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Cloze 3
Who won the World Cup 1994 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 (2) -- the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, reports are on the spot to (3) -- the news.
Newspapers have one basic (4) --, to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to (5) -- it. Radio, telegraph, television, and 6 inventions brought competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication. (7) --, this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the (8) -- and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are (9) -- and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch outsintos many other fields. Besides keeping readers (10) -- of the latest news, today's newspapers (11) -- and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters. Newspapers influence readers' economic choices (12) -- advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very (13) --. Newspapers are sold at a price that (14) -- even a small fraction of the cost of production. The main (15) -- of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The (16) -- in selling advertising depends on a newspaper's value to advertisers. This (17) -- in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper? Circulation depends (18) -- on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment (19) -- in a newspaper's pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspaper's value to readers as a source of information (20) -- the community, city, country, state, nation, and world—and even outer space.
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