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填空题 America’s most popular newspaper website today announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a close. The New York Times has become the biggest publisher yet
to __1_ plans for a paywall around its digital offering, abandoning the accepted practice that internet users will not pay for news. Struggling with an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street-corner sales, the New York Times intends to introduce a “metered” model at the beginning of 2011. Readers will be required to pay when they have 2 a set number of its online articles per month. The decision puts the 159-year-old newspaper on the charging side of an increasingly wide chasm ( ) in the media industry. But others, including the Guardian, have said they will not charge internet readers, and certain papers, such as London’s Evening Standard, have gone further in abandoning readership revenue by making their print editions free. The New York Times’s publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, acknowledged that the move is a gamble: “This is a bet, to a certain degree, in where we think the web is going.” Boasting a print __3_ of 995,000 on weekdays and 1.4 million on Sundays, the New York Times is the third bestselling American newspaper, __4_ the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. While most US papers focus on a single city, the New York Times is among the few that can claim national scope — as well as 16 bureaus in the New York area, it has 11 offices around the US and maintains 26 bureaus elsewhere in the world. But like many in the publishing industry, the paper is in the grip of a serious financial crisis. Its parent company, the New York Times Company, has 15 papers, but __5_ a loss of $70 million in the nine months to September and recently accepted a $250 million loan from a Mexican billionaire, Carlos Slim, to strengthen its balance sheet.
1. A. set in B. set out C. carry over D. carry away
2. A. exceeded B. multiplied C. assumed D. revealed
3. A. evaluation B. expansion C. circulation D. dimension
4. A. behind B. against C. before D. within
5. A. targeted B. suspended C. suffered D. tolerated

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1.【答案】B。解析：考查动词短语辨析。句意：《纽约时报》已经成为着手制定电子新闻产品收费计划的最大的出版商。set in来临，流行；set out开始，着手做··… carry over留到以后处理，继续存在；carry away运走，使失去控制。根据文章，这里指的是《纽约时报》着手制定对电子新闻产品收费的计划，set out符合句意。故正确选项为B。
2.【答案】A。解析：考查动词辨析。句意：如果读者每月的在线阅读文章超过一定数量，就需要付费。exceed超过；multiply使增加，繁殖；assume承担，假定；reveal 揭示。根据文章，在这里是指读者的每月在线阅读量如果超过一定的量将被要求付费， exceed符合句意。故正确选项为A。
3.【答案】C。解析：考查名词辨析。句意：《纽约时报》在工作日的印刷发行量为995,000份,周日为140万份。evaluation评价,评估;expansion膨胀,扩张;circulation 发行量；dimension维，尺寸。根据下文的两个数字可推断，此处是指报纸的发行量， circulation符合句意。故正确选项为C。
4.【答案】A。解析：考查介词辨析。句意：《纽约时报》是美国第三大最畅销的报纸，仅次于《华尔街日报》和《今日美国》。behind在··之后；against反对；before 在···之前；within在··之内。根据文章，前面就提示了《纽约时报》在美国最畅销的报纸中排名第三，那么《纽约时报》的销量在《华尔街日报》和《今日美国》之后，故填behind符合句意。故正确选项为A。
5.【答案】C。解析：考查动词辨析。句意：它的母公司，纽约时报公司，拥有 15家报纸，但是在截至9月的9个月里亏损了7000万美元。target把.·.作为目标； suspend延缓，推迟；suffer遭受，经受··…的痛苦；tolerate容忍，宽容。根据文章，此处意思是纽约时报公司遭受了7千万美元的损失，suffer a lossof遭受····的损失， suffer符合句意。故正确选项为C。

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