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  3. There are five basic functions of a newspaper: to inform, to comment, to persuade, to instruct and 【C1】______ . You may well thi

There are five basic functions of a newspaper: to inform, to comment, to persuade, to instruct and 【C1】______ . You may well thi

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问题      There are five basic functions of a newspaper: to inform, to comment, to persuade, to instruct and 【C1】______ . You may well think this list of functions is 【C2】______ . order of importance but, if so, you would not be 【C3】______ agreement with the majority of the reading public. 【C4】______ . the two broad kinds of newspapers, the popular and the quality, the former【C5】______ . a readership of millions, while 【C6】______ , only hundreds of thousands. Yet the popular papers seem largely 【C7】______ . for entertainment. Their news coverage contains【C8】______ comment and persuasive language. The quality news- papers 【C9】______ . a much higher value on information and a much lower one on entertainment.
     It is not only in content【C10】______ the two types of paper differ. There is a 【C11】______ in the style in which the articles 【C12】______ .The popular papers generally use more dramatic 【C13】______ with a lot of word - play. Their reporters tend【C14】______ shorter sentences and 【C15】______ less well-known vocabulary. This 【C16】______ . that poplar newspapers are easier for a native speaker understanding, though probably not for a non-native speaker.
     In order to decide【C17】______ a newspaper is a quality or popular one, it is not even necessary to read it, 【C18】______ .  you can tell simply by the【C19】______ it looks. Popular papers are generally smaller 【C20】______ . fewer columns per page. They have bigger headlines and more photographs. The articles are shorter and there are fewer per page.
【C8】
选项 A、a number of
B、many of
C、a lot of
D、a few of
答案C
解析 因为a number of，many of和a few of后面只可跟可数名词复数，又因为comment and persuasive language是不可数名词，所以A，B和D错误。由于a lot of后既可跟可数名词，也可跟不可数名词，故C为正确答案。
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