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  3. Soon after an event takes place, newspapers are on the streets to give the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, 【S1】

Soon after an event takes place, newspapers are on the streets to give the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, 【S1】

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问题     Soon after an event takes place, newspapers are on the streets to give the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, 【S1】______ are on the spot to gather the news. Newspapers have one 【S2】______ purpose, to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to 【S3】______ it.
    Radio, telegraph, television, and other 【S4】______ brought. competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication. However, this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. They quickly make use of the newer and faster means of communication to 【S5】______ the speed and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are printed and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out into many other 【S6】______. Besides keeping readers informed of the latest news, today’s newspapers educate and influence readers about politics and other important and 【S7】______ matters. Newspapers influence readers’ 【S8】______ choices through advertising. Most newspapers depend 【S9】______ on advertising for their very existence.
    Newspapers are sold at a price that fails to cover even a 【S10】______ fraction of the cost of production. The main source of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The success in selling advertising depends on a newspaper’s value to advertisers. This is measured in terms of circulation.

            Word Bank:
A. heavily             I. improve
B. slow                J. slightly
C. fields              K. reporters
D. produce             L. small
E. funny               M. events
F. know                N. basic
G. inventions          O. seriousx
H. economic
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答案K
解析 文章首句点出了文章的话题：newspapers。再观察空格后的词are可知所填词为复数名词作主语。与newspapers这个主题有联系的自然是reporters，只有记者才会去收集新闻。
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