完型填空練習題附答案和詳細解析
Decide which of the choices given below would correctly complete the passage if ed in the corresponding blanks. Mark the correct choice for each blank on your ANSWER SHEET.
Who won the World Cup 1998 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 giving the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, reporters are on the spot to gather the news. Newspapers have one basic 2, to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to 3 it. Radio, telegraph, television, and 4 inventions brought competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication. 5, this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. They quickly make use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the 6 and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are 7 and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out into many other fields. Besides keeping readers 8 of the latest news, today’s newspapers educate and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters. Newspapers influence readers’ economic choices 9 advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very 10. Newspapers are sold at a price that 11 even a small fraction of the cost of production. The main 12 of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The success in selling advertising depends on a newspaper’s value to advertisers. This 13 in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper? Circulation depends somewhat on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment 14 in a newspaper’s pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspaper’s value to readers as source of information 15 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. reason B. cause C. problem D. purpose
3. A. make B. publish C. know D. write
4. A. another B. other C. one another D. the other
5. A. However B. And C. Therefore D. So
6. A. value B. ratio C. rate D. speed
7. A. spread B. passed C. printed D. completed
8. A. inform B. be informed C. to be informed D. informed
9. A. on B. through C. with D. of
10.A. forms B. existence C. contents D. purpose
11. A. tries to cover B. manages to cover C. fails to cover D. succeeds in
12.A. source B. origin C. course D. finance
13. A. measures B. measured C. is measured D. was measured
14. A. offering B. offered C. which offered D. to be offered
15.A. by B. with C. at D. about參考答案及解析：
1. C) 根據上下文，此空應該為介詞，故選項A和B可被排除，因為它們後邊不能直接跟名詞短語。根據句義，選項C為正確答案。
2. D) 根據語義線索（報紙有一個基本目的就是以最快速度從新聞來源處得到新聞）可知選項D為正確答案。
3. C) 根據語義線索選項C know 為正確答案。
4. B) 此題涉及other, another 兩詞的用法。Other可以單獨使用也可以和定冠詞the一起使用，other一般用來修飾表示不確定所指的複數可數名詞，意為“其他”；the other用來指代或修飾特定範圍內的第二者或第三者等，不合適。Another一般修飾可數名詞單數，不合適。One another是相互代詞，不能作限定詞。綜上，根據語法線索，選項B為正確答案。
5. A) 根據上下文，該句句義有轉折，故表示轉折意義的關係副詞選項A However為正確答案。其它三詞：and為表示並列關係的'並列連詞；therefore和so為表示因果關係的關係副詞。
6. D) 根據上下文，報紙報道新聞應該發展更新更快的通訊方式，可知其目的是為提高速度從而提高效率。故選項D為正確答案。
7. C) 此題可用排除法。根據語義線索（今天印刷的和人們閱讀的報紙比以往任何時候都多）可將A，B和D排除。
8. D) 此題涉及動詞keep的用法。動詞keep後可接複雜賓語結構，即賓語+賓語補語的結構。形容詞，瞖d分詞，ing分詞等都可作賓補。其中瞖d分詞表示被動含義；ing分詞表示主動含義。此句句義為“除了使讀者知悉最新的新聞外 … ”，因此根據語法線索，含有被動意義的選項D為正確答案。
9. B) 根據句義可知此空應使用意為“通過”的介詞。故選項B through 為正確答案。
10. B) 根據上下文可推斷此句大概句義為“報紙通過廣告維持它們的存在”，故選項B existence“存在”為正確答案。
11. C) 根據上下句句義可以推斷，報紙不是通過出售其本身所得來維持其生存，而是通過刊登廣告的收入來維持其生存，並且對於大多數的報紙來說主要的經費來源是商業廣告，而不是出售報紙，因此可以猜測出報紙的售價不能涵蓋其製作印刷成本，因此選項C為正確答案。其它三項意義不符。
12. A) 根據上句可推斷此句的答案只能從A、B兩項之間產生。Origin意為“起源，根源”不合適。故選項A source“來源”為正確答案。
13. C) 根據此句義“這（報紙對廣告商的價值）是以報紙的發行量來衡量” 及上下文可推斷此空應填動詞的被動形式，故選項C為正確答案。
14. B) 選項B為ed分詞作後置定語。
15. D) 根據詞彙線索和語義線索可知，此處需要使用介詞about，表示“關於社群、國家和世界的資訊”。
