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　　A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It's remarkable first for what it contains: the range of news fin local crime to international politics, from sports to business to fashion to science, and the range of comment and special features(特写) 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 paragraphs of the next. A good modem newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far more than any 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 appeals in a newspaper has no more than transient(短暂的) value. For all these reasons, not 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 modem newspaper is remarkable for all the following except its ________.

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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 ________.

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A．people scan for the news they are interested in

B．different people prefer different newspapers

C．people are rarely 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 ________.

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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．The best title for this passage would be ________.

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A．The Importance of Newspaper Topically

B．The Characteristics of a Good Newspaper

C．The Variety of a Good Newspaper

D．Some Suggestions on How to Read a Newspaper

She can’t get down to work because she was deeply _______ by the news of his death.

A．surprised         B．affected           C．harmed           D．charged

Beijing, June 10 (Xinhua) --- Torrential (倾泻的) rains that troubled southern China for days have killed 66 people and resulted in 12 missing by 6:00 p.m. (Beijing time) on Sunday, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. “Floods caused by heavy rains have affected about 294,800 hectares of crops, completely destroying 53,000 hectares of them,” said an official with the ministry. The floods have torn down 48,000 and damaged 94,000 houses in southern China, and forced about 591,000 people to move from their homes, the official said.
From Wednesday to Saturday, continuous torrential rains, mudslides and floods hit Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Jiangxi and Fujian, affecting more than 8.97 million people. The disasters have caused an overall economic loss of more than 2.9 billion yuan, according to the ministry. The ministry has sent rescue teams to the disaster areas to assist relief work. In Guangdong, heavy rains have killed 18 people and left four missing by 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, according to local authorities. A total of 1.72 million people were affected in the province.
Floods have damaged 49 roads in the seriously affected Meizhou City, of which 29 remained closed to traffic by 7:00 p.m. The number of people who died in floods in Guangxi has reached 13 and one remained missing by Sunday, according to local civil affairs authority. More than 1.97 million people have been affected after the floods caused by continuous heavy rains hit some 40 counties since Wednesday.
According to the local civil affairs bureau, 9,200 houses were knocked down and 75,181 hectares of crops were affected, resulting in 529 million yuan in direct economic losses. There are fewer rainstorms and the rain belt is moving out of Guangxi, but the water levels in major rivers will keep rising in next few days, according to the latest forecast of the region’s meteorological bureau on Sunday afternoon.
【小题1】 The underlined phrase “torn down” (para. 1) is closest in meaning to _______.

A．Hubei is one of the provinces struck by the torrential rains.

B．The floods have caused a total loss of nearly 3 billion yuan.

C．13 people died in Guangdong province as a result of the floods.

D．The rain belt will remain in Guangxi in the next few days.

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文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处，错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（/\），并在该词下面写出该加的词。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及修改均仅限一词。
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从11处起）不计分。
3. 修改格式错误不得分。
The main purpose of newspapers is to provide news. If you examine newspapers closely, you would find that there are all sort of news: accidents, floods, fires, wars, sports, books, etc. The news cover everything what happens to people and their surroundings. Sometimes there are news items which are very interested. A news report is usual very short, except for when it is very important, but it has a lot of information. It is also writing in short paragraphs. The first paragraph is in fact summary of the news items. He gives all the necessary information, what, when, where, how, and why.