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Who won the World Cup 1998 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, reporters 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 make 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 out into many other fields. Besides keep
A. reason
B. cause
C. problem
D. purpose

Who won the World Cup 1994 football game What happened to the United Nations How did the critics (评论家) like the new play (41) an event takes place, newspapers are on the streets (42) the details. Wherever anything happens, reporters are on the spot to (43) the news. Newspapers have one basic (44) to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to (45) it. Radio, television, and (46) inventions brought competition for newspapers, so did the development of magazines and other means of communication. (47) , this competition merely spurred (促进) the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the (48) and thus the efficiency of their own operations.
Today more newspapers are (49) and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out to many other fields. Besides keeping readers
A. Just when
B. While
C. Soon after
D. Before