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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(1)______. The newspapers, daily, evening, and Sunday, appeared in over 6,600 towns in the United States. There are also(2)______ 7,000 newspapers that are published weekly, semi-weekly or monthly.(3)______ television has replaced newspapers as the primary(4)______ of news for most Americans, and while computer network is(5)______ becoming a faster and easier way of obtaining news for many Americans, newspapers (6)______ one of the most powerful means of(7)______ in the United States.(8)______, reading newspapers is different from watching TV. It gives detailed(9)______ of news items, and tends to provide(10)______ treatment of news events. Besides, it(11)______ offers interesting and stimulating opinions as well as analysis over important events(12)______ and abroad. For another thing,(13)______ watching TV, reading newspaper does not require one to be(14)______ 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,(15)______, in the restroom. For these and many other reasons, newspapers in the United States are(16)______ a big business. And, this is (17)______ 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 (18)______ of newspapers available in the United States, some big and some small; some local and some national, some special and some(19)______, some radical and some conservative, some dying and some reborn, some free and some(20)______. [br] (18)
选项 A、variance
B、variety
C、variation
D、variable
答案 B
解析 形近词辨析题。第二个事实讲的是美国的报纸种类繁多，因此选vari-ety。variance常用于短语at variance(with)中，意为“与……不和、意见不同”；a variety of是“大量的、各种各样的”；variation“变异、变异的程度，变体”；variable“可变物；变量；变项；变数”。
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