2. 外语
  3. For a long time, newspapers have been the chief means by which people get themselves【C1】______. The newspapers, daily, evening,

For a long time, newspapers have been the chief means by which people get themselves【C1】______. The newspapers, daily, evening,

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问题     For a long time, newspapers have been the chief means by which people get themselves【C1】______. The newspapers, daily, evening, and Sunday, appeared in over 6,600 towns in the United States. There are also【C2】______ 7,000 newspapers that are published weekly, semi-weekly or monthly.【C3】______ television has replaced newspapers as the primary【C4】______ of news for most Americans, and while computer network is【C5】______ becoming a faster and easier way of obtaining news for many Americans, newspapers【C6】______ one of the most powerful means of【C7】______ in the United States.【C8】______, reading newspapers is different from watching TV. It gives detailed【C9】______ of news items, and tends to provide【C10】______ treatment of news events. Besides, it【C11】______ offers interesting and stimulating opinions as well as analysis over important events【C12】______ and abroad. For another thing,【C13】______ watching TV, reading newspaper does not require one to be【C14】______ to his sitting-room. He can do it virtually anywhere he likes: in his car, at breakfast table, sitting in the sun, waiting at subway station, and,【C15】______, in the restroom. For these and many other reasons, newspapers in the United States are【C16】______ a big business. And, this is【C17】______ by two facts: 1)the large circulation of a number of important newspapers such as USA Today and The Wall Street Journal; 2)the great【C18】______ of newspapers available in the United States, some big and some small; some local and some national, some special and some【C19】______, some radical and some conservative, some dying and some reborn, some free and some【C20】______.
【C17】
选项 A、borne out
B、borne on
C、borne up
D、borne down
答案A
解析 短语动词辨析题。下文举的两个事实可以证明前面提出的观点，因此选borne out。borne是bear的过去分词，bear(sth．／sb．)out的意思是“证实(某事)、为(某人)作证”。
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