in where we think the web is going."
    Boasting a print【C12】______ of 995,000 on weekdays and 1.4 million on Sundays, The New York Times is the third bestselling American newspaper, 【C13】______The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. 【C14】______most U.S. papers focus on a single city, The New York Times is among the few that can【C15】______ national scope—as well as 16 bureaus in the New York area, it has 11 offices around the U.S. and 【C16】______26 bureaus elsewhere in the world.
    But【C17】______many in the publishing industry, the paper is in the grip of a【C18】______ financial crisis. Its parent company, the New York Times Company, has 15 papers, but 【C19】______a loss of $70 million in the nine months to September and recently accepted a $250 million【C20】______from a Mexican billionaire, Carlos Slim, to strengthen its balance sheet.
【C7】
选项 A、cost
B、consume
C、expend
D、charge
答案D
解析 考查动词辨析。上文提到了《纽约时报》决定对网上的新闻收费，本句用but转折，提到“包括《卫报》在内的其他报纸说他们不会向网上的读者______”，分析可知，他们应该是不向网上的读者“收费”的，故D．charge一词符合文意，cost意为“花销，花费”；consume意为“消耗，毁灭”；expend意为“花费，耗尽”，均不符合题意，故排除。
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