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  3. For a long time, newspapers have been the chief means by which people get th

For a long time, newspapers have been the chief means by which people get th

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问题     For a long time, newspapers have been the chief means by which people get themselves【C1】______. The newspapers, daily, evening, and Sunday, appeared in over 6,600 towns in the United States. There are also【C2】______ 7,000 newspapers that are published weekly, semi-weekly or monthly.【C3】______ television has replaced newspapers as the primary【C4】______ of news for most Americans, and while computer network is【C5】______ becoming a faster and easier way of obtaining news for many Americans, newspapers【C6】______ one of the most powerful means of【C7】______ in the United States.【C8】______, reading newspapers is different from watching TV. It gives detailed【C9】______ of news items, and tends to provide【C10】______ treatment of news events. Besides, it【C11】______ offers interesting and stimulating opinions as well as analysis over important events【C12】______ and abroad. For another thing,【C13】______ watching TV, reading newspaper does not require one to be【C14】______ to his sitting-room. He can do it virtually anywhere he likes: in his car, at breakfast table, sitting in the sun, waiting at subway station, and,【C15】______, in the restroom. For these and many other reasons, newspapers in the United States are【C16】______ a big business. And, this is【C17】______ by two facts: 1)the large circulation of a number of important newspapers such as USA Today and The Wall Street Journal; 2)the great【C18】______ of newspapers available in the United States, some big and some small; some local and some national, some special and some【C19】______, some radical and some conservative, some dying and some reborn, some free and some【C20】______. [br] 【C20】
选项 A、charging
B、expensive
C、cheap
D、commercial
答案 D
解析 句意及词语用法辨析题。这里需要选一个与free(免费的)意义相反的词，因此选commercial(商业性的，即作为商品一样买卖、以盈利为目的)。expensive和cheap都不表示与free相反的意义，首先可以排除；charge有“要价、收费”的意思，常用于charge sb．for(doing)sth…，charge…for(doing)sth．，但是其主语是人或销售方，且一般和for(doing)sth．搭配使用。
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