海南热带海洋学院英语专业完形填空题
    完形填空一

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 brought competition 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 out to many 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 theirvery（13）.Newspapers are sold at a price that（14）even a small fraction of the cost of production. 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