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  3. Newspaper publishers in the United States have long been enthusiastic users and distributors of weather maps. Although some

Newspaper publishers in the United States have long been enthusiastic users and distributors of weather maps. Although some

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问题         Newspaper publishers in the United States have long been enthusiastic users and
    distributors of weather maps. Although some newspapers that had carried the United States
    Weather Bureau’s national weather map in 1912 dropped it once the novelty had passed,
    many continued to print the daily weather chart provided by
(5) their local forecasting office. In the 1930’s, when interest in aviation and progress in
　　air-mass analysis made weather patterns more newsworthy, additional newspapers
　　started or resumed the daily weather map. In 1935, The Associated Press (AP) news
　　service inaugurated its WirePhoto network and offered subscribing newspapers
　　morning and afternoon weather maps redrafted by the AP’s Washington, B.C, office
(10)from charts provided by the government agency. Another news service, United Press
　　International (UPI), developed a competing photowire network and also provided
　　timely weather maps for both morning and afternoon newspapers. After the United
　　States government launched a series of weather satellites in 1966, both the AP and
　　UPI offered cloud-cover photos obtained from the Weather Bureau.
(15)    In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, the weather map became an essential
　　ingredient in the redesign of the American newspaper. News publishers, threatened
　　by increased competition from television for readers’ attention, sought to package
　　the news more conveniently and attractively. In 1982, many publishers felt
　　threatened by the new USA Today, a national daily newspaper that used a page-wide,
(20)full-color weather map as its key design element. That the weather map in USA
　　21 Today did not include information about weather fronts and pressures attests to the
　　largely symbolic role it played. Nonetheless, competing local and metropolitan
　　newspapers responded in a variety of ways. Most substituted full-color temperature
　　maps for the standard weather maps, while others dropped the comparatively drab
(25)satellite photos or added regional forecast maps with pictorial symbols to indicate
　　rainy, snowy, cloudy, or clear conditions. A few newspapers, notably The New York
　　Times, adopted a highly informative yet less visually prominent weather map that
　　was specially designed to explain an important recent or imminent weather event.
　　Ironically, a newspaper’s richest, most instructive weather maps often are
(30) comparatively small and inconspicuous.
选项 A、The differences between government and newspaper weather forecasting in the United States.
B、The history of publishing weather maps in United States newspapers
C、A comparison of regional and national weather reporting in the United States.
D、Information that forms the basis for weather forecasting in the United States
答案B
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