英语四级阅读理解

　　A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It is remarkable first for what it contains: the range of news from local crime to international politics, from sport to business to fashion to science, and the range of comment and special features 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 ont glancing at one piece, reading another article all the way through, reading just a few paragraphs of the next. A good modern newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far more than any one reader is interested in. What brings this variety together in one place is its topicality , 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 appears in a newspaper has no more than transient value. For all these reasons, no two people really read the same paper: what each person does is to put together out of the pages of that days paper, his own selection and sequence, his own news paper. 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 .

　　这是一篇议论文，讨论了报纸应该具备的特性。

　　16. A modern newspaper is remarkable for all the following except its ______ .

　　A) wide coverage B) uniform style

　　C) speed in reporting news D) popularity

　　[答案及分析]：[B]事实辨认题。问下列哪项不是现代报纸的特征。A项意为覆盖面广。B为风格统一。C项意为资讯报道的速度。D项意为大众性。A、C、D三项的意思在文中都可找到，B项与文章原意恰相反，所以选B。

　　17. According to the passage, the reason why no two people really read the same

　　newspaper is that ______ .

　　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

　　[答案及分析]：[A]事实辨认题。问文章认为，没有两个人真正地读同样的报纸的原因是下列哪项。文章对此有回答：For all these reasons，而此句中的reason指的是前文中的几句话，由此不难看出，仅有A项与文章原意一致。

　　18. It can be conclude from the passage that newspaper readers ______ .

　　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

　　[答案及分析]：[D]推论题。问从文中可以得出关于报纸读者的什么结论。A项意为读者都熟练地运用了阅读技巧。而文章原意只是说：要有效地阅读报纸需要运用阅读技巧，并未说所有读者都能熟练运用阅读技巧，所以A项可排除。B项意为读者总是将一份报纸换到另一份报纸，而文章原意为从一份报纸的这儿跳到那儿，有选择地看所以项也不符合原文意思。C项意为欣赏报纸的多样性。文章原意为：一份好的报纸应该丰富多样，以满足不同读者的爱好、需要，因为不同的读者有不同的爱好、需要，他根据自己的爱好、需要来有选择地阅读报纸，而非读者喜欢报纸的多样性。所以排除C项选择D项。

　　19. A good newspaper offers a varietyto readers because ______ .

　　A) it tries to serve different readers

　　B) it has to cover things that happen in a certain locality

　　C) readers are difficult to please

　　D) readers like to read different newspapers

　　[答案及分析]：[A]事实辨认题。问一份好的报纸之所以要给读者提供丰富多样的内容的原因是什么。文章对此作了直接明了的回答：attract many different readers.A项正是此句，所以正确项是A。

　　20. The best title for this passage would be ______.

　　A) The importance of Newspaper Topicality

　　B) The Characteristics of a Good Newspaper

　　C) The Variety of a Good Newspaper

　　D) Some Suggestions on How to Read a Newspaper

　　[答案及分析]：[B]主旨题。问下列哪项做本文的题目最合适。通读全文，可知本文的主要内容是关于一份好报纸具有什么样的特征的问题，所以选B项。