1. What can best describe the characteristics of today's newspapers?
A) They are popular and everlasting.
B) They are original and hand-printed.
C) They are the most important media.
D) They are cheaper and more efficient.
2. What qualities should newspapers possess to survive in the competition against other media?
A) Adaptability and good design.
B) Convenience and adaptability.
C) Good design and color photagraphy.
D) Convenience and color photagraphy.
3. For the most part, news has been classified into ________.
A) police records and a government informant
B) legistative, executive and judicial misbenhavior
C) accidents, civic events and human-interest stories
D) human folly, mechanical failures and natural disasters
4. What endangers the security and life of a journalist?
A) Investigating wrongdoings.
B) Exposing executive mish\behaviors.
C) Revealing confidential news sources.
D) Gleaning information from police records.
5. Whether or not the news story will be on the newspaper is decided by ________.
A) the copy editor
B) the managing editor
C) the executive editor
D) the city or metro editor
6. The newspapers' own comments on current events are put on ________.
A) headlines
B) raw copy
C) editorial pages
D) composition system
7. Newspapers make room for letters to the editor and opposite-editorial articles as important devotion to ________.
A) civic dialogue
B) current events
C) public reports
D) private stories
8. The editorial page and the news division are directed by independent editors, which ensures no overstep on the border between _________________.
9. Among the different editions of a large newspaper, the one that reachers the smallest circulation area is the _________________.
10. To deliver newspapers to the subscribers, camers use their vehicles and follow the routes desiged by the ________________.
文章梗概：
本文主要介绍了报纸的编辑和制作过程。第一个标题概括了当今报纸在各种新闻媒体形式竞争中的地位和生存之道;第二个标题首先说明新闻的性质，然后介绍了新闻报道的各级负责人;第三个标题阐明了报纸社论的性质和编辑原则;最后一个标题介绍了报纸发行部的工作。
答案解析：
1. 由题干关键词the characteristics of today's newspaper定位至第一段最后两句Newspapers,…have been a true random-access medium-readers can move easily and quickly through the different sections of a newspaper,….And because a newspaper's "software" consists of a common language, it possesses a universal and timeless quality.报纸已从最初的手工印刷发展到随机存取，读者可以在几天或数周后方便、快捷地浏览报纸的各个版面。和以前的报纸比较起来，现在的报纸使用一门通用的语言，因此具有大众化和不受时间限制的特点。A)是对原文的转述，故为正确答案。这里的random-access意为"随机存取"，timeless意为"永久的，不受时间影响的".
2. 由题干关键词survival in the competition定位至第一个标题What Did the Growth of TV News Mean to Newspapers?下第二段。该段第二句Newspapers are a portable, convenient medium.和最后一句中的newspapers are proving surprisingly adept at reinventing themselves for today's readers分别与题干中的convenience 和 adaptability表述一致。故B)为正确答案。
3. 由题干关键词classified定位至第二个标题What Exactly Is News and How Does It Work?下第一段第二、三句But for the most part, news usually falls under one broad classification-the abnormal.和第三句It is human folly, mechanical failures and natural disasters that often "make the news". 在很大程度上，新闻通常泛指异常情况。也就是：人类的蠢行、机械故障以及自然灾害打造了新闻。因此D)为正确答案。这里的abnormal意为"异常的，反常的"，folly 意为"愚蠢的行为、思想".
4. 由题干关键词life和journalist定位至第二个标题What Exactly Is News and How Does It Work?下第四段最后一句Although a few members of the media have been killed as a result of investigations into wrong doing……由此可知，有个别的媒体成员因为调查一些坏事而被杀害。题干中所说的记者的安全和生命有时会面临危险与A)表述相符。
5. 由题干关键词whether the story will be on the newspaper定位至第二个标题What Exactly Is News and How Does It Work?下第六段第四句These editors are called gatekeepers, because they control much of what will and will not appear in the next day's paper.这些编辑被称为"把关人"，因为他们掌控着第二天报纸即将出现和不出现的内容。其中These editors指的是本段开头提到的the city or metro editor，故D)为正确答案。
6. 由题干关键词their own comments on currents affairs定位至第三个标题What Are the Editorial Pages All About?下第一段第一句A newspaper publishes its views on current events-both local and national-on its editorial pages. 报纸往往把他们对地方或全国实事的评论刊登在社论一栏。C)与题干的陈述一致。
7. 由题干关键词letters to the editor, opposite-editorial articles和devotion to定位至第三个标题What Are the Editorial Pages All About?下第二段最后一句Newspapers make space for letters to the editor and op-ed articles freely available as part of their contribution to civic dialogue.报纸会为读者来信和社论版留出很大的自由空间，作为他们对与市民对话的贡献。因此A)为正确答案。
8. 由题干关键词editorial page and the news division定位至第三个标题What Are the Editorial Pages All About?下最后一段。题干的前半部分正好是本段第一句的同义转述，即社论版由新闻版之外的编辑负责。第二句中说，办报纸的人把这种安排叫作国教分离，意思是新闻和观点之间的界限不可逾越，由此可见题干后半句no overstep on the border与第二句中there is a line between news and opinion that must not be crossed意思相近，故答案为news and opinion.
9. 由题干关键词smallest circulation area定位至第四个标题How Are Newspapers Distributed?下第一段最后一句The final edition, which goes to press after midnight, contains the latest news but covers the smallest geographical area, usually a city. 最后一版一般是午夜之后付印的，包含了最新的消息，所覆盖的地理面积也最小，通常是一个城市。划线处即为答案。
10. 由题干关键词follow the routes定位至第四个标题How Are Newspapers Distributed?下倒数第二段第一句The circulation department draws the routes that carriers follow.发行部制订运送者所走得路线。由此可知，答案为circulation department.