英语专四完形填空密集训练（二）

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 entert ainment ___ 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

参考答案及详解

1. C) 根据上下文，此空应该为介词，故选项A和B可被排除，因为它们后边 不能直接跟名词短语。根据句义，选项C为正确答案。

2. D) 根据语义线索(报纸有一个基本目的就是以最快速度从新闻来源处得到新闻)可知选项D为正确答案。

3. C) 根据语义线索选项C know 为正确答案。

4. B) 此题涉及other, another 两词的用法。Other可以单独使用也可以和定冠词the一起使用，other一般用来修饰表示不确定所指的复数可数名词，意为“其他”;the other用来指代或修饰特定范围内的第二者或第三者等，不合适。Another一般修饰可数名词单数，不合适One another是相互代词，不能作限定词。综上，根据语法线索，选项B为正确答案。

5. A) 根据上下文，该句句义有转折，故表示转折意义的关系副词选项A However为正确答案。其它三词：and为表示并列关系的并列therefore和so为表示因果关系的关系副词。

6. D) 根据上下文，报纸报道新闻应该发展更新更快的通讯方式，可知其目的是为提高速度从而提高效率。故选项D为正确答案。

7. C) 此题可用排除法。根据语义线索(今天印刷的和人们阅读的报纸比以往任何时候都多)可将A，B和D排除。

8. D) 此题涉及动词keep的用法。动词keep后可接复杂宾语结构，即宾语+宾语补语的结构。形容词，?ed分词，ing分词等都可作宾补。其中，ed分词表示被动含义;ing分词表示主动含义。此句句义为“除了使读者知悉最新的新闻外 … ”，因此根据语法线索，含有被动意义的选项D为正确答案。