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2011考研英语二 · 阅读理解 Text 2
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2011考研英语二阅读理解 Text 2 原文
Whatever happened to the death of newspapers? A year ago the end seemed near. The recession threatened to remove the advertising and readers that had not already fled to the internet. Newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle were chronicling their own doom. America’s Federal Trade Commission launched a round of talks about how to save newspapers. Should they become charitable corporations? Should the state subsidize them? It will hold another meeting soon. But the discussions now seem out of date.
In much of the world there is little sign of crisis. German and Brazilian papers have shrugged off the recession. Even American newspapers, which inhabit the most troubled corner of the global industry, have not only survived but often returned to profit. Not the 20% profit margins that were routine a few years ago, but profit all the same.
It has not been much fun. Many papers stayed afloat by pushing journalists overboard. The American Society of News Editors reckons that 13,500 newsroom jobs have gone since 2007. Readers are paying more for slimmer products. Some papers even had the nerve to refuse delivery to distant suburbs. Yet these desperate measures have proved the right ones and, sadly for many journalists, they can be pushed further.
Newspapers are becoming more balanced businesses, with a healthier mix of revenues from readers and advertisers. American papers have long been highly unusual in their reliance on ads. Fully 87% of their revenues came from advertising in 2008, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD). In Japan the proportion is 35%. Not surprisingly, Japanese newspapers are much more stable.
The whirlwind that swept through newsrooms harmed everybody, but much of the damage has been concentrated in areas where newspapers are least distinctive. Car and film reviewers have gone. So have science and general business reporters. Foreign bureaus have been savagely cut off. Newspapers are less complete as a result. But completeness is no longer a virtue in the newspaper business.
答案与逐题解析
答案速查
26D
27B
28C
29A
30A
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26By saying “Newspapers like ... their own doom” (Lines3-4, Para.1), the author indicates that newspapers ______.
答案D
解析原文写报纸“were chronicling their own doom”，即在记述自身末日，与开篇“the end seemed near”、广告与读者流失等危机描写一致，表明其处境极其危急，故D成立。A与文意相反，报纸并未忽视危机。B、C对应后文关于补贴、慈善化的讨论，并非该句所指。
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27Some newspapers refused delivery to distant suburbs probably because ______.
答案B
解析文中将拒送远郊与裁员、涨价、产品变薄并列为“desperate measures”，且这些措施被证明有效，可继续推行，目的在于维持运转、压缩开支，故B正确。A、D未提及读者威胁少付或抱怨导致拒送；C与报道覆盖无关。
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28Compared with their American counterparts, Japanese newspapers are much more stable because they ______.
答案C
解析依据“Fully 87% of their revenues came from advertising… In Japan the proportion is 35%. Not surprisingly, Japanese newspapers are much more stable”，日媒广告占比低、更不依赖广告，因而更稳定，C正确。A未说收入来源更多；B“newsrooms”平衡无据；D与发行量无直接对比。
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29What can be inferred from the last paragraph about the current newspaper business?
答案A
解析末段指出冲击集中于“least distinctive”领域，完整性“is no longer a virtue”，反衬报纸须靠独特性立足，故可推A。B把失败归咎于完整过度引申。C外派机构被大幅削减，并非关键支撑。D未说读者对车评影评失去兴趣。
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30The most appropriate title for this text would be ______.
答案A
解析全文先写末日预期过时，美报虽利润大降、大幅裁员，却已“survived”并“returned to profit”，措施还可加码，基调是艰难求生而非消亡或繁荣，故A最贴切。B、D过度悲观；C与“not been much fun”、利润远低于从前不符。
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