Question

A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It is remarkable first for what it contains: the range of news from local crime to international politics, from sport to business to fashion to science, and the range of comment and special features as well, from editorial page to feature articles and interviews to criticism of books, art, theatre and music.

A newspaper is even more remarkable for the way one reads it: never completely, never straight through, but always by jumping from here to there, in and out glancing at one piece, reading another article all the way through, reading just a few paragraghs of the next. A good modern newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far from one reader is interested in what brings this variety together in. One place is its topicality(时事性), its immediate relation to what is happening in your world and your locality now. But immediacy and the speed of production that goes with it mean also that much of what appears in a newspaper has no more than transient(短暂的) value. For all these reasons, no two people really read the same paper: what each person does is to put together out of the pages of that day’s paper, his own selection and sequence, his own newspaper. For all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently, which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need but without wasting time, demands skill and self-awareness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading.

1.A modern newspaper is remarkable for all the following EXCEPT its ______.

A. wide coverage                    B. uniform style

C. speed in reporting news             D. popularity

2.According to the passage, the reason why no two people really read the same newspaper is that ______.

A. people scan for the news they are interested in

B. different people prefer different newspapers

C. people are not interested in the same kind of news

D. people have different views about what a good newspaper is

3.It can be concluded from the passage that newspaper readers ______.

A. apply reading techniques skillfully

B. jump from one newspaper to another

C. appreciate the variety of a newspaper

D. usually read a newspaper selectively

4.A good newspaper offers “a variety” to readers because ______.

A. it tries to serve different readers

B. it has to cover things that happen in a certain locality

C. readers are difficult to please

D. readers like read different newspapers

Answer

1.B

2.A

3.D

4.A

【解析】

试题分析:本文是一篇说明文，介绍了一份优秀的报纸具有两个特征：第一点是报纸的内容广泛，第二点是报纸的读者的阅读方式，每位读者按照自己的兴趣挑选报纸中的文章阅读。

1.D细节理解题。根据第一段It is remarkable first for what it contains可知一份现代报纸的分类广泛，由第二段One place is its topicality, its immediate relation to what is happening in your world and your locality now.可知报纸新闻具有快速性，由第二段but far from one reader is interested in what brings this variety together in.可知报纸新闻很受欢迎，故选D。

2.A推理判断题。根据第二段what each person does is to put together out of the pages of that day’s paper, his own selection and sequence, his own newspaper.可判断每个人看的报纸都不相同，因为人们会按照自己的兴趣来阅读报纸，故选A。

3.C细节理解题。根据第二段For all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently, which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need but without wasting time, demands skill and self-awareness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading.可知每位读者都是挑选着读报纸，故选C。

4.B细节理解题。根据第二段A good modern newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far from one reader is interested in what brings this variety together in.可知因为每个人的兴趣不相同，所以报纸的文章分类广泛，故选B。

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