2024年成人英语三级考试完形填空练习题
及答案3
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,newspapersare 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 possiblefrom its source,from those who make it to those who want to 5__________ it.Radio,telegraph,television, and 6 inventions brought competition for newspapers.Sodid the development of magazines and other means ofcommunication. 7__________ ,this competition merely spurred the newspapers on.They quickly made use ofthe newer and faster means of communication to improve the 8__________ and thus theefficiency of their own operations.Today more newspapers are 9__________ and read thanever before.Competition also lednewspapers to branch outsintosmany other fields.
Besides keeping readers 10__________ of the latest news,today‘s newspapers 11__________ andinfluence readers about politics
and
other
important
and
serious
matters.Newspapersinfluence readers’ economic choices
12__________ advertising.Most newspapers depend onadvertising for their very 13__________ .Newspapers are sold at a price that 14__________ evena small fraction of the cost ofproduction.The main 15__________ of income for mostnewspapers is commercial advertising.The 16__________ in selling advertising dependson a newspaper‘s value to advertisers.This 17__________ in terms of circulation.
Howmany people read the newspaper? Circulation depends 18__________ on the workof the circulation department and on the services or entertainment 19__________ in
a newspaper‘s pages.But for the most part, circulation depends on anewspaper’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 informedC.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.triestocover 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.measuredC.Is measured D.was measured 18.A.somewhat B.little C.much D.something
19.A.offering B.offeredC.which offered D.to be offered 20.A.by B.with C.at D.aboutCloze1. 【参考答案及解析】 1.[答案]A
[解析]just在此为副词,意为“刚刚”,做状语。此句意为“一个事件刚刚发生,街上就有报纸报道详情了。说明报纸对新闻的