[2011年典型真题]America’s most popular newspaper website today announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a close

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问题 [2011年典型真题]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【B1】_____ plans for a paywall around its digital offering,【B2】_____ the accepted practice that internet users will not pay for news.
    Struggling【B3】_____an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street corner sales,The New York Times【B4】_____to introduce a“metered”model at the beginning of 2011.Readers will be required to pay when they have【B5】_____a set number of its online articles per month.
    The decision puts the 159-year-old newspaper【B6】_____the charging side of an increasingly wide chasm(鸿沟)in the media industry.But others,including the Guardian,have said they will not【B7】_____internet readers,and certain papers,【B8】_____London’s Evening Standard,have gone further in abandoning readership revenue by making their print editions 【B9】_____.
    The New York Times’s publisher,Arthur Sulzberger,【B10】_____that the move is a gamble:“This is a【B11】_____,to a certain degree,in where we think the web is going.”
    Boasting a print【B12】_____of 995000 on weekdays and 1.4 million on Sundays,The New York Times is the third bestselling American newspaper,【B13】_____the Wall Street Journal and USA Today.【B14】_____most US papers focus on a single city,The New York Times is among the few that can【B15】_____national scope-as well as 16 bureaus in the New York area.it has 11 offices around the US and【B16】_____26 bureaus elsewhere in the world.
    But【B17】_____ many in the publishing industry,the paper is in the grip of a【B18】_____financial crisis.Its parent company,the New York Times Company,has 15 papers,but【B19】_____a loss of$70 million in the nine months to September and recently accepted a$250 million【B20】_____from a Mexican billionaire。Carlos Slim,to strengthen its balance sheet.
【B4】

选项 A、engages
B、intends
C、deliberates
D、signifies

答案B

解析 intend to意为“打算……”,根据文义可知还没有这么做,只是计划或者打算这么做。
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